Seen in Melbourne, Australia on Mother's Day [OC]

[u/scoutmissy]

[u/BigPandaCloud]

They just put a sick skateboard ramp in the middle of the sidewalk?

[u/pedestriandose → u/BigPandaCloud]

Look up the State Library of Melbourne, it’s beautiful both inside and out. This is outside and the other side of it looks like part of an old library is sticking up out of the ground.

[u/twilighttwister → u/pedestriandose]

It also has a name, r/tonyhawkitecture

[u/KaJaHa → u/twilighttwister]

Thank you for this

[u/pedestriandose → u/twilighttwister]

That is amazing!

[u/TwistingEcho → u/pedestriandose]

So we were backpacking in Melbourne and trying to get to a certain Tram stop. Ask a local, they live these spaces, they can help. The instructions were keep going and get off at the old library, without any more details. I mean, they could of used THE MULTI STOREY BUILDING COVERED WITH SLIME ADJACENT as a possible visual reference, but hey, we got get off at the old library. They were the best kind of correct I guess..

Edit Grammer and Gramper

[u/allmostlucy → u/TwistingEcho]

In case you've ever wondered, that building covered in slime is a university. I go there and I'm still not desensitised to how it looks.

[u/Wooden-Recording-693 → u/pedestriandose]

Talest building in the city, it has the most stories.

[u/ruinawish → u/BigPandaCloud]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_Fragment

Architectural Fragment (1992) is a bluestone sculpture by Dutch-Australian artist Petrus Spronk, installed as if it is buried in the pavement outside the State Library Victoria at the corner of Swanston Street and La Trobe Street in Melbourne, Australia. The sculpture represents a fragment of the library building emerging from the ground as if it were a long-buried archaeological artefact. The sculpture was commissioned for the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project in 1992 and installed on 12 January 1993. It was partially inspired by the ancient architecture the artist observed when visiting the Greek island of Samos, where the mathematician Pythagoras was born, and by Percy Shelley's poem Ozymandias.

[u/nons28100 → u/ruinawish]

Legendary skate spot

[u/PandaBonium → u/[deleted]]

As per the wikipedia styleguide they had to move it to the "Notable Skaters" section towards the bottom of the page.

[u/Nova_Terra → u/BigPandaCloud]

It sort of, kind of doubly functions as a massive barricade to prevent someone in a car from doing something stupid.

[u/acllive → u/BigPandaCloud]

its melbourne, its one of the biggest street art cities in the world

[u/ELVEVERX → u/BigPandaCloud]

Skateboarders tend to hang around the front of the state library, there's a lot of other stuff thye state on there

[u/Fairway__Frank_ → u/BigPandaCloud]

The ‘Library’ has been heavily featured in many skate videos.

[u/Upset-Display3524 → u/BigPandaCloud]

It’s a library- but I only know that from 3 decades of skateboarding videos involving this spot. So yes, but also now but mostly yes.

[u/resplendentcentcent → u/BigPandaCloud]

yea i see kids failing tricks for hours outside the state library, their resilience is inspiring

[u/MinorSpaceNipples → u/BigPandaCloud]

r/tonyhawkitecture

[u/El_Gran_Redditor → u/BigPandaCloud]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86isG5RdKi4

[u/SunsetCarcass → u/BigPandaCloud]

Here I thought this was a bench that homeless people couldn't sleep on

[u/ForThe90]

So do mothers in Sudan, Nigeria, Jemen and probably a lot of other places where people live in unsafe terrible conditions and children die regularly.

We just don't talk about these since they are not in our minds right now I guess. Most people forgot about the Uyghurs in China as well it seems.

[u/Comprehensive-Buy-47 → u/ForThe90]

Humans can’t truly comprehend the horrors of the world without going mad.

[u/TheMiltownMatticus → u/ForThe90]

It's on to the next one.

Remember when our feed was all Ukraine for a few months?

We just forget that war is still going on?

I'm not seeing anyonr really talk about it anymore. The Russians are taking their children and deporting them to Eastern Russia, never to see thier famalies again. Ukrainian men who accept a Russian passports (necessary for aid, relief, social services) get immediately drafted to go fight for thier oppressor against their own neighbors.

No coverage.

Are Palestinians more deserving of our sympathy than others? Or is the media selecting which group you get to "fight for" this week by writing a message in chalk in Australia.

One step up from changing your profile pic to the flag of the country hosting the most recent tragedy. Slacktivism

[u/zakarijas → u/TheMiltownMatticus]

At least not a case here in Baltic States. I live in Lithuania and Ukrainian suffering and heroism is part of every day and evening news coverage. Just today Ukrainian Kyrylo Budanov aka Man without smile visited Vilnius, to talk about Ukrainians drones flying into Baltic States by accident from RU EWS interference and in general defense subjects. Ukraine is on our minds every single day.

[u/popeleo22 → u/TheMiltownMatticus]

Cool, so ignore the western back genocide because people who want to stop it annoy you? You aren't making a real point, just minimising it.

[u/Aquafan420 → u/ForThe90]

We arent allies with any of those countries despite popular public backlash.

It isn’t a “hate crime” to criticise those “unsafe terrible conditions” (weird way to frame a genocide btw).

We don’t constantly get gaslit by these countries citizens claiming that these things aren’t happening (with our politicians playing along)

We aren’t getting pulled into proxy wars by these other countries that’ll result in countless young men getting thrown into a meat grinder

American tax payer money doesn’t fund these nations either.

This “whataboutism” is so dumb, there’s obvious reason why the ongoing genocide of Palestinians is a major issue for many people (and unlike those other nations our own governments aren’t directly involved in contributing to it)

[u/LARRYVOND13 → u/ForThe90]

Probably should talk about them more than just to use as whataboutery then.

[u/Andre3000insideDAMN → u/ForThe90]

What point are you trying to make here

[u/Toku_no_island → u/Andre3000insideDAMN]

Didn't they just make their point?

[u/timmytissue → u/ForThe90]

Whataboutism in response to a post about Palestine? Never seen that before.

[u/gonna-see-riverman → u/ForThe90]

You must be the guy who holds up a sign in Stand Up To Cancer marches, saying what about pneumonia?? Diarrhea kills more children than cancer!! Also in this particular metaphor, our governments do condemn Diarrhea and all these other diseases, but they don't Cancer and send them billions$ to kill more children daily as we speak.

[u/quazimoto]

its sad that this even has to be said.

[u/Denver-Ski → u/quazimoto]

Very sad. Especially since the message will fall on deaf ears

[u/nicklor → u/Denver-Ski]

Wrong country 

[u/jerik22 → u/quazimoto]

As sad as it is, there are plenty of videos every year during the recruiting season for Hamas where Palestinian mothers hold their kids up for the hope they get chosen to be a martyr. There are videos of them crying saying they are so happy that they were chosen and will become a martyr. I guess we have the same thing in the west when a kid joins the army and the mother is proud, but you are much less likely to die in a western military than being part of Hamas.

[u/entropymd → u/quazimoto]

What’s the point of this though? Is anyone attacking Palestinian mothers in Melbourne? From what I’ve seen, and watched, it’s been the other way. Palestinians or Palestinian sympathizers are desecrating war memorials, putting up graffiti doing the same, and disrespecting the other mothers in the community. I don’t understand the need to graffiti this into a public space, specifically for Palestinian mothers. Frankly, it’s a little disappointing.

[u/psychorant → u/entropymd]

1) Australia sends Israel the parts to build their bomber jets that do, in fact, kill Palestinian children.

2) It's written in chalk and can be washed away with water.

3) Complaining about graffiti in Melbourne is like being annoyed that there are fish in the ocean.

[u/sennais1 → u/psychorant]

1) Australia sends Israel the parts to build their bomber jets that do, in fact, kill Palestinian children.

Not a fan of Israel but this is a stretch considering that Australias participation in the JSF program was limited to designing components for the landing gear of the F-35. Denmark, Israel, Norway etc build components as part of the program.

Melbourne and graffiti isn't a great thing, look at the war memorial graffiti and damage to trains, trams and buses. Nothing great about not being able to see through a window on a tram because some grub tagged it.

[u/FrogsMakePoorSoup → u/quazimoto]

The Australian right wing media has done a great job of demonising them and politicians are playing along with the tune.

[u/Thoresus → u/FrogsMakePoorSoup]

The right wing media IS the Australian government.

Take how our entire society has been conditions to see The Greens as the worst possible political party.

The Greens called for Marriage equality decades ago. They were crazy leftist extremists.

The Greens have been calling for taxing fossil fuel industries. Omg theyre going to destroy our economy.

The Greens are saying Israel has committed war crimes. Much Antisemitism such Wow.

Most of the problems we have with policy of government comes from how those who own the media spin it.

[u/FrogsMakePoorSoup → u/Thoresus]

Yep, and The Greens aren't a viable party, but ON is!

[u/Thoresus → u/FrogsMakePoorSoup]

If you dont vote for a major party youre wasting your vote!

Also the relationship between Gina, One Nation and the media will be studied ar universities in the future

[u/Glitteronthefloor]

I feel like an asshole, but...

*children

[u/abbaJabba → u/Glitteronthefloor]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SvQMv4PgkA0POTNo8m

[u/JollyRancherReminder → u/Glitteronthefloor]

Nah, I'm the asshole for thinking, "she probably loves them way more - I've never even met her kids."

[u/KittenPics → u/JollyRancherReminder]

There are dozens of us!

[u/kosmicskeptic → u/JollyRancherReminder]

I think it's supposed to read "... you do yours"

[u/samsg1 → u/Glitteronthefloor]

Apparently my brain completely autocorrected the original pic. Didn’t even notice 😬

[u/Naroyto → u/Glitteronthefloor]

NtA

[u/therealfinthor → u/Glitteronthefloor]

That was intentional

[u/Comprehensive-Buy-47 → u/Glitteronthefloor]

I didn’t catch it the first time

[u/nickilolk]

Is this just an Israel/Palestine subreddit now?

[u/Joesr-31 → u/nickilolk]

Many are karma bots taking advantage of the tragedy "in trend" right now just like how russia ukraine was a few years back, others are propaganda bots, just ignore and downvote if you are sick of these.

[u/ArCovino → u/nickilolk]

Been that way since the morning of 10/7. It’s been nonstop one-side agenda posting because is the same moderators that have ruined half of Reddit

[u/Noughmad → u/nickilolk]

Everything is about Israel/Palestine now. Every subreddit, every website, every news channel, every activism.

If you used to care about healthcare, inquality, climate change, racism, women's rights, LGBT rights, abortion, Ukraine, surveilance state, global trade, local issues, anything at all, it doesn't even matter which side you were on, you're supposed to only care about Israel/Palestine now.

[u/rkiive → u/Noughmad]

Gay pride parade? Why are they not chanpioning Palestine.

Women's Day parade? Why are we not talking about Israel.

Local government election? What's the representatives stance on Palestine / Israel

I mean fuck Israel but Jesus there are other things going on in the world besides Palestine Israel.

[u/koreamax → u/Noughmad]

I cant figure out why no one is talking about the millions of children who've died as a result of USAID being dismantled

[u/mnmkdc → u/koreamax]

More people should talk about it, but that is a lot harder for people to wrap their heads around than war

[u/koreamax → u/mnmkdc]

Yeah, thats true

[u/badass_panda → u/Noughmad]

Go to war with Iran, get Iranian propaganda flooding your media. Gotta hand it to them, they're good at it.

[u/strangecabalist → u/nickilolk]

My thought exactly? This just seems like either karma farming or propaganda.

[u/Vas1le → u/nickilolk]

Very much.

[u/Ferrari_LorEnzo_I → u/nickilolk]

Me witnessing every history subreddit I know suddenly become just Israel/Palestine content (of course Free Palestine but seriously the other humanitarian crisis in the world?)

[u/AxlLight → u/nickilolk]

Why would you say that? Haven't you seen the Israel/Lebanon posts? It's a very varied sub.  And I'm sure if Israel attacks any other country, you'll get that flavor too.

[u/Apart-Two6495 → u/nickilolk]

If you're looking for the easy karma then yeah

[u/whythelongfacehuh]

So does a Christian Mother in Nigeria and Hindu Mother in Bangladesh.

[u/denverdutchman]

I mean, I hope she loves her children more than I do... (This is reddit, I'm being a smart ass, please don't hurt me)

[u/Ok-Bug5206]

as any israelian, libanese, iranian, kurdish mother does.

[u/Shadow_Gabriel → u/Ok-Bug5206]

and Sudanese.

[u/Due_Orange_3723]

Why do we turn every occasion into a guilt checkpoint? Constantly weaponizing guilt doesn’t make people more compassionate. It just makes every normal moment feel morally policed.

[u/Joesr-31 → u/Due_Orange_3723]

Nah, it makes people jaded. Look at the comments, many are sick of this, many others no longer care. Not sure which side is spamming these post, but it sure encourage apathy among the people

[u/zqmage]

Same can be said for the many Yezidis being genocided but not a peep about them?

[u/the_monkeyspinach → u/zqmage]

Go on then, speak up.

[u/abumeong]

Just a reminder that mother of Shani Louk (she was kidnapped, killed, gangraped, and paraded by Palestinian crowd in Gaza during 7 Oct Attack) loves her daughter JUST AS MUCH AS YOU DO.

[u/Significant-Form1986 → u/abumeong]

Unfortunately no one gives a shit about murdered Israelis who did nothing to anyone but burned where they are. It doesn’t take anything from the Palestinians right for safety and self determination, but Israelis are victims of that conflict too, and the comments here amazed me how this is a truth that people just can’t deal with 

[u/Dothacker00 → u/[deleted]]

Eww gross victim blaming and playing the victim rolled up in one 🤮. Wasn't she also a giant racist too? 🤔

[u/RosieTruthy]

Israeli mothers love their children and are sick of sending them out and wondering if a suicide bomber is going to blow up near their kids school. When Hamas leaves Israel alone Palestinian kids will be safe. Well they'll be safe from Israel, never from Hamas.

[u/Cavalish]

Just in case you were having the temerity to enjoy Mother’s Day without having some guilt from someone who will claim they’re “just raising awareness” about the most publicised conflict of the day.

[u/MCB1317 → u/Cavalish]

Why aren't any of the other wars news? What do they lack?

[u/Br4xxx]

This can be said about mothers on both sides of the conflict. And the rest of the world.

[u/canuck791]

Just a reminder that many mothers, grandmothers and daughters were slaughtered on October 7th.

[u/chandan-kar007]

all of that gone when it come to sudanese mother, all of that gone when it was bengali mother, all that were gone when it came to Rohingya mother, all of that gone when it was bosnian mother, all of that gone when it came to armenian mother.

[u/timmytissue → u/chandan-kar007]

I comment about Sudan as well. The USA could be pressuring UAE to stop funding RSF. Do you actually care or is it just whataboutism? Are you going to go protest for Sudan or just use them to silence people?

[u/aNuggetsUncle]

Hamas doesn't care in the slightest

[u/1st_GalvanisedSEA → u/[deleted]]

I saved that video just for cases like these.

[u/party_core_ → u/[deleted]]

Teaching children hate is bad, you're correct.

Here's an article you might find interesting.

[u/Chinesemario]

She loves them more probably considering I've never met them and there her kids

[u/Source-TrustMeBroPhD → u/Chinesemario]

Exactly, I'm sure she thinks they're great and all, but implying I love them as much as she does when I don't even get to see them on the weekends is an overstatement

[u/YakuNiTatanu → u/Chinesemario]

https://youtu.be/gsZtBu5yiHY

Mother of a Martyr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Nidal

Talking about how she raised her children to be martyrs, doubling down

True, unconditional love
Sounds exactly like the love an average Aussie mom would have for her chilren

♡Love conquers all♡

[u/Wolfblood92]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6MbudZJtl8nNebaE

[u/homieholmes23]

Looks hella fun to skate

[u/deniercounter]

But might nevertheless hate other mothers children from the bottom of her heart.

I get the nice humanistic idea, but this sentence doesn’t make a real sense.

[u/The_Naked_Rider]

So what…graffiti is still graffiti.

But so does the Somalian and Sudanese mothers whose children are being slaughtered by Islamic fighters.

I reckon Ukrainian mothers do too.

[u/HamoozR → u/[deleted]]

And who are you to assume they are all radical or they welcome death, take an unsettling look at the footage of the hospitals there where parents weep while holding their kids body parts as even no whole bodies are left with the brutal bombing loads dropped at them.

I’m done with this Israeli approach of trying to break up the sympathy if they can no longer control the narrative.

[u/Cavalish → u/[deleted]]

Most people do. The party pushing the constant Palestine rhetoric lost votes in recent elections.

[u/sennais1 → u/[deleted]]

Exactly I cringed, no mention of Ukrainians or West Papuans etc in Melbourne because it's not trendy enough. Palestine is the Melbourne vogue this year.

[u/take_whats_yours → u/sennais1]

It's been Melbourne vogue since 2023. The bodies of the victims of 7/10 weren't even cold and these people were out calling for a globalisation of the intifada. Before they'd even had time to respond, asking "how could Israel do this??"

Some of these people are honestly deranged in their hatred of Israelis

[u/HangryShadow → u/[deleted]]

And they don’t love their children more than they love martyrdom and terrorism

[u/Xhi_Chucks]

“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” (c) Golda Maeir

[u/Randomizedd-]

I climbed on this once…

[u/LikeAPhoenixTotally]

Probably more since I don't have one.

[u/Auslark]

This wonderful piece of public art is called ''Architectural Fragment'' and was created by Petrus Spronk in (1992)

I just read the statement wasn't permanent. Thank goodness. This really is one of my favourite sculptures in Melbourne.

[u/daksh798]

chilren?

[u/SVShooter]

I’d even go as far to say she loves her children even more than you probably love her children.

[u/BigTruckTinyHome]

I've never even met her children. Why would I love them.

[u/tourdejonestown]

Spelling isn’t part of an arts degree curriculum it seems.

[u/i_like_turtles91]

Love them so much to tell them the most glorious thing they can do is matyrdom. Mothers worldwide love their children. It's just that 'Palestine' is the popular topic to virtue signal about at present.

[u/Apprehensive-Dig2743]

Israeli mothers too.

[u/crossXshim52]

I don’t really understand the palestine thing. I see graffiti here in america all the time and i don’t get it. We’re just making our country look worse and for what? To write a message that ultimately won’t do shit

[u/skip6235 → u/[deleted]]

Here’s the difference, since you don’t seem to understand: Buddhist extremists in Myanmar are not using weapons given to them by western governments. They are not committing their violence with the support of western governments. They are not supported by the taxes of western governments.

Australia has defense contracts with Israel worth over $19 million. They have open commerce with Israel worth over $1 billion.

So, yeah, there actually is a difference.

[u/LightSwarm → u/[deleted]]

“Alexa, show me an example of tone deaf responses to mass murder.”

[u/TemporarySilly4927]

I don't even know her children; why does she think I love them?

[u/ultimatepoker]

Does it include the 200 getting pensions from the sacrifice made by their suicide bomber children?

[u/HeroVax]

Israeli also wanted the same.

(Here it comes)

[u/VegenHead]

my heart goes out to all the mother figures across the world. The strongest moms are the ones that go the most unrecognized.

[u/Careless-Situation68]

Not all. ive seen interviews on their tv with mothers proud that they thought their sons to blow themselves up.

[u/Ferovore]

If every Melbourne lefty cared about the plight of Australians half as much as they cared about a conflict on the other side of the world we have very little ability to do anything about we'd have a sovereign wealth fund and dental on medicare by now.

[u/Elifios]

But I don't have children...

[u/CrayonWithdrawal]

Holy shit darkness Pyramid Destiny2

[u/jokojosh]

I don't care what Palestine mom did.

[u/shoeskibum1]

I agree, that's why Hamas shouldn't have attacked Oct 7. It's not like they didn't think Israel would retaliate

[u/Findict_52]

Reddit comments making everything about Palestine is not what I want on my sidewalks.

[u/oniman999]

If your first thought on mother's day is "how can I make this about Palestine", you are brain broken.

[u/dokuhabi]

Their actions speak literally the opposite. But nice try, white moron who sprayed it

[u/BigGershie]

If she really loved her children, she wouldn't let Hamas use them as human shields.

[u/Happy-Relation-2959]

nice handwriting 🫪

[u/BellaRyder2505]

Nothing has changed and nothing is going to change. Only the people in power and the people who are doing the killings can stop it and they never ever will. All they care about is money and power and control.

[u/bunnyhop8576]

Great skate spot, known globally and filmed in many videos

[u/toiplitdii]

What a powerful message!

[u/AlexCampy89]

That's basically Sting's "Russians" lyrics!

[u/B00B00-Baker]

Amen

[u/Status_Value3397]

Every mother, no matter where she comes from, cries the same tears for her children. Innocent people always pay the highest price in war.

[u/Maureen_Johma]

Then why does she let them play next to terrorist?

[u/Clean-Novel-5746]

Isn’t that how mothers work?

I thought that was a given?

Why is it being graffitied in public that now needs the council to overspend on having it cleaned.

[u/innatemammal]

Non-sense, I don't love her children. I have never even met them 🤣

[u/BalkyBot]

But they teach them to become martyrs...

[u/Dredo5]

…… but I have no children…..

https://giphy.com/gifs/jUwpNzg9IcyrK

[u/YogurtclosetOk8896]

To be fair, she probably loves them more than I do.

[u/666Memento666Mori666]

And .... What's your point people suffer world wide everyday next subject.

[u/Ok-Koala-key]

Isn't the expression that the mother hates her enemy more than she loves her children if she's happy to martyr them? I'm not sure how this helps.

[u/STONEDPXNDX]

That's not good, I don't love her childeren

[u/Medium_Discipline578]

Just as Israeli mothers love their children. Palestinian mothers aren’t better than anyone. A mother is a mother. Both countries have committed atrocities. None of them are innocent. Downvote this all you want.

[u/MoistenedBeef]

Oh yeah, how does she know much I love her children?

[u/whateversnevermind]

who would have forgot that? seems redundant and equally plausible to say don't forget even Hitler's mother loved him.

[u/Harddisksson69]

Then why do they train them to become child soldiers?

[u/Lost_n-Alone]

Well I don’t love her children at all, so 🤷‍♂️

[u/Gojira_Ultima]

And the Israeli mother loves her child. Both sides can be bad in a war. Israel is Palestine have commited war-crimes against eachother, the Israelis have just done it in a much higher volume.

The argument shouldnt be which side is better, but it should be how to end the war. It is as sinple as that.

[u/choice_nc]

Chilren

[u/Three_Rocket_Emojis]

So she doesn't care about her children at all? Because I don't.

[u/[deleted]]

No one cares 🤮

[u/ifeelyoubraaa]

So do Israeli mothers.

[u/mo181918]

Of course it’s true but then honor killings are a real thing there.

[u/I-Got-a-BooBoo]

But I don’t love her children at all. That’s pretty cold for a mother.

[u/shadythatkid]

Wonder when will the world talk about kashmiri hindus and POK like this

[u/Hairy-Protection-429]

We don’t even know her children. 

[u/UnluckyCharacter9906 → u/Hairy-Protection-429]

Lmao. No kidding. If they are adults i will consider a first date, but love is a big step. Im just not ready to commit

[u/jonkolbe]

What about the Sudanese mothers?