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ORC FACT

got your stupid ass. this is a gnome post. give me all the fucking berries right now

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Hey guys just a heads up there's a new scam going around where a gnome will disguise itself with orc facts and then steal all your berries. Stay safe out there.

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So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

#us politics #voting #a really good addition to my original post

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Re: your post Doing The Numbers 'obviously written by an American' omg ruuuuude. Also, idk, I'm suspicious of folks suggesting that there is no winning, that you can't make a difference with your vote

I can compassionately understand that there's a lot of despair in the air right now - there genuinely is something about living through a genocide that our politicians seem perfectly happy to let happen that really reinforces that sense of helplessness. And I can only imagine how much worse it is for BIPOC and trans folk who are watching what little progress they've achieved seem to melt away in the face of attack. I'm sure that it feels safer to reject the possibility of things getting better, so you can hunker down and defend yourself.

But there was a really good reblog from an Eastern European that weirdly made me pay attention - like, my right to vote has never been impaired, and my confidence in Australia's electoral machinery is very strong. In a lot of countries that isn't the case - your vote really doesn't count, and won't change anything. And you vote anyway - because even if they lie, even if they completely make up the numbers, they still count the votes, and they can see that you're still against them. They will know that you aren't silently complying with their agenda. You can still fuck up that politician's day.

I was already pulling out of a despair spiral before I read that post, but that post genuinely made me realise that yeah, I really was on to something there. If you don't speak up, someone else is going to decide you said whatever the hell they want, and I think I'd rather be the one talking, thanks. Even if your vote might not make much difference, it will still always fuck up a politician's day.

#voting #politics

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Just because you disagree with me doesn't make me American (also? fucking RUDE). And sure, you can vote informal, plenty of people do (Although you still have to actively vote informal here, you can't just check out - you still gotta turn up and get your ballot even if you just draw dicks on it)

But a lot of people don't. A lot of people (like me) vote petty. But frankly, when you choose not to vote at all, it's not an act of defiance, it's an act of submission. It's a statement that you're willing to let your voice be decided by whoever's in power. When you choose not to actively vote against the bastards you let the politicians choose what they think you believe.

Honestly? I'd very much rather we have some politicians with fucking backbones in power, who might actually be willing to enforce some fucking consequences against genocidal regimes, but not voting doesn't improve the chances of that happening now, does it? All it can do is make you feel better about not supporting the government that still acts in your name to support genocidal regimes.

So I'd much rather encourage USians, who might otherwise check out of politics, to recognise that their vote has more than one consequence. I'd much rather have USians go out to vote ready to fuck up a politician's night, wanting to make a impact, than have an entire generation of folks completely check out and let their government do whatever the fuck it wants without even once being afraid of losing power. Fuck that.

So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

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Is it weird that I want the holding cell flat? I wanna put my friends in there and give them puzzles to solve to be let out 🥰🫶

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A Cruel Angel’s Thesis intro:

The rest of the song:

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i understand the appeal of publishing “fic with the serial numbers filed off” as original work but i also feel like. what makes something a good fic is at odds with what makes something a good original story.

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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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So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

#politics #american politics #voting #australian voting #if you can't be proud be petty #your vote can always fuck up a politician's day #why would you ever give up such an opportunity?

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

#Melbourne #Australia #There is no such thing as school cafeterias here #we have a canteen/tuck shop #but the only way to spend inside at lunch is to go to the library #or if the weather is either too rainy #or if it's 35°C outside and it would be downright unsafe to let kids out

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someone with a major in literature and/or poetry tell me what's so poetic about this that it captivated me because i have no idea honestly

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My animation of a flour sack. Words can’t express how proud I am of these 11 seconds.

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Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

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BDSM gets a bad rep as like a violent (male) dom pushing the boundaries of a reluctant (female) sub but in my experience it's a lot of subs with wildly elaborate fantasies screaming shit like "PUT MY ASS IN THE CHILI" while a new dom is like "Okay I think, we are reaching yellow for me,"