I’ve got a half inch of rain in my basement you can have
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One of the band’s songs, Parasite , has the lyrics: "Damn the other races, want to keep my country white …
Dude, your country was never white.
Nazi cops ain’t just an American thing.
My “local” Centrelink office is in Launceston.
Y’know how I often say that American political events echo in Australia with a slight delay?
US-style electoral corruption coming to Australia:
And just as a indicator of how climate change is fucking things up…
While an enormous area is either on fire or on high alert, down in Victoria - 3 weeks from the start of summer - it’s snowing 
It hasn’t really rained in Portland for a couple of weeks. It sprinkled this morning. End of October-early November. For rarity that’s like the 70 F weeks in February we’ve had for two of the last three years.
Looks like home. It’s a passable imitation of what I’m seeing outside here, with a month-and-a-bit left before the official start of winter. Of course, the de facto start of winter in Ottawa has always been quite different from the de jure one.