For a second I forgot about COVID and agreed to a friend coming over tomorrow for some crafts and now I have to establish my COVID safe boundaries and I hate the fear that comes along with this.

The Aussie expression "stunned mullet" is just so perfectly perfect.

Morning all. Not seeing any patients today, lots of desk work to do though.

The QR code given to me by the consulate to get instructions - expired. The email address to use - bounced back. The online contact form - processing error. JFC. 🤬

So kids can be trialled and jailed like adults, but this nazi gets bail? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

My colleague sat down and coughed and coughed, and when he finished coughing he asked if I would close my office window as he felt a bit cold, and I didn’t know exactly how to tell him that my window was open because he was filling the air with something worse than a cold.

All that said it’s hard not to watch this without a sense of weary despair… we won’t save this world will we. Somehow the momentary needs and greed of vested interest will win out. A tiny self-absorbed few will do for the rest of us… they’ll blight the future to line their pockets. Sod ‘em.

“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.

going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years

Police station consulate post office consulate bank consulate aaagghhhhh

Waiting to be fingerprinted at the police station (citizenship stuff), softly singing Pussy Palace 😆

Whenever people tell me how their work is slowing down for the Xmas break, I want to commit violence. #hcw

welcoming committee at Masked choir. .we sing in N95 masks with open doors and air purifiers

Keep on keeping on , friends

So we can have food, or we can have healthcare, but we can't have both, while billionaires become trillionaires.

Was going to do some sewing but it's a little chilly and there is a very warm cat on my lap

So I've just signed up for a COOKIE SWAP where you bake 20 cookies and then you get to TAKE HOME TWENTY COOKIES also they'll all be plant based and all proceeds from ticket sales go to First Nations and Palestinian mutual aid ❤️❤️❤️

Racial profiling at its best (worst)

Super exciting day at work today: a big step in my first-in-human clinical trial

I could drown in this album

ABC classic has the most beautiful soul-healing baroque on at the moment

A little snippet from the Josh Pyke gig last Friday.

I'm definitely living in the right suburb: spiced tofu nuggets with mayo, all plant-based

Public transport adventures to run errands on this very rainy Melbourne day

Pretty impressive air quality at the Melbourne Recital Centre! Max CO2 just under 860, I think this was in the lobby afterwards.

Gig was great! Not one single other mask though. But, max CO2 was around 700 I think. I'll check the data when I get home. Met Josh after, he signed my CD that I bought around 13 years ago ❤️.

I feel super safe in a trident - it feels like an octopus suckered onto my face! But it does weirdly always cause my nose to block up completely. Very tolerable though, in the name of live music.

Jasper monitors the quality of air renewal in this classroom.

Please read. This is what is happening once ICE snatches people.

Headed to the gig! Cute dress, colourful tights. 2 more back up masks in my handbag + Aranet monitor + mouth lozenges. Arriving early for an outdoor cocktail. The venue is known for its excellent air, and I'm sitting away from the hoards.

Googles "how to insert crying face emoji" into email

Current earworm is just the phrase "girl dinner" over and over again interspersed very unfortunately with some Ophelia lyrics

Ingrid, go to bed,. you're tired. Me: absolutely must make a list of every Josh Pyke gig I've been to and cross reference dates and also check website that lists all of his gigs ever to make sure I haven't missed one. (11 so far)

Is healthcare rewarding? Yes but today I didn't eat for 9 hrs and didn't pee for 10 hours and my brain is mush

Morning y'all #StillMasking

I found out that one of the baristas at work is Korean so now we greet each other every morning in Korean and also today she taught all the other baristas to stay 안녕하세요 so I was greeted with a chorus today , which made my heart full 😍

Inject this into my veins

"For the past 40 years, it's been Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACAT), based with state and territory health departments, who have done assessments and decided on the level of care needed. But in December last year, the government partially privatised the system at a cost of more than $1.2 billion."

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Still here, still caring about myself and others

Never going to claim to understand US politics but boy is it good to see some good news coming out of NYC today

THERE IT IS

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So a combined autism ADHD diagnosis is going to cost $1500 😱 with no Medicare rebates available and then you also need a psychiatrist in order to get meds if you need them.

The “what should poor people be allowed to eat” debate is infuriating. The answer is simple. They should be allowed to eat anything. It’s no one’s business. Ideally we would agree that food is a basic human right & it would be plentiful for all. Until then, stop judging. Fed is best.

Finished off another project that had been languishing in the "almost done except for the neckline and hem" pile. Not my tidiest work but cute fabric!

Since Melbourne decided to be cold.again, I made a delicious Japanese curry with pumpkin, it's an easy Hetty McKinnon recipe and perfect for a colder evening.