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He’s so right actually

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Booty rockin cowgirl come into ma barn ✨

slap me a dollar, cowboy

read my webcomic (new pages on the way 😱)

#red dwarf

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"what does a TARDIS malfunction sound like?"

"idk just dump the entire goofy sound effects library in the span of 10 seconds. That should do it"

#doctor who

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Anyone missing a heavy stone/concrete Dalek?

#the cunt of skaro #doctor who

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i love you star trek,,, i love you muppets,,, i love you star trek muppets

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What I Would Wear If I Could Today, Today

#bbc ghosts

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when peepaw commits holocide😍😍

i love putting bows on him sorry gang

#red dwarf

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Tools and their use

HI HI HI WAS THAT TITLE COOL OR LAME? IS THE INSIGNIA MOTIF COOL OR OVERUSED HERE OR WHAT!!!! HI HI HI

Here's more stuff!!

^^^^This was a fun break

Also I realized in the middle, that if you put these two together it looks like some fucked up date haha

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Inspired by @spacefroggity post here

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Surefire way to get everyone saying Radelaide

#auspol

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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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Ever hear an Andean cock of the rock before? Probably not, or maybe you have and didn't realise it, because they sound quite a bit like a kookaburra!

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Reading comments saying how in Deep Space Nine whenever the crew faces a moral dilemma, they often just turn to Garak, and it made me want to make this

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Weyoun demonstrating expert diplomatic method and strategy

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this hedonist dyke

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I don't really have a caption

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