Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️
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Ross Heyen 🧔‍♀️
@rosco385.bsky.social
🔺Living in Meanjin/Brisbane on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera land. ❤️💛🖤
🔺Union Proud 💪
🍉From the River to the Sea...
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"My shorthand term for this is the Cheney-Rumsfeld era, because it doesn’t matter what corruption and institutionalized organized crime I am looking at, all roads in the US seem to eventually lead to Iran-Contra and those twin heads of modern coercion and crime." #3E
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The anti-Indigenous hate is getting unhinged.

Here’s a little sign at Myer Albury acknowledging Mob, and some loser has obviously tired to remove it.

It’s just nice words to Aboriginal people, ya snowflakes.
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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That’s another Call of Duty game I don’t have or want to play.
Activision's statement on AI assets in 'Call of Duty'

"We use a variety of digital tools, including AI tools, to empower and support our teams to create the best gaming experiences possible for our players. Our creative process continues to be led by the talented individuals in our studios"
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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ft new details of:
- The 2024 Christmas drinks attended by Bleijie & to-be Commissioner
- LNP links among new post-exodus inquiry staff
- Info requests spanning the past decade sent as far as subcontractors
- Reluctance in unions & Labor to be seen making public criticism
The CFMEU inquiry is about to start asking questions. Some of its own remain
Queensland’s powerful but so-far quiet inquiry into the troubled union and construction sector will go public next week. Many are watching – for many reasons.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Investors are overwhelming first home buyers and pushing up house prices. Time for the Treasurer to open the prudential toolbox. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
‘Put the brakes on’: Record $40b investor blitz has banking regulator on high alert
The value of mortgages taken out by property investors has soared more than a third in just six months. It could force new rules to curb their enthusiasm.
www.theage.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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AI companies must compensate creative and media workers for the content they use to train their AI tools.
Add your support: meaa.org/stop-ai-theft
#StopAITheft #PayUp @google
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Go Claudia Karvan and friends!!! It would take a lot of guts to even contemplate taking on News Corp

The complaints alleged various articles and media appearances by News Corp figures dehumanised & vilified Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in Australia
Claudia Karvan joins pro-Palestine group in racial discrimination complaints against News Corp
The complaints allege that various articles and media appearances made by the News Corp figures dehumanised and vilified Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in Australia.
www.smh.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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READ: "My American Public Health Association membership was revoked after over 20 years because I protested for Palestine. As authoritarian norms spread in government, they are metastasizing into civil society institutions that should be resisting them." mondoweiss.net/2025/11/civi...
Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead.
My American Public Health Association membership was revoked after over 20 years because I protested for Palestine. As authoritarian norms spread in government, they are metastasizing into civil…
mondoweiss.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Anthony Albanese legacy is collaboration with war criminals to further a genocide . Supplying arms and 2 way trade against International Law and residing over the Most Indigenous deaths in custody of any parliament in the past. And locking up 10 year old babies in adult cells.
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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We have reached the teen rape is not so bad stage of the GOP.
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Just a note to journalists - there is no such thing as a moderate Liberal MP. I told you about this back in 2019. (And even that was a late note)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The moderate Liberal MP is extinct – Howard subjugated them years ago | Greg Jericho
It’s time to stop lionising the myth of the moderate Liberal; it’s just a nonsensical label
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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First positive outcome of the child social media ban. 🎻
7news.com.au/news/empire-...
Influencer family leaves Australia over teen social media ban
The family with more than six million followers have decided to move overseas to keep their daughter online and protect their business.
7news.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Israeli soldiers who admitted to raping a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teiman detention centre in July2024 were met with applause as they entered court this week. The video has been shared by Israeli Govt ministers, calling them "heroes." Zionist Israel is insane. #IsraeliTerrorism #IsraeliCrimes
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
NYC may have pigeons that ride the subway, and Istanbul cats that catch the bus, but #Brisbane has hitchhiking possums! 😂
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The new photos - the latest of which was taken on 8 November - show that entire neighbourhoods controlled by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been levelled in less than a month, apparently through demolitions.

bbc.com/news/article...
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Queensland's youth detention system was already overwhelmed before the election of David Crisafulli but his law changes mean more kids are destined for them. Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber denies the report's findings of poor conditions & practices. #qldpol
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Capitalism brain is when doing the work you're paid to do is "entitled" but expecting your young employees to do unpaid work and be enthusiastic about socialising with you in their free time is not "entitled", somehow
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings

Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies

My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Net Zero hides a truth the mining giants understand perfectly: nothing has to change
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The genocide continues, in slower pace

Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

"[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Myanmar military defectors and leaked media reveal that ordinary soldiers on government bases are using lethal interrogation techniques against captured rebels, dissidents and civilians. Watch the film: aje.io/junta #MyanmarExposed
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
American products will always be inferior to Aussie goods, but this product should have been banned from Australian supermarket shelves for using comic sans on their product packaging.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-12/farmer-anger-over-woolworths-importing-american-butter/105738806
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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We already know Labor took falsified reports to UNGA to get world heritage for songlines it is destroying. Including the oldest depiction of a human face found anywhere in the world.
2011
An archaeologist who was part of FMG Aboriginal heritage survey has confirmed she was forced to change details of the study.

Sue Singleton, from Eureka Heritage History Archaeology, has claimed she had to remove sections of the study in the belief the company would not be paid if she did not
Archaeologist supports claims Fortescue damaging sacred sites
An archaeologist who was part of Fortescue Metals Group's Aboriginal heritage survey has reportedly confirmed she was forced to change
www.australianmining.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM