Notices by Tingo (fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social)

As the US vetos a security council ordered ceasefire and Australian politician and old media lead with graffiti and vandalism, the horror of the Gaza genocide rages on.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-dozens-including-children-in-their-sleep

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

#gaza #israel #auspol #uspol

Having sniffed around the platform, disagree Bluesky feels like original Twitter, more middle aged Twitter when old media and businesses moved in.

Mastodon more acutely captures the initial experience of randomly shared ideas and a proliferation of early adopting techies, nerds and geeks.

#bluesky #mastodon #socialmedia

Torn on bridging to BlueSky. On one hand it's evil corporate social media doomed to enshittify, on the other spreading satanic communist propaganda is the mission.

Dunno. It's a tough call.

#bluesky #mastodon #socialmedia

Was a polite way of saying, 'If you're rich, fuck off, we're full. You can sort yourself out.

'But we'll take your tired, poor and huddled masses.'

#auspol #refugees

Not in favour of high economic immigration to Australia, particularly from wealthy countries. We have limited resources and an ancient environment we're already straining.

Am in favour of much higher refugee and asylum seeker intake, for the good it spreads and the character of the new citizens it brings who've collectively proven they'll seize the opportunity and flourish.

https://www.unhcr.org/au/about-unhcr/who-we-are/1951-refugee-convention

#auspol #refugees

Telsa brand has highest fatality rate of any car on US roads according to newly released data.

https://www.iseecars.com/most-dangerous-cars-study

Site tracking Tesla fatalities:

https://www.tesladeaths.com/

via @ampersine @gpnaturephotos

#tesla

@pluralistic

Yo, Cory. Love ya work.

@mvilain

'Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification...'

- Corey Doctrow, Nov '22
@pluralistic

Interested to see if the new FotM commercial platforms can speedrun Doctrow's doctrine, or defy it even.

https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456

#threads #bluesky #socialmedia

With zero experience of the two commercial platforms, concluded the following from the reviews of you raging communists:

Threads - No news. Check out my insta pics. Here's a random thing the algorithm threw.

Blue Sky - Late to the Twitter. Late to leave. This is so like old Twitter.

Mastodon - Freaks, tech geeks, nerds and raging communists.

Is that the deal?

#threads #bluesky #mastodon

Reckon we need a site ahead of the Federal Election with a simple list of politicians and journalists active on the Hellsite, so voters can inform themselves and judge accordingly.

Don't have the time, tech skills or inclination to throw one up, but would happily Patreon or w/e anyone who did to help cover costs. *Hint Hint*

#auspol

Had a poor opinion of the journalists and politicians addicted to their Hellsite accounts before the latest insanity.

That's now utter contempt.

Give them a last chance and a week or two to get their shit together, then its names and lists and sanctions, I believe.

#auspol

After a lot of consideration and investigation for the best use of spare time, am going to volunteer to plant trees.

Can't calculate a better return on investment strategy. Giddyup.

Australian companies already lobbying to halve the corporate tax rate to match that now proposed for the US, impacting government revenue and dramatically eroding the potential public spend on health, education, welfare and research.

(In before those in know tweak my nose and utter 'what research?')

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/what-trump-means-for-australian-business/104584408

#auspol

Happened again. *Knock knock*

'Hi, I'm from -'

'Really busy thanks.'

'This won't take a mom -'

'Ahh, no worries then. Give us your name and home address -'

'Oh, we don't -'

'Give us your name and home address and I'll drop in randomly in the next six months to discuss whatever this is.'

'We don't ... Oh.'

Works every time.

Harris supporters displayed a ton of self-righteousness during the US presidential campaign. Annoyed me, a natural ally. Can only imagine how much it pissed off the average apathetic voter and don't see a lot of discussion around US turnout falling from 2020.

There's a lesson there for combatting Australia's own Trumpian forces come next year's federal election. Less lecturing and assumed victory, more open discussion and willingness to listen, to engage the disengaged and hopefully bring them along.

A huge advantage of being a small and irrelevant world power is we can watch and learn, as we did with our electoral system, then adapt far faster than the larger powers stuck in their inexorable trajectories. That could be very useful in this context.

#auspol #uspol

'No votes for genocide'

Protesters target News Corp in New York after election polls close, claiming responsibility for Palestinian genocide rests with both major parties and their candidates.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/6/hundreds-rally-against-genocide-on-election-day

#palestine #uspol #israel

Reckon I'll just post quotes from Banksy. The same quote.

Give the people what they want.

@railmaps

Concerned. Biden administration repeatedly using the word 'concerned' in the disturbed and troubled sense, or are they relying on the interested and involved definition.

Because doing fuck all to stop genocide while handing out weapons to commit it strongly suggests the latter.

#gaza #uspol #israel

'It will receive our attention,' Treasurer Jim Chalmers, 28 October 2024.

While we wait, and wait ... and wait, for Labor's gambling ad reforms, gambling companies make out like a politician with three negatively geared investment properties.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/28/chalmers-says-its-problematic-gambling-companies-claimed-90m-worth-of-research-tax-credits-in-one-year

#auspol