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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 Weather
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When authorities warn NSW drivers to avoid non-essential travel because of bad weather, the answer isn't staying home and ordering food in.

Delivery drivers are also human beings. Stop acting like they're disposable just because you want pizza.

#NSWWeather #rain #weather #ClimateCrisis #WorkerRights #GigWorkers

aby, to random
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There's nothing like putting a rug in your room to show you how none of the angles in your house are regular..

aby, to disabled
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I wish the people calling for cars to be banned would think about how that would effect disabled people.

aby, to acab
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aby, to BadInternetBills
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aby, to Stardew
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I GOT A MUSHROOM TREE!

aby, to Youtube
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YouTube Family is jumping from $17.99/month to $32.99/month..

aby, to KindActions
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Shouting "self-care" at people who actually need "community care" is how we fail people.

  • Nakita Valerio, 2019

JamesGleick, (edited ) to random
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If you click on a link and discover that the recommended article requires subscription or registration, are you most likely to:

aby,
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@JamesGleick pay walls are elitist bullshit. The money doesn't go to the authors who put in the work. They just stop people who can't afford paying being able to read the content.

It annoys me so much that the Guardian now forces subscription, in a time when we need free and accessible better journalism to counter how much misinformation is being spread, making it difficult and expensive to access and share their articles pushes people towards worse and worse sources.

aby, to random
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I just saw a tiktok with a guy explaining how to get rich in 2024.

"If you and your partner save just $270 a week.."

aby, to Autism
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This goes with any type of - -splaining tbh.. man-, white-, settler-coloniser-, abled-..

It's about power and the assumption that the person with the social capital understands someone else's lived experiences more than they do.

aby, to Guineapig
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When you're just a tiny pig but you have to bring in your washing...

purplepadma, to random
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Do I go back to bed for an hour and a half, or will that make me feel much worse later?? I feel that whatever I do will be wrong

aby,
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@purplepadma - if whatever you do will be wrong, then you can do whatever you want!

aby, to america
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Help, I've fallen down a conspiracy theory hole and the comments are fucking FASCINATING.

The discussion:
if the US and Russia share a border, why does it take 19 hours to fly from Alaska to Moscow?? What are they hiding???

Some of the comments:

  • One day I looked at the back of the globe and my mind didn’t feel right

  • It's strange how the flight is still 9+ hours no matter which airline you take

  • Sooo where does that put australia & New Zealand, Papuan New Guinea?? Ive have suspected all is closer then we are told!

  • cause every time you change time zones you go into a new dimension and you have to adjust to it . just a theory

  • anybody else think it's strange that airports use...flight manifests??? them naming it a manifest infers they're manifesting or 'creating' falsehoods...

  • You just clicked something in my brain😫 How are we SO programed?????

  • the US and Russia DO share a small maritime border, that's about 55 minutes "drive" to cross
    ** it's a maritime border, so you can't really "drive" across it

anathema_device, (edited ) to random
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oh no, the cops aren't racist. Not even a little bit :(

Kumanjayi Walker inquest: court releases mock certificates awarded by NT police unit | Australia news | The Guardian

"He said the awards had an official name but they were commonly known as the “c**n of the year” awards, and the winner was made to wear a toga and carry a wooden club."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/18/kumanjayi-walker-inquest-court-releases-mock-certificates-awarded-by-nt-police-unit-ntwnfb

aby,
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@anathema_device - can you asterisk out that slur, please.

aby,
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@TalktoBeverley - I'm really disappointed with the Guardian tbh.. but they did this a couple of weeks ago as well.

My guess is that they'd claim journalistic integrity because it's a quote, but honestly I think it's just that they don't think of editing it out because anti-Indigeneity in Australia isn't seen as a "real" issue.

I didn't think that Anathema was intending to offend at all (tbh, it's why I felt safe to ask for the edit 😊).

@anathema_device

aby, to Guineapig
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This little arsehole looks like butter wouldn't melt. Well, let me tell you the truth!

Each morning she gets a treat, she has a jar of them with 5 or 6 different varieties, and I pull one out of the jar and offer it to her.

If I don't pull the right one, she sniffs at it and then bites my finger.. not hard, but just enough to get the point across that I'm shirking in my duties and to pick another fucking treat before someone gets hurt.

This morning none of the treats were right. I ended up throwing a berry one into the cage from a distance and running into another room. I'm currently huddled in the bottom of the closet under a pile of coats (not really...).

She's bullying me. She weights less than a bottle of milk.

Pikelet, a brown and white guinea pig with pink little ears. She's still wrapped up in the red towel, but is now eating the parsley. It's poking out of her mouth over her chin, and looks like she's wearing a little green curly fake beard

aby, to linguistics
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#language #linguistics #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded

aby, to Women
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More men need to take active measures to not follow women tbh.

Like, my partner will cross the street and go out of his way if he's walking behind a woman, so that she doesn't feel threatened or bothered by his presence.

Today I was "followed" by a man in a parking lot. I know he wasn't following me, I knew it at the time as well, that he was just walking to his car the same as I was.. but it scared me. A lot.

I would have appreciated it if he crossed away from me. It would have been a great kindness.

aby,
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@Chunderstout - you're literally proving the point.

aby, to academia
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My lecturer: nobody here is saying that police are bad and that we don't need them.

Me: raises hand
hi, I know we haven't met yet, but I'd like to introduce myself and the fact that I'm saying exactly that.

aby, to Dog
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aby, to Dog
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Mia had to pop to the vet today, because we think she might have a uti.

Turns out she's just a little bit old and struggling with a touch of incontinence.. so she's got some medication and an appointment in two weeks to see how she's going.

ada, to random
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Getting flooded and having to evacuate through flood waters a couple of years back has really done a number on me. Now I feel uneasy every time I hear heavy rain...

aby,
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@ada - I don't think we put enough thought into how things like this create trauma and can potentially be a situation that causes ptsd. Evacuation is a traumatic event, it makes sense that you have this response 😔

aby, to Women
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Stop telling women to use big voices, loud voices, deeper voices etc to be heard, and just fucking listen to them.

Stop demanding women perform their gender in "feminist" ways to be valid.

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