shameful

That's gorgeous!

and look at it's colour, so pretty

Cool!

I love this!

hello maggie

Man that looks awesome!

so pretty

Great photo. I tried to set it as an eye friendly background on my monitor to replace the top view of a pineapple field that I currently have but KDE is being less helpful than I have patience. Saved to downloads until I work out how.

I also missed this awesome news, congratulations! 🎉👏🏼

As it should be! Poor Mr Moose needs love too

Heck yeah!

Grateful for: telfast
Stable, comfortable employment with great colleagues and manager
Sardines in a tin
Noodles of all kinds
My friends who accept me as I am
The wide variety of breakfast options available for free every morning

Flufball

My friends

The strays

New role

My health

My studio full of stuff I love

I'm grateful for
Mango season
Only one day of heat
Coffee
I did my housework yesterday so I can relax today.

• My partner.
• My freedom to choose (even if I don't take it up)
• My boss who gives me way too much flexibility
• Sunshine

• Mickey
• Partner
• Coffee
• Dad
• My friends
• being alive

Melbcat, my dear familiar girl.

One or two good friends to talk me down.

• The Seagoons
• Peace
• Music
• Reading and Writing
• Movies

• Getting to know my brother again after him being 18 months away.
• Finding a house in the countryside to share with my bestest mate
• All the weird critters that share the yard.
• Lemmy and you lot.
  
  

WTF. I’m so sorry. This is terrifying. There’s no way to know how a violent person might react if you tried to intervene, he could escalate the violence. The fight/flight/freeze primitive brain is usually very good at making the right choice, otherwise we would have died out as a species. I think mental institutions are not always a bad thing. Nobody benefits from this guy being on the street. Not him, not his victims, not the police, not the bystanders. There must be a better way.

Holy shit. I hope you're ok now. I don't know what else to say. That's fucked.

How frightening for you, I don't think any of us know how we'd react when faced with something like that. There is something very wrong with our system where an assault like that isn't worth reporting. I hope you can process this and it doesn't change the kind soul you are 🩷

That's a really scary situation to be involved in, I'm sorry that happened to you and on your birthday too. Something is in the air in Melbourne lately. That random stabbing in the news today and now what you've described. After my pumpkin attack episode earlier in the year (which the police did not take seriously at all), I am so much more vigilant of the people around me and keep my distance from anyone acting strangely.

so many hugs , that's just terrible, and yes, standing still is a tactic our brain uses, you survived, you did good

and you tried to help too

more hugs

I’m so sorry, Melbourne is getting so fucked. And it’s illegal to even carry stuff for self defence.

That was the freeze response (which you probably know) and is designed to protect you. I hope you’re doing alright in the aftermath.

You did the right thing, intervening would have only put yourself in harm's way. It sounds the aggressor may not only have mental health issues, but meth/drug issues as well, and you can't know how they're going to act at any given minute.

Try to occupy your hands and brain with a physical task - a simple game (Tetris, or a simple puzzle game) can help with processing what happened.

You're going to be okay, sending you good vibes and love 💜

Ewe knead peace boat steps

You need to bite down ?? Kinda looks like the great Australian bite

There's nothing else quite like it

The cool change has alread come through Ballarat too, it definitely didn't get up to advertised temperature. I was worried about getting too hot working outside (it is in full sun) but I've had to stop working due to rain instead.