It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. Whoever sent this has clearly never been to a WOMAD festival, because that crowd is not likely to appreciate someone trying to influence the lineup.

I can’t think of anything the better the writers of this letter could have done to Streisand Effect that crowd into seeking out some DJ that might otherwise have been one act among several.

I somehow missed this and thought that Lord of the Rings was coming out of copyright about now. It seems not.

New York has a huge Jewish population. This is totally geared toward selling papers to them.

Hrm, yours is a tricky one because I had read it and moved past it. I recognised you came from a place of hyperbole and didn’t think much of it. I didn’t remove it.

But looking at the comment again after it was removed, it does pretty much break all three of the rules I posted. So I’ll not override the mod and restore it.

It’s not that criticising actions of religious people is the issue, it’s grouping them all members of a religion into your criticism that is the problem.

‘Those two guys are bad’ is fine. ‘115,000 Aussies are terrible people because those two guys are bad’ is not fine.

We see you trying to manipulate the vote.

Please address this, @Mazdak@Mazdak@lemmy.org.

Excuse me, that’s a load of horse shit. The modlog is right there at the bottom of the page. From this discussion, it’ll default to filtering mod actions for /c/Australia.

Point me to any comment you think should be restored and I’ll re-evaluate. But don’t sit there and pretend we censor you from behind secret doors like this is Reddit. I see stuff I disagree with on the regular, but I very rarely step in. I let the community votes do that.

The main rules of the site are and have always been:
Golden rule - don’t be a dick. If you wouldn’t say it in front of your grandmother, don’t post it.
No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.

In case this isn’t clear:
Criticism of a government’s actions (Ours, USA, Israel etc) is fine. Start bashing Muslims because of the actions of two jerks or start lumping all Jewish people in with the actions of the Israeli government, and we’ll step in. If/when we do though: it’s visible. You can see what was removed and what justification we used when we did it. Whatever impression left you with the attitude that we censor users is mistaken.

One sister wants cash towards a new motorcycle helmet. So yeah, she’s sorted. 😀

Another sister is all about the thoughtful gesture. It makes her super hard to buy for. She has loads more time than I do.

Hershey’s kisses would be a perfect accompaniment to this specific mug.

Yep I know, but this thing is built like a nuclear bunker. Honestly: 11 years of daily carry, being knocked and crashed and squished about like a set of keys. Even Gotten wet a few times. I have doubts they make them on temu or eBay like this thing.

Lacie made the “rugged” range of disks and this is representative of their build quality. It’s only 32gb, and only usb2. I wish it were bigger and faster, but I’ll take its amazing toughness over those traits.

The utili-key looks like a regular key on your keyring, which is why I’ve never had it confiscated at airport security. Frankly if you can hijack a plane with one of these things, you can hijack a plane without one of these things.

The USB is a “Lacie imakey”. Lacie has since been assimilated into one of the big hard drive companies (Seagate I think). These USB keys are a victim of their success. You just buy the one, and never need another. This one is over ten years old.

There was lots of Numbat talk in last year’s thread. If you need a numbat:
https://shop.perthzoo.wa.gov.au/products/numbat-soft-toy

I like that little Greenhouse thing. I am not sure who I’d get it for - possibly my sister, but I can’t see her actually sitting down and assembling it. My wife probably would, but I have her more than sorted. Maybe for her next birthday. 🙂

I don’t know where to get either of these things any more, but I would replace them like-for-like if either died if possible:

The key multitool is never plan A. I’ll always reach for a better tool if possible. But I always have this on me, and it has saved my bacon more times than I can count.

It’s so small that you can get it through airport security.

To start things off this year, I’ll share how this awesome community helped me last year.

After last year’s thread, I bought:

1. A Bug-a-salt for my brother-in-law, he loved it! (Thanks @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone )
2. Some nice towels for my sister (Thanks @Taleya@aussie.zone )

I got a Bluetooth transmitter (I had requested one) and it is awesome.

What does a bunch of Aussies enjoying a holiday at the beach have to do with Israel?

I think this about sums everything up. I just pinned it to the top of Local with the non-satire post. 😀

Hotties live north. I don’t need no silly map to tell me what I already know.

From this article, I learned that the first full length feature film in the World was from Australia in 1906

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