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5:30 pm, April 19th, 2023 - 17 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
3 years ago contrapoints cancelled cancel culture, this is the latest.
I lasted about a minute. Might be a style thing. Meanwhile, here's the actual The Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcast.
Megan Phelps-Roper, who was raised in the uber fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church and left in her early 20s, interviews a range of people, including JKR herself, about the Harry Potter books, their burning by the religious right and later by TRAs, and what happened when JKR entered the sex/gender wars. It's very good, giving an overview of the issues, the history, the influence of social media, and JKR herself.
https://www.thefp.com/witchtrials
Try from chapter 7, if you cannot handle a comparison between the days of Anita Bryant and today – Dworkin on the right wing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContraPoints
I don't know what any of that means 🤷♀️
Chapter 7 starts 1 hour 26 minutes in – her conclusion is based around Dworkin's book on the right wing.
Just another day for National.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300857204/national-candidate-shared-a-poem-likening-jacinda-ardern-to-adolf-hitler
Tbf thats a pretty low brow beat up of an article to lead on Stuff.
Compared to some of the vile crap circulating on rural social media over the last three years, those two example are well toward the moderate end. A lot of it was beyond vile.
But a large proportion of the rural community built a very strong community out f sharing the shit, and if someone didn't share it around they weren't part of the community. It's going to take a bit to walk this back in rural areas and candidates will reflect their community.
He’s resigned.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300857204/national-candidate-stephen-jack-resigns-after-sharing-a-poem-likening-jacinda-ardern-to-adolf-hitler
I should think so. What a jerk!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018886425/listen-more-and-talk-less-stfu-a-new-book-by-dan-lyons
They also say that laughter is the best medicine and I think I’ll be watching a comedy tonight.
I was grateful to get these two snips from Not the 9 O'clock News in my twitter feed tonight. Not everyone's cup of tea, and possibly they work for a specific generation. I laughed out loud.
https://twitter.com/JohnPaulMarney/status/1648566308953358338
A laugh a day keeps the doctor away.
I was always more scared of the nurse and I loved apples!
Looks like I primed the pump on OM today. When I was young I found anything theology utterly boring & stuffy. How times have changed!
Late night music interlude – a really nice version of a classic INXS track
Talking "theology", this was a fun little diversion on the twit machine today. I got the chance to quote the great Douglas Adams.
https://twitter.com/roblogic_/status/1648537966569050112?s=20