Well… I said I’d just do a couple of boxes but 4 hours of hyper focus later I’ve done about six boxes and five bags and cleared out much more space in the living room. Can actually watch TV now!
If I do up the bookshelf on the weekend I could be done with the entire living room area! Need to also do up the bedframe asap, bloody thing is so heavy and cumbersome. I’m definitely getting rid of it (donating/tip) once I move out of here
Good work.👍
I’m not going to give her any more catnip for a while 👀
Edit: it’s been around 5 hours and she’s still sort of high lol. She seems to be having fun though!
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Turning out pretty well so far
That looks absolutely stunning! I love the colours in particular, that off white goes so beautifully with the warm blues and greens and purple
a cushion? That looks really beautiful. 🙂
Thanks! Yes, there will be a pair. Friend gifted me some beautiful offcuts. Squeezing all I can out of them.
damnit art books are expensive 😬
Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘😘😘
I don’t know about anybody else but I’ve stopped reading the news and while I wouldn’t describe myself as brimming with joy overall I’m feeling less anxious.
Been doing the same for the most part though I did want to catch up on the story about the teens who methanol spiked drink’s unfortunately and sadly there hasn’t been good news about it.
Had it mostly off since the US election concluded.
Same. My twitter threads and my friends feed me enough to keep me updated anyway.
I’m staying off the big media and just trying to look at facts
it’s a bit easier that way
Coles lemonade isn’t too tasty… it’s a bit sickly and chemical, I’d swear it was artificially flavoured or sweetened if it didn’t say it wasn’t.
Thought I’d leave my West-facing bedroom window cracked open so it wouldn’t be full of stale hot air during the day - bad idea. Will be kept open overnight then closed firmly shut with blinds all the way down tomorrow morning.
Super grateful for the food I bought, wished I’d grabbed a bit more. It’s like a gift from heaven, being fed by someone else’s efforts 🥰
First order of the evening: bossa nova music on, and time to unpack the important kitchen boxes so I have my surfaces available again. Then sit down and enjoy dinner with the week’s episode of Shrinked on the lappy. Feeling good because despite feeling brain dead for most of the day at uni, I managed to get my brain to do something useful at the end.
What bossa nova do you like? 🙂
Interview went OK I think. It’s been ages since I’ve interviewed. We’ll see how it plays out 🤞🏾
The shoebox is surprisingly still popular lol
I hope everything will be ok.
Honestly I don’t mind my current role. I just wanted to dip my toe and see whats out there tbh
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Why does everyone here have to dump shit on the US all the time? (and never any other countries)
At least you’re punching up and not down so that’s admirable I guess.
I do it mostly because I’m a petty bastard, and tend to treat people how I feel they treat me. My experience with most people (in an online form) from the US is that they have such a horrendous habit of US defaulting and a ridiculous superiority complex. Also a bit of tall poppy syndrome happening there
They’re also basically the very manifestation of capitalism, greed, selfishness, and monopolistic practices, and COVID/gun control issues very much proved that an uncomfortably large portion of their population has zero care or concern for anything resembling the common good, or public benefit. And whilst I realise we have these issues here, too, they’re a lot more pronounced in the US (although I will grant that’s probably because they also have an exponentially higher population than we do).
And countries are more or less just the sum of their people, particularly in a democracy, no matter how flawed
(FWIW, I hang pretty much an equal amount of shit on Australia, too, when our pollies make decisions I strongly disagree with, or that don’t align with my moral compass. I think a part of my dislike probably comes from a fear that if left unchecked, we’ll basically end up being mini America, which I think we’re already on the path to becoming)
E: and to address the last part of your question, I don’t really hang shit on Russia/china because I’m not entirely convinced that they are quite as bad as American media tends to make them out to be. Don’t get me wrong, I’m well aware that china is pretty dystopian, makes very liberal use of slave labour, and that Russia uses propaganda bots online, but the US does/has in the past done that as well. And I simply don’t know enough about Russia or China to feel like my opinion is really worth having. Likewise for most non western countries. I don’t feel comfortable criticising things happening in large swaths of Asia primarily because I don’t know enough about local customs, norms, beliefs, etc to feel comfortable holding an opinion. It kind of feels like I’ll end up just being another white person telling African countries what they’re doing wrong from the comfort of my couch on the other side of the world, or lambasting Cambodia for their poverty problems when I don’t know why it’s like that and can’t propose a solution.
The US is a different story, because they’re a western country, similar enough to Australia that I feel I can make assumptions and decisions about, and their politics/happenings are fucking everywhere. Can’t use the internet without stupid decisions in America being shoved down my throat…so I’ve read/seen/heard enough assessments about what’s happening, and why, to inform my opinions
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They are the ones making abortion and trans rights an issue, they are screwing up the lives of Australians.
we have the choice to ignore them and follow our own issues
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No it isn’t. There are choices.
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The US and Russia are both cancers on this earth, Russia has bots that post anti-trans, anti-lgbtqa+, anti-women, racist shite, and the US laps it up.
I agree with you on this. This is all so fucked up.
The bots are so bad.
You can tell when it’s a bot. They never offer solutions. They only offer hate and division. They never look for conciliation or understanding. It’s us and them. Victim and transgressor. There is no nuance, no history. They are quick to accuse, stereotype and name call.
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Why do you lie so much . Stop putting words in my mouth. Lying is a hateful act.
Show me exactly where I wrote what you said?
It’s Australia’s choice to follow the news about the prejudices of America and the choice of foolish and misguided and even hateful people to act on those prejudices. We could choose to be ourselves, we could choose to report and focus on many European countries and aspire to have many of the same social policies.
But I think the main reason American news and social movements, for the good and bad, are reported on and followed are because we share the same language, English.
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Because the US is literally one of the most powerful nations and militaries on Earth, and they have a rapist, treasonous, failed businessman as a president. During a time when Russia has decided to stretch itself into a facsimile of it’s Roman Empire inspiration of conquer and assimilate, Israel and Palestine are going at it really fucking hard, and they all (besides Palestine) have nuclear weapons.
Yeah, I think we’re allowed to be vocally critical of them.
Not one of. The US is the richest and most militarily powerful country in history. They have so many natural resources and such good human resources they can afford to make many mistakes and not really lose any ability or potential.
The EU comes in second.
I would think that question is fairly easy to answer, considering recent events.
Fuck 'em, and everyone else don’t care which country or their horses that they rode in on including everybody without horses I don’t discriminate unless it’s a miniature horse (bit of a soft spot for those little guys).
Them and Shetland ponies are adorable. 💜
/rant incoming.
unpopular opinion
Shetland ponies are bonsai carthorses. With extra attitude. I’ve had a fair bit to do with them over the years - I have a lot of respect for them but not much affection. Little turds. It’s the floof factor that tolls in the general public, and is highly deceptive as a guide to general character. They’re smarter than most humans and a whole lot stronger. Certainly not suitable as kids’ ponies imo due to general oppositional attitude. I’ve seen so many kids scared out of horsemanship by a ‘cute’ shetland pony who got the wood over the kid from day one.
Don’t know much about minis but I have a deep distaste for these mutants. Same as for munchkin cats - a human creation that isn’t really viable as a cat but feeds the human preference for neoteny. Like dogs bred for extra ‘cuteness’ at the cost of their health and longevity. Too many spend their lives in constant pain as a result of their human preferred and encouraged disabilities. But they’re cuuuuuute so will continue to exist to feed our human fantasies for pseudohumans that cannot grow up into true adults. Don’t get me started on the whole concept of furbabies. I know this view isn’t shared by a lot of people.
Commensal animals are NOT human - and we do them a huge disservice by pretending to ourselves that they are human babies. We owe them the respect of treating them in accordance with their species - not trying to force them into a human mould and a pretty horrible and exploitative human mould at that.
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Are you originally from the United States?
The press here has been anti usa ever since founding in the early 19th C. It’s so we don’t get ideas about freedom and revolution and breaking ties with the UK. Also why they banned guns in the 1850s, don’t want a repeat of the Eureka Stockade and more, eh.
Interestingly, accepted public opinion is that England is ok and America is awful but in real life Aussies don’t like English people and do like Americans. ( generally speaking )
One of my least favourite things that Americans do is ask why characters are speaking with a British accent, in a game made by a non-American developer based in a country that does not have English as the first language.
They did it with Wukong and now they’re doing it with STALKER. Why do we let the yanks run the world, again?
Not that I like to generalise but a lot of them don’t comprehend that the rest of the world outside of the US exist.
Time zones and release dates tend to confuse them as well.
Add them to the list of reminders we’re on America’s Internet™.
They are just asking. So just ignore them.
I prefer to gently challenge the American supremacy built-in to the question.
Even within America there would be arguments. What American accent should characters have? There is so much prejudice there about accent.
I went to drop a box of stuff off to the new place today, and checked the letterbox. Fuck me it must’ve been empty for a while, there were easily about 75 letters/junkmail/magnet things crammed in there. I grabbed them out and had a quick flick through them, and it seems that was a bad idea. There were two dead snails living on the mail, having eaten through half of it, and tiny jumping things. Fucking hope they aren’t bed bugs or lice or something. Never doing that again. Next time it’s all going directly into the bin
I did go and have the most delicious Szechuan chicken curry I think I’ve ever had though. Too spicy for me, so I got a container to bring it back in. Quite reasonable prices though, I can see myself being lazy and getting curry for tea every night. Only a 10 min walk from the new place
Put a layer of snail pellets on the base of the letterbox, then cover with a sheet of baking paper cut to size. Should stop any further snail invasions. And keep your mail nice and dry.
Inside the letterbox, or outside?
Inside.
Probably springtails, they’re attracted to damp so probably living in the paper. They’re harmless. Bedbugs wouldn’t live there. They like warm claustrophobic environments and want to be near people.
Smart to be cautious though
Oh, neat, didn’t know they were a thing. Hopefully that’s all it was
I still chucked my clothes through the wash/drier and washed my hair anyways. I think I’m fine, just gave me a fright!
Decided to take tomorrow off since I have 190 sick days and in combination of feeling crappy I’m not going to put up with people’s horrible attitude and shit.
I also went by Aldi, got some frankfurts, chips and a couple of bottles of wine and a meat lovers pizza to help me get through the weekend.
Bring on the early weekend fuckers!
sounds like a good plan. 🥂🍟 🍕
The question is pizza tonight or pizza tomorrow?
I only have 1 sadly.
1/2 tonight, 1/2 tomorrow
I just had an Aldi strawberry diet shake 🫥
Nah. I can’t do that. I’ll save it for tomorrow, I might just make a little chicken crispy sub tonight.
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Thank you Chef! It’s appreciated.
flake and chips and 2 potato cakes and one banana fritter please
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Rant: TVs without buttons are stupid. If you mislay or break the remote it has zero functionality. Grrr.
