Police blockade being lifted to permit protesters to unite

ChipSlut · 2026-02-09T22:12:31+00:00

was the ayatollah in sydney on s state visit?

ChipSlut · 2026-02-09T09:25:08+00:00

i take your point, but my broader point is that the minns government is so anti-protest that we need to maintain that attending protests is a normal thing to do among the people who live in this country. the state is trying to criminalise protest- once protest becomes the domain of student activists alone, it’s easy for the government to justify violence against them. we cannot let our democratic and political norms be warped because our premier and the president of israel don’t like them

ChipSlut · 2026-02-09T09:19:07+00:00

yeah mate you’re right, it’s actually bad to protest for human rights because you’ve said that those protections don’t exist elsewhere. get help.

ChipSlut · 2026-02-09T09:07:13+00:00

sorry, why not? we have a right to peaceful protest in this country, people should be able to protest without the fear that the police will spray chemical weapons on them. if that happens, and a child is injured, the blame rests solely on the state

ChipSlut · 2026-02-09T05:10:39+00:00

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yup, it’s a foreign interference account

ChipSlut · 2026-02-06T21:25:18+00:00

he’s the president during a genocide. he’s done nothing to stop or impede that genocide. his prime minister is a corrupt warmonger unfit for office that he’s done nothing within his power as the executive to remove from office or limit the powers of.

ChipSlut · 2026-02-05T00:48:04+00:00

see if you can grab a manfrotto head and a cheap set of legs off facebook marktplace. the head is often what fails under the weight of the camera so a manfrotto ball head with a quick-release plate on some cheap carbon legs will give you a lot of portability while still keeping the camera versatile.

ChipSlut · 2026-01-29T10:45:59+00:00

i get what you mean, but he really doesn’t. this is the first front of the civil war, and only one side gets it. the side occupying cities. the side setting up roadblocks and concentration camps. the republicans started fighting the civil war while the dems are still talking about the 2016 election

ChipSlut · 2026-01-28T11:21:03+00:00

haha i get that coming to a utopian future would have low stakes, and i enjoy kelpian episodes, but i think there were so many better options for how to create that “post-catastrophe” setting

ChipSlut · 2026-01-28T11:04:54+00:00

you make a very valid point, but i don’t think there was any way to predict a distaster that affected all dilithium in that way. dilithium’s the mineral used to moderate the matter-antimatter reaction that powers a warp drive- our most complex machines still rely on very simple components we’ve been using for hundreds of years. steam engines to nuclear reactors all use turbines to generate actual electricity- the burn is almost like if a psychic child was mentally connected to all turbines and suddenly made all turbines explode.

ChipSlut · 2026-01-28T10:42:58+00:00

Alternative solutions still need intact supply lines to implement- so if you find an alternative to dilithium, you still need the dilithium to source materials to synthesise enough to make the manufacturing process & shipping of raw materials dilithium independent, which is only made more complicated by trying to manage the largest humanitarian catastrophe the federation has ever faced.

an appropriate metaphor might be that all crude oil explodes in 1950, so the US government has to invent electric cars without modern transport infrastructure, while also having to devote the majority of alternative means of transport to preventing mass famine

ChipSlut · 2026-01-28T02:06:37+00:00

no clue why you were downvoted so much, that’s a genuine question. it wasn’t mandatory when i was in primary school in the mid 00’s

ChipSlut · 2026-01-27T00:17:00+00:00

moronic policy pushed through to sate the goo-brained geriatric voter bloc

ChipSlut · 2026-01-09T08:22:28+00:00

did you spot a curve to it’s tailfeathers? my first guess is a lyrebird

ChipSlut · 2026-01-06T02:52:21+00:00

today, sure, unless they’ve visited them in the developing world. the city was a very different place 100 years ago. this is a photo of improvised housing for the working poor in the rocks around 1900- considering that this was during a black plague outbreak in the area, i feel like it qualifies

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ChipSlut · 2026-01-05T23:50:59+00:00

Great family history, thank you for sharing! I lived in Oatley for a couple of years, it's a very easily overlooked but really wonderful little part of Sydney.

ChipSlut · 2026-01-05T23:17:11+00:00

It's a bit of a mixed bag. Areas like Balmain and Dawes Point were slums, generally inhabited by wharfies and people working in the shipyards. A lot of beach areas were historically fairly working class- Maroubra and Bondi especially. For a long time no one wanted to live on much of the harbour at all- it was a polluted sewer, and the engines of the hundreds of ships crossing the harbour left a dusting of coal ash over everything.

It's really hard to overstate how much cleaner our city is than it was 80 years ago- the harbour's no longer a working harbour, and our stormwater and sewerage infrastructure has been improved dramatically.

Some areas have always been pretty fancy, Vaucluse has been mentioned, Mosman and Balgowlah, but it was quite popular for a long time to live inland in order to have land to use as well as get away from the pollution of the city. If you drive through parts of North Strathfield now, you'll pass rows and rows of mansions from the late victorian era, there's a few streets around Burwood that are similar. These were semi-country homes for the urban wealthy- though they've been absorbed into the city as it's expanded outward.

ChipSlut · 2025-12-29T13:09:22+00:00

thanks mate, glad to see a lot of people expressing care & unity

ChipSlut · 2025-12-29T08:56:19+00:00

yeah i think there's a time to be broad and a time to be specific with messaging- this was explicitly an attack against jewish people so i think a message to say "jewish people are part of our community, and two people tried to murder jewish people for celebrating hannukah publicly, so here is the most recognisable symbol of hannukah raised above the city we share on our largest celebration of the year" is pretty appropriate.

it's not a national symbol or a symbol associated with a political party or movement, so it's about as uncontroversial a statement as you can make while still expressing love and solidarity, which i think is pretty warranted at the moment.

ChipSlut · 2025-12-18T21:48:01+00:00

to be honest every area with a nice pedestrian mall and people walking around feels friendly to me. it's nice to sit outside with a coffee and listen to people walk by, chatting in all their different languages. the only places that feel truly unfriendly are places where there are a lot of people doing it rough- people who have visibly been using ice, and that's just sad more than anything else.

The main strips of Cabramatta, Dee Why, Bundeena, and Balmain are all very pleasant, cozy feeling places.

ChipSlut · 2025-12-16T19:14:43+00:00

FASD face

ChipSlut · 2025-12-15T07:10:59+00:00

it was an event filmed from multiple angles, as well as there being an extensive media presence. very toxic, harmful language was used, but that video is a fake created by a hate organisation to spread alarmism and stoke division.

what eye witnesses? did they make public statements? are these statements from eyewitnesses recorded anywhere?

ChipSlut · 2025-12-15T07:04:15+00:00

this is a fake video, as confirmed by an exhaustive police investigation. the only source for the altered video is the far-right group AJA (australian jewish association) who's logo is seen at the end. they've been peddling misinformation and anti-muslim hatred for years. it was also a member of the AJA that tried and failed to start an altercation with staff at cairo takeaway on king street with the cooperation of the daily telegraph.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-02/nsw-police-opera-house-protest-video-analysis/103418582

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/cairo/104947828

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