melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
Thanks, that’s good info
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
Ah that’s right! Are the major vaccines the RNA ones where it’s just the protein? I’ve forgotten.
I had a brain fart and for some reason was thinking of traditional vaccines
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
The sad part is that reactions to vaccines are vanishingly rare but real. I’m wondering if this lady’s immune system had an unusual strong response and left her with some kind of autoimmune disease. Fibromyalgia can be triggered following a virus and has been confirmed to be autoimmune.
But it is much better for vaccines to be mandatory to keep herd immunity for those that can’t have them and keep smallpox or polio from coming back.
Ironically the symptoms she’s describing sound like long covid which also gets ignored and denied support. It makes me wonder if her body did massively overreact to even the attenuated virus
- Comment on Surgical abortions at Queanbeyan Hospital to be reinstated and region's service expanded 5 days ago:
This is seriously concerning. What would have happened if it hadn’t made the news? Also squinting at the conscientious objection
- Comment on Acting more Australian to foreigners for a laugh only to realise I'm being less Australian than I would be with other Australians. 2 weeks ago:
Go all in at all times. We’re not here to fuck spiders.
- Comment on Pictures are broken 3 weeks ago:
That’s cool, take your time. Thanks for doing this
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
Sorry I don’t explain it well. It’s usually been the fringe parties that were most obvious but you do have a point
- Comment on ‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown 4 weeks ago:
So yeah. There can be independent parties with uh… fringe beliefs that you may not align with. So it’s good to do research on each party or candidate
- Comment on Australia environmental groups just won a huge legal victory 4 weeks ago:
Looks like a good crosspost for Aussie Enviro aussie.zone/c/environment
- Comment on Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW 4 weeks ago:
Oh she was so lucky. Look up ‘suspension trauma’ and then look up some cute kittens.
Never go after a phone and don’t wait an hour to call for help
- Comment on ‘Trust me’: ‘pro-life’ Queensland LNP candidate hints at post-election push to change abortion laws 4 weeks ago:
These are the people trying to legislate healthcare…
Stupid. The link to breast cancer is spurious but the risks involved in covert self induced terminations are known.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 5 weeks ago:
Here we fucking go :(
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah. So not a good idea
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Fuck Colesworth. Having a disability and requiring both generic brands and delivery makes it hard to have other options… but don’t think I haven’t noticed the gouging, or how toothless the recent trust busting measures were.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I don’t know anything from experience but be careful. I heard that in America places like Target will literally wait and let you ‘get away with it’ until it reaches some cumulative amount where they can charge you with a felony.
- Comment on Gina Rinehart urges government to ‘drill, baby drill’ and build Israeli-style ‘iron dome’ in northern Australia 2 months ago:
What an odious woman.
If she’s so concerned about people in poverty I have a few ideas… but that’s just a smokescreen for wanting things that will bolster her own wealth and further her agenda.
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 3 months ago:
My back door has a weirdly elevated door frame so I can’t even chuck a door snake on it. It has to be a giant rolled up beach towel and still doesn’t work
- Comment on Life expectancy in Australia has fallen for the first time in about 30 years 4 months ago:
Deaths of despair and/or social murder! ☝️ (Due to Shit Life Syndrome)
- Comment on An ounce of prevention: Now is the time to take action on H5N1 avian flu, because the stakes are enormous 5 months ago:
There were even those temporary structures/tents outside of hospitals. Saw them locally, none of the behaviour changed though.
I really really hope that this virus doesn’t also jump to humans and force us to deal with strollouts and noncompliant people again…
- An ounce of prevention: Now is the time to take action on H5N1 avian flu, because the stakes are enormoustheconversation.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 12 comments
- Comment on Why won't 'Fluffy' the red-bellied black snake leave Lisa's car? 5 months ago:
He got sick of paying rent/likes van life/it’s cold
- Comment on ‘Hate is not a family value’: protesters clash as Sydney council considers rescinding same-sex parenting book ban 6 months ago:
Oh ok. It’s still very weird. I would have thought that explaining same sex parents to children might be to prevent bullying or teasing of a classmate who has them. I can’t see anything sexualised about it.
It really seems like there’s a homophobic/transphobic push for censorship by religious groups spearheaded by myths that LGBTIA+ are ‘groomers’.
- Comment on ‘Hate is not a family value’: protesters clash as Sydney council considers rescinding same-sex parenting book ban 6 months ago:
Parenting books are moral sin? And in a linked article - sexualised???
I’d argue that same sex parents adopting or fostering kids that would otherwise have fewer options is a net social positive and actually a pretty moral thing to do. (Especially if they’re taking the time and care to read parenting books.) Almost like a thing that a religion of compassion would approve of.
Homophobic protests and book bannings are a different kind of movement. Even if the ban was reversed these trends are scary to see.
- Comment on The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it 6 months ago:
Anecdotally there are issues with random non consensual choking etc. But I agree they’re drawing a long bow and this isn’t going to be as effective or feasible as claimed. Implementing this would only cause unintentional (or intentional) consequences.
Even if it did magically work for the stated purpose (which it won’t) it’s focusing far in the future when there’s a serious crisis right now.
- Comment on The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it 6 months ago:
I find it so discouraging. “The show.” You always get the outcry when things get markedly bad, shortsighted ‘solutions’ that are about optics rather than lasting change, and then things go along the same until the next high profile spate of murders/assaults.
Another worry is that laws like these may slip into a similar functions to KOSA and the other ‘child safety’ laws being brought in in America. Being misused to invade privacy and allow gating or scrubbing of any LGBTIA+ content or reproductive/sexual health information. I know Australia has its own fundie politicians.
- Comment on The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it 6 months ago:
It seems they’ve scapegoated one thing to look busy. I’d love to see more resources given to housing* and family violence services, better sex ed around consent, and for police to consistently act on reports rather than brushing them off.
- There are calls to provide more housing for those escaping their relationships but whether that materialises is another matter
- The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about itwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 6 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 15 comments
- Comment on Able to read cursive handwriting? The war memorial wants your help transcribing love letters 9 months ago:
A long time ago I once googled it thinking it was some obsolete skill like shorthand. Turns out it’s just the joined writing they taught you when you got your pen license.
It apparently got phased out of the curriculum at some point though. So the answer to your question is possibly Gen Z or Alpha
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 10 months ago:
Yeah, when people are struggling to afford food this is the big issue to focus on. /s
Knob
- Comment on Living Wonders judgment shows Australia's environment laws are failing us in the climate crisis 1 year ago:
Thanks