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

@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

#ClimateDiary

Western #Australia's South West drying up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-03/climate-change-reality-hits-home-in-rural-community/103779236?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Yay! #Melbourne council considering higher parking fees for Yank Tanks. #Naarm #Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/yarra-council-debates-large-vehicle-suv-parking-melbourne/103577670?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Had to repost this here. Apparently from a library in Utrecht, Netherlands.

You power your device by cycling!

I need one of these set ups. The exercise would be brilliant.

@jeffowski Maybe apply that in the way you treat your followers?