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i was rly bummed out and then i saw this picture and im cured now

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breaking bad season 6

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I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country

this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you

the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:

inherently dangerous

uninhabitable

empty

this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism

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えーあい on X: "ソニア https://t.co/ONRdHBMakF" / X

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Splatoon 3 - Till Depth Do Us Part / Deep Cut (For Bass Guitar) Composed by Toru Minegishi, Shiho Fujii, and Ryo Nagamatsu Transcribed by Shadoninja Nintendo © 2022 Get the sheet music for this song and more: http://shadoninja.tumblr.com/sheetmusic

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forcefem basement group chat:

unlucky-victim: the estrogen is kicking in :(

feminised_lad: I'm tired of being chained to the radiator

repressing_random: it's normal right? this...this is fine

Australian-dave: crikey i think I'm turning into a sheila! rippah!

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do you like andrew hussie? their early work was a little too juvenile for my tastes. but when whistles the starlight calliope came out in '05, i think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. the whole comic has a clear crisp art style and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the narrative a big boost. they've been compared to ryan north, but i think hussie has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. in '07, hussie released this: mspaintadventures.com ; their most accomplished site. i think their undisputed masterpiece is "homestuck" a story so vast that most people probably don't read the words. but they should, because it's not just about coming of age and finding friends in unlikely places. it's also a personal statement about the author themself.

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too good to remain on Reddit

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HELLO?

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its so fucked up how difficult it is to move to another country you shouldn’t need a reason or anything you should be able to show up at the border and be like “the vibes were off back home” and they should let you in

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it does speak to a defect of my character that i do not own anything that can be considered a goblet or an amulet