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Andie

@bluemilk

economics and writing

Joined January 2009
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Watch a David Lynch movie today.
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Nearly 24 hours since I read it and I’m still haunted by that Neil Gaiman (and Amanda Palmer) article. The way they had all that wealth and still chose to groom young, impressionable, and desperate women for free labour and worse is staggering. Monsters, the both of them.
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Has anyone made a verge garden (garden outside your fenceline) without having a concrete footpath to build it around.. and if so, how did you design it?
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The fact that RayGun has a Ph.D in breakdancing is its own commentary on academia vs real world expertise.
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I speak like people do where I grew up. I want people from backgrounds like mine who’ve been told to “know your place” to know that public life is their place too. I spoke to @ObserverUK about pragmatic socialism, solving problems - and shoes. 👠👠 theguardian.com/politics/202…
Angela Rayner: ‘Why should I have my rough edges smoothed off?’

Angela Rayner: ‘Why should I have my rough edges smoothed off?’

If Labour wins the next election, Rayner will be the second most powerful person in the land. She talks about her ‘feral’ childhood, ‘pragmatic’ socialism, and why some Tories are scared of her

theguardian.com
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As I said on just recorded @RestIsPolitics I found this in a way even worse than the debate. @FLOTUS has to face the truth which is his reputation is at real risk. A great man who has been a good president and a brilliant public servant for more than half a century. But if he risks a Trump return all that is lost. The denial has to stop.
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My kindergarten teacher congratulating me after I finished last
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I'd loved this piece in The Irish Times about the British royal family. And it seems relevant today. What we are seeing right now is how bias & disinformation works, and is exaggerated by social media. Interesting and useful reminder of the way trust is and can be manipulated.
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Agree. theguardian.com/culture/2023…
Calls grow to reassess age of consent laws after Russell Brand allegations

Calls grow to reassess age of consent laws after Russell Brand allegations

Woman who alleges star sexually assaulted her when she was 16 calls for debate about staggered ages of consent

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Perhaps the best thing anyone honouring the life, and passing, of #SineadOConnor could do, is be willing to speak truth to power. Even when it costs you. Especially when it costs you. #RIP
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.@rachelrwithers: “Will the CFMEU have more luck pushing the government from the inside the tent than those pushing from outside it?” #AusPol mnth.ly/FBfWA1M
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I really hate the whole feel of Edward Hooper's work.
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Lovely lovely story sbs.com.au/news/article/the-…
The story of my face

The story of my face

Moale James’ face was broadcast across Australia when she was refused entry to a Brisbane bar due to its tattoo policy, but there was a much more meaningful event that went before it; her journey to...

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"Anti-welfare rhetoric is easy populism. Those attitudes are set by politicians, who need to abandon for good (in every sense) the narrative of taxpayers versus welfare recipient" - Commissioner Catherine Holmes
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nyt cooking is good but they should have a toggle where you can change to down under mode and the season is flipped. I don't want to make fuckin... tomato salad or whatever. it's winter man
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My car boot is witness to a lot of ideas I have that are never realised. Sunshade tent. Dog car seats. Pinecone. Ropes?
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The most recent @bluemilk in my mailbox is staggering. Just so, so good. Andie, I always love your writing. It always makes me think. This one, though, agggggh. Extraordinary.
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This is a very good and compassionate piece on the significance of #Dooce for motherhood writing and the impact of internet writing on #HeatherArmstrong mamamia.com.au/heather-armst…
How the Internet made, and then broke, Heather Armstrong, the Queen of Mummy Bloggers.

How the Internet made, and then broke, Heather Armstrong, the Queen of Mummy Bloggers.

Mia Freedman shares her stance.

mamamia.com.au
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Here’s a before and after shot of my back garden ( with reference to the article I shared earlier)
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Image from Dr Ruth DeSouza (FACN) (@DeSouzaRN)
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Very sad about #heatherarmstrong death. She made a significant contribution to the movement to take motherhood writing more seriously.
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In 1997 there were only 650 mountain gorillas in the wild, by 2018 there were 1,063, and conservationists expect another increase at the next census. Uganda’s first wildlife vet on her revolutionary gorilla conservation newscientist.com/article/mg2…
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka: Uganda’s first wildlife vet on her revolutionary gorilla conservation | New...

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka: Uganda’s first wildlife vet on her revolutionary gorilla conservation | New...

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka explains how her unconventional way of combining public health and conservation is helping to bring mountain gorillas back from the brink after years of population decline

newscientist.com
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