when I was talking to the advocacy services around my disabilities and others with them, they said this was the typical playbook for any condition with grey areas in definition.
it's crushing and the whole system needs reform, the recommendations are already there they just need to actually listen.
win win for the NDIS directors and the corporate service providers with monopolies on most areas of disability support.
they can support me for less time before I'm dead to save their budget, and even get some community fundraised money to fatten the books of those providers even more beforehand
eventually the unsustainability of trying to live like that off NDIS catches up, eventually you can't avoid the NDIS places, then comes the mountain of bills you can't afford but can't avoid.
and having also worsened your prognosis just to get by in the meantime waiting for NDIS to do their job,
it says a lot that buying non disability stuff as aids kept me going for years, all a fraction of the NDIS billing equivalents when new
even going so far as injuring myself trying to build alternatives and maintain equipment myself
there's a part for my wheelchair sold ~$75aud overseas, $300 here
especially with what we now know about the early drafts making female characters out of the existing toys, idk why they find it so hard to accept a fembot might share a mould with another character of any gender, same as any other character in the franchise might do
idk how to explain to them that a toon accurate elita 1 is physically unable to transform because they made her robot mode an Optimus height Barbie doll with zero kibble, and an alt mode so unfinished they didnt even fully show it on screen
recreating that 1:1 isnt exactly fixing franchise misogyny
seeing people recently look back on this mould nostalgically was absolutely wild,
it was like they saw it as the "good old days" compared to the fembots we've gotten since
I've genuinely seen them demanding sunbow accurate fembot toys and calling legacy/aotp fembots misogyny by comparison
probably not. but one can only hope they'd have the gall of previous governments that took a stand against the US, but also the strength to not collapse when the US starts looking for friendlier replacements to help out
maybe they decide a war with China isn't as inevitable as the US insists,
that billions of dollars gambled away with a chance for outdated submarines decades later isnt worth it,
that we might be better off not hosting a listening and targeting station involved in endless death and destruction
maybe I'm too overly hopeful thinking that this might have finally broken the camels back and made them realise this wasn't sustainable
especially with them tightening alliances with our more geographically relevant allies/partners at the same time
maybe they finally realise playing along with our "allies" game of turning a blind eye to all the atrocities isn't helping us at all, that maybe we'd be better off if we stopped helping their genocidal campaign decades ago,
just so happens to also be before hundreds of thousands more were killed
makes you wonder if it's a coincidence that right at the same time they finally do anything against war criminals responsible for murdering civilians in the region, ones they'd only previously welcomed to visit our country and protected or celebrated as heroes with awards and photos and exhibits
In every Australian state and the NT, churches cannot be held vicariously liable for historical child sexual abuse perpetrated by their priests. Grace Tame is leading the charge for change.
even just the collection means so much to me. so many tiny things that I've been around for most of my childhood even into being a young adult.
I know I'd never be let into the storage nowadays because of my wheelchair, but it was super fun just looking around the stored collection finding things
god I miss the powerhouse museum
honestly the wait until it reopens is absolutely a determining factor for when I would consider visiting Sydney again
outside of my own professional connections there, it is a very special place in my life overall, something I'd want to come back to.
especially with the government seemingly finally taking some more reasonable tax on our gas exports to pay for this shit, further subsidizing it and outbidding countries with less power for the same shipments
cant wait for it to eventually come out with Australia not missing a single shipment for this entire period and for all of this to be caused by people panicking preemptively for something that never came domestically
people underestimate the power Aus has to buy shipments directed elsewhere
then having all your allies in the region where you started a war and endangered them reach out to others who actually have them for assistance because they don't trust you to have competent defensive and warning technology
the US trying to get E7s makes aukus subs look like perfect 10/10 deal
*laughs in e7*
but seriously how did they manage to have another country commissioning funding developing an entire new aircraft, and yet somehow they fumble taking all that work and copying it, spending billions "developing prototypes" of an existing system, and it gets killed for budget reasons
Vanessa Hujber did not think twice before donating her kidney to save the life of her daughter, Amelia. But Amelia was one of the lucky ones, with advocates calling for urgent action to arrest Australia's declining living organ donation rate.
Craig Hughes-Cashmore spent more than 20 years living with persistent suicidal thoughts, an experience that many share but rarely feel able to discuss.
and then when our prime ministers finally stand up to it, threaten to shut it down if the US doesn't behave, they back a fucking coup, leading to a massive constitutional crisis, replaced by a US ally
even decades later they did it *again*, and this time it was preemptively before threats happened
we never should have accepted hosting a foreign targeting station in the first place, essentially shifting responsibility for an entire hemisphere of warcrimes to us, making us complicit,
yet we have zero oversight or control??
fuck that, and fuck the ridiculous country responsible for it
I hope when the US implodes and its few remaining strong diplomatic ties leave, it leads to pine gap being shut down.
it shouldn't exist here, it even makes us more of a target.
its not like the US is totally unable to use other territories for the same purpose, even if it is a different setup
“the findings suggest that COVID-19 accelerates vascular ageing and could increase lifetime cardiovascular risk” everyone is ignoring this but we all know increasingly people in their 40s and early 50s are having heart attacks and strokes the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1960s
it's so rough. I had my first last year mid 20s, but the scariest bit is how many others are having the same.
even the elders in these communities are seeing it play out where all of us are having them far more often and fat earlier than what would have been expected for this condition
"you can't buy a tank at a car dealership or a jet fighter at duty-free, but in 2026, you can get a small missile at a hobby shop"
oh my god shut the fuck up
they aren't even referring to hobby rocket motors btw,
it's just hobby grade quadcopter and flying wing chassis
cheap foam airframes have been normal and the default in hobby and research spaces for years now. same for the carbon quadcopter frames.
these are entirely pacifist devices until you attach a weapon to them.
weapons that are already regulated the way this fearmongering wants these bases to be
you could glue an explosive device to a $20 remote control car from Kmart, but that doesn't make every single one on shelves a weapon
you could attach an LMG to the back of a hilux, that doesnt mean the ones at your local dealership are already fighting vehicles
idk how to emphasise how incredibly stupid this premise is
it should be pretty obvious that the distinguishing factor that makes something hobby or military is having a fucking weapon or explosive device as part of it
a foam airframe is not a weapon
a quadcopter frame is not a weapon