Posts by 26pglt@mastodon.au
(DIR) Post #At02hgbajFTdTOehd2 by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-12T01:32:32Z
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#CoerciveControl is a useful concept for making visible the abuses of #power that can occur in hierarchical relationships. We now see them more easily in #families, #cults & other institutions. Perhaps our next step is to see how people raised in relations of hierarchy learn that the only way to be safe is to either become the biggest #bully in the room or to appease that bully. So many of the people who achieve power in our #political & other institutions appear to operate like this. While bullying behaviour is seen as normal, or even valorised as a characteristic of alpha masculinity, our cultural framing rules (what we’re allowed to say) & feeling rules (what we’re allowed to feel) obscure it from view. The consequences of a bully’s actions are seen as resulting from the personal failings of those who are harmed. Naming this dynamic becomes a dangerous act.Sound familiar?What if our culture‘s assumed hierarchy of human value is mistaken? What if this way of making sense of the world harms us more than it protects? What if we are all connected & our wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of others?When bullies win, everyone loses. I say yay to every way we make this visible.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/coercive-control-religion-geelong-revival-centre/105146234?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
(DIR) Post #At043rYAogmVk8CANc by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-12T00:53:45Z
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More evidence that the #Libs’ strategy is not about policies but about pictures, sountbites & vibes. We should be used to this by now. They do this because it works. Same as circus Donald: it’s not about economics or governance, it’s about #distraction as cover for accelerating #plunder in times of crisis. 🎪🎡🤡 #AusPolhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/coalition-policy-lack-of-detail-anthony-albanese-fall/105165142?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
(DIR) Post #At8Hj51QUEQC4CXdoG by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-16T00:55:03Z
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Why have utes become so popular over the past decade? Not bc more of us need them. Because they attract tax advantages.What most of us need is cars that are cheap to run. Imagine if we subsidised electric vehicles the way we’ve been subsidising unnecessarily large utes.While monster ute is a proxy identifier for ‘real man’, inflaming grievance around them is good politics for those who align with the white supremacist patriarchal Right. #AusPolhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/utes-fuel-efficiency-tax-coalition-excise-dutton-election/105174100?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
(DIR) Post #AtERJ2WVu31JoMVzdo by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-19T00:06:26Z
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Laura Tingle 🔥🐘#AusPol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-19/united-states-china-tariff-trade-war-federal-election-future/105189008?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
(DIR) Post #AtIvFsodJXUM5kEzyq by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-21T04:06:58Z
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Concentrating so much power into the hands of very few men. Who do not recognise the blinkers that come with their own - & everyone’s - situated embodiment.It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/apr/20/carole-cadwalladr-ted-talk-this-is-what-a-digital-coup-looks-like-its-not-too-late-to-stop-trump-and-the-silicon-valley-broligarchy-from-controlling-our-lives-but-we-must-act-now?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AtP6nuif0WoMHmdWQC by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-24T03:34:49Z
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What are the values we care about? From Greg JerichoAustralia needs more than hollow words about a fair go – we need brave policy-makers https://www.theguardian.com/news/grogonomics/2025/apr/24/australia-needs-more-than-hollow-words-about-a-fair-go-we-need-brave-policy-makers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AtQtAPpT0qGk6FZk6y by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-25T00:26:10Z
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Feminism & support for diversity are a wonderful smokescreen. What if all the problems disaffected women are struggling with arise not from feminism but from capitalism? Framing this way makes a lot more sense AND reveals the common ground we share.This stuff is tactical distraction. People are not our enemy, hierarchical systems of oppression are.Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/womanosphere-conservative-women?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AtQwVhEzlrWq2rM5ZI by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-25T00:59:18Z
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Eugenics - the idea that there is a hierarchy of human worth, with white men at the top, & that white patriarchal supremacy must be maintained at all costs - never went away, it just rebranded.It is currently flush with cash.A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/undercover-far-right-hope-not-hate-harry-shukman?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AtV8UNBDG9SlZHxNGi by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-27T01:12:53Z
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I love the way Jeanette Winterson talks about ghosts. And gardens. And especially cats.‘I’d like to go up in space as a very old lady and just be pushed out’ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/27/jeanette-winterson-id-like-to-go-up-in-space-as-a-very-old-lady-and-just-be-pushed-out?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AtZ24EkURooDC1byYi by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-28T22:23:40Z
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Oh & anti-spam laws! #AusPol #ffs https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-29/political-parties-can-send-you-texts/105226350?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
(DIR) Post #AtZ2N6Jg1WYQXg45Ca by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-04-28T22:22:07Z
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Imagine if we had truth in political advertising laws - with fact checking, & consequences - & real time disclosure of funding sources.We could be so much more well informed when we vote.Whose interests are served by not doing this?#AusPol #FollowTheMoney https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-29/climate-200-federal-election-2025-teal-independents/105206850?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
(DIR) Post #AtdeDg8wXThTeTon9E by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-05-01T03:55:47Z
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Not all older Australians own homes. Maybe it’s just that the parents of most people who have platforms in media & public policy do?Let’s learn from Denmark. #housing #OlderPeople #AusPolhttps://theconversation.com/older-australians-are-also-hurting-from-the-housing-crisis-where-are-the-election-policies-to-help-them-255391
(DIR) Post #Au6OHi1BMlfmolYtOq by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-05-14T23:50:37Z
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Sadly, FirstDog is correct again.Can we stop racist AI taking over everything? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/may/14/can-we-stop-racist-ai-taking-over-everything-sure-but-we-could-have-stopped-climate-change-as-well?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AuEdifwk6SLzR6HboO by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-05-19T00:27:41Z
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More of this please.At last a serious focus on increasing #inequality & the policies we might adopt to reverse it. #AusPol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/19/labor-andrew-leigh-focus-productivity-after-us-inequality-warning?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AuFCUKyImrgcj1uX9U by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-05-19T06:49:10Z
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What a wonderful project. More please.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/18/war-and-peace-tolstoy-translate-into-bogan-australian-ander-louis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AuFOY2QUsXl3ogd7Z2 by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-05-19T09:14:28Z
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Understudied & shrouded with euphemisms. It is as if for many doctors - & society in general - women’s reproductive health is too ‘ick’ to talk about & too trivial to matter.How dare we expect better.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/18/the-private-pain-of-prolapse-six-things-i-wish-id-known-from-sex-to-exercise-to-mental-health?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AunyBoV4uMyK49xPpA by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-06-05T01:27:57Z
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The bind we are stuck in is that in order to make a diagnosis, whether of coeliac disease or gluten intolerance, we have to EAT GLUTEN!For folks like me who have learned over decades that when we eat gluten we get sick & when we avoid it we are much better, the instruction to eat gluten for weeks in order to test its effects is absurd. I did this once, while seeking a diagnosis. After a few days I was so unwell that I abandoned the attempt & have not eaten gluten since. Conveniently, my coeliac son 👨🍳 & his talented 👩🍳 partner have created a fancy gluten free bakery & patisserie so in past few years I have been freely supplied with exquisite baked goods. Wish everyone was so lucky 😎. #GlutenIntolerance #CoeliacDisease #KudoBakeryNaarmhttps://theconversation.com/gluten-intolerance-and-coeliac-disease-can-both-cause-nausea-bloating-and-pain-whats-the-difference-253235
(DIR) Post #Auq1GSCZve46XG81SK by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-06-06T01:06:57Z
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This story is heartbreaking & oh, so familiar. There are so many of us. #NeuroDivergent #Autistic #ADHD #LateIdentified #Queer #Traumatised #Grieving @actuallyautistichttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/05/i-thought-it-was-being-gay-that-made-my-life-so-difficult-then-at-50-i-got-an-eye-opening-diagnosis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AwlyAExxEInLkSeTjc by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-08-02T04:10:17Z
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This is a fascinating experiment.The author wonders why those students who argued, after completing it, that writing to the standard of increasingly homogenised pap is sufficient for their purposes, were mostly men.Maybe because for people in positions of privilege, mediocrity is no barrier to success.Those of us who start from positions of disadvantage know that in order to have a hope of being rated equally with the white men we have to do soooo much better.Just saying.#education #AI #writing https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/
(DIR) Post #AzZF4jIdnZ8dImplku by 26pglt@mastodon.au
2025-10-25T00:47:37Z
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Universal Basic Income is looking good right now. The administration savings would be huge.#AusPol #Governance #PunishThePoor #CrueltyForPoliticalGain #UBI https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/25/sometimes-defective-maybe-unlawful-what-can-be-done-about-australias-crisis-ridden-welfare-system?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other