And just like that, after an absurdly short time for consideration and debate, the Australian Senate has passed the Under16s Social Media Ban into law. No good will come of this for young people, and this will not prevent potential harms. If anything, it will increase them.

It’s a joke. #auspol

Happy International Men’s Day to all the international men in my life. 🥳 The patriarchy hurts you too, so if you ever want help dismantling it, I’m here for you. 💪🏻 I hope you had a nice morning tea with an inspirational male speaker or something. 🧁

New at @theconvo-bot.bsky.social ‘Alarmingly, we found Australia’s carbon credit scheme largely fails to protect threatened species, despite assumptions to the contrary. The findings provide cautionary lessons for the nature repair scheme.’ #Markets
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One good thing about beginning again on Bluesky is this time I wont randomly start following every single person who makes a funny joke without checking the rest of their personality

Hopefully the people who run this platform fully understand the many reasons why a mass exodus of people has fled toxic X, and will do their best to ensure this place never becomes anything like that.