benjamin (giggling)

he/him, former H&A giggler, freelance image writer, voice-over 4 hire, mo' keeper, the mr miyagi of button pushers, my podcast “19 in 89” via link below

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

If you could revisit the 19 year old version of yourself 30+ years later, what would you think of your younger self? I’m finding out in my new podcast @19in89 link in the bio, ❤️ to know what you think #RadioPodcast #The80s #RadioDiary #80sRadio #Radio #PodcastRecommendations

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

Worth a read, just horrific.

[The Sunday Long Read @sundaylongread]

This discovery made by a grad student at the College of Charleston is about our country’s terrible legacy, but with the historians trying to piece together the truth, it's also a story of the country’s promise. @JenBerryHawes https://t.co/lLizNhRRpi

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

Take one script written by @EmRusciano & add my vocals to create the ultimate sexy audio for middle age women hehe this was sooo much fun to create https://t.co/lfAmZ0RchB

[@TheCoreyRichardson on Threads. Follow Me There. @vexedinthecity]

At the end of the day, the Titanic Missing Billionaire Submarine story is a perfect distillation of 21st Century capitalism: A small group of very rich people assume a clearly irresponsible risk. It goes predictably wrong. Scores more in public resources are used to save them...

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

Fair.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Some time ago we copped a lot of flack and hate on this hellsite for repeating that collectively, billionaires and the mega-wealthy are a pack of cunts.

Everyone wanted to tell us about a great and philanthropic wealthy person they knew.

Yet, we are unmoved. And the latest bullshit in the Atlantic Ocean only proves it.

Why? Because as a group, these people could solve most global suffering and the climate crisis, but collectively they do not.

Collectively, they slap each other on the back for building rockets and submersibles and bigger and bigger yachts, and even if they don’t do those things themselves, they don’t call out those who do.

They don’t use their enormous clout to tell others of their kind to wake the fuck up and change the world.

Sure, lots of them give to charity, and sometimes anonymously. But charity is merely the failure of taxation systems, because if governments taxed the mega-wealthy properly, there would be plenty of government funds to distribute fairly and generously to all in need.

So philanthropy itself is a fucked-up power trip by people without the expertise to make those decisions because they’re unelected, and who are subject to the whims of lobbyists and their own often-inadequate preferences.

Talk about believing yourself omnipotent.

All over the world, people now feel sorry for a group of arseholes who were doing nothing more than ghoulishly spying on a silent, solemn mass grave.

The mega-wealthy could, if they gave a shit, stop paying the best accountants in the world to avoid their rightful tax, and pay their taxation generously. Then their governments could use the funds they pay to fund domestic violence shelters for abused women or make university free for all poorer students.

But nope.

They’d rather hang on to every fucking cent they can, then palm some of it off as they see fit rather than as their nation would decide.

Then they buy up the media to ensure the angry messages about what they’re doing (like this one) never see the fucking light of day except on this hellsite (which they’ve also bought, and could shut us down just for this fucking tweet).

As a class, the mega-wealthy are running a huge rort, and a lot of people are falling for it. The rort is convincing the rest of us they’re generous and decent souls, which is a big fucking laugh. They do nothing that isn’t for their own benefit, even if that benefit is convincing themselves they’re reasonable humans, or bleating about their donations to reduce the chances of the rest of us taking up pitchforks.

Fuck them all.

Nothing will change until people stop giving a shit what rich people do and stop reading media which glorifies fucking pricks.

Stop looking for that fucking sub and give the huge sums of money saved to someone to feed some hungry children.

Who gives a fuck about those cunts in a tin can.

The end.

#NewsCorpse

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

(CW: Sexual Assault)

If you think all this sexual assault noise everywhere doesn’t impact women, listen the fuck up.

I live in a small town, and often grab a coffee near my work. I’ve gradually come to know an elderly woman who’s sometimes at the cafe, too, while I wait for my takeaway. We chat a few times a week, and sometimes I sit with her for a bit.

On Friday she was there again, so I sat down in the sun.

She seemed a bit distant, and sad, and I asked if she was okay.

She said she felt down due to all the media noise about alleged sexual assaults inside Parliament House. She’d seen some of the reporting in the papers, and it stressed her out.

I was thinking: maybe she’s just of a generation which doesn’t like talking of such private things. That makes sense. But suddenly (out of the blue) she was crying, telling me about her own rapes.

The first, she said, was as a 15-year-old who went to a large urban park with a new boyfriend, and while walking down a quiet tree-lined lane he pushed her into the bushes and raped her.

The second was as a 19-year-old who went with a platonic male friend to a party in an apartment, and was gang-raped in a bedroom by 5 other men. She thinks the friend “sold” her for the night to his mates.

In both instances, she said, she never told anyone as she willingly went to where it happened and had been taught (as have all older women) that going somewhere freely with a man means you’re at least partly responsible for what happens when you’re there.

As I listened to her, my relaxed work break was suddenly dark, and awful. Because I’d been sitting in the sun with a beautifully dressed, beautifully spoken older widow, who was suddenly spilling her guts about terrible things which happened to her six decades ago yet which she remembers as if they were yesterday.

Her carefully applied mascara was now running unheeded down her cheeks. I was crying too. Because she said she felt so tortured and helpless hearing about the attacks happening to other women, knowing intimately how this feels. Knowing how it feels to spend the rest of your life being scared of parks, or apartment buildings, or groups of men, or certain smells, sounds or tastes, or of inadvertently being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again.

Most of all, scared to tell anyone, because you know you’ll be ostracised and doubted and hated and denied even your own story, just for doing what everyone’s taught to do from the time they’re toddlers: tell the truth.

Unless it’s the truth about rape.

Because it isn’t true, is it, that the truth sets us free?

Far too often, for women, the truth just fucks us up.

There’s no real reason for this tale except to say: you can befriend a lovely frail old lady and have no idea what’s under the surface. You don’t know what she’s been through, or what she’s hiding, or her still-raw pain.

This is true for a lot of women of all ages, of course, but somehow it’s more shocking coming from someone who was a young adult at a time we were taught was a more chivalrous, decent, gentle era.

Well, no it fucking wasn’t.

It’s just that all those polite, thoroughly decent old women never told, and virtually nobody would’ve believed them if they did.

They (and nearly all of us as women) carry those scars around so men don’t have to. So men can continue the sweet delusion that everything was better when men were men and women didn’t carry on with this ridiculous #MeToo bullshit. So people (mostly men) can say on the internet that when the women of Australia aren’t safe in our own workplaces, we should just shut the fuck up. Suck it up, princesses.

Well, not on our fucking watch.

Our mothers and grandmothers are watching what we do now, and we won’t fail them as they were so often failed.

Thanks for trusting me with your story, dear D. I hope I was able to comfort you a little.

You’ve motivated me to keep going with this fight, and hopefully I can motivate others to go on, too.

#ToYourBrooms

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

Put my dulcet tones on our new promo for Emsolation & it’s fab, if you’re not listening to @EmRusciano & @MrMichaelLucas do their thing you’re truly missing out I promise hehe https://t.co/HwOn3YFdYC

[Strewth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @StrewthQueen]

Okay but wait an Australian court just found a guy guilty of heinous war crimes & crimes against humanity & all that happened is he didn't win defo damages?

Shouldn't he be like, idk, punished or something?

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

What a seething basket-case of amoral, double dealing vipers and infected buck-passers the previous LNP government was.

Was there nothing their filthy little hands did not infect, fuck-up or cover-up with the stench of their own indifference, incompetence or corruption?

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

RETURN OF THE JEDI was released 40 years ago today. The final entry in the original Star Wars trilogy, the making of story is as epic and spectacular as you might expect…

A THREAD

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[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

THIS!!! Utter hypocrite of a TV host

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@David_Speers Then stop inviting the journalists who help fuel this onto #Insiders

You know exactly who they are, who they work for and what they support

If you really meant this, you wouldn't platform the very journalists and media outlets that do this to him

Why not walk your big talk?

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

@EmRusciano @MrMichaelLucas WHAT?!?!! This is amaze hehe

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

I made another creation. Written, voiced & expertly hacked together in @canva by me, please enjoy my Mother’s Day treat for the #EmsolationPodcast https://t.co/ltgTIMkWzv

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

Very worthwhile read…so fucken done with politicians…start taxing big business & billionaires before you usher in a French Revolution you idiotic greedy fucks…so simple yet they’re all so gutless

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Here's me. "What is the point of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese?"

https://t.co/xAmqYNDVUA

[Jaqueline Outram 🇵🇸 @JaquelineOutram]

Mining accounts for 50% of Australia’s total corporate profits (mostly for foreign owners) but its operations only employ less than 1.5% of Australian workers.

Sure, tell me again why mining can’t pay its fair share of tax.

An Unfair Tax System https://t.co/h9FzFaeLjt

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

I made a thing, love the copy in these old print ads.

[Media Watch @ABCmediawatch]

Why the media won't touch the Barilaro tapes👇

“... the New South Wales law allows for no public interest defence, so the ABC won’t let us broadcast it, even though you can listen to it in full online.” #MediaWatch

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

@tweetozgal Vomit hehe

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

@jessmcguire Was too busy obsessing over it to notice clearly hehe

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

@jessmcguire Gotta do Happy Valley if you haven’t already

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

@JaggerARC @zoecoombsmarr Love me some fourth wall breaks so always keen for more, especially when they’re done as well as Zoe does them.

[benjamin (giggling) @gigglingben]

Honestly @zoecoombsmarr’s series #Queerstralia on the ABC is so fucken funny! It’s also so well researched, so well put together, so fascinating & so worth your time. You GOTTA watch it & wealthy peeps need to help finance & save the amazing dictionaries & archives they use too