November 2011
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shitmystudentswrite:
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
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“If only high school were as simple as a teen movie. I would have loved to have...”
– zooey deschanel in rookie mag
I’m sorry, I know making fun of zooey deschanel is like shooting fish in a barrel, but what is this? (the article it’s from is actually not bad, it’s advice for high schoolers from various celebrities.)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Vodka & Milk (7)
Lady Leshurr (4)
Visitor (4)
Liz Phair (2)
Four Tet (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The ARIAs: Where an Indigenous Australian gets the...
albertinho:
Makes perfect sense.
god, the australian music industry is depressing
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Vitamin pills can lead you to take health... →
Irony! Also: schadenfreude. I am reaching the point where any in-depth talk of nutrition or alternative medicine brings me out in hives. Don’t tell me how I can get rid of them with willow bark or it will end badly for you.
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Occupied With Conspiracies? The #Occupy Movement,... →
peopleofcolor:
Thoughts on wingnuttery.
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Your moons are rubbish, astronomer tells Christmas... →
For Barthel, the last straw was a Unicef Christmas card in 2010 that showed three bobble-hatted children decorating a tree on a snowy hill beneath a waning crescent moon. The scene is unlikely, says Barthel. A waning moon, which looks like a “C” in the northern hemisphere, doesn’t rise until around 3am, and reaches the height in the card an hour or two later.
“I...
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Anthology accepting comic submissions from... →
missvoltairine:
letstalkaboutrape:
From their website:
On Nights Like This is an anthology of comics by survivors of sexual abuse, domestic violence, assault, or related trauma. We’re creating a volume of high-quality art and writing that will give survivors a voice. We also hope this book will be a source of comfort to others, serving as a reminder that they’re not alone.
We are currently...
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The Australian Jewish Left and Indigenous... →
via the Australian Jewish Democratic Society.
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My Name Is Me//Supporting your freedom to choose... →
via danah boyd.
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Aoteroa/new zealand has such an interesting and unusual electoral system you guys. I watched the 2011 election broadcast the other day and I’d like to give a specific shout-out to my sweet and patient expat Kiwi friend Kim, who puts up with continual questions from ignorant Australians like “who’s that guy? what’d he say? what’s the deal with Māori electorates? ...
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“…a lot of the reciprocal relational aggression that teens experience...”
– danah boyd: the unintended consequences of cyberbullying rhetoric
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Teen mothers caught between love and... →
While the Howard government brought in laws in 2006 requiring single mothers receiving welfare payments to enter work or training once their youngest child turned six, the ALP is the first to up the ante on teenage mothers of young children: trialling a program requiring them to return to school to finish year 12 or its equivalent once their child turns one or lose their Centrelink...
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Anonymous asked: Re: FCPS, The Western Metropolitan Region Department of Education is not interested in creativity, merely what can be measured from NAPLAN results. That's literacy and numeracy. The Steiner Stream at FCPS was VELS compliant with mainstream learning outcomes, that's reading and writing from prep. Interestingly the Finns don't start school til the age of seven and they rank amongst...
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Y'know what really grinds my gears?
bearwitnessunto:
All these republican politicians make it sound so easy to get laid in airport bathrooms
and it’s not.
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“Some activists are interested in Community Accountability processes primarily as...”
– Connie Burke, Think. Re-think: Accountable Communities. From The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities (2011), ed. by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
*APPLAUSE*
*MORE APPLAUSE*
(via quixotess)
I agree with this but I...
cool-schmool-deactivated2012032 asked: woah we have the same "art for all" poster. either it's really common or this is a helluva coincidence
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Rare victory for workers whose dignity was cut to... →
on the Baiada workers and the precariat.
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National Curriculum to include Auslan: a win for... →
extendedmetaphor:
For reals, after all the fucking Signed English bullshit they’ve pulled it’s kinda the least they can do.
Also, Deaf Australia: Heaps cool.
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Anonymous asked: Re: Footscray City Primary School, I can't see you have added a lot to the discussion about this, other than more inaccuracies. The Vietnamese programme at FCPS was closed by the administration and only after a year of lobbying by the parents was a LOTE (Language Other Than English) programme reinstated. In this case Mandarin. There is no choice in the west anymore, sing the national anthem...
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emergen-c politics
james-bliss:
Alongside the occupy protests there has been the ‘emergency meeting.’ The emergency general assembly, the emergency planning meeting, the emergency protest against police brutality. There is the sense that, because things have happened, we—whoever ‘we’ are—have to quickly regroup and respond to those things. The encampment was ransacked by cops, we need to regroup at the plaza as...
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Here's the Thing.
finalgirls:
I know there are meta horror movies, that talk about what would happen in a horror movie if this was a horror movie, but it’s not, guys. THIS IS REAL LIFE.
#no it’s not.
But I haven’t seen a meta-metatextual movie. One that talks about movies that talk about movies. EXAMPLE-
Some Dude: If this were a horror movie, we shouldn’t have sex, cuz we’ll totally die. But we’re talking...
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ninety-nine weeks: a fairy tale//ursula k. le guin →
“Woodcutter,” she said, “be of good cheer! I am your Gift Fairy, and I will give you and your family enough to live on. You will have food, and can buy shoes for your son and daughter!”
“Gracious lady,” said the woodcutter, “you are very kind. What can I do to deserve such a gift?”
“To deserve my gift, woodcutter, you must not work, but every day you must look for work,” said the lady. “You...
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irish descended white people against other irish...
also generally against assimilated white people with some irish ancestors five generations ago claiming a meaningful connection to ireland today.
could think up a snappier name I guess.
history is important but some relationships change and the descendents of brutally oppressed people are not always suffering materially for that if it was long enough ago and in a different context. did you...
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Bridging visas to be issued for boat arrivals →
coffeebrat:
“The first group of irregular maritime arrivals (IMAs) will be placed in the community on bridging visas in coming days, as part of the new approach to asylum seeker management… the department was continuing to assess the detention population for suitability for community placement, with initial priority going to those who have spent the greatest time in detention… We would expect...
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The story about the Occupy Wall St. Protester who...
missvoltairine:
midwestmountainmama:
rabbleprochoice:
The story about the Occupy Seattle protester who had a miscarriage at 3 months due to police brutality is real.
Just a friendly note.
Please stop reblogging the story claiming the 8-month pregnancy was lost. It is not real and it is sensationalizing a very personal and tragic loss people actually go through just to get thousands of...
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Maritime Union of Australia supporting White... →
MUA members and officials mark White Ribbon Day every year.
MUA member Glenn Hawes with wife Liana and daughter Charlee
Across australia this week MUA members will acknowledge White Ribbon Day - The international day for the elimination of violence against women.
MUA ships fly our “Not Silent - Not Violent” flags, members wear shirts and ribbons and wristbands and the...
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queer youth suicide funding announced//star... →
The Baillieu Government has today announced the recipients of a $4 million funding grant promised to tackle suicide and self harm among LGBTI youth.
…The WayOut Project, working in rural Victoria, will receive $1.48 million, Safe Schools Coalition Victoria (SSCV) will receive $416,000, Minus18 will be given a boost of $146,000, Rainbow Network will receive $348,000, Zoe Belle Gender...
I HATE PEEP-TOES, OK
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“Millions of people have been foreclosed upon in the last three years. In most...”
– matt taibbi at rolling stone
got your prison industrial complex right here
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Campaign against library closures has scored a... →
Library campaigners across the country have experienced a major boost from yesterday’s high court ruling that plans by Somerset and Gloucestershire county councils to cut funding to large numbers of their libraries were unlawful.
Judge Martin McKenna ruled that, as the closures would hurt disadvantaged groups such as the elderly and the disabled, which is contrary to the conditions...
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““ASIO boss David Irvine told the immigration network inquiry last night...”
– oh snap! Sarah Hanson-Young of the Greens, via Max. (I still hate the Greens.)
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blocking the stream//on the end of the steiner... →
But for all its passionate advocates, Steiner also has staunch critics. The immediate past president of the Victorian Council of School Organisations, Jacinta Cashen, believes it should not be part of the state system. She says Steiner schools are neither secular nor free - two cornerstones of public education - because they recite blessings and impose fees for activities such as music...
