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.
@KathyReid This reactionary nonsense reminds me so much of 50's/60's parents having panic attacks about their teenagers ... in the future folks will look back and laugh
Labor MP Josh Burns has said he feels blindsided by the Albanese government’s support for new gas production and that he didn’t get into politics to “be a support mechanism for the fossil fuel industry”
@AVincentInSpace@nous I've always disliked the arrogance of the lead Dev & the inexorable incremental usurping of Linux functionality. I'm deeply uncomfortable with so much being absorbed into a big binary black box
"The gas giants won’t have to explore for new gas fields themselves. Santos, Woodside, Origin, Chevron, BP and Shell won’t have to spend a cent looking for new deposits — you’ll be paying for it instead.
@luciedigitalni Anthony Rio Tinto is doing a great job of heading his party into a minority govt.
With LNP being not even being remotely electable under Duddo & Sssusssan, we are approaching a rare point in Australian politics where the electorate can put into parliament more independents, Teals & Greens.
Six hostages who were released from captivity in Gaza and the representatives of 30 hostage families sent a letter to war cabinet members Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot demanding that they call a press conference Monday to "reveal to the public the truth about the negotiations."
In the letter, they blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for deliberately torpedoing a deal and said that he "is abandoning the hostages to their deaths."
"We watch in horror at what is happening, and demand to know what happened on Saturday," they wrote. "What are the ways Netanyahu has torpedoed a deal thus far?
This song is about that rebellion of young army and navy officers against the imperial Japanese government on Feb 26, 1936... 19 were beheaded, that's why "guillotine" was mentioned, and in Japanese, the falling of sakura implies the death of soldiers... this is indeed not an "I love Japan" song... Also talks about the inevitable westernization and the loss of Japanese culture over time.
Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0 (news.itsfoss.com)
I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade
I’ve enough....