My uncontrolled feud with the NSW rural fire service that threatens the town a fiery grudge that was never extinguished

wrote about my feud with the rural fire service
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Every full moon I turn into a symbiotic partnership of fungus and an alga. I’m a lichenthrope

IOU one shirt

Puppy love: why asking my boyfriend to coparent Basil the greyhound was the most important proposal of all | Patrick Lenton If I can trust my boyfriend with my dog, the most important thing in my life, then I guess I can trust him again with my bruised and idiotic heart

Wrote about how cute my boyfriend and my dog are, and about how getting his number engraved on my dogs collar is a legally binding commitment

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It’s such a choice to invent a colourful fantasy world, remove racism and a whole bunch of other historically accurate issues, and still include homophobia? So I wrote about this fun Bridgerton choice
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I was interviewed about JERNALISM

They really typecast Mr Big as a piece of shit

Absolutely won’t be a problem for me lol

i dont like how judges interrupt people speaking, it's very rude

I had a long period of university sharehouses where I had no tv and had to read multiple books a week, catching up on that era now

Lost I watched lol

about to find out how good this wife is

I wish you luck. I had to buy a new car

One Thing: listening to the radio was a two year experiment. That experiment is now over For two years I have listened to commercial radio in elitist horror

i wrote about listening to shock jocks on commercial radio for the last few years
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/one-thing-...

IVE BEEN MEANING TO DO GOOD WIFE! Thank you

A classic and recently rewatched

So heartbreaking

Oh yeah good one

Massive og fan

Wow I’ve never heard of this

Seeeeen.

I have experienced the deep lore of supernatural

Ok I watched 11 seasons of greys anatomy, a big cultural gap in my tv watching, and I feel done, diminishing returns. What other classic tv show should I watch now? What’s another cultural gap?

Thanks Dan - that’s so interesting with the terf stuff

This is such important work. While the Equal Opportunity Act (1984) provides some protections, anti-vilification laws would make it what types of speech are unacceptable much more clear cut. We have heard in our project, for example, how hard it is manage TERFs in health as a result of this.

EXPLAINER: Laws Protecting LGBTQIA+ People Exist Around Australia – SA Lags Behind South Australia currently has no anti-vilification laws protecting the LGBTQIA+ community, which advocacy groups say need to change.

I’ve spent the last few days delving into South Australia’s lack of legal protections for the queer community - worth thinking about before the election this weekend

www.starobserver.com.au/news/explain...

Do not use 1800 RESPECT.

FOI reveals that “once a week, every week”, 1800 RESPECT is being subpoenaed, handing over confidential client notes and audio recordings of victim counselling sessions, to accused rapists and their legal teams.

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Why did my standup comedian friend named Michael invite all his peers around for his autopsy? It was an open mike night

"The word “akimbo” has always delighted me. Often I find myself stumbling through life akimbo, arms and legs wild, desperately trying to get some form of balance".

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Facebook Is Swamped With AI Articles About Your Favourite Celebrities Being Homophobic Facebook is full of fake celebrity fan pages, with AI images of famous people saying homophobic things and right-wing propaganda.

Waded into the absolute depths of AI slop fake news hell on Facebook, which would almost be funny if so many people didn’t believe it wholeheartedly

www.starobserver.com.au/news/faceboo...