@PetraPanda I've tried before to move my social networks away from Meta owned platforms, so I don't have my hopes up terribly high for this one.

The apartment I rent is just around the corner from the old Greens campaign office, and today an independent bookshop (Paperchain, who have a shop in Manuka) opened their new shop there. With a string quartet out front and an actual ribbon cutting. So I have spent the afternoon at the park with Chase, reading new books. #Canberra #CBR #bookstodon #books #reading

Chicos y chicas, aquí les traigo una canción, de Elio Revé y su orquesta Charangón, para esta tarde encantadora (eso si están en Sídney; de lo contrario, no sé si será tarde o si será encantadora...). ¡Bailen todo el día, de todos modos!

Boys &girls, here's a tune from Elio Revé and his orchestra Charangón for this lovely afternoon (that's if you're in Sydney, otherwise I don't know if it's afternoon or lovely...). Dance the day away, anway!

Changüi a Revé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF96FcyzLms

Pflichttermin für queere Berliner*innen:

Queere "Gruppen rufen für Samstag 24.10. zu einer Protestkundgebung unter dem Motto "Hands Off Trans Lives" gegen die 'transmisogynistische und rassistische Taktik' der Polizei in Kreuzberg auf. Treffpunkt ist um 14 Uhr auf dem Mariannenplatz."

https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=60052

@strangetown
And just to be clear, what has been done and is still being done in Gaza, the West Bank and the wider Middle East by the state of Israel and its military arm, the IDF, is an absolutely indefensible, immoral obscenity. States that offer support or, worse, weaponry that enables this genocide are beyond the pale.

@randahl "Threatening lawmakers with retribution if they investigate your crimes would work in Russia. Not in the US."

You think?

@ChrisMayLA6 This is exactly the same story in Australia. We give our resources away.
"Australia and Qatar are two of the world’s largest exporters of liquefied natural gas, each exporting
around 80 million tonnes in 2023, worth $85 billion.
From these exports, the Qatari Government received
$A56 billion, while Australian governments received
just $11 billion."

https://cdn.australiainstitute.org.au/2026/01/18022225/P1816-Government-revenue-from-LNG-Qatar-vs-Aus-Web.pdf?t=1769493243

Via https://www.windy.com/-Webcams-Khumjung-Hotel-Everest-View/webcams/1652187391?27.820,86.682,5

#MountEverest #MtEverest #mountain #live #webcam

You're a bunch of stupid fucks ...
@USDems
Concerned that an rich Venezuelan cunt might be embroiled in corruption, but happy to watch the entire US administration wallow in the most obvious and visible corruption at home, with no serious attempt at breaking their necks.
Fucking tosser nation. I'm sorry. But compassion has run out.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-venezuela-oil-agreement-terms

Der Start einer wunderbaren, mehrtägigen, Wanderung. Von dieser Stelle ging es bis zum Ursprung dieser Wassermengen - dazwischen viele, viele Seen.

#fotografie #photography #natur #naturfotografie #landschaft #landschaftsfotografie #landscape #landscapephotography

🌕BATS FOR BATS🦇

Unlike many countries, in Japan bats have long been considered auspicious symbols...their images used on everything from sword sheaths to kimono.

In China the word for bat (fù 蝠) was a homonym for 'wealth' or 'fortune' (fù 富), and over time the bat became connected to good luck.

"... as if the US were a large organized crime syndicate..."

The rest of Derek Lowe's post isn't irrelevant, but weren't we in the so-called Global South telling y'all this for the last century?

People say a lot of stupid shit about art. Let’s just accept that it’s magic.

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-6003634/sentenced-to-death-at-17-at-68-quilt-artist-receives-solo-museum-exhibition

@holdenweb @2legged

I like the bullet entering water analogy - never heard that before.... 👍

@2legged @ChrisMayLA6 Of course, we don’t know the ugly realities that tarnished his idealism, but he was like a bullet entering water: a very sudden reduction in velocity and energy.

@MsDropbear42 Yes!!

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/human-composting-laws-pass-parliament-in-australian-first-20261021-p617jp.html?ref=rss

"
So-called “human composting” will become legal in NSW under Australian-first laws, with several MPs revealing they want their own bodies turned into soil after they die.

A private member’s bill by independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich passed parliament’s upper house on Wednesday, clearing the way for human body composting to begin in specially designed facilities from 2028.

The process will be legally known as terramation after the Minns government insisted on a more palatable description than “natural organic reduction”.

A relatively new addition to an industry dominated by cremations and burials, terramation is only legal in one part of Germany and 14 US states. The Herald revealed earlier this year that Greenwich planned to expand its use to NSW.

Techniques vary depending on the provider but the process generally involves a body being placed in a “vessel” packed with organic plant material such as lucerne, hay and sawdust. The temperature inside the vessel is raised for several days as the body and plant materials break down.

After at least one month, most of the body has been consumed and only bones and medical implants remain. The bones are removed and ground down in a cremulator before being returned to the mix. After several more weeks of “resting”, the compost is packaged into bags or containers and given to families to scatter around trees, or to don@te to parks and landcare projects.

During a debate in parliament on Wednesday, Labor MP Cameron Murphy, Greens MP Amanda Cohn and Libertarian MP John Ruddick said they would want to be composted after death.

“We are conscious this won’t be something that everybody will be happy about, but on balance we can see that this is a matter of personal choice,” said Nationals MP Sarah Mitchell.

Liberal MP Susan Carter did not oppose the laws but sounded a note of caution on how soil would be used post-terramation.

“Life is a continuum and the respect we show for the human body is inextricably linked to the respect we show for the living,” she said. “Our bodies are valuable not because they contain nutrients … they are valuable because they are more than the sum of these nutrients.

“Our lips are not valuable because they can fertilise the Chri$tmas salad. They are valuable because of the words they have formed, the ideas they have expressed, the love that they have shown, and the way in which all of that is remembered.”

Greenwich’s bill stipulates that a person can’t be composted against their wishes.

The NSW cremation rate has recently surged to 70 per cent in Sydney and 75 per cent in regional NSW amid land shortages and surging burial costs. Human composting is priced somewhere between cremation and burial.

NSW authorities will spend the next two years finessing various regulations before composting begins.

“Terramation has undergone extensive scientific testing to ensure it is safe for people and the environment, and I am thankful to my colleagues for their unanimous support for this historic reform,” Greenwich said.
"

#nsw #humancomposting #terramation #death

To my 30,000 followers: I need your help.

The US midterms are just 15 days away, and they will decide whether a new Congress holds Trump accountable. So I made a video that drives a freight train through Trump’s most costly lie: that other countries pay his tariffs.

Please share it far and wide, and help get people out to vote. Because America has no kings.

Watch it for free on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i489KchyuQ

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https://www.patreon.com/@randahl

#NoKings #Tariffs #Trump #USpol