@caspia.rocks
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. I enjoy taking photographs, and all my photos come with image descriptions. People need power, not your pity. "It is in your self-interest to find a way to become extremely tender" Jenny Holzer Pronouns she/her
A woman sits on a mobility scooter inside a train carriage. She wears a pale yellow polo shirt, and an aqua cravat, and aqua beret with a badge in the middle
Off to the Gay Stuff Markets in St Kilda, hoping I don't look too straight to get in.
Immigrants are being genocided and you want to tell us we're actually erasing your lived Americans experiences with the term USian
📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.
If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:
robodebtsettlement.com.au
I often think of Paul Keating’s line that if Australia didn’t adjust to new realities, we’ll become the “Poor white trash of Asia”.
Working in call centres as I have, I got so tired of being praised by lazy Australians for “speaking English”, that is, speaking in an accent familiar to them.
Part of living in the modern world is navigating accents you find hard to understand. It’s the barest fucking minimum.
While Australia now is open to immigrants from South and East Asia, the dominant culture is still hostile to the idea that white people (or even the now-settled descendants of immigrants) should have to adjust their lives in any way to accomodate them.
Australia has a long and proud history of ignoring its geography in favour of racist alliances across vast oceans. This map centring the Pacific perfectly illustrates the economic foolishness of the self-sufficient “White Australia” fantasy.
A woman sits on a mobility scooter on an outdoor suburban train station platform. Behind her, a Melbourne X'Trapolis passenger train in blue and yellow livery pulls into the platform. The woman is dressed in the same blue and yellow as the train, wearing a royal blue polo shirt, and a yellow beret and satiny scarf tied at the throat with the two ends hanging down. She also wears a black facemask and sunglasses.
Off to the shops yesterday
Westona Station, Maidstone Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Land of the Yalukit-Willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation.
alhs.com.au/local-histor...
I assumed it was a kind of wolf until I looked it up.
i'm personally advising everyone to invest in canned goods and shotguns
Turns out the new Centrelink rates HAVE been released
Everyone calls music 'magic', but I mean that quite literally – music is magic, an impossible force that unites everyone who's ever heard a song at once. And singing??!? Singing is the practical expression of that magic, an added layer of human connection across all divides
Is it weird that Centrelink rates are meant to get an automatic cost of living increase in 15 days, and the figure hasn't been announced? It feels weird.
Pension increase is "likely" (?) $22.20, no word on Jobseeker etc. No change showing in my future payments
ministers.dss.gov.au/media-releas...
I was quite viciously bullied at that school, and it never occurred to me - and it was never suggested, even by those teachers there who were really good - that maybe it wasn’t teenage boys who were naturally like that, but teenage boys in a specific culture and type of institution.
This piece has gone around previously, and I remember the conversation then being about how Golding universalised the brutality of boys at fee-paying British schools.
When I studied it in high school that’s what I absorbed wholeheartedly. I was at the Australian version of one of those schools.
Oh it’s not Carney. I assumed it was his nonsense because well it sounds like it could be.
Thanks for the shout out, Marky. I highly recommend a 20th century Marxist retelling of Robin Hood suitable for tweens or teens, “Bows Against The Barons” by Geoffrey Treece.
No, says Robin, it’s not Saxons vs Normans, it’s the poor vs the lords.
We stand at a bare lookout point next to Port Phillip Bay, with patchy grass and a few low bushes. We gaze towards the city in the far distance, which is framed by a bare, sparse tree leaning landwards. A boy in a puffer jacket has his back to us. Long shadows and the darkening near us tell us it is almost night, although the haze of the sunset can be seen in the west. Beyond us, on one curve of the bay, we can just make out the famous Brighton bathing boxes, dozens of them in one long row along the beach. Very faintly, we can see the Middle Brighton Pier, and the city far past it is hazy and ill-defined. If we zoom in we can just make out particular buildings, and the pylons of the Bolte Bridge.
Well I've uploaded my first re-edited photo to www.caspiasphotos.com
Green Point City View Lookout, Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Land and waters of the Ngaruk-willam clan of the Boon Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation
alhs.com.au/local-histor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonwur...
*buys undervalued shares in 'thou', 'thee' and 'thy' just on spec*
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
OH I HAVE GREAT NEWS FOR YOU: THERE’S AN ORAL HISTORY web.archive.org/web/20240227...
For those who missed the incredible Constellations event at Adelaide Town Hall last night, some of Louise Adler’s words are published here.
Appreciate her patience in putting some facts on the public record.
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
IT’S OUR TIME. EVERYBODY CELEBRATE THE WEDDING THIS MOMENT CREATED www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
A skin cancer campaign that has been running for 35 years in Australia
youtu.be/b7nocIenCYg
I believe a large chunk of the US public is happy to cheer missile strikes that have no real effect on their lives, but are also in no way willing to have their Army Reserve or National Guard unit deployed three times in the next five years.
So I wonder what Trump thinks he can get away with
In celebration of their marriage, I think I need to share this again.
youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk
In my lived experience, this has proven to be true.
In my teens and twenties I genuinely thought John Cleese was a comic genius, and quite wise as well.
Turns out he's just a grumpy contrarian who aimed his grumpiness at people who deserved it, at first. (And even by the mid-70s, he was excusing Fawlty Towers' Manuel because "foreigners are funny")
I mean look at him. It's like he can't believe his luck. But, sir, that was not luck. That was years of practice, and the willingness to dress super femme without it being a nasty parody.
He deserves it all.
To woo a woman it is simply necessary to perform for her one of the most iconic moments of all human entertainment.