Creative, #FirstNations #Always Weilwan, Gamilaraay + Dharawal :firstnations:
Interested in tech, ideas, politics, deephouse music + other things.
Creative work:
https://pixelfed.art/i/web/profile/552402898936733270
Slowly going offgrid, currently run solar panels & generators with low energy appliances.
Would like to see an #AusRepublic with First Nations as central to a new constitution.
Have appreciated the tips + kindness extended, thanks 😊
*This account does not reflect the views of anywhere i may work.*
Carolyn Bryant, the woman who got Emmet Till lynched, has died.
Anyone who thinks Emmett Till being lynched in 1955 is ancient history should remember that 18 current members of Congress are older than him and the white woman Carolyn Bryant who got him lynched just *today* died—and that without any accountability whatsoever.
In short, this systemic racism and racial terror against Black people is not ancient history. It's not even history.
It's contemporary reality.
The Rapid Rise of Generative AI Threatens To Upend US Patent System - Intellectual property laws cannot handle possibility artificial intelligence could... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/27/1913251/the-rapid-rise-of-generative-ai-threatens-to-upend-us-patent-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Dropbox is the next company firing a significant amount of people to pursue the magical dragon "AI". Dropbox. A service that people just want to store their files, sync properly and make them shareable.
Sure they need some bullshit generators. The whole tech sector is just brain worms these days.
This Grey Heron has just arrived at one of its favourite perches that looks down on a side lake near the woods
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon
Some of the things President Biden has done:
Aided Ukraine against Putin’s invasion
The CHIPS Act
The PACT Act
The Inflation Recovery Act (really a clean energy bill)
The infrastructure bill
A budget proposal to reduce the deficit
What Republicans promise:
Book banning
Persecution of marginalized people
Tax cuts for the wealthy
More gun violence
No rights for women
Destruction of public education
Authoritarianism
Easy call, old or not.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-is-old-get-over-it
My piece for @epochemagazine is out!
It's about Mad Studies, utopia, and my own experiences of madness as lagniappe
https://epochemagazine.org/61/mad-utopias-using-madness-as-political-praxis/
Sweetly juvenile though.
I didn't realise freudian perspectives were still in vogue!
I played with HTTPS security settings today. I have documented what I did at https://co-shaoghal.net/index.php?page=173&offset=0#section242
If anybody knows how to get the Content-Security-Policy header working for @peertube, please let me know #MastoAdmin #PeerTubeAdmin #InfoSec
SL pods
https://pixelfed.art/p/Yinarr/552448515915841420
If you love it deep like i do:
https://dogglounge.com/
I have worked hard to be seen as equal, where being woman is transcended in a way, where it is incidental, especially in the workplace.
As an Aboriginal woman, i have functions i am expected to fulfill, roles which continue long & proud traditions.
And now i'm having some other box put around me. A box i haven't asked for, nor want. I'm trying to be free of boxes.
It's not for others to define who i be and i am not 'cis'. Just as it isn't for me to define who others be. Just be. So many labels which divide us, which distract us from being full human beings. There are bigger things in the world to put myself to service to.
Ok. I'm going to cop it. However, i've copped it all my life, so what evs.
How is it that i get called 'cis' (a term i have NOT chosen for myself, nor do i use) but 'trans' ppl get called women?
It is bitchy co-opted language & it is unsettling being forced out of using our own term for ourselves.
Especially for women who have done it hard. Just for seeking independance. It was fvcken hard being seen as equally intelligent at school. It's fvcken hard being a provider, without having the socially acceptable male around, which has meant i will never own my own home given the single income. It's fvcken hard being seen as equally competent in the workplace, while being paid less watching men climb ladders into positions you are probably more experienced in. While men have gawked at your chest, arse & 're-adjusted' themselves openly & constantly while trying to get them to concentrate. It's fvcken hard bringing up children & grandchildren on your own in an overtly colonial, male dominated society. It's fvcken hard having lived through domestic violence & selfish sex. It's fvcken hard having women suspicious of you as they hold onto the husbands they think you're going to steal. Yet our homes better be spick & span.
I've lived through it ALL MY LIFE & always landed on my feet only to now be regarded as some sort of enemy. For being a woman, a female. Again. Still.
You wouldn't have a fvcken clue. My understanding is demanded without considering my energy is spent surviving.
Today's "Four Larks and a Wren" playlist and BNDCMPR- https://bndcmpr.co/5042742a
Four Larks and a Wren - April 25, 2023
jim white - static on the radio, drill a hole..
from a harbour softly drawn & andrew wild - blank spots, from a harbour softly drawn & andrew wild
penelope trappes - away from tidal waves, heavenly spheres
nichola scrutton - pulsing light, night vision
natalia beylis - new potatoes, library of sticks
little cloud - some rain must fall, little cloud @ coma 2020 02 03
lite falls - last month, waiting, fleeting variations by andrew tuttle
panoptique electrical - quiet forty three, music for quiet cities
laila sakini - excerpt, message 002
ruth anderson - conversations, tête-à-tête by ruth anderson & annea lockwood
toby lurie - love, word music
the remakquels - hyperthymesia, lost wisdom
extinction room - huia (heteralocha acutirostris), extinction stories
hcae - spring dusk frogs october, single
nick turner - a place to hide, under dark pines
willebrant - water n' stone, imaginary north transmission 005
sabiwa - pupa, island no.16 - memories of future landscapes
florigenix - benevolent whirlpool of stars, wild light
avalon kane and stu patterson - rescue, avalon kane and stu patterson
alex albrecht - floral remnant, coles ridge
aphir - viscosity angel, the halo is shapeless
bali gamelan sound - rejang reong, selonding, vol. iv
black_ops and the creeping man - vibrations, wound and suture
laura cannell - no sound is lost, no sound is lost
tarta relena - nara is neus - me yelassan (casi seguiriya remix), remixos ii
iztok koren - 06 . . . . . ., praznina / emptiness
elina bolshenkova - on hold, flood management
milkweed - blackbirds nest, mound people
brìghde chaimbeul - tha fonn gun bhi trom (i am disposed of mirth), carry them with us
im - aodhán, mixtape
kikagaku moyo/幾何学模様 - semicircle, forest of lost children
hack-poets guild - something to love me, blackletter garland
lankum - master crowley's, false lankum
fhae - earth, sombre thorax
hydromedusae - hardly 1, hydromedusae
anya anastasia - losing wild, dissenter
summer flake - barnacle bill, one less thing
skink tank - aries season, split w. hearts and rockets
leitmotive limbo - birds and beats, superior state
tim koch - covodent detriment, selcouth beats
the onos - part 7, on the nose
benefits - warhorse, nails
Were Carlson & Lemon mates? Given the former used to work at CNN, presuming they know each other?
Is there a bigger story here? Or maybe not?
It is strange they were both sacked on the same day, using almost the same language in respective announcements.....
Home, not-so-sweet, Home. My cartoon for the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/apr/25/finding-a-place-to-rent-is-no-fairytale?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@marcin_sawicki @yinaar and Russia isn't using a proxy so I would suggest that just makes it an invasion
Kevin McCarthy giving ex Fox anchor Tucker Carlson thousands of hours of insurrection footage upon becoming Speaker of the House, and letting him use it for disinformation, is a George Santos level move.
IMO we'll never see office worker numbers back at the same heights in CBDs, so businesses and property owners should give up on that. What needs to happen is re-orientating city centres towards dining, entertainment, and culture; and local residents. The Melbourne CBD already does a lot of that, could do more.
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‘Time to go back’: city business owners rail against Australia’s working from home shift https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/25/time-to-go-back-city-business-owners-rail-against-australias-working-from-home-shift?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Why does no-one refer to the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war?
