Australian living near Brisbane. Cis-het married cat lady, retired web developer, vigorously pro-choice atheist and feminist. My train station is Lawnton, I shop at Warner, and I have a potato for a federal MP.
Diagnosed at 60 as #ActuallyAutistic. Strong opinions, many interests, boring AF. I don't get out much
My pronouns are she/her. My cats are Shula (black) and Jana (tortie).
@anathema_device on Mastodon
What I think kbin needs to do to survive, and why I think it has a better chance than any other Reddit alternative I've seen yet.
I’m a Reddit refugee who was on that platform for 10+ years. I saw not just a tremendous amount of controversies, but attempts at introducing alternatives to Reddit during all of them. The 2015 blackout saw a ton of alternatives suggested, and if you go back and look at them many have either not survived or never achieved...
Biden Is Wrong. The Supreme Court Is Already “Politicized.” (jacobin.com)
President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.
World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO -- A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with c
Fmr. Trump Press Secretary: I watched him show documents to people at Mar-a-Lago (www.msnbc.com)
Stephanie Grisham, former Trump White House Press Secretary and Communications Director, joins Alex Witt to discuss new reports that Trump's 2024 campaign aide Susie Wiles has been identified as the key witness in classified docs indictment and why the former president's lack of respect for classified information is so...
Can some one explain how the microblog feature works.
So, this is coming from a reddit user. I don't really understand the microblog button and how/what kind of content it gives you and how it's organized. Can some one give a brief summation.
[Meta] - Does this Brisbane community want news site links/posts?
I’ve been posting to multiple communities whatever I find that’s even remotely interesting. I figure at the moment activity is the most important thing for newcomers to Lemmy....
Trump pressured Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to overturn 2020 election (www.washingtonpost.com)
In a phone call, Trump tried to pressure Arizona's governor to overturn the state's 2020 election results. Trump then asked his vice president to repeatedly follow up.
OC Penguin when the catnip hits
Michael Imperioli forbids 'bigots and homophobes' from watching his work following Supreme Court ruling (www.cnn.com)
Actor Michael Imperioli has something to say about the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in favor of a Christian web designer who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings.
Where do you get your Brisbane news?
Inspired by this earlier post, where do you get your news? I refuse to read the Courier Mail, obvious the Brisbane reddit is NBG now, the Brisbane Times is a Fairfax rag and has much more southern content than Queensland, and very little truly Brisbane reporting....
Moms for Liberty Uses Hitler Quote To ‘Scare’ Parents (www.vice.com)
The incident is the latest evidence that Moms for Liberty’s pretense that it’s a wholesome, grassroots movement focused on protecting students is slipping.
Republicans accused of faking Whatsapps to smear Hunter Biden (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son says screengrabs released by investigating committee suggesting leverage for business deal are bogus
Ernest Appreciation Post
Kbin has seen a staggering amount of growth in the past few weeks, and with it a bunch of discussion about issues and bugs....
Having issues with uploading media
I hope this is the right place to ask and it's probably just me missing something obvious, but I'm having trouble uploading a picture (and previously a tiny video) from my desktop (win10) to either comment or as a post....