I am going to tell you a story, it's a story why you need to get your health checked, why you need to monitor your health and why you need to listen to doctors and follow up on things.

The story is about me, and how I could have died if I hadn't been very lucky.

A thread About 18 months ago I went to a doctor because I was short of breath a lot, it was not the first time I had been to a doctor for that reason. I had even been to the same clinic before. I was treated for, variously, pneumonia and asthma, both misdiagnosis.

The difference between the Imane Khelif case and the other times Rowling has escaped the consequences of her bigotry is that Imane is not trans and therefore Joanne can't claim her bullying is "safeguarding women" or a protected difference of opinion on the righs of trans women. Joanne has not just been fucking around, she has seriously fucked up. She has bullied the wrong person this time because there's no excuse, no "difference of opinion" or "protected ideology".

Let's consider the legal consequences if Sall Grover wins in #TicklevGiggle.

The most important thing here, for the legal concerns, is that Roxi Tickle has had gender affirmation surgery and her birth certificate says she is female. Sall Grover and her team want that to mean nothing, they want TERFs to be able to ignore someone's legal gender and make decisions whether or not to exclude someone based on perceptions of gender not actual legal sex.

I’m going to say it. I don’t care if you hate me for it. The best thing you can do to reduce your climate footprint is have less children This is not to say that I hold having children against anybody. What I ask is that an altruistic decision not to have children, a decision that might increase the survival chances of YOUR children, be respected.

Stop looking down on people without children

Exploring #BarkLadies at @NGVMelbourne and the curation by Myles Russel-Cook and the exhibition design (I don’t know who did it) are incredible, enhancing the extraordinary art from @yirrkalaart Mirrors enhance the poles by Galumbu the “Star Lady” reflecting her stars to infinity

People have asked me if there was a solution to "return the flag to Aboriginal ownership". The thing is, the flag was already under Aboriginal ownership. It was owned by Luritja man Harold Thomas. It LEFT Aboriginal ownership in January 2022. I know people are victims of propaganda and their inability to understand copyright, but Harold Thomas licensing his flag to someone does not mean those companies OWNED the flag, he still owned it. It has never left Aboriginal ownership until some people demanded the govt buy it

More on the flag. People keep giving Clothing the Gaps all the credit for the Flag thing. In reality CTG wanted the Commonwealth to compulsorily acquire the copyright without compensation to Harold Thomas.

I call that theft from an elder. This is a matter of public record as part of the federal senate hearing that CTG and I both spoke at on opposite sides. CTG's stance, compulsory acquisition. My stance, fair payment to HT for his copyright. CTG are claiming credit for a deal they were trying to prevent.

Don't get me wrong, I think the situation with the Aboriginal Flag was the best possible outcome in the context. Sadly there will be consequences that none of you thought of, that some of us have been discussing for years. People just don't think things through. A thread. Firstly, people demanded the flag be freed by the commonwealth acquiring it by financial or legal means. This result, what happened, gives power over our flag to the colonisers. Like I said, it was the only solution on offer but still far from perfect.

Breaking: Harold Thomas has signed over the copyright of the Aboriginal Flag to the Federal Government for a reasonable sum.

Royalties from use of the flag to to the NAIDOC committee.

$20m copyright buyout makes Aboriginal flag free for all afr.com/politics/feder… I have always said, and have others, that the only correct result would be the government offering Mr Thomas an adequate payment for his copyright. Harold is happy with the deal so I am happy and so should we all.

OK, I have read the who article now and I have to say that Michele misrepresented what actually happened. What she was burned for, deservedly, was her racist diatribe against a POC writer. Michele's behavior on twitter that night was disgraceful, she needs to take a step back.

https://twitter.com/julziez/status/1459352756133588994

It's not all about you Michele. BTW, when you are saying that an article in the Spectator gave you hope you have deeper problems than you think. You need to step back from your own tears and consider how you look. I promise you, I will not forget how you acted until you face up.

Who in the hell published this? Who thought it was OK to give a whole page to a white woman so she could pretend to be the victim, spray us with white woman's tears, when the entire literary world knows she was the aggressor.

https://twitter.com/julziez/status/1459352756133588994

I was there, dragging her in real time for her abuse of a woman of colour. I was there, making her admit it was her running the account. I was there, trying to put out the fire and trying to support her victims.

Yes, her victims.

When thinking about the Aboriginal flag and copyright and the desire of the government to intervene to overturn the copyright protections of the Aboriginal flag, owned by the flag's creator Harold Thomas, let us consider the case of Albert Namatjira. a thread. Albert Namatjira was perhaps the first Aboriginal visual art superstar. Painting in the European watercolour star he quickly became a celebrity and was able, at the peak of this, to support huge numbers of close and distant family financially.

I feel like I need to correct some misconceptions around the Aboriginal flag because NOBODY seems to know how this works. Copyright for the flag belongs to its designer Harold Thomas. He licensed it to WAM clothing for CLOTHING only. It's free for use for non-commercial use. Flagworld possess the license to produce actual flags. People are free to use the flag for non-commercial use. Thomas CAN sue people using the flag against his wishes and has said he would stop racists and fascists from using it.

However, even the media and govt seem clueless.

Hi Ita and @ABCTV I am not a millenial, I am no longer young, I have worked with the ABC in the past and hope to again but I need to say something.

BITE ME.

Stop being ageist Ita. Things are different to your times, for a start.

smh.com.au/national/buttr… via @smh If I hear one more boomer saying "young people have it too easy" I will lose my mind completely. I am Gen X, I have seen how boomers have it and how millenials have it and you know what? BOOMERS HAD IT EASIER.

When my parents were 18 permanent jobs were easy to get.

I would like to draw you attention to an actually good statue, one that could give us hope of an end to colonial and racist violence. I am of course talking about this one, Sir Doug and Lady Gladys Nicolls in Parliament Reserve, Spring St, right near the Victorian parliament. It's been there since 2007 and a lot of people don't know it's there. Of the people who know it's there not many are aware of its cultural and political significance.

Doug Nicolls was an Aboriginal man from the Yorta Yorta people and an important, active member of the AAL.

I can prove Australia is Sinophobic in one question. What is the foreign nationality that owns the most land in Australia?

Think what most Australians would answer to that question.

Then look up the real answer. Alternatively what country exerts the most corporate control over Australia?

What do you think most Australians would answer

What is the real answer

Allow me to say this once more for the people in the back. Jackie Lambie could have stopped the repeal of Medevac but that does not make her responsible for the appeal any more than EVERY member of the Coalition are. Laying the blame on Lambie will absolve the Govt of blame. It was the Coalition's bill, Lambie was just the tipping point, the last straw. She is not responsible for the repeal the government are. Do not let them hide under the smokescreen of us blaming Lambie.

I can't help but wonder if white people would demand the right to climb Uluru if it belonged to other white people and it was other white people prohibiting the climb. Do they even know Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park is private land leased to the government? The people who insist on the right to climb the rock do so saying it "belongs to everybody". They can only say that because they don't think Aboriginal people have the right to own land. In other words demanding the right to climb the rock is just racism.

Jamon Serrano, locally made cumin gouda, mortadella,...

Shiraz,

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Writing a commissioned short story

Staring out the window at the bowerbirds... Watching a Butcher Bird 3 meters away eating a grasshopper on a garden arch.

Hi #vegans, I will not give you concessions until you deal with the white-supremacists and racists in your midst.

The white supremacist vegans believe that my worth is not equal to that of a cow but that the cow has more value because I am not white. vice.com/en_au/article/…

A thread on jan 26: my mentions are being flooded by people saying “it was a long time ago”, “it was not an invasion” and “you are better off”. These people are some of the same people who complain of a “Muslim invasion” or “Chinese buying Australia”. If we were not invaded you are certainly not being invaded. If you bought the land fair-and-square so are foreign nationals who are buying land. If we are better off you will be if the technologically superior economic powerhouse called China takes over.