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@aby@aus.social

Slightly less new here, & I still have no idea what's going on..

queer | anarchist | Indigenous - Kamilaroi, living on Wiradjuri Country | geek | crit. crim. student - police and prison abolitionist | disabled | subversive crafter | tea addict | RA | cheerful halfling assassin | plays all the games! | trans agender - they/them

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aby, to disability
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“New data shows thousands of patients caught COVID in Victorian public hospitals in the past two years — and hundreds died… Almost one in 10 patients who caught COVID in hospital died… almost six per week, on average.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/hundreds-died-catching-covid-victoria-hospitals-testing-masking/103784896

h/t to Violet Blue on @Patreon for their [:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/103924380?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_source=android]

aby, to disability
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“A new study has analysed 26 RATs from Australia and Canada, finding only six could effectively detect the lowest concentrations of COVID-19… Researchers from James Cook University (JCU) say they were left ‘shocked’ after an analysis of 26 RATs from Australia and Canada found just six were effective at detecting the lowest concentration of COVID-19. One Canadian test failed to detect the COVID-19 protein entirely at any level of concentration… the six best performing RATs included the Canadian-approved BTNX Cassette, Flowflex, Medsup,... Fanttest, Innoscreen, and Juschek… BTNX, PCL, Medriva, Medomics, PanBio (Australia), PanBio (Canada), SDBiosensor, StandardQ, and Touchbio [are] the least responsive tests.”

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/what-are-the-most-reliable-rapid-antigen-tests

h/t to Violet Blue on @Patreon for their [:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/103924380?utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_source=android]

aby, to random
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I think I'm going to try to make a minestrone soup tomorrow!

aby,
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@purplepadma - I've never made it before, never made soup at all in fact.. so I'm interested to see how it goes.

aby, to random
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"Move fast and break stuff" may be a decent tactic with regards to engineering practices, but..

checks notes

..NOT WHEN THE THINGS BEING BROKEN ARE HUMAN BEINGS ,YOU FUCKING MONSTERS

aby, to auspol
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Good.

But also:

  1. This tells me you had the money and we're happy enough to just watch women and girls die instead of spending it.

  2. It's not nearly enough.

aby, to random
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2018 was 6 years ago.

That feels like targeted violence.

aby, to climate
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TIL:
Because of climate crisis, polar bears are migrating as their environments are melting.

They're encountering grizzly bears, and the two are mating - creating a polar-grizzly bear hybrid called either a Grolar or a Pizzly bear (depending on which parent is which).

Grolar and Pizzly bears are SUPER aggressive, and Pizzly bears are fertile.

https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=21-P13-00041&segmentID=5

aby, to Autism
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C'mon guys.. journo better.

Maybe these two things are related, and the "fracture" isn't being caused by disabled kids who have a human right to education?

aby, to random
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Biden has the chance right now to do the funniest thing ever..

aby, to Israel
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A friend helped set up this project in Gaza to buy and set up solar panels (already in Gaza, not being used) to help young Palestinian Writers. For each $1k comes in they can buy equipment to transfer to a household.

Please support and share.

Since October, Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza has destroyed over 50% of all infrastructure, rooftop solar and power stations. Fuel supplies have been cut and residents lack consistent access to food, water or electricity.

Families must walk long distances and wait in line, often for hours, for limited supplies of food and water or to charge a mobile phone (typically their only source of light at night, as well as connection to the outside world).

But a group of young Palestinian writers are fiercely determined to get their stories about Israel's genocide out to the world and are working to Repower Gaza, one light at a time.

We Are Not Numbers (WANN) has located the equipment and technicians inside Gaza necessary to produce a limited amount of solar power kits, enough to immediately restore power to the team of storytellers and their extended families (an estimated 50 households and around 1,000 people). Each kit will generate enough power to light five rooms and power up to 20 mobile phones daily. If more resources become available later, WANN will extend the effort to their broader communities. It will cost US$40,000 to purchase and install the kits.

Donate now and help provide light to Gaza.

The mission of We Are Not Numbers is to train and support a new generation of Palestinian writers, and share their powerful narratives and bring wider understanding to the Palestinian liberation cause.

Please support Repower Gaza and share this grassroots effort to give light, hope and voice to Palestinians resisting genocide with your network.
—
This project is an initiative of We Are Not Numbers, supported by the Middle East Children's Alliance, a registered US nonprofit organization. All funds raised will go directly to the purchase of solar kit componentry inside Gaza, to be deployed by trained solar technicians.

https://secure.everyaction.com/nqnFvmWo40K_m3nSTlqCmg2?fbclid=IwAR3qS-jmxzjXrF9kb8xrCgbcburfHD5wfHB8rfrBP8QXoZyKptEXudEmG8A

aby, to random
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I love this time of year. My neighbours start using their fireplace, and the smell reminds me of visiting my Nanny and Poppy's farm when I was a kid. It was pmuch the only time I felt safe growing up.

aby, to disability
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Oh no.

aby, to Autism
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aby, to random
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Colonialism has mastered the crime of stealing our children for generations and then punishing and criticizing our parents and grandparents for how they originally raised children.

Then, they went ahead and stole, renamed & rebranded our sacred original parenting instructions as “attachment” parenting, “conscious” parenting, “gentle” parenting, “positive” parenting, and “child led” parenting.

It has been used as a tool of profit.

It has been used as a means of stealing babies from families, then forcing the mothers and fathers of those babies to take colonial based parenting courses in order to get their babies back. And those colonial based parenting courses are heavily twisted and skewed versions of our parenting instructions - but twisted and skewed so severely, so deeply, that they only accommodate and feed colonial agendas and systems.

It is a matter of indigenous parents today abiding to colonially twisted, and colonially backwards parenting “styles” in order to fit the criteria of being a “good parent.”

Here’s the thing though.

Residential schools, the 60’s scoop, the child welfare system, and every other colonial policy embedded in the colonial fabric of society was created to do just this.

Keep the children out of our families to continue the ongoing attempts of assimilation and genocide against our peoples.

Even today.

So rather than pushing for “attachment” parenting, “conscious” parenting, “gentle” parenting, “positive” parenting, and “child led” parenting let us open into, revitalize, maintain and relearn the original instructions of raising and nurturing children.

Let us heal and dissolve what generations of colonialism has embedded into our parenting styles.

May we do our best to continue that.

So we can continue to raise children in the ways that we were originally meant to….

For generations to come.

Because this is the least we can do for the children in our lives today.

-- Andrea Landry, 2022

purplepadma, to random
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The sky is incredibly blue this morning but I, for once, am not

aby,
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@purplepadma - this makes me happy to hear. My partner has been working his way out of a depressive episode with sui ideation as well, and I see how much effort it is for him (and you) to be doing that.

I appreciate you 💜

aby,
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@purplepadma - hopefully not, but if it does tick up that way do you have support in place?

aby, to Autism
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Packing for hospital next week.

I have shoulder surgery on Wednesday and it will be an overnight stay (hopefully only one night!), probably in a shared room.

Tips and tricks for preparation and packing would be super helpful, please!

aby, to random
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aby, to dating
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You're in her DMs?

Well, I am her DM - roll for initiative.

aby, to dating
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Men who message me every month "still with the boyfriend?" and don't say anything in between:

  1. yes
  2. im non-monogamous
  3. you still have no chance

aby, to Dog
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Mia has a bucket hat!

Mia, a grey spotty dog, wearing a yellow bucket hat that has holes in the top for her brown ears to poke out of. She's looking at the camera and seems to be smiling.
Mia, a grey spotty dog, wearing a yellow bucket hat that has holes in the top for her brown ears to poke out of. The picture is of the back of her head, so you can clearly see her ears poking out the holes in her hat.

aby, to random
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Gnight everyone.

I hope you all sleep well.

aby, to ConspiracyTheories
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In today's episode of Watching the Eclipse Watchers, some Opinions about science:

  • the eclipse is fake news, because I saw a video of it were it glitches and everything moved to the left (obviously the camera was moved to get a better angle, nobody moved the astral bodies)

  • you know they lie to us about all this because you can see the sun and moon are the same size

  • "somebody explain to me how the moon, which is transparent/translucent during the day, blocks the sun out I'll wait 😂"

  • discussion over how this is an event in a spiritual war, because of shadow bands*

Shadow bands are actually super interesting phenomenon:
https://www.space.com/37776-shadow-bands-are-a-solar-eclipse-mystery.html

purplepadma, to keto
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Starting today. I’m kind of bamboozled by the idea of no bread or granola at breakfast. But I have to give something new a go, I feel I can’t go on being so unstable and there’s not much wriggle room in my med regimen

aby,
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@purplepadma - my partner's wife does keto, as does one of my friends from gaming.. and they both love it.

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