Benjamin Law 羅旭能
@mrbenjaminlaw
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Writer, raconteur and local homosexual. Find me on Threads, I guess.
Gadigal, Eora Nation | Sydney
Joined May 2009
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If it all goes to shit, I wanna say Twitter has—at its best—given this solo freelancer a sense of community and camaraderie.
It's exposed me to ideas I wouldn't have otherwise encountered, IRL friends I wouldn't have otherwise had, and penises I wouldn't have otherwise seen.
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Empathy training for white male adult MPs for alleged criminal offences, prison for Aboriginal kids as young as 10, cool country.
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Video games? The arts.
Comfort novels? The arts.
Streaming TV? The arts.
Chillout music? The arts.
In our most dire hours, art keeps us sane, lights the dark, ensures we stay human.
We turn to art for help. So make sure you help the arts through—and on the other side of—this.
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Can’t quite fathom NSW vs VIC tensions when there’s an entire federal government to hate in unity
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“... childish ...”
“... surly ...”
“... ungracious ...”
“... like a child displaying a lack of basic manners ...”
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Two blokes just walked past me and chuckled to each other saying “Yep he’s definitely gay” and I felt pure unadulterated ... relief.
Being mistaken for heterosexual is the ultimate insult, I’ve seen how you people dress.
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Andrew Bolt has come after my sister three times in one week alone and I worry he may prematurely blow a gasket discovering there are three more siblings where we came from.
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It's tempting to treat Pete Evans like a joke, but remember it was only last year an Australian citizen—who had the same neo-Nazi symbol on his rucksack—committed in Christchurch the worst ever modern-day massacre by an Australian national.
Stop being relaxed about this stuff.
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As an Australian having seen her address a crowd in person, I’ve gotta say it’s impressive how Ardern consistently and confidently opens proceedings in Te Reo Māori.
When it comes to engagement, respect and basic knowledge of First Nations language and culture, we’re so behind.
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Hello I attempted online grocery shopping for the first time and thought I was buying five mandarins but instead bought five kilos I want to die 😊
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Dear god Jacinda Ardern is only two years older than me I have wasted my life and so have you frankly
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CALL THE SEAT OF DICKSON AND CUT TO DUTTON’S REACTION THE NATION NEEDS THIS
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Just got racially abused for apparently starting the coronavirus: "None of this would've happened if you people didn't eat bats!"
EXCUSE ME, IT WAS PROBABLY A PANGOLIN.
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Spent my entire childhood kinda embarrassed about my race but last night I was asked for ID to buy wine and I’m almost 40 and I’ve decided being Asian rocks
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Not gonna lie, kids of single mums on welfare can’t help but be moved by this.
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Past 24 hours has seen Laura Tingle tell a climate denialist to go fuck himself and Julie Goodwin call another the “Dumbfuck of 2020”, all part of a fresh January 1st mood I can definitely get behind.
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My taxi driver today:
• Paid the Taliban $35K for their release of his brother
• Came here by boat and watched people drown
• Was detained in Christmas Island for over a year
• Has never met his daughter
• Performed his poetry for me
Life is crushingly sad and beautiful.
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Shout out to all government ministers who attended university between 1974 and the mid-1980s for free whoever they might be – can’t be fucked looking it up as I’m currently doing my full-time job based on my arts degree.
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As a horny teen I thought I’d be a great sex worker, then saw an interview with a sex worker saying you could only be one if you got on a bus and could bring yourself to have sex with each adult on board. My respect for sex workers has never wavered; my bus rides changed forever.
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Mum and I installed solar at her place recently and her first bill has come back ... negative. As in her electricity company is now paying HER money. It’s going to pay for itself in about four-five years. We’re squealing.
Not sponsored content, just a really big fan of The Sun.
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Alleged rape in parliament house.
An alleged rapist as Australia's first law officer.
An epidemic of sexual assault in our aged care system.
Victim-blaming from the chief of our defence force.
This nation is sick. And so are the people in charge.
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Why is the PM suggesting interstate Christmas reunions will be possible when (1) federation is cooked; and (2) it's clearly not up to him? Does he see Christmas being ruined and blaming it on state premiers as an election strat— ok ignore this tweet I've answered my own question.
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Next year marks 250 years since James Cook’s first voyage to Australia and the oppression of Indigenous Australians began.
Every other Commonwealth nation recognises Indigenous people in its constitution—except Australia.
In 2020,
#ItsTime
. Join us & support the
#UluruStatment
.
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To the strangers on Twitter emboldened by parliamentary racism and have called me "gook", "fagget" [sic] or suggested deporting me today:
• Thanks for your time, you're not getting it back
• I'm not going anywhere
• Asians tend to live 'til a billion
Go to bed mad about it.
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Americans: If you're wondering who Miranda Devine is, let us introduce you to one of our finest intellectual exports.
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17 years-old, helped organise Sydney's School Strike 4 Climate, 99.15 ATAR and poses for the paper wearing this.
Varsha Yajman: icon.
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Watching
@abc730
and awed by the horizonless confidence of a man who's repeatedly failed, publicly and profoundly. He might love coal, but the PM's shamelessness is the truly this country's most renewable resource.
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Everyone’s talking about it but Season 2 of Covid is honestly dull as fuck.
Same recycled plot points from S1. Initial shock has given way to depression and tedium. And all the “world leader” characters are stupid to the point of implausibility.
Should’ve been a limited series.
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About to board a flight with Israel Folau, should I blow him a kiss, Y/Y?
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Disgusted at much of Australian media today.
Not only for its culpability in normalising anti-Muslim hate for over a decade now—as if hate is one more contribution in the marketplace of ideas—but for broadcasting its endpoint as though we have the right to see someone’s murder.
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Mad respect to the woman who came into yum cha with her son today, rolled up her sleeves and told the waiter, “I order a lot and this table is too small.”
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Guys, it's our turn.
After yesterday's endless
#MeToo
stories of women being abused, assaulted and harassed, today we say
#HowIWillChange
.
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Never want to think about Scott Morrison again and am currently excreting him from my psyche
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Retweet or fave if instead of being grateful to Malcolm Turnbull for same-sex marriage, you still hold him and his party accountable for dragging the Australian LGBTIQ community through a needless $122M postal survey, exposing vulnerable kids & teens to months of amplified hate.
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Can't decide what's most jawdropping about this video:
• PM *forces* a woman to shake his hand
• Unable to handle her – quite reasonable – distress and requests for more assistance
• LITERALLY TURNS HIS BACK ON HER
• PM literally screamed out of town
• Goat on a leash
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If he says it didn't happen 33 years ago, he should welcome an independent inquiry to clear his name.
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Lyle Shelton retweeting Andrew Bolt defending George Pell is truly Australia's most revolting human centipede.
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No campaign video in the next election could be as effective as the Goggleboxers dragging the PM to hell for 118 seconds.
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Something I’ve noticed in 2020 is that parents are spending way less time asking childless people whether they want kids or not and more time staring unblinkingly into the middle distance looking absolutely ashen
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Just before self-isolation, we found Mum’s TV was so old it couldn’t get digital channels or stream.
Rushed out, bought a new one for early Mother’s Day and now she’s addicted to a Taiwanese Netflix drama, couldn’t care if she never leaves home again. 😌
MIGRANT. CHILD. WIN.
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Look,
@Qantas
.
You've delayed my flight by 2hrs without apology, directed me to a shitty laptop charging station where Sky News is ranting about black people and Safe Schools, so it's only fair I've climbed onto that station like a gorilla and pulled the TV plug from the wall.
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Here's to every Australian LGBTIQ elder who fought harder, tougher, bloodier battles to pave the way for today.
And here's to every Aussie kid and teen out there—in the suburbs, regions, rural areas, coastlines—who saw today's news and imagined a better future for themselves.
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It’s easy for everyone to have a negative opinion on the Australian government’s vaccine ad campaign but in this case everyone’s opinion is correct
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In a tram with kids holding
#ClimateStrike
placards while a super jockish white teenage dude cheerily volunteers to helps a young hijabi mum get her pram off safely.
Gen Z are pretty great.
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Back at home and discussing politics with Mum.
Given English is her second language, she’s now asking me why she’s heard so many people call the prime minister a “shitcunt” lately.
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Today an extremely unwell man who was talking to himself grunted “POOFTER” as I walked past him and instead of taking offence I’m choosing to believe my outfit was so extremely gay that it helped clarify reality for him to the point of being medically beneficial
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My father just called to offer to pick me up from the airport and when I said "Thanks heaps, Dad, I love you" he said "Okay" and simply hung up and that right there is the undiluted power of Asian paternal love
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“Your English is very good” cheers it’s my first and only fluent language compliment me on my hair instead
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So much main-channel Australian coverage of the US protests is a white host throwing to a white correspondent throwing back to an all-white panel. Can't help but feel our media is almost uniquely unequipped to cover race-related issues.
But hey, meritocracy, etc.
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If entitled white women who complain to the manager are Karens, I think Australians can agree entitled white men who feel they're the true victims of systemic racism are now Eddies.
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Reminder that the only reason the Religious Discrimination Bill even exists is to appease:
• Losers in same-sex marriage survey
• Conservative MPs even after Ruddock's religious freedom review found Australia DOESN'T have religious freedom problems
• Israel Folau or something
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Shorter
#abc730
:
Leigh Sales: “Your colleagues hate your guts, you’re absolutely despised, you have no friends, surely this reflects on you.”
PM: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#IStandWithPauline
is trending which means it’s a good time to revisit the greatest interaction with Hanson of all time.
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As embarrassing as it is to see Scott Morrison on the international stage, there's something relieving about it too—like having a secretly horrible family member making a scene and shitting themselves in public and you finally feeling like you have a witness to your ongoing pain.
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“I will not sit here and be lectured by the Vice President.”
Okay Kamala has seen the Gillard speech.
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To everyone insisting immigrants ASSIMILATE INTO THE CULTURE, my Chinese-Australian family is going camping this weekend and this furious inner-city faggot who didn’t even own a sleeping bag ‘til yesterday hopes you’re all happy with yourselves.
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Anti-vaxxers in the park near ours right now:
"HOW DARE YOU encourage me to get a non-mandatory free vaccine everyone in the global community is desperate to obtain and will protect me, my family and community."
All for empathy, but STFU you bunch of deranged privileged shits.
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@CUhlmann
Chris, it’s not violence to criticise someone’s work—criticism she feels is fair cop.
Violence is what happened to a Chinese-Australian relative at a QLD petrol station in the mid-90s when he was bashed and hospitalised by racist thugs emboldened by Hanson. Get some perspective.
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Fellow non-Indigenous Australians: I say this on January 26 every year, but if you’re going to tell First Nations Australians to “get over it”, you better know in comprehensive detail what you’re telling them to get over.
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BREAKING: THE KANGAROOS IN CARLTON GARDENS ARE NOW OFFICIALLY MASSIVE LESBIANS 🌈
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As someone who has been on the dole, and whose family relied on forms of welfare as life fell apart in my teen years, the government's dob-a-bludger hotline and evidence-free implication that diminished support propels people into work makes me extremely fkn tired lemme tell you
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So proud of my partner and his team who made ABC Life from scratch, from the same funding initiative that gave us ABC Kids Listen, Unravel and more.
Here are 10 things ABC Life executed effortlessly across their work, with which the rest of Australian media bafflingly struggles.
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Lest anyone criticises gay culture or fashion ever again, let me remind you about heterosexuality in 2020.
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Soppy tweet, but this weekend a parent came up to me at a conference in tears telling me my Quarterly Essay helped them understand their queer kid better.
So honestly go at me all you want, Spectator/Australian/Sky, one exchange alone has reminded me it was all fuckin worth it.
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White people love:
• Chicken breast
• Wearing shoes indoors
• Public broadcasting
• Qantas lounge
• Insisting we all belong to one race, the human race, and that you must actually be the racist if you’re so obsessed with racism, you massive racist
• Country Road
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Remarkable – and incredibly difficult – work here by
@AmyRemeikis
and
@BickmoreCarrie
holding a colleague to account, live on air.
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Struggling to grasp how spending $6.7 million+ on detaining this family in various hellsites for years and now using a human child as a geographical ankle bracelet has improved national security.
Maybe you can help us understand,
@AlexHawkeMP
?
#BREAKING
: Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has issued the Nadesalingam family a 12-month bridging visa today. However, visas were only issued to parents Priya and Nades and eldest daughter Kopika. Youngest Tharnicaa still on community order so cannot leave Perth
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Honestly, if you live in Victoria and are still managing to: (1) find any remnants of daily joy; and (2) maintain basic standards of personal hygiene, you’re doing great.
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Remember when he instigated the most violent race riot in a generation, wrongly accused a family of killing 12 people and said a prime minister’s recently-dead father had died of shame over her?
What a loss his absence would be! How poorer our discourse!
He has made poor choices, but if there was no place left for Alan Jones on radio, we’d be much poorer for his absence, writes
@SkyNewsRicho
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At an extended family gathering and overheard someone laughingly recall a gay joke from some lame movie. My straight dude cousin gently asked, "How's that funny?" then ended the exchange with, "Gay jokes? It’s 2020."
Small thing but could've crash-tackled him with gratitude.
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How difficult would it be to say, “Climate change is real, it threatens our way of life and we want to reassure you we will do our best to mitigate it”.
Considering the horror we’re facing, it’s a pretty mild and safe statement. It’s unnerving how few politicians are saying it.
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@BetteMidler
Oh Bette. Trans people and those who love and support them have no problem with the term or concept of "women".
We're just after inclusive language when appropriate and needed, to ensure often-vulnerable people are included and protected.
It ain't hard.
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My god, if telling people they’re going to hell for being queer isn’t hate speech, what the hell do you think IS hate speech, this is the most tedious national conversation honestly just shoot me into the core of the sun
#qanda
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If you’re aged 16-39 and wondering whether to wait for Pfizer or go ahead with an existing AZ booking, just remember AZ guarantees you the side effect of INSUFFERABLE YET JUSTIFIED SMUGNESS (just ask me)
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Shout out to the taxi driver who asked if I had a wife, was aghast when I said I was gay, asked "So your BOYFRIEND is wife?" and after a LONG heartwarming but tedious chat decided I was "good boy" and "being good is all that matters" anyway if any of his kids come out they owe me
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Whenever I go onto national TV to discuss structual racism and the lack of diversity in our media the comments are always like WHY DON’T YOU GO BACK TO CHINA and I want to scream back WHY DON’T YOU GO BACK TO ENGLAND TO EAT FUCKING POTATOES but that actually sounds delightful ugh
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Jenny Morrison ask your husband how he’d feel if it were his daughters in India challenge
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Visitors to Australia: you’ll see this newspaper around the place, but just know the
@australian
lost its reputation a while back and is now widely regarded as Breitbart in Garamond, cheers.
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One thing you should know about
@ms_michellelaw
is after some tradies catcalled her, she tore strips off them until she was hoarse, attracting bystanders and making the men cower.
The other thing you should know is Mum then joined in.
Do not fuck with the women in our family.
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Imagine you've been here for four years. You volunteer, your four kids study, and your teen son is vice-captain at school.
But your husband tragically died on his 50th birthday, and that means you now face deportation.
Step up, family man
@AlanTudgeMP
.
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Is it just me or does every racial minority who’s experienced a hate crime in this country feel triggered by this outfit
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I will NOT tolerate anyone calling him “Albo”, “Albanese” or “Anthony”, show some RESPECT and refer to him by his full title His Excellency Prime Minister for Life Anthony Norman Albanese Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth, Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire
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People always wonder if Asians living to 135 years old or whatever is because of genetics, when really it’s a cultural thing to silently hold onto grudges for decades knowing revenge is a long game, and it’s that poker-faced resentment that keeps us alive and our skin FRESH.
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G’day world.
It’s long been anticipated by Australia’s federal science research agency + meteorology bureau that “Australia will warm faster than the rest of the world.”
This is what our summer in a climate 1°C above preindustrial levels looks like. Brace yourselves. It sucks.
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Every polling station I’ve passed, Labor and Greens volunteers seem really amiable and chatty with each other, Liberal volunteers grim, stoic and focused, UAP consistently a freakshow
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Over on Instagram Tina Arena is giving coronavirus public service announcements in fluent English, Italian and French while referring to herself as "Quaran-Tina Arena", truly the hero we need right now.
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God, Melbourne – I'm so sorry.
I enable and encourage you to eat the entire packet and/or jar tonight.
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At an auction for the first time ever – mainly because I’m a shameless busybody – and a strange hush has descended. Now realising I look like nightmare material for the actual bidders: an unencumbered childless homosexual …
… WHO IS CHINESE.
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“G’day, lords, ladies and all you non-binary daisies.”
MELBOURNE HAS THE BEST TRAM DRIVERS DELIVERING THE BEST GREETINGS TODAY.
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Given their efforts lately, it's now Australian law that if you see
@samanthamaiden
or
@Milliganreports
around you must shout them their meal / drinks / entire shopping trolley
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"If a child chooses to chase a ball into open traffic on a six-laned highway, who are we to stop them?"
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BOYFRIEND AND I ARE ON AN ESCALATOR IN TAIPEI AND THERE IS A FEMALE COUPLE IN FRONT OF US HOLDING HANDS AND A MALE COUPLE IN FRONT OF THEM HOLDING HANDS AND NOW WE’RE HOLDING HANDS THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL QUEER-FRIENDLY ASIAN CITY I COULD SERIOUSLY BREAK OUT INTO SONG RIGHT NOW
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Things we could all normalise saying to make Twitter a better place:
• “Sorry, I fucked up and I apologise.”
• “I could be wrong.”
• “I’ve read the article and changed my mind.”
• “Don’t worry, I can google it.”
• “As promised, here are shirtless photos of my husband.”
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How Paris Street responds here to some truly base and despicable commentary about his sex abuse grooming case is heroic.
No idea how Andrew Bolt or Gerard Henderson still have family members who can look them in the eye, let alone paid employment.
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If I hear one more gatekeeper imply diversity measures undermine meritocracy I will catapult myself into the sun YOU DON’T HAVE THE BEST PEOPLE FOR THE JOB IF YOU’VE INTENTIONALLY OR UNINTENTIONALLY EXCLUDED ENTIRE DEMOGRAPHICS thanks for letting me get this out of my system next
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