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@thinkymachine

interested in making broken things better

 Canberra, Australia
Joined January 2013
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With voting well underway, we’re pleased to be launching our ACT Election Scorecard, which reviews 7 key party platforms on their support for more and better homes. Abundant housing is on the ballot this election - make sure your vote counts. More details on each party below. 1/
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Instead of saying, “Professors and students are not criminals” try saying, “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
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Joining a union is essentially saying you’re ready to throw down for any worker, even a stranger, and you know without having to ask that they’ve made the same promise to you. Metal as hell, everyone should do it
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We threw a surprise party for my friend who was on the union bargaining team when the enterprise agreement got voted up with 94% voting “yes”
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C H E L B! 🌭 (@chelbb_) profile pictureC H E L B! 🌭@chelbb_23 Mar 2024
Surprise parties should not be reserved for birthdays and engagements throw surprise parties for accomplishments like a new job or finally folding the large pile of clean laundry on their chair
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A lot of times, when people say "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," they mean that Palestinians will be free of colonial violence in their geographically-defined, historic homeland, and the way you can tell they mean that is by considering what words mean
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we’re really seeing the culmination of years of people seeing the holocaust as a generic stand in for “the worst thing ever” rather than a series of decisions made by people with agency, infinitely replicable
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I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF. When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening. 1/16
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Our 'Unionists for Palestine' solidarity statement is almost at 300 signatures, purely off the back of word of mouth and personal contacts. If you're a union member in Australia and haven't signed yet, please do so, and encourage others to join you. forms.gle/tyNHDoBRc9KVeim1A
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Ms Frizzle was definitely a part of the teacher's union with all that drizzle
Ms frizzle driving the magic school bus with a dragon on her lap

ALT Ms frizzle driving the magic school bus with a dragon on her lap

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If there was a movement to abolish slavery today I guarantee we'd be hearing about 'mum and dad slaveholders'
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Well done and solidarity to the casuals in here once again telling their crushing stories of wage theft. It is beyond any doubt the systemic nature of wage theft across all universities. Permanency must be made the norm and piece rates must be abolished. theage.com.au/business/workp…
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Unis advertising entry-level perm positions and wanting candidates to have dozens of pubs, grant funding and an established service record are effectively saying they only want people who never had to pull pints to make ends meet and had parents paying their tuition fees
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chatgpt will never replicate the charm and syntax of an undergraduate paper where the student has neither been to class nor read more than the abstract of a paper there's a magic nothingness that they're able to conjure with sheer grit and desperation that a.i. could never
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My 5 year plan is to hang out with my friends and tell them i love them
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On the teacher crisis. A long thread. I have been reluctant to speak up since taking leave from a permanent teaching position in the Vic secondary system 2.5 years ago - by chance just before CoVID. – at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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Trans rights are non-negotiable. Trans rights are union business. 🏳️‍⚧️ Strong, fighting unions are vital in the struggle for trans liberation. A New NTEU stand in solidarity with all trans people and that means we believes we must oppose transphobia wherever we see it.
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The Tasmanian youth justice system has been getting a lot of heat for conditions in youth detention. Amazing to see the “no kids in prison” lever yanked in response. By a Lib government no less. Opens up the possibility for change elsewhere. Big beautiful abolitionist future ✨🌱
Adam Langenberg (@AdamLangenberg) profile pictureAdam Langenberg@AdamLangenberg7 Jun 2022
Big news. Tasmania’s raising the minimum age for youth detention from 10 to 14. #politas
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I'm an ASU member not minding my own business, i love that there is a grassroots, radical challenge to the union leadership who have led most unions to become conservative adjuncts of the ALP and financial systems... We all need fighting, independent unions, lead the charge!
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In today's marking, I am including this comment for every student's paper where I hit the marking time limit for that paper. This paper is about two-thirds marked. I'll update this thread as the day goes.
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Solidarity to all @USYDEBA2021 and @CasualsUsyd network staff today from ACU staff and @NTEUnion members. Push hard and win! + gratuitous photo of me at the picket
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