I ordered a specific solvent from my local Bunnings but they didn’t actually have it in stock so a different Bunnings shipped it to me instead and included this note and some lollipops which is very cute, given that it’s just a bottle of oil thinner.

Are there any good natsec podcasts that are easy/informative to listen to and aren’t run by either govt agencies or weird right wing men? I do enjoy the ANU’s National Security Podcast (and recommend) but looking for something else that is more tactical/less strategic.

It’s also the sixth anniversary of the extrajudicial assassination of Qasem Soleimani

forgot to follow this up bc i deactivated for a bit, but shortly after posting this i found out i had a dire thyroid situation and it was prob also why my hair started falling out for a bit too. i started taking iodine supplements and coincidentally the headaches and brain fog went away lol

Falling down a rabbit hole so deep that I have opened a Wikipedia page for ‘Australia’.

I tried to go around this car that was parked in the middle of the brand new bike lane on Great Nth Rd, and managed to skid on the road bumpers in the rain or something and went absolutely flying. I’m quite bruised & was in shock, but otherwise ok. I do hope this cunt gets towed, however.

It’s kind of remarkable that I’ve been painting my toenails every summer for years and yet at no point along the way have I developed any kind of skill or made any improvement.

“Toss Grumley” www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

i don’t think it’s right that everyone has to be on the same internet now.

When it happens, you're probably not even going to learn about it directly before you feel it in the air. You'll just hear car horns and cheering in the streets. You'll feel confused, annoyed. You'll check your phone. Huh, 41 new texts.

i’ve been doing headache astrology all day to figure out whether i have the kind of problem i should probably see a doctor about pretty soon, or if it’s definitely CTE (even though i don’t know any of the symptoms and haven’t even looked it up).

we (first marriage grandchildren) got left out of my grandfather’s obituary entirely and now i’m REALLY feeling this

Dusk weaving by Helen Bower Jones. #art #fiberArt #weaving #textile #artshow

my grandad died this week at 96. he had a long and incredibly colourful life, outliving two daughters, a wife, and an ex wife. i wasn’t close to him- none of his grandchildren from his first marriage were, even tho we all tried- but it has always felt like he would live forever and i’m sad.

I can't explain why but having beef with an aunt and/or an uncle feels very catholic coded

joining a community of like-minded drink bottle owners

some good sunsets i’ve seen lately

Hearing the actual radio interview of Gillibrand talking about Mamdani is so much more upsetting than just reading the transcript. Using violent language like “dagger to the throat” isn’t misspeaking, that’s a deeply intentional smear.

now whenever i see a really annoying post on here, i sign myself out of my account so that i can’t reply and say something that might get me suspended. i think this means i basically invented 3FA? by getting mad online?

i don’t know how to express this in a way that doesn’t expose me for being very dumb, but i did too much thinking today and now my brain hurts

NOT the biggest issue right now, but I thought we shamed people out of pronouncing nuclear as “noo-ky-la” when Bush was president, but now it’s back again?

it’s so dark outside so i took my melatonin and washed my face to get ready for bed, but it’s actually SIX THIRTY PM?? i’ve had enough of winter.

what is a good baby shower gift?

fucking obliterated from orbit by this guy on okcupid

every post i see on threads is from the middle of an argument where it looks like the poster is getting yelled at by everyone online and that should make them more sympathetic, but then u click thru and it’s immediately clear they absolutely deserve it. and that’s why i had to delete the app

babe is everything ok? your vorpal blade isn’t going snicker-snack

Seeing a guy who looks like this run a company that does all that makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. No one has ever looked more obviously sinister.

i’m starting to feel a specific type of way about seeing specific mutual aid requests on here

has anyone done warhammer to look like cicely mary barker’s flower fairies?

another pearler

The other night I went into my kitchen and jumped out of my skin a little bit to see a morepork staring straight at me from outside. Really special moment, I’ve never seen one irl before!

It’s so hard to find Tend Skin for sale now that it makes me worry it was discontinued for cancer causing chemicals or something and I just never found out (don’t tell me)

It is so funny to be doing this is a clothing brand and yet still only be selling sizes 6-14 (NZ/AU/UK).

delusional. he’s 2 years old tops.

My main problem with British people is that they will just not give it a rest about not letting everyone else call it ‘soccer’.

One of the things I do really like about Auckland after years of living in Wellington is that the weather gets good enough for people to have actual fruit trees in their yards, and for those fruit trees to actually grow fruit.

After New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, a 14-year-old Palestinian American who was raised in New Jersey was killed by Israel in the West Bank on Sunday, and Cory Booker hasn't said a thing about this:

I genuinely think SSRIs have a side effect of making me immune to mosquito bites. I take a very low dose of fluoxetine for PMDD and I briefly forgot to fill my prescription earlier this summer and almost immediately got mosquito bites all over my arms and shoulders for the first time since 2008

I bought a bottle of oil yesterday afternoon and then yesterday evening while I was cooking dinner, it rolled off the bench and smashed on the kitchen tiles right at my feet. I feel good about this actually.

Living in a country with a supermarket duopoly that has already been investigated for ‘cartel-like practices’ is good, actually www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ani O’Brien really is one of this country’s least intellectually curious women.

getting hit by a bus because i think it's a big fuzzy cat with fucked up hands

i got to hold an adorable smiling baby today who also tried to pinch MY cheeks with her tiny pudgy hands

I know we're no longer doing the due process thing but perhaps still worth pointing out that Rubio has presented zero evidence that this Turkish student did anything other than write an op-ed.

every group chat has: - the secretary of defense - the high ranking military official carrying out kinetic operations in a country we’re not officially at war with - the editor in chief of the Atlantic

what was this freak up to?

Need a pick me up? Here’s Meryl’s “I’ll make you love a white fleece” attempt for this year. Successful once again.

I bet it would feel absolutely amazing to smash this $560 mug on the kitchen tiles.

"Among those calling with concerns about the pope recently was a woman who told Sister Anthony that she is Muslim but likes Francis, and wanted to inquire about his health." apnews.com/article/pope...

I have been obsessed since finding out there is a town called Fertile in Minnesota.