look at this STUNNING still life by local artist @hopdac! ft: my dad looking thoughtfully at the composition and listening to me talk about the Southern Moon Moth (also featured). i believe it’s not too late to buy a print for Christmas here: hopdac.com/home/shop/ the reference for the Southern Moon Moth was this photo. i appreciate a request before using a photo I take as a reference but it is absolutely not necessary to send me a print of the final work as a gift as @hopdac did. what a sweetie

https://mobile.twitter.com/AsFarce/status/1485582526244868109

look this is uncomfortably earnest but you have to have desires and goals other than “I want what they have” or “I want them to suffer the way I have”. politically, personally. resentment and envy are normal reactions to unfairness, but you can’t be guided by them to justice I dunno man I think all the therapy worked too well and now I love my enemies and feel sorrow for the internal turmoil making them act in ways and display behaviours. it’s sick shit. I’m bathed in blue light from a higher power rn

is there like an industrial law reason trade unions won’t help you with problems that started before you joined or is it just the Freudian death drive

https://twitter.com/benschneiders/status/1602842330733883392

the other day I made 5 phone calls to different trade union numbers before anyone could tell me which union my friend should join. the first thing each said was “she doesn’t have a current dispute does she? if so it’s too late”. why is union membership declining? it is a mystery

one of the reasons I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until like 30 is that I had no way of knowing if therapy wasn’t working because it wasn’t tackling the primary underlying condition, or because I was limited to 10 sessions a year and I had to save them up for the annual crisis this is pretty typical for women with ADHD — you tend to develop another 2-4 mental health conditions because your untreated ADHD is ruining your life, and then bounce around the mental health system for years as a chronically unhappy — and, importantly, BROKE — person

Been reading about Cape Coral, the “every house on the waterfront” town in Florida currently being hammered by hurricane winds and floods. anyway i really wish people would stop trying to drain the swamp. let the swamp be
politico.com/magazine/story… this is what they put where the swamp used to be :(

https://mobile.twitter.com/CaseyJPod/status/1575154525694042114

I keep thinking about that NYT explainer about how the Djokovic situation is politically awkward for the government because using ministerial discretion would be at odds with their treatment of the Biloela family. truly it is not. if you don’t get that you understand nothing there’s no asterisk on “we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. it’s not “we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come, in accordance with a fair and consistent legal code”

don't really understand these posts that are like "parents struggling with schools being closed? just say you hate your kids and go!" like dude lockdowns have put a strain on my relationship with my CAT i can't imagine how insane i'd be if she was a human toddler when i work outside the home, or have another reason to be out during the day, i feed my cat when i get back in the evening. when i'm working from home I have to deal with at least an hour of strenuous campaigning to bring cat dinner time forward. i NEED cat school to reopen

I don’t know who needs to hear this but perlite is high in fluoride and can cause leaf burn in fluoride-sensitive plants such as palms; however, this can be prevented by rinsing before use, as well as the addition of lime and/or horticultural charcoal to growing media I’ve been trying to figure out wtf is going on with an unhappy potted palm for months now… my most recent theory was poor drainage. so I repotted it with MORE perlite. i can’t believe this

I don’t think we should accept those constellations that are like “the river” or “the snake”. make an effort there are at least four of these in the recognised IAU constellations alone

once again i am saying that we have had two years to recruit and train people as lab technicians during a period of mass unemployment

https://twitter.com/SimoLove/status/1481894373378125827

i don't know what is involved in becoming a pathologist, i assume most of them have degrees? but i don't think you need a full bachelor's to learn how to do one of the tasks involved in one test

it’s time to release a pack of dingos in Footscray to control the rats and rabbits. who’s with me

https://twitter.com/qianjinghua/status/1481657462822678529

I saw about 15-20 rabbits in Newell’s Paddock the other day. Meanwhile Council is putting out fox bait, which is only gonna make things worse. we need to reintroduce medium sized carnivores to Footscray to restore ecological balance

Federici’s gone full TERF. this fucking sucks t.co/jnrzZig5vl you know what actually. I probably should have made the connection that she never talks about the important role of trans people in European magical traditions like seidr. but I didn’t learn about those until after I read Caliban and the Witch so it didn’t strike me as erasure