Books

I & I Survive: A Gonzo Odyssey Through the Long Night of Complex PTSD 20250409_102104

20250409_102104

I & I Survive: A Gonzo Odyssey Through the Long Night of Complex PTSD

Some dero May 13, 2025

Wildfires in Malibu and Australian bushfires might put ecological causes of trauma on the social agenda when...

The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020) 20200917_120913

20200917_120913

The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020)

Some dero July 12, 2020

This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working...

Get to this post

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 3 hours

We exported a terrorist to Christchurch but also have a leg to stand on moralizing about terrorism.

#auspol #Australia #Sydney #bondi #terrorism #freegaza
Get to this post

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 4 hours

What if there's a win in incubating self-actualisation and an ethical core through reflection and introspection outside of the collective paranoia and putrid codependency of nutsack cliques
Get to this post

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 4 hours

It's blissfully balmy.
Get to this post

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 4 hours

The world gets a bit more dicey with every passing day. You know what the funny thing is, we're so collectively deranged we can't actually just stop. Like you're building a house and a wall collapses, you don't just go, pick up the bricks and see if it stays up this time if Barry does it again
Get to this post

Ben Debney @landcucumber.bsky.social 7 hours

1993 says yo, 2025 says yo, how great are Bad Religion. They're all grey now you know. Rollins is grey. Iggy Pop looked 70 when he was 40, he hasn't changed a bit

Ben Debney

I used to do the exact same around about 1993, parked at the edge of the shops on my skateboard after school skating the concrete footpath with a few homies from the hood. Heat of summer. The quiet buzz of the paid work year almost at an end, props to domestic care workers. Much chill.