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Living in Australia has taught me a lot about #PayTheRent and giving reparations to Aboriginal, Indigenous, First Nations people outside of (the obvious) colonialism.

It often makes me think about what #Malaysia has done for said groups back where I'm from. The answer is not much, sadly. We still see #OrangAsal being underpaid, overworked as rough labourers.

If anyone knows, I'd like to learn more about who's indigenous/aboriginal to my hometown Bukit Mertajam.

Good evening :fediverse:! In this evening's #ConnectionList, I'd like you to meet:

@asherwolf - Social Worker in training, social #justice advocate, and a key campaigner in the #Robodebt resistance. She's amazing 🇦🇺

@larowlan is a #dev at PreviousNext, and he does #Drupal and #PHP and #infosec 👋

@charcol is amazing too, and she is into #linux and #opensource, and if you've been to a linux.conf.au or a #pyconau recently, she's part of making that happen for you. Thank you! 🇦🇺

@cafuego is awesome. He's 🇳🇱 by birth and now in 🇦🇺. He loves #AstroPhotography and #Cheese, oh and 🐧 #linux 😆

@koosli is part of @AusSocialMods team (thank you!) and likes #knitting, #dogs 👋

@CompSciEmma is Emma, and she is a #computer #scientist, #musician and #reader, and also on a #BreastCancer journey (solidarity, Emma, 12 yrs post dx, and sending you my very best ❤️ )

@philbrown is a #banjo #nerd, #software #engineer and a #musician too. He's on Dja Dja Wurrung country at #Goldfields, near #Ballarat 👋 🇦🇺

@kristin8x works with the #AntiPoverty Centre, working on #advocacy #research and #decolonization #PayTheRent. She's on Gadigal country 🇦🇺

@freakboy3742 is Business Dad Russell Keith-Magee - who does a lot of work on the #PyBeeWare #Python project, and #software in general 🇦🇺 👋

Don't forget to do your own #ConnectionList so we can more richly and deeply connect with each other ❤️

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When I see @schoolstrikeforclimate kids studying on the steps of parliament in protest, and @extinctionrebellion taking over cities with music, theatre, workshops and family friendly activities, Regenerative Disobedience is the phrase that comes to mind. It describes those actions that aren't strictly legal, but which have so many benefits alongside the implied climate message that we would do them anyway. These actions can be home scale, like having water tanks, chickens, raw milk and compost toilets in councils where these things are still illegal. They can be community scale, like reclaiming the common land and trading things and services outside the monetary economy. They can also be city-scale, like the bike collective I stayed with in Mexico that went out in high vis vests and painted their own bike lanes to make riding safer in the city for everyone. There's #seedbombing #guerillagardening #plasticattack #foodswap #criticalmass #communitygardening #paytherent #flashmob #foodisfree #opensource #creativecommons and many many more. We are empowered to create (cont)