When your whole country gets cancelled
As of this morning, Australian media outlets – as well as government agencies – are not able to post anything on Facebook, and their articles and stories cannot be shared …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XVIII: The 2020 Hardship Edition
Warning: Adult content, language, and a picture of a naked bum There’s no escaping the fact – 2020 has been a difficult year for many of us. It’s safe to …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XVII: The Gen X(XX) Edition
Lest the previous fourteen installments of this series have given you the wrong idea that going wild on Tinder is the sole domain of Gen Ys and Gen Zs (kids …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XVI
Warning: Adult themes and language I was going to sit down and write a profound intro paragraph but really… it’s 2020. It’s been a shitshow; depressing wherever you look, from …
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Don’t ban death wishes
Twitter swings wildly and widely in their editorial policies: The four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as “The Squad” expressed surprise on Friday night when Twitter posted about its policy against wishing harm …
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Girls Gone Wild On Brisbane Tinder, Part XV: The Birthday Edition
Warning: Adult Content & Language Not that we need any excuses to continue with new installments of the “Girls”, but the world is still in a lock-down and needs plenty …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XIV: The Quarantine Special
Let’s face it, with the viral doom and gloom seemingly inescapable, distractions are at a premium. Desperate times require desperate measures. Such as bringing this disreputable blog series back from …
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Lending a pinching hand
This guy will be very happy today: So will Julie Bishop. With a big emphasis on disability and 50 skin shades of same or different sex multiracial couples holding hands, …
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The 24 hour media rule
The mainstream media – and the social media – are so good at generating instant outrages that I now have an informal rule: try not to comment on any new …
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Am Nasty To Women International
Note: Apologies for the continuing sporadic blogging as the internet issues at The Daily Chrenk HQ sadly continue. After I came to Australia and started high school, I joined my …
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Buffy the Body Shamer
Honestly, what did the media used to do before the advent of social media? Where did they find the never-ending supply of material to use as a filler and click-bait? …
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ASMR, or I don’t want to live on this planet anymore
There is plenty of disturbing stuff going on in the world – like a Saudi journalist walking into a Saudi consulate and being dismembered and carried out in pieces – …
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Social media giants aren’t even pretending anymore
Sure, they are private businesses and so they can do whatever they want with their users, but at least in the past they used to be less blatant and arbitrary about …
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Star Wars vs Troll Wars
Does a movie really suck or is it all just a big Russian conspiracy? Don’t ask me – I haven’t watched any of the new Disney “Star Wars” franchise movies …
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“A stupid slutty Tory bisexual who loves Brexit”
A 21-year old Conservative Councillor from Holme Valley Parish Council in West Yorkshire shows them how it’s done: A Tory councillor who fell victim to death threats and vile sexist …
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Is the internet making you miserable?
Kanye West seems to think so, at least in regards to the social media: “There are people who are committing suicide due to not getting enough likes,” Ye tweeted Saturday …
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No regulation out of frustration
This sounds more like trolling than a serious proposal, but nowadays you never know: President Donald Trump is considering new regulations on Google’s search engine to address his concern that …
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Big Zuck is watching you
We get to rate websites (well, pretty much everything), it’s only to be expected that they rate us back: Facebook is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they …
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From Russia without love
Facebook’s drive towards absolute transparency – of its users, of course, not of Facebook itself; don’t be silly! – continues: Anyone who manages a Facebook page that has a “large …
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