Zja (they/she)

A First Nations social worker has raised concerns about the failure of the Australian Association of Social Workers to issue a statement in the wake of the attempted bomb attack on Boorloo/Perth's Invasion Day rally, and has urged solidarity against racism nit.com.au/04-02-2026/2...

DPS troopers clash with protesters outside Dilley ICE detention facility Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrived in riot gear in Dilley on Wednesday as protesters gathered outside the South Texas Family Residential Center to draw attention to the detention of a ...

#Texas troopers attacked anti-ICE demonstrations with projectile weapons, as protesters "gathered outside the South Texas Family Residential Center to draw attention to the detention of a five-year-old boy from the Minneapolis area being held at the ICE facility." www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Sign the Petition Charge Perth demonstration attacker with terrorism

Please sign and reshare this petition. An explosive device was thrown into the crowd at the Invasion Day rally in Perth, and it's getting minimal attention from media and the 'justice' system. I'm firmly in the abolish the police camp, but we're working in an inequitable 'justice' framework and...

Donate to Important Surgery Costs for Zja, organized by Samity Tymewell Hi my name is Samity, but those who know me likely know me as Tea. I am fundraising to… Samity Tymewell needs your support for Important Surgery Costs for Zja

Mutual aid request for my medical expenses. Surgery was completed and then I caught covid which has messed up my recovery. (violent coughing+ear surgery+titanium earbone prosthetic is not advisable). Please share and comment. www.gofundme.com/f/important-...
#mutualaid #gofundme #medicalcosts

Donate to Important Surgery Costs for Zja, organized by Samity Tymewell Hi my name is Samity, but those who know me likely know me as Tea. I am fundraising to… Samity Tymewell needs your support for Important Surgery Costs for Zja

I've had the surgery, but now I have the recovery. Medical appointments, health insurance, and meals and meds. Anything would help immensely. www.gofundme.com/f/important-... #mutualaid #gofundme

Donate to Important Surgery Costs for Zja, organized by Samity Tymewell Hi my name is Samity, but those who know me likely know me as Tea. I am fundraising to… Samity Tymewell needs your support for Important Surgery Costs for Zja

I've had the surgery, but now I have the recovery. Medical appointments, health insurance, and meals and meds. Anything would help immensely. www.gofundme.com/f/important-... #mutualaid #gofundme

Donate to Important Surgery Costs for Zja, organized by Samity Tymewell Hi my name is Samity, but those who know me likely know me as Tea. I am fundraising to… Samity Tymewell needs your support for Important Surgery Costs for Zja

I'm slowly recovering from surgery, with suprise new titanium ear bones, but I still need health insurance & have follow-up medical appointments. Please help out if you can. It's really expensive being sick, esp when you're already disabled.
www.gofundme.com/f/important-... #mutualaid #gofundme

Please share with your communities if you are able. Surgery has already saved me from the prospect of a lifetime of radiation, and given me the hope I may retain partial hearing in my left ear. For now, everything is still swollen and painful, but I live in hope.

Donate to Important Surgery Costs for Zja, organized by Samity Tymewell Hi my name is Samity, but those who know me likely know me as Tea. I am fundraising to… Samity Tymewell needs your support for Important Surgery Costs for Zja

I'm slowly recovering from surgery, with suprise new titanium ear bones, but I still need health insurance & have follow-up medical appointments. Please help out if you can. It's really expensive being sick, esp when you're already disabled.
www.gofundme.com/f/important-... #mutualaid #gofundme

Emergency actions across Australia. Hands off Venezuela. Stop the bombings.

Protest to decry USA bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of their leader. Melbourne: 5pm Sunday 4 Jan @ Flinders St Station. Sydney: 6pm Sunday 4 Jan @ Sydney Town Hall. Brisbane: 5pm Sunday 4 Jan @ King George Square. Canberra. 6pm Sunday 4 Jan @ US Embassy (Yarralumla). Perth: 5.30pm Monday 5nJann@nUSnXonsilare (16 St George Tce).

Snap protest tomorrow!

https://x.com/PinstripeBungle/status/2007361105291817309

And this is why they hate social media:

Webrings were the great. But requires constantly vetting the linked sites are aligned with ones values (anti-fash, anti-genocide, anti-colonialism, anti-terf, etc, et. al.). I'd absolutely 💯 be behind that otherwise. I hate how everything is difficult it is to navigate these days.

I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information

I see we are going to be going full Logan's Run.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? SAVE WHAKAMARU RESERVE – STOP THE 66-HOME DEVELOPMENT Our Natural Landscape at Risk !!!

Via @jennhasadhd.bsky.social "Please help my family with the preservation of our land, our urupa/cemetery (yes a cemetery!!!) and the awa/river ❤️"

Please sign:
c.org/Jn6Gm9grX2
#Aotearoa

If the conservatives in Australia don't pull back their culture war bullshit over this, the Australian public will blowback. I've been involved/done polling on how ostensibly foreign issues debated in Australia are politically perceived domestically for 30 years. (1/2)

Australia is a weirder place than most of us realise on this sort of stuff - which is probably why we often struggle to get things done on these sorts of issues.

I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)

Said it before will say it again: never used it. Won’t use it. I will go into the woods and become mulch before I use it.

Many of y'all stepped up to help with my emergency extraction earlier this week- here's another person needing help with urgent dental issues. Let's make this happen.

Evergreen

Star Trek The Animated series scene. It's a cartoon! Ok, so we're looking at a pond of water where half the screen is water and the other half is land/grass. We see feet and legs of the Most Holy Trinity; McCoy, Kirk, and Mr. Spock. Then, on the water we see their "upside down" (quotations foreshadowing a reason that will become clear with the caption!) version from the waste up in reflection. Kirk in gold, Spock and McCoy in blue. Closed caption reads, "I'VE SEEN STRANGER THINGS, MR SPOCK."

Donate to Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair, organized by Rudy WHITAKER Hi, we are Rudy and Lexi, Tea's close friends. We have set up this Go… Rudy WHITAKER needs your support for Help Samity buy a Life-Changing Powered Wheelchair

Help fund a life-changing powered wheelchair for Tea who is experiencing worsening health and extreme pain. Help them regain their mobility. gofund.me/8ff53bc56 Sincere gratitude to anyone who can spare even $5 or can reshare on their own socials & networks 🙏🏻💓 #mutualaid #gofundme #requestforhelp

Boost

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

This is a 300x300 pixel illustration piece from The Last Unicorn movie.

"We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream" #pixelart

This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.

First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte

Right now, Australia's child #poverty rate is 16% - much higher than Scandinavia but half of UK's rate.

But current policy settings are pushing us towards the UK.

If the gutless Albanese govt continues to do nothing, they are presiding over the official end of 'the fair go'. #inequality #auspol

Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell is seen as neo-Nazi and Transgender rights supporters face off at a demonstration in Melbourne, 2023. James Ross Grattan on Friday: Combatting the neo-Nazis is a ‘wicked problem’ for governments

The neo-Nazis exploit feelings of alienation among a section of the community. Making martyrs of them could play into their hands. State and federal laws to deal with hate speech have been strengthened as governments have grappled with threats to social cohesion in the wake of the attack on Israel in October 2023, the ensuing Gaza war, pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments, and anti-semitic attacks. These events have triggered a torrent of hate speech, particularly from the extremists elements among the pro-Palestinian activists. Trying to stop hate speech turns into an ever-escalating pursuit. While action is desirable, at some point it runs into pushback on grounds of free speech. Finding ways to curb the presence of extremist groups such as, but not only, the neo-Nazis falls into the category political scientists call “wicked problems” to which there are no simple, direct answers. It’s understandable to turn to new or strengthened legal remedies and, to an extent, appropriate. But it can only be part of the answer and often comes with unintended or unacceptable consequences. In the end, these groups may be best countered more indirectly, by vigorously promoting positive measures that advance social cohesion in the community. But unfortunately that’s a long term answer to an immediate problem.

omfg. "wicked problem" are you fucking kidding me, jesus fucking christ

The real wicked problem here is Australia's mostly-white journalist class persistently stepping on the exact rakes the salivating white nationalists want them to step on. It is so nuts to me how none of this ever changes

Exodus from Substack to Ghost. I'd delete my account if more of the voices I follow there moved to different platforms. It gives me the ick to give Substack views.