luciedigitalni, 3 months ago to auspol

WTAF did this clown think he was doing?

#AusPol #Canberra
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/13/walter-sofronoff-bruce-lehrmann-inquiry-contact-details-the-australian-janet-albrechtsen-shane-drumgold-ntwnfb

dgar, 3 months ago to random

Self portrait.

msdropbear42, 3 months ago to helpers

@helpers For the past few days i've puzzled over the fact that my browser (#Floorp)) had stopped displaying #DesktopNotifications for my #Friendica account, despite me still having them enabled both in Floorp, & in #KDEPlasma. As Floorp had had an update several days ago, i began wondering if maybe the latest version might have broken its Notifications function. However today i eliminated that possibility by verifying that also my Vivaldi & #FirefoxNightly browsers no longer give me my Friendica DN [&, like Floorp, they certainly used to]. So then i began wondering if maybe @alfred might have recently upgraded their server version of Friendica, & that said putative version was buggy. I decided it would be judicious to take a quick look at my Friendica account Settings, before posting a question about that.

Whoa! Well, i found the problem... but i do not understand how/why. Many months ago soon after creating this account, i had adjusted all my Settings to suit my preferences, & ofc one of those was to enable Desktop Notifications [otherwise, for months, i'd not have been receiving DN in all three browsers, til recently]. However, now, that setting had been lost, ie, it had reverted to default, ie, disabled.

Wtf? 😮

Now that i've re-enabled it, happily i'm once more getting my Friendica DNs. 🥳🎉

But... how on earth had that setting become disabled recently? 🤯 🤷‍♀️

msdropbear42, 3 months ago to auspol

Filed away under the "well, duh!" category. 🤦‍♀️

#AusPol
Lobbyists gaining unfair access to ministers, says leading lawyer

msdropbear42, 3 months ago to feminism

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

💯✅👍

Misogyny is a resilient beast with much to protect, ready to shape shift as its survival demands.Women have been taking a more progressive view on politics all century. It is a growing trend that is repeated in Australia.

This is something to celebrate and encourage. Instead, the commentary has focussed on the more reactionary views of some young men – which threaten to embolden authoritarians. The pattern is unmistakeable but local specifics vary and matter.

As almost half the world goes to the polls this year, we will learn whether this generation of better educated, more aware and powerful young women are able to tip the results against authoritarian populists elsewhere as well. As Donald Trump regularly demonstrates, belittling women is a marker of this world view.

Australia, in its occasional role as an early marker of global trends, embraced this movement early. In the 2022 election professional women in the teal independents remade the traditionally conservative inner suburban heartland of the Liberal party in their image. The Labor party pre-selected record numbers of women and acknowledged their power to change the agenda.

This was in no small measure the result of the grand lessons of courage and refusal to be shamed, embodied by Grace Tame, Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins. Their advocacy changed the political terrain – taking men and women on an empowering journey, changing laws, curricula and expectations.

They have since been battered by the business-as-usual brutality of the Australian political/legal/media machine.

By focussing on the political gap between young women and men, the beacon of hope is obscured. In Australia the data shows that young men are also more progressive than they were two decades ago.

#FsckThePatriarchy #Feminism #WomensRights #Politics #AusPol #Misogyny #Sexism

dgar, 3 months ago to random

Incorrectly is the only word that even when written accurately, is still spelled incorrectly.

dgar, 3 months ago to random

msdropbear42, 3 months ago to auspol

Rich people who claim to be ‘representing the real working class’ weirdly mad at idea of letting working class people relax after work

Leader of Opposing Peter Dutton has appeared in Parliament today to try and stop the evil unions working with Labor and the Greens from allowing the working class to disconnect and not respond to their bosses emails when they aren’t being paid to.

“The modern Liberal Party is the party of the worker,” he said, “and that is why I support making sure workers are forced to be available to work 24/7. Workers are best when they are made to never allowed to not be workers.”

“Working 9 till 5 is woke nonsense. Lazy entitled people think that the workers should be allowed to do other things with their day, but only the Coalition understands that the average quiet Australian worker loves rushing to respond to texts from their bosses at 3am.”

“The elites say workers should have rights, but I know the workers like to be jesters who dance on the command of rich people. Just the other day I even saw a working class person while she cleaned my office, before I had her fired for trying to look me in the eye.”

chaser.com.au/national/rich-pe…

#satire #AusPol #FsckOffDutton #ShitParty

glynmoody, 3 months ago to climate

#Starmer to announce scaling back of £28bn #green investment plan - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/07/keir-starmer-to-announce-scaling-back-of-28bn-green-investment-plan what staggering stupidity. what is the point voting for this tory-lite idiot? #UKLaɓour #ClimateCrisis

dgar, 3 months ago to random

Sysadmin: ephedrine

Chemist: I can't serve you that.

Sysadmin: sudoephedrine

Chemist: There you go.

dgar, 3 months ago to random

Respect existence or expect resistance.

Susan60, 3 months ago to ADHD

Last night I listened to a podcast on Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, https://www.divergentpod.com/blog/ep-29
. It’s is common amongst ADHDers, & therefore some autistic folk. And I realise that it’s probably been the main influence in my life, the motivator for my masking, the cause of my fawning response that has sometimes made me vulnerable & often made me squirm, & the source of so much grief & anxiety.

I’ve learned some strategies over the years to help me, both to establish better boundaries & to be more rational in my thinking & less reactive, but have also been led to blame other people for my insecurity, rather than see it as a product of my ADHD (which hadn’t been diagnosed). And guess who was at fault? My parents of course, mainly my mother.

I have no doubt that my mother was AuADHD like me. She had her flaws, but was smart, witty, funny & had a good set of values. She was a bit of a snob, aspirational, but not a victim blamer. Her own health issues arose when she still had one child in primary school, and she died at 45, so she didn’t get the chance to do, learn & reflect as I have over my longer life, (& I’m not done yet!)

But I know her values from so many discussions about newspaper articles & Phillip Adams’ column in the Saturday Age. She, like many of her generation, was still shocked by the enormity & depravity of the Holocaust, even though she was only a child during the war. She judged the German people harshly, but could be very warm with individuals of any background. She befriended a Czech refugee family. She admired Don Dunstan, supported drag queens, loved filling in for a friend who worked for a gay intererior designer in his shop…

I wonder what she would have thought when my sister came out as lesbian, & my oldest as non-binary?

And I wonder how she might’ve responded when I started to explore my own neurodivergence?

#ActaullyAutistic #ADHD @actuallyautistic

noellemitchell, 3 months ago to fediverse

Firefish isn't dead!! 😃 This is great news. Not sure if this means I will be able to use my firefish.social account, but I'm glad Firefish will be maintained and be updated.

#fediverse #Firefish

https://catodon.social/notes/9pd38dooa6fgjkde

samhkennedy, 3 months ago to random

Labor trying to fix something that it broke. The cost to kids to go to university is a high bar to overcome and to many not worth it.

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Australian school attendance and retention rates in long-term decline, report shows https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/06/australia-school-attendance-retention-rates-decline-university-high-school?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

dgar, 3 months ago to random

timrichards, 3 months ago to auspol

Another good reason for being able to quote-boost is that you could add hashtags left off by the original poster - eg #auspol for an Australian politics post. As it stands, I can't boost a politics post that doesn't have that hashtag without breaking the rules of my instance.

#Mastodon #QuoteBoost

dgar, 3 months ago to random

dgar, 3 months ago to random

"Got a bingle out in Broady, towies on site, but as a result, it's chockas in that direction."
~ Australian Traffic Report.

luciedigitalni, 3 months ago to fuckcars

#FuckCars
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/paris-residents-set-to-vote-on-plan-to-triple-parking-charges-for-suvs