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Mel Campbell

2 years

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Mel Campbell

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5 months

We’re casually viewing the greatest atrocity of modern times. No normal state does this to its enemies. No state that does this should get to be part of the international community. It shouldn’t be in orgs, or relationships, or trade. Boycott, divest from and sanction lsraeI

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@HossamShabat

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I have been working nonstop for the past 6 months covering what’s happening in Gaza, but what I saw today while visiting Al-Shifa hospital was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before : Israeli occupation forces executed 300 Palestinians in and around the hospital, and this

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I’ve been in the CBD donating blood & it’s infuriating to see all the unmasked construction workers, and to hear them whingeing about their tearooms, while a queue of masked, distanced international students stretches for almost a block outside a food bank on La Trobe St

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2 years

OMG someone has cosplayed as the @MontagueStBridg

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2 years

I just heard a wonderful expression: the Bunnings-Kruger effect – when you overestimate your renovation or DIY home handy skills

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3 years

This is "the passive exonerative" and the media also uses it to diffuse culpability when reporting on killer cops, state retaliation against peaceful protest, and violence against women and minorities

Ben Phillips

@benphillips76

3 years

Use of passive verbs explodes as basic grammar ruined in publisher-involved censorship.

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3 years

Is this an intro from Jortsterpiece Theater

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

3 years

I can tell you’re trying to concentrate. I’ll sit 2 feet away and stare at you so hard you will physically feel my steady, unblinking support. You’re welcome

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Mel Campbell

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4 years

omfg the university is running a "Burnout Fatigue & Self Care" webinar. Here's my tip for combating staff burnout – hire enough staff and don't sack people. I'm so sick of 'self-care' that consists of telling the workhorses of capital to hold their own reins

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3 years

My friend @wynnkj walked in Carlton Cemetery this morning & spotted this very pointedly phrased tombstone, so of course I had to research what happened to poor Georgie

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7 months

The Free Palestine rally in Naarm today is the biggest I’ve seen since Invasion Day. So many people, so many chants. We’ve barely started marching, there are so many of us. They thought we’d get tired of this? We won’t stop until Palestine is free!

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Mel Campbell

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4 years

Just read this by Roald Dahl, and my soul left my body: “In 1946 … I was making a fair income by writing two short stories a year.”

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Mel Campbell

@incrediblemelk

2 years

I wonder if anyone came dressed as a Pinkerton

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

2 years

Yes the “gilded age” seems like a fitting choice of theme for that super fancy clothes party in 2022, actually

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8 months

They’re happy to name Omar & so unleash a feral racist mob on him, but they were too cowardly to put a byline on this shitty piece of disinformation

Omar Sakr

@omarsakrpoet

8 months

Oh my god wait now I see why I’m getting hate messages — someone actually wrote a story about this??? Saying that I accused this episode of *promoting* genocide??? What!!!

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3 years

Am watching ‘Ms Represented’ on iview, and Penny Wong is holding an iPad, watching footage of Michaelia Cash absolutely going off in the Senate, and says drily, “She’s very measured, isn’t she?” 🔥🔥🔥

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Mel Campbell

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8 years

It's arguable the self-walked good boy is perpetuating his own oppression, but the rebel gull is overreliant on symbolism

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3 years

does anyone else automatically start counting seconds when they see lightning, as a completely scientific measure of 'how far away the storm is'?

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1 year

This poor diver! Stuck underwater for two years only to stumble across a cursed ring full of deadly sharks!! #ModifierTrouble

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4 years

so there's a gallery of 28 bronze busts of Australian prime ministers, but only the ones of John Howard and Tony Abbott got defaced 🤔🤔

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Mel Campbell

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6 years

Okay, I am now realising that @abcnews is only 1 of many online media outlets that DO NOT KNOW HOW PULL QUOTES WORK. A pull quote is a DESIGN element (like an image, caption or embed). It ‘breaks up’ text and makes it more inviting to scan. It can’t REPLACE ACTUAL TEXT.

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Mel Campbell

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3 years

Today in the city, a lot of shops were empty, having not survived lockdown But y’know what DID survive? That bloody shop Babushka in the Royal Arcade that sells ONLY matryoshka dolls! That’s all it sells!!! Who even buys those? Surely it’s a front within a front within a front

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Mel Campbell

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3 years

If I were a children’s author I would describe my characters deliberately in such a way that parents who discover they have to make Book Week costumes of these characters at 9pm the night before can easily do so with everyday materials from around their houses

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Mel Campbell

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2 years

@rachsyme Here it is!

That font you hate is coming back in style

Fontdinerdotcom evokes the ‘50s as you’d like to remember them, not as they really were.

theoutline.com

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Mel Campbell

@incrediblemelk

3 years

According to the ABC, "At our current pace of roughly 446,000 doses a week, we can expect to reach the 40 million doses needed to fully vaccinate Australia’s adult population in mid December 2022." Gough wept

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Mel Campbell

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1 year

I have now read 3–4 different awful stories about amazing, cutting-edge bionic implants (ear, eye, spine) that changed people’s lives, but the venture-capital funders got bored because the project wasn’t profitable enough & shut it down, leaving participants worse off than before

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@heyBarsee

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4. A person who was paralyzed and unable to walk due to a spinal cord injury became able to walk with the power of AI. We live in sci-fi times. It's a meaningful use of AI 👏👏👏

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Mel Campbell

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5 years

@bairdjulia @smh It’s not a Gen X thing, really – it’s a ‘privileged victim’ thing. Karen has the social power in any given scenario but wields it (over less powerful people) by claiming she’s been hurt and wronged

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1 year

@lingerie_addict There was a cool fashion museum show a few years back called ‘Deaccessioned’ that allowed visitors to play with and try on the clothes because the museum was getting rid of them anyway

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4 years

I would prefer that all of Melbourne were locked down to the targeting (and consequent over-policing) of localities that are already stigmatised and over-policed

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2 years

@slatterbrain it sounds like he is having trouble concealing how much the vendor's screwball antics are vexing him

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9 months

singing “war is over if you want it” after hustling anti-war protesters off the stage 🥴 #CarolsbyCandlelight

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2 years

@EliErlick @kristenisshe It’s quite startling how kind and positive the media coverage is, and how accepted Mark was in his community

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Mel Campbell

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5 years

The greatest moment of ‘Cats’ was when noted thespian Ian McKellen shouts, in Gandalf’s voice of power and gravitas: “MIAOWMIAOWMIAOW!!”

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4 years

@redditships The bit where he hugs her violently enough to knock the food she’s eating to the floor, and then claims she’s upset because the girl in the movie is being bullied 🙃🙃🙃

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3 years

@rachel_handler I'm just glad Anna Faris is safe

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@incrediblemelk

1 year

I'm quite taken with a proposal that we treat AI like we treat faeries: – never tell AI your full name – never accept a gift from an AI – never tell an AI about a newborn child – never eat food you find in a server farm or you'll have to live in the cloud forever

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1 year

Universities love new buildings. Meanwhile staff are overworked & underpaid, & students are posting on Reddit about how lonely and atomised their uni life is. Doesn’t matter how “open” the campus is if the daily experience there is miserable

The Melbourne University plan to tear down six buildings, fling open its gates and let in the city

Six landmark buildings are facing demolition as Melbourne University throws open the gates to the public in a greener, outward-facing future.

www.theage.com.au

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@incrediblemelk

3 years

This sad story feels so contemporary to me though it’s 100 years old. This is why we have occupational health and safety laws and inspectors

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@incrediblemelk

3 years

It’s depressing how capitalism turns every career path into a CEO track: the more senior you get in a field, the more you get pushed into management/bureaucracy & not practice. Anyone who just wants to be a respected, well-resourced practitioner is tainted by ‘lack of ambition’

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Mel Campbell

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5 years

My mother found this gem from 1972 among her recipes. Does YOUR cooking have Man Appeal? @70s_party

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7 years

I love it when people say stuff like "strikes inconvenience people!" and "people don't like being called scabs!" Welcome to the point, mate

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3 years

I was struck by this: "We need … to teach media literacy in schools and to educate people about social media echo chambers." Y'know where you learn this? The humanities. Not just 'media studies' but basic reading comprehension & textual analysis

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3 years

Witnessed a couple being turned away from Mario’s for not having a vax certificate. The guy decided to take it up with Mario: “I just wanted to enjoy myself with my wife”. Mario listened patiently but eventually was like “I’ve got all these other people I need to serve”. GO MARIO

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5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe Meanwhile here is a gift from my timeline

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2 years

@dassala @carefulwren god help me, the dramatic music started playing in my head as soon as I read that

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4 years

Just learned Dr Anthony Fauci is 80!! I thought he was in his 60s. He's looking great – but maybe he made a Faucian bargain

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9 months

What staggering fragility it takes to tell the media that the words “IsraeI” “PaIestine” & “apartheid”, written on your gallery wall by a famously polemical artist you’ve repped for 36 years, at his own exhibition, at your invitation, are “hate graffiti”

Melbourne’s Anna Schwartz gallery drops artist Mike Parr after political piece on Israel-Gaza war

Gallery owner, who has represented Parr for 36 years, says she was sickened by ‘hate graffiti’ in the work, but denies censoring it and has kept it on display

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Dying at reports from the neighbourhood FB group that teens are getting back into listening to CDs as the sound quality is better than streaming and it’s nice to listen to a whole album at a time

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Mel Campbell

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7 years

@Jeff_Sparrow I'm gonna take @bjennymontero 's advice

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6 years

One thing it took me ages to realise about ABC articles is that their pull quotes don't work like regular pull quotes, ie repeating quotes from elsewhere in the article; the big text IS the text and it's meant to be read inline with the regular text above and below it.

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10 months

@jackbern23 Similarly, don't clap your hands too hard at the end of the show because you never know how much more clapping you're gonna have to do, and you don't want your hands to get sore I like to start with a light pat that can intensify when the performers inevitably come back onstage

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2 years

@OmarjSakr I almost white out with rage at the way the supine captive media are reporting pensioners as "winners" for getting a one-off coin-toss of $250 or $420 or whatever, totally ignoring the HUGE THEFT of this government from the people to its own private-school-to-parliament pipeline

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1 year

Australia’s obsession with giving public funding to private schools never fails to sicken me. This is OUR COMMONWEALTH, OUR SHARED FUTURE being ROBBED by rich bastards who’d be fine without it NO GOVT FUNDING TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS EVER

Private school funding increased twice as much as public schools’ in decade after Gonski, data shows

Exclusive: government funding since landmark education review released ‘has gone to those least in need’, says national convenor of Save Our Schools

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

@annaspargoryan I think it pre-dates the department store & refers to William Buckley, the escaped convict who lived peacefully for 32 yrs with the Wadawurrung people, a turn of events the colonisers deemed so unlikely as to be near impossible

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@incrediblemelk

3 years

He died on 18 December 1981, aged 79, and is buried at Ballarat New Cemetery. Here is his grave. Maybe this is a good point to leave this story: with both boys' graves

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5 years

@FourRedShoes @annetdonahue The other day I was thinking back to 1999 when there was a moment of grim millennial futurism when I embraced long A-line skirts, wide-legged pants and chunky funnel-neck jumpers in black, grey & dark red

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3 years

Georgie’s coworker, 19yo Frederick William Lohse, was initially charged with murder but a coronial inquest found it was misadventure. Georgie’s last words to his mum in hospital were, “He was my chum, and he did not mean it.”

COMPRESSED AIR FATALITY. - The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (NSW : 1860 - 1927; 1929 - 1931;...

"It is an unfortunate business, but I do not think that it is a case of even technical manslaughter, but a clear case of mis-aDventure," declined, the coroner (Dr. ...

trove.nla.gov.au

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3 years

I’m so sick of The Guardian’s cynical series of hateclick articles in which writers mock old films they dislike. I would much rather read someone enthusing about a film that has brought them joy and pleasure

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3 years

I’m impressed by the way Grace used what is generally a pretty toothless symbolic role to repeatedly intervene in public discourse, to highlight & shame govt hypocrisy. They thought she would simper & be grateful. They were wrong

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3 years

The tiny lamps of Australian Author Twitter flare hopefully as the annual PLR/ELR royalty statements come out. A reminder: some authors get more money from public lending royalties than from regular publishing royalties, so please ask your local library for books you want!!

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1 year

@KendraWrites @TaylorLorenz There is a really upsetting video trend of decanting things from their original packaging into clear plastic containers

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3 years

A while ago I was reminiscing about ‘The Dress’: a particular style that was hugely popular for school formals in the 1990s: chiffon, princess line, spaghetti straps, matching chiffon scarf Anyway I just found an image of it after years of fruitless googling

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5 years

@tomryanauthor Post-apocalyptic or survivalist men have bushy beards, but women still have smooth legs and underarms. Also: when lovers get home & burst through the front door, kissing, and get straight to sex… but did they close the door behind them???

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2 years

I have never ONCE wanted to type ducking he’ll

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3 years

Imagine a parallel world where Labor had the guts to say, “yeah, we thought offshore processing of asylum seekers was okay at the time but now we realise it’s unconscionably cruel so we no longer support it“

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5 years

@exfatalist @MrMoth7 @redditships But could that be a writing style cultivated by a guy who has spent 4 years cultivating his key professional skill of shit-talking to teenagers on forums?

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4 years

We have a chance to revise how jobs work, what home & making are, how to express love, care & community. The thought of squandering that chance & just going back to an endless exploitative scrabble for profit makes me sad & anxious. They weren't good times!

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10 years

Here's my @junkeedotcom 'Gone Girl' review – I hated the book, but the film makes it much better – & funnier. http://t.co/OWi6QEf7Kk

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6 years

People who were not bad at sport as children have no idea what a particular hell it is in Australia to be bad at sport. In PE I used to dissociate and pretend to be commentating the game

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4 years

Just had a look through threads on #COVID19Vic & it’s depressing how many people blame the Vic spike on the BLM protests. Think it thru, people: there were similar BLM protests on the same day all around Australia – but only Victoria saw a COVID spike. SOMETHING ELSE caused it

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Turns out Georgie was an apprentice driller at the Newport railway workshop, where one Friday arvo one of his mates played a stupid prank on him by playfully applying a pneumatic drill to him. He died in hospital the next day.

TRAGIC END TO A JOKE - Blown Up with Compressed Air. - Benalla Standard (Vic. : 1901 - 1940) - 24...

A tragic ending to a practical joke occurred on Saturday evening to an apprentice at the Newport workshops named George Day, 15 years of age. It ...

trove.nla.gov.au

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3 years

You ever read a book you bought secondhand, and you go to dog-ear a page, and it falls easily into a fold because it’s been previously dog-eared, and you feel a ghostly fellowship with the previous reader?

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7 years

You know you're from Melbourne when you choose your clothing by touch; texture is the only way to distinguish the black tops in your drawer

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1 year

Scary thread: anyone who claims to care about women should be dismayed by how easily women's legal autonomy could be stripped away within a single generation. If your main 'feminist' activity is attacking trans people's rights, you're only helping them take yours

Kat Tenbarge

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Steven Crowder attacked no-fault divorce again when he announced his wife was divorcing him against his desires. @kylietcheung wrote about him and other high-profile conservatives campaigning against the right to divorce last year.

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Not all men, but always a man

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Thank god for Twitter so I can figure out it’s an earthquake and not, like, my building collapsing

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9 years

I just posted this on the @VictoriaPolice FB page because I'm that angry & disappointed by their victim-blaming. http://t.co/2ZJaYfBnbG

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I don't see Adele's weight loss as a triumph or a glow-up, really. It's just a thing she decided to do, and if she enjoys it then good on her Your size says nothing about you

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The Daily Telegraph hung a source out to dry because they were so keen to run their story. They’re paying now but that woman’s reputation has been trashed in court, and now other powerful men will be emboldened to use defamation law as a blunt weapon

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It was also terrible for Frederick Lohse, who was just a kid himself and yet had to live with having killed his mate. I wanted to find out what became of him afterwards but he disappears from newspaper records. Someone of that name died in Box Hill in 1950

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@manwhohasitall It should have special buttons labelled TURBO and OVERDRIVE so the lil fellas feel like their calculations are going faster. (They aren't, of course; the buttons are just dummies)

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3 years

Just remembered that when I was a kid I loved to press flowers. I'd put them between the pages of a heavy book, and I also had a wooden flower press that tightened with wingnuts at each corner. Pressed flowers seem impossibly old-fashioned now

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2 years

Inspired by Philip Pullman's passionate hatred of the present tense, I'm curious about your stance on how to format dialogue in novels 'Single quotes?' I asked. "Double quotes," I replied. —Euh-huh-huh, added the European. No quote marks me lad the muscular modernist said.

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5 years

@thebalmainboy @rarewaterparks in that way it's a lot like the actual Nutbush, where you get sick of it after a couple of cycles but are condemned to keep going for the entire song

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3 years

@blakereid @JortsTheCat Wild scenes as everyone rises for the Honorable Jorts but he cannot enter as he is stuck behind his chambers door

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1 year

Before I blocked yet another scambot shopfront I had to lol that its product is like that @bradneely Professor Brothers skit: for when you have to pick up the dean in the rain in your new cherry shoes, but don’t want his wife to do Magic Flute voice

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3 years

@jessmcguire The appropriation of “comes out as”!!! Not getting vaccinated is a choice, not an identity

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4 years

@redman It's weird how you're launching this after the Bon Appétit reckoning made so many people aware that stripping food workers' stories and identities and earning capacity away from their recipes is… bad

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4 years

just so weary of living in a world that rewards greed and theft, where the idea of everyone having what they need is radical, and power comes from hoarding resources and not from care and knowledge

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4 years

Wow, I knew higher-ed casualisation was bad, but… "UNSW’s Vice Chancellor Ian Jacobs disclosed that around 741 FTE positions are filled by 5,800 people". So when universities report the number of full-time jobs lost, multiply that by EIGHT

The Exploitation of Casual Workers in the University Sector

What is the human and cultural cost of a sector built on wage theft and burnout?

www.killyourdarlings.com.au

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I absolutely loved #TheFirstInventors – was not prepared for how excited & hopeful it made me feel. It premieres tonight on @NITV & @Channel10AU or you can catch up on demand. My review at @ScreenHub :

The First Inventors on SBS review: a show that lets us listen and learn | ScreenHub Australia -...

The new Channel Ten/NITV documentary series, The First Inventors, celebrates over 65,000 years’ worth of innovation.

www.screenhub.com.au

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8 years

Harington is *this close* to feeling empathy for women

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4 years

@AITA_reddit NAH. She can’t help making the noises and he tried so hard not to laugh and to apologise afterwards. I see it as that involuntary kind of embarrassed laughter, not mean or malicious

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7 years

Tom Scocca, on his NYC weather reviews at the @Awl :

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4 years

Mood: Edith Wharton’s left dog

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3 years

When I was looking up Ellen's death notice in The Age, I also noticed a very devastating notice above it on the same page: Mavis Florence Cheese, daughter of Mr & Mrs Eric Cheese of Murray-road Preston, died in the Women's Hospital, Carlton… aged 1 day baby Mavis Cheese 😭

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@tkiramadden @rachsyme Me greeting my cat after he chose to sleep in the lounge room and not on my bed

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3 years

@jason_a_w talk about a sting operation

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6 years

Pull quotes REPEAT key sentences from the article, and paste them elsewhere in the layout where they will catch the eye. You don’t place a pull quote inline where it naturally appears in the text! And you don’t CUT a phrase from the text and make it a pull quote INSTEAD!!!!

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Georgie’s parents, however, could not get over the way their only child died. For several years after, they put In Memoriam announcements in the Argus newspaper saying that Georgie had been “deprived of a promising future in the beauty of health and youth”.

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Mel Campbell

@incrediblemelk

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"These are people who are always the first go-to when we're asking people to work for free" – @Tony_Burke gets that arts & entertainment shouldn't be treated as a luxury that society can forgo. It's a huge industry of workers, taxpayers & consumers who put back into society

Blake Erickson

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4 years

Thank you @Tony_Burke for saying what the government is not. A multi-billion dollar industry is being wiped out and not a word is being said about it.

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Mel Campbell

@incrediblemelk

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I left the room for five minutes and returned to find my cat had opened a new Word doc and started his novel

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Mel Campbell

@incrediblemelk

3 years

During the inquest it also emerged that workers at the Newport workshops were in the habit of cleaning their clothes and boots using the same compressed air drills, and Lohse himself had been pranked moments before, in exactly the same way he pranked Day

FATAL PRACTICAL JOKE. - DEATH FROM MISADVENTURE. - Williamstown Chronicle (Vic. : 1856 - 1954) - 4...

Norris George Day's death on the 22nd ult. at the Melbourne Hospital, on account of which Frederick William Lohse, aged 19, was held on a ...

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