And if you haven't seen The Home Song Stories, please seek it out. It's one of Australia's great films.

(And, directed by Tony Ayres who went to the same high school as I did.)

The Axis of Evil has just added a Plus One

I think the double-negative is a hate crime in itself

“Say, say, 2000-00, party over
Oops, out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999”

I think this argument is a crude analogue of the ‘born this way’ argument which LGBT activists used to great effect against conservatives who supported gay conversion therapy. It’s counter-intuitive because it seems to deny that gender is a social construct.

I think some people came here from X because they are nostalgic for a time when their voices had ‘power’. The last election revealed how illusory this power actually is, which is why ‘ban Jesse’ is such a high stakes game for these people. It’s not about Jesse, it’s about asserting relevance.

Maybe she mistook you for one of her back up dancers?

Isn’t it supposed to be moderated?

Twitter/X isn’t and never has been a ‘town square’ or a place to exchange ideas in good faith. It’s a platform that profits from avatars yell at each other. It’s built into the business model. If there’s less name-calling in a more curated platform like Blue Sky, surely that’s a good thing?