rice is in the cooker, I made some satay sauce and cooked the chicken. Now I have to saute the vegies n stuff and dinner is ready.
Rebel Yell came on just as I got to the last hill this morning, doggo kicked into gear and started galloping instead of his usual trot, and I ended up getting a PB. Sub 25m/5k, which I’m very happy with.
Was supposed to go visit friends this weekend but the replacement busses will make the journey almost 4 hours one way.
Fucking hell. Was really looking forward to it as well.
I hate that shit so much. Makes seeing my Dad in the SE that much more difficult. Totally get ya, hopefully, one day, there will be actual PT at some point lol
Just a reminder to everyone if people are asking you for free tech support you’re good until monday just blame the solar storm.
Why yes I can clearly see your TV is unplugged but yes it is not working because of electromagnetic disturbances
@Seagoon_ So I really slept in this morning.
Is everyone’s electrical gadgets still working? No big blackouts?
everything seems fine and normal here
Ted Cat is starving and complaining, he can’t believe he’s not allowed to eat Bill’s food. They are both on a diet and slowly losing weight.
@ajsadauskas @Seagoon_ Did someone say something? Is there anyone out there? 🤷♀️
I know it’s literally light rail but watching how far the other states will contort a sentence to avoid saying ‘tram’ is fucking hilarious to me
The new Sonos app is…confusing
Gym achieved. Gentle gym, but gym.
Now I can slow it down a tad
It’s odd, I watch practically no hyper anxiety producing news anymore, had a bad nightmare about a big terrorist bombing in Africa
don’t nightmares come after the stressful event is over?
Holy shit
So, I have a small guilty pleasure now: I downloaded tiktok and am loving all the videos with pets tbh.
TW: DV
But I watch one video by an Aussie lady about women’s rights and whatnot, and now tiktok thinks that’s all I want to watch. 😭 Like, 4b movement stuff, the rate of homicides, etc. It’s interesting but like, also triggering of course. I’m in the process of re-teaching the algorithm or whatever.
But I also feel like I don’t have a right to talk about my experience, not because of what they’ve said or anything like that. But because my abusive ex was male and male presenting for the VAST majority of our relationship, until the last 6 months where they only came out to me about being a tran-woman. So, like, they’re part of this super marginalised group, having told their friends I was transphobic. I don’t feel like I can talk about it with anyone (besidesy dad and my partner), without, like, playing into that lie they told. I believe they are, of course, trans, but also that they use it as an excuse to not take accountability for their heinous actions. That if I did file a police report, that I’d be called transphobic and a false reporter. What a strange position to be in. Just needed to have a small ranty rant about it, because I haven’t seen anyone else anywhere have, or talk about, an experience like mine without also being transphobic. I always feel like if I talk about it, if I don’t use the right pronouns, or if I clarify “well they were male, but are now female” it’s about women-on-women DV. Which, it wasn’t, but is it?
Ugh, just gonna keep saving up for a psych appointment and hopefully I can start feeling better about being in this tiny bubble of one.
DV absolutely occurs in queer/same sex relationships, and women absolutely do abuse partners. Dickheads come in every stripe and nobody is automatically exempt from being abusive due to their identity.
Police are pretty shit with DV/SA reports in general and there’s no guarantee that a report would go anywhere. But if you felt you wanted to report there are LGBTIA+ liason officers now and if there were sexual offences you can talk to SOCIT.
It’s really hard when your abuser is marginalised but it absolutely does happen, marginalized people can and do punch down on other people, and you have every right to talk about what was done to you. You’re not going after her because she’s trans. You were harmed by what she did, and struggling to even talk about it for fear of feeding into existing transphobic narratives.
A dickhead is a dickhead, no matter what gender they are/were/present as. Bad behaviour/manners should be called out. There’s far too much victim blaming happening. Not a situation I’ve ever faced, so please take that for what its worth, if anything.
Yup
This is the problem with identity politics and only seeing a person through the lense of whatever group they are in.
Being a minority doesn’t let you off the hook and in most cases certainly doesn’t make you special.
I’m more interested in what someone does rather than what they say they are.
Them being trans doesn’t mean that what they did to hurt you wasn’t also abusive. Women - including trans women - are entirely capable of abuse.
I believe you. You deserved better.
At this point Aussie Frugal Living consists entirely of me. Did I establish dominance and win Best Tightarse, so everyone is now too intimidated to post? Because I am pretty good at it. /j 😉
Also if you’ve got frugal food tips/recipes do they go in there or do they go in Food Australia? (ie telling you how to make toasted sandwiches without a jafflemaker, only a frying pan you’ve already got, or how to turn leftovers into fillings)
Probably aussie frugal but I don’t think it matters.
maybe many people who have to live frugally, who are struggling, don’t have the time or energy to post on social media much
Fair enough, time is money. But disabled and unemployed exist
Joined and Posted 👍
Couldn’t see your topic til I checked your history. I see now what’s happened and why I was mostly the only one there… It looks like there are two separate Aussie Frugal instances?
I’ve been posting here https://aussie.zone/c/frugal
And your post is in there https://aussie.zone/c/aussiefrugal@lemmy.world
I’d say that I’d simply been posting in the wrong place but that one is called Aussie Frugal too and has an Oz Bargain link in the side 🤨 No wonder there’s less activity in each if the members are split
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !frugal@aussie.zone, !aussiefrugal@lemmy.world
Good bot
Is Biggest Morning Tea stuff happening at the moment? There’s an event I might go to happening today and I think it’s part of the morning tea stuff
Market run achieved. I have baklava to eat with my tea
Market run achieved, I have coffee nougat to eat with my coffee
Supermarket (BOO) run achieved, but… soft plastic recycling is back. Hoo-fucking-ray!
Went out for dinner tonight, Korean BBQ. On our way out my kids helped out a server who was carrying too many things, when I was paying the tab.
The owner/manager told me I had a beautiful family and that my kids were super polite.
I nearly broke down crying.
