Melbourne

Found my old Raspberry Pi and setup a separate server monitor.

Thinking of an informal summer alternative to trackies.

Fisherman’s pants are expensive and not easy to get hold of. Linen pants aren’t good for lounging as they wrinkle and would very quickly be destroyed by the cat’s claws. Yoga pants are the obvious choice but I don’t like tight or clingy clothes.

Ugh C-link is taking a millenia to process my partner's switch from AusStudy to Jobseeker, so they're giving me his rent assistance portion which means he prolly won't get a payment tomorrow.

Yes Centrelink, $151 rent assistance is enough for my $1868 rent 🙄🙄🙄

Fuck fuck fucking fuck fuck

Day 117 of not knowing whether Australia has been invited back to Eurovision in 2024

I regret wearing short sleeves with no jacket and shorts. My bones hurt and my fingers are stiff (and not the fun kind). I need to look at getting an official diagnosis for hypermobility things because my fingers just, they lock into place especially when it's cold.

ears jumping inside. air pressure dropping.

I have cried aloud to the DT and there has perhaps been an answer?

&me Women's Rib Lounge Pants in plain beige or charcoal. They’re $18 each so I’d be worried about ruining them and the model is covering their bum with a long shirt so you can’t factor in the vpl situation. But the only other plain sleep pants I can find are very thin and light coloured, or made of modal (which some people can have itchy skin reactions to).

Edit: if the elastane makes them sweaty or the texture sucks I will break something

So watching the news with the p's and the transport minister came on..

It was a moving speech.

IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS DIFFICULT

9am and I've already walked the dog and finished off the tree planting I didn't get to yesterday 🙂 Hopefully I can get a decent amount of work in on the new garden beds before the weather gets too bad - at the moment it is lovely and sunny, and I'm going to try to enjoy every minute of it while it lasts. 🌞

Rain and thunderstorms… kitty came running to hide under the blankets

oh dear, I went to reddit and dared to say good things about both Melbourne and USA ( and one or two bad things about each )

Sorry kids dinner's gonna be a little late tonight but I promise if everything works out there will be pictures.

Anyone booked a permaculture consult? Any recs? We want to go ham on the yard, but I'd like a second opinion.

So I got a lot of upvotes for my request for you all to help the many organisations ready willing and able to accept your support. But no comments. Someone has downvoted a lot of comments, like gone through my profile clicking. I mean it's very petty but this is the crap we endure and it's often after tv programs like the one which aired the other night. I won't reference it but my family members watched and it was a bit of a witch hunt. Now I have to waste time I should be chilling out in writing about it, challenging the garbage with family.

Racism gets squashed and called out for very good reason, but transphobes are allowed "an opinion" and people do not much to help. Getting my pronouns right will not help my friend obtain full time work. Being an "ally" means fighting alongside us in my opinion. The organisations will have much more measured dialogue, but I don't represent any of them. I volunteer with one of them, but I'm not allowed to speak on their behalf and am not bound by the same codes of ethics their paid staff are. I can't change this thing about myself any more than someone can change their heritage. Would you call someone out for saying disparaging things about a Yinnar man with very pale skin like one of my friends?

It's a serious issue world wide and people calling themselves "allies" just comes across as them feeling sorry for us a lot of the time. People still think we have a choice in the matter but the reality is you either allow yourself the incredible personal honesty required in the face of discrimination or you slowly die. 37% of young transgender people have attempted suicide, that's just the young ones who have been surveyed. but many many of us spend years thinking about it before diagnosis. Ask me how I know?

So, no one commented on my post about helping my community. I think I gave very clear options. Is everyone just going to sit on their hands? Plenty of upvotes but you see why I say people are all talk. I give people options to make a real difference and it's crickets.

I'm not angry or disappointed and this is not attacking anyone, we all have capacities and I don't expect people to drop everything to help. I wish I didn't need to have to explain all this stuff, but I feel obligated to. And just so you're aware, I was a volunteer being realising I was trans. I recognised something needed to be done and stepped up. I'm done, I have to go to work. Thx for reading... especially my downvoter, wasting your time is a privilege.

Question time has been particularly spicy this week, starts at 2 if you want to listen in.

This wind is making me feel a bit crazy. So glad to be WFH tomorrow morning. Just want some peace and quiet.

Had the ten drops of rain.

Got the washing hung out just as it clouded over for real.
Hope the warm air and the wind finish the job.