today was a garden day: reconfigured the chicken coop, planted cabbage, wasabi, lettuce and fennel, split galangal, ginger and chive plants, refilled water spikes and planted two correas into an empty spot. Trimmed some plants. Our garlic has started to peek through the mulch.

The best men and boys in my life have been themselves in ways that speak to a wider range of life perspectives and attitudes. They aren't obsessed with making other people jealous of how they are or what they have, because they're busy being themselves. They're warmly cool.

HAPPY TASKMASTER PREMIERE DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Hard pivot from "maybe everything is over" to "the guy who made VEEP is on Taskmaster this week"

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

i live in a country where sambal oelek is in most supermarkets and it rules

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I am at the sublime show and I am not here for sublime but I am very here for Blind Melon’s No Rain playing in between bands

fashions at the Sublime show, a thread (i am here with my 15yo and her friends, wearing blue jeans, a t shirt and a yellow leather jacket, for transparency purposes)

❤️❤️❤️

My argument was, you will never learn to think through your own values and arguments if someone else is summarizing complex things for you. This was true of Cliffs Notes and is also true of AI.

up early to tell the sea I am getting married to some one else. She understands and supports my decision

“letting kids be kids” = slates and lunch pails for everyone, Pa! Nelly Olsen won’t quit pulling my braids!

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

What if I simply got married to the woman I love in three days time

I have four hours of work to do before we leave for actual proper wedding things and the internet has stopped working so I am using my phone which is less than ideal, but also all anyone wants to talk to me about today is the wedding and I really need them to focus on helping me hit my deadlines

I got a horrific bruise after a 1:30am ED blood test on Saturday and one of my best friends said to me “maybe you were too dehydrated” and this feels pretty victim blamey honestly?

if you’re not following Euro women’s soccer you might have missed that Barca have inexplicably racked up 100 goals in 23 matches, conceding only 5. WTAF.

I made a huge meal for A’s 15th birthday dinner with triende: brisket, chicken, corn, salads and salsas, cheese and Harry’s home made tortillas. I thought “there will be so much left over, great planning for the week!” To my utter delight they demolished the whole meal and left hardly any!

🚨 International Tiramisu Day 🚨

the life changing magic of washing my car

Facebook reminding me that it’s the 11 year anniversary of the time I got cornered by a National Treasure who wanted to insist to me that workplace sexual harrassment laws were counter to women being happy (dating their coworkers)

the thing about having zero introspection is it really allows you to completely focus on yourself and ignore absolutely everyone else except for occasional moments where you have the curiosity of a cat with a bug it’s going to squash when it gets bored

Leqaa Kordia, who spent a year in ICE detention because she protested for Palestine, is free today.

Griffiths Island lighthouse

I am sad and angry but one thing that has become really clear to me today is that I have spent far too much of my life listening to people who would prefer I didn’t do things they wouldn’t do, to the detriment of my own relationships and heart

hell yes @annaspargoryan.bsky.social this makes me so happy

Tony Birch bringing us all home www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

love to have a house sitter… really focuses attention on cleaning the house

I’ve danced it twice before but I absolutely urgently need to reacquaint myself with Wuthering Heights choreography before Saturday‘s event 💃

I still think about this a lot.

I’ve been besotted by cilbir ever since I first tried it (a special commended to me by a Turkish cafe owner in Warrnambool). Harry has perfected the recipe at home using eggs from our chickens, Schulz yoghurt from Timboon and Aleppo pepper from Oasis in Fairfield

“GOOEY“ IS NOT A FLAVOUR

Another night, another phascogale

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

today they had kang kong and beautiful tomatoes and eggplants at the farmers market. I took advantqge of some extra time to make an eggplant kasaundi pickle, a fantastic chicken stir fry and chocolate self saucing pudding

me: I’ll just lie down for 5 minutes my body: ok we will now enter a mysterious state that is worse than sleep but also not rest

I feel absolutely wretched and I don’t know how to stop feeling that way

Submissions are open for the federal Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs' inquiry into racism, hate, and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Mob, I know you've got something to say. Mates, spread the word.

GPa 1: baker then WW2 then baker again Gpa 2: surveyor then WW2 then surveyor again Gpa 3: industrial chemist and photographer Gma 1: navy then bookstore accounts and single mother to 7 kids Gma 2: nun then nurse and mostly solo mum to 7 kids Gma 3: biscuit factory admin worker and stepmum

this morning while I was moving the chickens, a lady King Parrot landed right next to me on top of their run, almost grazing my head, and then her partner landed on a dead branch a little way off. That’s the stuff 💕

I actually would like to be under the sea in an Octopus' garden- that sounds nice.

“bearing witness to the horror you have also experienced is not a necessary part of your healing and recovery, and no one should make you feel as though it is“ - me, five years ago

I follow an account on instagram that has now delivered the video of Molly‘s death on A Country Practice into my feed not once but TWICE in the last three months and my fragile constitution cannot and will not cope if it happens a third time

were watching The Pitt and I was so delighted to see Dr Robby clearly articulate the risks of death or permanent loss of sight, hearing or brain function from measles if encephalitis takes hold

no context football commentary “well at least we won” in the middle of a feed full of war in the middle east is jarring

when they announced the whole “teenagers from each state pitted against each other for the capital‘s entertainment“ thing I thought maybe they didn‘t know about the Hunger Games but now that we’ve hit “people betting on whether Tehran gets bombed” it seems like it might be their playbook

I still haven’t recovered from the time that I was feeling whimsical about being gently dappled by light rain in the city… right up until the moment Harry called it “building juice”

a friend of mine just posted “you will never regret being softer to the peopl who made your life brighter“. Yes.

this speech is clear and true but also: there is no doubt in my mind that young people now are far more conscious of the daily risk to their lives of global war than we were when we had a media that was at arms-length and not blasting into their faces like a fire hose on an hourly basis