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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 1h

"Cultural change can't be legislated"

But it can be made using a set of known actions & campaign elements. We've made cultural change before in Aust eg with smoking, drinkdriving, litter, seat belts.
1st we have to want to make the change. Then we need to fund it
womensagenda.com.au/latest/franc...

France called Gisele Pelicot a hero. What would Australia do?

France celebrates victims of sexual violence with compassion and justice, while Australia continues to doubt, punish, and silence them.

womensagenda.com.au

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 3h

Whiff! Stench

jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 3h

About time, too. It seems the main message from The Humpback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, and Elephant Man had escaped them til now. Even the damn kids toons have Scar-like baddies. Its no wonder kids are rude to people who look a bit different to the average Jo.

jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 5h

Proud to be a feminist killjoy & let my anger at failures & injustice speak its name. We've tried being polite & where did that get us?
Despite the best efforts of the manosphere, our feminist rage is not going anywhere
open.substack.com/pub/cheekmed...

Despite the best efforts of the manosphere, our feminist rage is not going anywhere

By Mya Duffy

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Kat @phoebe11.bsky.social · 1d

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 15h

Again

jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 16h

I so wish she was right, though

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 16h

We would all have loved to have Lyons there, but calling any woman reporter, even one you may think of as lighter weight (and who isn't compared to Lyons?) a "stenographer" is sexist bullshit & a hangover from the pleistocene

jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 16h

Marr is bright & a clever author but being an interviewer is way above his pay grade. His attitude toward women & first nations guests is appalling. He even sneaks in a parting insults at the end of regular interviews with ABC journos eg Laura & Annabel who are way also above his pay grade. Baffling

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 16h

Both stories brought to us by FoI inquiries by legit journos. Hmmmm

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 17h

Russian mafia???

jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 17h

I;ve heard about nothing BUT the forecast all day! October average mentioned several times. Maybe just an ABC story???

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 17h

Bus looks pretty good too. But they forgot the train. Trains beat everything else hands down because there's no one on the road (after they park - much more train station parking needed - and ride)

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20h

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid.

It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine.

And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.

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Wispy Spider Orchid @wispyspiderorchid.bsky.social · 1d

A black & white picture of a woman standing in front of her house just below the front verandah. She is pointing upwards to a sign attached to & hanging from the front roof line. The sign says, "Christians keep moving; this is a Heathen neighbourhood."

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. It's eroded or stoney etc. Not "rubbish" land.

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 1d

There's only one thing worse than a duopoly vote that favours the ALP. It's a duopoly vote that favours the NLP. But I'll vote for the Green if they'll vote for the Teals?

jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 1d

When will this shit stain go back to where he came from?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tony Abbott’s argument about Australian democracy is Trumpian in intent and based on half-truths | Marcia Langton

Former PM’s new book reads like a style manual for March for Australia types, weaving together evidence and myth, history and ideology

www.theguardian.com

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jacquiett.bsky.social @jacquiett.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't this miss the point? If parents are supervising kids' usage, even if it's to help them get around an unenforceable "ban", then those kids are probably just fine. My thinking is that making something illegal de facto makes it something that has to be discussed with parents so, all good?