May 2013
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“Like, every morning I get up and put on clothes wondering if looking like a...”
– Terror Incognita:
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realhumanbaby:
When’s a good time to start pulling off my skin and hair in preparation for my body’s dissolution into the dirt underneath my house, I’m not doing anything this afternoon, do you want to hang out? I’m free this afternoon if you want to hang out, I’m not doing anything this afternoon
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comrades --
1. my friend dated this socialist dude who used the word “comrade” a lot as a term of address
she mentioned that she didn’t love the word
and he tried to argue that it was really important to “reclaim” it, akin to the process of reclamation of slurs like “queer”
“are you kidding? you’re kidding. you’re not kidding.”
2. I...
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these socks are a bit much but so am I
a memoir
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monetizeyourcat:
abuse victims often ‘overreact’ because part of being in an abusive situation is being constantly told your justifiable anger or fear or anxiety is unjustifiable by both the people abusing you and people knowingly or unknowingly supporting them! abusive systems create people whose ability to ‘react’ ‘appropriately’ has been deliberately taken from them as a means of control!...
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on spite
my friend told me that she had this (female) friend whose boyfriend was pretty sexist
and one of the ways that manifested was that he was always saying she couldn’t cook. and it’s true that she didn’t cook that much, but he went on and ON about it, brought it up at the most annoying times
so for their anniversary
she took the day off work
spent the whole day at home...
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Support a Sex Worker and Rape Survivor's Legal...
rubyrevolting:
Support a Sex Worker and Rape Survivor’s Legal Battle - please reblog and spread far and wide!
I’m Ruby - a sex worker of 7 years from Melbourne. I’ve been involved with Vixen as well as organising the inaugural Festival of Sex Work.
About 3 years ago I was raped by a serial ugly mug. Due to his history I decided to report it to the police. The committal hearing happened in...
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sophiegearon replied to your post: I guess what I’m trying to say is that my…
ACAB
Artisan Cupcakes Are Banal
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I guess what I’m trying to say is that my stringently anti-cupcake position is totally defensible
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Jeff Sparrow: Andrew Bolt an imbecile? It might... →
In reality, Bolt’s a talented prose writer, adept in the tabloid genre. He’s a powerful speaker (as anyone who has seen him ruthlessly destroy academic critics in public debates would know) and an extraordinarily effective populariser of ideas. Andrew Bolt is conservative and many of his ideas are repellent. But it’s ridiculous to call him stupid on the basis of how many university degrees he...
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orbsteeb:
HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA ARE MELTING RIGHT THRU THE EARTHS CRUST AND FUSING WITH THE MOLTEN CORE OF OUR CORRUPT PLANET!! TO HEAR THEIR MAGNETIC DIRGE IS TO YEARN TO JOIN THEM
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I had to delete Capital off my kindle because it was crashing the system
coincidence?
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can u not: a memoir
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PSA
don’t ask me to pick sides in a fight between you and Lorena because I guarantee you won’t like the outcome of that
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anarcheluxemburg:
If you’re a real Marxist, you wouldn’t use money. Only linen. Exchange everything with linen. Like, I’ll trade you 20 linen, for what? 2 coats?
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I’ve thought about getting a pet as a crash course in responsibility but the only pet I’d really want is a cat and too many of the people important to me (esp. lorena) are crazy allergic, it would mean we couldn’t live together or they couldn’t come to my house for possibly 20+ years
I guess I am still a Cat Person
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I don’t know, I guess I just used to have a lot of social anxiety, like, literally paralysing social anxiety, and with time I’ve come to see that my anxiety twisted my view of the world such that I used to think people were being way more contemptuous than they were, but also that I probably deserved it for being a loser. actually they didn’t devote much thought to me because...
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friendliness is a huge thing for me when I’m deciding whether I hold someone in high regard or not. it’s not about being “but that person has always been nice to me!” whenever shit comes up. friendliness is crucial to an inclusivity and an openness to change that is real and put into practice, rather than simply about holding the right opinions and reblogging the right...
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a lot of people are really shy and down on themselves and if you think that being warm and friendly has nothing to do with justice or liberation then you’re wrong
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my mum is really interested in genealogy, which is like a typical old white person interest or whatever, but also it’s incredible. it’s absolutely a privilege to have access to genealogical information but I think it’s a privilege you should take advantage of, if at all possible.
one time I went to an environmental conference and two of the Aboriginal elders of that region...
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my mum is a chain-smoker. she smoked all through all of her pregnancies. she tried to quit a few times when I was living in the family home but it was really difficult for her. I was relieved when she stopped trying to quit because it made her incredibly moody and have outbursts of rage over the smallest things. I felt really, really bad about feeling relieved. I do wish she would quit. She...
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my mum is really bad with remembering names and faces but she’s pretty good at making people feel comfortable regardless. It gives me some hope, because I’m really invested in being friendly and approachable, but I struggle with remembering faces. She makes me realise it’s possible. It’s pretty funny how she has trouble remembering people who’ve been my best...
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my mum used to work in admin for a social welfare body, for years and years. a lot of the social workers were very rude to her, especially young female recent graduates. she didn’t get paid as much as them. the union for that sector was pretty unhelpful the one time she actually turned to them for help.
My mum comes from a middle-class family, but she was one of the youngest children of...
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when I was little I really liked the TV show Super Ted. my mum doesn’t really like to sew but she made a Super Ted outfit for one of my teddy bears. It’s incredibly cool.
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I saw the movie Pocahontas with my auntie when I was seven and my mum asked me what I thought about it. I told her I LOVED IT and she asked me if I wanted to know the story of the real Pocahontas. she told me all about how the real John Smith was much older than Pocahontas, how Pocahonatas was only a few years older than me, how she was kidnapped and died young, far from everything she knew. ...
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when my mum was unemployed she spent a lot of time arguing over discrepancies in bills. she told me it was her new philosophy called “sweat the small stuff”. she got a lot of discounts. she’s really good at arguing her way into getting faulty goods exchanged and stuff. one time my best friend’s mum locked her keys in her (rented) house. the real estate didn’t...
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my mum is not terrible at baking but she thinks she is. she knows how to make two cakes, has for twenty years, but she always drags out the recipe book anyway. she is really good at making pilaf. I’m good at cakes and bad at pilaf.
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I love my mum a lot. She knows a lot about literature, history, beating bureaucracy, and how to be welcoming and friendly to people. These are some of the things I care the most about. It makes me uncomfortable when people are super vicious about their mums having bad politics or whatever — men especially. I’m not impressed by it. A lot of my friends would say “yeah but your...
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Child still detained after father died on... →
ahipstory:
This couldn’t happen in Australia, could it?
You’re 9 years old. Your dad’s just died from a heart attack on the 1st day you were both taken to Christmas Island Detention Centre. No mum to comfort you. 10 days have passed & you’re still in detention.
This is happening right now.
Last night the 9 yr old boy was finally moved from Xmas Island after 10 days only to be put in...
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crisisaftercrisis asked: Surely "economically conservative" is either just a convenient fig-leaf for "socially conservative", or (more likely) the Internet Libertarian Brigade haven't given any thought to the fact that open markets necessarily favour the privileged (better access to information, more mobility, less likely to be victims of the rampant discrimination that true deregulation...
