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• Post #3424484

  “We have undergone multicultural awareness training,” responds one of the judges. And with that an entire courtroom of Indigenous people and their allies pisses itself with laughter.” https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/uncle-robbie-thorpe-and-the-truth-vs-king-charles-and-the-law/ #Auspol #Indigenous #TheShot

• Post #3416992

  1/x “ Doom is not merely emotionally exhausting. It can be politically useful to the people causing the problem. The climate denier says nothing needs to be done because the crisis is fake. The climate doomer says nothing can be done because it is too late. ” Sami Shah This is a great article from Crikey — reads a little like Solnit’s book Hope in the Dark ——— The lucrative business of doom thrives on despair. Our duty is to hope Radical optimism is a decision about how to behave under uncer...

• Post #1925688

  by the time i emerged to collect my morning cuppa, the tele was on in the common area, and fren (respectfully) watching Anzac day parade. i quickly scoffed my oatmeal, grabbed my cuppa and scarpered. i know and respect a lot of people who have served, but i CAN wish they never had to. i remember the man i called “grandfather”, sitting in the lounge room, all day every day, spitting great gobs of infected phlegm into a quart sized billy. he had been gassed in France during WWI, and lived to...

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• Post #1630924

  watching a tv show there is a fire in a building people trapped on the roof… naturally, fren launches into some joke the fire has reminded her of *** “there is a fire in a building people trapped on the roof… a crowd of onlookers, down below someone calls out: ALEX JESALENKO IS HERE… THROW THE BABY DOWN… JEZZA WILL MARK IT ! Parent on the roof hesitates then, with nothing to lose, tosses the baby down Jezza marks it easily… then plays on…”

• Post #1465697

  @msdropbear sigh… what a tool at the risk of sounding religious, let me paraphrase “love the sinner, hate the sin” to read “love my country but hate what it does” being excessively patriotic is not “right wing” it’s just silly no matter who does it. my country/ my party/ my team etc right or wrong is the mantra of … i dunno, don’t want to be rude, but seriously, people. if you don’t stand for good values, then the labels you choose for yourselves become meaningless. A good starting point fo...

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• Post #1465690

  #SerenityInOz— a quiz about Australian stuff — Tues 21 April, 2026 (Please boost for reach, and try to CW your answers :questionbox: what’s my name? I was born in somerset, england, in 1818 I arrived in adelaide in 1839 and advertised portrait work and local scenery, "executed to order". One of my early works is a view of Hindley Street, Adelaide, which was published as a coloured print 1844. my activities soon expanded to include street scenes and public events, including...

• Post #1330172

  discusses quality of solar battery installations and includes some possibly useful links https://citynews.com.au/2026/substandard-battery-installations-pose-risk-to-householders/ #SolarBatterySystems #Australia

• Post #1137574

  #SerenityInOz— a quiz about Australian stuff — Mon 13 April, 2026 (Please boost for reach, and try to CW your answers) ——— :questionbox: what’s my anglo name? i am the name of a region centred around Meningie in south australia i am also the name of a coastal lagoon in south australia and i am also the name of a national park in south australia about 156 km south east of adelaide the national park protects a coastal lagoon ecosystem situated on Ngarrindjeri country, and my anglo name is pre...

• Post #1069644

  #SerenityInOz— a quiz about Australian stuff — Sat 11 April, 2026 (Please boost for reach, and try to CW your answers) ——— wikipedia tells me there are several different plants sometimes called Billygoat Plum — but today’s answer is an alternative common name, which seems to refer to one plant only —- based on the botanical name, and the Indigenous uses of the plant, :questionbox: what is the common name of this plant? (clue -it’s not a *plum* 😉) the botanical name is Planchonia Careya Dis...

• Post #1029362

  #IndigenousHistory #IndigenousKnowledgeIsNotAllPastTense of the place now called #Australia This is a fantastic introductory-but-not-shallow resource offered via the ABC (australian broadcasting commission). reading one of the stories here about the emu in the sky, and how that story reminds us of signs if we are in a time of drought, I was reminded of what Tyson Yunkaporta says about the Indigenous worldview (not in this resource but in Tyson’s brilliant book Right Story, Wrong Story) In a...

• Post #1001997

  #SerenityInOz— a quiz about Australian stuff—Sat 21 Feb, 2026 (Please boost for reach, and try to CW your answers) —— :questionbox: which australian state/states was/ were the first to introduce a secret ballot? :questionbox: what year? :questionbox: which state was the first to implement universal male suffrage? (over 21 years of age, no property qualifications)? :questionbox: what year? :questionbox: which state was the first to grant both men and women the right to vote? :questionbox: wha...

• Post #1000194

  today’s scrapings from the bottom of the bin number 1

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  scraping number 2

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  scraping number 4

• Post #980044

  #SerenityInOz— a quiz about Australian stuff — Tues 7 April, 2026 (Please boost for reach, and try to CW your answers) ——— :questionbox: who was i? i was a late-night horror host active on Australian television between 1959 and 1978 — i was some kind of 'zombified' undertaker Originated as a live (pre-video machine) host of a horror film package for Perth's TVW-7 by 1959, my character was most active between 1966 and 1972 when adopted by the 0-10 Network for the TEN a...

• Post #975024

  another old screen shot:

• Post #944056

  Penny, Penny, Penny, Penny, Penny… where does party solidarity end and where do you begin? anyone currently wondering #whythefuckislabor is prolly more disappointed with you than anyone else in the strayan parliament in the last 50 years this is the most tone deaf, unimaginably indifferent thing you could have said “Iran is deliberately inflicting economic pain on communities worldwide, including the Indo-Pacific, with the costs borne disproportionately by the most vulnerable. Australia join...

• Post #890494

  Useless as a screen door on a non-existent submarine. If he wants people to use less fuel, he should engage with state governments to make killer utes prohibitively expensive to own and operate. I’d like to see elbow say or do just one thing that shows initiative, or even express a single point of view that passes the “real person” test. Don’t tell me to pull my head in to help make an unjustified war more bearable. There are SUPPOSED to be consequences for doing the wrong thing. (If i hear one...

• Post #780524

  #Australia abstained, of course Today the United Nations voted 123 to 3 on Resolution A/80/L.48, the Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement, formally labeling the transatlantic slave trade as one of the gravest crimes against humanity in history. The resolution emphasised “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity by reason of the definitive break in world history, sc...

• Post #728799

  #SerenityInOz— a quiz about Australian stuff —Mon 23 Mar, 2026 (Please boost for reach, and try to CW your answers) ——— i am semiaquatic, i am a monotreme, endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania i am the sole living member of my family and genus i use electrolocation to detect prey when I’m under water in 1799 the first naturalists to see my body (in a preserved state) assumed I was a fake or prank i have been a legally protected species since 1912 the Indigenous peoples who k...

• Post #509408

  #Auspol #USpol #Iran just reading a little news report about why australia supports regime change in iran… and if we did a “find and replace” for Iran so the article spoke about why we support regime change in the USA, instead of Iran, would we be wrong? a related issue, of course, is whether we can feel any sympathy for the millions of USians actually fighting back. Should we just drop some bombs on them anyway? would the human “cost” be greater if we sought, instead, to encourage or achiev...

• Post #16468

  @howie319@mas.to @blogdiva@mastodon.social re-posting with #AltText