Notices by Tingo (fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social)

@WetHat

Founded by ad industry, has links to big UK agencies, uses bots and paid staff to spam feeds.

Dodgy as hell. Exactly the kind of players you don't want clogging up the Fediverse, but as you said, can easily be blocked.

Enshittification, coming to Mastodon right now.

Advertising industry's Newsmast deploying bots to infest feeds across the Fediverse.

https://newsmast.social/@newsmast/113781312980934186

#fediverse #socialmedia #newsocial #mastodon

Well played, Labor. Got a stupid meme nobody saw splashed across old media.

Impressive tactics.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-31/peter-dutton-labor-meme-pm-orders-takedown/104773522

#auspol

@Tooden

Bit like having all your Gaza Genocide stories overseen by a Mossad agent. No wait, that's the BBC.

Think I'll resub to Netflix to watch the new Squid Games.

Hah! Lies. Giving money to anything US is tantamount to funding Nazis. Piracy ahoy.

#uspol

Hit the evil empire in the only place it cares about. Boycott. America.

#uspol #usboycott

@delProfundo @aral

Ahhhh, guillotine emoji. Don't you just love the future?

Arbitrary date, but it focuses minds. So let's play '25 bingo.

• US to lose its shit (more) as its fascist government falls to infighting and dear leader becomes increasingly not-present. Probably war border regions, crash its own wealth and continue on a path of self-execution. All empires die from within.

• Power vacuum left to see surgent forces rise. Russia will do its thing. China will inexorably progress, playing the well worn multiple generational strategy. From their perspective, why do anything overt when your opponents are stabbing themselves?

• Israel govt to continue its rabid path. Just another middle-eastern psycho-state. Will the rest of the world get sick of such lunatic, genocidal shit? increasingly likely.

• Australia. What is this country even? A British colony run on mining cash with zero local intelligence or self-awareness. Maybe it'll shrug off such roots and embrace its real and inherent wealth bequeathed by a world's worth of refugees and culture. Maybe it'll just continue hamstringing itself with mediocrity.

2025. Year of the crazy possibilities.

It's 2025 in the not-too-distant future! No horseman of the apocalypse yet, although Pestilence is passed out in a corner and War won't fuck off and go home.

Happy New Year. 😊

#nye

Watched a woman shoplift disposable nappies and toiletries today (have a Cert IV in Loss Prevention courtesy of a shitty uni job).

Afterwards, confronted her and suggested next time she should note cameras and staff and deliberately break line of sight. Makes an apprehension too risky as the target may have dumped the goods, inviting an unlawful arrest charge and/or false imprisonment law suit.

Stay tuned for more cost of living crisis tips.

@randahl

Sad Australia doesn't have EU's interest in or protection from online privacy laws and digital rights.

Good that we enjoy some of the benefits by proxy but nowhere near enough.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-principles

#auspol #privacy

Happy Holidays

Trying to conceive an Australian oligarch as loathed in this country as the CEOs of the United State's so-called healthcare industry are in theirs. Whose death would stir up similar displays of gallows humour, derision and even public support?

Rupert Murdoch, Clive Palmer and Gina Rinehart would easily be the top three most hated, but as Murdoch's fled to the United States and Palmer's more annoying joke than democratic danger, the winner would hands down be Rinehart.

Wonder if she's aware how detested she is - is certainly extremely sensitive about image - or does all the stolen wealth and greed-driven lickspittles provide enough insulation to form an impregnable false narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart

#auspol

I did a thing.

Jordan Shanks was playing the long game all along.

#auspol #nswpol #uspol

Boycott America? Yeah, alright, we're in.

OK, Australia. Back on your VPNs. Cancel all ya subs.

#auspol #piracy

NYPD parading Luigi around like they've captured the Winter Solider.

Strange choice considering a) they couldn't find him and b) deifying the guy with renaissance looking imagery a curious propaganda move.

#uspol

If you just want to talk shit in a public forum, for the next week the Tingo Chat Line is open for business.

Can't guarantee a prompt reply but can guarantee a response. Hit me up for whatever reason if in need. We're all in this alone together.

Not really into Christmas.

Our family had some traumatic, drama fuelled adults dominating the show back in the day and us sibs take a different approach, getting together when we can with no pressure.

It's more a time when things get quiet work-wise and can just relax for a week or so before the summer party schedule restarts in earnest.

If you're just chilling, please enjoy, and know there's others sharing your quiet time. Look after and spoil yourselves. You deserve it.

BlueSky may be enshittification personified, but it's captured a lot of smug old media, advertising and influencer types, and that's a service, keeping them all walled off gibbering away at each other.

Mastodon's tiny barrier to entry looking fortuitous considering.

#bluesky #fediverse #socialmedia