Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦

Another gen Xer trying to navigate the labyrinth that is social media in a somewhat befuddled attempt at staying one step ahead of the offspring

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@HamishWheezy @Vacationhandle @FishingPotatoes @abcnews (Sigh) the gender pay gap isn’t about same job/same pay. We have laws for that. There are a no. of reasons for the pay gap eg women lag behind the promotion train because they have children, unconscious bias in recruitment and promotions etc https://t.co/6B1IywWlGW read a little

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@HamishWheezy @abcnews Legal rights vs culture of discrimination are 2 different things. Should be interesting to see what happens when companies have to start disclosing their pay gaps.

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@TodaySun44 @abcnews Define desirable. If we’re talking about construction trades there are plenty of women who have wanted these jobs yet get pushed out. Perhaps with more women you would have far less fatalities. Hmm fairly sure there’s research on that

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@TodaySun44 @abcnews It’s a story because @ 2024, male dominated roles are traditionally paid more than “female”roles.
Being dominated by one gender also leads to cultural problems that are bad for men too but resulted in keeping women out.Having more equality is good for everyone. That’s why

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@HamishWheezy @abcnews Actually I’m sure they’re more appreciated given it’s unusual for men to choose these roles that are traditionally woefully underpaid because their considered more feminised industries. More men would likely increase wages for all over time so yeah, I think they’re probably fine

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@greasy_pig @abcnews So you only respect women who act like you so that you don’t feel uncomfortable? That any women who “can handle” your blue comments are often extremely uncomfortable and the pressure to “handle” it comes from a fear of not being seen as a team player and afraid to lose their job

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Absolutely

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

Can someone tell me when The Cup became The Dance. Did I miss a memo?

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@ninafunnell God this hurts my heart

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@RobinRoberts Look so happy and beautiful

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

Shit!

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@NawicAct Awards launch - time to get those nominations in. It’s a well known fact that women are not so great at nominating themselves- so male allies, time to step up and nominate your colleagues. #nawicawards #nominate

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

“Can’t increase productivity in this country until we get women involved”@FutureWomen @NAWICAUS

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@LaTrobeFin supporting @FutureWomen Budgeting for women’s success dinner

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

@NawicAct represented at tonight’s #budgetingforwomenssuccess @FutureWomen Selfie game is already strong @NAWICAUS

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

All forms of active travel need to focus on how we can make it easier to get between town centres #stateofact #ceda @ABarrMLA

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

“Gentle urbanism” is the key message to ensure we can manage the growing population #stateoftheterritory #ceda #chiefminister

[Kristine Scheul 💉💉💉🇺🇦 @kscheul]

Unemployment rate down to 2.2% across the Territory #ceda #stateoftheterritory