I Get Ranty In The Mornings

(Source: yourninjamaster, via spocks)

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Internet friends, eh?

Check out this piece from the New Yorker about Donald Trump courting the birthers:

Let’s be even plainer: to do what Trump has done (and he is only the latest and loudest and most spectacularly hirsute) is a conscious form of race-baiting, of fear-mongering. And if that makes Donald Trump proud, then what does that say for him?

- “Trump, Birtherism and race-baiting”

On ANZAC Day the head of the Australian Christian Lobby, Jim Wallace, tweeted:

“Just hope that as we remember Servicemen and women today we remember the Australia they fought for – wasn’t gay marriage and Islamic!”

Stay classy Jim. 

This post comprehensively demolishes Jim’s casual racism and homophobia as well as the clumsy attempts of Jim and others to appropriate ‘the ANZAC spirit’. Here’s a sample:

There were nearly a million Aussie servicemen and women in WWII. Stands to reason more than a few of them were gay, even if they didn’t admit it. How could they have, when most of the population would have regarded them as either criminal, deviant, disgusting, or mentally ill? How about living in the 70s or 80s when gays were bashed and killed in parks and streets? Or the Sudanese kid bashed to death in Melbourne? How do you feel being a Sydney Muslim when racial tensions start heating up? Living your life in fear doesn’t only apply in warzones.

(Post found via @mariekehardy)

I was searching for my friend Jen Bennett on tumblr and I came across this magnificence, from here:

Jennifer Bennett: (aka Kittyzilla) is planning to stitch the individual pieces together to form the best family heritage quilt ever.

So. Freakin’. Adorable. 

It’s the excited squeal at the end that really gets to me.

I can’t remember how or why I came across this clip, but the tab was open on my laptop when I opened it up this evening. Sesame Street still rocks pretty hard.

I love a good infographic. This refers to the current campaign in Britain to change from FPTP to an AV electoral system, but something similar might come in handy next time we’re trying to explain proportional representation in the Senate.

via @timminchin

Hopefully Tumblr won’t take me as long…

I work for the Australian Greens Leader in Parliament House. It’s a pretty freakin’ amazing job, but some mornings when I get into work and read the papers there will be an article about the Greens, or refugees, or women, or Aboriginal deaths in custody that very nearly causes me to have a rage blackout.

Mostly I use twitter to vent, but here I can use waaay more adjectives.

Here you will also find: internet lulz and a lot of opinions about TV shows.

The opinions I express here are my own, not those of my employer (not that I’ve ever asked his opinion on the magnificence of Gossip Girl).