Hippie Halloween

From a political and environmental perspective (which was meant to be the main focus of this blog), this year has so far been such a horrific nightmare that any attempt at a scary Halloween theme would have seemed pitiful by comparison.

So instead, just to be different, this year's Halloween was Hippie themed - although I suppose that here in the heart of Peter Dutton's electorate the concepts of peace, love, tolerance and compassion might well be considered to be terrifying to some.

Trippy Yeti (She Asks Me Why, I'm Just a Hairy Guy) [Photo by Xesce]

Peace Pumpkin 2018

Now The Acid Is Really Starting To Kick In [Photo by Blinky]

We will do more than just tread on you!

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The photo of the mother possum extracting her baby from the coils of a python is from this story.

Preparing for nuclear war - Review of a cheap eBay Geiger counter

[I was going to preface this review with a brief description of units of radiation dosage, how Geiger counters operate and other related information. However it turned out not to be possible to keep this brief and I am therefore excluding this information from the review. I will try to post this information later. For the time being, the FAQ on my Radiation Monitoring site contains some useful information.]

Here is a cheap Geiger counter I purchased from eBay some time ago.

#BringYourGuillotine To Work

Some time ago I was talked into signing up to LinkedIn. I haven't used my account virtually at all; the last time I remember logging in was to change my password after they got hacked. However I still regularly get their spam.

Normally their emails go straight to dev/null, however recently one caught my eye. It went as follows:

#BringYourWholeSelf

Kids don't have the same inhibitions as adults — so, imagine the possibilities if you could tap your inner child and #BringYourWholeSelf to work. Watch this video in which we ask kids "What does it mean to be yourself?”

Now, your community would love to hear your thoughts on how you #BringYourWholeSelf to work.

So, in these days when corporate profits are at record levels, when wages are being cut and hard-won rights are being wound back and when workers are in general considered to be disposable and treated like shit, they are expecting us to Bring Our Whole Selves to work. To, of our own accord, throw our Whole Selves into our work, with the enthusiasm of a naive child, in order to make even more money for people  who would quite probably harvest our organs for profit if they could get away with it

Go get absolutely fucked!