zero_gravitas
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- Comment on Two men arrested over Melbourne's 'Pam the bird' graffiti attacks 5 days ago:
WTF is a a “graffiti attack”?
- Comment on XXXX Capitalise On Great Northern Going 'Woke' By Saying Gay People Should Be Banned From State Forests 6 days ago:
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 1 week ago:
Yeah, with ABC articles the last couple of years, generally the headline that appears on the page itself is far better than the sharing metadata headline.
- Grace Tame wears anti-Murdoch shirt to prime minister’s Australian of the Year morning teawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 16 comments
- Comment on Australian police say antisemitic crimes may be funded overseas 1 week ago:
Related article over on !news@aussie.zone - aussie.zone/post/17103248
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
I agree with your comment entirely, so you may be misunderstanding the point I was making.
I agree it’s not surprising there’s been a rise in anti-jewish racism, especially since the Israeli state consistently tries to muddy the waters and conflate itself with jewish people in general (which is fucked).
The comment I was replying to (“Maybe if they stopped genociding people?”) appears to uncritically accept this conflation and the racist falsehood that the whole ethnic communities being targeted in these incidents are inherently connected or responsible for Israel’s genocide, and that needs to be called out.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
Done: aussie.zone/post/17098473
Would probably usually post this sort thing to c/news, but posted in c/Australia seeing as two other articles on the matter were posted there.
- Submitted 1 week ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
Conflating all Jewish people with Israel is fucked and is also a key tactic of Israel.
- Comment on The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney 1 week ago:
What is going on in Sydney??
Police say they’re investigating whether some of these crimes were commissioned by “overseas actors”: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo
So that’s interesting. It might go some way to explaining what seems like a sudden onset, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also been driven by a copy-cat phenomenon.
- Comment on Childcare centre torched in latest antisemitic attack in Australia 2 weeks ago:
Not a Sydneysider, but I wouldn’t say there’s a ‘strong anti-semitic feeling’ anywhere in Australia - at least not in comparison to the levels of villification faced by any non-‘white’ ethnic group.
I though this was interesting:
“We are looking into whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs,” Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw said, adding that it was possible that cryptocurrency was involved.
from: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo
If these attacks are commissioned, it’d make some sense of some of the graffiti misspelling “Israiel”.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on How did I miss this important Australian historical event? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m aware, it’s just bizarre even with that context. But yes, important to note for anyone not aware.
- Comment on How did I miss this important Australian historical event? 3 weeks ago:
Haha, I saw it around when it was originally posted. It’s just so bizarre I didn’t know what to make of it. I couldn’t find an extended version or anything describing the context around it.
- BOM Indigenous Weather Knowledge - the seasonal calendars of different indigenous communities around Australiaaussie.zone ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 3 comments
- Comment on Australia's secret war in Yemen ... just don't call it a war 4 weeks ago:
The number of US bases/facilities and personnel on Australian soil is set to massively increase, too. Pine Gap has been a festering national shame for decades, and successive Australian governments have only made moves to make things worse.
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 4 weeks ago:
Once they’ve been dead for a hundred years, it’s fine. They moved onto the next phase of their existence in the universe a long time ago.
Yeah, this is the impression I have as a generality, but I don’t know for sure the specific cultural practices relevant to this man, so I threw it in there to play it safe. It doesn’t cost anything, and I figure it’s a good idea to get into the habit of doing it. At very least one user (Tar_Alcaran) learnt something!
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 4 weeks ago:
No worries, glad I could be informative!
- Comment on [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbane 4 weeks ago:
It’s a cultural sensitivity thing, with many Aboriginal Australian cultures having a prohibition against using the name of a deceased person.
Guidelines here: www.abc.net.au/edpols/…/13633944
- [CULTURAL WARNING: Contains name and image of an indigenous person who has died] On this day in 1855, Aboriginal lawman and resistance leader Dundalli was executed in Brisbaneen.wikipedia.org ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- What time can you mow the lawn on a Sunday? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of weekend noise restrictionswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Comment on Upgrade to lemmy 0.19.8 5 weeks ago:
I hope you’re getting penalty rates!
Thanks for all your hard work ❤️
- $200 taxi fares for a 5km trip: how illegal overcharging is surging – even as Victorian police are forced to crack downwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year 1 month ago:
This commenter dug up even more baffling details: aussie.zone/post/15912083/13633454
The Guardian’s headline is.pretty tame all things considered. You could have had:
- US woman backflips in court, pleads guilty to smuggling 24-carat gold gun into Sydney
- Clown school student who tried to smuggle gold-plated pistol into Australia claims Google said it was ‘OK’
From the first one:
Goodson had declared that she was carrying cat, squirrel and rabbit parts on her incoming passenger card, but failed to mention the gun.
…
The court also heard that she previously owned two other guns while living in the States, but she had accidentally given them away.
"Those guns I ended up giving away, because I accidentally left them in a donation box."
From the last one:
Her lawyer said she packed the pistol because she was high and paranoid from synthetic marijuana
She also has a horn and a bone through her nose.
- Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 11 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 7 comments
- Comment on Why Long COVID is looking more and more like it's driven by 'long infection' 2 months ago:
Maybe an Aus Science community would be good and could include health stuff?
I posted an article to !austech@aussie.zone a while back (aussie.zone/post/14355715) which may have fit better in a science comm (but again, could also have gone in plain ‘news’).
- Comment on Why Long COVID is looking more and more like it's driven by 'long infection' 2 months ago:
It’s not news
Isn’t it?
