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663 - Racism and bigotry shouldn't come with job for Black journalists
It wasn’t the first time being called that in my life, of course. But there was something about it, seeing that word written down, and used so readily in others that followed — Black parents were lazy N-words, and I was called an enabling N-word for not calling out the lazy N-words. It cut me like a knife. Fifteen years later, it still angers me. After years of staying silent about the pain it caused, and from the other slurs that followed to this day, I came to a realization. This behavior...
1423 - OpenSexism: ""When you’re a woman in tech, …" - disabled.social
When you’re a woman in tech, your chance of hitting obstacles is much higher than men, even if you’re competent and skilled. While some people might argue even the best leaders experience unexpected setbacks and letdowns, the statistics don’t lie — most companies repeatedly favor their male employees. https://hackernoon.com/gender-bias-in-
2478 - Robert Sanscartier: "Since the 1960s, Uganda’s clim…" - disabled.social
Since the 1960s, Uganda’s climate has warmed by an average of 1.3°C (2.3°F) The warming is partly responsible for an increasing number of catastrophic floods on the Nyamwamba River, in western Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains In 2020 alone, 173,000 people were affected by flooding in Kasese district, when 25,000 houses were destroyed Many of those rendered homeless by the floods continue to languish in temporary housing camps four years on https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/climate-change-bring...
4842 - BreeNewsome
If other people asserting their humanity is an affront to your sense of self or your civilization then neither of these are stable enough to stand on their own nor should they stand. 🤷🏾♀️
6513 - PwC scandal only the tip of a chummy, collusive consultancy iceberg
The PwC scandal is a symptom of a much larger problem: the outsourcing of core government functions to a cartel of professional services firms.
8595 - I'm out here tweeting to ABC chair @ItaButtrose about inclusion and she's still calling us Aborigines and basically reminding First Nations people we're lucky for any airtime at all... Message rece...
9202 - More than half a million people have left Australia during COVID-19. So why isn't there anywhere to rent?
Stagnant incomes and surging rents have collided, created a housing crisis in Australia. Great-grandmother Veronica Silva is one of millions caught in the middle and is being forced to move further away from her family.
9734 - Everything's getting taken back off us again': Sacred Aboriginal sites to be paved over in highway proposal
Thousands of years of sacred Aboriginal history could be lost due to a $4.5 billion Great Western Highway upgrade from Sydney to western NSW.
11453 - oberonsghost: "Dateline: bus interchange. A C…" - disabled.social
Dateline: bus interchange. A Chinese speaking man pivoting from his phone call to telling an older Anglo man complaining “speak English” “to stop being a nosy f**king c**t” was just a thing of beauty.
