Natalie Miller

all the sensory things

[AFL @AFL]

ETCHED IN HISTORY 🏅

With a record 47 votes, Nick Daicos has been crowned the 2026 Brownlow medallist.

[Senator Briggs (Biblically Accurate) @Briggs]

@tuttp I see a lot of people having a lot of fun. Don’t need to get it.

[kris🦋 @perfectlyfine89]

for literally ANYONE who may not know: the amount of stalkers and death threats she’s received has forced her security team to set up facial recognition software at concerts to track her stalkers. Her security team also carries wound dressings and QuikClot with them in case she’s attacked. This particular stalker just arrested was seen over 30 TIMES in the last 2 months near her apartment but was only now finally put in jail. But people will still complain that her private jet is simple preposterous and can’t fathom WHY she can’t fly commercially. (she bought more than DOUBLE the carbon credits needed to help offset the costs of her travel just an fyi).

And now you have sick fucks making ai p0rn of her because what? Because She went to a football game? Because she’s acting like a normal human again and letting herself be seen in public again? Now we have people saying “it’s good that these images were made of her b/c now she will do something about it”. Why should she HAVE to be an activist for this kind of shit. She was previously a victim of SA and she took the man to court only after her tried to sue HER for the loss of his job. She countered for $1. Literally $1 just to make a statement (yes, she won.) Maybe just maybeee men (and some women) could stop being fucking freaks and start treating females with respect. Why don’t you go and make ai images of yourself or your s.o. or family if you love doing it so much? It’s just fake anyway, right?
And to say you dislike Taylor’s music is perfectly fine, not everyone is a fan, but that is NO excuse to treat her like she’s subhuman. Just admit you have a fragile masculinity and can’t handle seeing an extremely successful woman be happy.

Taylor has been in the spotlight for 18 years now, and she has NEVER had a single person come out saying anything but nice things after an encounter with her (fuck Kimye, they were proven to be liars when the whole phone call was leaked but 1/2 of y’all already spent years DRAGGING her for it). She silently donates HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars to local food banks to the cities she tours in. She is an extremely generous boss and gave her truck drivers EACH a $100k bonus this past year for helping on the US leg of the tour (she in total handed out 5mil worth of bonuses to her tour crew). She’s invited HUNDREDS of fans into her homes to show them her new albums before they were released and even REMEMBERS THEM BY NAME. She’s a truly just GOOD human being. But y’all want to criticize her every second for dating in her 20s (she’s had 13 bfs over 18 years btw but y’all wanna act like she had a new one every week)

If there was ever a human who DESERVES their fame, it’s undoubtedly Taylor Swift.
She’s literally just a woman doing what she loves and supporting the people she loves. The absolute BARE MINIMUM you could do is just show a modicum of respect.

[Natalie Miller @nat_miller]

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

One more time, give it up for Jock Zonfrillo

#MasterChef #masterchefau

[The Eras Tour @TSTheErasTour]

Taylor Swift for ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).’ #SpeakNowTaylorsVersion

[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

[Tyson Whelan @tyson_whelan]

#Breaking: Father Bob Maguire has died aged 88, after a lifetime dedicated to the poor and marginalised.

Australia has lost one of its most irrepressible social justice campaigners.

Via @abcnews

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Introverts like things that have depth. A sense of meaning. Things that feed their curiosity. Mysterious. Mystical. Magical. Not what's trendy. Not what's popular. Not what's the "in" right now. But something that speaks to their soul. Shit that hits different.

[Natalie Miller @nat_miller]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Natalie Miller @nat_miller]

@AustralianIdol Josh, you had me in tears…. We all love Ms Langer, and you’ve done her proud

[Natalie Miller @nat_miller]

@PaulZauch I miss the paper tickets to save too… I’ve been printing or screenshotting them to save. Not the same, but it does the trick

[Natalie Miller @nat_miller]

@TessaRDavis Still working that out

[Anthony Brady @AJBrady_Sports]

Remembering the late, great @INXS & @MaxQMax11 frontman, solo artist & all-round Aussie rock legend, Michael @Hutchence on what would've been his 63rd birthday.

Whilst he may not physically be with us, his music, memory & legacy will forever remain & be celebrated. May he RIP.

[Natalie Miller @nat_miller]

RIP Renee Geyer. A powerhouse voice, truly legendary

[Tish @oztish]

If seeing Molly Meldrum’s bare bum was on your 2023 bingo card, here you go. (From tonight’s Elton John concert at AAMI Park Melbourne)

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

8 women have been killed by male violence in past 16 days alone in Australia

Women killed by male entitlement

Women killed because we still raise too many boys to grow up to be men who see & treat women as their property to be controlled

We must do better

Men must do better

[Christine McVie @christine_mcvie]

Rest In Peace Christine McVie

[Neighbours @neighbours]

🚨 Breaking News from Erinsborough! 🚨

Neighbours will return for a brand-new series next year exclusively on @AmazonFreevee, alongside thousands of episodes from previous seasons to stream as you please. 🎉

[INXS @INXS]

Did you know that the digital deluxe version of 'Shabooh Shoobah' contains songs that have never been available to stream before?

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