Emma Davidson

Radical love activist.

Posts about dogs, skating, baking, and Rising Tide.

Voted “Most Likely to Get Arrested” in the 2024 Greens end-of-term formal.

Was a Greens Minister in a minority government 2020-2024.

Site: https://greens.org.au/act/person/emma-davidson
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/emmadavidsonACT

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2026-05-03 09:37:59 UTC

During the COVID emergency period 2021 and 2022, I was one of the ACT Ministers making Cabinet decisions about public health regulations. Every day for 67 consecutive days, there was at least one Cabinet meeting, sometimes two meetings on the same day, including on weekends. We were given briefs with the evidence base for why certain regulations could reduce transmission and save lives, and the differences in new variants as they emerged.
Now I know where some of that data came from. Thank you Associate Professor Minh Bui for using your computing skills to help solve complex problems in understanding COVID strains. Evidence based decision making saves lives.
https://comp.anu.edu.au/news/2026/04/28/tracing-covid-19-variants-and-millions-of-years-of-evolution/

2026-03-01 01:38:12 UTC

Two weeks ago, this fella was yelping in pain when he took a few steps, and stumbling a lot.
Lots of TLC, rest, some pain meds for a week, and joint support supplements, and he was happy to go for a short walk this morning with no problems.
#bulldog #dogsofmastodon #dog
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2026-02-24 08:42:32 UTC

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I saw him perform at CIMF in years past and it was a wonderful experience.

2026-02-17 12:14:03 UTC

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it me, but replace “lose” with “fall” and “chess” with “skating”.
But it also works as me without the word replacements. I’m multi talented.

2026-02-16 20:10:28 UTC

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never in my life have I been so glad to not be an elephant! :blobcatgiggle:

2026-02-16 09:34:18 UTC

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oh lordy. I could not stand being pregnant for 22 months!

2026-02-14 23:48:40 UTC

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116070756284944237
I have no regrets about getting this Voyager 1 tattoo five days ago.
(By Annie at Canberra Ink, if anyone is looking for a good artist who likes doing lil space adventures in colour - she also did my Pluto and Charon art).
#space #voyager1 #tattoo
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2026-02-11 09:15:43 UTC

On 31 October 2025, because #ClimateChange is scary, #RisingTide put on a film night in Braidwood with some great musicians who drove up from #Melbourne. It was a lot of fun getting everyone together for good music, good food, and good plans to change our future. And Clancy Walker, one of the musicians, has included some footage in his latest music video:
https://youtu.be/zkViC8RE3Ww?si=EmnBUUeQYJqbTl1P

2026-02-10 10:39:27 UTC

Got some new artwork today.
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2026-02-09 20:36:45 UTC

I have a question about the rise of automation and machine learning to do work that customers will pay for.
When all the work that is valuable enough for us to pay for it to be done is being done by machines that do not need people employed to manage or operate the machines, who will be the customers of the work the machines produce? Because without a job, you have no money to be a customer.
Where do the billionaires think their customers will come from when all the employees are replaced by machines?

2026-02-09 04:05:37 UTC

Soy chai latte because it’s after 3pm. Let’s see if I can manage my caffeine intake better today than I did yesterday.
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2026-02-08 08:12:19 UTC

PILL TESTING SAVES LIVES
Not just at music festivals. It can save lives every day if there’s a place to get your drugs checked before you put them in your body.
It works in Canberra. And believe me when I say we are not special in this city.
The people who use drugs to dance all night, or dull chronic pain, or make the mental trauma hurt less, or change their body shape, or relax when they’re too tense, or manage their ADHD that they can’t afford to see a psychiatrist for, are the same in this city as any other city.
But because we have pill testing, they’re less likely to die from a bad batch or unusual purity level.
And because our permanent pill testing service is run by a peer worker NGO, there’s less stigma in asking for drug harm reduction advice when you go in to get your gear tested.
https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116032568335669051

2026-02-04 00:23:35 UTC

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also I never got to participate in a chess tournament as a kid because I didn’t know anyone else in my town who could play. So as the youth justice Minister in Canberra, we funded a young woman who’s an international chess master to run a tournament for the young people in the youth detention centre. And then I got to visit and play against them too, and was absolutely delighted to have my arse kicked by them. Some very smart kids with some excellent logic and strategy skills.

2026-02-01 09:33:45 UTC

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Details: https://marchforforests.org/location/canberra/
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #trees
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2026-01-29 21:47:09 UTC

Kevin, Karen and Keith here just hopped right past my front door. Guess they’re off to brunch in the forest, about 50m away. #Straya
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2026-01-29 10:27:00 UTC

I think I have become a bird watcher.
I’ve been recording what I find when I’m at the commune (I joined one on the south coast about a year ago, but have been coming here for years with friends). Today I saw a bird that could have been either a Pied Cormorant, or a Little Pied Cormorant, but I didn’t get close enough to see the colour of its legs. So I cannot record anything and shall have to go look for it again tomorrow.
What have I done? Do not install bird spotting apps if you have a tendency to competitive gaming.

2026-01-27 10:15:37 UTC

Sunset in the forest by the ocean on Yuin country (NSW south coast)
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2026-01-23 22:51:21 UTC

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the referral from GP to specialist has to be renewed every 12 months because of Medicare rules. That’s a Mark Butler problem to fix.
The referrals for tests is absolutely a tech problem. Every practice and pathology lab uses a different proprietary system, with no agreed standard to enable APIs to securely pass data between them with patient consent.

2026-01-18 00:20:03 UTC

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I'm told that for 2 bedroom apartments, having 2 bathrooms makes them more attractive rentals (two people house-sharing get a bathroom each). But it adds at least $30K to the build to fit out an average 7 square metre space as a bathroom as opposed to a study or small bedroom.

2026-01-17 23:13:44 UTC

Houses with more bathrooms than bedrooms bug me. Bathrooms and kitchen require a lot of resources compared to living or sleeping spaces, but you spend less time in them. So I don't understand why you'd have more of those spaces in a building than multi-use living or sleeping spaces.
Anyway, there's my thoughts on #AffordableHousing and #ClimateChange for this morning.

2026-01-13 00:02:58 UTC

Thinking about trying a new iOS Mastodon app (currently on Metatext). I want one where I can set my default timeline to show as one of my lists, not the full list of accounts I follow. Suggestions / boosts appreciated.

2026-01-12 22:27:59 UTC

One of the things I like about Mastodon’s algorithm-free space is that it’s so easy to find interesting accounts to follow when I want more.
All I do is toot about something I’m interested in, then wait a few hours to see who stars or boosts the toot. Those people are likely to also have that interest and are worth following.

2026-01-02 05:20:42 UTC

Started some cuttings of correa, hakea (or maybe it’s an acacia?), crowea, silver banksia, and indigo (I think?) on the balcony to add to the guerilla gardening stash. Hoping that in two or three months, they’ll be ready to plant out in reserves and green strips, where they’ll provide food for local birds and insects.
#gardening #florespondence #ClimateAction #bees #birds #butterflies

2025-12-31 22:43:57 UTC

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Twenty years ago business processes would be unrecognisable to people starting their careers now. We still had faxes and paper memos, and iPhones hadn’t been invented.

2025-12-31 22:23:20 UTC

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only for non ops stuff (keep in mind the wars we were in at the time). It’s easy to forget how quickly a problem can be solved or decision made with a two minute chat, instead of emails that sit in inboxes for days or weeks or longer. Or the benefits of good working relationships that come from looking at the person you’re speaking with, especially when asking them to do a difficult or unpleasant task.

2025-12-31 21:44:10 UTC

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I’ve been doing this regularly for years.
When I was at Navy, I think in 2005, we wanted to declare an Email Free Day. If you wanted to engage with someone in a non-operational context, you had to pick up the phone or walk over to their desk. Just for one day, get people thinking about what channels they use to communicate and how effective they are. Captain didn’t want to give up email for even a day, so it didn’t happen

2025-12-31 21:25:25 UTC

Today’s task is to clean up my data storage, and declare email bankruptcy.
Email bankruptcy means I pick a date, and archive or delete all emails not responded to before that date. Then I publicly declare the date of my email bankruptcy. Anyone who sent me a thing before that date knows they’re not getting a reply unless they resend it.

2025-12-24 06:57:44 UTC

My friend David is in the Canberra Times, similar to the piece I shared earlier from @npub1j6l…0mad - to say that the Jewish community is founded on being able to debate issues respectfully, and that he and many other Jews are opposed to genocide and have marched alongside Palestinians and many others in calling for an end to the violence in Gaza.
#Bondi #FreedomToProtest #auspol
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9140944/canberras-jewish-community-and-calls-to-protect-protests/

2025-12-14 10:51:07 UTC

This is horrific. I’m sorry there are people who behave so horrifically and cause such devastation. All I can do in response is to try harder to live the values of peace and non-violence, and radical love. There is no place for hate and hurting others in the world we want.

2025-11-30 21:24:06 UTC

Good morning Fediverse!
Back in Canberra, didn’t get arrested on the weekend (but helped friends who did), shut down a coal port, danced to great music at the protestival, recharged my mental batteries for the ongoing work to make the world a better place for everyone.
On the bus to work to do computer touching, listening to my protest songs playlist.

2025-11-29 23:51:38 UTC

Still at #RisingTide in #Newcastle. We stopped the coal ships yesterday, let’s see if we can do it again today! Will post more after the event, I’m trying to just be in the moment for now.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #NoNewCoalOrGas
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2025-11-28 23:31:46 UTC

From 9am today at #RisingTide in #Newcastle getting ready to start today’s protestival. Music, dancing, food, talks and workshops, a flotilla of kayaks to block the coal ships, yoga, chai, and fun
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2025-11-23 19:44:32 UTC

Good morning Fediverse.
Woke up this morning to see my partner, out our bedroom window, walking across the roof in his t-shirt and boxers, picking up a bird in his hands and carrying it away…
This little kingfisher was being attacked by myna birds.
He popped the kingfisher into a little pot on my balcony to recover. 15 mins later went to check on him and said “hey little guy, how you feeling?”
Kingfisher gave him a look like “fuck off you big scary human” and flew away. :bunneheart:
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2025-11-12 05:52:26 UTC

Walked 30km today as part of the Menslink Great Walk, from Mulligans Flat to Belconnen. I’ll be doing it every day this week on the Centenary Trail around Canberra. You can donate to support their men’s mental health services here… leave a hot tip for my aching legs and blisters in the message section, best hot tip each night wins a signed book from Australian authors like Omar Musa and Trent Dalton.
https://menslinkgreatwalk.com.au/emma-davidson
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2025-11-10 06:05:22 UTC

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I expect Hanson will not run again in 2028, unless he thinks the Libs can win government in which case he might stick around to be a Minister or for another crack at party leadership

2025-11-06 09:24:47 UTC

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I visited London in December 2023 to see some programs in your NHS that we were thinking of running in Canberra. They said some of the key things in their model of care have been done that way for over 50 years, but nobody in Australia’s public health system is doing them yet. Not only is it free, there’s also things you do over in the UK that are world-leading in quality care.

2025-11-03 04:26:20 UTC

There are 47 tabs open in my browser right now, what makes you think I’m avoiding something?

2025-11-02 08:14:57 UTC

On Friday night, I learned that the National Theatre hall in Braidwood must have also been a roller rink at some point in its past. This sign is up in the hallway near the toilets.
#skate #RollerSkate
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2025-10-31 01:02:49 UTC

Politics has failed us.
Corporate social responsibility has failed us.
The only people who can rebuild the world that we want is us.
This is how we’ll do it.
https://conservationcouncil.org.au/blog/2025/10/29/why-im-blockading-the-worlds-largest-coal-port-this-november-and-why-you-should-too/
#RisingTide #ClimateChange #Newcastle

2025-10-15 10:10:19 UTC

Want to support mental health services for teenagers and young men, and know that I'm getting a suitable quantity of proper foot blisters and aching calf muscles?
Sponsor me in the Menslink Great Walk 2025! Every dollar raised funds more programs for 10-25 year old young men, including counselling services that are so hard to access.
I'll be walking up to 30km a day along the Centenary Trail, ending back in Yarralumla on Saturday 15 November.
https://menslinkgreatwalk.com.au/emma-davidson
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2025-10-13 23:30:21 UTC

These toots on the new Grand Paris Express include beautiful images of the supermétro under construction. This is another reason I love trains: no bus station is ever created to be a thing of architectural beauty like this. #trains
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/115368108576679046

2025-10-13 00:54:47 UTC

⁨📷⁩ ⁨❓Thinking about coming to the People’s Blockade in Newcastle in November❓
Join us THIS Monday 6-7:15pm AEDT, for our second ONLINE Blockade Information Session!
We'll cover everything from how we'll stop the ships, to Protest Camp vs. Protestival, to volunteering, dancing, meals and more!
👉 RSVP for the Zoom link
https://www.risingtide.org.au/blockade-info-2

2025-10-11 22:23:26 UTC

Voted for the wedge-tailed eagle again today. Best to vote early so I don’t get to the end of the day and miss my chance!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now

2025-09-27 03:58:35 UTC

Last night in Sydney. It’s been grand, as always.
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2025-09-19 00:17:15 UTC

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By the way, we could massively reduce Australia’s contribution by shutting down the world’s largest coal port, in Newcastle. It exports coal that produces 1% of global carbon emissions, and equal to 100% of Australia’s domestic carbon emissions from all sources.
Come help us shut that shit down on 29-30 November!
Free music with Montaigne, Jem Cassar-Daley and more on Saturday night by the beach.
https://www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
#auspol #RisingTide #ClimateCrisis

2025-09-19 00:13:13 UTC

Vanuatu PM says Australian government’s carbon emissions target is too low.
Albanese says it “stands up to international scrutiny”.
I don’t care how many other big carbon emitters say it’s “good enough”. Labor shows a complete lack of empathy for Pacific island nations like Vanuatu and Tuvalu, who face the existential risk of literally going underwater.

2025-09-17 23:34:23 UTC

Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment Report 2025 only talks about mental health impacts in relation to people who lose their home, or emergency services personnel.
I’m here to tell you that climate anxiety and climate grief are real, and they’re impacting the health of people of all ages already.
#auspol #MentalHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

2025-09-17 23:34:23 UTC

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Study after study has shown there are community-wide increases in stress and anxiety, substance addiction, and relationship breakdown after a disaster like fires or floods. Even heatwaves impact on mental health and experiences of violence.
Action on climate change will reduce stress, anxiety, grief, social isolation, experiences of violence, and substance use disorders. We also need more community mental health services or existing needs.

2025-09-11 08:25:49 UTC

My #HopePunk for today:
1. Double rainbow on the way home from work
2. My Volunteer camellia is in bloom (a variety bred specifically to celebrate volunteers in the community)
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2025-09-09 08:02:23 UTC

Be part of the movement to end our dependence on fossil fuels and have a great time too!
FREE Rising Tide movie night with ACT Greens
📅Thursday 11 September
⏰6:30pm
🏛️University of Canberra, Bruce
https://contact-act.greens.org.au/civicrm/event/register?id=22449&reset=1
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2025-09-06 23:05:56 UTC

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I randomly discovered a few years back that a friend and I have a common ancestor in the 1800s. We are very different people with very different lives. It’s a good reminder that we are more interconnected than we might realise.

2025-09-04 13:19:54 UTC

Oldest kid left her laptop at work and needed to do study tonight, and asked if I have a spare computer. She is now happily working on her assignment on the iMac that I Linuxed last month, and was immediately impressed at how much faster it runs than when it was on MacOS. #linux #LinuxMint #xfce

2025-08-31 09:15:22 UTC

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my niece (in her 20s) said she watched KPop Demon Hunters recently and thought it was pretty good. And I think her judgement is pretty good on what’s worth watching, given she has a small person in the house and therefore has to be picky about what gets her very limited child-free screentime.

2025-08-28 21:58:10 UTC

UNSW Canberra are looking for a couple of software devs, coding language agnostic.
#FediHire #jobs #Canberra
https://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/534061/software-developers

2025-08-25 21:37:56 UTC

Chris Minns will be terribly upset if you boost this toot.
#RisingTide #ClimateChange
https://aus.social/@emmadavidson/115071824805785959

2025-08-25 09:04:14 UTC

Elle Cordova on all the inventions. Very worth watching til the end (it’s quite short).
https://youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488?si=d-YUlkQJTLn5gyOY

2025-08-24 20:55:36 UTC

I wish to announce that I have almost got my taxes sorted for this year. And once I’ve had another week and a half to get through the biggest thing in my day job for this year, I will be able to get back to editing the writing piece that I’ve been haphazardly working on in short bursts this year.

2025-08-22 09:58:21 UTC

Come join me at Australia’s biggest, family friendly, all ability, FUN PROTESTIVAL 27-28 November in Newcastle!
Just like we did the last three years, we will blockade the world’s largest coal port as part of speeding up the transition off fossil fuels and into renewable energy.
2024’s music festival by the beach included Angie McMahon and Peter Garrett, 2023 had Urthboy. Can’t wait to see this year’s lineup!
#RisingTide #XR #ClimateCrisis
https://www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
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2025-08-14 12:38:00 UTC

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First, I made two vanilla mud cakes. And because this is going to be a Smashing Pumpkins record, I also made a big batch of pumpkin spice buttercream to go between the layers.
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2025-08-14 12:31:43 UTC

🧵 Tomorrow night is my youngest kid’s 18th birthday party.
I asked him what kind of cake he’d like. He said he wanted one that looks like a vinyl record, preferably Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Smashing Pumpkins.
Great. I can do a round cake with black icing. And so commenceth the cake decorating…

2025-08-14 00:56:21 UTC

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if it rips a hole in the spacetime continuum, will that have an impact on all the quantum researchers?

2025-08-11 06:28:53 UTC

Following my question a week ago about Australian foods, what’s something you would go out to eat if you wanted to treat yourself?
Like, “today I missed my bus and people were rude to me at work and the weather is bad, but I’m sitting in a cafe now eating <your fave thing> and maybe life is not so bad after all”.

2025-08-07 05:02:23 UTC

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I love coup de tea and I am putting that in my back pocket as the goal for the #HopePunk revolution.

2025-08-07 04:51:47 UTC

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it’s always time for a cup of tea

2025-08-04 07:37:09 UTC

What is a favourite food that you grew up with, that you expect all Australians have eaten?

2025-08-04 07:34:56 UTC

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In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje. Epic story, beautiful story about migration and workers.

2025-07-31 12:10:54 UTC

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you got a Mini? Why did you choose that over the Fiat?

2025-07-31 11:49:03 UTC

I think I want a Fiat 500e. I’m not rich enough to buy one. But I think I want one.

2025-07-31 00:00:56 UTC

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useful for those of us frequently earwormed by other things and needing a distraction. I once had Strawberry Fields playing nonstop in my head for 38 hours (which was not helped by being awake for 38 hours).

2025-07-27 02:18:16 UTC

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looks like a tree in the foam. Or maybe a complex katakana symbol.

2025-07-27 01:54:58 UTC

My partner has come up with the most Dad tech solution ever for electricity bill management.
Change all the light globes to programmable coloured LEDs.
Red in peak electricity price time, amber in shoulder, green in off peak.
If the lights go red, that’s your cue to run around the house turning off unnecessary appliances and lights.

2025-07-23 11:43:11 UTC

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matryoshka frogs

2025-07-19 23:47:01 UTC

The result seems to tell us that Tasmanian voters don’t want different people in government. They mostly want the people they voted for the previous time around to behave like grown-ups who can negotiate, compromise, and be responsive to the community.

2025-07-16 21:26:27 UTC

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loud classical music is how we used to roll.

2025-07-14 11:45:32 UTC

Things I love about my Mastodon timeline: at any moment, someone can just drop in and say “my day sucks, send puppies!” And random people will reply with pictures of puppies.
If anyone needs it right now, this is one of my all time fave pictures of my puppies. Pretty sure Harry (upside down puppy) is saying “come play with me! I’m adorable” while Chase (older bulldog) is thinking “I can’t even with this guy”. :blobcatgiggle:
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2025-07-06 22:31:25 UTC

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the rest of the story is quite interesting, especially what’s being tried in Canada. Will be interesting to see how their new regulations affect the market.
But I didn’t like the throw-away line in the opening about how drug use is fuelling house prices. Stigmatising drug users, especially if they have an addiction, doesn’t help anyone.

2025-07-01 00:21:46 UTC

I’ve been working full time almost continuously since I was 18. Only one year of unpaid leave for having babies. Since I was 25, I have earned an above median salary. I still don’t have a $3m+ superannuation account.
People with the kind of income that accumulates that kind of balance can afford to pay an accountant to help them plan their affairs, and they can also afford to pay taxes.

2025-06-29 10:18:16 UTC

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I had some handed-down Onkaparingas identical to that when my babies were born 20 years ago, but they were already well worn and had a few little holes and frayed edges. I cut them up, dyed them dark blue and bright red, sewed ribbon binding round the edges, and they became cot blankets. I’ve kept them for the next generation of babies (so they’ll go to the original owner’s great- or great-great-grandchildren).

2025-06-29 08:16:04 UTC

Pizza night at home. I really think my partner should be running a food van.
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2025-06-25 21:57:59 UTC

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I could see you test toot reply to an account I also follow, but not your toot reply to an account I do not follow (I looked at your toots & replies to test this)

2025-06-25 21:51:47 UTC

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I think - and someone will tell me if I’m wrong - I can see a toot reply if I follow the account being replied to, but I cannot see a toot reply in my public timeline if I don’t follow the account being replied to (I can see it if I go to the replier’s profile and look at the toots & replies tab). So I can see what my friends are tooting about to each other, but I’m not getting noise from conversations with tooters I don’t follow.

2025-06-20 21:25:50 UTC

Good morning Fediverse.
I woke up to a text that my train home is now a rail replacement coach, and I am quite grumpy about that.
My order of preference for travel is train, then plane, then bus.
Trains to Canberra replaced by buses for the entire week, otherwise I would have just changed my booking and got a train tomorrow.

2025-06-17 21:45:20 UTC

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Follow the forest path …
#mosstodon #LichenSubscribe
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2025-06-17 21:45:20 UTC

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Sound on for the most perfectly peaceful forest walk near Franz Josef glacier.
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2025-06-17 21:45:20 UTC

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More Aotearoa / New Zealand wholesomeness for your timeline…
That’s not mist, it’s steam from geothermal activity. At Kerosene Creek, about twenty minutes drive out of Rotorua.
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2025-06-17 15:40:15 UTC

Because I am somewhat of an insomniac, now seems as good a time as any to post a timeline cleanse thread.
Back in January, I went to New Zealand with my family for a couple of weeks. I didn’t post about it at the time because reasons. But anyway, here’s some nice pictures of lovely things in New Zealand, for anyone who wants that in their timeline. If you don’t want to see it, just mute this thread.
First stop was Hobbiton Village. If this was human-sized, it would be the perfect bathtub.
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2025-06-09 11:12:44 UTC

District 9 is showing at Dendy Canberra on Thursday night. I’ve never seen it.
(I have seen an exceptionally small number of movies for a person of my age.)
Worth watching?

2025-05-29 23:45:46 UTC

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the entrenchment of a shift in labour workforce patterns that were particularly bad for women in Australia, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan followed shortly after by Iraq, a dotcom bubble burst… oh and my cat died.

2025-05-27 10:27:44 UTC

I agree with @npub1eer…gagn - the ferry from Circular Quay to Parramatta has great views. #Sydney
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2025-05-19 00:25:07 UTC

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it is the egg of the thought-to-be-extinct Eastern Australian Sand Dragon.
As you can see from the large size of the egg, this is not a small, cute critter. They grow to about the size of a bus. Their usual foods were medium sized megafauna, such as the 3m tall 230kg kangaroo (Procoptodon goliah), but they could go weeks between hunting sessions if they brought down a Diprotodon optatum (3 ton wombat).
Hatch this egg with caution.

2025-05-18 07:03:49 UTC

A cold day is a good day for baking dinners and cakes to get us through the next week. If this looks like a lot, keep in mind there’s a young man who plays rugby union, plus a couple of uni students, plus two middle aged adults. And I chopped lots of veggies for making quick stir fried noodles and side dishes. See alt text for what I made.
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2025-05-17 10:25:30 UTC

Sunny afternoon so I went for a walk around the Siev X memorial in Weston Park.
146 children, 142 mothers, and 65 fathers died when the 20m long boat they were in sank in October 2001.
The memorial was put together by 300 schools, churches and community groups to remind us that we want to be a nation where love is stronger than fear, and kindness is stronger than greed.
#RadicalLove #HopePunk #Canberra
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2025-05-13 10:31:37 UTC

Has anyone used those recordable buttons to get their dog to tell them when they want food, outside, walks, pats, bedtime etc?
I don’t know if this is a great idea because I’ll know the difference between “I want water” and “I want to go outside to play”, or if I’d rather just learn what Chase is trying to tell me in his own way and not get him to push a button for it.

2025-05-13 09:45:07 UTC

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what if we fine Labor and Liberal politicians one investment property per week until they build enough social / public housing - and tenancy management support, for those who need it - that nobody is homeless?

2025-05-09 22:12:18 UTC

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Liberal voters tend to skew to an older demographic, which is also the case with postal voters. Absentee voters are out of their home area, and can include uni students and other people who recently moved to a new electorate, and that tends to skew to a younger demographic that aligns to the Greens voter demographic.

2025-05-09 21:31:11 UTC

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absentee votes happen at prepoll or on the day, but in a different electorate (eg interstate, or other side of the city). Postal votes are often done in advance by people who know they won’t be able to attend a polling place on the day, and can’t or prefer not to prepoll. So the demographics are quite different, and postal votes may have been made before some key moment at the end of the campaign.

2025-05-09 13:09:38 UTC

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they already did the chicanery on election day, and it was intended to direct the flow of preferences from Greens voters away from Jessie and towards ALP. If the ALP candidate wins off a small preference flow, their chicanery may have changed the election result.

2025-05-09 12:20:32 UTC

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no, you just get the forms you’ll need to send to the AEC. It would be a logistics headache for the AEC to also send out the HTVs with them, especially as many parties hadn’t decided on their preference recommendations before postal votes were issued.

2025-05-09 09:48:06 UTC

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in which case, do we need a by-election because of the dodgy fake Greens HTV’s that ALP volunteers were distributing that told people to vote 1 Greens, 2 ALP?

2025-05-09 06:19:36 UTC

One of the things I love about Mastodon is that when someone needs it, they can just toot “send puppies”, and puppies appear like it’s a magic spell.
I don’t know who needs this right now, but here are my doggos. Can’t wait to finish work today so I can go home and give them pats.
#dogs #puppy #bulldog #JackRussell #mh #HopePunk
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