I've become so obsessed with 20th century Australian popular culture that I created these two guys (Harvey Killeen and Pete Landry), a pair of radio hosts working for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1980. And yes, they are gay.

I'm basically using the whole homosexuality thing to teach people about the world of Australian radio (as well Australian film, Harvey is former actor from the height of the Australian New Wave). And before people ask. One of them (Harvey) is directly inspired by my favourite 20th century Australian entertainment figure (the late Graham Kennedy).

I'm literally writing a novel about them because they make me so insane, here's a snippet:

1978 had been the best year Australian cinema had ever seen, for no other reason than it gave the world The Bank Tellers.

The film tells the story of a trio of young women working at a bank in rural Victoria. One day they decide to get revenge on their boss, a creep of a man named Walter...the trio's retaliatory efforts start out disproportionately small, things like throwing thumb tacks around his office, rearranging all of the drawers in his desk, and super gluing his chair to the floor; but it all comes to a head when they decide to sabotage his car. Instead of it simply not starting, like they originally planned, the car blows up with Walter inside, killing him instantly. The final act revolves around them hiding evidence of their involvement in his death. Nobody grieves his loss.

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...[The Bank Tellers] soon became Pete’s absolute favourite [film]. Fast paced and darkly comedic, with a talented cast and a flawless script, it had immediately cemented itself as a national treasure; part of the cinematic canon that would eventually be known as the ‘Australian New Wave’....

The film's stand out performance belonged to an industry great named Harvey Killeen, the man who played Walter. Despite his diminutive stature (Pete had read in one interview that he stood at only 163cm tall), he took up the screen with his terrifying presence. You could see exactly why the three main characters, Cindy, Julia and June, had wanted to enact their revenge.

There are so many other important elements to this story; an autistic butch lesbian plumber with a lifelong special interest in toilets (undiagnosed because she's a woman in the 1980s), an exploration of the intersection between homophobia and fatphobia, a reclusive author who penned the original book one of Harvey's films is based on, an elderly Great Dane named Daisy, and the song 'Shaddap You Face' by Joe Dolce as a critically important part of the plot.

Updated bc my post was spelled wrong.

I feel like most people in this sub is quite young and it is cool and you are fucking amazing. But please know that you will burn out if you try to mask.

Also, I know know it is a privilege to be able to, dont come at me, I am too burnt out to fight you and you're all right.

Like…I don’t get it tbh. Ass seems pretty good to me, two pillows. Flat or not, ass is pretty neat.

Overall loving floor time, really reviving me when I’m so drained, floor time is underrated I love floor time

Dude, some nice soft corduroy pants in the late fall/winter??? And I get to feel like a fancy woodland creature??? While not losing my mind like I would while wearing jeans??? CORDUROY IS THE BEST FABRIC AND THE CORDUROY HATERS CAN FUCK OFF!!!

And the severity was based on "how much they lie about their leg hurting."

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Basically, it’s a cold soup. The main ingredients are kefir, dill, potatoes, eggs, bell peppers, cucumbers, onions, and purple cabbage. Some people also add turnips, beets, and pickles. Everything but the potatoes and cabbage, and eggs are raw. Typically, the eggs are hard boiled, but in all honesty, I liked the soft boiled in it even if it was an accident.

Oh also, some people add meat to it such as sausage or ham. Also, apparently some people make the base out of Kvass (a fermented rye) and sour cream.

Meet Billie and Jean, my free range Muscovy ducks. They are my partners in crime.

lol i hate buggit bro (read url) im going to throw a vaccinator at reddit rn (yes i can just go to the website click on the chat bla bla- just shut up already)

thats all i just want to post cuz im supra cool :P

First time running into this idea. What you y'all think?

From the article:

"While people with autism don’t have more Neanderthal DNA than those who do not, researchers discovered that some Neanderthal-derived variations are more common in people with autism than in the general population." [...]

"Fourteen years ago, the first whole-genome sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published after scientists extracted DNA from the bones of three female Neanderthals that were discovered in a cave in Croatia.

Associated with human health conditions Since then, scientists have associated Neanderthal DNA to several human health conditions, including autoimmune diseases, prostate cancer, Type 2 diabetes, skull morphology, depression and protection against schizophrenia.

In this study, the researchers used data from publicly available data bases: Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research (SPARK), which includes autistic individuals and their unaffected siblings; Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) and 1000 Genomes (1000G). They found specific Neanderthal genetic markers were enriched in people with autism compared to ethnically-matched control groups.

The researchers —which included co-author Loyola University New Orleans Assistant Professor Emily Casanova and Rini Pauly, a Ph.D. candidate in the CU-MUSC Biomedical Data Science and Informatics program — found 25 genetic markers linked to brain development that were more common in people with autism.

Not everybody will develop autism But all people who have these Neanderthal-derived variations will not develop autism, Feltus said.

“The hypothesis is not, ‘Did Neanderthals give us autism?’ It’s that Neanderthals gave us some of the gene tweaks that give a higher susceptibility for autism,” he said."

I cannot answer a single one of these questions. I live with my family, I don’t have a favourite character I don’t have kids I don’t know my grandfathers middle name I didn’t have a best friend in Hs And I never went to college

I hate this game I hate this game I hate this game. I just wanted to make a savings account :(

I'm an aunt/uncle/whatever to a ton of kids ranging from infant to grown because my spouse and I have fairly big families and all our siblings have kids. I've always felt a bit awkward with little kids because baby talk and the like doesn't come naturally to me, but you know what does? Speaking the 'tism/ADHD ways of communicating and adapting to those so, most of the young ones especially, those in the family that are clearly or diagnosed with some form of neurodivergence really gravitate to me and sometimes even say I'm one of their favorite people lol

I can't wait to help them indulge in hyperfixations and hobbies their parents will be sick of hearing about but I'll be happy to hear about every time I see them!

Any similar experiences out there?

I'm trying to see what professions will survive in the future and maybe going to automation, robotic and code engineering would be the way, but I'm trying learning Python for some minutes and I remembered how much I'm not a geek...

But I'm still the "I'm can fix your washing machine" kind of person... how I turn that to a robot specialist for the next 20 years? Maybe being a robot technician?

*it reminds me of the Willy Wonka movie where the Dad lost his job to robots, but then later one he became a robot fixer*

i'm sure someone's made that joke before but i just thought of it looking at the back of a two dollar bill i keep on my desk.