Notices by ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘 (anne_twain@theblower.au)

@inthehands I've seen posts on Mastodon from people who are already interpreting Tesla Takedown to mean vandalising privately owned cars or chargers and abusing Tesla drivers, because that's what they want it to mean. I looked at your website and I understand that's not what you intend, you can say one thing and people will hear you say something quite different, or they just don't want to do it your way. My message is for those people.

@inthehands
My checklist:
- Sales of new Teslas have dropped around 40% worldwide, and still dropping.
- The price of Teslas has dropped significantly: they're no longer just for the wealthy
- Many people bought their Tesla when Musk was universally admired as a "tech genius"
- Vandalising random Teslas or charging stations harms ordinary people who are being hurt by Musk just as much as anyone else. It does not harm Musk.
- many Tesla drivers would be public servants who've just been sacked, people frightened they can't get the meds they need etc. What are they going to think of you?
#EVs #TeslaTakedown #Musk #uspol #Tesla

@inthehands What's the source of the text?

@Npars01 @GottaLaff @pluralistic Yes, please do this, Canada. I would like to *not* have software I don't want uploaded to my phone without my permission. I would like to * not* receive emails every day nagging me to " sign into my Microsoft account" when I have zero intention.of signing into any Microsoft acvount ever.

@StillIRise1963 Game of Clowns?

@dbattistella They volunteered. An appropriate comment would be to admire their courage and thank them.

@troberts But you don't get lunch. Or in my case you do get lunch and it's a dead rat.

Update your world view! This map shows actual size and shape of continents.

Re #Australia the Great Australian Bight is not really a bight at all, and the Nullabor is wiiiide, it's not just a feeling you get when you're crossing it. And look at the size of Indonesia!

#maps

Shall we make a list of recommended Australian accounts for people new to Mastodon? #Oztodon

@cathywilcox
@firstdogonthemoon
@LifeTimeCooking
@camwilson
@IndyMediaAus
@fixatedpersonsunit
@perkinsy
@rdm
@leece
@Unixbigot
@futzle
@urbanfuzzy
@timrichards
@frogglin
@liamvhogan
@mpesce
@molly0xfff

Please add your recommendations then boost.
Welcome to #Oztodon! 🇦🇺🐨🦜🦘

#Australia

Both scary and reassuring: #Australia assesses its future bushfire risk for every postcode.
#climate #bushfires

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-08/bushfire-hazard-climate-change-national-maps-csiro/104683442?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

@ccferrie Aything that takes away rich people's privileges is "ideological". It's the modern way of saying "You can't be serious!"

@fixatedpersonsunit @aral I'm relieved she didn't automatically side with the US. Americans, from the President right down to school children, see violence as a way of solving problems. Australians not so much. I'm happy for Wong to keep saying "No more war crimes. Negotiate a solution."

Meme of the day.

From the author of "1984"

#authors #memes #philosophy

This sort of tripe just shows us how much power the monarchy still has over the psyches of some Australians.

I'm quite sure Chaz 3 understands perfectly the symbolic nature of Thorpe's action, and of his position as Australia's head of state.

( He's not my king either, darl.)

#LidiaThorpe #BritishMonarchy #auspol #Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-22/dutton-says-thorpe-should-resign-on-principle/104500688?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

In case you thought we were living in a democracy ...

#auspol #FirstNations #RoyalVisit #Monarchy #Sovereignty #Australia
First Nations activists arrested, threatened for protesting Charles III | Green Left
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/first-nations-activists-arrested-threatened-protesting-charles-iii

@raymondpert There goes your "freedom of speech", MAGAs.

@Gustodon @georgepenney One of Australia's supermarket giants, Woolworths, is trialling a system where a scanner is actually fixed to your trolley. 🙄 You have to collect the scanner first, using the company's RFID card.

I'm sure we'll all be rushing to do that.

@ChanceyFleet Thank you. It's worth it to read your sweet appreciation post. 💟

There are folks now who still assume old people aren't familiar with computers.

"Do you use the internet?" they inquire.

"Only since the 1980s."

#Australia Criminologist tells politicians to cut the crap on domestic violence.

#auspol #VAW #MaleViolence
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/vincent-hurley-domestic-violence-qanda-response/103795152?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other