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posted by [personal profile] terryfrost at 10:11am on 10/02/2009
  • 16:58 News alerts are telling people in certain bushfire areas that it is too late to evacuate & they must stay at home and fight ember attacks. #
  • 20:17 is.gd/iTff Bushfire flickr pool. There are some awesome and strangely beautiful pictures here. #
  • 20:39 had my blood test results. Kidney & liver function tickety boo, blood sugars a-okay, cholesterol levels groovy. Gonna celebrate with a beer. #
  • 07:43 @scotsnow Just took up the Red Cross offer for the album. Thanks for doing it, mate. #
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posted by [personal profile] terryfrost at 12:44pm on 10/02/2009
The newspapers here are covered in cheerful smiling images of people who died the most hideous of deaths. People thousands of kilometres away are weeping for people they never met. The death toll is followed like sporting scores and there's a weird interest in the fact that we're the planetary centre of attention for a moment. I've been guilt of some of these things, but for me it stops here. I'm fed up with vicarious grief porn. Unless family or friends were damaged or killed, back off, shut up and live your own life. The donations will help and those who so desperately need them can now focus on their rebuilding and healing. But the sadness is their's, not yours or mine. Tragedy should not be a spectator sport.

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