#Holm Mead

[daveamisdpda]

As life has dictated I won't have the time to do any more photography until February, I've backed up everything I've shot this month. Before I did that, I picked out the five best photos for the month, one from each time I managed to get out. As you can see, most of the time the light conditions weren't exactly brilliant! Still, I like the challenge of trying to get the best from what gets thrown at me with the weather and the light…

[teaspoonnebula]

In 1893, knowing that Conan Doyle was going to be killing off Sherlock Holmes, the Strand Magazine decided to fill the void with a series of medical mysteries called "Diary of a Doctor" by veteran magazine story writer LT Meade.

I've always thought it would be fun to reimagine them as adventures Watson had during the hiatus, trying to continue solving mysteries by himself using Holmes' methods, and working through his grief. I also wanted to flesh them out a little, adding in more character moments and scene setting.

So... that's what I've done! This is part mine, part LT Meade's, created from the story 'My First Patient' originally published in 1893.

You can read the complete story here!

[oceanusborealis]

The Penguin: Top Hat – TV Review

TL;DR – While this is an episode of big action beats, I was more interested in the small conversations that spoke loudly. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Binge service that viewed this series. The Penguin Review – Goodness, we are already at the penultimate episode of this series, which is astounding. This season has flown by, but it never felt rushed because it was…

[afteriwake]

"You're drunk!" / "Yes, I'm drunk. And you're beautiful. And tomorrow morning I'll be sober…but you'll still be beautiful." Loki/Darcy

So this is part of my overarching series for answers to this particular prompt, but it's also a "Just Pieces On The Board" fic, since there's mention of Frigga/Mycroft. Enjoy!

A Little Sleepy Confession - Loki gets drunker than Darcy has ever seen him be drunk before, and so she takes care of him.

READ @ AO3 | SERIES PAGE

When Thor had sent the message that Loki needed Darcy right away, she had thought for sure Loki was near death or was deathly ill or something like that. What she hadn’t expected was a curled up, drunken Loki with a triumphant looking Brunhilde and smug looking Thor sitting nearby with flagons of something alcoholic in their hands.

“What did you give him?” Darcy asked, listening as Loki moaned slightly.

“A new variety of Asgardian mead,” Thor said. “My brother cannot hold his liquor.”

“Well, duh,” Darcy said, rolling his eyes. “I don’t drink much, and anything Earth-realm has is like water. It’s been a few years since he’s had the hard stuff, of course he’s going to pass right out after…” She paused. “How many cups did he have?”

“Three,” Brunhilde said. “I’m on my seventh, Thor on his sixth.”

“Well, help me get him to my apartment,” she said, glaring at the two of them. Brunhilde looked a bit cowed and Thor looked sheepish, and they set their flagons down and each got up, getting Loki to a standing position and half dragging him from Jane’s apartment.

“We were celebrating the betrothal of Queen Frigga and Mycroft Holmes,” Brunhilde explains. “The Strange Doctor is looking at ways to help them even out lifespans, but we all think they’re a good match.”

“They’ve been together for ages, haven’t they? Even though Mycroft is mainly in London and Frigga is in Norway?”

Thor nodded. “I accept him as a consort for my mother. He has proven himself to be a good man, and he loves her. It is a match well made.”

“She’s happy,” Loki said, flashing Darcy a grin. “I’m happy she’s happy.”

“Hey, you,” she said softly. “Gonna be sick?”

“No, no, just sleepy,” Loki said. “Need a dark room.”

“Put him in the bedroom. I’ll take care of him,” she said when they got to her apartment, which thankfully was on the same floor as Thor and Jane’s. Loki’s was on the same floor, too, but he spent all his time at her place so he might as well sleep off the drinking binge there too. Brunhilde and Thor maneuvered Loki around the sofa and into the bedroom, Darcy right behind them. They at least put him on the bed gently, and he stretched for a moment before curling up again. “I got it from here. Tell Frigga I’ll send an engagement gift later.”

Thor and Brunhilde both nodded and left the bedroom, and Darcy closed all the drapes so it was nice and dark. She was about to get him her sleep mask when his arm shot out and he grabbed her wrist. “Oh beautiful love, stay with me.”

Darcy pried his grip from her wrist, then sat down on the bed and toed off her flats before curling up next to him. He wrapped his arms around her and she had to admit, whatever brew he had it hadn’t given him beer breath. She snuggled in close and shut her eyes. “You must be really drunk if you’re busting out lines like ‘beautiful love,’” she said, her tone amused.

“But you are beautiful and you are my love.”

She chuckled. “You’re drunk drunk.”

“Yes, I'm drunk. And you're beautiful. And tomorrow morning I'll be sober…but you'll still be beautiful.”

“Tell me again when you’re sober.”

“If you insist.”

“I do.” She pulled his palm up and kissed it softly before she yawned. “Let’s get us some rest, big guy.”

“As you wish.”

[randomfoggytiger]

X-Cops Theory: Tulpas, an Alternate Explanation for Ghosts and Spooks

The idea that the ghosts of loved ones could be corrupted tulpa thought forms, created merely by remembering them, is horrifying:

And, for fun: what is the Stargate Project this analogue horror video mentions? I'll let Wikipedia explain:

The Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1977 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The project, and its precursors and sister projects, originally went by various code names – 'Gondola Wish', 'Stargate', 'Grill Flame', 'Center Lane', 'Project CF', 'Sun Streak', and 'Scanate'  – until 1991 when they were consolidated and rechristened as the "Stargate Project".

The Stargate Project's work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance. The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater (born 1947), an aide and "psychic headhunter" to Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute. The unit was small scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of "an old, leaky wooden barracks".

The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. Information provided by the program was vague and included irrelevant and erroneous data, and there were suspicions of inter-judge reliability.

(**Note**: Highly recommend this podcast; but the audio peeks several times in this episode (error.) I'd recommend picking any episode from the tags I included and starting from there.)

[archinform]

Graceland Cemetery images

Photos by Roger Jones 2024

Dexter Graves tomb, "Eternal Silence" by Lorado Taft

Martin Ryerson tomb, Louis Sullivan, architect

William Kimball tomb

Goodman tomb, Howard van Doren Shaw, architect

Palmer tomb, McKim, Mead & White, architects

John Wellborn Root monument, DH Burnham and Co., architects

Samuel Klump Martin tomb

Lucius Fisher columbarium, sculpture by Richard Bock

John Spry Holmes tomb

Louis Henri Sullivan monument

Schoenhofen tomb

Hoyt tomb

Mausoleum

[readtilyoudie]

All The Queen's Men by Rhea Watson

Brides of the Frostwolf Clan by K.L. Wyatt

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas | Claws and Cubicles by Kate Prior | Coils by Barbara Ann Wright

A Deal With A Demon by Katee Robert | Devil's Dance by Dalia Davies | Duskwalker Brides by Opal Reyne

Fates & Fables by Willow Quinn

Grayslake: More than Mated by Nova Carlyle

Hunter's Moon by Lori Handeland

Insatiable by Meg Cabot

Just My Type by Lucy Bexley

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree | The Little Monster by Jennifer Ellision

Mead Mishaps Series by Kimberly Lemming | The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall | The Monsters Ball by Dee St. Holm | Monstrous Matches by Lillian Lark

RELIC Series by Maz Maddox

The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember | Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris

Tangled Wires by Lillian Lark | To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Valley of the Old Gods by Dalia Davies | Vicious Lost Boys by Nikki St. Crowe

We Are Nepenthe series by Octavia Hyde | The Witch’s Wolves by Ellie Mae MacGregor

[liketwoswansinbalance]

Got any book recs? Not a specific genre or anything, just some of your favorites.

Most of these are YA and middle grade fiction. I probably suffer from nostalgia and recency bias in some cases.

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In no particular order:

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by Eugene Yelchin and M.T. Anderson

The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla

Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

The Penderwicks series Jeanne Birdsall

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty

The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer

A Tale of Magic prequels by Chris Colfer

Dead Wednesday by Jerry Spinelli

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead

The Line Tender by Kate Allen

The Siren by Kiera Cass

Divergent series by Veronica Roth

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Valkyrie by Kate O'Hearn

Texting the Underworld by Ellen Booraem

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel by Megan Morrison

The Princess Tales series by Gail Carson Levine

The Thirteenth Goldfish duology by Jennifer L. Holm

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

The Don Tillman trilogy by Graeme Simsion

The World Ends in April by Stacy McAnulty

The Next-Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin

Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

Any classic fairy tales

Anything written by Roald Dahl

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Quiet by Susan Cain

[unwelcome-ozian]

This might be a loaded question, but can you share what you know about the Montauk Project, Montauk boys/girls and about Project Stargate or any other projects involving the paranormal, especially those involving children? Are there any similar programs (occurring now/recently or in the past) that you know of or have any information about you could share?

Montauk Project was at Camp Hero. In an underground facility at Montauk Point, about 30 to 50 physicists and engineers experimented in quantum and particle physics (black hole simulation). Their experiments included super-powerful electrical fields, weather control, psychotronics (interfacing mind and machine), genetics, particle beam technology, and electronic and drug- based mind control.

Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The Project, and its precursors and sister projects, originally went by various code names—GONDOLA WISH, STARGATE, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, PROJECT CF, SUN STREAK, SCANATE—until 1991 when they were consolidated and rechristened as “Stargate Project”. Stargate Project work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically “see” events, sites, or information from a great distance. The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater, an aide and “psychic headhunter” to Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute.

Research into Paranormal Experiences in Children

parapsychology in the people`s republic of china: 1979-1989

Parapsychology And Religion: Recent Contributions From Italy (Carlos S. Alvarado)

Parapsychology research is ongoing. It’s become more acceptable to do this research and there is a lot of information on children.

Oz

[bosesmikas]

The graduation class without retcons and in the proper years.

1992 - Archie Simpson, Caitlin Ryan (skipped a grade), Lucy Fernandez (valedictorian), Simon Dexter, Alexa Pappadopolos-Dexter, Christine Nelson, Derek Wheeler, Michelle Accette, Bryant Thomas, Heather Farrell, Erica Farrell, Lorraine Delacorte (left before graduation; leukemia), Liz O'Rourke, Amy Holmes, Allison Hunter, Shane McKay (left before graduation; brain damage), Stephanie Kaye (left before graduation; transferred to private school), Voula Grivogiannis (left before graduation; moved away), Joey Jeremiah (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Rick Munro (held back, wasn't gonna graduate with this class; left before graduation), Tim O'Connor, Nancy Kramer

1993 - Caitlin Ryan (skipped a grade later), Susie Rivera (left before graduating), Kathleen Mead, Melanie Brodie, Arthur Kobalewscuy, Yick Yu, Alex Yankou (probably valedictorian), Diana Economopoulos, Maya Goldberg, Joey Jeremiah (repeated), Rick Munro (repeated; left before graduating), Tessa Campanelli, Luke Matthews, Scooter Webster, Bartholomew Bond, Wai Lee, Trudi Owens , Trish Skye 

2004 - Dylan Michalchuck

2006 - Hazel Aden, Jimmy Brooks (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Sean Cameron (held back; expelled), Marco Del Rossi (valedictorian), Ashley Kerwin (left before graduation), Craig Manning (left before graduation), Spinner Mason (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Paige Michalchuk, Ellie Nash, Alex Nuñez (repeated one semester), Heather Sinclair, Fareeza, Amy Peters-Hoffman, Rick Murray (held back, wasn't gonna graduate with this class; died before graduating), Terri MacGregor (left before graduation)

2007 - Jimmy Brooks (Repeated), Damian Hayes, Toby Isaacs, Spinner Mason (repeated), Emma Nelson, Manny Santos, Liberty Van Zandt (valedictorian), Rick Murray (repeated; died before graduation), Chris Sharpe, Lucas Valieri (dropped out), J.T. Yorke , Ashley Kerwin (took a year off; dropped out), Sean Cameron (repeated)

2008 - Johnny DiMarco, Peter Stone, Danny Van Zandt,Jane Vaughn (Valedictorian), Bruce the Moose (Not seen graduating), Kendra Mason , Nadia Yamir, Darcy Edwards (left before graduation), Derek Haig (Not seen graduating), Mia Jones (held back, wasn't gonna graduate with this class; left before graduation), Chantay Black 

2009 - Sav Bhandari, Fiona Coyne (held back; didn’t graduate with this class), Anya MacPherson, Zane Park Holly J. Sinclair (valedictorian), Riley Stavros, Ethan McBride, Heather Poulette, Trish, Leia Chang (not seen graduating), Blue Chessex (not seen graduating), Declan Coyne (left before graduation), Mia Jones

2010 - Fiona Coyne (repeated; valedictorian), Mike Dallas (chose to stay back; didn't graduate with this class), Bianca DeSousa, Eli Goldsworthy, Marisol Lewis, Jake Martin, Mo Mashkour, Katie Matlin, Owen Milligan, Imogen Moreno (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Drew Torres (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Mark Fitzgerald (expelled), Julian Williams

2011 - Becky Baker, Alli Bhandari, Mike Dallas (victory Lap), Connor DeLaurier (valedictorian), Clare Edwards, Jenna Middleton, Imogen Moreno (repeated), Drew Torres (repeated), Fab Juarez, Liam Berish, Ingvar Andersson, Bo Andersson, Hannah Belmont, Cliff Jacobs, Reese, Jess Martello, Luke Baker (expelled), Wesley Betenkamp (not seen graduating), K.C. Guthrie (left before graduation), Adam Torres, Dave Turner (not seen graduating)

2012 - Jonah Haak (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Jack Jones (left before graduation), Tori Santamaria (held back; left before graduation), Campbell Saunders, Jess Martello (retconned to Class of 2014), Sadie Rowland

2013 - Tristan Milligan, Maya Matlin, Zig Novak, Zoë Rivas (valedictorian), Miles Hollingsworth III, Winston Chu, Grace Cardinal, Tiny Bell, Jonah Haak (repeated), Esme Song (held back; didn't graduate with this class), Goldi Nahir (salutatorian), Tori Santamaria (repeated; left before graduation), Damon Carter (not seen graduating)

2014 - Frankie Hollingsworth, Hunter Hollingsworth, Lola Pacini, Shay Powers, Baaz Nahir, Yael Baron, Vijay Maraj, Saad Al'Maliki, Rasha Zuabi, Esme Song (repeated), Keisha, Arlene Takahashi

2015 - Abra Al'Maliki

[its-monster-mash]

This has been sitting in my drafts for 1000 years oops Rules: Post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

Thank you so much for tagging me @venus-haze!! I am also excited to participate in the self-callout lol

I don’t actually have a “WIP Folder”, I just have. A lot of WIPs. About to expose myself on a lot of different fandoms lol(I have a million different sideblogs that I organize a lot of the things I like by)

• Didn’t Your Momma Ever Tell You Not to Talk to Strangers? — Bo Sinclair x Reader (House of Wax) *I am also converting this one to an "Original" piece so I can publish it as a serial, so if you see the other version on Amazon under the pen name "M.E. Roselli" that's me. I'm still going to keep writing it as this fanfic, but there IS an alternate version. The other version is about a cult instead of Wax; instead of Vincent, Bo("Buck" in the alternate version) has a twin sister who was raised to be the cult's messiah. The cult is dead and gone along with their parents, but she's still living it. I just know that a lot of people's fanfics are being stolen, so I wanted to clear up that that is NOT the case with mine.

• Holmes and Dracula VS. Jack the Ripper — Original Work (Sherlock Holmes and Dracula team up to stop Jack the Ripper from bringing about the Apocalypse)

• Tides of Lust — Original Work (Meliora, a traveling bard with demonic blood, goes on a pirate adventure with a feared disciple of Davy Jones and also meets a Vampiric Warlord)

• What The Dead Men Say — Original Work (Ivar Ragnarsson ends up in Victorian England, where he has little choice but to team up with an archeologist; was technically an ACV fic originally, but I hate the ISU stuff and refuse to include it so really it’s just a history fic tbh)

• Playing House with Private X — Original Work (A cryogenically frozen super soldier navigates the modern world with the help of a would-be super soldier who slipped through the cracks. Very slice of life; it started as a Soldier Boy fic—American Pie, but I scrubbed it of IP so I can continue it as an original work and publish it as erotic shorts)

• ‘Til Death Do Us Part — Original Work (Would-be Murder victim Judith “Jude” Carpenter tries to start a new life in a small town…where her would have been killer has taken up residence as the priest. The two must work together to survive the town’s dark secret.)

• Careful What you Wish For — Original Work (Janie, a serial killer hitchhiking to avoid capture, ends up being held prisoner by Levi, a recluse out in the middle of nowhere, and she pretends to be a helpless victim in exchange for food and a warm place to sleep. The story focuses on her disturbing inner monologue through her act.)

• Lord of Roses, Master of Thorns — Original Work (Ancient Vampiric King Alistair Val Mirron must fall in love to end his curse of immortality; Myrinthe, an odd Peasant introduced to him by and old flame, seeks to remain in the castle at all costs to avoid being forced to marry the annoying rich boy in town.)

• Taken From the Ren Faire — Original Work (This was meant to be a cheesy erotica short but I accidentally gave it a plot. Oops. Fantasy Author Vera Fox is spirited away into a fantasy world after drinking some strange mead from an interesting new vendor. She ends up in a fake relationship with a former bandit while he tries to help get her home; when they get separated, she questions if she even wants to go back to her old life, and this is only compounded when she finds her Ren Faire lover is trapped there too. This one is full of tropes because I'll be honest, I'm "Writing to Market" here, but I love the characters anyway. Owen-her Ren Faire lover- has a huge Clydesdale named Stormbreaker that he rescued from a roadside medieval themed attraction, and I love him.)

• A Marriage of Inconvenience — Homelander x Reader (The Boys; Amazon Show)

• Woven Sagas — Eivor Wolfkissed x Ivar Ragnarsson (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla)

• Mother — Skyrim Fic about my Dragonborn raising Aventus

• Critical Darling — Homelander x OC(Darcy Hayes, Dreamweaver) (The Boys; Amazon Show)

• In All My Dreams I Drown — Reaver x Sparrow (Fable 2)

Tags: I am abysmal at remembering URLs off the top of my head, but I will try. @sketchy-rosewitch @visceravalentines @rottent33th @ventiswampwater

[daveamisdpda]

These scrubby looking trees and bushes against the skyline illustrate how the mood and feel of a particular location changes dramatically with different weather conditions and the passage of the seasons. Revisiting locations at different times of the year in changing weather conditions is a part of how I go about my photography. It's about getting to really know a landscape.

Location: Holm Mead (nr. Bitton), Gloucestershire, UK

[weirdowithaquill2]

I'm sorry - but Ms Marple could 100% solve the Kira case. This woman solves murder mysteries based off hearing the story alone - not to mention the fact that she isn't even the main character in her first book and yet she still manages to steal the show! She might not understand the Death Note itself - but she would know.

Heck, she'd probably even figure out the Death Note purely based on a 'similar incident' that happened in St Mary's Mead! But more notably, she would never be suspected to be on the case. She's a little old lady who knits in the background - no need to be worried... right up until she steps in, Death Note in hand, and announces she's solved the case.

Seriously - putting Poirot and Holmes in the 'solve' square and Marple in the 'not solve' square is rather rude to her - she's just as clever as the boys, but infinitely more subtle - and that's why she'd be so dangerous.

Ms Marple works so well as a detective because no one ever suspects her of being on the case. And considering that 'Kira' (Light) would only really be able to keep up with people he knew were coming for him, that would mean Ms Marple is completely out of his mind for the entire thing.

Again, this woman solved the mystery of the Blue Geranium purely by listening to someone else tell the story while only commenting about wasps. She'd have him figured out.

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[zooterchet]

Traditions of British Espionage

Beowulf: The ancient mead period, honey wine. An Irishman, Grendel, is recruited by the Snake, the Vikings, to battle the Bretons. The island is conquered, "Loser", but the recording of the proper solution is recorded by the Irishman, in the famous epic, "Beowulf".

Eire: U'Niall of the Nine Hostages, the Spaniard Caspian, the Black Dutch, conquers Ireland, Britain, and France. He takes hostages, one per kingdom, and establishes the dominatrix trade, the training sergeants for male assassins; spies. The island converts to Catholicism, under Roman rule, through St. Patrick; the Regency begins, of London, the whore house.

Holy Wood: The insurance trade, theater, begins through Robert the Bruce; Scotland, becomes the actor's chapel. The fable, the Euripedean concept of children's religion for adult science, is replaced with Sophocles, the explanation of family of ruler, to be duplicated by poor. Thespians (field research), actors (spies of peak athletic form), and set designers (engineers), begin in tradition, The Foreign Office.

The Wharfsmen: Elizabeth I, founds the Church of England. Drug dealers, bearing opium, distribute through the Regencis, to ports of call, beginning Shylock and Holmes, the Nuns Convent Agency; tourism. Enemy ports, have Mothers Superior and spy troupes deployed, out of Irish territory; psychiatric Juwes and Hebrews, distriibuted through work programs, charity programs; "forward infantry", "Reds"; Redcoats, the spy's assassins and local regiments fitting color assisting, "Gangs of Scotland".

The Nietzschean Society: The European communes, establish the practices of communal wage (insurance slush funds), priestly tracking (criminal spies), banking fraud (the grand tour), pornographic exposition halls (criminal espionage), psychiatric interviews (stolen techniques), and film ciphers (examined dead). The result, is the Lion's Gate.

Scotland Yard: Generals in World War 2, figure out how to play mini-putt, golf for children, to teach government orderlies, how to play as a defeated commander. Each soldier, can program an entire practice, to place their own society in brackets, available at War College to study.

[dialogue-queered]

Australian Issues Primer

9 July 2023.

Comment: The ABC's Gareth Hutchins paints aspects of the context to an Australian economic and social debate that has come to treat the unemployed and many welfare recipients as 'dole bludgers' and would-be fraudsters. He does so in the light of changing economic events and the narratives of economic theory. He barely hints, though, at changing state elite attitudes or underlying classes processes - so it is a 'middle-brow' analysis focused primarily on culture and narratives.

Note: the ABC site is an open-access one, and so the full article is readily available.

Extract 1: How did the Robodebt scandal happen in Australia?

The Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes, former Queensland Supreme Court chief justice, says we need to change our social attitudes to people receiving welfare payments so it doesn't happen again.

She said politicians must lead the cultural change, given their unique position in the community.

But what about economists too?

Because economists are the ones who built the theoretical framework that has lent intellectual "credibility" to the idea that we need hundreds of thousands of people to be unemployed to keep inflation under control.

Is it surprising that that idea could have had a negative influence on our culture over time?

Is it surprising that it could have led to a situation in which unemployed people were treated with such contempt by a government and public servants?

Extract 2: During Australia's genuine "full employment" era, from 1946 to the mid-1970s, our unemployment rate averaged below 2 per cent.

That full employment regime was supported by a political culture that punished politicians for allowing unemployment to get too high.

However, in the early 1970s when our economy was hit by "stagflation," unemployment started to rise sharply, to levels not seen in a generation.

It challenged policymakers' notions of reality.

Extract 3: But while policymakers were trying to fight stagflation in that decade, economists were busy working on an alternative theory of "full employment" that would eventually allow a much higher level of unemployment.

You can get a taste of that work-in-progress by reading this Nobel lecture from 1977, by the famous British economist James Meade.

When you read it, you'll see how Mr Meade was struggling with the definition of full employment and wondering if his previous idea of what full employment was ought to be abandoned.

His lecture was a small stepping-stone in the history of economic thought.

Extract 4: Jump forward to the early 1990s, and Australian policymakers had well-and-truly abandoned the old full employment model, and they'd begun using a new model built around the concept of inflation-targeting.

It's the system we're still using today.

For inflation-targeting to work, the unemployment rate has to be allowed to move up and down to keep just enough "slack" in the labour market to prevent wages and inflation growing too quickly.

And the adoption of inflation-targeting was accompanied by a radical overhaul of our labour market institutions to support the new definition of full employment.

For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, and the Howard Coalition government after them, began to make financial support for unemployed people increasingly conditional on certain behavioural obligations.

A "new paternalism" had arrived in Canberra, on political winds from overseas.

Extract 5: Could the Robodebt scandal have happened if our modern economic policies didn't already treat unemployed people in such a cavalier way?

[theruggedhuman]

i-D magazine ‘A-Z of Dance’ by Jacob Sutton with Diesel Jogg Jeans from Holmes Production on Vimeo.

Director: Jacob Sutton Commissioned by: i-D magazine with Diesel Jogg Jeans Executive Producer: Laura Holmes for Laura Holmes Production DP: Jackson Hunt Editor: Jarrett Fijal at Bonch Stylist: Tracey Nicholson Music: 'Wut' by Le1f Music Supervision: Pitch & Sync All apparel by Diesel and Diesel Jogg Jeans Diesel Executive Producer: Marcus Ray Executive Producer: Eddy Moretti Executive Producer: Shane Smith Executive Producer: Suroosh Alvi Executive Producer: Andrew Creighton Global Head of Video i-D Magazine: Danielle Bennison-Brown Video Commissioner i-D magazine: Jack Robinson Production Manager: Pia Ebrill for Laura Holmes Production Casting Coordinator: Molly Zinar for Laura Holmes Production Local Producer: Wes Olson for Connect The Dots Local Production Manager: Meghan Gallagher for Connect The Dots Local Production Coordinator: Cassandra Bickman for Connect The Dots 1st AD: Knoko Chappele PA's / Drivers: Hank Hartnell, Jordan Jolliff, Diane Kim, Saul Luzeus and Paris Potter Studio Teacher: Cyndi Raymond Hair Stylist: Tony Chavez at Tracey Mattingly Make Up Artist: Lisa Storey at The Wall Group Stylists Assistants: Camila Dominique Jimenez, Timothy Chernyaev, Ali Raizin Make Up Assistants: Megumi Asai and Hinako Nishiguchi Hair Stylist's Assistant: Mateo Sifuentes Seamstresses: Lauren Bradley and Caroline Flach Focus Puller: Rachel Fox B-Camera Op: Doug Parter 2nd AC: Steve Doyle Camera PA: Nolwen Cifuentes Key Grip: Tom Whitehead Best Boy Grip: Mattew Lim Grip: Ivan Acero DIT: Claire Fulton VTR Playback Operator: Kai Morrison Gaffer: Brandon Musselman Swing: Kevin Kim Editors Assistant: Anna Gerstenfeld After Effects Artists: Matt Detisch Photographers Assistant/BTS: David English Special thanks to: Diesel, i-D Magazine, Bloc Agency, Connect The Dots, Bonch and all our incredible dancers and their managers.

Talent A - Arabesque: Morgan Quinn B - BGirl: Bgirl Terra C - Chicken Noodle Soup: Terence Dickson D - Death Drop: Nick Lanzisera E - East Coast Swing: Yani Marin & Nathan Kim F - Finger-Tut: John 'Pnut' Hunt G - Grand Jeté: Julia Cinquemani H - Harlem Shake: Amanda Meade-Tatum I - Indian Bhangra: Reshma Gajjar J - Jumpstyle: Høps K - Krump: Jigsaw L - Liquid Dance: Phillip 'Pacman' Chbeeb M - Memphis Jookin’: Lil' Buck N - Northern Soul: Levanna McLean O - OMG: Anthony 'Lil' Bob' Cabaero P - Pole: Nicole ‘The Pole’ Williams Q - Questionable: Reid Shapiro R - Rumba: Emily & Junior Alabi S - Step: ‘SoulSteps’ Maxine Lyle, Dionne Norton & Heather DeLeon T - Twerk; ‘TwerkTeam’ Mizz Twerksum & Lady Luscious U - Ultimate: Shofu Tha Beatdown V - Vogue Hands: Javier Madrid of the ‘House of Ninja’ W - Whine Ya’ Waist: Colleen Craig X - Xpress Yourself: Ryan Heffington Y - YMCA: Allison Chu Z - Turf FeinZ: Gary Morgan aka Noh-justice, Donald Brooks aka Torch, Eric Bossett aka Kidd Strobe, Rayshawn Thompson aka Looney2smooth, Byron Vincent Sanders Jr. aka T7, Leon M. Williams aka Mann.