#Fuck Australia

[yeetus-feetus]

so the Australian government can cut funding to the foster systems and dcj, but can increase funding on weapons and aid to Israel!?

So all the children in the foster system are going to suffer? There's no money left for us huh? Fuck us right? Unbelievable.

Children and families are struggling in our own country, and the government is funding weapons to give to Israel so they can destroy Palestine all because we're buddy buddy with America!?

Fuck that.

Fuck that!!!

Aaargghhh I'm so fuckin angry!

How can you prioritize destroying families, destroying an entire occupied people, over the well-being of your own people!??

Sick fucking bastards.

[blackgumball]

omg i just remembered how one of my australian primary teachers described captain cook's death as a "misunderstanding" and that he was a victim of bad luck and tragic circumstance. god. the propaganda we get fed in Australia

[nando161mando]

They aren't wrong

[tqila-sunset]

if you're designing a security system and your backup security questions don't allow me to type in a custom request to my future self I hate you personally.

I can't remember the exact way I typed out the name of the street I grew up on or my primary school even though I know the answers to those questions so I'm locked out of my fucking workforce australia account and have to either delete my account and relink everything or wait two hours and try to do this again with every possible way of typing out these two simple facts I know about myself.

my monthly jobsearch requirements are a part of being too disabled to be employed but not disabled enough to get on disability benefits and it's a cross I don't mind bearing or whatever but I hate when the systems fuck me over and I get no leniency for it.

[alkenesaretoocombustible]

The wildlife in Australia( and to be honest, everywhere else) is trying to kill me and no, being forced to romanticise it by idiots doesn’t make it better

[elainiisms]

it's almost like... if you play a movie in 10 cinemas worldwide, it doesn't do as well as it could 🤯🤯

[glasseswearingrabbitdetective]

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[weak-fragile-mortal]

praying to god more than i do for exams

[petalsbleedingbeak2]

I kinda wish Australian cities caught fire like the forests did on Dec 21/Jan 22.

I hope this post doesn’t get censored. please help if you can. twitter link here & the go fund page

[philsmeatylegss]

If I were Dan and Phil I would never hard launch because it’s so embarrassing that we were right. Like what do you mean you were so in love a bunch of thirteen year old’s clocked it? I would never give that satisfaction.

[all-things-cringe-worthy]

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

Friendly reminder that

Australian KOSA passed.

Australians will have to enter government ID to access “social media” including YouTube as of 2026.

All under 16s are banned from “social media” no exceptions

Edited to add: while social media sites can’t force you to enter your gov ID they can request it and make it harder for you at access certain things in the meantime. Instagram already requests either a face scan or drivers license to change your age.

The most likely solution is a biometric face scan, which isn’t brilliant. But not as bad as it could be.

Privacy will always be an issue online, and without a doubt social media companies know far more than they should and do track your activities online.

According to albo (our prime minister) social media already knows if your under 16 as it already tracks you. It should be easy for them to “get rid” of these accounts. He is right in this to a point.

But linking all your social media to you is an issue for not only general but due to doxxing, blackmail, and outing of anyone who has to link their social media to their real identity.

I’m not against limiting social media for underage persons. But the age limit of 16, and the way they are doing it with no research, and no education in online safety before they turn 16, is a recipe for disaster

[nando161mando]

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[dandp]

My favorite thing about the Mr. and Mr. ____ preshow trend is that we started the tour talking about saw trap questions to get them to answer but never had much success with those getting read or having satisfying answers so I feel we kind of lost steam with trying to get one up on them for a while but now we've got them constantly reading out question intros with underlying marriage implications so that's a huge win in my book

[laegolas]

I can’t wait for the Americans to wake up and learn that the rest of the world has been dealing with all the banking/airport/commercial computers blue screening