True to form; I woke up this morning and booked myself some border accommodation for the weekend starting this afternoon to escape my apartment/sweatbox during the heat. Didn’t consider that I was due to do some clothes washing. I might have enough to see me through but I’ve still chucked a load on anyway and I’ll see how quickly I can dry a few things. Gotta keep me on my toes I guess.
I was actually shocked to find accommodation. When I looked a few days ago everything was 100% booked out!
We are continuing the celebration of women by playing female singers. The man was busy at work today…making a Spotify list. He told me “it’s not International women’s day without Samantha Fox. Every boy his age had a poster of her on their wall”.
Tracy Chapman. L7.
We’ve moved on now. J5 and DMB Work It Out just played.
How it works is this: man makes list. I suggest songs. He queues them. I’m forbidden from touching list because I can destroy. I have literally made lists disappear too many times.
There’s be so many great ones to include! My contributions are: I’m every woman- Chaka Khan, Respect - Aretha Franklin, Venus - Bananarama.
A kid outside is singing ‘Let It Go’ by shouting the phrase at a high pitched monotone on loop and has been for some time now. 😐 This is why I don’t have kids, only cats.
You learn to tune them out. Even your own.
I tune them out so hard I sleep through their screams. Reason #275583381 I don’t have kids.
I bought one for entertainment purposes.
Also they don’t appreciate being called “slave”.
Are you entertained?
She’s currently in her cave rn but when she does emerge I do get my monies worth. Thankfully she has a great sense of humour.
I just can’t handle it.
Fair enough.
I luckily don’t get that much distinguishable kid noise where I live (aside from school grounds). But the neighbours 6 or 7 yo kid was being ultra whiny today outside just now (sounding more like a 4-5 yo) and telling his dad “you are being very annoying and this is a waste of your time”. Kiddo, in another 15-20 years, you will come to realise who was being annoying.
oven fish and chips with some salad for dinner tonight
A friend of mine laughs when I call it oven fish. He always says “wow never heard of that species before” 🤣
😔 It’s just frozen fish I’m baking in the oven, NZ whiting
Oven fish
Dirty bird
Dead horse
Bachelors handbag
Fine Aussie cuisine.
Snot block
The ABC correspondent I’ve been speaking to has suggested that if I show my face, be it in a photo or video interview, the story will have a higher chance of being picked up.
I would lose so much in my professional and personal life it’s not funny.
I don’t want to appear in Google searches. I don’t want to be the “face” of addiction recovery.
Am I being selfish? Or are they being blind even asking for photos or video?
I want to help, I want people that are stigmatized to be seen in a different light.
I just don’t know if I can sacrifice so much for it.
Fuck.
I wouldn’t do it. Why blow up your own life when you’ve just gotten back on your feet?
Let them blur your face and distort your voice.
As for the journalist, they just want views and couldn’t give a fuck about your welfare.
Don’t. I know someone who has been called the poster boy for one of the smack subs. Don’t.
Nope absolutely don’t show your face. Not worth it. It’s forever.
Future employers will google you. If you do decide to show your face, I would recommend using an alias.
Protect yourself first. The journos want a sensation foremost, a scoop. They’re not too concerned about what affect that has on your life.
It’s YOUR choice. You do not have a duty to show your face, to rescue other people at the expense of your life.
The show will be forgotten in a year or two, it’s effect will be minimal ( tho it will be real and positive)
but the negative effect on you will be forever
Leave the public faces to those who do it for a living and who can have a big effect. Like politicians and famous health care policy makers and workers.
I say. Don’t show your face. Your privacy , your name, is one of those most valuable assets you have. Don’t have it destroyed.
Don’t do it if you’re not comfortable - even if it means they might not proceed with the rest of the article, doesn’t mean you’re shutting the door on helping stigmatised people forever. It’s just not the right time yet for you, and that’s okay! Who knows, in 5 years time you might have such a secure position in life that you will be ready to go public. Or maybe you might never, and only be able to go with a blurred face and pen name. Hell, I would say most people wouldn’t want to appear with face and name in a news article in the first place - let alone people in your position. It’s a scary world out there in terms of data collection.
Oh yeah, and be warned. You don’t know what kind of spin the journalist might put on it. Or if they’re going to even stick to the consented to subject. It’s in their interest to get your trust so you open up.
Someone I know was going to go to the media about a longstanding issue they weren’t getting redress for. The journo ended up interviewing a family member of the original person, taking pictures and asking about things that were none of their business, and spinning up a shamey narrative ‘exposing’ and demonising the relatives in something that was basically a puff piece playing into divisive public sentiment. Basically they saw a random opportunity for rage bait and went for it. This person got their reputation publicly destroyed.
Nothing happened with the original issue that help was needed for. That was left ignored.
Ask them if you can use a pen name? And include the reasons in the article, exactly what you just said here. The ongoing stigma is real.
I’m catching up on sleep, sleep that is not haunted by pain and is restful. I really appreciate being able to sleep on my fave side now too. 😭
That is such good news. Happy sleeping
Deicison to make.
Do I go for burger and fries combo and do I try out a cheapish chicken schnitzel salad roll from the local bakery?
Schnitzel salad roll with the lot, add cheese, add butter, way better than a burger
Got it though as a sandwich.
Got a bonus donut as well tossed in.
Schnitzel roll all day
Let it be done.
Looks yum! Absolutely stacked with fresh salad
It was stacked for sure and it was pretty yum.
Free donut was extra icing on the cake.
Wasn’t too expensive either compared to what I could have gotten.
Happy International Womens Day, ladies. ♥
Weee. Work is all done and doing some shopping at Southland then it’s time to relax back at home for the rest of the day.
Hope I don’t forget anything I need today.
Also I might treat myself to something yummy on the way back today.
Sax Man is outside practicing jazz,
(Which is the same as performing jazz),
His rich, chaotic melodies,
Drift lazily to me on my balcony.
I dream of a mahogany and emerald speakeasy,
Topaz lamps illuminating bistro meals and sleezy
Men who talk about doing women and doing crime,
Stone streets, carriages, moments locked in time.
The Sax Man casts his enigmatic poetry,
His rich, chaotic melodies,
Drift lazily to me on my balcony.That would be nice to listen to today with a cup of coffee sitting by the window.
Emergency announcement:: it happened. It finally happened
Wordle 993 1/6*
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Today is your lucky day!
Haha awesome! After getting it I did think that it was a great starting word.
Aw yeeeee, so satisfying! Very noice!
Phwoar
awesome 🤗🤓
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Make me a fancy omelette with good stuff in it
Microwave dick-tater. Xtra saucy
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Hehe penis
Pate & cucumber sandwiches please
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Microwaved potato with cheese, mackerel and hot sauce please
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It would be nice to live in a time and place where villages were the norm, where people could go out to the street for company, have a chat about anything, with people that are lifelong friends about whatever is on your mind. In today’s time and place, having friend contact needs special planning and arrangements and it’s rare to have them all in one place and know each other. I wonder if this modern life with lack of social contact is contributing to mental health epidemic.
When people in the street ask you how you’re doing and they name your parents and ask how they’re doing and you have no clue who the fuck they are so you run back home to tell mum and dad and they ask “well who was it?” and you reply with “I don’t know” and they spend the rest of the night trying to work out who I spoke to.
I’ve lived that “village” life. I wouldn’t say it contributes to better mental health but it doesn’t hurt to know your neighbours a bit more.
Which is kinda romantic to think about. I expect the reality was quite a mixed bag. EVERYONE knew exactly what all your problems were, what your kids were getting up to that they shouldn’t have, and everything that you SHOULD have been doing and weren’t. Both your friends AND your enemies. And there’s a much higher level of social control and huge consequences for stepping outside the agreed upon social norms. Reading the Miss Marple stories - you realise just how much filthbaggery went on in a village. And Jane Austen and Mrs Gaskell’s works are full of the consequences of living in a very small social circle that you couldn’t escape from.
Yeah. People working all the time, being forced to move wherever they can afford (and move frequently), opposing shifts, car dependence, the norm being nuclear families with little support meaning people pair off and disappear into their immediate family. Every outside space except libraries being monetised. In some places anti-homeless architecture means a place isn’t inviting or there’s nowhere comfortable to sit…
It’s the loss of community and third places.
Also it’s self reinforcing. My neighbourhood is quite rough (frequent issues with mental health and resulting violence/antisocial behaviour) so I don’t feel comfortable going out. Other places might not have anywhere for local people to go, period.
So then you get everybody having heavy reliance on the increasingly corporatised social media hellscape, creating new issues.
before television people used to go out and visit friends, family and neighbours after work. To chat, play cards, have a cup of te
now everyone sits at home watching tv
but we are such a social animal that the first chance we had of connecting again we grabbed it, we went on the net
but net is being abused by some people, it’s too private, and defending yourself from manipulative words is hard , even adults have trouble with mean people
a balance would be good
I just try to gravitate to the places with the least amount of arseholes :'(
Same and that’s at home. Much prefer the one human soul mate and my animals here
I couldn’t not get one to try. It was shelf temp so it’s in the fridge cooking for Ron.
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I like you bull until I saw the Jim Beam sitting there. Jfc.
What’s wrong with Jim Beam??
It’s bourbon and I’ve picked up too many empties from my nature strip.
So stop dropping them there
Scuse me. I have standards. Low standards but not that low.
Seriously since the 10c scab payback scam I have not had to pick up anything except for the odd chip packet.
Bourbon tastes like hessian lol
It would have to be the last thing on the shelf to drink that.
I didn’t mind it, but it’s very distinct.
Wot?!
I think that’s enough watering for today. Took forever even though half that shit is auto.
Burned through 1L of seasol and 3/4L powerfeed.
This time of year the some hibiscus stigma just catch the light in the evening:
Edit fuck I think I has forgot me botany… stamen
that’s really lovely , that pink and yellow together is spectacular
