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Prof Jo Barraket AM
@jobarraket.bsky.social
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Director, @msei-unimelb.bsky.social. Researching social economy & social innovation for fairer societies. Growing. Cooking. Eating. Living w/ MS, bloke, Zoe the beagle & Stormy the Lab x. Views mine. She/her

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 4h
definitely not!

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 5h
It's alternating between sun and hail at mine. The dogs are feeling most put out 🌦️

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 2d
Yay, the sun Is out 🌞

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 7d
Both our employment services system and our labour market norms are pretty broken www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Nearly 90% of jobseekers unable to get long-term work despite millions spent on private job agencies
Employment department’s annual report shows just 11.7% of jobseekers ended up with jobs lasting at least 26 weeks last year
www.theguardian.com

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 7d
Oh, no besmirching The Housemartins, please 🙏🏽

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 8d
I know...and I won't 😊

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 9d
Our golden ones are not doing as well

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 9d
There is beetroot, lentil and feta salad in my future 😊🫜
Photo of a raised vegetable bed full of green and purple beetroot plants

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 9d
What makes even your strangest dreams feel familiar, explained by a neuroscientist

www.sciencefocus.com...

Because it's weird, right? You're dreaming of being upside down in a flaming boat made of fingernails, talking to a bat who's also your mother, and be all like "Yup, this is fine"

Here's why
What makes even your strangest dreams feel familiar, explained by a neuroscientist - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Our sleeping brains weave a patchwork out of our memories in complex, baffling ways.
www.sciencefocus.com

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 11d
Stormy (the large Lab) is similarly occupied with flies. I fear that one day he is going to go through a window 😬🐾

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d
Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church
Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church
Antoni Gaudí’s masterwork is still under construction but now stands taller than Ulm Minster in southern Germany Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica became the world’s tallest church on Thursday after a part of its central tower was lifted into place. The masterwork of the architect Antoni Gaudí now rises to 162.91 metres (534ft 8in) above the city, the church said in a statement. That beats the spire of Ulm Minster in Germany, which tops out at 161.53 metres. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 16d
Unemployed Australians are the most at risk of identity fraud – here’s what the data reveals propertyupdate.com.au/unemployed-a...
Unemployed Australians are the most at risk of identity fraud – here’s what the data reveals
When most people think of identity theft, they imagine vulnerable seniors being tricked over the phone or tech-savvy scammers preying on the young. But...
propertyupdate.com.au

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 17d
Super yum 🤤

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 17d
Due to travel & work commitments last week, we’ve been living on tinned soup & cheese on toast. Partner thankfully found time to replenish our stores, so tonight it’s pan fried flathead with lemon risotto and salsa. Can feel the nutrients flowing 😊
A white dinner plate with fish and green and red salsa piled on top of rice

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 17d
kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/10/australias-worst-oppositions-how-many.html Australia's Worst Oppositions: How Many Will Win? Not-A-Poll in the sidebar to predict how many of Australia's nine current Oppositions will win their next elections.
Australia's Worst Oppositions: How Many Will Win?
Tasmanian and Australian psephology, opinion poll analysis, election analysis and political commentary by Dr Kevin Bonham.
kevinbonham.blogspot.com

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 17d
♥️♥️♥️🧥

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Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · 18d
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 19d
😬

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 21d
Snap! I just watched it during my lunch break 😊

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23d
#A_NewHope ✊

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 23d
No Kings protest aerial view in Boston.
🚫👑🇺🇸🐸

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23d
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23d
Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 23d
Assistant prof position in sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...
Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) at University of Limerick
Discover Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 23d
Looks divine, Lisa 🤤

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 23d
The Swooping has been quiet in our 'hood for the last week or so

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 24d
Yum! And very good for you 🙌🏼

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 24d
According to urban myth, in the 2020’s there were what were known as “Party Swapping Parties” where swingers would put their keys in a bowl at the door, get drunk on the sense of their own importance and go home with someone new
Mark Latham, Jacinta Price, Barnaby Joyce

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24d
The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Tracy Wright @gypsyrambler1.bsky.social · 25d
Knit/in at the PDX ice detention facility in Portland today.