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mastodon 4.6.6Posts about food, games, tech, politics, being a single parent, and the small humans that wreck me.
Swears like an Aussie cu... ok, not in the profile.
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Joined May 22, 2026
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@treleanor@aus.social @graemeinnes@mastodon.social don't forget, "we can't have all the nice things".
They know exactly what they're doing. It's intentional, it's cruel, and it's who Labor are
My ex-partner is weird as fuck sometimes.
We have a rule, we need to meet each other's boy/girlfriends before the kids can hang out with them. A simple rule, just to get a read of the person, catch their vibe, and know whether we're comfortable with it.
It's been in place for like 8 years now, and I've met one dude. Most I've never met, purely because she's like "fine, I just won't introduce them to the kids".
Suddenly she's got a serious boyfriend, and the kids have "inadvertently" met the dude. I reminded her this isn't cool, and she needs to introduce me to him.
She's always cagey as fuck about this stuff, doesn't do it right, and pisses everyone off in the process.
So I suggested beers on Friday arvo; nope, he can't make it. How about coffee on Sunday morning? Nope, we're busy.
Then I get a message at 9:30 this morning saying "He's going to come with me, pick the kids up, and meet you". Ok, fine, we could have done coffee, but if that's what it takes.
I get a message at 10am, when she should be here. Apparently she informed him AFTER she informed me. He's like "What? No, I need to be ready for this". It's all been beaten up way out of proportion, now I'm some scary dad that this dude has to meet.
All because my ex-partner cares way too much about what people think of her, ruminates on shit for ages, and then springs stuff at the last minute to "mitigate" any perceived problems.
I've told her repeatedly I don't give a fuck what people think of me, like, not at all any more, and this stuff really grates up against my lifestyle
You know what would be the biggest help for victims of domestic violence? Increasing JobSeeker (and in turn Parenting Payment), increase rent assistance, and have funds available for people fleeing domestic violence.
The one thing that kept me from fleeing my ex was money, as abusive partners know controlling the money controls the victim
#auspol #dv
Gotta love how "financial literacy" guides are all:
Step 1: have money
Step 2: don't spend it
Step 3: plan ahead
Literally three things poor people don't have/can't do
The current reaction to fascists and Nazis by police and politicians are teaching every climate change or social justice protester where they went wrong.
Wear black, be violent, especially against the police. You will literally get the law changed that way, as fascists have, and no other.
Gluing your hands to roads or throwing paint on stuff will just get you terrorism charges. Actual terrorism, though, works
One of the biggest myths, that most countries still buy into, is the noble warrior.
War is horrific, anyone who participates in it is not noble, and not a warrior.
They are state sanctioned murderers, and that's not to diminish what soldiers do, it's just a reality, and it bears heavily on many soldier's mind.
Dad almost threw himself off his apartment in Bangkok in the 2010's, 60-odd years after his combat.
The horror of war makes no one a hero, no one noble. Sometimes that's just part of war, as I said, state sanctioned murder. It's when your duty goes beyond that where people become deeply conflicted.
Dad's war was in Malaysia. And you might know a "bit", but you don't know anything, and that's the problem. They were there to do war crimes
Only on an Aussie server:
I unload my double barrel next to a squadmate, and he says over local voice chat "what the fuck is that, cunt?".
And I immediately know he's so impressed he has to know what it is, and how to get it "double barrel, grenadier level 7".
"Thanks cunt, I'll grind that next"
I'm surprised so many Americans play on our servers, with our liberal use of that word
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@brainscores@mastodon.world no, it's really not hard if you understand once you've seen small spinning bodies in space
Well, sometimes bad things happen to bad people:
Gina Rinehart’s estimated A$700m profit from SpaceX IPO wiped out as stock price dips
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/17/gina-rineharts-estimated-a700m-profit-from-spacex-ipo-all-but-wiped-out-as-stock-price-dips
#auspol
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The latest fight in "tut tutting kids" is "schools need a digital detox".
Yeh, nah, my kids use computers at school, and at home, and are top students in the school.
It's not the computers. It's not even school. Parents just don't engage with their kids, so why they hell would they engage at school?
Adi Dassler was forced to be a Nazi.
Adidas these days are Nazis by choice.
Imagine thinking it's ok to have a kid killer as your spokesperson for this campaign:
Adidas faces boycott calls over campaign featuring former Israeli soldier
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@sushee@ohai.social nostalgia is a disease. Not because "remembering old times" is a bad thing, but because nobody remembers old times, they make up that memory, discarding the terrible shit, and only remembering the things they saw as good.
I get why people do it, but the internet was not safe, at all, back then, especially not for women
Ok, time to sit in a bush and kill people!
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al I lost all my respect for Linus over this. And I named my fucking son after him
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@girlonthenet@mastodon.social I call myself cis-bi all the time, purely so people are clear on stuff. Nothing derogatory, just a way of defining how your gender was acquired
Fucking horrific.
This is what the right means when they "don't want queer shit in our face".
It's not unexpected from Germany right now, leaning heavily into the far right, which, for most of the world, is a serious worry. We know how that turns out:
One dead, 16 injured as car slams into crowd at Berlin LGBTQ event
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/25/one-dead-14-injured-as-car-reportedly-strikes-crowd-at-berlin-lgbtq-event
#DEpol
Hearing an American Democrat go on about how Israel is really good at missile defence, thus why they need to integrate their "defence" forces is hilarious.
The best form of missile defence is to not have all your neighbours shooting missiles at you.
Then, you need to intercept 99.999%. Israel barely breaks 90%.
Missile defence is an oxymoron. You have missile deterrence, but that's it. Missiles will strike, and the more you get people to fire them at you, the more will definitely strike
#USpol #Israel #Idiot #Nazis
If there's anything we can learn from the current AI slopfest it's that prescriptive learning, testing, and assignments, are useless now.
The only way to assess students is what my father fought his career in the ILO to introduce: instructor lead learning with continual assessment.
No tests, no assignments, just someone assisting your learning and assessing your progress as you go. Not to fail you, but to help you learn better
Oh god, Israel has no right to exist.
There is no codified right to a country to exist.
Don't like it? I'm sure there's other planets with more forgiving political climates for you to perpetrate this lie. Unfortunately they don't have physical climates conducive to life.
Every time I hear "Israel has a right to exist" I think "Did Yugoslavia? What about Rhodesia? Maybe Nazi Germany? Or Prussia? Where does that line get drawn of "right to exist"?"
The bottom line is ONLY Israel "has a right to exist", and that's not international law, that's fascism
#Israel #USpol #Fascism
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@rzeta0@mastodon.ie Americans are shameless.
Near 100 years of invading people around the world, losing wars, and causing destruction. They'd rather hold pithy signs than actually change.
This is what happens when a culture is based around exceptionalism.
See also Israel
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@snarkysteff@mastodon.online @tsyum@thepit.social I didn't realise Burns et all had done a doco on that. Will have to watch.
It's something that irks me, as American fascism started long before the term was coined; a whole war was fought over it, and the fascists won, not on the battlefield, but by capitulating then demanding concessions they had no right to
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@jcrabapple@dmv.community sand is defined by grain size, not composition.
That said, awesome stuff
Wow, this is bad.
Not only are the country of origin labels outright lies, they're importing this stuff from Xinjiang:
Leggo's, Coles and Aldi selling Chinese tomatoes as 'Australian' and 'Italian' in products, forensic testing finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/australian-tomatoes-leggos-coles-aldi-chinese-tests-show/106940742
#auspol
As an Aussie, it's frustrating seeing the amazement in what fires can do in Europe. Black Summer (2019/20) was horrific here, and all we got was clickbait, no real change
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@MadeMeSmile@mastodon.social photomicrography is so cool. I wish I could afford the lens 😆
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@sashag@anarres.family it's something I struggle with, even cis. I'm not fem, I know that, definitely masc, but my life is softer, gentler; looking after kids, cooking, shopping, stuff like that.
I'm always conscious that my masculinity can harm others in an instant so I try to mitigate it; cross the road at night when I see a woman on their own, so I'm not following her, no creepy long stares at women, and I smile, all the time, because apparently men don't do that 🙄
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@Pepijn@mastodon.online as a contrast to this, my kids are deeply involved in their clothes shopping. My ex-partner and I both almost exclusively shop at second-hand stores.
If not, it's at the bargain bins at EB Games, or the like, so the kids can get their favourite anime/gaming/etc t-shirts (and I can too!).
Unfortunately, it takes (near)poverty to live like this
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@snarkysteff@mastodon.online yep, I suppose combine this with their excellent series on the Civil War, and it all comes sharply into focus
This does make me reflect on my NVA grenadier loadout. It's basically what would be classed as hunting gear these days, and way more effective than the M16A1: double barrel and a Mosin-Nagant
"Labor Friends of Israel" showing who they are.
After the conference acts today, all I can say is Labor is lost. Don't bother voting for them. They're pro-genocide.
Such a shame seeing an Indigenous person take this stance, too:
Former Labor senator Nova Peris accused of ‘amplifying’ anti-Muslim social media posts
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/25/former-labor-senator-nova-peris-accused-of-amplifying-anti-muslim-posts-on-social-media-ntwnfb
#auspol
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@snarkysteff@mastodon.online yeh, I hear that. I've been avoiding a lot of American news stuff, because it's hard to watch shit from the inside.
That said, I still enjoy watching stuff like Guard the Leaf because he's such a calmly angry Canadian 😆
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@ptua@mastodon.social during the school holidays? I suppose poor kids don't need to have fun, eh?
🎵 We didn't appear out of thin air
We live here
We didn't appear out of thin air
We live here🎵
Bob Vylan - We Live Here
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@ptua@mastodon.social it's one reason we're so opposed to the removal of the stops along Gertrude St. They're not accessible, but they're better than street level. Being able to just go from curb to tram is enough to save people with disabilities a heap of struggle
America is so broken there is no fix. It's not the government, it's the people. Brainwashed for over 2 centuries
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@Deixis9@beige.party 100%, and I have no desire to engage with anything using it.
Meanwhile, the dude doing shitty graphic design (photos just resized poorly, weird font choices, etc) for his latest gig was like "hmm, sure dude, you want people to come"
This is just getting ridiculous. There's an implied right to political communication in Australia. If you don't like it, you can move to Israel where there's no right to political communication.
Why does "Free Palestine" frighten these Zionists so much? It's kinda weird they're never challenged on this.
All I does is show this Antisemitism Royal Commission for the joke it is
#auspol
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@FSonder@mastodon.ie @Deixis9@beige.party oh, for sure, but you can see heart in stuff, and, especially where I live, there's an outright hostility to AI.
Lots of graffiti with "SLOP" over posters with AI, it's heartening to see. Doesn't stop the slop merchants though