Week 2 of Gaielge lessons, forgot to print my workbook again, oops

It is Monday morning and I am full of anxiety. For a bunch of reasons. I mean *gestures broadly* I am going to do what I can to keep me going. That may involve all the puppy cuddles. Though she's snoozing so I better not disturb. Steve Dee always advocated for letting dogs make their own choices.

I am going to a birthday party in a bikini. Oh boy, I really have gone on quite the journey since moving here 7 years ago. Wait, it's been 7 years since I moved to Perth?!

Love is driving to your spouseman's work in the middle of your morning to take him his medication he forgot to take and get stuck in heavy traffic and don't even mind because he needed my help.

So they're not going to tell us who the Perth terrorist is, anyone else think it's because he's related to someone in power? Or with money? And they're going to say oh, he has mental illness/his wife left him and make all the usual excuses?

Can someone please explain why my parcel that left Sydney is now in Hobart? It is coming to Perth. Why has it left the continent for the one state I've never visited? It contains temperature sensitive medication so I am a bit concerned.

I am feeling the desire to put out writing. Pondering starting a Substack. My brain is so overloaded, I know writing helps me process. I miss Livejournal.

In Australia, a bed quilt that throws outrageous artistic tantrums is a prima doona.

I am so fucking grateful to be able to be in control of the temperature and noise in my environment now I'm home. I was crying in frustration on the drive home. Got to regulate before I yell at someone. I got Jon Batiste singing and nice cold air moving around. Going to organise some stuff.

We used to think I was allergic to something at our local shopping centre because of how ill I would get there, but it turns out, it was the autism. Noise and temperature are my two main sensory issues 🙃 and it's loud there and temperature varies wildly. I need to control the noise & temperature.

I'm at my weekly massage, the aircon isn't on in the waiting room and the radio is super loud and badly tuned so it's very staticy. Oh and my internet on my phone keeps buffering and cutting out my music. This is hell. I am in hell.

It seems I remembered about Bluesky again today. I do not remember about it most of the time. It's nothing personal.

There's nothing to make me worry faster than my food obsessed dog not being interested in her breakfast. She seems ok now, she came to hassle me for my shortbread, but I'm keeping an eye on her.

Mabel demanding to sit in the leg nest. Dogs just being goofballs. Elephants. Seals. Penguins. Animals in general. Kneecap & the revival of the Irish language. Joy. Irreverence. My partners. My friends. A proper make out session. Flowy dresses. The ocean. Brightly coloured frogs. Care Bears.

I am very bad at remembering this place exists. I am very sad about the death of my lovely friend Steve Dee. He helped me with all 3 of my dogs over the years & I had been planning to book a session to find out how best to help Mabel with her upcoming surgeries. Pat a dog in his memory. Here's mine

This was the way we were going to celebrate my 40th birthday. But Mabel needs surgery so not happening. Really hate to see these go to waste.

My partner's lovely Staffy Mabel is in need of some major operations on her legs or shes liable to lose the use of them in the near future. That's going to be expensive. Beyond being a beloved family member, she's important emotional support.I want to do all I can for her gofund.me/be2d68ae4

I know life is a nightmare so if you can't donate, sharing is still great. Mabel is lame in both her back legs. Tomorrow is 4 years since she came home with us and hasn't left my side ever since gofund.me/be2d68ae4

Stay tuned for news about this upcoming digital quarterly magazine of fantasy fiction! ✨🌱

I need to clean up my feed, I got a bit overexcited when I was setting up. Might see if I can sort things into lists or whatever they're called here.

Ugh, too many noises for after midnight

Happy Birthday to the first girl I fell in love with & dated the boy who was in love with her because teenage me didn't understand I was bisexual and definitely wouldn't have accepted it.

#infinitynikki invite code- xnafe - American server

As usual, people are blowing this way out of proportion. The bot is not in your servers. It has been added to Discord's repository of approved bots, server owners can selectively add them. You would need to manually add this. All the ban command does is pre-emptively add it to your ban list.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

What is that you say Skippy? The entire Coalition fell in the well?? Fill it with rocks Skip, we don´t want those bastards back ever again!!

In case you need to send this to some dingus the next time they bring up how using AI is fine + good, actually.

Anyone want to add me on Infinity Nikki? I'm on the American server! Friend code below! xnafe

Fun fact, JK—who is English—single-handedly funded the Scotland remain movement during the referendum, and called separatists “bigots”. She’s the reason there’s no independent Scotland. She throws her money and clout around like she’s fucking Nigel Farage. She’s a billionaire corrupting politics.

JRR Tolkien inventing Gollum: “this story needs a weirdo”

New from me. Would really love if you shared with your loved ones, colleagues, or anyone who has expressed they'd like to do something but are not sure what x heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/how-can-i-...

Authors - stop using AI to create promo images! Why are you trashing other creatives? Find a photographer/illustrator and team up with them - there are LOTS and you can build something genuinely affirming and good for both of you rather than stomping over visual artists for your own benefit.

Honestly I would rather never be fucking published than engage with AI. I may have just pissed off a lot of people in a WA writers group and frankly I don't fucking care. They can contribute to making the world a worse place, I won't. Also, don't fucking accuse me of using Siri. I loathe Apple.

Oh no. Anyway.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I have spent a long time trying to find myself and I find that non-binary femme is what currently works for me as a gender identity. But also, fae creature smooshed into a human body. I'm also bisexual and polyamorous.

Millie is one of the most important people in my life and I feel blessed to know her ❤️

In case of emergency: A map of every capybara in the UK and France www.google.com/maps/@/data=...

The orang-utan matriarch at Melbourne Zoo flirted with Jesse when we visited. Apparently she likes the ginger lads.

Tbh sometimes you just need a picture of Pedro Pascal with a goat to brighten your day.

I keep forgetting about this app. My brain is overloaded. Basically just crying a lot lately. Nothing all that different.

Cartoons voiced by real animals (Episode 2): Fox

So #fountainpen people, I'm getting married at some point & I'm wanting a special pen to sign the marriage certificate. My most expensive pens are Lamy Al-Stars so I've not branched into the world of the fancier pen yet. I don't want to spend more than $500AUD & I'm a lefty, he's a righty. Ideas? ❤️

Friends, I'm so tired. 3 weeks post surgery, pain is so bad. I'm completely incapable of emotional regulation. I developed a random infection because my body is so overloaded. I don't know how I'd keep going without my beloveds right now. Also chubbles. Especially Potato Chip, look at him.

Second, now that you've admired the puppy, you can have a nice evening duckling video. They tried to eat my hands, and my pants, and covered me in mud. Hurray.

what is a polycule but a writer and editor circle

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

your 30s are just your 20s but you finally have names for all the shit that's wrong with you both physically and mentally. also the silly freak shit you like will still be there. hitting 30 does not turn your interests into mist

I'm pretty out of touch with knitting so I had no idea this was happening! Awful!

I have more clothes on right now than I have had for days. Let's see how this whole miserable leaving the house business goes.