Notices by David P (pewnack@aus.social)

@hannah

Sorry, but not an author and not cats.

The famous official NASA photo of astronaut Leland D. Melvin, taken with his dogs Jake and Scout. He smuggled his dogs into the photo shoot.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_astronaut_Leland_D._Melvin_with_his_dogs_Jake_and_Scout.jpg

@skinnylatte

Well, sparsely inhabited except for the coastal cities.

In terms of international travel. Apparently in 2024 Australians took over 11 million overseas trips. For a country with a population of 25 million, that's quite a lot.

I suspect it might be a wealthy subset.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-16/travel-tourism-australia-holiday-cost-of-living/104337072

@skinnylatte

Australia, like the US is a large continent. But unlike the US most of it is very sparsely inhabited.

And yeah, the distances are vast. A flight from Sydney on the east coast to Perth on the west coast (which I believe is actually closer to Singapore than to our capital Canberra) is roughly the same as a flight from Moscow to London.

@alice

Australia has now implemented a "child safety" social media "ban".

I use quotes for the former due to everything you've said and for the latter because it's already clear it's not working.

Everyone who understood anything about the tech knew it wouldn't work told the government but they continued to double down on it because *wave arms in the air* "child safety".

#AusPol

Australian governments will do anything to appear to do something to fix housing unaffordability than actually do anything to fix housing unaffordability.

@DharmaDog

Today's "Too Woke Art" is 1930s "Degenerate Art".

This is *literally* Nazi Germany stuff right there.

#Trump #Fascism #EntarteteKunst

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

@andreas_heitmann@troet.cafe

Why do so many Star Trek fans not understand Star Trek. Go on stop watching. It'll be better off without you.

@aral

You're describing the so-called horseshoe theory.

https://theconversation.com/horseshoe-theory-is-nonsense-the-far-right-and-far-left-have-little-in-common-77588

@bodhipaksa @GottaLaff

He's been told multiple times (including the Australian Ambassador) how tariffs actually works and who actually ends up paying. Reportedly he just refuses to accept the reality of the situation, when it conflicts with his belief.

@RickiTarr

@skinnylatte

From what I understand, some British colonial anti-homosexuality laws (since repealed in the UK) are still on the books in many African nations. This and the presence of current American evangelists are largely responsible for the severe anti-LGBTQI+ laws around the continent.

@TheEffekt @RealJournalism

Given how visitors to your country have been treated you can hardly blame the rest of the world for avoiding the US at all costs.

@skinnylatte

No Otter McOtterface?

@SheDrivesMobility

Paywall free:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250211040851/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/

@GrapheneOS

Isn't it a cryptocurrency scam wrapped up in a browser?

Not to mention founder Brendan Eich's anti-LGBTQI political donations and other activities.

@mattblaze

It's the latest distraction scapegoat for hate after "critical race theory". Fascists need to keep their supporters focused on something "other" to hate/fear , instead of the real decline in their living standards, freedoms etc.

I'm all but sure The Heritage Foundation has a list and they're working down it.

#USPol

@raymondpert

Oh no! Trump makes cryptocurrency look like what it is, an unseemly cash grab. How dare he!

@mekkaokereke

Perhaps what might have been going on there was those boys were already into sport. Then there's a short hop to the wellness cult, and another short hop to body purity and anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories and finally you reach full blown Fascism.

Although, the wellness cult route to fascism is more common for (white) women for obvious reasons.

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson

As an Australian, during this election round I've been learning some horrifying facts about the lack of anonymity at various points of your electoral process.

I'm serious asking, can husbands learn how their wives (or any partner relationship) vote?

@shtrom

This article could have been written about children with ME/CFS any time in the last century.

About 10 years ago I went to the funeral of a young man who had taken his own life after suffering ME/CFS since adolescence.

This is a serious illness and it does cause death.