“Now is not a good time” #australia Government loath to cut diesel rebate
#auspol #energy #oil
analysis found largest beneficiaries of the fuel tax rebate were BHP, (about $600 million last financial year) followed by Rio Tinto ($400 million).
#taxtherich
It will never be a good time for the fossil fuel industry corporations. Stop giving them our money.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/now-is-not-a-good-time-government-loath-to-cut-diesel-rebate-20260316-p5oarg

https://archive.md/Md6V6

Just a note for some of the other #MastoAdmin 's out there - On Universeodon.com we've seen a huge number of reports for an account due to it being a new account with no posts and a very large follower / following count.

As far as I can currently see and based on the info provided when they requested an account it's migrating from another instance. As far as I can see the account is in fact legitimate but we will keep an eye as I appreciate it is "Weird" having a 0 post account with thousands of followers / following relationships all of a sudden.

If anyone does see anything weird with any of the accounts on the instances please do report it as it is appreciated. I can't directly reply to these reports so didn't want folks to think it had been entirely ignored!

CC #Fediblock

A picture is worth a thousand words... or in this case, it's worth 139 billion 😒

Here's a visualisation of Jeff Bezos' wealth by scale: https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay

From tumblr's brightwanderer:

"I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all."

#selfcare

https://www.tumblr.com/brightwanderer/681806049845608448/i-think-a-lot-about-how-we-as-a-culture-have?source=share

On the 4th October, 1936, the British Union of Fascists had planned a march to the East End of London.

Despite the petition of East Londoners, with 100,000 signatures over two days, the Home Office declined to ban the march. Authorities refused to allow a counter-march by the Ex-Servicemen's Movement Against Fascism, because the fascists had organised their march first.

On the day, around 3,000 fascists turned up for the march, protected by more than double that number in police.

The fascists and police were resisted by over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND anti-fascists who erected barricades, chanting "They Shall Not Pass". Police attempted to dismantle the barricades and clear a path for the fascists, and were pelted with rotten vegetables, and the contents of chamber-pots thrown from upstairs residents.

There's a damn good reason why fascism had a hard time establishing itself in the UK; I'm pretty sure it wasn't the government nor the police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street

#fascism #antifa