dkhopfoot

Like in nature to a kangaroo. Mostly.

[Meg @_nomadic_soul]

I heard a therapist say “before you diagnose someone with depression, make sure they’re not surrounded by assholes first” and I can’t stop thinking about how many mental health issues Conservative Christianity Theology must cause. +

[evelyn araluen @evelynaraluen]

Get off Canva and immediately implement complete sanctions, cease all weapons trade, expell the ambassador and beg for forgiveness

[dkhopfoot @dkhopfoot]

@AyoCaesar Robert Walser - early 1900s Berlin - small vignettes / thoughts / essays / stories - if celluloid were words and sounds and scents

[Emma @emma__jayne14]

@PRGuy17 Sometimes I wonder if you actually believe what you’re saying or if you’re so dedicated to worshipping Labor that you can so easily ignore people in poverty

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s nothing like the joy of reading a book so strange you wonder how it could ever be filmed.

Today I’m sharing some of my favorite WEIRD CLASSICS:

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

@OliverKamm Language changes through use, and is not fixed in time cos some dope in an old-style hat and coat said so.

So fewer/less, I don’t care. Dickens used literally to mean metaphorically.

(But dissect is pronounced diss-sect ok?)
(And the plural of octopus is octopuses ok?)

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Tragic destruction of Hoad’s wood also illustrates why we need legal personhood for nature. The wood supposedly had strong legal protections, but these were worthless when authorities refused to act. The wood had no guardian to act or bring a case on its behalf: this must change

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Australia has a prison love affair and a prevention allergy. We spend more on prisons that almost any other OECD country.
After a while ppl get so hardened by prison they don’t fear it anymore;r’ships & attachments have been long damaged and prison then matters little. I’ve worked with enough ppl to know they fear change; rebuilding their lives -fixing the damage of broken r’ships-much more than prison.

[Amy McQuire @amymcquire]

I challenge every Australian journalist to watch the video of the killing and torture of West Papuan teenager Warinus Murib. You can't use excuses like "tyranny of distance" - this is our near neighbour. You failed Palestinians and now you fail West Papuans for failing to report

[cathy @catherinebouris]

the liberal focus on inclusivity over actually radical sentiments like liberation is not only harmful and ignorant but annoying as hell. talking about how mardi gras needs to be ‘inclusive’ of cops get outta here

[Amy McQuire @amymcquire]

The coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker is exposing the depths of racial violence in NT Police - it is not just killer cop Rolfe - it is the entire institution of NT Police - racist to its core, always violent in its intent

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

"With nearly 600 Black lives taken since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, not one person has ever been held responsible or accountable for a Black death in custody," writes Donnas Kerr. 

"Not one person." https://t.co/pJfJSskD1J

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

Honestly I’m pretty sick of this, there are literally thousands of Australians sleeping in tents right now due to the rental crisis - what on earth is 53,500 homes in 22 years going to do to help them?

Renters need a long term solution, and renters are also struggling right now. Like today.

Building a few homes 20 years from now does nothing to help the family who was evicted yesterday.

There’s no Labor government solution that offers help to renters struggling now - their solution is to increase supply to a level that doesn’t meet their own projected demand levels, decades from now, all the while giving billions of dollars to property developers who are the cause of this problem.

Fuck em. Eat the rich.

[Michal Tal, PhD @ImmunoFever]

There is a human tissue that builds itself up and breaks itself down every ~28 days using non-scarring wound healing and instead of studying that and learning everything we can about it we think it's gross and look for other less relevant models to understand wound healing.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Yesterday was both just another day and a million years for the Australian media. Because in just 24 hours, we all discovered:

- Rupert Murdoch paid Bruce Lehrmann to make Bruce’s defamation claim against them go away;

- Murdoch then punished Lehrmann by releasing a damning video once it became clear Bruce wouldn’t protect them further;

- Murdoch then sent a senior barrister to the defamation court to ensure the terms of their settlement with Lehrmann didn’t become public;

- Kerry Stokes/Channel 7 paid Lehrmann’s rent for a year to the tune of around $130,000, in order to try to claim Lehrmann “wasn’t paid” for his Spotlight interview;

- Channel 7 appear to have lied in their Walkley application, by also claiming Lehrmann “wasn’t paid” for his interview (even though the application process clearly states any “benefit” paid to an interviewee must be declared, not just cash payments);

- Kerry Stokes appears to now be responsible for virtually the full cost of Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case, which is estimated to run into tens of millions of dollars;

- The ABC is currently protecting both Murdoch and Stokes by largely suppressing information on all the above issues, for reasons they won’t reveal but which obviously include the protection of their mates and colleagues; and

- If the credibility of the Australian media wasn’t completely destroyed before now (along with the reputations of the owners of its biggest players) it would be now … except that because these same people completely control what most people know about them and because our politicians and public institutions appear unable or unwilling to control them, nothing will fucking change.

There’s more, but so much went on it’s hard to summarise it all. It’s fucking depressing, isn’t it?

The ONLY silver lining is that dozens of people have contacted us overnight wanting to do something about all these disgraceful facts. And you can.

Contact Channel 7’s advertisers to ask them if they’re happy to fund the defamation actions of a credibly accused rapist, and his luxury harbour accommodation.

Just go to https://t.co/igA7ByRwpQ, then the #ToYourBrooms page and advertiser lists, then the #SevenSucks tab. There you’ll find all the Channel 7 advertisers who are currently on our lists (most are from the Spotlight TV show).

Get going.

This matters.

And fuck them all.

How dare they all continue to protect, support, prop up and assist this disgusting, predatory, misogynist and deceptive excuse for a human being. How fucking DARE they.

#ToYourBrooms

[dkhopfoot @dkhopfoot]

@RestIsPolitics How does one (individual / regulator / media in general) respond when the national broadcaster releases
coverage with such wildly inaccurate - and dangerous - MIStranslations? https://t.co/e0L83BCd4U

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."

She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."

She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The illogic of the right wing, culturally blind:

Colour doesn’t matter. We are all Australians. Stop separating us. Treat us all equally.

Yet argue.

We need alcohol restrictions & cashless welfare cards.

But only in Aboriginal communities.

I believe that’s called a straw man argument.