I find it fascinating that when I post pictures of my "kill your local rapist" tattoo on social media I get tonnes of compliments and likes.. until I post it in a dating group.
Then it's crickets, except for the one 48 year old divorced dad with wraparound service station sunglasses and a shitty tribal armband who pops up to tell me "worst tattoo eva".
🤔
#RegionalAustralia #DatingGroups #Facebook #FacebookGroups #SocialMedia #KillYourLocalRapist #BodyMod #BodyModification #ink #tattoo
Nothing makes me grumpier than being woken overnight by some random shitheel on Facebook deciding the need to call me on Messenger.
It's 5am and you're very obviously drunk. You decide to call the admin of the singles group to ask "so, who IS Aby?" like you're some 1960s romcom parody. How did you think that was going to go??
Fuck off before I track you down and set fire to your car.
#Facebook #SocialMedia #FacebookGroups #RegionalAustralia #DatingGroups
sometimes when youre a dog and theres a big storm you just need your mum to pile soft things in top of you
#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #RegionalAustralia #storm #weather #WeatherWarning #Bathurst #BathurstNSW
If you've spent time in regional Australia, you know there's a particular kind of musical talent that accumulates quietly outside the capital cities - nurtured in local scenes, passed between towns, occasionally breaking through and more often not.
Our government has largely decided that regional Australia is a touring problem to be solved, not a creative community to be invested in. Fewer gigs, less press, no budget. Invisibility.
The Pack's geofenced discovery is designed to address this directly - giving listeners the ability to find artists from regional and rural communities, and giving those artists an audience that has never had a structural reason to find them before.
Help us build it: https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop
#RegionalAustralia #ThePackMusic #LocalMusic #AustralianArtists
There's a particular pleasure in discovering that the person who made the music you've had on repeat lives three suburbs away.
This kind of discovery is almost impossible on major streaming platforms - and it isn't a scale problem that will solve itself. It's a design choice.
Music Australia's 2025 research shows that 71% of Australians feel pride hearing Australian music. 66% want to hear more. Only 31% actively seek it out - not because the desire isn't there, but because the infrastructure doesn't support it.
The Pack's geofenced discovery is being designed to let you surface artists from your suburb, your city, your region. When a regional artist is discovered by someone in their own community, it has different consequences than being added to a global playlist.
You can help us build this. Our crowdfunding campaign is live. https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop
#LocalMusic #MusicDiscovery #RegionalAustralia #FirstNationsMusic
Oh, you're also studying a 2nd year politics subject at uni?
I bet your uni doesn't set homework to design a new Australian flag..
"LEARNING ACTIVITY 2
The Australian national flag is a visual representation of Australian national identity, and the chances are that you know this symbol well!"
"Now you will develop a visual representation which can either be your own flag or something else."
kill me.
Central West NSW towns are now listed as High Risk LGAs for mosquito-borne Japanese Encephalitis.
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The Japanese encephalitis vaccine is safe and effective for people aged 2 months and older. Vaccination is recommended for those at the highest risk of catching Japanese encephalitis.
Once fully vaccinated, it can take between 2 to 4 weeks for your body to develop a protective immune response to the disease, so if you’re eligible, you should get vaccinated as soon as possible.
#health #Medical #Australia #NSW #RegionalAustralia #CentralWest #vaccines #NSWHealth #JapaneseEncephalitis
I just had someone on Facebook unfriend me because I pointed out that Chuck Norris was a MAGA supporter.
I don't really care tbh. Me adding them a week ago *felt wrong*, because I have a carefully curated friend list of like 60 people who I actually have friendships with.. it was a practice in widening my friend circles.
The thing that did amuse me was his screed about how I apparently "have a cry" when someone doesn't agree with me while he's the one who is deleting people he disagrees with..
Ok babe.
#Facebook #SocialMedia #FacebookGroups #RegionalAustralia #Australia #ChuckNorris #eyeroll
Aby, Who Died For Our Sins
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