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Ben Bridges
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Australian 🇦🇺 #Spoonie.

I'm glad I swallowed the Jagged Little Pill instead of the red one.
(Jagged Little Pill is a great song from Alanis Morissette)

#EndChildMarriageNOW
Currently waiting on test results for Sjögren’s Syndrome.

Thought I’d know today but it’ll take long than a week.

9/10 people who get it have XX Chromosomes this includes XXY, which I have.
Most all the information I’m posting is from my GP, but I found sjogrens.org/
Sjögren's Foundation
Receive updates about treatments, upcoming events, advocacy and more.
sjogrens.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Does Blue Sky have a version of balloon day 🎈🎈❔

I have to remind myself not to talk about politics. Been under to much stress lately. Anyway, my pizza just got delivered for my party.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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This man’s values are based in power, greed and division. They are so far removed from the values of the Australian people.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
When I started looking into the intersectional feminist community on Twitter, about 10 years ago, I had prolife in my bio, and my first words were not all men. Some of the women saw something in me and followed, maybe it is my willingness to change. I’m very different man now. This is a 🧵about hope.
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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There’s nothing like a circle of women who want the best for each other. Women who strategize. Women who mediate between one another and manipulate the world with a unified, equitable objective. You were probably taught that this isn’t our nature. Society stole that from you. We are the best at it.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The news has been coming so fast, I did another later which might not otherwise see the light.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The right wing in the United States, trying to get rid of higher education, makes a bit of sense when you realise that their version of an academic is Peterson a boring, waste of an education, on an unwise misogynistic, dullard.
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Where on a suit is one supposed to put a mobile phone?
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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You are not sticking it to the publishing industry by pirating books; you're just hurting individual authors.

You want free ebooks, use Libby! The authors will still get paid!
Oh yay, piracy discourse, more people to block. I did a spree yesterday but I'm trying to hit 3000 manual blocks by the end of the year, gotta keep working at it.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
On another app, I’ve been talking about the ways I have changed over the last year.

Social and anticipatory anxiety is still there, and I’m fighting that hard, but I’ve had some victories over myself.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Some time ago, while exploring the net I stumbled upon a PUA site. I was about to leave in disgust, but I thought I’ll have a quick look and report on what I saw. It was as you’d expect, men talking about women as things to be conquest and conquered, before being thrown away.
November 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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anything like this. I do know that they have something similar in Scotland.

Saw it in a disabled toilets at the hospital a few moments ago. #HygieneProducts
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’ve changed over the last year, I’ve tackled the worst parts of me, learned new ways to deal with certain things through feminism, and books, gained friends offline. Learned some more cooking. Still struggling with a bunch of things, but I’m definitely a better man.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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The US rape kit processing backlog was estimated at nearly 400,000 in September of 2024. That’s 400,000 unsolved crimes - not civil infractions - where the evidence that could convict the perpetrator is available, but unchecked. If ICE wants to fight crime, get those agents a GED and a lab coat.
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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SNAP benefits increased under Biden, not because an abnormally large number of recipients were added, but because the admin increased the per person allotment under the Thrifty Food Plan from an average of $4.80 /day to $6.20 /day. The most recent prior cost of living evaluation occurred in 2006.
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
anything like this. I do know that they have something similar in Scotland.

Saw it in a disabled toilets at the hospital a few moments ago. #HygieneProducts
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Started writing a book and I’ve finished my rough draft in a couple of weeks. Tiny bit slower than before I got sick, but still pretty good. Just off 70,000 words.

Mum read through it and loved it. Asked for an honest critique.
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I don’t think that everyone who voted for Trump is a NeoNazi. I think that a lot of them are the most gullible, daftest, voters on the planet. Trump is a terrible con artist, so there is a lot of self delusions too. Only someone without wisdom could believe that Q nonsense, also.
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
For justice in Israel/Palestine Bibi and Hamas’ leaders would be tried for crimes against humanity.

Imagine if the US signed a peace deal with Hitler and Hirohito during WWII, as long as they promised to not murder and rape people anymore, then lets them get away with it.
October 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In my lifetime I’ve seen so many American governments declare peace in Gaza...

If by some miracle it’s true this time, then the actual negotiator is more likely to get a Nobel Peace Prize than a man sending troops into cities in the hope they will murder democrats.
October 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Glass ceiling broken in Japan!

First woman Prime Minister.
October 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Rest in peace Dr Goodall 🕊️

Jane Goodall: An Inside Look (Full Documentary) | National Geographic youtu.be/d3b6zSpy7P4?...
Jane Goodall: An Inside Look (Full Documentary) | National Geographic
YouTube video by National Geographic
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
People who are ND sometimes write something that makes sense to us, but means something different to others, sometimes even other ND. I’ve done this more than once and when it happens I cry. It’s scary thinking that people can get the wrong idea, it lost me friends once, all over a misunderstanding.
September 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Made mum teriyaki stir-fry. She cooked the fish 🩷
August 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
FDA approves first new fibromyalgia therapy in 16 years www.rheuma.com.au/fda-approves...
FDA approves first new fibromyalgia therapy in 16 years - Rheumatology Republic
The once-daily sublingual treatment targets pain, fatigue, and sleep disruption.
www.rheuma.com.au
August 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM