Thanks for your kind words! 💚💚💚

I’m afraid I’m unable to offer much as of now as my bail conditions required me to leave Newcastle until my court date.

For the most part it should all be over now, but who knows, many people are frustrated that the actual blockade was only a few hours long so we may yet see some more arrests.

All I know at this stage is police have been confiscating paddles and things to stop people coming out onto the water, which is probably an overreach of their powers as it’s perfectly legal to be on the water.

Something not being talked about is the fact that it’s actually been extremely difficult to get arrested, so a whole lot more people would have been out there at the time.

I’ve spoken to friends still in Newy and many are just towed back in and released, only to paddle out and have it repeated.

I was one of the three arrested yesterday, we actually had a fair few more come out with us. Some were arrested then released without charge, one kayak was towed back in something like 8 times and not arrested at all. It was absurd.

I think we were arrested because we made it the furthest out and actively fought against the jet ski cops. We had them spinning in circles so they couldn’t bring us back into the so called “safety zone.”

More updates from RT to come over the course of the day. We’re expecting a large number of arrests this evening as the flotilla comes to an end.

Misgendered the 27 y/o, they’re non-binary lol

Not Safe For Working Class - by Trashbag Ponchos

Best day ever in the camp when we got the news 😁

We still can’t actually block the shipping lane though, but this is still an enormous win and sends a strong message about our right to peaceful protest.

The system isn’t broken etc…

Getting real fucking tired of this…

1.7kg of air is apparently ~1,300L per this tool presumably at sea level

Cookie clicker headline lol

Fuck the fucking fuckers

They spend all their energy trying to stop a protest, and put absolutely nothing into doing something about the actual fucking problem. Authoritarian bullshit, fuck Chris Minns and all of Labor, they’ve become nothing more than the libs with a different name.

At this point Labor is making a game out of opening new extraction projects after the net zero deadline…

FnB has a possibly not updated map of local chapters, I made my way into my other groups by connections I made with my chapter. Another option is to just start looking at leftist insta pages, pretty much every group I know of is on there.

http://foodnotbombs.net/info/locations/

Labor really going all in on authoritarianism lately…

Ngl, time to just start destroying the coal railways instead of blocking them for a few hours

ODing on ibuprofen is terrifying

Liberty for all means all

Hate to say that video has been on my mind pretty much constantly these last 6 or so months…

Me

It’s been one of three things for me:

• Like having a cool friend you see a lot. Good memories, but never a relationship that lasted.
• Someone working out how to twist my own mind against me, controlling me for their own gain and never actually understanding that a relationship isn’t a transaction. (and hopefully that one isn’t stalking me on lemmy again, otherwise I or one of my friends will get harassed and I’ll be filling out an intervention order)
• The most beautiful thing that I didn’t know was possible, I thought I’d been happy before but when you meet the right person you really do just click and life becomes worth living. Never felt so good about myself as I did then, just hurt all the more to lose it so suddenly. I’ve written a lot about others I’ve only met briefly, songs about people who’d never think of me that way, but when it’s true love I just can’t. I don’t think anything I can say could really capture that. There just isn’t enough poetry in the world to describe how magical it is to look up at a pair of beautiful brown eyes swimming in a field of stars and hearing them say “I love you” for the first time.

It’s always funny when people say this can’t work, when it constantly works better than any current hierarchical structure. All the collectives I’m in work great, and there are tons of worker owned co-ops going strong, one of my activist groups will often go for meals at one after a day of protesting.

Just because you can’t imagine something different doesn’t mean it can’t work. It’s not just a mess of everyone trying to dominate each other, it’s cooperative and there are simple processes to facilitate it. It’s possible to run countries this way.

Hierarchies exist to exploit and abuse.

I really need to learn a healthy coping mechanism, I’m getting a bit sick of crying every night and ruining my physical health in response (not self harm, it’s complicated)…

Other than that, preparing for a high chance of being arrested because the NSW supreme court thinks it’s okay to erode our right to protest. I’m slightly scared I’ll have no accommodation and have to sleep rough for a week or so due to other permits not being approved, but I’m sure I’ll manage, urban camping is always an option.

Got my parents on board to make some donations to help out those in the states get to safety, so that’s some good news.