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  • Heading to a 90's partay this w/e so desperately trying to find all the worst 90's things.

    Found my old G-SHOCK watch and it is peak shitty 90's I love it. It even tells you barometric pressure for some reason.

    • those G-shock watches are good

      and they still work even when the internets and phone system is down!!

      I'm also not forced to use my phone ( I'm looking at you fit bit 🤬, fit bit is now a security risk and basically a brick)

      • And you don’t need a new one every 3 years. Mine’s 9 years old and still perfect. Changed battery and band once.

    • looks at the G-Shock on his wrist*

      aww man...

  • An honest woman lies at rest

    As e'er God with his image blest;

    The friend of man, the friend of truth,

    The friend of age, and guide of youth:

    Few hearts like hers, with virtue warm'd,

    Few heads with knowledge so informed:

    If there's another world, she lives in bliss;

    If there is none, she made the best of this.

    With apologies to Robbie Burns, but it's fitting. Thank you EAL

  • The last couple of days I've been washing my kitchen ceiling and it's hard fucking work. I used to get up on a ladder and do it by hand but I'm old now so I use one of these.

    Anyway this is the shit that comes off my timber ceiling on to my trusty cloths.

    You can't do that with microfibre

  • Finally settled at home, my feet hurt mega bad, no thanks to it healing from allergies.

    I returned with 8x 5pks of noodles , mixed varieties, frozen veg, fried shallots, some bean curd skin and more hash browns and some chippies as a treat. Also couldn’t help but pick up a can of herring and some smoked oysters.

    This will sate my desire for msg laden noodles for awhile.

    Food budget has been spent and exceeded a little bit I will eat very well!

    • Let me know what you think of the oysters!

      • Will do. I got the ones in oil.

        I just felt like eating some down the line and I’m not sure there’s much to view on other than taste.

        Oh they were from Aldi as well.

  • I regret wearing short sleeves with no jacket and shorts. My bones hurt and my fingers are stiff (and not the fun kind). I need to look at getting an official diagnosis for hypermobility things because my fingers just, they lock into place especially when it's cold.

  • Ugh C-link is taking a millenia to process my partner's switch from AusStudy to Jobseeker, so they're giving me his rent assistance portion which means he prolly won't get a payment tomorrow.

    Yes Centrelink, $151 rent assistance is enough for my $1868 rent 🙄🙄🙄

    Fuck fuck fucking fuck fuck

    • $1868 rent

      :(

    • Yes Centrelink, $151 rent assistance is enough for my $1868 rent 🙄🙄🙄

      This is why I've never bothered faffing around with Centerlink whenever I've been between jobs. The amount you get from them wouldn't even cover rent. Just gotta get a new job ASAP.

  • Got the washing hung out just as it clouded over for real.
    Hope the warm air and the wind finish the job.

  • ears jumping inside. air pressure dropping.

    • That explains why Bill Cat was yelling at me. His hay fever is bad this year and he's scratched up his face so badly.

  • 9am and I've already walked the dog and finished off the tree planting I didn't get to yesterday 🙂 Hopefully I can get a decent amount of work in on the new garden beds before the weather gets too bad - at the moment it is lovely and sunny, and I'm going to try to enjoy every minute of it while it lasts. 🌞

  • So I got a lot of upvotes for my request for you all to help the many organisations ready willing and able to accept your support. But no comments. Someone has downvoted a lot of comments, like gone through my profile clicking. I mean it's very petty but this is the crap we endure and it's often after tv programs like the one which aired the other night. I won't reference it but my family members watched and it was a bit of a witch hunt. Now I have to waste time I should be chilling out in writing about it, challenging the garbage with family.

    Racism gets squashed and called out for very good reason, but transphobes are allowed "an opinion" and people do not much to help. Getting my pronouns right will not help my friend obtain full time work. Being an "ally" means fighting alongside us in my opinion. The organisations will have much more measured dialogue, but I don't represent any of them. I volunteer with one of them, but I'm not allowed to speak on their behalf and am not bound by the same codes of ethics their paid staff are. I can't change this thing about myself any more than someone can change their heritage. Would you call someone out for saying disparaging things about a Yinnar man with very pale skin like one of my friends?

    It's a serious issue world wide and people calling themselves "allies" just comes across as them feeling sorry for us a lot of the time. People still think we have a choice in the matter but the reality is you either allow yourself the incredible personal honesty required in the face of discrimination or you slowly die. 37% of young transgender people have attempted suicide, that's just the young ones who have been surveyed. but many many of us spend years thinking about it before diagnosis. Ask me how I know?

    So, no one commented on my post about helping my community. I think I gave very clear options. Is everyone just going to sit on their hands? Plenty of upvotes but you see why I say people are all talk. I give people options to make a real difference and it's crickets.

    I'm not angry or disappointed and this is not attacking anyone, we all have capacities and I don't expect people to drop everything to help. I wish I didn't need to have to explain all this stuff, but I feel obligated to. And just so you're aware, I was a volunteer being realising I was trans. I recognised something needed to be done and stepped up. I'm done, I have to go to work. Thx for reading... especially my downvoter, wasting your time is a privilege.

    • Nah.

      You don't get to just blanket admonish us like that.

      You have no idea what we do or don't do to support people who are trans. You have no idea if we are sitting on our hands. You have no idea if we are "all talk".

      Trans struggle isn't the only struggle going on right now.

      Trans issues aren't the number one priority for everyone.

      You aren't angry, disappointed, or on the attack? You don't want us to drop everything to comment, volunteer or donate?

      Then why did you post this diatribe?

      • Someone said "we want to help, how can we help?" I posted a quite thorough explanation of how to help but heard nothing back. I'm allowed to post my reaction to that. But now I'm the arsehole? I expected at least some discourse honestly.

    • I support you and the Trans community endlessly, but I cannot safely volunteer at those organisations nor put myself within the Trans community. I fear my ex is there, somewhere, and I know they transitioned (mtf) after we broke up; they raped, gaslit, and abused me in every way imaginable for 8 years. I cannot be a volunteer I'm sorry, but I'll be here supporting your journey, offsetting every downvote you get. You are amazing, and resilient, strong for posting this in the face of constant micro-aggressions and discriminations. You have my love always. I'm sorry I cannot do more than be a keyboard warrior for you.

      • I get that totally, thanks hun. Fuck that person in particular. I too fear a lot of what I should be able to call safe spaces. ie smith st. My abusers party there a lot.

    • I get you're angry and frightened - and with good bloody reason - but that post didn't invite commentary. Anyone who signed up new for those org would have done so off lemmy. Anyone who already works with them wouldn't have commented about it - that's rather ironically virtue signalling. There was literally nothing that required further discussion.

      You're complaining about a lack of visibility that wasn't called for.

      • I'm not frightened, I refuse to live in fear of bigots. I don't agree with what you've written. I have a right to vent here too. If you were targeted you too would ne left feeling alienated if you felt no one could bother to respond. And almost no one has.

    • so many many big hugs,

      it's so hard to work for freedoms and rights and better lives, and at the end of a week we are exhausted and we see no change

      and it's perfectly right to be angry , but be angry at the abusers

      there are so many things in society that need changing, so many people who need help, not just here but all over the world

      no one can do it all, not even the most powerful people in the world can do it all, they can barely do anything

      but together if we all do something, if we do anything, then the world will be a better place

      • I'm not angry with anyone here. Just left feeling alienated. The mods have been great. I think my point is valid and I'm definitely not the only trans person who feels like this. This was my original point about allies made kinda clear, many of feel like this honestly. I understand and stated I understand most people are already at capacity. But just getting people's pronouns right while nice and respectful isn't doing much either and we've had to fight for that. I can't keep removed here though, this whole exchange has made me realise I don't care for this place as much I once did. The fact is I'm the only person who is openly talking about being trans here and someone keeps downvoting ONLY my content. See above.

  • Exercises completed. Load of washing hung out. Minipeelers prepped for excursion. I've got to hit the ground running in the morning or I feel behind all day. We're having one of our big clean-up days at work where we dismantle and move and clean large plant equipment so I'm ready💪

  • Have done a beach walk, picked up my antihistamines and done an Aldi run.
    Now to peel myself off the couch and into the shower...

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