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What up Sydney
The only app I ever accessed Reddit with died (Slide) so here I am. Don’t use Reddit on the bigger puters cuz they are for work only I guess. Rejoice for Slide for Lemmy is in development and that what’s brought me here. It’s a bit of a buggy alpha release though so I’m also testing Jerboa and Liftoff. Well now that...
Trump Trashes Auto Union Leader After Losing Endorsement (www.rollingstone.com)
Fain “is a real ‘STIFF’ who is selling the Automobile Industry right into the big, powerful, hands of China,” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social....
UAW Chief Says Billionaires—Not Migrants—Are Real Threat to Working Class (www.commondreams.org)
“In reality, we’re all on the same side of the war against the working class,” Shawn Fain said in a wide-ranging speech on Monday....
196 meme that just keeps giving (lemmy.world)
‘We stand here as Jewish men who refute the Holocaust being hijacked’: Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars (www.theguardian.com)
US Blocks Security Council Statement Condemning IDF Killing of Gazans Seeking Aid (www.commondreams.org)
Wolli Creek national park gains additional 4.7 hectares of land to complete ‘green ribbon’ (www.theguardian.com)
I remember walking through this park sometime in the last couple years. They were clearing a whole section but I’m not sure what for.
GPlates is a FOSS plate tectonics program with which you can manipulate reconstructions of geological and paleogeographic features through geological time developed by The University of Sydney (www.gplates.org)
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/8047076...
‘We want everybody walking out’: UAW chief outlines mass strike for May 2028 (www.theguardian.com)
Shawn Fain speaks at UAW 2024 National CAP Conference 1/22/24.
This old Russian couple is revolution-ready, said they have nothing to lose (www.youtube.com)
Rental affordability has gone from record highs to record lows in the space of three years. What went wrong? (www.abc.net.au)
Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant (www.nytimes.com)
Archive.org link if you need it...
it's a daily thread, starring you and you and you and you and me
So it looks like the cool kids over in Melbourne have a daily thread bot. Should we make one of our own or leave it up chance?...
World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés says Israel targeted staff in Gaza 'car by car' (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/12986499...
Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos (arstechnica.com)
May Day general strike 2028 call by UAW (files.catbox.moe)
Clip is from Shawn Fain’s speech at UAW 2024 National CAP Conference 1/22/24....
Cycling in Amsterdam: watch the traffic flow at a transformed busy intersection! (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
The video mentioned is at the end of the article. I created a separate video post or you can skip on over to youtube to watch.
Always in dark (lemm.ee)
Asbestos contaminated mulch found at another Sydney park (www.smh.com.au)
Yet another public park has tested positive to asbestos in newly laid mulch, more than two weeks after Rozelle Parklands was shuttered....
‘I don’t like to lose’: Businessman Geoff Cousins is using his wallet and contact book to end native logging in NSW (www.smh.com.au)
archive.org linky link.
These asphalt coloured dividers on the Lawson St bridge (Redfern Station) that are pretty much invisible at night (aussie.zone)
My first complaint post! I know that the roads authority is watching this thread. It’s also a ‘On a bridge but not a bridge’ post. Two birds and all that. I saw someone drive up onto this last night and yeah pretty much title.
Castle BRAVO at 70: The Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
Seventy years ago, on 1 March 1954 (28 February in Washington), the U.S. government air-dropped a thermonuclear weapon, code-named “Shrimp,” on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in what turned out to be the largest nuclear test in U.S. history. The Bravo detonation in the Castle test series had an explosive yield of 15...
TIL Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances in the 1800s. (aussie.zone)
From Wikipedia:...
Estonia (2023) (www.sbs.com.au)
We’re a couple of episode in. Reminds me a bit of Chernobyl. I don’t know how best to describe the storytelling or narrative. It follows the investigation into the sinking and we get to see glimpses into the tragedy as it unfolds from the perspectives of the survivors, emergency crews and rescuers, and other folks who played...
'Thrown to the wind' -- are wind farms really killing whales? (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/7289659...