DEADLOCH has been nominated for 10 AACTA AWARDS!!!

- best narrative comedy
- best screenplay
- best cinematography
- best director
- best editing
- best casting
- best original score
- best production design
- 2 x best actor

reported @sallyrugg on 

Australia spent $900 billion dollars (adjusted with CPI) since 2000 on importing Fuel and Lubricants alone. We also spent $587.1 billion on non-industrial transport equipment

That's 1.487 TRILLION DOLLARS sent overseas because politicians favour everyone driving from suburban sprawl. Ping @johnquiggin #cars

Australian Human Rights Commission on 

'Today, on #IntersexAwarenessDay, we affirm the human rights of #intersex people, including the right to autonomy and bodily integrity.

Intersex people have innate sex characteristics that don’t fit medical and social norms for female or male bodies, and they often experience stigma, discrimination and harm.

Many experience medical interventions to modify their sex characteristics when they are infants or children and are too young to be able to provide their own consent.

Learn more in our report "Ensuring health and bodily integrity: towards a human rights approach for people born with variations in sex characteristics": https://loom.ly/5BlS38w '

Image via @intersexaus - ihra.org.au

'India’s first 23 km long Solar Roof Cycle Track is built in Hyderabad; launched on 1st October 2023, and boasts of several amenities for safety of women & kids cyclists while promoting eco-friendly development.'

From @pedalandtring on  

https://pedalandtringtring.com/2023/09/30/indias-1st-solar-roof-cycle-track-in-hyderabad/

Beat that Australia

The economy is slowing but is still running quite well - seasonally adjusted retail volumes are still up on historical level in Australia.

8501.0: Australian Retail Trade - Table 9: Quarterly Retail Turnover, Chain Volume Measures - National

#economy #auspol #retail

Read this thread on marine protection and growing rock underwater.  https://twitter.com/TypeForVictory/status/1684852532726611968?s=20

'By passing an electric current through steel rebar underwater, dissolved minerals (calcium carbonate, magnesium, chloride, and hydroxyl ions) accrete around the cathode. Over time the chloride ion gets replaced by dissolved bicarbonate, hardening into hydromagnesite-aragonite-

With oxygen evolving through a porous structure. The resulting mixture is equivalent in strength to concrete, and it grows, strengthens, and self repairs so long as there's an electric current.

The process releases CO2 gas, but de-acidifies the water.'