Ben Ellis

Perhaps you could report that it is raining, rather than report that other people say it is raining

The tariff negotiations are not going well.

Or the coffee one either

I never tried an avocado enema

I am a fan of gorm, so let’s go with feckless

Absolutely. If they’re not traumatised already, the set up ensures they will be

Welfare recipients told to perform mutual obligations as Tropical Cyclone Alfred bears down on Queensland Disability employment provider Help asked jobseekers to perform telephone appointments before later clarifying they were voluntary

Mutual obligations have no policy basis, no economic justification. They are just exercises in punishment and cruelty
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I read about Vienna’s Vegetable Orchestra for the first time today. How gemüsing.

I’ll get my coat

There is still a huge number of climate and energy (particularly energy) people who haven't skipped a single step in propping up X, weeks after Musk throwing Nazi salutes and in the midst of Musk killing the US gov't from the inside

#auspol IMPORTANT!:

I’m not normally someone who recommends LinkedIn, but there are some really interesting posts and debates on this (for me as a palm-coloured ADHDer anyway), often posted by ND-affirming and -identifying clinicians from the Global South. Definitely not in wider discourse yet though

And Fauziah should’ve been dismissed for breach of the ABC Social Media Policy! #auspol

I think it’s really important that my voice is heard. But can anybody give me a few topics?

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

One thing we could do is to stop framing sex as something that is enacted upon others. Too often we refer in jokes or conversation to assault as sex just because it involves genitals. We need to remember it’s only sex when everybody is conscious and active

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Is that old CRT whine really a thing that others did not hear? I remember mentioning to other kids in the 70s… and now I remember they didn’t mention it back

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No lie here!!

My daughter (16) got her new 'locked down' laptop from her school today.

It took her 20 mins to work out that she could get VPN software on it via airdrop.

I don't think this social media ban is going to work.

Once people stop clutching at pearls, the observation that current drug policies simply do harm is unavoidable. Criminalisation via drug policy leads to even more racist policing and stigma that leads to clandestine and unsafe usage with substances that could otherwise be much much safer

Australia's duopoly is cruel, captured and must be destroyed  - The Shot Parliamentary politics cannot save us - but we might be able to save parliamentary politics.  The ALP and the Coalition cannot be trusted.

Here's me. "Australia’s duopoly is cruel, captured, and must be destroyed"

When I visited the Godzilla statue in Tokyo, I was similarly shocked by its small stature.

An image showing before and after of what anxiety looks like, before in November and now in December, anxiety wrapped in Christmas lights.

Tis the season 🫠

I like my answer to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social’s questions, so I’m going to repost it so I can perhaps find it again. #workingmemorythatdoesnotwork

Using tech as a shortcut to goals across obstacles such as people has a history going way back. Cannons, for instance. Or even the atomic bomb. Thinking takes more energy than emotive impulses, and often tech removes the need for thinking, so, in Freudian terms, it’s arming the Id (or Ego at best)

Fantastic. Here’s a list of my own hopefully good weird:
Theatre and playwriting
Being late diagnosed with ADHD
Fatherhood (and non-birthing parent) research
Attachment research (I’m a registered Circle of Security practitioner)
Born in Oz, lived in London now Melbourne again
Survived epyema

Do the prices burn a hole in your pocket?

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

The story is, I suppose, that for a while I had lost all hope of hearing this music again , but with the community’s persistent work to repair what others carelessly wrecked, the songs returned. Four years of silence but now three years of spring music in a row. Persist.