Brenda Tronson

The word painstakingly, with a hyphen between pains and takenly

I definitely thought of this word as pain-staking, which doesn't actually make any sense now that I think about it

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Especially the bit about laundry 😬

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Get you a friend who says "this is only going to be a short conversation" and it lasts for over an hour

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(This is also subskeet. You know who you are. I'll let you out yourself if you are so inclined 😉)

You will still have the feeds somewhere, I just don't remember where they sit on the browser version.

Enjoy the new toy ☺️

There is also a pin feed (which possibly uses that search), ie your option #1.

On the Android app, you can find the feed by scrolling across at the top (ie Following, Discover, etc). You should see the pin there, although it might not show up until you pin something.

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1200 children to be tested for disease after childcare worker charged with child rape A Melbourne childcare worker employed at 20 centres over almost a decade has been charged with more than 70 offences, including child rape.

My gosh this is horrific. All those short stints in so many Centres too. Urgh. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Powerful brilliant article

I was among this disgraced judge’s victims. Attempts to honour him are an insult The former High Court judge Dyson Heydon is being rehabilitated in some parts of the legal profession. It’s galling.

Powerful piece. “The men now working to rehabilitate Heydon – many..the same ones who once drank in his chambers – never saw his predation. They weren’t his targets. His charm & wit never came with a proposition. That behaviour was reserved for young women like me.” www.theage.com.au/national/i-w...

The replies to this are fascinating. Women saying "he's belittling her", men saying "but that's how i talk to my wife". Yes, that's the point, he's using the Head of the Household voice.

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

Podcast: Lokman on belonging to both Hong Kong and the Netherlands “I consider my birth home to be the Netherlands. ... But my chosen home in many ways used to be Hong Kong for many years until I no longer could be there.”

"what annoys me, I think, most of the time is that they try to sort of reduce you or simplify you. And I don't know how to answer that question in one word, two words, three words. [...] For them it's a very easy question, but there's no easy answer."

@lokman.org in a fantastic new mini-podcast ep

Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!

www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

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I am glad that didn't happen to you!

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How First Nations men are being demonised ANALYSIS: Many politicians and public figures wrongly link violence with Indigenous cultural identity, which only intensifies stigma and does nothing for prevention efforts.

As promised, here is a free link to my OpEd on Intimate Partner Violence.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20621/...
I hope this provides a much needed evidence based approach to this is complex issue.One that belongs in the hands of those who understand the it from a position of science, of data

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.

Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

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Sherine Al Shallah and Lucas Lixinski on Cultural Objects

Who owns culture?
At #SydneyWritersFest, our own Sherine Al Shallah and
UNSW law professor Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social will unpack the ethical & legal dilemmas of cultural objects.
Mark your calendar now for this free Curiosity Lecture
📅 22 May⏰ 2pm www.swf.org.au/program/seas...

Every feminist I know supports their sisters, cis and trans, and their non-binary siblings, concerned with domestic violence, public safety, equal pay, employment protection, access to healthcare, and other discrimination issues. Obsessing over who uses which loo isn't feminism. It's bigotry.

This bill disenfranchises a whole lot of women, but it disproportionately disenfranchises Republican women. Married women lean Republican. Married women who change their names definitely lean Republican. Seems a little self-defeating.