Just discovered this site, and as someone with little time and less spare brain cells to work out how to de-Googleify etc on my own, this looks amazing. Tutorials built around switching just ONE digital thing at a time, rated by time and ease of doing. di.day/en/digital-s...

NDIS denying funding for assistance dogs

Bold of you to assume we have any actually old forest here, but you can find some neat mushrooms at the right time of year. Sometimes moss if it's rainforest-ish enough. Haunted cottages sometimes, but rare. Every forest everywhere has the rest if you know what you're looking for.

Not sure if because meds wore off or tired+absent-minded, but realising I'm shampooing the beard halfway through doing it is a new one. ....at least it's all soft and fluffy after the conditioner?

Otters Vs Butterfly

Finally, time to feast.

Worst part of this is that it took me way too long to realise that this is a US arsehole and not just, y'know, business as usual for the pollies here. I can't even blame it solely on the Libs cos Labour is just as bad (maybe worse tbh) nowadays.

Trying to get ADHD Dx for a minor really is just an endless loop of: *Get referral to X after months of research* Me: Hi, I have a thing I need. Can I give you money to do it? X: No, we cannot take your money right now. Or ever, possibly. *go back to GP, repeat months of searching and waiting*

Bureaucracy. I only got it right because my autocorrect has met me. And sighed at me. And occasionally screamed and sobbed at me.

The bare hands is a step too far for me, but is this not the usual response to having a bucket full of cane toads and no high school science class in need of dissection subjects nearby?

Tangential, yet related: I didn't even know I *had* a gay accent until I was complimenting female fair-goers on their costumes from behind the fence at our encampment. A camp mate asked me if I made myself sound gayer because I knew it would come across less threatening. I bluescreened.

Same. Most ghosts are perfectly amenable housemates, especially if you feed them once in a while. And if they're not, that's what the salt is for.

"To trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, and intersex people, we pledge to continue working to make our communities places where we support each other in showing up as our full selves. Friends communities should be places where all can belong and be accepted." pendlehill.org/epistle-from...

$13/h under the table helping plant and pack at a local farm my first year of uni, mid 2000s. Still one of the better bosses I've ever had. And I would have been earning about the same at most fast food joints after tax, too.

Bet the next news report on this is "government rejects report recommendations, continues to do things that don't work and make people's lives worse"

Tangential yet related: the number of people who sit through my voice mail instructions telling them DO NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE, THIS INBOX IS UNMONITORED, you need to text or email instead (if you have my phone number you absolutely can do at least one for those things). Who then leave a voice mail.

This is an excellent thread that is applicable to way more than just being nominated for awards. Also congratulations to everyone who got nominated this year, you're all brilliant and you deserve every joy.

@kateelliottsff.bsky.social Recreating Egtved Girl's blanket! youtu.be/NNDN2MgVHGk?...

weird that we only seem to invent NDIS tools that produce worse outcomes for the most disadvantaged

Hell when you clearly show signs the fuckers still refuse to see it

"So if someone has lower support needs, "They won't be on the scheme in the long term, and they will return to the sorts of support systems that were in place before the NDIS"." The supports available to me and my family before the NDIS were fucking ZERO. Stop throwing the disabled under the bus.

It's "unavoidable and urgent" to cut $15b from NDIS, but we can afford to give away our gas and give an additional $53b to the defence budget 🤔

There’s ppl on the NDIS for psychosocial conditions where if the supports are withdrawn they will be a threat themselves & others, costing millions in damages. Framing supports as only open to ppl with “profound disability” exposes the stereotypes and prejudices in public understanding of disability

This is so damn cool. It's less necessary in HEMA (this may well be my experience bias talking, maybe spectators who've never sparred themselves would benefit just as much as fencer spectators will), but maybe one day we'll get the pretty light trails as well...

"Meet the meds halfway" I chant, downing drinks and desperately hoping the Ritalin kicks in fast enough to beat the heat and make some fuck-off giant pocket bags for the fuck-off giant poofy pants I hope to wear if it ever becomes Fancy Pants Weather again...

Stonewall has fallen.

I'm currently enraged that my phone plan is going to be 2.5x more from next month (and that's apparently the cheapest monthly plan anywhere now, according to the several comparison sites I checked) so, yeah, right there with you.

For those also swearing about where these things are hidden now: Settings -> Notifications -> Messages -> "show previews" is under Lock Screen Appearance -> set to "never" Might be slightly different on older versions of IOS.

Glory! Glory to you and your art!

I'm having Big Yikes at the state of supposedly safe shelters in NYC, and yet I can't find myself surprised. Just deeply disappointed in the broken systems that lead to this sort of thing. It's not much better here for queer folks in housing crisis.

Very cool! Very needed!

Just dropped my yarn in last night's sausage water while trying to make morning cocoa. How's your day going?

Yip yip yip yip yip yip!

One thing they don't mention about compression wear is that while it helps some joints not be little bitches about life, you end up making other ones mad at you while struggling to put the damn stuff on. Especially post-gym shower, when muscles aren't their usual levels of helpful.

Been a hot minute since I read a scifi and holy hell I'm glad it was finally my library turn with Old Man's War. It's funny and heartbreaking and the worldbuilding is amazing and I can absolutely see why Mr Scalzi has never had a book rejected if this is what his very first one is like. #booksky

JFC and to think we complain about having to number all the boxes on the little green paper, and then about having to decide whether to go above or below the line on the giant white one. Every single thing I find out about the US voting system just makes it more and more horrifying.

Share a preacher, nun or priest. [I too am stretching definitions but this movie slaps]

Weather is finally Nice again (highs of 20 or less all week) so it must be time to polish the winter boots and see how much damage the moths have caused the woollens since last year. And make more damn pants. My everyday jeans are disintegrating and I don't wanna have to demote the good ones yet.

Literally 75% of my job right now is tricking students into NOT asking AI anything and thinking through things themselves before they’ve realized what they’ve done

Finished up 2nd week of the Levine POTS exercise program. Some observations: - haha wow I'm terrible at keeping my heart rate in the right zone for the right time - I miss the rower but exercise bike is easier to control HR on for now - joints are thankful I started in month 1 even if cardio could--

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

It has always been and always will be true that I have more in common with a sheep herder anywhere than I do with a Silicon Valley billionaire or with the people in govt in the US who can launch missiles and drop bombs.

Every time someone finds this thread again and tells me I contributed to keeping their hands functional, I bump it! If you get diagnosed with Dupuytren's/Ledderhose, this is urgent information your orthopedist WILL PROBABLY NOT KNOW but may save your range of motion entirely.

Mostly reposting so I remember to read it later but my question from the blurb is how many of those increased MH appts are from psych sessions required by docs/insurance to access HRT it the first place? I predict: a chunk. It's the only reason I saw a psych pre-HRT + still standard most places.

Hey, don't cry. Humanity has wandered further from Earth than any time in history and took photos to commemorate the trip, OK?

We found the winner of this meme

Add a food to a movie title: K-Pop Demon Pancake Hunters

Also true in Australia, and the vast majority of this thread is also applicable here.

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

Anyway, if Mitchell Katz wishes to automate healthcare screening, he should start with prostrate exams and volunteer as the first subject