A Little Thought

“They committed suicide because they were depressed. It’s a shame they didn’t call our mental health line.”

They were depressed because they were about to be evicted. A toll free number wasn’t going to fix that. But resources would.

My hottest mental health take:

A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.

Always ask what is being measured and how:

"the metric will typically show prices are falling when customers are struggling so much that they switch to cheap alternatives.

This reframes a decline in living standards as a saving, masking the fact that grocery prices are actually rising."

Residents ordered to higher ground as much of Queensland on flood alert Residents are being told to move to higher ground, while a woman had to be rescued from her car as much of the Queensland deals with the impacts of the tropical low that has saturated the Far North an...

Be prepared like the family at the end of the article.

Camping and cut off by flood waters for potentially days, they don't need rescuing because they have enough supplies (incl beer) to wait it out. They also did not attempt to cross flood waters and get washed away.

Have another beer mate!

ugh, it's Monday? How? What happened to the weekend?

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Pauline Pantsdown - I Don't Like It! [HD] YouTube video by FanFismTism

This needs a resurgence and to be played whenever she’s around.

Seriously, in all these decades, nothing she says is actually different

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#auspol

4 frame comic. the first frame shows Fredrick Brennan, the second shows the 8chan logo, the third shows the 8chan homepage, the fourth shows birds flying out of a tree near a house on a pink sky. the text reads, across the four frames : I was saddened to learn about the recent passing at 31 of fredrick brennan. he was born with brittle bone syndrom, an inherited genetic disease, and early in his life, deve- lopped the belief that people like him should be forcibly sterilized. at 12, he joined 4chan, which further radicalized him into incel culture and white supremacy. when 4chan banned discussions about gamergate, he decided to create the unmoderated 8chan. but after a few years, he realized how his creation brought out the worst in people. he gave the web- site to his associate, and went on to spend the rest of his life back- tracking on the politics of his youth, trying to get the website shut down and making amends. I wouldn't say that we were friends, but we did talk several times. he first reached out to me in 2018 to offer a formal apology for the harassment and doxxing I suffered from 8chan. after that, he kept monitoring the forums, and would let me know whenever people were planning to cause trouble at my public talks and things like that. when I think about brennan's complicated story and legacy, I'm reminded how people can change. his change of heart inspired me to keep creating through hardships. I hope you rest in peace, fredrick. apologies accepted.

Apologies accepted.

For about $2.5 billion a day, we could provide a $500 per month UBI to every American — adults and kids. Poverty would be reduced by 65%. Child poverty would drop by over 80%. Extreme poverty would be essentially eliminated. Inequality would drop by about 20%.

We can do/be so much better than this.

I don't want everything to be efficient I want it to be good and beautiful

If you actually read The Communist Manifesto, a book that informs you on what communism is about one might assume based on the title, it basically says "lol what. dude you can keep your xbox, you literally earned the money you bought it with, we just think the CEO of your company is an asshole".

They should invent an amount of control over your own life you can have that doesn't result in revenge bedtime procrastination

She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm

One of the people involved in the development of the federal government’s controversial aged care assistance tool says she’s now too scared to use it, saying she never wanted needs to be determined by algorithm www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tested the line this morning - on hold for 90 minutes and the auto-script is directing me to hang up and consult the website to resolve my issues

I've gone to the website and, welp - it's down

Seeing flawed humans being valued and respected while their problems are acknowledged has done more to convince me it's ok to not be perfect than any amount of positivity memes.

i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!

"Group X is taking over and will/does have all power!" is basically the crux of most RW arguments. Only Christians who are rich, white, cishet, males deserve rights or have real thoughts.

Anyone outside that narrow template must acknowledge their supposedly evil deviation to have any rights.

This job offer found by @georebekah.bsky.social can only translate as the expectation of numerous dead American soldiers.
Part-time for now, with the possibility of increased hours if need be.
#Trump

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Breaking news!

NDIS announces move to social model of disability, cuts all funding on the basis that it's society causing inaccessibility, not disability.

/sarcasm

TIL the NDIS will only fund supports for the original disabilities used to access the NDIS.

This guys mobility scooter was denied because it was for his physical disabilities, not the vision and hearing ones on his application.

Hopefully this'll change as a result of the court ruling.

NDIS loses case with 'extremely significant' implications for plans The agency running the NDIS has lost a legal case experts say could have significant implications for how future funding decisions are made.

"[The NDIA] said his inability to drive did not result from his low vision, but rather from Victorian road traffic legislation barring people with low vision from holding a driver's licence."

WTF!

Public transport costs money and every penny must be accounted for and recouped yesterday; motorways simply appear naturally and should never be questioned

This is what microSD cards should actually look like

UN review urges Australia to address poverty, housing crises, and strengthen human rights Australia must act on UN findings highlighting major gaps in rights, poverty and housing, the AHRC warns.

UN review finds Australia must do more to protect basic rights, highlighting poverty, housing, social security fairness, climate impacts and ongoing asylum concerns humanrights.gov.au/about-us/med...

Workforce Australia Contact Issues On hold with Workforce Australia because they require me to book a training course and say you need to call them if there is a session you can't attend to. I have an emergency dentist appointment tomorrow and need to miss the afternoon part of the session. Om hold for an hour, they're saying up to 4 hours longer and that I may not get through today. Is there anyone or anywhere else I can go to sort this out if I don't get in? Can I go to my local services Australia office or email or something?.

Reports now that welfare recipients are spending 4-5 hours on hold to Workforce Australia, trying to avoid payment suspensions, and get demerits overturned

Is this your experience?

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

You can't control the commute, only how prepared you are for it.

BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States.

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