Australian living near Brisbane. Cis-het married cat lady, retired web developer, vigorously pro-choice atheist and feminist. My train station is Lawnton, I shop at Warner, and I have a potato for a federal MP.
Diagnosed at 60 as #ActuallyAutistic. Strong opinions, many interests, boring AF. I don’t get out much
My pronouns are she/her. My cats are Shula (black) and Jana (tortie).
@anathema_device on Mastodon
@spittingimage the guardian articles are never paywalled.
@unionagainstdhmo What exactly do they think will happen if their players come out? Lost sponsership deals? Not bloody likely! So it’s just cowardice.
@LineNoise jesus christ. How many more women have to die because of bigoted, useless cops?
@Mountaineer How much would it cost the state or federal government to buy it and power it up? Chickenfeed.
@CurlyWurlies4All yeah, he can fuck right off now
@AnxiousGnome I admit to being shocked at him claiming the government has reacted with glee. They just have not. Anything but.
He just has no bottom at all :(
@lordriffington 10/10 :) I spend too much time on the internet!
@eggie under a microscope, I presume
@sendingmath Macron is coming out for the family, against the police
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66045686
"French President Emmanuel Macron came out quickly and strongly in support of the family of 17-year-old Nahel M, calling his shooting by police “inexplicable and inexcusable”.
The teenager was shot in his car in the Paris region after failing to stop when ordered to by traffic police.
Video of the incident on social media shows an officer pointing a gun at the driver of a car. The officer then appears to fire at point-blank range as the driver tries to drive off.
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said the video of his killing contained “shocking images showing a police intervention manifestly in contravention of the rules”.
And Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that if the “content of the video is confirmed, there is no way that the act which we see there can be justified.”
It looks very much as if the government has made a coordinated effort to send out a message of appeasement and pacification.
The police unions are not happy."
@DerisionConsulting “it’s not really all that tragic”
It’s actually the classical definition of tragedy - an awful result that comes from the protagonist’s hubris
@Remillard and no mention of any action against them except firing them? JFC :(
@sendingmath I’m gonna guess the kid wasn’t white :(
@kuontom another one bites the dust :)
@SnowboardBum It’s okay, because like a good rightwing stalker rapist, he married his victim, which makes it all right again
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@Odusei Good. Sue all these bastards into oblivion
@spez_fangirl wow, lady, read the bloody room :(
@DarkGamer I very much doubt the chaos is over. It will just come up from another source, in another way. Putin is doomed
@Sleazy_Albanese Can’t do that because of the law, but let’s just say, it won’t come as a big surprise to anyone following closely
@dbilitated