this week I plan to buy a new hiking backpack and a peg loom

planted two new correas, radishes, broccoli, basil mint, wombok, wasabi lettuce and also this terracotta pot shattered in my hand while I was carrying it from one spot to another

sold!

that efforts to enfranchise those experiencing systemic discrimination and rebalance against inequity in our systems are a net good

I DID IT. Ten correas baybee

Malkmus calling Ian Mackaye (or maybe Guy Picciotto) "the Fugazi singer" but name dropping Wallace Stevens is incredible

cockatoo friend is back for the third time this week. Today it did a little coo to let me know it was in the tree and when it came down, let me get a selfie

"It is literally so boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to keep having to yap on about how horribly I am treated because of my body" is such a banging quote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

HI LAYDEEZ 👋 I AM NOT A FUNCTIONAL MEMBER OF SOCIETY 💪

in the Split Enz/Crowded House discography there is a beautiful cross over period where See Ya Around (last Split Enz album) and the self titled debut from Crowded House live. Here, Split Enz were becoming something new and Crowded House were still enamoured of the Enz aesthetic

planted some potatoe, made an apple tea cake

we got the dogs new soft toys yesterday and they are so enamoured of them they have basically been silent since.

making correas my whole personality (I now have seven and I am aiming for 10 by the end of the week)

"I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair." - Stevie Nicks The legendary Stephanie Lynn Nicks, singer-songwriter, solo artist & member of Fleetwood Mac, was born on this day, 1948.

Today is National Sorry Day. We remember the Stolen Generations - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families by the government. Read #HealingFoundation Fact Sheet go.cdu.edu.au/fqxq #fromsorrytoaction #unfinishedbusiness #bringingthemhome #StolenGenerations

thinking about devoting my life to Sovereign Hill‘s volunteer guide program.

saw some US state capital discourse earlier and now I am stewing about the lyrics to John Cougar Mellencamp’s ‘Small town’. Again.

The banksias are flowering in Kinglake National Park north of Melbourne and I’ve been looking for feathertailed gliders. It’s been largely fruitless until tonight when I hit the jackpot with this individual. They’re the world’s smallest gliding mammal with an average weight of only TWELVE GRAMS 🥺

this morning I had a sudden flashback to Peter Singer telling Progress 2015 the most ethical thing you could do was make a lot of money and give it to worthy causes… and how a bunch of people apparently only heard the first bit

today: farmers market, supplies, garden centre sale (correa, cauliflower, onions, running postman), lines duty at soccer, gardening, paperwork, and lamb roast with pomegranate molasses

it doesn’t matter what else happens today because I just fed a cockatoo by hand in my backyard, something I have been trying to do for almost three years

been feeling a bit meh so it was good to spend time in the garden today: swept up all the leaf litter from the paths, repotted lemon grass and cress, planted pak choi, silver beet, chard, coriander, cardamom and horseradish, pruned the mint, found a spot for a new correa and fertilised everything

buying treats because why not at this point

FOR F—KS SAKE SIRI

excited for my deb meme to be going viral in my daughter’s friend group

listening to Automatic for the People on LP… can recommend

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

algorithm is feeding me ads that say are you a single mum who does it all? Whose family are entirely dependent on you? WHAT IF YOU WERE DEAD?* * life insurance ads.

Harry and I both exhibiting high levels of 1982 dad behaviour today (I also bought new records AND we bought barbecue gear)

Holly McNamara is just so good

Rebekah Stott has been awarded the inaugural Clare Polkinghorne Medal for 2025/26 and the $30k to go with it. Her nominated junior club is Beaumaris SC who will receive $10k worth of Ninja products. #ALW #ALWGF #MCYvWEL #woso

one of my friends asked me earlier if we were going to see Split Enz tomorrow night so now we are going to see Split Enz tomorrow night

I have to be up at 4 tomorrow so tonight I’ve made a cherry cake, and thai curry beef brisket and fried to make sure everything is ready for the school week. Harry made crumpets and arepas. it’s going to be a good week of food

marking myself safe from “being a jazz guy” by describing ‘Things ain’t what they used to be’ by Duke Ellington as ‘The Big Gig theme song‘

honestly it’s been a punish lately but yesterday I made my own butter for the first time and it is a kind of magic

I saw some one say that they thought it was better that the MJ film didn’t grapple with allegations of abuse because “everyone needs a break” and idk, if you need a break there are a thousand other stories you could engage with where that kind of compromise or suspension of reality isn’t necessary

this is the good shit

I am all for really knowing your partner/spouse but if @harrysaddler.bsky.social was posting about the dominant bacteria in my vaginal microbiome I’d call the police

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes

Thin people feeling insulted isn't what's wrong with the BMI. The problem with the BMI is that it's designed around white men's bodies. The problem with the BMI is that it ISN'T A CLINICAL TOOL, it's a statistical one. The problem with the BMI is its use to exclude fat people from health care.

lady sitting across from me on the train “Justin wasn’t into the arts, so I didn’t go (to MONA)”

headed home on Russell Street earlier and watched as a guy coming towards me swerved to deliberately hip-and-shoulder three different women walking ahead of him in the space of half a block. He got to me walking towards him and without thinking I just stopped dead in my tracks. So did he. 1/2

my response when some one tells me that I should be crunching an artist or artisan on their quote for work for me

today in a conference session, one of the speakers had us stand, cross our arms across our chests and hug our shoulders tightly. Then she said “that’s how most of you entered the world“ and I dunno how I feel about this kind of imposed catharsis

the kid had to write a response to the question “why did fascism defeat socialism in Europe in the inter-war period” and wrote “Fascism defeated socialism in Europe in the inter-war period because … “ and I choose to interpret that as being utterly baffled that such a thing actually happened

evergreen

Tracy Chapman arguably the cure for all wicked problems

I’d have a live music space that didn‘t have to find a genre niche, with an awesome program of performers plus listening parties and book clubs and all abilities dance parties and life drawing and sewing circles and lectures on cool stuff.

trying to get the dog inside by asking him to come: ❌ trying to get the dog inside by loudly exclaiming “what’s that??????” within earshot: ✅✅✅