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SHOP AVON WITH JEN ANTUNES BEAUTY: CUSTOMER BENEFITS 2025

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New Releases and More!

New Releases and More! Catch up with my latest works in this blog post. #newreleases

Hello, fabulous readers! Get ready for the exciting new releases in two of my book series! With the HIS series of Facebook parties just around the corner, you don’t want to miss out on the fun. Join my reader group and be part of the celebrations! Preorder: His Choice (HIS Series, Book Two) – releasing 7/29 Fractured Trust (Coastal Investigation, Book Three) – releasing 8/6 His Return (HIS…

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Wily Writers Party on November 1

Tomorrow night — Wednesday, November 1 — the Wily Writers collective will host a party on Facebook Live and on Zoom. There will be spooky readings, book giveaways, and fun. It’s free! Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/367455585216907/ I’ll be reading part of Lost Angels and I’ll have a couple of fun goodies to giveaway. Both Angel Leigh McCoy and E.S. Magill have brand-new books,…

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Autistic Callum

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no need to ban tiktok if meta is buying it. i'll just delete it myself lmfao

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you sadly failed to incite top/bottom discourse on here but instead on 911twt which is 100x worse because a single bottom buck tweet went viral and we’ve gotten to the point where people are saying “akshually big man = top☝️” and acting morally superior for it

SCREAMMMM YES I SAW IN THE TAGS THAT 911TWT TOOK OUR DISCOURSEEEEEEEE I'M LIKE LAUGHING AT THE MOON. i just said this about it

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Blatantly Partisan Party Review VII (WA 2025): Stop Pedophiles! Protect kiddies!

Prior reviews (as the Democratic Labour Party, although whether this is them is debated—see below for why): federal 2013, VIC 2014 (1 and 2), federal 2016, VIC 2018, federal 2019, VIC 2022

What I said before: n/a, see below

What I think this year: Settle in, folks. Get some snacks, crack open a beer, and make yourself comfortable. Here is the most batshit review of this WA state election cycle.

On 13 February 2024, a group acting under the name of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) applied for registration at state level in WA. This took forever, and it was not until 16 September 2024 that the party was registered—with other parties achieving registration much more quickly in the interim (even One Nation, who are famously dysfunctional!). Not long afterwards, the Australian Labor Party introduced legislation to the state parliament to prohibit parties from registering with names similar to that of existing parties, akin to legislation that exists at federal level. This passed into law on 15 November 2024, with one clause specifying that if two parties currently on the register shared the same word in their official name, the party that had used the word for longest could claim it. The legislation was drafted intelligently enough to account for variant spellings, and the Democratic Labour Party had to change its name because its registration was much newer than the Australian Labor Party, who had the superior claim to "labo(u)r".

The DLP WA submitted a new name on 6 December 2024, and within the following quotation marks I am reproducing it exactly as formatted: “Stop Pedophiles! Protect kiddies!” Yes, American spelling of "paedophiles"; no, no capital K. This name was approved on 14 January 2025 and I will refer to them as SPPK from here on. Before the name change, the party had been courting Wilson Tucker—yes, the bloke elected in 2021 for the Daylight Saving Party off just 98 first preferences under the thankfully now-abolished system of Group Ticket Voting—but this new name was so bad that he pulled the pin and is not contesting the election at all.

It seems the name change got sufficient attention outside WA that the DLP (who for now are only registered in Victoria and the ACT) felt compelled to respond. And hoo boy, what a response! The DLP is adamant that they have “never been registered in Western Australia” and that SPPK “has absolutely no association with us and does not share our values, policies or democratic processes”. They instead urge their supporters in WA to vote for the Australian Christians, which to me is fascinating as the DLP is a historically Catholic party and the Australian Christians are historically Protestant.

But it gets thornier. There is no website for a party called “Stop Pedophiles! Protect kiddies!”, nor for a WA branch of the DLP, and I cannot find any social media accounts either (let me know if you can!). Their lead candidate for the Legislative Council—and 11 of 17 overall—is identified only by a first initial and their last name. Every other candidate for the Legislative Council (and I mean every single one for all other parties) is on the ballot under their full first name, not only their initial. This is plain weird.

The lead candidate for SPPK in the Legislative Council is one “H. Dolan”. The WA Electoral Commission’s register of political parties lists the SPPK party secretary as Hugh Dolan, who is presumably the same person. Back in 2022, a Hugh Dolan stood as the lead candidate for the DLP in North Eastern Metropolitan at the Victorian state election. Hugh’s son Thomas Dolan ran for Labour DLP as a candidate in the Bayswater (Victoria) electorate at the same election and came a very distant sixth, then he founded the short-lived Gen Z Party (never registered) and got dismantled in an interview with fellow gen-Z interviewer Leo Puglisi. In that interview, Thomas described his father as “this crazy old man” and referred to “all this party infighting” within the DLP. Thomas diverged with his father on a range of policies and left the party.

Has Hugh moved to Perth, registered the DLP at state level, and then been disowned by the rest of the party? Is this the latest chapter of the infighting that Thomas described? I genuinely cannot be sure because of the paucity of information from the party has left me with no way to confirm whether Hugh Dolan of West Perth is the same bloke who stood for the DLP in Victoria in 2022. It seems likely! But unconfirmed. Trying to track down this party online was frankly more tedious than trying to track down most random independents, and that’s quite something given how badly some of these people campaign. It mystifies me how Hugh Dolan found so many friends prepared to put their name on the ballot for the WA Legislative Council: there are 17 candidates for SPPK, with only the Liberals and Labor standing more on their slates. Dolan also somehow rustled up three SPPK candidates to contest Armadale, Joondalup, and Mandurah in the lower house! Wherever this party is organising and campaigning, it is not online where an ordinary voter can get the slightest idea of who they are or what their policies might be.

What I expected to write for this review was something to the effect that “it’s incredibly funny that a party aligned with Catholicism is running on an anti-paedophile platform given how many paedophiles the Roman Catholic Church has protected and how often it has sought to deny justice to victims of paedophilia”. What I got was something even more absurd.

I have never, and I mean never, in my 12 years of doing these reviews and 20 years of voting across Australia and NZ, found it impossible to get even a skerrick of information about the policy platform of an actual registered party. Well, here we are!

Recommendation: Give Stop Pedophiles! Protect kiddies! a weak or no preference in the Legislative Council. If you are in the Legislative Assembly seats of Armadale, Joondalup, or Mandurah, where you must preference all candidates, you need to make a judgement call on whether SPPK should go dead last as a totally unknown quantity, or whether to put them above known terrible quantities like One Nation. I personally would go dead last, as the DLP connection does not imply much positive.

Website: I haven’t found one!

Edit, 7 March: see my first update and second update (including website!)

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Ken Pratt: It was a weekend filled with some pretty big names in Provincetown. Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Gov. Maura Healey, Jamie Raskin, Jennifer Coolidge, Billy Porter and many others were here for a fundraiser up at the monument. I got to see Broadway star Alice Ripley perform a show at the Post Office Cabaret. Last evening we were at Tin Pan Alley. The piano player had finished his set about midnight. All of a sudden another gentleman got behind the piano and started playing. It was Darren Criss who had just done a sold out show at Town Hall. He is an Emmy and Golden Globe winner that starred for 5 seasons on Glee and has done many movies and Broadway shows as well. The place filled back up to capacity as the word spread and he played for about 45 minutes. It was a spontaneous, magical Provincetown moment. Here is one of the clips I recorded….

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YOU MUST read the memoir of a former Facebook executive that Facebook has tried to silence (for good reason). Support Sarah Wynn-Williams!

Non-Amazon listening: Libro.fm, your local bookstore, or your local library 📚

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Autistic and Crashing at the Weekend

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I have sewed a few more blocks from the beach quilt, and I repaired a stuffed animal for a neighbor (no pictures because it's not my stuffed animal), but crafting updates might be a little sparse for the next week or so? I have a short week at work this week, a lot of work to get done, and I am getting my covid booster this week (we'll see how that goes lol)

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About to take this badboy on a two hour train ride.

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Furby e #PartyRockers non sono dei grandi sportivi, preferiscono stendersi a prendere il sole! 😃