As I was reading this & feeling depressed the thought “imagine having Hitler as your bias, embarrassing” came into my head & suddenly I was just laughing at how stupid the whole thing is

I am learning to air fryer; last night I vastly overcooked the leftovers I was reheating, so today I turned the temperature down & have been checking it regularly, & I THINK 190 for like…15 min max is the sweet spot, otherwise things start to get a little too crispy

Noooooo don’t do this I haven’t even got my documentation in yet, give me like a week to at least get into the system guys

solidarity with all my taylor swift agnostics

Americans having the long time Australian experience of ordering things from overseas is going to radicalise them & you know what, good for them

So…my dad is in Canberra, right? As he is most of the time? & he was supposed to have a pharmacist come today to do a medication review obo the govt…so tell me why the pharmacist just turned up here in Sydney & was very surprised when I said “…he’s in Canberra? Where he repeatedly told you he’d be?”

Haha that’s so FUNNY of you to recommend that LinkedIn but SHAN’T

EXCITING: the Instant Pot is here! I can cook crispy food again!…except that I immediately realised the space I’d cleared for it is not in any way close enough to the nearest power point bc it has a crazy short cable, so I guess I have to go out again to Bunnings to acquire a tiny extension lead

GOOD, I’ve tried calling employment services to say there’s no point in me coming in because I haven’t got the letter they need yet & no one is answering the phone, so possibly I’m going to have to go in anyway because I can’t risk them cancelling my payments due to me missing an appointment 🙃🙃🙃🙃

My dad read me The Hobbit before bed a chapter at a time even though by then I was definitely at the age where I could have read it myself, just bc he wanted to share his favourite book with me, & idk man, it makes me really sad to think people don’t want that experience with their kids anymore?

sorry if this seems dramatic but i think we need to make it so people are afraid to say shit like this in public

I’m currently trying to see if anywhere will sell me just the top part of a knife so I can make ceramic handles for it; they will, but I’m worried about buying them from overseas because Australia does NOT like you bringing in knives, even if it is only part of a knife

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

I did a year of a Digital Art degree before I tapped out due to my ineptitude in coding, & even when I was just doing website coding & weird music code we did logic gates! It’s an important part of all coding!

I love to have a photography degree & be frantically searching a collection of raw files in Lightroom because it looks like I lost a photo that looks almost exactly like another photo…until I realised oh yeah, I turned one of them black & white & Lightroom displays everything using your last change

rip jane goodall i hope you read this post

Every single one of these stories bums me the fuck out, it just feels crazy that this keeps happening & the companies haven’t been forced to put up better safeguards against it, like what the fuck are we doing here man

As someone with two metal pins in my leg, one of which is…not really attached anymore, this sounds fucking sick, like hell yeah no one else has to have a part of their body that Feels Bad in an uncanny way when they touch it, love that for us

It’s so funny how older people continue to act like millennials are stupid teenagers, like babe I’m nearly 40, at what point do I become an adult to these people (never, is the answer, I’ll be over here at 80 still reading articles about how young & inexperienced in life I am)

HOORAY after 2 weeks of not having an oven & having my leftovers that need crisping piling up I finally ordered an Instant Pot that has an air fryer in it as well, courtesy of benevolent father benefactor, so no more will I be paralysed by cooking lunch/dinner

Also unforch I asked the gastro what his opinion was on what Ozempic might do to my Crohn’s & his answer was “you should defs do it because you’re FAT & you’re GOING TO DIE” which, sigh, sir you haven’t been seeing me long enough to know that’s not something I put up with but you’ll fucken learn

It always feels churlish to complain about paying for something in a public hospital where 99% of your treatment is covered by Medicare, but this is the first time someone has tried to charge me $73 to check how much immunosuppressant is in my body & honestly I’m Not Stoked

Now the waiting room is playing the seminal 90s Mousse T hit Horny mixed with Finally by CeCe Peniston, which is…an interesting choice for a room full of people waiting for colonoscopies & gastro appointments but okay

So I left 5 min to get from the car park to Concord hospital, because 99% of the time that’s fine at a hospital…that 5 min was eaten up and then some parking, & then it was another 5 min walk to the front of the hospital, then I had to FIND the clinic in there, so…yeah I was 10 min late, sue me

I’m really glad my psych was like “when you check the autism diagnosis report, can you just check for factual inaccuracies, I don’t need you to proofread the formatting/spelling/etc” because I am one paragraph in & I found a double space where there shouldn’t be one & I am BARELY RESTRAINING MYSELF

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

Anyway speaking of yet again I went to employment services, they still can’t do anything bc I am yet to get a letter saying whether or not I’m staying with the same provider, the poor woman looked like she was about to cry & was like “you’ve been so nice about it” girl who HASN’T been nice

I read this when it first came out but as I am currently approaching 2 years of unemployment this bit really hit me again, like between the inability to stand up for long periods & the autism there is a tiny fraction of jobs I can do, & all of them are hard to acquire, for some reason

Just drove a lap of the car park to avoid having someone behind me waiting & watching me doing a rear to kerb park, which regularly takes at least 3-4 goes, do NOT perceive me

I planned to use one of my last cubes of frozen pulled beef to make nachos tonight, but then the oven started doing The Thing again, so I had to microwave everything to melt the cheese, which was disappointing to say the least, & I guess I’m going to have to start looking for an air fryer in earnest

It especially frustrates me b/c I'm gray-asexual and I am also an adult artist and writer. This stuff DOES affect us & acting otherwise erases much of the ace spectrum & reinforces the stereotype we're all puritanical prudes. In any case, something not affecting you doesn't mean one shouldn't care.

LOOK if you’re going to talk thru a concert at least do it in a language I speak so I can eavesdrop on what’s so important, the couple next to us speaking what I think is Japanese is just rude tbh (it’s also getting to the gays in front of us, the withering look one of them shot up at one point…)

Me: slightly concerned about walking around from the opera house to circular quay & back but I’m sure if I leave lots of time it’ll be fine Also me after having done the walk once: oooookkkkkkk well I can already tell me knees are going to feel that tomorrow, or possibly later tonight, great

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

Oh bless there’s a little baby brushtail in the mulberry tree eating the unripe mulberries right now, like so small I thought it was a ringtail at first but the tail is too thick & furry, it’s definitely a teenage furry boye 🥹🥹🥹

This is why when people are like “some people don’t WANT a job” I KNOW they’ve never dealt with Centrelink, because I would do THE WORST JOB I’VE EVER HAD again a million times if it meant I didn’t have to deal with this labyrinth filled with bureaucratic Minotaurs made of red tape ever again

Look…it’s a comedy of errors for me, the guy who didn’t have anything on & who drove here, that earlier this morning the hotline disability employment services is using to transfer people to the new system shut down so they can’t do anything, but if I’d got the bus here or cancelled things…

I’m replaying Pokemon Violet right now & it just asked me to define “cheugy”…girl I can’t help you there, I’m 38

OF COURSE the second the guy came to check the oven & I turned it back on it started working fine again, so I paid him $100 to look at my functional oven & say “welp…call me if it breaks again I guess”, I love technology

This is a zero-strikes We Are Not Friends, You Are Not My Ally indicator for me and I won’t budge on it

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Oh that’s so cute, tell me you’ve never met any of my older relatives without telling me you’ve never met any of my older relatives

Look the “I’ll put off cleaning until someone is coming to my house & then I will do it to avoid embarrassment” isn’t a great system to get things done but I DID just clean the stovetop thoroughly for the first time in months because the oven man might judge me so it definitely works

Attaching this to every document I need to send to the NDIS in future

Our oven decided yesterday it was no longer going to turn on, & the classic on off didn’t fix it, so the internet told me to call a professional…who immediately said “it’s unlikely that’s fixable, but I guess if you want I can come for $100 to confirm” & unfortunately I agreed to let him do that

This is extremely no fucking duh but did you know if you’re lactose intolerant & want more exotic yoghurt flavours you can just buy the vanilla lactose free one & make your own compote to sit through it? I made rhubarb yoghurt this morning! It rules!