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Final Impact: Reclaiming my story a decade later
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, workplace trauma, drug use and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. 2015 was a year of immense pain and suffering for me. For years I…
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The Last Boomer
It is the year 2077. The last boomer is John Smith from New England. The Woke has won, Smith stands alone in a world run by free loving empathic queers…
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10 Ways to Spot Narcissists (So You Can Avoid Them)
I’ve had a lot of problems in my life. Coming from a traumatic childhood, I trusted the wrong people again and again. That’s something a lot of trauma survivors deal…
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The Birds and the Diamond Mountain
We love to mythologise the rich and powerful, especially the further away they are from us in the pages of history. But it’s important to separate the fact from the…
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5 Things Progressives Keep Getting Wrong
We are losing the battle for humanity to the Alt Reich, and I believe it’s time to be honest about our own failings so that we can get better. Nobody…
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Queer Class Exclusion
For most of my life, being a part of the gay community was about survival. It meant finding a chosen family, solidarity, and finding safety and acceptance where the outside…
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Top 10 Worst Incentives in Modern Australia
Australia is full of systems that reward the worst possible behaviour. Instead of ideas that fix problems, we’ve built incentives that make them worse, often deliberately, because someone powerful benefits.…
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Cold Shattered Foundation
It was an ordinary night in Perth, Western Australia. Most of the people soundly asleep, dreaming or otherwise going about their evening routines. Margaret was having trouble sleeping, the kids…
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A bold strategy for Australia’s digital future
This letter has been sent to leaders around the country in an effort to stoke interest in an Australian Linux project, and sparking interest in FOSS support nationally. Dear data…
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Langenium 2012-2025 Retrospective
In 2012, I was playing Eve Online and doing a Level 4 mission. It wasn’t my first one of the night, I’d been grinding trying to get extra ISK (in-game…