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Discussion Thread ☕ Tuesday 16 December 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] SituationCake@aussie.zone 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I’m still shaken by the Bondi massacre. Some humans such pieces of sh1t. Not only the ones that did the attacking, but some of the rhetoric flying about is also revolting.

[–] tone212_@aussie.zone 9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Same, I've had to limit my exposure to the news and online commentary because it was really affecting me yesterday.

[–] Baku@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

bondi

Yeah it was for me too. I ended up deleting the ABC app because I was compulsively checking it every 20 or so minutes for most of yesterday. They showed photos of the victims (taken before it happened) and that broke me. I just couldn't deal with it and broke down. I've still checked the website too many times today, but I'm slightly more composed than yesterday.

I just wanted to drop in and make sure everybody was holding up okay, or i guess better than I was. Hugs, not that that feels very helpful at the moment, at least not to me :/

[–] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

I did this some time ago - I have a very heavily filtered Mastodon feed, and a carefully curated RSS feed - both mostly around tech news, and as little to do with LLMs as possible.

Don't regret this for a minute from a mental health perspective, especially when something happens like this.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 21 hours ago

same and hugs,

I can't think about it too much or I get triggered/flashbacks to incident earlier this year

it must be like this for so many people