"A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time."

"The NT Supreme Court heard that after the crash, which killed one Aboriginal man and injured another, Danby sent a series of "callous" text messages about his victims. In one message, Danby described the crash as a "two for one combo"."They learnt their lesson now, maybe next time they will use the crossing instead of walking out in front of cars, expecting me to stop like they own the place," the text message read...Danby will be detained in a house at Humpty Doo for the next five months." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/jake-danby-sentenced-over-fatal-hit-and-run-at-leanyer-in-2024/105773728
#Pedestrians #motorists #speeding #cars #violence #law #IndigenousPeoples #HateCrime #laws #Australia

"A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time."

"The NT Supreme Court heard that after the crash, which killed one Aboriginal man and injured another, Danby sent a series of "callous" text messages about his victims. In one message, Danby described the crash as a "two for one combo"."They learnt their lesson now, maybe next time they will use the crossing instead of walking out in front of cars, expecting me to stop like they own the place," the text message read...Danby will be detained in a house at Humpty Doo for the next five months." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/jake-danby-sentenced-over-fatal-hit-and-run-at-leanyer-in-2024/105773728
#Pedestrians #motorists #speeding #cars #violence #law #IndigenousPeoples #HateCrime #laws #Australia

> [ #US Supreme Court] ruling green-lighted a wave of state-level #laws that allow meddling parents in conservative states to team up with personal injury #lawyers to sue people across state lines for untold damages (literally millions of dollars in some current cases) for a single paragraph of sexually-explicit speech on writers’ personal websites, if the parents think might harm the precious eyes and ears of their little munchkins.

https://ellsberg.substack.com/p/free-speech

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543865

#FreeSpeech

Hello World!

I just spoke with a #US #Senator office about the #fediverse . They're asking for more information to help spread around #Capital #Hill in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them @elena beautiful #movie on the #fedi (with some light editing which she's agreed to).

I'll of course show them https://fediverse.info/ and https://fedi.tips/ which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing #AP projects such as #mastodon , #pixelfed , #peertube , #bandwagon , and #bonfire ; even things like @admin .

I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.

What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?

I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.

I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.

#boost #boostplease #government #laws #activityPub

@benpate @peertube @bonfire
@stefano @dansup @Mastodon

Hello World!

I just spoke with a #US #Senator office about the #fediverse . They're asking for more information to help spread around #Capital #Hill in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them @elena beautiful #movie on the #fedi (with some light editing which she's agreed to).

I'll of course show them https://fediverse.info/ and https://fedi.tips/ which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing #AP projects such as #mastodon , #pixelfed , #peertube , #bandwagon , and #bonfire ; even things like @admin .

I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.

What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?

I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.

I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.

#boost #boostplease #government #laws #activityPub

@benpate @peertube @bonfire
@stefano @dansup @Mastodon