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iamanathemadevice · 2 years
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If the last three years of our lives here in the lucky country had been a movie, last Saturday’s election is where the credits rolled in, an adagio piano arrangement playing as the protagonist holds their hands aloft, finally achieving their glory. And fade – end scene. But that would ignore the movie’s story. We’ve left out the part where a Tamil family sleeps soundly in a weatherboard house in Biloela. Sleeping children, a father preparing for work. Our camera closes in on dark uniforms. They bang on the door, enter the house. There are cries, confusion. Border force drags the family away in the dawn before the sun rises. I have left out the dramatic music because it wasn’t there. Just a silent empty house and a plume of forgotten dust. From there the camera lifts above the Queensland landscape, moving swiftly above nodding umbrella grass, touching the edges of a road sign: Welcome to Canberra, The National Capital. Within the boomerang of Federal parliament, the halls bulge with loud whispers, earnest faces. Scott Morrison sits alone in an office while outside a Prime Minister is rolled. Morrison rises to face a press conference, ego and malice clenched firmly in hand. The story sweeps inland to a home on the outskirts of Dubbo, where a mother of three starts her car for the fourth time that morning. Yet another interview to attend about performing in interviews for jobs that don’t exist, in Dubbo or anywhere else. Later that night she opens a letter that tells her she, and her stay-at-home son in their $200 a week rental will need to pay the federal government $8,000 because a man on $450,000 a year in a rent-free house thought it was a matter for some other God, not his. We watch them try to deny it at first, but nobody is listening. They save the extra dollars from where they can, but yet another debt letter rolls in. When the son can no longer see his life with no job and no debt, nobody sees the car leave the road at midnight because sometimes the road ahead becomes just too dark to see anymore. I left out the sympathetic bystanders, because there weren’t any there.
Ronni Salt, “Requiem for a lost country”, The Shot 27 May 2022
The entire thing is a masterpiece of grieving rage, so go read it. But this paragraph also needs to be quoted:
I am not in this movie because no woman is. The story was always about Scott Morrison’s world, where the men are rapists, or loud or angry and always, always at the front of the scene. The women of course, are invisible just the way Morrison likes them. The women don’t matter because they never mattered regardless of how many of them yell and scream and march because the scriptwriter for this movie is happy to sacrifice the unseen extras for a headline. All of it, every scene played out, is for the cameras.
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crplpunkklavier · 2 years
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i love and respect that post or tweet or whatever it was about how every mountain goats song is like whirring of the ac in a warehouse while john goes "the dog was. brown" but i do think it applies more to older songs. nowadays any mountain goats song is like [sexy saxophone riff] john darnielle sounding really excited: I HAVE A FIVE STEP PLAN FOR MAULING YOU TO DEATH [bass lick] WHEN THE COPS COME TO MY DOOR I'LL KILL THEM TOO [more saxophone]
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if s3 doesn't begin with aziraphale doing the fucking apology dance then what is the point
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thefloralmenace · 2 months
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For my next trick, I will heal the entire world using only my deep personal rage.
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fat-rolls-frictions · 7 months
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insane, wailing, feral. @blood-choke
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baffledapple · 2 months
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I'd like to state my predictions for the season 1 ending
obviously episode 7 is gonna be about gathering their resources - convincing the other overlords to assist in the fight against the extermination (vaggi subplot perhaps?) episode eight is of course going to focus on the fight, and hell is going to win. or at the very least succeed in driving the exterminators off, this is the only thing that makes sense in the narrative but AFTER the battle (or perhaps during) the REAL conflict is going to just be building up. Adam (or Sera?) CANNOT admit that they are wrong (angles don't make mistakes) so they have to double down. And word has gotten out about the extermination to the average angel right?
So Adam needs PROOF that the extermination is not only necessary but ALSO righteous.
And for the first time EVER - demons are going to be fighting back against the exterminators. This isn't going to be the one-sided slaughter. this is going to be a battle, and demons that have been living in fear of exterminators are not going to be gentle or taking non-lethal shots. They are going to tear angels apart with extreme gusto!
And Adam is going to use that against them. He can show what's happening in hell LIVE. (or recorded via his little spaceship?) And it will be so easy to sway heaven to his way of thinking! Look at all those sinners, tearing a part our people, our siblings in the heavenly host? Look at how they kill our holy soldiers painfully, drawing it out! Dismembering them alive! Look at their faces, the sinners ENJOY it. We couldn't let them go unpunished, this is an attack on heaven! And we have to make sure it NEVER happens again.
Hell may win this battle, but heaven is going to go to war.
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fridayplease · 13 hours
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Just gonna leave this here... for no reason.
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caputvulpinum · 1 year
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lmao the obesity article from huffpo you reblogged is so insanely incorrect
First off, the whole "Your body is just doing what it's supposed to do, you're fat because you're MEANT to be fat!" while also saying "about 40 years ago, Americans started getting much larger" hmm... Why only Americans? Why only 40 years ago?
That seems odd, that Americans, specifically, would suddenly change to being naturally fat. Even today America has a much higher rate of obesity than other places like Japan. How is that? Wonder what would be discovered if we looked at when things like beet sugar, corn syrup, etc. started to be commonly added to foods 🤔
And then the "diets don't work!" spiel, along with emotionally charged reports of people starving themselves until they passed out.
What diets specifically doesn't work? Were the people getting enough calories? Did they stop the diet, and then the weight came back? Did they start with small, gradual changes or completely overhaul their entire meal plan right away?
They say "95% to 98% of research shows diets fail" what research? What studies? What was the sample size? What were people eating? Were they given any help to maintain their diet or encourage any other healthy habits, or were they just given a list of foods to eat and sent on their way?
It sounds like ALL the diets they talk about in the article are shitty. People starving themselves, people doing useless fad diets, etc. and presenting it as if weight loss is IMPOSSIBLE. Which is crazy, considering all the people I've seen who lose weight, maintain the loss, and feel insanely better than they did when they were obese.
Maybe it's not that "diets" don't work, but that the diet industry doesn't work? After all, what would happen if they encouraged people to change their relationship with food completely, starting with small, gradual changes, and work on fixing their gut microbiome and cutting out unnecessary things from their diet like processed sugars, corn syrup, etc? Then people would lose weight. Then they wouldn't need expensive diet plans anymore.
And then the industry has no more customers. Just like if Apple makes phones that actually work and aren't pieces of trash, then they wouldn't be making money from people buying new iPhones every other year. Same with the clothing industry, and the pharmaceutical industry, and every other industry.
For someone who always talks about people researching things and checking out the sources on information before automatically believing it ya'll don't seem very good at it lmao
I'd like to start off with saying that I definitely agree with you in that the way the diet industry is structured exists to predate upon invented insecurities, just like nearly any cosmetics aimed at body alteration to some degree (makeup included). We also agree that it is fundamentally built to ensure failure and ongoing failure as a norm, in the same way that we're never going to get a proper cure for cancer when the cancer industry is so insanely prevalent and profitable.
That said, I understand your...frustration, let's call it, sure, about the fact that no, I did not do any further digging into this and took it at its word. You have my apologies for that.
However. I'd like to use this as a tool for transparency and assuming best intent. Your tone and treatment of me in this is rather hostile and I don't see the purpose that it serves. If I'm someone who claims to find accuracy in reporting important, then yes, accuracy needs to be had. And it was as simple as just Googling "95% diets fail". First result is an article from the NYT debunking it and explaining why it's a myth and bad statistics.
But that same article gets me to the heart of why I'm writing things out this way: you brought it up yourself, in fact, though in deciding to get petty you probably missed the subtext. For over forty years now these numbers have been used and spread around to the point where countless literal professional doctors don't have any idea that it's false. After all, we live in a society where diet industries have for pretty much ever been able to operate with nearly no regulation, fat people aren't actually given a shit about from medical professionals and are just told to get GPS, etc...you could even say this is a systemic issue which started long before I and likely you (and most reading this) were born.
Nobody learns these things on accident. You're absolutely right that if I looked it up and researched the claims I could easily have found out their validity to be nonexistent. But why would I? This isn't new research. This isn't anything that goes against anything I was ever taught. It's just a fact of life, just the way things are. People thought the universe was geocentric.
So with that said, I have to admit that while I've done my best to not vent my irritation at you or anyone else, it is deeply frustating, sure, we'll call it, to have you walk up to me and act in this way. It would be one thing if this wasn't a case of unlearning systemic bias and normativity. That'd be on me, absolutely.
But instead of thinking things through like an emotionally mature individual and going "Hm, this dude who says it finds research/accuracy important posted some stuff which was wrong, which I'm aware has a history going back multiple decades and is still going strong. Maybe the reason they didn't do any followup research was because they've lived their entire life hearing this same statistic over and over again and therefore thought that their systemic biases were accurate and saw nothing wrong because they couldn't,"
you decided to be a cunt for no fucking reason and you knew it because you had to go on Anonymous to hide any possible consequences coming your way for your actions. So thanks for informing me about this, I'm genuinely grateful and we, again, completely fucking agree ideologically, but/so fuck you for thinking that acting like a fucking 10th grader with a gotcha was a better use of anyone's time than just typing out "Hey that diet thing you reblogged is actually completely false if you look it up" to which I would have gone "Oh shit you're right, here's some followup research I did about this thing and how it's a systemic bias that needs to be unlearned".
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ryuichifoxe · 1 year
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Another face to add to the story progression comparison :) He's fine.
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so glad tumblr doesnt have a dislike button actually. i'd get one singular 👎 and be so embarrassed i'd have to delete my blog forever
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wormthing · 3 months
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From the wrong road, miles from no place From the road I call and call This whole world is no place, This whole world is no place at all
[ - "No Place" by Ezra Furman ]
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dykearthurmorgan · 10 months
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thinking about dutch again, and how it must've felt going from the center of everyone's universe to nothing over the course of a couple months.
you spend years making all the right choices, keeping people safe, giving them freedom, teaching them, loving them, raising them, showing them a life full of companionship and loyalty and joy and violence and power, and after awhile, the idea that you could ever hurt them or do them wrong is inconceivable
because it is, isn't it? that's why they all stay so long. even after blackwater, even after valentine, and rhodes, and saint denis, and guarma they all stay. because how could dutch hurt them? how could dutch let them down? how could dutch, who's done this for decades mess up? how could dutch who loves them willingly lead them astray?
and when they do start doubting? well, how could they? because it's not the woman-killer they're doubting, it's the man who saved them. it's not the paranoid, thoughtless murderer they're calling into question–it's the man they all loved.
because they live in a black and white world, don't they? you're with them or you're not. you're loyal or you're not. you're useful or you're not. this is wrong. this is right. you're a bad man, or you're a good one. and if dutch is wrong, was he ever right? and if he's always been right, then how could he now be wrong?
how could they question him? how could they doubt him? it's spitting on the image of family he's created, it's desecrating the memories of hosea he still has, it's painting him like a liar and a manipulator and calling into question every moment he's shared with the gang.
so of course–they're wrong. arthur's wrong, hosea's wrong, charles is wrong, the reverend, molly, john, abigail. they're questioning him, they're questioning his love. his loyalty. his past. his present. his future. the whole world must have gone mad and betrayed him, because the person dutch thinks he is is incapable of harming those under his protection. the person dutch thinks he is could never abandon them.
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222-justfornow-333 · 5 months
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November goal: spit on terfs and transphobes
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wilcze-kudly · 1 month
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Need Bolin to go off on Kuvira for her manipulating and using him. Also on Varrick. My son has been used by so many people and honestly it's heartbreaking.
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elipsi · 4 months
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anyway, hbomb cancellation scheduled for 2025, you heard it here first folks
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cedarbranch · 1 month
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once again thinking thoughts about post-fall will being terrible and toxic to hannibal thanks to the posts on my dash but like. considering all the weird lines he won't cross that only make sense to him. yes he will run away and start bad fights and be petty and manipulative. but... idk. when i think of all the words to describe him, "rude" and "spiteful" and "harsh" all make appearances but "cruel" never does. there are ways to be mean that feel in character and ways that don't. for example he Would make hurtful comments that go too far, and he would do little things to reject hannibal and wound him on purpose. i Don't think one of those things would be cheating on him. he's always had kind of a way of being rude and hurtful while still dancing around anything that hannibal sees as true Ugliness or Offense. ethics = aesthetics, and let's not forget will's tendency toward righteousness - if it doesn't feel like a direct punishment, he ain't doin it! it'd make him feel like shit!! if you characterize post-fall will with no limits in what he'll do to spite hannibal i simply do not buy it!
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