Finally got around to making it to a craft day at a pal's house, and have landed in a nest of K-pop enthusiasts. I have understood one word in ten for the last hour or so. They seem to be having fun though!

Sweet Pea has developed the habit of pooping, burying it, and then marching around the house vocalising to make sure everyone knows about her good poop. Thanks for the update, buddy.

the trick to hair dye is to stock up on your next 3 colors ahead of time so you’re ready to properly treat your next several mental health crises.

Food truck date night with @fishmouse.bsky.social! Deeply average burgers from Four Bros, decidedly above average knafeh and booza from Knafeh House.

We are not guessing about this. There are a metric ton of studies of pilot program and they all show the same thing.

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Half an episode into Blood Drive and already delighted. Cars that run on human blood! Forced proximity via implanted bomb/tracking devices! Goth freaks who love to party! It's everything I love!

only reason i gaf about the jimmy kimmel thing was bc i won't have the people's most beloved prince Lou Wilson lose his job

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

I've been putting SBS Chill on my clock radio while I sleep as a change from my white noise machine, but having just been JUMPSCARED by them playing THE TWIN PEAKS THEME while I was trying to SLEEP, perhaps it is back to the ocean wave sounds for me!!

Put back headphone jacks. Stop making me use a QR code instead if a menu. There doesn't need to be an app for everything. LET ME OWN THINGS! I paid money you shouldn't be able to limit how many times I can download that ebook/song/etc or take it from my library at will. That's mine now! Fuck DRMs.

Salmon for dinner again.

Boss came back from the shopping centre where they have a Gundam popup, and via a convoluted chat about nerd hobbies I ended up translating for my favourite coworker (who is much less committed to maintaining a neurotypical worksona than I) about the differences between TTRPGs, boardgames and TCGs.

Stuff like this is how we got "pewpew," "unalive," and junk into modern vernacular. Don't let a service or platform take your words from you!

Streaming services with a "Popular" section should let me sort it low to high. Show me the weirdest, crustiest filler you have. The stuff nobody's ever even clicked on.

Listening to small children of various genders sing along to Golden when it comes on the radio in the supermarket is very cute. The younger these kids learn what notes are out of their range, the better.

The mediocre sushi place on the ground floor of Broadway is gone, AND Chatime don't do hojicha anymore?? Sic transit fuckin' gloria.

me every first episode of a taskmaster series: oh i probably wont even like these random comedians ive ever heard of me at the finale: i would die for each of these heroes

Two things can be true at once: this is a craven, awful, debased stunt, and Stan Lee is fist pumping triumphantly in his grave over this going "you better believe it, excelsior!!"

Spending some time at Oz Comic Con! Let's see if I can attend conventions without having a panic attack now!

The great irony of CWs and tagging systems is platforms identified them as easy ways to moderate content at the insistence of app stores and paypros. So now we all have to go back to an era where nothing gets tagged and nothing gets a CW

"Oh haha yeah right, 'Born on the Bayou', sounds like some misty-eyed little ballad about good ol' country folk, how hard can that possibly go?" John Fogerty, eyes rolling into the back of his skull as the opening riff summons the swamp spirit to take over his mortal form: "NOWWWW WHEEEN--"

This afternoon: Donald Runnicles conducts Sibelius and Wagner, in the Concert Hall at the Opera House with/thanks to @okayjokesover.bsky.social!

Unanticipated pleasures of the indoor cat: it's raining outside, but the small beast who has come to rub all over me is DRY!!

Blossoming pink jasmine in warm spring rain... hell fuckin yeah.

Having to do family research to sort out paperwork for probate shit, and coming to the grim realisation that one of my uncles- sadly no longer with us- looked uncannily like that one transphobic shithead Irish TV writer whose name I won't include to avoid namesearches.

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

I don't know who needs to hear this but no fandom event is worth giving them your ID. "but they promise they'll delete it!" doesn't matter. "but they only want to see my birthday!" doesn't matter. *AO3* doesn't ask for your ID - do not fucking trust some rando on the internet with it.

Tonight: preview screening of One Battle After Another, at Event Cinemas George Street. (Actually four hours ago, but they made us put our phones in little bags, and since it finished @fishmouse.bsky.social and I have been eating Pepper Lunch.)

She only makes teeny-tiny noises and they're quite sporadic, so the chances I'll ever have the opportunity to record them are pretty low, but: Sweet Pea is letting out tiny kitty cat snores in her tiny kitty cat sleep 😭

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

All my noble plans to get up and cook dinner... lost, like tears in rain...

Being unable to use dangly car air fresheners- can't have shit dangling in my field of vision when I drive- I invested in a vent clip with little felt circles you add your own scents to. Heroic choice. My car smells like lemon mint now.

it’s revolutionary to find joy & connection. that’s worth celebrating

Look, I don't have a lot of emotional investment in marriage beyond its legal utility, but I do think it rules that the Pyrmont registry office does special Halloween weddings with included gothic decor.

Heartsore over M.I.A. touring. Her music slaps like hell, but she's a literal tinhatter and an antivaxxer, which I'd rather not financially support.

Caught up to the 2009 series of Red Dwarf, which I've never seen before. Really weird watch when you're used to classic Dwarf- multiple cameras, cameras that MOVE, and no studio audience or laugh track.

The worst part of indoorifying Sweet Pea is her tiny baby cries- the freedom songs at night are rough, the crying when I leave the house is worse- but! She does still come to me when I get home to rub her little face on me, so all love is not lost.

Huh, surprise building evacuation.

Another day, another mandatory waste of time ÂǏ webinar. I'd had high hopes when my boss said we were "pausing our ÂǏ journey" the other week, but they have been dashed.

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

I just think if your definition of civility is about the volume and tone of speech and ignores the content of the speech you probably need to start over

This afternoon: Here You Come Again at the Theatre Royal, with and courtesy of @thebenj.bsky.social!

Lured @fishmouse.bsky.social back to mine last night with irresistible inducements (fruit juice ice tubes) and now we're having brunch at the French place nearby, enjoying the parade of strangers' dogs.

Tonight: Playlunch, at the Manning Bar.

Spending the day at Sydney Zoo for the splendid @rebootingfromstart.bsky.social's birthday! Zoo access and lunch beside the meerkat enclosure! A joyful time.

Maybe not my forever fav but it always makes me laugh. AND has good advice.