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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 12:42 am
  • For the first time in a long while my hair is so short I don’t need to brush it after a shower
  • Uncapping another beer with my zombie-survival spatula, eating chocolate in bed and reading old copies of Transmet, distracting myself.
  • From now on I’ll do something nice for myself when I feel like shit, rather than indulge the well-reinforced sense that I deserve it.
  • The worst thing about not living in your own place is having to get *dressed* at 2am just so you can go take a piss.
  • There’s rage in me. Exhausted and muffled in the day, but making my fists flex and cut nails into my palms at night when all else fades.
  • That frustration that only let’s you sleep when your body succumbs and admits there’s boiled tears garrisoned at the corner of each eye.
  • They wait there, cold and damp, unmoving reminders of what’ll come tomorrow but you dare not think of in the day.
  • In the day you have energy. In the day you could act. In the day you could change something & throw yourself into a horribly alien world.
  • Habit is the safe zone we make for ourselves, wether it’s safe or not. Familiarity comforts us.
  • I fear the future of immortality. Ever more powerful elders, holding the world static and comforting to them, their rosy glasses in control.
  • A world only needs the passing of one generation for a situation to be seen as normal. But normal is not always good or desired.
  • Immortality. A tiny world of geriatric oligarchy. A planet ruled by ancient racist aunts and uncles you’d avoid at christmas dinner.
  • No hiding in the corner sucking on an xmas beer bottle to avoid them, but in your face. Centuries of wealth and power forcing you to listen. 03:31:34, 2013-11-19
  • People powerful enough and driven enough to live forever are almost certainly both enough to ensure they stay that way. 03:32:51, 2013-11-19
  • The old literally fighting the new, clawing to keep their bit of the world comfortably familiar. 03:34:33, 2013-11-19
  • And now I realise. This wasn’t meant as satire but genuine concern about society and progress in a posthuman future. 03:36:24, 2013-11-19
  • Then the fucking cheeky part of my brain says “sounds like modern corporations doesn’t it, hohoho”. You utter bastard. 03:38:20, 2013-11-19
  • A distopian nightmare with its knees shot out from under it by self-induced comparisons to shitty pop-protest diatribe. 03:40:34, 2013-11-19
  • Sure, they’re conceptually the same. Like a snowball hitting you in the face and a town being erased by an avalanche. 03:43:52, 2013-11-19
  • Both have you end up with ice where your eyes should be, but one’s a lot more personal than the other. 03:45:13, 2013-11-19
  • Corps are dumb lumbering beasts that chug slowly along bending laws to their benefit. Immortals will have that power, but a personal touch. 03:47:14, 2013-11-19
  • No lobbying sweeping tax cuts or favourable trades; this person hates this particular band so it’s blacklisted & illegal to play in public. 03:50:19, 2013-11-19
  • This other eternal monarch had a beef with your great great grandmother, so your house gets condemmed. Your living family curse. 03:52:17, 2013-11-19
  • Because if the Greeks taught us anything it’s that gods love to fuck with mortal lives. Lightning bolts for all dissenters. 03:54:01, 2013-11-19
  • Corporations only get that personal under personal control. & that diversion of resources eventually puts them at odds with the corp itself. 03:57:06, 2013-11-19
  • To turn a corp against a single person is slow suicide for the person steering it there. The dumb beast has bigger more sweeping worries. 03:58:52, 2013-11-19
  • Fear the future immortals. Those with more power than god, more bile than Warren Ellis, and the 1000yr old opinion on what is legal to read. 04:01:54, 2013-11-19
  • I’m bored of myself now. Sleep. The sleep of those doomed to wake. Another morning already growling angrily below the horizon. 04:04:14, 2013-11-19
  • Another day of trudging into the workshop. Of feeling guilt for the power used to heat it. Of guilt for not finishing the wood-burner yet. 04:05:56, 2013-11-19
  • Fear. Fear of finishing anything. What if it fails & my hatred is justified? What if it succeeds & my familiar comfortable hate is jarred? 04:08:30, 2013-11-19
  • Fear of both succeeding and failing in equal amounts, they would cancel out if it were physics. But in emotions; only paralysis. 04:10:40, 2013-11-19
  • Run away little boy, go hide in distraction and fantasy. You know eventually your unguided body will choose for you. Avoid free will. 04:12:44, 2013-11-19
  • Avoid at all costs making an explicit choice. What if you’re wrong? What if you’re right? 04:14:09, 2013-11-19
  • If you’re critical tho every choice is wrong. You just have to look hard enough. Let it sit on your chest & smother you as you try to sleep. 04:17:40, 2013-11-19
  • Just lay there clutching your fists involuntarily as your heart stabs at your rib-cage. Aching spasm’d muscles from the knot of hate inside. 04:20:54, 2013-11-19
  • Know thyself. Familiarity breeds contempt. 04:21:40, 2013-11-19
  • Remember; one day you be old & dying. Family will come to you. Everyone will see your ancient cock hanging out under the hospital robes. 04:28:18, 2013-11-19
  • No one will say anything, but they’ll all know. They’ve all seen it. They’ll ignore it. This concludes tonight’s Death Cock tweets. 04:38:34, 2013-11-19
  • I just want my mind to stop running. Claw back enough hours to see daylight when I wake. But no. Overwhelmed with nervous energy. 05:02:47, 2013-11-19
  • Every night is like this. The beer has just made me care less enough to record it. 05:04:04, 2013-11-19
  • Lucid, exhausted, vulnerable, furious. The trains will be running again soon. The sky lightens. Traffic sounds increase. 05:06:15, 2013-11-19
  • RT @cpeedell: The Tories have not only been deleting speeches & footage from their own websites, they have erased information from the Inte… 12:31:03, 2013-11-19
  • nipplefreckle: that fucking doge trend has ruined my ability to speak and now i’m worried because god forbid… http://t.co/Rz4hpan2Zf 12:43:06, 2013-11-19
  • I am mostly awake now because my clock-radio was set to an indian language music station & I spent an hour wondering if I’d had a stroke. 12:45:06, 2013-11-19
  • #TweetToYourself10YearsAgo 11, 12, 13, 18, 43, 48, bonus ball 21. Hurry, draw’s at 7pm. http://t.co/xnzd6dar36 17:06:53, 2013-11-19
  • @HardSciFiMovies Also acceptable ending; it is used exclusively by the French government. in reply to HardSciFiMovies 17:08:09, 2013-11-19
  • Wombled what appears to be a moustrap the size of a child and a full tank of BBQ gas with regulator. So, free-range dinner tonight? 17:14:51, 2013-11-19
  • @tinycorvid That site is going to get so DDOS’d if someone invents timetravel. in reply to tinycorvid 17:20:30, 2013-11-19
  • Fixed up my Twitter Digest plugin. Joyous 17:27:42, 2013-11-19
  • Testing compatibility between my clay and the platinum silicone. Fingers crossed. It’d make the next moulding stage a lot easier. 17:32:44, 2013-11-19
  • Well fuck me. Turns out this old camera viewfinder uses the old Kopin 320 mono display. With a single driver chip. 17:49:30, 2013-11-19
  • Last I checked the Kopin displays needed a proprietary chip, but here we are. I know exactly what I need now. Who wants a HUD? 17:50:07, 2013-11-19
  • Looking like the IC is end-of-life, so obtaining it may be very difficult. A motorola MCVVQ111. 17:56:45, 2013-11-19
  • Ebay you lovable bastard. <3 17:59:04, 2013-11-19
  • Including postage, about £9 from China. But it’s a starting point. 18:00:27, 2013-11-19
  • fairyfencer: fairyfencer: There’s gonna be an insect dating visual novel kinda like Hatoful Boyfriend but… http://t.co/3RjDEXm5Es 19:00:48, 2013-11-19
  • Not being part of a fandom, but, knowing a lot about it from Tumblr: http://t.co/Fd7jUuzVZ5 19:03:28, 2013-11-19
  • Photo: thatmotherfuckingcat: Wowwowow what kind of cat is this? It’s adorable. I WANT ONE. http://t.co/TumCTjfFgk 19:04:14, 2013-11-19
  • Photoset: merlinthegrey: Now that’s a motherfucking gifset.  http://t.co/wHzkU6a36T 19:05:41, 2013-11-19
  • nyxdragonfly: hellz yeah. http://t.co/Hcfyx8kwBc 19:05:59, 2013-11-19
  • Photo: mostlysignssomeportents: Jim Carrey’s remarkable anti-pap strategy. http://t.co/KZCxIskUXu 19:06:29, 2013-11-19
  • Two perfect gas cylinders have been donated at the space. Vacuum projects can progress again! 22:23:41, 2013-11-19

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Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 03:31 am

At the time, the alternate-vote seemed like the best option for getting us out of the usual two-party politics in the UK. It’s not a common system, but it is used elsewhere.  Australia was used as the main example of a western modern nation that used it for electing their representatives.

And now they have Tony Abbot in power. A man who sounds like yet another example of someone more Disney Villain than politician on the world stage. A man who won the election and mere days later had an approval rating of what? 20%? A man who is literally pushing to destroy the Great Barrier Reef in order for coal and oil freighters to get easier access to a port. Whose track record over gender and sexual equality sounds like someone doing donuts in a pig stye.

AV was sold under the idea that it’d undermine tactical voting, protest voting, and allow election of those the majority of people didn’t mind having. Australia seems to have undermined that idea with their current PM.

Am I missing something here? Was there an unmentioned way of exploiting the AV style system? Is it not used in the main elections of Australia and only in some lesser ones?

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