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Earthling. Original analogue, binary, mid-century, heritage version. Spiritually two-dimensional.
#knowledge #bass #music #yoga #gardening #compost #4WD #troopy #vanlife #backroads #camping

Hug your loved ones often 🥰

Supreme Court gender ruling offers clarity after years of ambiguity

The ruling on the meaning of the term "woman" in law is a "victory for common sense", the EHRC's chair says.

Hello. I’m a woman in her forties, recently unmoored by divorce and rather reacquainting myself with solitude. I’ve always had a soft spot for the music of the 1980s—something about the melancholy beneath the synth—and I find great comfort in books, particularly those on science and history. There’s something reassuring about facts when life feels so uncertain.

I live alone by the sea, somewhere quietly charming in England, and I work—dutifully, if somewhat wearily—for the civil service. My views lean gently to the left, though I find the current state of discourse rather exhausting.

I’m here simply in search of meaningful conversation. I’ve no interest in unsolicited vulgarity. So yes, just a woman trying to navigate her newfound freedom, perhaps, a flicker of hope for friendship?

#introduction #introductions #introductionpost #new #newbie

Shopping and chores all done, supper in the oven, time for a sundowner.
Have a great #Easter weekend folks, wherever you are 🤗
#Adelaide might get a bit of long-overdue 🌧️ this weekend. Happy plants and organisms big and small 😊

In case you missed it, Bluesky is apparently caving to an authoritarian government:

➡️ https://mas.to/@osma/114346166890552471

This is why the Fediverse is so important: each Fedi server is totally independent, servers communicate directly with each other, anyone can set up a server anywhere.

Bluesky posts all flow through Bluesky's own corporate relay which is impossible to bypass, making censorship easy.

 No one controls the Fediverse

🦋 Bluesky is controlled by a US-based for-profit corporation

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (@osma@mas.to)

Attached: 1 image Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

mas.to
...Three...

Harvard did not act quickly. But it acted clearly. That clarity must be contagious. Because unless every university in America is ready to say no to federal ideological coercion, this moment will not be a line in the sand. It will be a footnote in the obituary of academic freedom.

https://www.theindex.media/harvard-didnt-blink-the-fight-starts-here/

Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.

Harvard stood its ground. Now every university faces a choice: comply or resist.

The Index.

Airborne surveying season is over, a vehicle repair bill is eating whatever is left from that (currently a no-vehicle family in regional Australia), and my diary is wide open (read - no income booked).

If you're after a broadly and deeply experienced geospatial and climate system take on things, with a side of psychology (well, 3yr degree) and operational knowhow - reach out. See:

https://iamadamsteer.com

...for the fancy CV.

Australia based, can work globally.

#fediHire

Adam Steer

I am Adam Steer

Adam Steer
This story has revealed two unpleasant character traits of the #LNP leader that were better identified before than after he assumed power (increasingly unlikely)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/labor-says-dutton-fabricated-indonesian-statement/105181644
Labor accuses Dutton of 'fabricating' statement from Indonesian president

Coalition Leader Peter Dutton has come under fire for referencing a statement by the Indonesian president that didn't exist as he responded to reports that Russia had sought access to a military base in Indonesia.

ABC News