Living with chronic illness requires an intricate balance between ignoring your symptoms to live and listening to your body to survive
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Living with chronic illness requires an intricate balance between ignoring your symptoms to live and listening to your body to survive
Lily Allen Album Decoded The Eye tries to get to the bottom of the biggest mystery in popular music. Who is Lily Allen making coded references to in her new album 'My Ex-Husband is a Bastard'? Track 1: Beardy Bastard This first track has got the whole world guessing. Could it possibly be a reference to David Harbour? Or is it a more obtuse reference to Jeremy Corbyn or possibly Brian Blessed? Track 2: Harbour is a Bastard Lily often talks about auto-fiction in her own work, which makes it difficult to fathom the exact meaning of her lyrics. This could be a reference to David Harbour, her ex-husband, but it could equally be about an unhappy childhood trip to Portsmouth. Perhaps we will never know. Track 3: The Bastard from 'Stranger Things' is a Bastard 'Strange Things' is a song in 'Toy Story', sung when Woody realises he is no longer Andy's favourite toy and has been replaced by Buzz Lightyear. So this track may well refer to Lily's failed relationship with an absurdly optimistic astronaut, who had promised to love her "to infinity and beyond". Or could it be about 'Stranger Things' actor and Lily's ex, David Harbour? Track 4: My Ex-Husband is a Bastard who had an Affair with a Costume Designer who is a Bitch Don't be fooled by the jaunty reggae backbeat, this is a profoundly negative song, and it's possible that Lily is referring to recent events in her own life. The ex-husband could be a reference to her actual ex-husband David Harbour, but more likely this is an astute political allegory about Boris Johnson or possibly Matt Hancock, with 'costume designer' being code for PPE supplier. Track 5: I'm Going to Get my Revenge on my Beardy Bastard Ex-Husband David Harbour from 'Stranger Things' by Writing an Album Telling the World What a Beardy Bastard He Is This is perhaps the most obtuse and impenetrable of all Lily's complex and nuanced lyrics on this puzzling enigma of an album, but it seems to be a bittersweet reflection on love, monogamy, polyamory...
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social:
Krista Shure, 22, is plagued by constant fear and dread, much like a plucky literary heroine being forced to fight to the death in a public arena.
Former West Coast player Mitch Brown has become the first male AFL player, past or present, to identify as bisexual
In an interview with The Daily Aus, Brown – who said there were "countless" homophobic comments directed at him while playing – said he wants others to feel seen
Former West Coast player Mitch Brown becomes first openly bisexual man in AFL history
“Believe me, I wish I could turn it off,” Livingstone insisted. “Do you think I want to remember my ex-plumber’s birthday every year because he mentioned it the one time he fixed my toilet? Now he thinks I’m in love with him.”
“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
As France rebrands itself as a climate and ocean leader, Pacific civil society reminds the world of its unrepented nuclear legacy and unfinished colonial business.
Forty years after the Rainbow Warrior, justice still waits
~ Dave Sweeney
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
“It’s all in here,” Hapworth continued. “The answer to everything, from ‘how are you?’ to the exact expression to pull when someone tells you their nan just died.”
fair enough too...
“I love teaching people about current events, and social issues, and how to show basic decency to marginalised people. It’s my job; I don’t know how or why, but it’s my job. People wouldn’t do their own research otherwise, which leads me to believe that they just can’t.”
My fave sensory meme of all time 🤣
Paige Thomas, 29, is unsure of whether or not she would meet the criteria for an autism diagnosis, yet simply relates to a bunch of stuff autistic woman say, do, wear and refuse to eat.
If Hezbollah or the Houthis captured a ship in international waters and arrested its crew, im pretty sure the press and politicians would be calling that kidnapping or hostage taking
The rap star used her acceptance speech to address protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, to which Trump deployed National Guard troops on Monday.
Scott Morrison shouldn't have received a King's Birthday honour — but no politician should. And the whole honours system should be tightened, writes Bernard Keane.
How in the goddamned fuck do we live in a country where Australia’s media have been blowing smoke up Trump’s arse for a decade yet only NOW decide he’s an outrage since his goons shot one of their own instead of just the poor and disadvantaged people they hate?
#NewsCorpse
Old tweet from Jon Stone which reads "One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work"
Always remember:
Their detention is arbitrary, unlawful, and must end immediately.
#freedomflotilla #alleyesondeck #greta #gaza #madleen
Stop fighting your nervous system.
It’s here to protect you.
Trust IT, don’t trust PRODUCTIVISM
Wong responds to Israel starving thousands of children by dropping the ‘kind’ from ‘kind regards’ at the end of her letters
The most serious action Australia has taken to date.
Read more: chaser.com.au/world/wong-r...
The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.
“It doesn’t make any sense. I’m not autistic, and neither were your grandparents. My mother used to scream if you disturbed her porcelain doll collection, and Dad acted out the entirety of The Maltese Falcon – verbatim – the Christmas our TV broke, but autism didn’t exist back then.”
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
Once again, there are plenty of homes - developers just haven’t sold them because they’re worried about their profit margins.
if you *think* you're in burnout, you may already be quite deep in
