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I did the vote compass quiz thing, just to see where I land. Smack bang between Greens and ALP apparently lol.
I saw there is a rep for a Libertarian party in my seat, so I went to their website to check their policies and this gave me a chuckle
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Stop treating me like a CHILD! I want to RIDE HORSES and PROSPECT in Victoria's National Parks! I'm an ADULT and I want THE GOLD RUSH AGAIN!
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meme time
It’s great to have got the libs out.
But I still feel uneasy. In addition to Cheeto Chaplin’s attacks the UK recently ruled that trans women legally aren’t women and are banned from women’s bathrooms, and so of course in Australia there have been recent protests against trans people and against anti-hate speech laws protecting LGBTIA+.
The arsetrumpet catchphrase about not needing to be welcomed to your “own country” (it’s not white peoples country) led to it being shouted and booed at an Indigenous elder speaking at an Anzac service.
There’s also been a lot of anti-immigration sentiments being fomented and backlash against harm reduction like injecting rooms. Even with the election over that has to have stirred a certain element up.
Regardless of laws Australia picks up culture wars like a sponge.
Also on a personal level there are groups that I can’t form community and solidarity with past an ideological level due to the credible risk of harm to me. 😐 I both support harm minimisation but can’t do irl outreach like volunteering with people who have been intimidating me, stealing from me and trying to break into my house.
I could lobby for methadone to be subsidised to try and reduce the desperation and crime in my area but I don’t have the resources for activism, particularly the organised kind. I’m barely keeping myself and puss alive.
And the left loves eating itself. I’m hesitant to get involved with any of the groups even if I was well enough. Purity spirals I’ve experienced in the past actually led to me distancing myself for a long time and it seems to be kicking up again.
Also marginalised groups I’m trying to be an ally to online (according to actions they’ve said they want) are locked in a defensive stance, reacting with suspicion and shade.
No idea what I could even do that wouldn’t be derided as performative and tokenistic
My first choice of polling booth had no democracy sausages so of course I left to find another with them.
The entrance to this polling booth is quite narrow so I got assaulted with how to vote pamphlets on entry with nowhere to run.
I was so tired. Slept way past midday.
Plans for operation laundry have been set back :(
Still doing it though not sure it’ll be dry by tomorrow.
omg, those are some huge swings to Lab. I think it's the trump effect. We don't want cunts like that or cunts who support trump in.
Has this ever happened before? Has the opposition leader ever lost their seat in an election. It feels huge
My train ride home intersected with a bucks party. Nice boys
If an Independent senate candidate (eg Liz) reaches a quota after counting of first preferences and she is 129 votes in excess. Which 129 ballots get preferences distributed?
Not explained in this video.
I can has sossig
Now we wait until it is time for St Antony
Another video of an option boss I took down.
The music in this one is pretty awesome, I love the soundtrack to this so much.
Expedition 33 - Chromatic Ballet
Sorry if I’m being annoying with these.
I always forget that the seat of Bradfield exists.
The Bradfields are my people. There has been at least one famous one
I usually have white noise or something on while I sleep. Last night was too lazy and my dreams were amazing and vivid.
Then I got woken up
