RAIN INCOMING.... oh never mind. Last night. The autumn heatwave continues. #MelbWeather

AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. On Ghana’s Independence Day, here are some of the best... 1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire

Alfie is now your ex! It's gonna cry a bunch of tears about it though! Stay safe and don't play in floodwaters! #TCAlfred #cyclone #alfred

Drove past the local private school massive pickup congaline today, and it seemed at least half the mumbuses and occasional sedan were bloody teslas. Oh and some beemers. They're all very plain, they need some exterior decorating.

Timelapse of Cyclone Alfred from Tues am to 30 min ago (seen from weather satellite Himawari-9). Pissfarting drunkenly around off the Coast o' Gold causing trouble like a toolie. Data from Aus BoM public repository. Daytime true colour, nighttime infrared (heat) in greyscale. Stay safe. #TCAlfred

"For those racially cast aside outside of liberal democracy’s system of rights, the word ‘fascism’ does not always conjure up a distant and alien social order."

Cyclone Alfred is slowing its western trajectory and currently is predicted to make landfall during daytime Friday, or maybe even Saturday! The BoM is synthesising a bunch of complex prediction models & the cyclone is behaving quite weirdly (in cooler waters), making it more unpredictable. #TCAlfred

....RELATEDLY AND BELATEDLY THERE'S ONLY 293 HORNY LUIGI MANGIONE STORIES ON AO3 SO FAR. YOU COULD MAKE THAT 294. archiveofourown.org/works/search...

Share this if you live in the impacted area for Cyclone Alfred. Use the ALT text provided if that's better. Follow this tag if you're on bluesky: #TCAlfred www.getready.qld.gov.au/cyclone-alfr...

Reposting. #TCAlfred is intensifying to high-end Cat 2 (110km/h+, gusts <167km/h) & may upgrade to Cat 3 before it hits the coast which is ...not great. (BoM technical bulletin at 4pm, next at 23:30pm AEST) Cyclone updates: www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/inde... Categories: www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/trop...

#TCAlfred as seen from space at 5pm Queensland time today. Data from BoM.

Latest timelapse of Cyclone Alfred as seen from space. Off the SE Queensland coast and bearing in on Brisbane. Compiled from publicly available data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Daytime shows true colour, nighttime shows infrared (heat) as greyscale. Queensland local time. #TCAlfred

Facebook blocked Linux discussion for a while recently, citing them as "malware" despite the fact Meta & most of the internet runs on Linux! I could guess the authoritarian motive - open source operating systems can't be bought or controlled. But MFing #TCAlfred? It's "news" therefore it's blocked??

Now it's getting cooler, I'm contemplating the Queer Mullet again. I overheat thru my head to a ridiculous degree (some weird autism side effect?? I know "running hot" is not uncommon) & I've kept hair as minimal as possible over summer. Fuck yeah, Queer Mullet. My hair is naturally bushy & wild.

That sticky feeling when bread is getting a bit past it, oh well. No visible mould = okay, right. Anyway, Swedish furniture store's jam is delicious, a little bit sour, I particularly recommend the tundra berry jam Sylt Lingon.

Re preparation in Brisbane etc for #TCAlfred, the ABC reports "Worries there is not enough accommodation for homeless" If we can't find enough resources to house (and feed) everyone, even for a weather calamity, our "civilisation" ain't worth shit. Where's that wealth from technological advances.

Getting a HUGE deluge of US politics in Discover, & it's a bit much. Not sure how much is just what Bluesky is (???) or bc I've trained the algo to serve me more bc I "liked" a bunch of the stuff. Anyway, if I'm gonna stick around, I need to train that trigger finger to "like" almost anything else.

🌱 I can't be trusted with indoor plants generally so I don't buy them (or I stick them into the garden), but I couldn't resist making a pet of this massive peacock plant - Calathea illustris, it's above my bed during the day and it brings me happiness, look at it.

A little humour for us who are awaiting the #TCAlfred #brisbane #australia

Oh fuck off. Garbage outlet. I'll just use a mirror.

Latest timelapse of Cyclone Alfred over the last week, careening down the coast of Queensland. Before it's predicted to chuck a U-ey towards the coast tomorrow (Tuesday) arvo. Compiled from hi-res satellite images in BoM public repository. True colour daytime / infrared nighttime. #TCAlfred

Victoria (Australia) is a one-party consent state (unlike some states). This means it's legal to record or film a conversation you're involved in. You don't have to let the other party/parties know, or get their consent. You just can't "communicate or publish" it without their consent.

Just because someone bursts into tears at what you said, that doesn't automatically make you the aggressor & them the victim. But gee, people really wanna believe white feminine cis women's tears when you're not a white masculine cis man. I'm scared, I can't be specific here, I just need to vent.

No, *I* am the prettiest flower! (This is my kids' cat.)

#TCAlfred as seen from space at 5pm Sunday (QLD time) right before sunset. Satellite imagery from BoM public repository.

Timelapse of Cyclone Alfred making its way down the Queensland coast this past week. Satellite imagery from the BoM public repository, gifted by Japan. Daytime is visible spectrum, nighttime greyscale is infrared (heat) interpreted to highlight clouds. 1 second video == ~6 real hours. #TCAlfred

Found a really old globe in hard rubbish today. I was in a hurry rummaging through for landscaping supplies etc and did not pay attention to how old this thing must be. Stalingrad?!! (I don't like old tat but kind of regretting not grabbing it now.)

My ex and I have barely anything in common these days but occasionally she does something I approve of. Grade 6 kids all got issued these SCHOOL LEADER badges to wear. So my ex looked up where they were made & ordered this for kiddo to wear instead. He wants to see how long before anyone notices!!

Breaking out the chocolate, the oxytocin withdrawal is wild. My kids are super stressful for me to look after with disability, but when they're gone with their other parent - yikes. Also, I get -every- mental to-do pop-up notification at once that were all kept at bay while the kids were here. ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

Older kiddo was proudly showing younger sibling all the creative ways he could blow up, crash and crush stuff in his game (Teardown). I said "maybe you should go work for the Australian Defence Force then" and he said "fuck you, you can't respawn in the Australian Defence Force". ahahaha

FINALLY got to go out boating with the kids today!!

I burst into demented laughter tonight when my (also Australian...) father told me RFK (complete cooker and new US health secretary) was pro-vaccination. He sputtered and said archly "we must have very different information sources..." Yeah no shit dad. We do.

Welllll..... high time to check if I've had two MMR vaccines in adulthood or not, I'd rather have good immunity against measles if possible! It's now locally transmitting in Melbourne & it's REALLY INFECTIOUS. Nothing on my Medicare online record, not sure if *no* central record left.

In The Age today. If you can't get the editorial parts of the paper to acknowledge this reality, at least you can buy an ad.

Um, no thanks.

A good antidote to climate anxiety might be to enter your location (London, for instance) on this great map of ancient earth and see what it was like 20, 200 or 750 million years ago, for a bit of perspective! dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-eart...

🌱I just realised the rapidly growing garden outside my window has a METRE LONG LEAF now!! The biggest leaf is behind the others! It's cunjevoi. The whole subtropical garden (shitty rental lawn 9mo ago) has just POPPED since summer, & it's not even supposed to be subtropical in Melbourne, it is now!

These inhaler steroids are making me sound more and more like an annoying croaky lil teenage boy. (Yeah I do rinse mouth etc, still get the croak) I've decided to be absolutely fine with that. I've hardly ever been clocked as anything other than female no matter how masc I present (am pre-t).

Spot the possum. (Last night)

Last year taught me that life is far too short to be arguing with people who are determined not to listen, so I am adopting a no-exceptions immediate block policy if you sound like any of these squares because quite frankly if you’re going to snap out of it you’ll do it yourself.

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only

One time at home, I ate some frying mushrooms my parents had gathered, and it made me hallucinate. Then vomit. They binned the rest.

The Conversation is only for the affluent reader. Renters do not even rate a mention.

Rainforest (it's raining). Sherbrooke Forest.

This is a pretty new sign to see, deer are a relatively recent pest in the Dandenongs. Barely even out of the suburbs here. I used to just spot wallabies but I bet the deer are competing with them. How many people are out looking for antlers? (I REALLY want to find some...)

Ripe wild strawberries in the grass. #Melbourne #Australia (edible but don't taste like much!)

Ok just finished at community dentist after begging them not to extract the back tooth the government won't pay for a root canal for. So much that's screaming at me to do, but I'm near the rainforest. I'm going into the rainforest.

www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Hey all, did you know that disability payments are restricted by how much your partner earns? This means you won't have any independent income, which makes it very difficult to escape a problematic relationship. Please sign this govt petition to change it.

"The right wing psyche is incredibly fragile...Call them weird & tell them their sole artistic output looks like shit. Talking about AI’s environmental impact or its implications for the workforce will not work - they like that, it makes them feel dangerous. Talk about how it makes them look cheap."

HE IS VERY BUSY 🐤 (My 9yo made this yesterday!! 💚)