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

@BenjaminKlein Before you say "we", consider a couple of things:
A significant proportion of the population have mobility issues and for them, walking and cycling are not options.
If you could persuade your government to do it, it would take 20 or 30 years to get public transport infrastructure up to a point where it could accommodate a whole population, carrying people to wherever they want to go. EVs are something we can do now, today.
What you're proposing is a plan that suits you and generalising it to the whole population. That won't work.

@DropBear Judging by the SA government, they'd much rather do something more visible, in the "bread and circuses" line. Viz proposed international golf tournament (fell through) and MotoGP motorbike race, both requiring outlay of $$$ millions by the taxpayer. #auspol #sauspol

@ryanc @catsalad Wishing I'd voted Yes, now.

@ScottishGreens It's fundamentally dishonest to claim that everyone else can be that wealthy, too, yet the rich trot out that lie over and over again in the form of "If you just do what I do, you could be just as wealthy." Not so. More rich people means more poor people.

@Fragglemuppet Which part do you think is sweet?

@skinnylatte Are you saying you wish you knew more? I find I get a lot of satisfaction out of using profanities in my native language, Australian English( yes, it is a distinct dialect of English).

@skinnylatte How did we get from swearing in Teochew to recipes for red cabbage in so few posts?

@NanoRaptor I'm surprised this thread isn't full of Australians relating how they got swooped by a magpie in nesting season. #Australia #maggies #OzCulture

@mariyadelano Nice. I bought mine in about 1963.

@georgetakei " Heads, you lose; tails, we win."

@bmacDonald94 What's the date of this quote? I'm curious as to which century she's talking about.

@Edwin085

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At my house:

@rory @pluralistic Someone (or was it the entire software industry?) forgot the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".

@yogthos Yes. Exactly. It's 50 years since the practice of sorting garbage for recycling became common, and for some reason that's beyond human comprehension, recycling is not yet a public utility like water and sewerage.
When told that X packaging material "cannot" be recycled, the average punter believes it (!!!) when what it really means is "We don't want to spend the capital for the equipment that could recycle it" or some other operational reason that could be easily overcome if the recycling service was state owned.
Some well-meaning people even *post* recyclables like plastic bottle tops to destinations many hundreds of kms away. Yes, really! The manufacturers get free materials, with the freight paid for by the donors. Is "suckers" too harsh a word? .
Demand that your government makes sorting and recycling of "all" waste a state- owned public utility.

@SnowshadowII Really? Sometimes indignation is justified.

@DoomsdaysCW @Tooden A good summary by Australia's national broadcaster here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-24/sa-algal-bloom-outbreak/105300602?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

#Australia #algalBloom #ToxicAlgae #Climate #OceanTemperature

@bright_helpings Here's another one relying on his imagination to tell him what I said and what I meant. I'm not going to defend myself from what you imagined about me. End of conversation

@jepyang The amount of haughtiness and wounded righteousness is pretty incredible.

@elfin @MissConstrue @Lana Gosh, this sounds awful. In Australia the choices are pretty much the Italian espresso standards: short black, flat white, latte, cappuccino. Take away cups are on display; you point to the size you'd like. It's all about good coffee flavour rather than weird additives or quirky names.

#coffee #OzCulture

@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.