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  1. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Space junk punched a new hole in the moon. It’s not ours to abuse

    "The space industry treats the sky as a place to dump what it no longer wants. We must develop a new model of accountability...Stewardship asks what we owe a place. Ownership asks what we can extract from it before anyone stops us."

    "It’s the same hubris a mining company has about a river, or a fleet has about a fishery, right up until the fish are gone. We are simply exporting the same appetite further out, because the moon, unlike the ocean or the atmosphere, has no way to fight back."

    "This is the same posture empires have always taken toward frontiers they didn’t build and don’t have to live inside the consequences of. Plant a flag, extract the value, leave the mess for whoever comes next, and call the mess someone else’s problem, or better yet, call it nobody’s problem, because there was never an owner to complain. People love to own the profits without owning the consequences of them left in their wake."

    "Ownership was never really the problem. Nobody owned the lands where Native Americans thrived either. The problem is that we are acting out ownership’s oldest habits, extraction without accounting, expansion without consequence, on a body we all agreed, on paper, to hold in common." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #stewardship #accountability #extractivism #mindset #frontier #expansion #harm #technology #SpaceIndustry #JunkSpace #abandonment #dumping #entitlement #moon #OuterSpaceTreaty #FirstNationsPeoples

    #stewardship #accountability #extractivism #mindset #frontier #expansion
  2. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Mowing down children and the racist feeding frenzy that followed.
    Alabama in the 1930s?

    "* Two children, who were riding a motorised pushbike and left with serious injuries, were allegedly pursued and mowed down by 56-year-old Gol Gol man Andrew Brien.."

    "Mr Brien allegedly pursued the children through the pedestrian-only mall in the belief they were involved in vandalism at his partner's real estate business. However, the court heard the children were "blameless" of any offending on the night."

    "The amount and volume of racist and violent comments surged after the incident, with hundreds of social media posts laying blame on the boys and praising the driver."

    "The act alone was shocking, but what followed on social media revealed a distressing and damaging ugliness...What we've seen lately in terms of social media is that anger is coming out in really primal responses, in ideas and thoughts and beliefs which do not have a place in a civilised society."

    "It is not OK to hurt children. It is never OK to hurt children. It's not OK to call this man a hero."

    "No-one should see violence against their children or community being celebrated or joked about...I don't want to see comments that I think would be better placed in 1930s Alabama". >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-21/mil

    * "A 24-year-old hit and run driver who injured two pedestrians, one of them fatally, sped away and then bragged about it to his friends has been spared jail time in Darwin."
    ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsRPw3srQeg
    #children #cars #violence #dehumanisation #racism #harm #UTEs #motorists #pedestrians #malls #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #incivility #SocialMedia #hate #governance

    #children #cars #violence #dehumanisation #racism #harm
  3. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    From Welfare to Control
    The Criminalisation of Poverty

    * "The NT government has announced plans for a new 1,200-bed men's prison that will be built, financed and operated by a private company."

    "According to data from the Productivy Commission from February this year there are currently eight privately operated prisons in Australia, located across New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-17/nt-

    * Punishing the Poor, The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, : Loïc Wacquant >>
    dukeupress.edu/punishing-the-p
    #NSW #incarceration #privatisation #inequality #SocialControl #FirstNationsPeoples #IndustrialPrisonComplex #hyperincarceration #Australia #PenalState #MassIncarceration #PPP #books

    #nsw #incarceration #privatisation #inequality #socialcontrol #industrialprisoncomplex