Notices by Phil Betts (philbetts@mastodon.social)

Yaaaaargh, I be commitin' computer piracy. ☠️🦜 #BirdsOfMastodon

This is such a gangster photo (c/o The Courier Mail)

"Merle Thornton AM, who famously chained herself to a Brisbane bar in protest against the ban on women drinking in public bars, has died aged 93...

In 1965, Dr Thornton and her friend Rosalie Bogner chained their ankles to a bar at the Regatta Hotel in Toowong, after a bartender refused to serve them."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-21/merle-thornton-dies-aged-93/104252220

This is what the Kaiser took from us. 😔

This "false equivalence" line about the ICC that's making its way out of a bunch of conservative politicians mouths, in synch, all around the world, is so dumb. Nice attempt to co-ordinate and spin the narrative, but there's a pretty clear equivalence - both have potentially committed war crimes.

@mpesce is there any chance an errant Starlink satellite collides with another and starts a chain-reaction of low-orbit collisions, creating an Earth-encasing field of deadly fast projectiles that sets the course of space exploration back decades, prevents any new satellites from launching, and traps us here on Earth for the foreseeable future? Because I'm not gonna lie, that would be pretty funny.

Pink frangipani, with white in the background. #bloomscrolling

@phiofx I would largely agree with the sentiment, but it's worth highlighting that there were and are many first nations cultures that have lived sustainably, and there are lessons to be learned from them.

@Mastodon all of this news delights me, sounds great and looking forward to it. Thanks! ✌️