aby

aby, 2 months ago to random

#FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops

seachanger, 2 months ago to animals

Ok let’s do this, reply with your #dogsOfMastodon

aby, 2 months ago to Dog

Oh no.

I fell over and accidentally adopted a greyhound.

(pictured, my housemate, who is a crazy vegan pirate, and said greyhound)..

#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Greyhound #GreyhoundAdoption

aby, 2 months ago to Women

It's International Women's Day.

Just a reminder that trans women are women.

#InternationalWomensDay #Women #trans #queer #IWD #IWD24 #IWD2024

aby, 2 months ago to random

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

• James D. Nicoll

aby, 2 months ago to auspol

We'll probably be attending the council meeting on Tuesday, please come along and help show Orange Council that queer rights are human rights, and that queerphobia isn't acceptable.

You don't have to live in Orange to attend and support - we don't.

---

Taken from the Facebook post of David Mallard - Green's Councillor for Orange, NSW:

"Friends, I’m disgusted that Councillor Kevin Duffy is moving to cancel the upcoming Orange Rainbow Festival.

His bringing this motion and the ensuing public debate will cause harm within the local LGBTQIA+ community, and it will also damage Orange’s public reputation and perception by potential visitors. This motion is politically opportunistic and follows a coordinated campaign of misinformation and hate that has targeted Orange City Councillors during the past few months.

We need to meet the misinformation and fear with positivity, pride and allyship. The opponents of the Orange Rainbow Festival are trying to turn reality on its head and misrepresent this event as one based on ideology, when it’s actually about providing the inclusion, acceptance and affirmation that we know is needed to prevent the homophobia and transphobia that leads to discrimination, stigmatisation, harassment, bullying and other harms to LGBTQIA+ people.

To defeat this awful motion, we need the community to come together and show our support for the Rainbow Festival and for an inclusive community.

We need as many supporters and allies as possible to come to Tuesday evening’s Council meeting, which starts at 6:30pm on Tuesday, 5th March in the Council chamber on Byng Street.

We need you to bring positivity, pride, a rainbow of colours, and most of all love for our entire community. Unfortunately it likely there will be opponents of the festival and of the wellbeing of the LGBTQIA+ community in attendance as well. Come ready to withstand their hostility and intolerance, and prepared to overwhelm that with our pride, acceptance and love.

Please share this news and the opportunity to lend support to the LGBTQIA+ community with anyone who might be willing to support our efforts. Get in touch if you have any questions or thoughts.

Orange is better than this, and we can begin to make that clear as we respond to Councillor Duffy’s motion in the coming days."

#AusPol #Australia #OrangeNSW #CentralWestNSW #RegionalAustralia #queerphobia #homophobia #transphobia #queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #PleaseShare

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/pz1M1R6EMMxUZrkT/?mibextid=oFDknk

aby, 2 months ago to WFH

"In other words: Forcing employees to work in an office doesn’t benefit companies, but does harm the lives of employees — at least in the short term.

More to the point: Most companies cannot show actual monetary benefits from RTO mandates. But most employees can show actual and significant monetary costs from RTO mandates.

In essence, these kinds of mandates represent a transfer of wealth from employees that their employers don’t even benefit from."

#WFH #RTO #COVID #jobs

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712843/the-hidden-high-cost-of-return-to-office-mandates.html

aby, 2 months ago to auspol

Its $6.75 a week.

Don't let the headline trick you. This isn't going to do anything.

*Over the twelve months to the December 2023 quarter, all Living Cost Indexes rose between 4.0% and 6.9%.

#AusPol #Australia #Unemployment #JobSeeker #poor #Poverty #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #Aboriginal #Indigenous #disability

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/millions-of-australians-set-to-get-boost-in-welfare-payments/ykuormzun?cid=newsapp:socialshare:other

• Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2023, December). Selected Living Cost Indexes, Australia. ABS.

aby, 2 months ago to mastodon

#Mastodon #ReplyGuys #mansplaining #splaining #FediSplaining #TechBroSplaining

aby, 2 months ago to Dog

Get in loser, we're going shopping..

#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon

aby, 2 months ago to random

The Guardian reporting on how the use of slurs contributes to the dehumanisation of Aboriginal people, and just using the slur in the story 🙄

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/22/kumanjayi-walker-inquest-zachary-rolfe-text-message-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

aby, 2 months ago to Cat

#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #KittensOfMastodon #Kitten #Kittens #caturday

aby, 3 months ago to random

You know it's going to be a great party when it STARTS with cocktail spattered all over the ceiling!

The white stucco ceiling in the kitchen, with bright red spattered Vampires' Kiss cocktail spattered everywhere, after the metal cocktail shaker fell off the counter and bounced on the floor, splatting cocktail all over the kitchen

aby, 3 months ago to Israel

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.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #Israel #Palestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PleaseShare #PleaseHelp #MutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid

---

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, 3 months ago to random

WITNESS THE HAIRY BEANS

WITNESS THEM

aby, 3 months ago to random

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

aral, 3 months ago to random

The problem with modern politics is you have people who’d struggle at checkers attempting to play 3D chess in a high-stakes game of “who lives, who dies?” at planetary scale.

aby, 3 months ago to Sexism

I'm so glad that you, a man, has come to my posts to explain to me, a criminal justice student with 30 years experience in prison and police abolition, how the US death penalty works.

#ReplyGuys #Sexism #WhyAreMen #Mansplaining #Splaining

Lucille Blueth, from the show Arrested Development, rolling her eyes in contempt at something said to her before taking a sip of her martini

aby, 3 months ago to KindActions

The BPU* have installed a new Aboriginal Tent Embassy** in Naarm (Melbourne).

It's been set up at "Kings Domain" Park, which was the site of Camp Sovereignty***.

They've set up tents, a fire site, and have every intention to hold the space indefinitely.

This is an Aboriginal act of resistance, directed and performed by Aboriginal people in defiance of Australia Day****.

Please consider donating to the BPU to support this action - https://www.blackpeoplesunion.org/donate

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay #BPU #BlackPeoplesUnion #PleaseShare #PleaseHelp #MutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid

*Black People's Union
https://www.blackpeoplesunion.org/

**Aboriginal Tent Embassy
https://theconversation.com/a-short-history-of-the-aboriginal-tent-embassy-an-indelible-reminder-of-unceded-sovereignty-174693

***Camp Sovereignty
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/news/2000s/2006/age20apr06.html

****Australia Day
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/26/australia-day-a-day-of-mourning-for-aboriginals

aby, 3 months ago to random

The colony WILL fall

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2gXhiHqLYb/?igsh=OTl3azN0M3k0ODYy

Cassandra, 3 months ago to random French

I wonder if it would work to just mentally declare an act therapeutic, like a placebo effect.

HumanServitor, 3 months ago to gay

What terms can stand in for LGBTQIA+? It really is a mouthful (mindful?). I see #gay and #queer used as catch-alls, but I've also seen people take umbrage with that. Can someone help me out with more #words here?

#amWriting #WritingCommunity