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KathyReid, 7 days ago to random

In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

luciedigitalni, 11 days ago to random

Today's random bonus item in my Woolies delivery is a $46 bottle of magnesium tablets

fkamiah17, 1 month ago to journalism

What the everloving fuck is going on with journalists?!??
Following on from what seems by this example a rather cute, parochial prank on the BBC by Joe Lycett, the NYT absolutely bricks it on the basics.
Switch "Iranian" for "American" - can you see what the correct answer is now, NYT?

#NoYouCantJustBombAnythingYouFeelLike #Journalism #Iran #Israel #Palestine

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to legal

#WompWomp

Via Klasfeld:

Breaking:

An appellate court judge REJECTS yet another attempt by #Trump's #legal team to delay the start of his New York criminal trial.

Between lower and appellate court attempts, that's more than 10 attempts, by the DA's count.

timrichards, 1 month ago to random

Read and weep

Today we are getting an update on the Great Barrier Reef. No I don’t want to either https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/08/today-we-are-getting-an-update-on-the-great-barrier-reef-no-i-dont-want-to-either

anathema_device, 1 month ago to random

Great Barrier Reef discovery overturns belief Aboriginal Australians did not make pottery, archaeologists say

Paper dates 82 pottery pieces found in single dig site at between 3,000 and 2,000 years old

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/10/great-barrier-reef-discovery-overturns-belief-aboriginal-australians-did-not-make-pottery

atomicpoet, 1 month ago to random

Was just playing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for DOS.

The most hilarious part is when Indy just casually walks by Hitler looking out of a window and then says, “Nazis, I hate these guys.”

AbandonedAmerica, 1 month ago to random

A decaying dance floor in an old Shriner's theater

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/irem-shrine

QasimRashid, 1 month ago to random

MI GOP Rep Tim Walberg, on Gaza:
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”

MI Rep Rashid Tlaib was censured for saying "From the river to the sea." As Walberg calls for nuclear genocide of 2M Palestinians I await the censure resolution against him ASAP.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/30/michigan-congressman-tim-walberg-suggests-nuking-gaza-ending-humanitarian-aid-nagasaki-hiroshima/73156051007/

mightyspaceman, 1 month ago to steam

Aaaandyep #steam is down

Hey Aussies. What are we all doing tonight?

I’m doing the usual Friday night drinking, playing music, watching the footy.

luciedigitalni, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Donald Trump has discovered Kevin Rudd and he does not like him

🍿🍿🍿

#AusPol

RickiTarr, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

This is probably my worst poll, but I'm curious, for science:

I have/had:

PaulWay, 2 months ago to random

Listening to a Big Ideas podcast about housing in the northern territory. It just makes you wish every politician from every state, territory and federal government would live in one of these houses for a week.

They're taking to the only Aboriginal person that has solar panels on their roof. The power meters there are pre-paid - if you used up your money the power shuts off. The power meter has a plug on the side that says "solar input".

The power and water department said "we can't attach solar, it's dangerous".

They went back to the manufacturer of the power meter that power and water had installed and got the manual and showed that it was perfectly safe.

Power and water put a padlock on his power box so he couldn't plug the panels in.

He took the padlock off with an angle grinder.

This is the kind of stupid, deliberately antagonistic, needlessly wasteful BS that Aboriginal people have to go through to do something that politicians throughout Australia have got without a second thought.

Of course it's a Liberal government there. But things haven't been better under Labor either.

Us city people need to know these things to realise the real gaps in our society.

br00t4c, 2 months ago to climate

We are taking a devastating risk with the green energy sector - one that might cost us our future | Brett Christophers

#climate #energy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/27/climate-crisis-private-sector-government-investment

br00t4c, 2 months ago to random

AFP confirms it won't march in Sydney Mardi Gras after NSW police asked not to join parade

#afp #deaths

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/26/jesse-baird-and-luke-davies-sydney-mardi-gras-board-asks-police-not-to-join-parade

ajsadauskas, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to TeslaMotors

Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...

"The muck pooling in the tunnel at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip had the consistency of a milkshake and, in some places, sat at least two feet deep. ... At first, it merely felt damp. But in addition to the water, sand and silt—the natural byproducts of any dig—the workers understood that it was full of chemicals known as accelerants.

"The accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-26/elon-musk-las-vegas-loop-tunnel-has-construction-safety-issues?gaa_at=la&gaa_n=

Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/su7fa

#Urbanism #Gadgetbahn #Elon #ElonMusk #Transit #PublicTransport #Cars #Car #Nevada #Capitalism #Business #Economics #LasVegas #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars

bastardsheep, 2 months ago to random

At the top of the Dan Murphy's website.

-applaud-

Direct & to the point.

Get a password manager. Make sure every site has a unique and long password.

timrichards, 3 months ago to random

Hmm. I've always found it hard to justify the expense of private health insurance, given what you get out of it.

With the current cost of living, is private health insurance worth it? - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-14/is-the-cost-of-private-health-insurance-worth-it/103436734

WarnerCrocker, 3 months ago to politics

Not sure why anyone gets upset with the NYTimes and other media any longer over their Biden bashing and Trump behavior blindness. Been baked in for quite sometime. Trump could literally rape Haley on a debate stage and not cause them to stir. He could bomb The NY Times building and the only peep you’d hear would be how hard they worked after to get out the coverage. #politics

br00t4c, 3 months ago to random

A group backed by Google and Microsoft wants to make "nutrition labels" for AI content

#group

https://qz.com/ai-content-nutrition-labels-google-microsoft-openai-1851239978