Small but important things we can all do to support Afghanistan families fleeing from violence:
- Donate to the UNHCR to protect the rights of Afghan families
- Email our MPs to let them know we care about the safe resettlement of displaced Afghans
- Contact The Hon. Senator Marise Payne (Minister for Women and Minister for Foreign Affairs) to ask for her support
… and here’s how to support the Australian Afghanistan diaspora (many of whom still have family overseas who rely on them financially)
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Whoever made this website that lets you release pent up frustration in the form of a scream and then broadcasts it from speakers in the Icelandic wilderness is a genius
The misogyny of meal planning
Refinery 29 asked 21 Aussie influencers what they get paid and it’s fascinating to see how many talk negatively about their jobs –– and the industry
99 portraits of Americans living in debt
There’s a pity party happening on Twitter and whaddya know, reading other about other people’s petty shit is pretty cathartic
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How the pandemic ends now
This piece in Politico about how a Bernie Sanders supporter discovered QAnon, was literally radicalised overnight, and how she pulled herself out of that world is FASCINATING (“I went to bed as a liberal, a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter, social activist and a feminist. The next morning, I left the bed viewing Donald Trump — a man whom I had utterly despised — as a hero fighting a war against the Deep State. In the ensuing days my fiancé Dave would hardly recognise me, and our relationship would nearly be destroyed.”)
A posh wedding venue has accidentally revealed the Arctic Monkeys apparently have a new album on the way
Fully support this idea for rewriting the plus-one rule at weddings
Are you team bath or team shower? (Lizzie = showers; Vanessa = bath all the way baby)
Speaking of bathing, this piece by Roxane Gay about the incredible privilege of knowing you can be dirty and won’t be judged or treated as inferior (you might, in fact, be celebrated, or receive an incredible amount of publicity) is sobering and thought provoking. We also urge you to scroll down and read the comments
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