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@ Quokka @quokk.au

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  • Project 2025 creator wants to ban gender-affirming care for trans adults

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  • Are you fucking kidding me? Evil people are publicly stating their planned intentions to harm people and you’re asking why we don’t ignore it to focus on fucking sunshine and rainbows?

    Sticking your head in the sand will not protect trans people from one of the most influential policy makers in the US.

  • Ebay buys Depop for $1.2bn in effort to lure younger shoppers

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  • That’s a shame, I just discovered that site last week and was excited to buy some stuff.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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  • Hey, sorry to be a creepy lurker (I like to sus out new accounts) but I saw this comment and wanted to provide information.

    Apparently 3 months ago the OP was banned by another instance for 'report abuse' and this sync'd over to us. I've unbanned them on quokk.au, so their posts should start coming back through. I'm reaching out to the PF devs for some clarification around this, hopefully can resolve it from happening again in the future.

  • Modern problems require modern solutions

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  • Yes that Bain Capital.

    Childcare in Australia is subsidised by the government, so the childcare centres raise fees and every few years the government raises the subsidy so parents can afford it. Once it’s affordable the centres raise fees again, it’s a vicious cycle.

    I read the meeting minutes from when they bought us out and it was all about how they struck gold with free government money. They didn’t give a shit about the children, just how much tax payer money they could take out of our country.

    Needless to say the quality of care went down and it wasn’t high to start with, injuries and incidents went up, and I quit to join somewhere better.

  • Cubans turn to electric vehicles as US tightens oil blockade

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  • Israel

  • If at first you don't connect

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  • Green apple erasure!

  • Modern problems require modern solutions

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  • Daycare is a multibillion dollar industry. The previous company I worked at here in Australia was owned by big an American private investment firm (Bain Capital).

    My centres company owned about 70 centres under them, and their owners had many other childcare corporations they owned across the globe.

    I work for a not for profit now and while they run 76 centres, they actually care about the children.

  • Ukraine makes fastest battlefield gain in 2.5 years

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  • Bond villains aspire to be Elon Musk.

  • #1 Post in r/BuyCanadian mentioning PieFed.ca -- 76,000 Views and counting.

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  • What are some Fediverse server hosting tips?

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  • Using the same domain and swapping software is glitchy. We swapped from Lemmy to PieFed about a year ago and some things never worked right. Old comms wouldn’t update due to different IDs on other instances etc. it’s mostly resolved, took some time for some instances to clear their old history of us and what not. c/sighfi never recovered and had to be remade as c/sigh_fi.

    The new account might have solved them by simply being a new account with no known data on other instances. Did the other one have the same username as your PF instance had?

  • Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

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  • You give control of the land back to the Palestinians.

    Same as has been done with any other colonial nation that’s land was given back to the people living there such as happened with Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.

  • Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

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  • No, it’s meant as a call to action for removing the state of Israel.

  • Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

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  • Israel must be destroyed, this is abhorrent.

  • LookGood

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  • Thanks Blaze. It's empty at the moment but I've got some ideas for posts to start making over the next few.

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    LookGood

    quokk.au /c/lookgood

  • recommendation rule

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  • I used to play as female characters because the guys never had good customisation, "Oh I can be buzzcut Shepard or crewcut Shepard. Hmmmm".

  • Indonesian teachers paid $170 a month as education funds go to free meals

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  • Re-directing 1/3 of education funds to go towards it is ridiculous. They could add to the budget, create new funds, or re-direct from something useless like the military.

  • Trans Memes @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Yeah, Science!

  • World News @quokk.au
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    Russian general shot 'several times' in Moscow

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-02-06/russian-lieutenant-general-vladimir-alexeyev-shot/106316214
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Indonesian teachers paid $170 a month as education funds go to free meals

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-02-06/indonesia-government-directs-education-funds-to-free-meals/106307002

  • PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more

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  • I don't know how you do, so much so often. Thank you for everything Rimu and other PieFed dev's who names I haven't memorised!

  • World News @quokk.au
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    Accidental 'crying horse' toy becomes bestseller in China

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-28/accidental-crying-horse-toy-wins-hearts-china/106278170
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Independent probe on 'missed opportunities' for deadly NZ landslide

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-27/independent-probe-into-nz-landslide-deaths/106275182
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Samoa's PM proposes compulsory fasting, ban on non-Christian religions

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-21/samoa-prime-minister-religion-restrictions/106225328
  • First Nations @quokk.au
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    First Nations leaders welcome Invasion Day rally terror probe

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-29/first-nations-leaders-welcome-perth-invasion-day-terror-probe/106281330

  • But think of the landlords!

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  • American suburbia.

  • Record 10,500 Tibetan students taken to schools in China in 2025 as Sinicization drive intensified

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  • So you’re in favour of the cultural genocide of China? Or is re-education through labor just a fun weekend activity that people volunteer to do since Mao?

    China has a long and active history of slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_China

  • Community Promo @lemmy.ca
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    Early Childhood Education

  • World News @quokk.au
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    Türkiye moves toward joining Saudi Arabia, Pakistan defense agreement

    www.turkiyetoday.com /nation/turkiye-moves-toward-joining-saudi-arabia-pakistan-defense-agreement-report-3212673
  • Trans Memes @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    We can stop at the foodcourt after

  • World News @quokk.au
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    Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live

    www.theguardian.com /world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Daily Telegraph tries to stage antisemitic incident

    independentaustralia.net /politics/politics-display/7-top-ia-story-of-2025-daily-telegraph-tries-to-stage-antisemitic-incident,20521
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks

    www.turkiyetoday.com /region/greece-italy-and-france-ignore-icc-warrant-as-netanyahu-flies-through-airspace-for-tr-3212059
  • World News @quokk.au
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    Demand the immediate release of UK pro-Palestine hunger strikers threatened with death

    www.wsws.org /en/articles/2025/12/27/edmi-d27.html
  • First Nations @quokk.au
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    First Nations TV series starts production

    ibnews.com.au /first-nations-tv-series-starts-production/
  • First Nations @quokk.au
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    Aboriginal toddlers needing support classified by WA government as 'justice system' issue

    nit.com.au /17-12-2025/21833/aboriginal-toddlers-needing-refuge-classified-as-justice-diversion
  • World News @quokk.au
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    US strikes two more alleged drug boats, bringing death toll to over 100

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/dec/19/us-venezuela-alleged-drug-boats-strikes-pacific-death-toll-increases
  • Y2K Memes @quokk.au
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    Survives Y2K

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    A Prairie alliance of trans advocates and unions should be a national model

    www.anarchistfederation.net /a-prairie-alliance-of-trans-advocates-and-unions-should-be-a-national-model/