Godfrey642

Godfrey642, 7 days ago to australia

SAME SEX PARENTING

Posting this 👇 again for Australians, as it goes to council in Sydney this week on Weds. Let's get a many signatures as poss 👍🏻

"Sydney councillor Steve Christou has moved to ban childrens' books in Cumberland council libraries talking about same-sex parenting, despite contravening Australian anti-discrimination laws. Christou claims he has widespread support of parents.

Caroline Staples, a local mum and grandmother, has a petition to prove him wrong at Equality Australia.
👇👇👇
https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/
Please sign ASAP and boost widely to prove Steve Christou wrong."

See Guardian Australia for article. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/cumberland-city-council-sydney-steve-christou-same-sex-book-ban

#samesexparents #FamilyActivities #familiesandfamilylife #RainbowFamilies #sydneygayandlesbian #australia #parenting #BookBans #australianews #lgbtqi

Godfrey642, 10 days ago to animals

Does anyone have any advice at #dogsofmastodon for helping my traumatised dog enjoy his walks more? Two years ago he was attacked by two escaped off-lead Rottweilers when we were out walking. It was terrifying. Now he barks at any dog, any size or breed.

We have tried dog school to desensitise him. Vet gave him anxiety tabs. Vet told us to take him down streets where he's unlikely to meet other dogs (ugly places with no trees or happy smells). We just want him to enjoy being outdoors again.

#dogsoffediverse #dogs

danielbowen, 11 days ago to Canberra

The ACT government has announced MyWay+, which will enable bank card fare payments, will be implemented by November. https://canberradaily.com.au/myway-coming-to-act-public-transport-by-end-of-year/ #Canberra #PublicTransport

timrichards, 11 days ago to hamburg

A photo I took on this date in 2016 - a somewhat nautical mural on the stairs at the Ameron Hotel in Hamburg, Germany.

#Hamburg #Germany #art #hotel

fkamiah17, 11 days ago to USpolitics

Here's an idea, Grandpa - just stop fucking supplying them now 🤬

Guardian: "Biden warns Israel if it goes into Rafah, ‘I’m not supplying the weapons’"

#USPolitics #StopArmingIsrael #Gaza

Godfrey642, 11 days ago to australia

Same sex parenting.
Sydney councillor Steve Christou has moved to ban childrens' books in Cumberland council libraries talking about same-sex parenting, despite contravening Australian anti-discrimination laws. Christou claims he has widespread support of parents.

Caroline Staples, a local mum and grandmother, has a petition to prove him wrong at Equality Australia.
👇👇👇
https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/
Please sign ASAP and boost widely to prove Steve Christou wrong.

See Guardian Australia for article. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/cumberland-city-council-sydney-steve-christou-same-sex-book-ban

#samesexparents #sydneygayandlesbian #australia #parenting #BookBans #australianews

GottaLaff, 20 days ago to random

Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

• would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

• won’t commit to defending NATO nations

• wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

• suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

• wd end pandemic preparedness office

• wd fire 1000s of civil servants

• pardon all J6 rioters

• try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

Godfrey642, 1 month ago to Israel

On the surface it doesn't make sense why Hamas, a small violent terrorist political group, would attack civilians at a music festival of one of the most elite military countries.

However ... Hamas (Sunni) is in bed with Iran (Shiite). An oddity. But Iran will do ANYTHING to undermine Saudi (Sunni) from building closer ties between Saudi+Hamas and Saudi+Israel.
WHY?

Its always about (1) oil (2) money (3) influence and (4) Saudi trying to stay buddies with the West.
Its also about Iran wanting to stop Saudi, as a big player, making wider peace in the Arab region.

Iran wants a slice of that nice little oil-money pie and wants to stop Saudi. To that end Iran has been in bed with Russia for years. Russia + Iran buy and supply each other with arms, minerals, intelligence and know-how.

Russia as puppeteer has A LOT to gain from war in the ME, by destabilising any relationship that Israel might tentatively initiate with Saudi, by disrupting the flow of oil in the ME (so Russia can sell its own oil) and by pulling US into a ME war, which Biden will avoid at all costs.

Remember Biden has a loyalty to the Israeli citizens but does NOT respect or agree with Netanyahu or how he is running this conflict.

So follow the paper trail.
Hamas is supported by Iran.
Iran is supported by Russia.
Putin is actively disrupting the ME. Putin deflects attention/money/weapons from Ukraine and the Republicans block funding for Ukraine.

Putin takes Ukraine (while the West has taken its eyes off the Ukraine ball) the biggest supplier of grain in the world.
Putin disrupts oil supply in ME and supplies Russian oil to China and any country in the global market who needs it.
Putin threatens stability in Europe via war in Ukraine and conflicts in ME.

Putin is an evil f**ker and MASSIVE problem. Trump/ MAGAs are playing like fools right into his hands.

#israel #iranisrael #iran #trumpmaga #trump2024 #Maga_republicans #maga_morons

Godfrey642, 2 months ago to random

I'm absolutely terrified of what's going on in USA. The prospect of a criminal being elected, who will further remove citizens' rights and freedoms once he has secured their votes, ignore the constitution and norms of democracy with impunity.

The insanity of the "Christian" far right, with a brainwashed, uneducated support base and elite, monied corporate friends, will lead USA out of NATO and into an alliance with thug leaders around the world.

The free press will be silenced as in Hungary. Voting will become impossible as in China. Corruption will be rife as in India. Retribution will be a norm as in Russia.

NATO will be weakened giving Putin the green light to take Ukraine Moldova Lithuania Estonia and Poland. Any attempt to stop his advance in Europe will be met with a nuclear threat with zero support from an American former ally.

The election in USA is critical: a Trump win will herald in the end of global stability and we non Americans have zero voice to do anything about it.

#usapoliticsfromabroad #trump #magavotingfraud #MAGAvote #biden #autocracy #riseoffascism

stevesilberman, 2 months ago to random

Exactly this, this all day, this x 1000.

randahl, 2 months ago to random

This year, Russia has already

— threatened to use nuclear weapons against the west
— put the Estonian Prime Minister on their most wanted list
— gunned down a Russian defector who was living in Spain
— wiretapped the German airforce

Politicians may claim we are not at war with Russia, but clearly Russia is at war with us.

pvonhellermannn, 2 months ago to random

#ClimateDiary Hope you enjoy these beautiful buildings and their stories in Burkina Faso as much as I did. These are the kinds of positive, healing stories I crave, I think we all crave so much at the moment amongst all the cruelty: beauty, simplicity, sustainability, justice, from the Global South. #FrugalAbundance

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ajsadauskas, 3 months ago to car

A rising road toll in the US. A rising road toll in Australia. Journalists give 1000 reasons why it could be happening.

And they studiously avoid mentioning the growing proportion of massive SUVs and pickup trucks on the roads. If they mention it at all, it's only in passing: https://youtu.be/Hb5_RUNeC0g?si=uuns6D1I6fGINdpU

But.

If you have larger and heavier cars, with larger blind spots, of course you're going to have more fatalities!

Remember kids: Every 10cm a vehicle's hood height increases, the risk of fatalities grows by 22%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

#car #cars #urbanism @fuck_cars

ajsadauskas, 3 months ago to fuckcars

What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

#fuckcars #walkability #urbanism #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars #walking

Godfrey642, 3 months ago to Europe

So #Navalny has sadly lost his fight against #Putin the tyrant. That poor guy, may he rest in peace after being poisoned, falsely imprisoned, targeted + misrepresented in the Putin controlled Russian media and made to waste away incarcerated in the far reaches of Siberia.

Hasn't Putin disposed of enough political opponents now? Don't the paper trails all point to him? Seriously. Who can believe anything that comes from that despots mouth ??

More urgent tho: shouldn't we all of us question what is coming from #Trump about supporting Putin, admiring his strong arm tactics? What hold has Putin got over Trump?

And who is funding Hamas? Iran? Belarus? Chechnya? Groups inside democratic nations in EU, Africa, sth America and Asia that are creating chaos domestically ? Who is exerting his influence inside elections ?

We need to start talking about how Putin is spreading chaos around the world to undermine democracy and the voice of the ppl globally. He is a major international problem.

#globalpolitics #UkraineWar #WarOnGaza #trump #europe #RussianAggression #fascism #despotputinmurderer #authoritarianism #globalpolitics #globalchaos

timrichards, 4 months ago to melbourne

New at my Patreon... I wander through Triennial, a mega-exhibition which gives a kind of wonky snapshot of the world today - through big, colourful and sometimes weird art:

Dateline Melbourne: Big city, big art https://www.patreon.com/posts/95512602

#Melbourne #Art #Exhibition #Triennial #VisualArt #Sculpture #VideoArt

melissabeartrix, 5 months ago to random

Wow ... I just had to walk past the coffee shop, coffee & cocoa, in Annandale ... He was out the front slopping his food in his mouth ... And did the sign of the cross at me ... what a disgrace to all religions

So I stopped and calmly said to him "you know doing the sign of the cross like that show you are not religious, and just shows what a disgusting pig you are"

He replies "you're the disgusting one, just look at you"

I walked off laughing at him

Sorry to download this here ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

melissabeartrix, 5 months ago to random

This is not a way one should have to live their life ... I didn't choose who I am ... I only chose to live my authentic self ... And this is the crap I have to deal with all the time ... One day, I hope, people like me, well all people can live their life with our fear ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

violetmadder, 5 months ago to random

I'm slowly starting to feel like I'm getting some of my voice back.

I still write and then delete a lot without posting it. But that's still better than not starting to type at all. I had stopped posting on social media entirely in what, 2019 or so, already in a very isolated situation and feeling hugely depressed before covid even hit. My self-expression and flow has been shut down for a long while.

I know most of the insults are from people just lashing out under stress, or they're simply trolls, but it does still bother me-- I feel it in my body, the anxiety and sadness ramping up. I don't want to let it silence me because I do have heavy convictions that I am on to some genuinely important issues that need support. I know my views aren't popular at all in the mainstream, but that's not going to stop me.

My main worry is that I'm not going to be able to do my points or causes anything close to proper justice. Some days I feel like I expressed myself well. Other days I can't stand to read my own posts and feel like a complete jackass.

Positive discussions feel amazing. I'm so grateful to everyone I've been able to connect with lately, the people I see making the points that cut against the mainstream grain. It really means so much.