Notices by farmer aby (aby@aus.social)

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About 5 years ago one of my lecturers set up a meeting for me with an academic who had just started working at my university.

He was a criminological researcher doing a big project on sex workers, and she (my lecturer) thought we'd get along academically and I might possibly be interested in him as my eventual phd supervisor or something..

We had a chat over the course of about an hour, mostly about his research, but he asked at one point what I was thinking with regards to a phd topic.

At the time I was interested in looking at the incidence of sexual abuse within the police force, so I set out my argument to him:

We know that there is a much higher incidence of domestic violence perpetrated by police against their partners and kids.

We know that people reporting DV aren't taken seriously by the police they're reporting to, often to the extent where they are given misinformation like 'we can't act unless he actually *does* something'.

We know that people reporting sexual assault are often not taken seriously as well,and are often given misinformation like 'rape is actually really hard to prove, are you sure you want to report this?'.

...i wonder if there is a higher incidence of people with a history of perpetuating sexual assault in the police force?
...i wonder if they commit those assaults while in the police force, or if the job attracts people with that history?

Using the questionnaire from the Lisek & Miller study and the McWhorter study, I could survey students in a number of different fields and see if there is a higher number of people doing policing who self-report having used these rape-behaviors.

I could also do a follow up on the same students (although I'm not sure how because having the study not be anonymous would confound results) to see if their responses change after being in the police force for a number of years.

..he just looked at me and said that he doubted there was a higher incidence of DV perpetuated by police, and that he was certain that the reports that happened are angry partners targeting those cops with vexatious reports because they know it'll have big consequences for their careers.. and shut down the entire conversation immediately.

He's a critical criminologist, and wasn't interested in even having the slightest bit of curiosity about police being violent.
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"When she reported to police that he would repeatedly call her and hang up – an action she felt breached the apprehended domestic violence order she had taken out against him – she says an officer told her she was being a “vexatious ex-spouse” who was trying to cause trouble."

#AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #CommunityNotCops #FuckThePolice #NoJusticeNoPeace #DomesticViolence #GenderedViolence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAW #Academia #Uni #university #Criminology #CriminalJustice

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/26/it-was-awful-annies-worst-fears-came-true-after-she-accused-her-police-officer-partner-of-dv-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Goatsius Maximus is now a market cap of over $800 million and the AI which appears to have created it now has over $10 million.

The Microsoft CIO guessed that we'd have a millionaire AI agent in 2025, and we already have one (that we know of!) that's worth over $10 million.

..not to mention that it happened by founding what amounts to a shitposting memecoin goat cult.

I hate it here.

#MemeCoin #Tech #technology #Capitalism #AI #LLM

[white cis men need not comment]

#Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #ReplyGuys

tbh i find mastodon way more toxic than twitter

I keep seeing people blame the "second moon" for the hurricanes happening at the moment, because of the "gravitational pull of water".

Like, you motherfuckers will look to anything else other than climate crisis to explain what's happening.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #HurricaneMilton #HurricaneHelene #SecondMoon #Asteroid #asteroid2024pt5 #astronomy

#queer #trans #anarchism #activism #ProtectTransKids

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #Solidarity #MutualAid

It's called "justice reinvestment", and it's the idea that we put money into the prevention of crime by giving it to community-led programs that will support people and address the drivers of contact with the criminal justice system.

We know that the biggest driver towards criminal behaviour is poverty, and if governments really want to address crime (as they all claim they do), they'd be addressing poverty.

Governments talk about engaging in justice reinvestment, but when you look at the amount of money they give to these programs ($17.25m in Australia) and compare it to the amount they waste on obsolete submarines ($368 BILLION), you get more of a sense of what's actually happening.

#AusPol #Australia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons

Long COVID is a $1 trillion problem with no cure. Experts plead for governments to wake up

#covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #disability #disabled #LongCovid

[h/t to Violet Blue on @Patreon for their #CovidRoundUp - https://www.patreon.com/violetblue?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan]

https://fortune.com/well/article/long-covid-cost-1-trillion-treatment-cure/

Deadly Covid now 'all-year-round' virus as expert warns you could get it 'five times'

A rise in deadly Covid cases has been met with worry by experts, as one has now claimed that the virus will be hitting us 'all-year round,' and that it could happen several times per year

#covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #disability #disabled #LongCovid

[h/t to Violet Blue on @Patreon for their #CovidRoundUp - https://www.patreon.com/violetblue?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/deadly-covid-now-all-year-33428194

@ChuckMcManis - yikes! Digital blackface isn't the take you think it is.

How about you just believe Black people.

@jik

@jik - this is what I mean. White and white skinned people are going to read this guys responses and not see them as being racist, because he's "just having a discussion", right?

He's being racist.

@ChuckMcManis

@abolisyonista - we looked at how comic books started as copaganda, how the the current iteration of Marvel movies is pro-US/anti-Islamic propaganda post 9/11, how zombie movies are about capitalism, horror films are about consumption etc.

If you're interested I have two assignments I wrote for it - blog posts about The Punisher and about Funny Games. I can repost them here.

@abolisyonista - I did a subject last year on Crime and the Media, and we looked specifically at superhero movies and comics.. it was fascinating.

I admin a local "pantry" group on Facebook, for food sharing. Basically, if you have food (or other stuff, but mostly food) that you don't want for whatever reason you can post it in the group and give it away. It stops good being thrown out and wasted, and helps people who might be going hungry otherwise.

Tonight a woman put up a post talking about how she's a young mum with two small boys, and that they were out of food until Thursday. She talked about how she was embarrassed to ask but really needed help.

Two women answered the post, offering food. The OP explained that she didn't drive and would it be ok of people dropped things at her place, so I offered to drive around and collect the things people were giving and drop them at her place. I don't have spare food I can help with, but I have a car and I have time.

The second woman I collected from was someone I actually met at the beginning of the year, when she posted in the group and asked for help with cleaning supplies.. I gave her a bunch of things I had tucked away under the sink and didn't use.

She had told me then about how her partner had just been diagnosed with cancer. She told me tonight how she'd stayed in the group because she was waiting for the opportunity to help someone else because we'd helped her so much. She's doing better now, and it made her feel happy she could help someone else.

When I dropped the food these two women had given to the OP, she talked to me about how her partner had died suddenly the year before, leaving her with two young boys.. both with autism and ADHD. She said she's 31 and doesn't have her life together yet. I told her I'm 50 and mines a mess too. I told her that one of the women who had offered food was someone the group had helped previously, and how happy she'd been to be able to help as well. We talked about how community means not only helping people, but also being helped. We talked about how this means that our communities are stronger and prosper together. She's looking forward to being able to help someone else too.

This is how mutual aid works. No matter how dark things get, we can find hope in community.

#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #CommunityCare #CommunityNotCops #RegionalAustralia

#CrowdStrike #Windows #microsoft #tech #technology

I try to hashtag my stuff, not only so it can be found, but so it can be filtered by people who don't want to see it. Especially because I post a lot of political content.

If you need me to start using specific hashtags so your filters work more effectively, please let me know.

I'm never going to be shitty at people asking for a kindness. We need to be gentle with each other, so that we can be dangerous together.

#hashtags #filters #accessibility

Truly, the Nostradamus of our times...

#USPol #Trump #US #USA #dril

I'm at my employment services provider, and listening to a phone call she's having with another client.

This other client has had her #JobSeeker payments suspended because she hasn't submitted her record of job applications.

It's very obvious that she isn't tech savvy at all, and the DES worker is asking if her (it sounds like pre-teen?) daughter can help her with submitting the job record.

Meanwhile, she's not getting any money.

#Unemployment #Poverty #poor #disability #disabled #AusPol #Australia #Centerlink