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Born USA now proud Aussie - still married to my first hubby 😉stepmum to 2 great humans and Proud Meema to 2 grandsons - miss my best cat Buster - Biripi country Australia 🇦🇺

Traveling with my wife is unbelievable.
We have to stop every 30 miles.

Honestly, her bladder must be the size of a pee.

if my son becomes a priest...

do I call him son or Father?

John Margerison has fled the country. He's a backer of former Qld LNP federal Fadden MP Stuart Robert & a Synergy 360 part-owner. #auspol #qldpol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/stuart-robert-backer-has-left-the-country-and-severed-all-ties-inquiry-learns-20230724-p5dqt3.html
Stuart Robert backer has left the country and ‘severed all ties’, inquiry learns

MP Julian Hill said John Margerison’s lawyer had informed the committee the businessman had “severed all ties with the country of Australia many weeks ago!”

The Sydney Morning Herald

This is my official I'm A #Trans Person Fleeing an Increasingly Transphobic State and I Could Use Some Help Finding #Housing post!!!!!!! 🙏🏾🏡

About me: a Black nonbinary trans masc artist/researcher/editor, neurodivergent, a 420-er, a generally chill homebody.

I'm looking for housing in #Philadelphia #Philly and the surrounding area (though #WestPhilly is ideal!)

A 3–6 month sublet or lease would be the coolest, as wld BIPOC roomies!

Looking to move ASAP, but no later than this fall. 🤞🏾✨️

The Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests. Even if it is 2050, that leaves very little time to turn things around in a big way to avoid catastrophe. A lot is still unknown, but it is known to have slowed due to meltwater. #auspol #climatechange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests

A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

The Guardian
Shayne found a rubber ducky in his travels - & #Wally’s excited - she’s #StartingTheLawnmower with it! #MyDogIsAWally
"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest…. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist.”
---Buckminster Fuller, 1970
ACT police scrambled to respond to 24 incidents of violence in Canberra's CBD within six hours

ACT Policing is condemning antisocial behaviour at Canberra's night spots after officers encountered two consecutive weekends of "unexpected" violence.

ABC News
The Federal Court has ordered two subsidiaries of social media giant Meta, Facebook Israel and Onavo Inc, to each pay $10 million for engaging in conduct liable to mislead in breach of the Australian Consumer Law, in an action brought by the ACCC. https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/20m-penalty-for-meta-companies-for-conduct-liable-to-mislead-consumers-about-use-of-their-data
$20m penalty for Meta companies for conduct liable to mislead consumers about use of their data

The Federal Court has ordered two subsidiaries of social media giant Meta, Facebook Israel and Onavo Inc, to each pay $10 million for engaging in conduct liable to mislead in breach of the Australian Consumer Law, in an action brought by the ACCC.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission