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Alexis
@alexisx-au.bsky.social
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ey|she. Kinky (domme+owner), nd (autistic+adhd), consensually nonmonogamous, femme, queer/pan, spoonie (me/cfs), intersectional, sex geek / nerd, 51. In Naarm/Melbourne. Respectability politics is immoral. https://flexibeast.space/gemlog
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"The latest seasonal bushfire outlook predicts an increased risk of fires in northern and central NSW and southern WA, while the fire risk in Victoria is tipped to escalate later in summer." -- www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#australia
Map of Australia by the Australasian Fire Authority Council showing regions at increased bushfire risk this summer.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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"Are these people alive or dead?"
"We don't know."
Screencap of headline: "Scientists have discovered 'third state' between life and death".
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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The extent to which i have to deal with cishet men on Fet constantly referring to 'females' rather than 'women' or 'cis women' must surely be a form of stochastic terrorism.
Photo of the character Quark from the tv series "Deep Space Nine", overlaid with text saying 'FFEEEEMALES'.
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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#activism
Link to PDF of paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
[h/t @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social ]
Quote from 2022 paper by Mary Laing and Ian Cook, "'Maybe I’m a quiet activist': Sex work scholars and negotiations of 'minor' academic-activism": "[T]he crux of these critiques is similar: exclusionary preconceptions equating 'real' activism with the 'omniscient, tireless and selfless individual' ... This arguably privileges an ableist, masculinist vision of activism which helps to marginalize and invisibilize a diverse array of activist work."
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Hah! When i saw this image, i was expecting it to point to Graeber's "Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you". Maybe it could include a QR code. 😉
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Things like this inexplicably remind me of this old David Pope cartoon:
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Photo of a Volkswagen Beetle ('Bug') with numberplate 'FEATURE'.
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Like what they've done with the word 'woke'.
Mock book cover, titled "Everything I don't like is woke: A book for basic dickheads", with picture of person pointing at a car engine saying "This engine is woke".
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Still from "Terminator 2": T-800 saying "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves."
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Look, not liking the new BoM site is more than fair enough, but this ABC News reader commenting "if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, forget your woke ego"?
#auspol
Mock book cover: "Everything I don't like is woke: A book for basic dickheads", with person on the cover pointing to a car engine, saying "This engine is woke".
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Reminds me of this:
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This comic is sadly evergreen.
Related, old blog post of mine, "The original cancel cultures": flexibeast.space/gemlog/2022-...
#auspol
Four-panel comic. First panel: Editor saying to writer: "We're dropping your column. Many readers think you're just too extreme." Writer responds: "I have been silenced!" Second panel: Writer speaking on stage to an audience: "I have been silenced!" Third panel: Edition of The Washington Post with image of writer and headline "'I have been silenced!'" Fourth panel: Television showing writer on Fox, voiceover "... here with his new book, 'I have been silenced.'" and writer saying "I have been silenced!" Text underneath panel: Person starting to say to writer "It seems ..." interrupted by writer saying "STOP SILENCING ME!"
October 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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And this feels related:
Screencap of a post by user AhBiola: "This therapist just said 'it's not that you're attracting toxic people, toxic people aren't picky, they go to everyone, you letting them stay is the issue that needs to be worked on' and this makes so much [more] sense than that 'you're broken that's why you're attracting broken people'".
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Yes, the energy of Pagan Federation Ireland is what i'd hope for.
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Naarm/Melbourne right now.
Photo of fox facing head-first into a strong wind, with caption "it f**ken WIMDY".
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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#auspol #burnout #mentalhealth
Screencap of post by PatJD: "Every company: We'd like to promote mental health in the workplace. Employees: How about hiring more people so we feel less pressured & increase our pay so we can keep up with the spiraling cost of living so we're not so stressed out. Every company: No not like that. Try yoga."
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Quote from "Dreaming the Revolutionary Sacred Whore: Doing the Work of the Goddex", by Britta Love: "I deeply believe that rooting our spirituality in our connection to the web of life (ourselves, each other, the non-human and unseen worlds) and finding that connection through more embodied pleasure and the erotic in all its forms could form the basis of a powerful revolution, as we reclaim our bodily autonomy, root our power in the earth and come to see our fates as inextricably interlinked with those differently oppressed by the systems we all live under."
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Etymology of the word 'whore'. Source unknown.
#sexwork #linguistics
Tree diagram of the development of the English word 'whore' and cognate words.
October 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Old niche programming meme that i suddenly felt like sharing.
Image of cat looking out through door of shower cubicle, with caption text "trapd in IO monad plz help"
October 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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#auspol
Quote from Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle" (1967): "The economy's triumph as an independent power at the same time spells its own doom, because the forces it has unleashed have eliminated the economic necessity that was the unchanging basis of earlier societies. Replacing that necessity with a necessity for boundless economic development can only mean replacing the satisfaction of primary human needs (now scarcely met) with an incessant fabrication of pseudoneeds, all of which ultimately come down to the single pseudoneed of maintaining the reign of the autonomous economy."
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Oh historians are definitely in trouble. How can they compete with this sort of knowledge on tap?
October 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Also:
Chart by the Australia Institute: "Australia's own history shows gradual reductions in company tax rates from the high 40s to 30% now, but no real increase in investment or foreign investment as a share of GDP."
October 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Artist unknown.
#erotica #eroticart #art #nsfwsky
October 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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"Les Surprises Parties du Camping", anonymous, 1948.
#erotica #eroticart #art
October 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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October 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM