Knowing your own worth
I came across this a few moons ago. This was legitimately the first time anyone had told me this. People can’t handle you being responsible for your past when they…
The Kingdom of Shylock
Francis George Anstey (18 August 1865 – 31 October 1940) was an Australian politician and writer. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1934,…
An allegedly harassing email I sent in 2023
In 2023 I was working at Fed Uni in a project on student retention. I was unable to complete the contract due to an intensely hostile work environment and protracted…
The ALP loves weaponised idpol
“Change to be forced on ‘violent, misogynist’ CFMEU“https://michaelwest.com.au/news/change-to-be-forced-on-violent-misogynist-cfmeu The Plibersek interview: ‘We’re caught up in macho posturing’https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2024/10/05/the-plibersek-interview-were-caught-macho-posturing Union busting is okay because the targets are violent misogynists. Greenwashing and selling…
The Black Dog, my blood brother
He says: they only see a dog, not the size of the fight. He says: they only want to see the dog because they don’t *want* to see the size…
Who would do that
Come past your place saying, ‘watch you don’t get buried alive,’ I mean. I’m sure it wasn’t old mate ‘not sorry about the discard but I’d like a coldie please’…
GET LOST LOBSter MIND
Me: What’s with you vicious fucks and your discards, I’ll never get that. You completely shit on someone loyal to you and years later come back acting like nothing happened…
Thoughts on privilege
If there’s one topic that gives the right conniptions, it’s privilege, Makes sense really. The politics of selfishness and ego seem to appear in practice as varations on the theme…
Every threat is existential, every enemy is Hitler
‘Rivlin took issue with his idol Menachem Begin’s justification for the 1982 war in Lebanon, which was to “prevent another Treblinka.” He said that such an approach consigns the justification…
I did a shit thing today because I have longstanding anger management issues
2 June. I was in a KFC drivethru earlier today. I was ravenous. I have a tenth of my original stomach because Johnson and Johnson reduce governments to wholly-owned subsidiaries…