Pepperpots
@pepperpots4477.bsky.social
Rusted-on to morality, decency & human rights. Democracy is pretty damn ok too when it works. Still waiting for the most wealthy 1% to end world poverty TODAY. Keeper of the Laura Tingle shrine. Typos are a given these days because I am often Very Angry.
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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
My opinion?? Both of these infrastructure projects should have been done 20yrs ago & will be so well utilised by the public that critics will be scrambling for complaints within 6mths. The associated StKilda Rd tram line improvements have already improved traffic flow & city access. #ThanksDan 👍
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My opinion?? Both of these infrastructure projects should have been done 20yrs ago & will be so well utilised by the public that critics will be scrambling for complaints within 6mths. The associated StKilda Rd tram line improvements have already improved traffic flow & city access. #ThanksDan 👍
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This is $450,000 per term, per electorate. Plus interest on that money, let’s call it half a million. $75,000,000 per term of government for small re-election bribes.
Next time you’re waiting hours in a hospital emergency waiting room, think what this money could do.
#AusPol
Next time you’re waiting hours in a hospital emergency waiting room, think what this money could do.
#AusPol
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is $450,000 per term, per electorate. Plus interest on that money, let’s call it half a million. $75,000,000 per term of government for small re-election bribes.
Next time you’re waiting hours in a hospital emergency waiting room, think what this money could do.
#AusPol
Next time you’re waiting hours in a hospital emergency waiting room, think what this money could do.
#AusPol
Don’t you just miss the insight and journalistic professionalism of Kerry O’Brien? #auspol
Transcript of Kerry O'Brien's #Walkleys address. #auspol #PressFreedom #RightToKnow
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Don’t you just miss the insight and journalistic professionalism of Kerry O’Brien? #auspol
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Every state apart from Tas is pulling their weight with hospital expenditure. The Feds not wanting to pay for the additional demand on hospitals that the FEDS CREATE from underfunding their primary health, NDIS and aged care system responsibilities is pathetic bullshit www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Beyond belief': PM tells states to spend less on hospitals
Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured.
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Every state apart from Tas is pulling their weight with hospital expenditure. The Feds not wanting to pay for the additional demand on hospitals that the FEDS CREATE from underfunding their primary health, NDIS and aged care system responsibilities is pathetic bullshit www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
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The full cost of the BoM website has been known for some time — I reported it in September last year — so why would management not be honest about it? It’s a story of executives meeting the firm ‘Accidenture’. $96m later… www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s $96m website fiasco
Global IT consultancy Accenture has been accused of ‘strip mining’ the Bureau of Meteorology during its years-late delivery of a redesigned website not fit for purpose.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The full cost of the BoM website has been known for some time — I reported it in September last year — so why would management not be honest about it? It’s a story of executives meeting the firm ‘Accidenture’. $96m later… www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
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The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
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The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
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Great work by @squigglyrick.bsky.social. This is the Web/IT consultants MO if they’re dealing with non-IT savvy Execs & staff. They scope & quote low to win the work & hide that what you signed up for is actually only the shell of the car you briefed them on, with only 2 wheels & no engine #auspol
Global IT consultancy Accenture has been accused of ‘strip mining’ the Bureau of Meteorology during its years-late delivery of a redesigned website not fit for purpose. @squigglyrick.bsky.social @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s $96m website fiasco
Global IT consultancy Accenture has been accused of ‘strip mining’ the Bureau of Meteorology during its years-late delivery of a redesigned website not fit for purpose.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Great work by @squigglyrick.bsky.social. This is the Web/IT consultants MO if they’re dealing with non-IT savvy Execs & staff. They scope & quote low to win the work & hide that what you signed up for is actually only the shell of the car you briefed them on, with only 2 wheels & no engine #auspol
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Medicare’s founding promise is failing millions as jurisdictional division leaves patients stuck on waiting lists & priced out of specialist care. A shared federal–state hospital system is the missing reform.
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The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
Why Medicare needs joint federal–state hospitals
Medicare’s founding promise is failing millions as jurisdictional division leaves patients stuck on waiting lists and priced out of specialist care. A shared federal–state hospital system is the missi...
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Medicare’s founding promise is failing millions as jurisdictional division leaves patients stuck on waiting lists & priced out of specialist care. A shared federal–state hospital system is the missing reform.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The specialist & private health systems drain Medicare.
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There was no "Emergency" situation with crime in DC. This stunt got a 20 year old young woman killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
There was no "Emergency" situation with crime in DC. This stunt got a 20 year old young woman killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
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This man’s values are based in power, greed and division. They are so far removed from the values of the Australian people.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This man’s values are based in power, greed and division. They are so far removed from the values of the Australian people.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
I’d kind of like to shove this FACT up the nostrils of a certain vaccine-denier currently hell bent on destroying vaccine protocols. #vaccineswork
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I’d kind of like to shove this FACT up the nostrils of a certain vaccine-denier currently hell bent on destroying vaccine protocols. #vaccineswork
This. Absolutely. Will politicians ever acknowledge that capitalism is only working for the top 1% & take some action? Meanwhile, who’s leading the anti-billionaire march? I have a nice banner ready to go. And maybe a guillotine. And a catapult. #auspol
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This. Absolutely. Will politicians ever acknowledge that capitalism is only working for the top 1% & take some action? Meanwhile, who’s leading the anti-billionaire march? I have a nice banner ready to go. And maybe a guillotine. And a catapult. #auspol
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The people who are enamoured of infographics never read the words - totally bet at least one person has looked at this and thought it’s great 🤷♀️
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The people who are enamoured of infographics never read the words - totally bet at least one person has looked at this and thought it’s great 🤷♀️
Definition of narcissistic sociopath, if you need one.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Definition of narcissistic sociopath, if you need one.
Who else lives for this day? I can’t understand why journos go the submissive route. They’re called a ‘press pack’ for a reason - that’s b/c once upon a time they all worked together to press a point & corner whoever was lying until they were made to either look stupid or tell the truth 🤷♀️
At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Who else lives for this day? I can’t understand why journos go the submissive route. They’re called a ‘press pack’ for a reason - that’s b/c once upon a time they all worked together to press a point & corner whoever was lying until they were made to either look stupid or tell the truth 🤷♀️
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"We are in danger of being swamped by Black Friday sales"
Pauline Hanson Condemns Use of Term ‘Black Friday’, Saying ‘All Fridays Matter’ — The Shovel
"We're in danger of being swamped by Black Friday sales"
theshovel.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"We are in danger of being swamped by Black Friday sales"
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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$1,000 a day of taxpayers’ money to fight antisemitism and can’t condemn actual Nazis attacking “the Jewish lobby”.
#Auspol
#Auspol
🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is steadfastly refusing to condemn the NSW Parliament neo-Nazi rally. Paid over $1,000 a day by taxpayers but MIA since far-right Advance scandal over four months ago... theklaxon.com.au/wheres-jilli...
Where's Jillian Segal? Over $1,000-a-day but MIA - The Klaxon
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal — whose family bankrolls far-right group “Advance” — is refusing to denounce the neo-Nazi rally held outside NSW Parliament House.
theklaxon.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
$1,000 a day of taxpayers’ money to fight antisemitism and can’t condemn actual Nazis attacking “the Jewish lobby”.
#Auspol
#Auspol