October 2011
jenniferanne said: that whole detention centre thing confuses me. being a refugee lands you in prison? if they don’t want to lose track of people before they’re approved just have them keep in touch regularly with case managers while they start building lives. fuck.
TELL ME...
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andromedalogic asked: Cassie is unpopular? WHAT. She was my favorite Animorph by far and I wanted to be her and aahhh. 'The Departure', the book where she actually makes friends with a Yeerk, was one of the times I felt the series really transcended its formula. I was quite moved. Of course, I was also 10 and had simplistic pacifist ideas myself. But ugh Cassie. I'm so glad she existed, because tbh...
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“that’s another fucked up thing about yeerks, and another way this series, to me,...”
– isabelthespy on why animorphs is surprisingly great. read the whole thing! large-ish spoilers for the entire series, if you care about that kind of thing. but also really good analysis so it’s probs worth it. actually, the biggest spoiler is probably that andalites are kinda dicks, which...
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when will one vine tomato tell another vine tomato...
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januarydaze replied to your quote: FIRST-BORN daughters will succeed to the throne…
how is Queen Eliz queen then? wasn’t she the first born daughter? confused
it’s a long story and I can’t remember/understand it all but it boils down to: no dudes left. edward VIII abdicated and left the line of sucession, his little bro (george VI) became king, george didn’t have any...
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“FIRST-BORN daughters will succeed to the throne ahead of their younger brothers...”
– the age
well, the British monarchy has just been dragged kicking and screaming into the 1920s, hasn’t it
mocking the royals would be so much less fun if they weren’t ours to mock, VOTE NO ON THE AUSTRALIAN REPUBLIC
(kind of kidding but kind of for real, but I do also have legitimate...
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asylum seekers and suicide in Australia
the front page of The Age today has a picture of the naked torso of a brown-skinned person covered in methodical, presumably self-inflicted, minor wounds. it’s really shocking. it’s attached to this article: The sixth suicide in just over a year within detention centres raises more questions about the treatment of asylum seekers. the sixth suicide was this guy. this Tamil guy was...
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dates
januarydaze:
thinking about devoting part of my tumblr / blog to listing and analysing good places to go on dates in melbourne. #ilovedates
this needs to happen
like, yesterday
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There was a post on a social anxiety tumblr which...
torayot:
I am tempted to say that it’s not social anxiety but racism.
I think it’s very probably both. I see a lot of people trying to avoid interrogating their shitty behaviour because it’s interconnected with their mental illness and I’m super sick of it. If you’re scared of people not speaking English, or speaking with an accent, or whatever, you can be both a)...
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Occupy What?
terror-incognita:
I noticed that the info page for Occupy Melbourne on Facebook has now added this paragraph:
Isn’t Australia being illegally occupied already? Is certainly is. When European settlers first declared ownership of the continent of Australia, it was declared “Terra Nullius” or “land belonging to no one”, despite the fact that millions of people already sustainably occupied the...
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Notes on Occupy Melbourne. What it might mean.... →
The camp at City Square was a means not an end. It was a moment and a series of actions that gave space to our rebellion, to the commons. Now that City Square has been violently fenced off and enclosed by the 1%, we need to think about how we can keep achieving our ends, and not fetishise the means that were previously used.
…We need to keep returning to various sites in the city and...
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Student illegally detained//Kirsty Needham//The... →
AN INDIAN student who paid thousands of dollars to study in Australia was illegally detained at the Villawood detention centre for 18 months because of mistakes by immigration officers, the Australian Human Rights Commissioner has found.
The commissioner, Catherine Branson, has found that Prashant Cherkupalli, 31, should be paid $597,000 in compensation for the 509 days he was illegally...
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How do you know if a gutter punk's been to your...
They’re still there.
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punk mathematics | learn math, do more damage →
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“steve jobs turned apple around by turning liberal humanism into a huge marketing...”
– girlcore: my friend
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joellesoswell:
There’s a convenience store around the corner from my apartment, that is really well known for it’s inexpensive Vietnamese tofu hoagies. And while I’ve never had one myself due to soy and gluten allergies, many of my friends sing the praises of what is apparently just about the best damn cheap vegan lunch in the city. No matter the time of day you are almost guaranteed to see a...
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philomathic:
For anarchists who do know something about anthropology, the arguments are all too familiar. A typical exchange goes something like this:
Skeptic: Well, I might take this whole anarchism idea more seriously if you could give me some reason to think it would work. Can you name me a single viable example of a society which has existed without a government?
Anarchist: Sure. There...
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Tell Me News//Sipho Sepamla
Tell me of a brother who hanged himself in prison with a blanket was he punchdrunk
Tell me of a brother who flung himself to death from the ninth floor of a building did his grip fumble with the loneliness up there
Tell me of a hooded man who picked out others of his blood on parade was his skin beginning to turn with solitude
Oh, tell me of a sister who returned home pregnant from a...
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rekognitionoisuled:
Fiction [compared to rap] is a much better way for me to tackle my feelings about being a working class South Asian American. There really isn’t much representation of that in Postcolonial literature. There’s people like Jhumpa Lahiri, but she’s talking really about upper middle class South Asian American culture. Which is why rap makes sense for me: it’s within that...
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sometime this week I will be going to my third funeral this year. is that a lot? it seems like kind of a lot. anyway at the moment I don’t care about anything other than the challenge of finding an appropriate funeral outfit in my predominantly sparkly/ragged/faded/metallic/ill-fitting/slutty wadrobe. god bless displacement activity.
I don’t and can’t write about this...
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Texas Cuts Weekend Lunch for Prisoners →
legalizeheroin:
Thousands of other inmates in the Texas prison system have been eating fewer meals since April after officials stopped serving lunch on the weekends in some prisons as a way to cut food-service costs. About 23,000 inmates in 36 prisons are eating two meals a day on Saturdays and Sundays instead of three. A meal the system calls brunch is usually served between 5 and 7 a.m.,...
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forestfungus replied to your link: I Am The Blob: Today I was arrested at Occupy Melbourne
why put someone down for writing about their bad experience with being arrested, just because it was their first time? i think this is so powerful particularly because it was a first time, and conveys the reality shock that so many are sheltered from
I meant the general tendency in the Left to pay more...
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I Am The Blob: Today I was arrested at Occupy... →
I have never been in a police van before. I shared mine with six other women. It was uncannily like being in a sauna – there are bench seats, there is no oxygen, everything is humid, there are no windows. We were driven for twenty minutes, then left for fifty minutes with the van’s engine off, the lights off and the doors closed. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 45 degrees in there. All...
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witless babble on the occupy melbourne eviction...
first: I am critical of the Occupy movement in Australia. I don’t think the paradigm they’re running with really fits here (see here for a good outline of some reasons why), I don’t understand the Australian Left’s need to play follow the leader with North America, I agree that the language of “occupation” on already occupied Indigenous land is suspect. On the...
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Spinal Bap: Kim and Thurston yet to decide who... →
Kim and Thurston first took Mascis under their wing back in 1986 when Sonic Youth invited Dinosaur Jr to support them for a two-week college tour and have looked after the long-haired troubadour ever since, but is it now uncertain whether custody will be given to Kim, Thurston, or some other third party. Mascis requires much care and attention; he suffers from catatonic lethargy,...
heavily tattooed Christians with LOVE and HOPE...
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