silly fox

Canberra, ILU. [feat. Morrissey and Patricia Piccinini’s...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:18:00 +1000

Canberra, ILU.

[feat. Morrissey and Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhale.]

gregcohn: EFF: Who has your back?

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:19:34 +1000

gregcohn:

EFF: Who has your back?

Fairfax’s Daily Life, being bad at the internet. as...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:21:29 +1000

Fairfax’s Daily Life, being bad at the internet. as usual.

[just one of the totally-relevant ‘recommended’ articles generated at the end of Alecia Simmonds, ‘Why Australia Hates Thinkers’ (14 May 2013)]

remember that time Jon Snow invented oral sex?

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:26:18 +1000

remember that time Jon Snow invented oral sex?

I can’t remember clearly, but I’m pretty sure this...

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:10:11 +1000

I can’t remember clearly, but I’m pretty sure this is the best meme I have ever seen.

Leave your marriage at the gate.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:23:07 +1000

Leave your marriage at the gate.:

Sign this petition to allow international same-sex marriages to be recognised in Australia.

compare thought. compare these thoughts with pinecones, or with webs of candy floss, or doubt....

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:51:50 +1000

compare thought. compare these thoughts with pinecones, or with webs of candy floss, or doubt. tense. these aren’t all there is. you aren’t, either.
dream back, moments, before every dark idea. this is not indulgence.

So there was talk on the radio this morning about removing criminal penalties for incidents of...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:26:00 +1000

So there was talk on the radio this morning about removing criminal penalties for incidents of small-quantity drug possession (because this would divert people away from the criminal justice system, and into health programs). This is a great idea. But only useful—only justifiable—if the ‘health programs’ are, in form and scale, representative of and tailored to the real health risks associated with individual substances.

This is relevant because … will they be?

The kind of small possession incidents described in the report—where the most damaging thing to happen to the culprit is the sentence—don’t involve severe substance abuse and don’t—themselves—represent the most concerning health risks.

To force individuals caught indulging in small-scale recreational use of low-risk to benign substances into programs developed to cater to sufferers of severe dependency and addiction isn’t helpful. Similarly, dumping people with more significant problems into the kind of wide-spectrum ‘help groups’ that might be meaningful to white-collar weekend cocaine users absolutely misses the point.

Clearly, meaningful and useful change requires that governments fund meaningful and useful research into what health risks actually are, and that they respond to what’s found… even if that isn’t what looks easiest to market to the voting public.

ie. is this still an idea that interest groups will find attractive if it means accepting that, sometimes, kids taking party drugs at dance clubs might get away with a frowny face?

DISCUSS

"there’s something about drinking juice out of a box that really appeals to me."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:21:00 +1000

“there’s something about drinking juice out of a box that really appeals to me.”

- explaining my enthusiastic reaction to seeing “popper’s” on the specials board (despite, even, that apostrophe).

PiL are such dads. it’s adorable. and, like, if dance...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:56:38 +1000

PiL are such dads. it’s adorable. and, like, if dance music is made for party drugs, this is made for JL’s echo pedal.

"She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:44:00 +1000

“She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism.”

-
… in a way Thatcher was so omnipotent; so omnipresent, so omni-everything that all opinion was redundant.… I suppose, that if you opposed Thatcher’s ideas it was likely because of their lack of compassion, which is really just a word for love. If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one’s enemies.

Russell Brand, being heaps astute in his reflection piece on Margaret Thatcher (‘Russel Brand on Margaret Thatcher’, The Guardian, 9 April 2013).

thatgirlpatty: Mimi now has a Society6 store! Where you can buy...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:51:00 +1100

thatgirlpatty:

Mimi now has a Society6 store! Where you can buy a Like a Remix print, and other things! An excellent thing to do on this Easter long weekend. ❤

lalouvelitteraire: Adventures in space & poutine. best...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:45:00 +1100

lalouvelitteraire:

Adventures in space & poutine.

best hangs

doing Toulouse-Lautrec at NGA.

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:05:00 +1100

doing Toulouse-Lautrec at NGA.

"it’s better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:58:37 +1100

“it’s better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.”

- when other parents may have said, ‘it’s better than nothing’ or, ‘be grateful for what you get’, mine would tell me, ‘it’s better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.’

library hero

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:09:00 +1100

library hero

dear old lady gang being awful on my train: ugh, you’re the worst.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:59:00 +1100

dear old lady gang
being awful on my train:
ugh, you’re the worst.

"…the thing that pisses me off, as well, is that you can’t own ‘Glitter’."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:45:00 +1100

“…the thing that pisses me off, as well, is that you can’t own ‘Glitter’.”

- some hashtagdancenight is trying to take ownership of glitter, hashtags and 90s pop. as if it wasn’t ever sparkly until they noticed it.

but—you guys—it has always been sparkly.

and—you guys—we made the internet.

… telling it like it is.

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Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:06:12 +1100

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super cute prints from Sophie Blackhall-Cain arrived today!...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:11:00 +1100

super cute prints from Sophie Blackhall-Cain arrived today! happily, unscathed (despite Australia Post’s best attempts otherwise). go look at her pretties!