March 2012
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90 day limit for asylum seekers in detention:... →
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“And here’s what I think is so remarkable about the trilogy: The division between...”
– Power, Public Life, and The Hunger Games – The New Inquiry
I’ll probably stop posting Hunger Games reviews pretty soon, but this point just bears repeating. THIS is why these books are so good.
(via becoming-wave)
I’d say that “wiles” and public performance in general are...
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leonineantiheroine:
So I know it’s only a TV show and am not using this example of popular culture to like make a connection between it and real life but apparently the next Australian episode of New Girl with the ‘adorkable’ Zooey Deschanel as Jess is significant because Jess finds out someone doesn’t like her. WHY IS THIS ACTUALLY A PROBLEM AND A POINT OF CONFLICT IN A TV SHOW? LIKE SERIOUSLY...
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The New Inquiry: Value-seeking surveillance and... →
becoming-wave:
thenewinquiry:
I just finished reading the first book of The Hunger Games.Given my hobbyhorses, it’s probably not surprising that I read it entirely as a novel about the ramifications of having to live as if life is a reality-television show. [UPDATE: Having seen the film, that seems an inescapable…
YES.
ugh katniss’s complicated relationship with performance and...
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There are lots of long posts about the...
galesofnovember:
Some are witty, some are self-serving. Some are annoying. Etc. But they all seem to be just so long.
And they all should be summarized as:
read less internet
read more books
talk to human beings over the age of 18
I feel like I could probably delete my entire blog and replace it with this
good job
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When I talk about coming from an ambiguous or complicated class background, middle and upper class people almost always assume I mean that we were middle class but didn’t have any money. like my parents were artists or sessional academics or something.
Actually I’m almost always talking about the opposite: we were financially secure while I was growing up (although my older siblings...
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Warning, I am about to obnoxiously practice...
moniquill:
I swear, the majority of white people who are vegans* are vegans because they feel a deep need to create more problems in their lives.
Complication and problem solving are major human impetus. If you don’t have enough actual problems, you will make problems for yourself to solve. Some people do it by taking on complicated projects (scientists, engineers, musicians, philosophers, etc)...
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guys remember the golden days when the highest...
sigh
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sometimes it’s hard to tell if the injustice of the world is finally breaking through my jaded exterior or if I’m just PMSing
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“Hard partying of Taser victim Roberto Laudisio Curti led to furious paranoia”
– News Limited headline today
well done, guys, I was wondering how long it would take the Murdoch media to blame the victim. about twenty-four hours after his identity was established, that’s how long.
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also, I hate to be one of those Bike People, but I...
1. I am not legally required to use the bike lane if it is “impracticable to do so” or if it’s an off-road path (source)
2. As recognised by the law, there are times when it is inconvenient, dangerous, impossible, or illegal to use the bike lane, like when for example a truck is unloading there, or I’m turning right, or when there is no bike lane
3. If there was a...
I had this amazing realisation that 90% of my...
it’s so liberating to realise that you are, at heart, a reclusive sourpuss who literally hates fun, adventures, risk, etc
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“I am Marie-Céline Dundelle, and I do not need a book contract to reveal that...”
– Marie-Céline Dundelle (Paul Rudnick), Vive La France, at the New Yorker
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“It’s OK by me if a homeless person spends my money on drink or drugs. When...”
– Mark Johnson, “Why it’s OK to give to homeless drug addicts”, The Guardian
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milkeemountainmama:
i ask this every single time another fucked up thing happens on the US/Mexican border, and nobody listens, so that OFFICIALLY makes me one of those intellectuals with spittle in the corner of their mouths that nobody listens one fuck to but i keep talking the fuck any damn way….BUT OH WELL. i’m gonna ask again.
can we PLEASE not divorce the anti-immigrant (or: hyper...
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Death after Taser shock sparks call for moratorium... →
THE NSW Council for Civil Liberties has renewed its concerns about the use of Tasers after a man collapsed and died during a confrontation with police in the city centre early yesterday.
Roberto Laudisio Curti was running from police after allegedly stealing a bag of chips. there’s confirmed CCTV of this all over the Fairfax media websites. if anyone tries to swing this tasering as...
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Greece on the breadline: cashless currency takes... →
claytoncubitt:
“They’re quite joyous occasions,” she said. “It’s very liberating, not using money.” At one market, she said, she approached a woman who had come along with three large trays of homemade cakes and was selling them for a unit a cake. “I asked her: ‘Do you think that’s enough? After all, you had the cost of the ingredients, the electricity to cook …’
“She replied: ‘Wait until the...
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How did Michael Atakelt die? →
AT 2pm on Thursday, July 7, last year, a fisherman saw a body floating on the Maribyrnong River near the Raleigh Road pontoon and called the police. The body was that of 22-year-old Michael Atakelt, who arrived in Australia from Ethiopia in 2006. He he had been staying with a friend in Footscray while he studied English at Victoria University. He had been missing for 11 days since being held in...
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for some unknown reason this article about the... →
has me going FUCK IT. I’LL MOVE TO THE ORKNEYS. FUCK THIS, FUCK YOU.
I guess the motivation is “a desire to understand” coupled with “random hostility”, which come to think of it is pretty much my default setting.
anyway the comments contain an interesting debate about Scottish nationalism.
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About Cop Watch
note-a-bear:
So there are groups that do this, they stay in highly policed areas on shifts and bring cameras and such, and record to make sure police brutality doesn’t escalate, and when it happens there’s evidence against it.
But that’s not the only way it can happen.
Every single person is entitled to watch an arrest go down as long as they are not obstructing or interfering. That means, if...
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‘No independent journalism anymore’ – ex-Al... →
so-treu:
let me repeat: AL JAZEERA IS NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE FOR INFORMATION ON SYRIA, AMONG OTHER THINGS:
Television channels have turned into political parties, pushing the agenda for some outside forces, former Al Jazeera correspondent in Beirut, Ali Hashem, told RT. Hashem has come in spotlight after resigning from the television citing its bias.
In emails leaked by Syrian hackers, Ali...
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“It happens to all of us, you wake up in the middle of the night and try...”
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eight hours sleep a myth, say experts//the age
“…If you find that you can’t easily drift back off you might want to take a leaf out of the pages of history and engage in some low-stimulus activity for an hour or two rather than sit there worrying about it.”
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“Victoria’s nurses have won pay increases of up to 21 per cent and will maintain...”
– I wish I could see the look on the face of that douchebag who told a young nurse I was out with that if she didn’t like getting paid less than her high school job at Priceline why doesn’t she just quit. (via monsterpussy)
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Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: RESOURCES ON... →
loneberry:
I upload some articles and linked to some books I’ve read recently (or somewhat recently) on prisons. Feel free to download and share the links with friends. We should have a conversation about this material sometime. Read it and let me know what you think.
Articles
Asian American…
very long, very good list
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“In a further nod to “culture of poverty” theory, the original welfare reform...”
– What “other America”? - Poverty - Salon.com
Classism and hatred of the poor is a republican trait, but it is not JUST a republican trait. We can’t trust either party to care for the poor, in the current system.
(via lilacturtl)
Preach.
(via joan-of-arc-complex)
this is an interesting article...
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derrick jensen unappreciation blogging
countrygramma:
neetainari replied to your post: list of life ambitions get my PhD date a Marley…
Re: Derrick Jensen: at some point DJ quotes were filling up my dash and basically I agreed with what I perceived them to say, although I realize that I was missing a lot in terms of context + I’m genuinely curious about what you have to say about him
he’s a lot like Adele: flashy and imagined to be a...
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imma getting really irritated.
milkeemountainmama:
with all the “attacks on women” stuff going around regarding banning contraceptions, family planning, abortions, etc.
BECAUSE. as black amazon pointed out, this is NOT NEW. this didn’t just start. this is a part of a thirty year organized plan that came partially in response to the roe v wade decision but ALSO the de-segregation decision, the no prayers in schools decision...
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Asylum seekers facing court without help →
Asylum seekers are resorting to going to court without legal representation because there is no government funding for lawyers, despite the high rate at which courts are overturning refugee rejections.
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US prison inspired media rule →
THE Immigration Department’s tough new policy restricting media visits to detention centres was partly modelled on US military rules governing journalists’ access to the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Documents released under freedom of information show that Immigration’s new ”deed of agreement” that must be signed by journalists and media organisations visiting...
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Delay in action on rooming houses →
BASIC standards to improve conditions in dangerous rooming houses will not be introduced for another year, more than three years after they were first promised.
The delay comes despite Housing Minister Wendy Lovell slamming the Labor government over its inaction when she was in opposition, saying then that it had created appalling conditions where violence was common and residents routinely...
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'Blunt display of unselfconscious gall': homeless... →
A charitable marketing program that paid homeless people to carry wi-fi signals at South By Southwest has drawn widespread debate at the annual Austin conference and around the country.
BBH Labs, a unit of the global marketing agency BBH, gave 13 people from Austin’s Front Steps Shelter mobile Wi-Fi devices and T-shirts that announced “I am a 4G Hotspot.” The company paid them...
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the award for best subeditor antics for 13/3/12, if you were wondering, goes to MX for their article on lamps made from preserved bioluminescent poisonous jellyfish, with the header “every sting is illuminated”
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