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emmadavidson

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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.

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@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

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).

Upper arm showing a tattoo of Voyager 1 with radio signal lines coming out of it, and headed towards the back of the arm in a band. The tattoo has black outline with the radio lines in yellow, Voyager's dish in white, and a yellow circle highlighted on Voyager. There is only a little skin redness around the tattoo.
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@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

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?

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

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.

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

Still at in . 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.

Night time view off Horseshoe Beach with the night flotilla of kayaks in the water. People in the kayaks wear life jackets and head lamps and have had safety training.

Night time view off Horseshoe Beach with the night flotilla of kayaks in the water. People in the kayaks wear life jackets and head lamps and have had safety training.
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

I'm no expert but don't just keep it under a chair. Put it in a cabinet or on a high shelf or somewhere safe.

BBC may not be in 'safe hands' under its chair, says committee head
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emmadavidson ,
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@TheBreadmonkey excellent dad-joking

@JimmyB@mas.to avatar JimmyB , to random

Up front declare: this is not a sad story. It's a very happy one. Via some tricky bits...

Today, Nov 5th is a celebration day in our family. 22 years ago, my son had a bone marrow transplant (aged 23 1/2 months) for a horrendous leukaemia.

We were lucky: we lived 30 minutes from Great Ormond St, kids hospital. His mum was the 2nd parent donor in history (she and I are matched to each other). He didn't reject. We paid £0.

That is the greatness of a health system now being destroyed. 1/n

emmadavidson ,
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@JimmyB 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.

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

Good morning Fediverse.

Starting my day by downloading a bird ID app.

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

Having a parasocial relationship with Taylor Swift means you can stream her songs on Spotify if you don’t want to buy the album, but you don’t get to demand that she put time into making more music. People who like her music seem to understand this, and are more than happy to buy merch or vinyl or concert tickets and make her a billionaire.

How does this apply to FOSS? Go read this by @daedalus

https://pivotnine.com/blog/open-source-has-too-many-parasocial-relationships/

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

I got myself vaccinated against rubella as soon as I got a job and had turned 18, when I was able to make my own medical decisions. And got vaccinated for measles about ten years ago, when I learned that I needed multiple doses of MMR to get immunity. Vaccinations help reduce transmission. I get them as my superpower to help protect people who can’t be immunised.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/measles-alert-issued-for-gold-coast-as-queensland-cases-rises/105795806

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

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.

@RanaldClouston@fediscience.org avatar RanaldClouston , to AcademicChatter group

Really dispiriting to go along to a colleague's first lecture at , the first lecture of a course, and only about a third of students attend. What chance do we have to make a positive impact among students who are so disconnected? academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group

emmadavidson ,
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@RanaldClouston academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group absolutely dobbing on one of the students from your university who lives in my house, but they said they don’t need a ride to campus til next week when tutorials start for their subjects (because they watch all their lectures online).

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

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:

Two dogs. One is a Jack Russell puppy, gleefully rolling on his back on a mat. The other is an adult bulldog, giving side-eye to the puppy and generally looking like he is unimpressed.
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@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

Really glad I’m not in Canberra today. If a journalist asked me to comment on the police commissioner’s claims that he’s not ready to stop arresting children, I would find it impossible to stay silent.

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The same police who just yesterday were cheering the additional $112m funding in this year’s budget, while 149 community sector organisations get $25,000 each per year, for 2 years. Then community orgs have to make the case all over again for ongoing funding.

Police aren’t there to provide youth workers, social workers, trauma counsellors, family violence crisis workers. That’s what community orgs do. And yet I only hear police argue for more funding for themselves, never for community orgs.

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Basically, the police commissioner says they’re not ready for minimum age of criminal responsibility going to 14 years on 1 July (it’s been at 12 years for 18 months already) because there’s not enough alternative services to hand kids over to if they’re picked up by police for doing something dangerous.

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These would be the same police who, when someone on bail for threatening to kill me was continuing to make threats to kill my daughter and we reported it, told us to call back when it’s serious. I can assure you, it was serious. This was a person who had a track record of acting on threats.

emmadavidson OP ,
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Police don’t care about my child. They don’t care about the community orgs that look after the most at risk children in our city. So why do they get the have the headlines about “oh but the children”?

Gimme a break.

I want to hear from Youth Coalition or Woden Community Services or Yeddung Mura about what the kids need. They know, and they should be properly funded to provide it.

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

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?

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

This is the only thing I have to say about Dorinda Cox switching from Greens to Labor.

If she feels that’s where she belongs, then both she and the Greens are better off for her having made that choice.

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

If you’re in Wagga this weekend, Melbourne next weekend, Newcastle in July, or Tassie in September, I can highly recommend catching Chris Ryan’s new show.
The world is certainly in a bit of a state, and that makes it all the more important to get a few laughs when you can.
Recommended for renters, and people who remember a time when Facebook Marketplace was not a thing.

https://chrisryancomedy.com/

@ewen@photog.social avatar ewen , to random

Deaths can be counted
Measured
Predicted
Tallied
The pain of living
Much harder to enumerate

Policies that remove access
To healthcare
To education
To homes
To jobs
To happiness
To expression
To safety
Too bad

emmadavidson ,
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@ewen mine also began with books, but there is no library in my home town. It was books given to me by nice adults, or borrowed from adults who didn’t care about whether I was reading something “age-appropriate”.

@emmadavidson@aus.social avatar emmadavidson , to random

This poem appearing in my timeline:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Aphelion/114553846272058266

along with this book review appearing in my RSS reader:
https://theconversation.com/little-world-what-are-you-josephine-rowes-latest-novel-is-a-precisely-drawn-enigma-254209

is surely a message from the universe.
I'm not sure I know what it is yet.