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Blueberry buns cleaned up~

Homeless camps are rising as affordability falls. It’s a problem Australia has solved before In the 1940s, tent cities and ‘shanty’ settlements appeared across Australia, as families struggled to find homes. The government acted then – and needs to now.

Kind of love that the conversation spoke about what we did in the past (squatted and built public housing) when there were rising encampments of people experiencing homelessness here:
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Tis very regal. The faint sense of a smile with a wistful gaze! A cat who has lived many lives

Photo of a cat rolling on the ground in dappled sunshine, with back legs sprawled over her tail and across her front paws, one ear flattened underneath her upside down face and one ear perked up still. Golden eyes making direct contact with camera, whiskers in disarray. The image is warm, with lush greenery in the background.

Extremely hard choice! It came down to a few but this one displays her personality best I think. She loves a good roll in the sunlight.

Next time someone asks you “where’s the data on AI impacts on water use” tell them to ring Ryde council, ey?

Yeah. If you didn’t get knowledge about this from your family, lots of curriculums don’t include these sorts of safety tips, or only via optional electives that kids don’t think to take. Even the idea of research beforehand doesn’t occur to everyone - the “don’t know what you don’t know” problem. 😬

Then HIS son became a philosopher who gave up the throne to pursue book translations

I might need to stop playing now because that felt like the nicest possible evolution for a crusader kings game to get to, and maybe it’s all downhill from here 🤪

Got sick. Played Crusader Kings 3.
My first king was much loved by all, and died while partying. Big shoes to fill for the not-so-well-liked son who was faced with constant rebellions. His wife hated him so I gave him a 2nd, who became his soul mate after exchanging bad poetry.

He *did* tell us he had only spent 4 days (?) in the city and that he loved the food and comfy restaurant chairs…
Which made it even more embarrassing that YIMBY would use the reputation of a clueless boomer on a tax deductable holiday for their agenda.

Alain Bertaud was the headliner speaker, a Principle Urban Planner from the World Bank. With such claims as “planners should look at transport distances when planning” it was clear he hadn’t spent 1 min researching what the paradigms of Australian planning policy were before commenting on them.

It was claimed at this event that “science can’t tell us” how to make good housing policy - that we can only figure out thru trial & error. Yet that’s shown us trickle-down housing doesn’t work; Australian housing research actually DOES have empirically-driven solutions that the gov won’t listen to.

It does disturb me that someone so openly associated with a banking agenda will gain even more influence on housing policy. After banks have so gratuitously benefited from the government-led era of families taking terrible 5% deposit deals, stealing wealth from the working class to give to the rich.

Fantastic costumes, especially that first one! Sounds like a satisfyingly busy weekend ☺️

My baby sibling got really into CoD shipping on tiktok and started making fanvids and they don’t even play the game like 😭😅😂
And then they got into F1??
Zoomer nerddom is *nothing* like what I expected from millennial nerddom

🙂‍↕️ indeed. All the fuzzy affection. Dog walk first, followed by cat walk. Cat walks in my experience are only down the driveway. They don’t wanna go far. But they DO want to spend much more time sniffing each leaf in detail. Probably ideal after a strident walk when you wanna meander & cool down

They were really ahead of the curve on that millennium beige

a man is making a funny face with his tongue out while a man in a red jacket looks on . Alt: a sweaty man [Stiles from Teen Wolf] is making an exaggerated face of exhaustion with his mouth open, panting, and falls to the ground; while a man in a red jacket holding a whistle [sports teacher] looks on, unmoved.

Anybody who thinks you need a dog for a morning routine hasn’t had a cat perform a long-jump straight onto their chest to stop you sleeping in because they want to go outside and have their morning interactive play session

Worth noting that family care responsibilities and financial difficulties gap is disproportionately heavier for Indigenous students, and those who are the 1st in the family to attend university, and those with disabilities. Not a surprise. But at least the data will continue to affirm those stories.

Table showing "Reason for considering early departure" (from uni) with columns for "Female" and "male". Stress levels: 46.5% / 33.6% Financial difficulties: 43.2% / 35.1% Mental health: 44.0% / 34.1% Difficulty with study workload 39.3% / 30% Study / life balance 35.1% / 27.9% Course expectations not met 26.7% / 31.2 % Paid work responsibilities 28.6% / 21.6% Lack of academic support 24.1% / 21.1% Boredom/lack of interest 18.1% / 26.5% Lack of connection to institution 21.3% / 22% Family caring responsibilities 20.1% / 13.9%

Table on reasons for considering early departure from uni, second column female results, third column male results Physical health: 12.6% / 9.2% Pursue a career or job offer: 6.9% / 12.8%

I hate to harp on about any study that only shows binary gender results, but shout out to the Aussie-wide student surveys from last year showing that while men were more likely to be bored, women were more stressed by care/work/life balance, & men 2x likely to be offered a job worth leaving uni for

Life and hard times change us all 😩
Personally I don't expect anyone to be okay. I just hope that they are kind to themselves, and to others. <3 Kindness carries us further, I think.

Being absolutely blasted right now by conspiracy theories about Jim Carrey being replaced. It nearly got to me, NGL. Bad sleep + incessant algorithmic propaganda are a scary mix.
I've been trying to sleep with my phone charging in another room but breaking the bad habit is a work in progress.

Oh you’re right lol. Dammit. Well, easy fodder for the block buttons, ey 🤪

Yeah 100%. I also can’t see what such a comment is trying to offer. People upload things online to… share them… with an audience that likes it? Okay?! But even the most shallow subgenres of literature have multilayered points of interest and critical voices living and playing within them, IMO.

Last time I checked, hurt/comfort was the genre that did the most numbers. Not just in fanfic too, underpins a lot of bestselling romance!

It’s a good thing that teachers and truth-tellers are helping up-skill so many people in the fundamental human work of learning how to properly listen to a message before reacting to it 😮‍💨

Isn’t the pets thing obvious? A low-stakes conversation topic that gives you common ground & cute pictures, demonstrating your capacity to love living beings who give you nothing back on investment but companionship on their own terms. A gentle green flag. Being able to meet the pet is a bonus!

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

Bug free ✅
Brilliant design ✅
Delivering on its promise every day ✅

Oooh tempting….