Family in Wife Swap: people don’t just go to the cemetery and have a picnic? What is wrong with this family? Me, Chinese Australian who went to the cemetery once a month growing up and ate lunch for Ching Ming: they don’t???

Every night it’s just me vs Moggil Road.

people *mocked* Anna Komnene for being convinced every western crusade was really about sacking Constantinople but she just keeps winning

I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is

I have been feeling very unwell the last two weeks. This has led to the buying of eight books, two sets of stickers from two different people, four new teas and leggings. My impulse control died.

Jordan has bought tickets to Fiddler on the Roof for my birthday.

Today’s pain killer of choice is panadeine, because panadol and ibuprofen weren’t cutting it today.

Google and Translink telling me the bus left the stop when it never stopped in the first place???

Why is someone rolling their cigarette on the bus? Wouldn’t you worry about tobacco going everywhere?

I’m reading the ‘Books of Jacob’ by Olga Tokarczuk and I got about halfway through before I worked out Jacob Frank was a real person.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

I’m watching old episodes of Wife Swap and it’s the Balloon Boy family.

An outbreak of the long-dormant, highly contagious bacterial infection diphtheria in Western Australia's north is raising alarm among government officials and experts.

He attempted osmosis this morning.

It’s a miracle I don’t work in a cat shelter, I just saw a trio of kittens and I mentally called them Pathos, Logos and Ethos.

I’m in the timeline where John Farnham’s ‘Two Strong Hearts’ is being used to demonstrate Palestinian solidarity because I live in the most questionable of Australian states.

I’ve had a rough week with my body and thought it was over last night. Only to have to get up every two hours to pee. I am so tired. Can I trade my body in for a new model?

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

The flu vaccine made me very fatigued and I stayed home from work as a result.

The animatronic Paddington Bear they use in the musical is genuinely terrifying to me. People keep telling me it’s cute, but it can see inside my soul.

I suspect it’s not just me but when you translate an Ancient Greek word into English do you also go down an etymology rabbit hole regarding the English word you use?

Saving for "State your mood in one image" threads.

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

Being into cats feels so debasing. You give everything over to this animal — time, labor, money — but when you want them to sit next to you, they refuse and jump away. When they finally sit on your lap, you sit motionless to the point of physical pain, afraid to disturb them. Humiliating.

Were pirates proto-communists?

I am so happy that the wretched Orbán lost in Hungary. Gratulálok Magyar Péternek. #OrbánEgyGeci

An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts. The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance. (Published 2022)

My mum is on video call any godfather called her because he is giving my maternal grandparents flowers at the cemetery and cannot remember their location.

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

Jordan makes a lovely chili that’s delicious and spicy. But it seems it triggers my ibs whenever I eat it.

I’m not sure which of the sordid details to focus on (in what is the least surprising revelation imaginable) but let me start by clarifying that I taught tutorials for almost a decade: not once did I accidentally slip my tongue into someone’s ear - that is in no sense an occupational hazard.

BREAKING: Ben Roberts-Smith, the former Victoria Cross winner and Australian solider, has been arrested and is expected to be charged with five counts of war crime – murder www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's Qing Ming. Remembering our ancestors and those who have passed.

Update

I think I’m having a side effect of the Covid booster, that being diarrhea. Not great but better than having Covid. Thank god I bought a new pack of 20 Imodium last week.

Jordan and I cleaned out the bookcase and we have like four or five bags to donate somewhere.

Who called it Orion and the ship Artemis?

I’ve done groceries, Pilates, Covid vaccine and now waiting to do a blood test. Once that’s done I can go home and start my long weekend.

At the neck physio for my headaches and they have one of those diffusers near the front desk and I have to hold in my breath because stuff like that can give me a headache.

At ‘Torch the Place’ written by @mrbenjaminlaw.bsky.social at Queensland Theatre. Explaining to Jordan the hoarding gene is strong in the Chinese side of my family.

Elizabeth Banks

I’ve booked a Covid vaccine and a flu vaccine in the next couple of weeks.

I swear the bus has the heater on. I don’t think people in Brisbane can cope when the temperature dips under 25 degrees.

“Once it sweeps away daily abundance, war is a violent teacher: it makes the passions of most people equal to present need.” ὁ δὲ πόλεμος ὑφελὼν τὴν εὐπορίαν τοῦ καθ’ ἡμέραν βίαιος διδάσκαλος καὶ πρὸς τὰ παρόντα τὰς ὀργὰς τῶν πολλῶν ὁμοιοῖ #Thucydides

Hesiod is being very sweet for a cat who woke me up at 2am with zoomies and then proceeded to free fall behind the armchair.

Hesiod joined us for reading time this afternoon.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

I would recommend getting almost nine hours of sleep.