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reality-detective · 3 months
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Australian senator, Malcolm Roberts, exposes the "man-made climate change" scam in the Australian parliament. 🤔
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beta-lactam-allergic · 4 months
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I felt like sharing some good news. I mean, woylies are still critically endangered, but a population rebound is still good news.
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virtue-boy · 6 months
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darlingjmiller · 24 days
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absolutely horrified by what happened in Sydney today
for the non-australians here’s a tldr: a man with a knife stabbed more than 10 people, including a baby, in one of the countries biggest shopping centres, before being shot dead by a nearby police officer. 7 people have been confirmed dead and at least 8 are injured.
the news is comparing it to the last major killing in australia’s history (the port arthur massacre that famously lead to strict gun laws in australia)
of course twitter is being its usual cesspool but there’s one thing for certain: had the man had a gun instead of a knife, so many more people would have been killed.
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confusedbyinterface · 24 days
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As horrifying as the attack at Westfield Bondi Junction was, it's also disturbing how many people's immediate response to hearing about it was to blame Muslims and call for deportations and revenge attacks. I forget how much racism and hate there is in this country sometimes.
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roman-sunshine · 8 months
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So here in Australia we have a referendum coming up to change the constitution to have a body in parliament to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. This is a minority who gets screwed over a lot by the majority white government, so representation and political power would help, yes?
As you can guess, right wing people are losing their fucking minds and spending A LOT of money on advertising and campaigning about why this is terrible and will destroy the country and also pointless and won't do anything.
My partner made a great point that if these people really believed this wouldn't do anything, they wouldn't be sinking so much money into trying to stop it.
And the ads are absolutely bonkers. I got one that was like "Indigenous people don't need representation in government. The government can't change your life, they don't control you! Only you control your life! You're the only person who can improve your life!"
Like, what a wild take. Like, yeah, control your destiny, but not having a government that regularly decides against your interests probably doesn't help with that??
Also a great one where a woman says how she is Aboriginal and represents Aboriginal people and speaks for them, but also doesn't believe in race says we are all the same on the inside! Also that having Aboriginal representation in government is basically apartheid.
It is... Not great
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ittakestwopod · 7 months
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I'm loving seeing all of the stories of Nic Cage just rocking up at regular businesses in Australia and everyone being surprised to see him
Like I legitimately found out he was filming in WA because this asian supermarket were so excited to see him buying like $400 worth of kimchi and vegetables, amazing.
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troythecatfish · 24 days
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newsatsix1986 · 1 year
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What happened in The Newsreaderland 37 years ago today?
Helen, Dale and Noelene nailed their breaking broadcast on the whim, Helen got her position back and an office alliance was beautifully formed. Certainly, the 29th January 1986 was a historic and personal day to remember for our Newsreader crew.
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It has also been 37 years today (29th January in Australian time, 28th January in American time) since the Challenger Disaster happened. These poor astronauts and their loved ones! The footage is still devastating to watch, and our show depicted it poignantly.
We also remember these seven today, and their bravery for scientific greatness. Ellison Onizuka. Christa McAuliffe. Gregory Jarvis. Judith Resnik. Michael J. Smith. Francis "Dick" Scobee. Ronald McNair.
Here is a real Australian news broadcast from the day of the Challenger Disaster - an ABC news bulletin from Brisbane, with newsreaders Ron Markland and Janet Wilson, and a cross to newsreader for the Australian ABC in the US; Richard Palfreyman. I find it interesting that in our show, Geoff accused Helen of being too emotional on air, but the newsreaders in this real bulletin (especially Palfreyman) also showed their sadness on air too. It’s very emotional how Palfreyman read out the list of victims and the families they were going to leave behind. Made me tear up, that’s for sure.
https://youtu.be/oJnfciPWHq0
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ceoofcrimes · 2 years
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another fucking awful day for minorities in this country.
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Hope it's crispy down there, mother fucker. I hope you suffer
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humanjeff · 2 years
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i just want to watch the goddamn news
the British have taken to calling the BBC "Mourn Hub", and its Aussie descendant the ABC (not the US news org) is nearly as bad. I'm not a monarchist but I have full confidence that the queen can be relied on to remain safely dead in accordance with royal tradition, please let me watch some other fucking stories.
(in my work Slack of 60-70 people, the queen's death has been mentioned exactly once)
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blogparanormal · 28 days
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Paranormal (Data Dump) 2C
* It was daytime and I was at home. I was at the computer in my home. This computer was in my bedroom. I used my computer to record audio clips to get EVPs. I plugged in my cell phone to a speaker box while the computer recorded the session. I was using an application on my phone to induce hearing spirit voices to see what I could record. My closet has slide open doors. I do not like to close them and usually leave them open. The closet is next to the computer. I recorded nearly two hours of content in this session. After recording, I listened to the recorded audio and analyzed it. I was around the 30 minute point of the recording when I noticed something in the closet that did not belong. I saw a see-through article of clothing in an area where I had no clothes hanging up. It was a woman’s dress. It was the bottom half of a dress torn at a 45 degree angle. What was most impressive was the detail of the torn dress. I could see a five petaled flower pattern all over it. There were hundreds possibly thousands of repeated five petal flowers on this garment. Everything about the dress was gray-scaled out and clearly did not fit with its surroundings. I knew immediately there was a ghost in my closet. I could see the wall through the dress. I waved at it and said “Hello, how are you doing?” After I did this, the ghost moved about 7 feet out of the closet and behind my computer chair. The ghost did not stop moving and headed to the center of the closet then though the wall. I called out to it “Please come again!” I never saw that ghost again. Did I spook the ghost? How do I induce more moments to see more ghosts, more of the time?
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There was a day when I saw a ghost. This ghost was not your typical kind of ghost. The sun was setting and I needed something to eat. My dad told me he was going to get pizza. My dad left and I took out my cell phone. I used an application called “Murmur Box.” I tried to see if I could get spirit voices in live time. This entertained me until my dad got home with the pizza. My dad opened the door with a pizza box in his hand. I eagerly grabbed a plate for myself and waited for my dad to open the box. My dad opened the box; I reached in, and slapped a slice of pizza on my plate. When I did this grease splattered all over the place. I brought my plate to where I always sat. Before taking a bite, I turned on a different application called “Ghost Radar.” I invited the spirits in to come to my exact location and enjoy spending time with me at dinner. I chomped down on a slice of pizza as oil and grease oozed out of the slice. I got eight blips on my screen. This was amazing because I have only ever had one blip on it at a time. The blips seemed to move around and surrounded me. I was astonished to see when I looked up. There was a ghost standing in the dining room! There was a man with a long beard; a fat nose, wide cheeks, a hat, miner’s clothes from the 1800s, gloves, and boots. His eyes were solid gray. In fact everything about the man was solid gray like a statue. Unlike other ghosts, I could not see through the man at all. He had a pot belly and was 5 to 5 ½ feet tall. My eyes widened. I looked at him as he looked at me. He turned 90 degrees to his right and floated strait into the wall that went into the pantry. I got out of my seat to see if the ghost was in there. I saw nothing. I went to the other side near the garage. I saw nothing. I did not know where the ghost went. Where did the ghost go? Will it ever come back? My dad called to me “Are you going to finish your pizza?” I replied “I will be right there.” I never saw that ghost again. *
One afternoon I was inside the house. I was in the kitchen preparing myself a pepperoni sandwich. I would use two slices of Italian bread, slices of large pepperoni, pecorino-romano cheese, and brown mustard. It was an Italian lunch. I was putting my brown mustard on when a royal blue human shaped ghost appeared near me by the butcher-block in the kitchen. I am nearly 6 feet tall and this royal blue ghost was equally tall. It walked past me as if it didn’t see me. It walked around the counter and passed the table. I followed it. It walked through the doorway of my parent’s room. I went into the bedroom and I watched the ghost walk through the wall. This meant the royal blue ghost could see objects and avoid them. However it still walked through a wall. Why did this ghost show up in the kitchen? Where was it going? Did this ghost want me to see it?
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One night I was on my usual walk. My hope that night was to see UFO. I ended up seeing something else. I walked down the sidewalk away from my home. I came to an intersection. It was on the same side and corner that I was on. It came out of the bushes, but made no sound. It was a royal blue ghost. This ghost was about my height. The royal blue ghost came on the sidewalk in front of me. It got to the edge of the road and paused. I could not believe my eyes when I saw what happened next. It turned its head right, then left. It crossed the road at the crosswalk as if it was alive. When it got to the other side of the crosswalk, it headed off-road into palm trees and bushes. It then disappeared. Did I just see a ghost being safety conscious of cars? Like a person who lost their appetite, I decided not to cross and turned around and walked somewhere else. What would have happed if I crossed the road that night?
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It was late afternoon. I wanted some animal crackers as a snack. I left my bedroom and headed to the kitchen. Once in the kitchen, I opened the closet door. There I saw it. It was an open bag of animal crackers. Somebody opened the bag. That somebody was me. I opened the animal cracker bag a few days ago. I poured the recommend serving size of animal crackers into a bowl. Then I put the bag back where I found it. I turned to my right. I must have been lucky. At that moment I saw a humanoid ghost float down the hallway leading to the garage and into the kitchen. It passed me heading towards the far side of the kitchen then disappeared. I could tell from the masculine face shape and hair cut it was male. The appearance of this ghost reminded me of ginger ale soda. The whole ghost was this color. I did not see a ghost like this again until 2018. Where did it come from? What made this ghost appear in this unusual color?
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hasanabivideos · 1 month
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