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sometimes I think about how I'm one degree removed from bob katter and feel... well I feel *something*

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Remember not to stop with Palestine. Colonialism is around the world, both conquering and causing chaos to take advantage of what they have caused.

Don’t forget Sudan. Don’t forget the island nations under colonial and oppressive rule. That includes Hawaii! Don’t forget the natives of the Americas and Australia and New Zealand.

To be clear, Me leaving out nations is not meant to be an insult or minimize them. The list is long and I’m barely scraping the surface. And to be further clear, that is MY fault. I have benefited from this oppression, and I’m still learning more about it and to be further further clear that does NOT absolve me. It’s MY fault I haven’t seen where it all spreads.

Remember: if one of us isn’t free, none of us are!

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thanks tumblr

#I get high on your memory #de

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Vintage wind-up toy bear (USSR, 1920s-30s)

#ouuugh

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our school hall doubled as a basketball court and the acoustics were horrendous. I hope these kids got a better one

they demolished my old high school and put a bigger one in its place but I wonder if at their ANZAC day assembly next week they'll still have some kid mumble through "I was only nineteen"

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they demolished my old high school and put a bigger one in its place but I wonder if at their ANZAC day assembly next week they'll still have some kid mumble through "I was only nineteen"

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thinking of getting this 3x3 you can hide shit in and looked at the reviews

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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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I think I have a ganglion cyyyyyyst

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1996 Holden Rodeo Poster

A tribute to my mum's old car. I did this entirely within Illustrator for some reason.

#did u know that holden rodeos were rebadged isuzus

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Life in Australia was hard. Kids at school all called me "povvo", due to both my family's poverty and the narrative occurring through my perspective.

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I remembered why I don't like making websites. I get way too engrossed in it and flare up my tennis elbow lmao

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establishing the basics regarding ghosts in the world of "a ghost story". my webcomic about ghosts. it seems important to figure that out for sure now that we're a mere 10 years in.

patreon for the comic

read from the start

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I hate that explaining autistic problems to people makes you sound like a toddler sometimes. like sorry someone did the dishes too loud and now I'm angry

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Hold the fuck on no way WW3 jokes are trending on Twitter when this is an extremely serious situation that’s threatening to destabilize an entire region. No way everyone’s gleefully looking at this as if it’s the grand show finale they’ve been waiting all along. There is no fucking way

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drove around town today with dad and he asked me "is there anything you like about driving?" and I just started laughing lmao

#knowing things about cars doesn't translate into being able to drive well #or liking it #I'm learning to drive because I have to

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"Why so doing fuck all?" The Bloker