Notices by Frank’s Ting (franksting@theblower.au)

@ajsadauskas @mekkaokereke i think the people who are only leaving twitter now are after a similar experience. Bluesky isn’t quite the same but it meets their expectations…for now

“in the end it turns out America is just plain dumb. Breathtakingly so. Haitian immigrants eat pet dogs in Springfield, don’t you know?” https://thepolitics.com.au/trump-puts-the-dick-in-dictatorship/

“Some people didn’t know about Palestine before last October, and all they’ve ever seen us is under the rubble. They didn’t see that we could just be on scooters, that we could just be enjoying some food with family. I wanted to show that part and humanize them—us—for a couple minutes.” https://www.hearingthings.co/the-music-industry-cant-silence-nemahsis/

The Western Media need to stop pretending this is so-called Israel’s war on “Hamas” and “Hizbollah” when they’re persistently murdering and terrorising civilians across Palestine and Lebanon https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41495885.html

Sitting in a children’s hospital in Sydney and grieving at what these Israeli Terrorists are allowed get away with thanks to support of Albanese, Biden, Starmer and their cowardly governments https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/catastrophic-situation-childrens-hospital-israel-renews-gaza-attacks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“an Israeli tank fired toward a (UNIFIL) observation tower at its headquarters in the southern Lebanese city Naqoura.

The Israeli tank fire directly hit the tower, causing the peacekeepers to fall, UNIFIL said, adding that other “nearby positions have been repeatedly hit.”

Imagine the consequences if any other army had done this.

As always @ianb's Law of Headline's applies re: this New Yorker piece positing that Moody, arsehole and suicidal kids is ALL SOCIAL MEDIA’s FAULT

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/social-media-mental-health-suicide-crisis-teens

For a full take down, read @mmasnick piece including this excerpt

“Andrew Przybylski, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, has observed that decreasing life satisfaction among youths between the ages of ten and twenty usually led to an increase in social-media use. “But the opposite isn’t necessarily true,” he writes. “In most groups, the more time a child spends on social media doesn’t mean their life satisfaction will decrease.” Working with Amy Orben, a Cambridge psychologist, Przybylski has also noted that lower life satisfaction correlates slightly more strongly with wearing glasses than with digital-technology use.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/02/new-yorkers-social-media-is-killing-kids-article-waits-71-paragraphs-to-admit-evidence-doesnt-support-the-premise/

May this honest woman rest in peace

While the 1934, 1936 and 1938 elections were quite obviously rigged by the Nazis, the more than HALF A MILLION Germans who voted AGAINST THE NAZIS in 1936 might have some thoughts about this account not taking their own advice