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Australia is trickling towards its millionth vaccination, far behind schedule. Still in the initial phase of healthcare worker and elderly. I’m not even thinking about a vaccine at the moment, because it still feels months away. Given my being an early 30s woman with a blood clotting disorder and likelihood of AstZen, little perturbed as it could possibly pose no more or less risk to me than COVID itself, but it wouldn’t stop me taking the jab for communal sake at all. I’ve run clotting risks like this before with various things.

Still, here’s hoping for some new stuff. On Page 3 circa Spangle/Gatha live they mention new stuff coming the following year. Feels like we’ve been hanging out forever, S/T just turned 10.

Imagine if they were supergrouping with Radiohead. You’d imagine it could mean a 25th anniversary reissue/tour of Succour.

Been heavily into an Untouchables phase recently. Fantastic album that. Has me itching to revisit some others now, especially the two surrounding (Issues & Take a Look).

Seriously. Been in a lucky area, today was the first time that I’ve happened to head out on a rare mandatory mask day. Otherwise never see them. Nearest cases 2000km away right now.

Wore a mask for the very first time today!

..so decade names. Always painful. And they usually don't catch on (the aughts, swinging 60s, roaring 20s, etc. probably the most taken up) What about the Twens? As a pun on 20-20 twins. Then you could have the Toffees for the 2030s and the twofers for the 2040s.

Rural Northwest Victoria and southwest Queensland currently having a mouse plague. Multiple people have been treated for bites at hospital and the mice are cannibalising each other as well. Underrated thing that doesn't get talked about much by scaredy cat Americans (probably due to being introduced species, not wildlife). Apparently Australia and China are the only countries where these plagues are known to frequently occur. There seems to be a mouse plague somewhere in Australia every few years. One in 1993 caused $96 million damage. Damaging crops, livestock, vehicles, machinery, insulation, infrastructure. Imagine George Miller doing a Mad Max: Mouse Plague movie ?

1. Jackie Brown (10/10) 2. Kill Bill 1 3. Reservoir Dogs 4. Pulp Fiction 5. Kill Bill 2 6. Inglorious Basterds 7. OUATIH 8. Hateful 8 9. Django Unchained 10. Death Proof (7/10) A reliable quality filmmaker, you can’t really go wrong.

Norman Lloyd fell from the Statue of Liberty nearly 79 years ago. Had to give up his tennis & driving at 100 but still keeping on at 106

I’d be lying if I didn’t say 2000s. Confield-Draft-Untilted-Quaristice. My #3, #15, #2 & #20 from that decade respectively. And I got into them during that period as well.

Yeah, his music videos are always a bit of an event. He has made guest appearances on Rage (and other ABC stuff) a couple times since around 2013-14, bit of a dean on retro kitsch and a very funky man. We've recently had a few similar artists who've walked that fine line between irony and genuine avidity, most notably the likes of Kirin J Callinan, Alex Cameron, Holiday Sidewinder, Sam Sparro, Jack Ladder, The Chats, etc. Konichiwa was possibly my favourite single of the 10s, and he gave me another SOTY here. Mr. Experience was his first album to fully work for me front-to-back.

^OOPS! the above CRJ is meant to be this, ignore the above Comeback (too late to edit)

Best new2me viewings from 2020

Only if indigenous (aboriginal or Torres Strait islander) or non-indigenous. The others never come up in paperwork in that way, LOTE first/second language accounts better there.

I was turning 2, no household TV/radio/music device. My father was a church pastor and a lot of my early childhood was in that environment, so I imagine sung church hymns was what I was listening to. Earliest memories are ‘91, so pre-memory for me.

High chance of rain & thunderstorms forecast for the entire next week. Wet season Xmas. Surely old santa ain’t going to head out this year, with all the restrictions he’d break he might be looking at a gazillion dollar fine. Should be some funny parent talks with inquisitive children tomorrow.

Next best: Gigaton, Dedicated Side B, Mr Experience, Boombox Eternal

I did public school in regional Australia, so everyone wore uniform, there wasn't really lockers and therefore minimal interior mingling. Primary school was light blue shirt with navy jumpers, high school was yellow shirt with brown jumpers, with typical beige shorts/skirt/school pants, and regular footwear (sneakers/dress shoes/boots, whatever). Pretty casual, no blazers, but everyone looked virtually similar. Still a little room for self-expression. I was always within the anonymous/reg normal clique, not pretty jock crowd nor hopelessly geeky. There was that one out gay dude in senior years, that one kid who died tragically, maybe one or two computer lab denizens, but our grade was pretty chill and you could share small talk with just about anyone when required. I was never bullied at all, although I was regarded as a goody two-shoes clean-skin who didn't really have a badass streak (had the nickname 'scruples' as in scrupulous), so I was occasionally the butt of a few jokes as someone chill who simply wouldn't ark up and get drawn into a fight. Started drinking at 15yo, although most of my friends were eldest siblings like myself and only one or two in a dozen had big sibling access. Had a few friends that did marijuana but I never felt game or peer pressured into doing it. Did pamphlet folding/delivery to 320 houses twice a week throughout high school as part-time job, and was a qualified lifesaver volunteer throughout high school at the local surf club beaches. I had lots of friends, but really just liked to spend my time alone (introvert) or with family (who I liked). Hated it when those clingy friends would show up on your doorstep at every possible moment. I had various hobbies that no one else was really into or versed in, and that preoccupied a lot of my alone time. I had only a few stimulating intelligent friends, whereas the rest of the kids I knocked around with were the interchangeable fun-times-had types who weren't necessarily headed for college. Haven't seen any of my schoolfriends since May '10. After doing my final exam I remember walking away from the school and never looking back at it. Had younger brothers that went there, but I left home quickly and never had reason to enter the school ever again. Being from a small town, most people naturally left and were set on their individual courses by their 21st. I've never been someone to maintain long-distance relationships or BFFs, bit of an aloof cnt in that respect.

This is growing on me a lot

I agree that seeming to equate whistleblowers with terrorists is a dodgy precedent to set. I read that slide in the article and it was made in poor taste imo, especially the shared conclusions. That said, counter-terrorism operations may be impacted by such an act as that, and it is an instructive case to people in a similar situation under the law with comparable access. 'Anti-terrorism' isn't just about explicit terrorist agents after all, and people involved in that space might also be transferably trained in broader security roles. That said, Manning falls outside my definition of a genuine whistleblower.

To be fair, that has been fairly standard since it occurred. Anti-terrorism would encompass security clearance conduct, home security, espionage, cyberhack, smuggling, etc. and Manning from the outset was a good example of extreme and senseless breach. “Whistleblower...Equates...with terrorists” is deliberately a bit vague and biased. That said, I’m talking early 10s in a different country, Trump era America who knows, and Americans can tend to have more specific jobs with a smaller purview in my experience.

Aliens on Earth is about as glaring noob mistake as it gets with this franchise. Page me if a Ridley-helmed Covenant sequel pops up, otherwise Disney era is a skip from me.