Notices by Emma Davidson (emmadavidson@aus.social)

@annika what the heckin heck? How do you learn braille without tactile print materials?

OH at school today from an industry mentor in his first tutorial with a group of final year students:
“Time is what’s important. Don’t waste it. I can make more money if I want to. But I can never get back one second of time.”

Carpe the fuck diem, kiddos.

This is why I don’t have to get up early for the balloon festival. It comes to me!
#Canberra #CBR #BalloonFestival #balloon

Sound on for the video.
#Canberra #CBR #BalloonFestival #balloon

I am sitting in the back seat while my son drives and his dad supervises. Send pics of kittens / puppies / bunnies / birds to soothe my nerves?

For those catching up on the morning news, I highly recommend this very important piece.

To paraphrase Captain Mal, "I don't believe there is a power in the federal verse that can stop Emma from being cheerful".

#HopePunk

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/feb/05/it-seems-the-end-of-everything-is-upon-us-is-no-one-coming-to-our-rescue-how-about-the-molluscs

Feeling quite happy that I could do the Latin translation.

❌✅❌❌✅✅✅✅✅✅
The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 536
I got 7/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2025/02/08?rival=0100111111

I am no longer an unemployed bum. I am now working in a DEI program for technology in Australian universities.

First day at school today. The people are nice and they’re not going to make me use Windows.

:blobcattea:

@MattHatton indeed. I’m appreciating that I can see the TV from my balcony lounge

I’m seeing lots of talk about getting off Meta and X. These are noble aspirations.

Just keep in mind that some of us still have accounts *because* we care about those most at-risk, not in spite of it.

I flounced out of X in July 2023 and my account is gone. I have posted to Facebook and Insta half a dozen times since 6 November - a couple of protest promos, info on support services, and a goodbye when I left my last job. But I still get regular DMs from people in crisis, and I still answer as best I can. While ever people at risk use my pages to navigate complex systems and seek safety, I will be there for them.

Puns from the floor as @n8 prepared to start his talk on fonts, confirming that I am in the right room and these are my people.

https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/111/

#EverythingOpen

I want to stop using Spotify, and instead buy albums so I can download MP3s. I already own lots of what I listen to regularly, I’ve just been streaming because it’s easier than organising downloaded music files. I mostly listen on my iPhone, sometimes on my MacBook.

What app do you use to organise and play your downloaded music files? Is Apple Music the only good option? What’s good / not so good about what you use?
/ 🧵

🧵 I have questions for folks who don’t use Spotify… :blobcatdj:

I listen to a LOT of music. I have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head when I’m not listening to music. Spotify says 17,653 minutes in 2024, up to 6 hours a day, putting me in the top 21%.

Each song averages 20 listens a year. But I do get obsessive: there was one song I listened to more than 120 times in 2024. I’m in the top 2-5% of Taylor Swift listeners each year.

Instead of fear mongering over the possibility of coal plants no longer supplying most of our electricity and threatening to shut down rooftop solar panels feeding into the grid, shouldn’t we be building more big battery storage, and shifting cheap off-peak pricing to weekend daytimes when generation is at its peak and demand is otherwise low?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-02/aemo-demands-emergency-backstop-to-switch-off-solar/104670332

152 arrests so far today! 40 of them include charges under the NSW anti protest laws. That's the info I've got so far.

#RisingTide #RisingTideAus #PeoplesBlockade #Newcastle

I’m at Rising Tide in Newcastle and we just won our appeal against the marine exclusion zone, which means a full weekend of fun swimming and kayaking at the beach, and saying no new coal and gas.

Come join us!

At Horseshoe Beach and Foreshore Park, Newcastle

#RisingTide #Newcastle #ClimateCrisis #NoNewCoalAndGas

My last official act as Minister for Corrections and Justice Health was to authorise the first ever TV crew going into Canberra’s prison to interview a person serving a sentence (David McBride).

It’ll be on ABC 7:30 tonight.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-20/jailed-whistleblower-david-mcbride-gives-prison-interview/104619510

So good to see Daniel Bartholomaeus announced as ACT Young Australian of the Year for 2025.

Daniel is an artist and university student, and an advocate for a more inclusive neurodiverse community.

He’s also just a really nice person, someone who I have often heard expressing positivity about the people around him, and joy in the process of creating art. The world needs more of this.

https://the-riotact.com/megan-gilmour-named-2025-australian-of-the-year-for-the-act/825867

#canberra

As I am now unemployed and can therefore look at potential future jobs where I could work from home more, instead of being out of the house 80 hours a week, I thought it was time I set up a proper work desk.

The picture is a joke from my old office. Every time the Labor political party said “you can’t do that” my response was “hold my beer” and then did the impossible.

The bookshelves are full of comics and Discworld books.

@eaton I had that experience once. The more I ignored it, the more it grew. Ended up in a story on the front page of SBS News, and the person it was about now has a nationally recognised serious career. I’m still ignoring it.