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porn is bad because [christian talking point] and [alt-right study] and [misunderstood neurochemistry] and of course [feature of capitalism]
thank you SO MUCH for reminding me about [feature of patriarchy] and [problem caused by lack of kids' sex ed] random tumblr user in the notes! louder for those in the back!
The adult content warning on this post is really just the icing on the cake
Today's grump: people being rude about fictional names, because it 'looks weird' or 'how do you pronounce that'. You might think that what you are doing is being funny about fiction, but from where I'm standing, you just look racist. Sure, the correct word might be xenophobic, but really, that's just racism mask on rather than mask off.
I've had a sudden realisation that the fact that I was never on twitter means that I never really learned to be succinct.
And yes, I started with a mobile phone in 1998, and in theory should have learned there, but I really didn't make that much use of SMS until I got a plan with unlimited SMS (because before that I was kinda skint, and I'd rather spend the money on a quick phone call* than using the number pad to type), and by that point I had a phone with a full keyboard and apple messages, and yeah.
This lack of ability to be succinct is going to be an issue as I work through my studies.
*yes, those were expensive too, but the instantaneous communication aspect and the not having to deal with an unpredictable number of back and forth messages was worth paying for.
how do you usually search the internet for things?
I type a search term into the url bar of my browser and press enter
I type a search term into the url bar of my browser and click search
I go to a search engine website, type, and press enter
I go to a search engine website, type, and click search
I go to one of multiple subject-specific websites
I ask an assistant on my smart device to search the internet for me
I ask a person who I think might know how to look things up to look things up
I do not use the internet
something else
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ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)
how long
< 3:00
3:00–3:59
4:00–4:59
5:00–5:59
6:00–6:59
7:00–7:59
8:00–11:59
12:00–15:59
16:00–20:59
21:00–24:59
25:00–30:00
≥ 30:00
ok i would like to clarify it has to be music and it can't just be a short song that's been looped a bunch. that still counts as several songs in one file, it's just several of the same song in one file. no audiobooks no podcasts no plants vs zombies theme 2 hour loop
Could you personally navigate a cross-country road trip, door to door, without your electronics (phone/computer/tablet/etc)?
Yes
No
I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up
Youngest doesn't cope well with much spice in their food. I explained this to a second generation Australian/Nepali friend today as
"You start with white people food, and then you take away the spice".
I watched them smile, nod, blue screen, and then get me to repeat that yes, I really did mean take away the spice.
Youngest has, at some point, talked about a friend going to cook for them, and saying 'less than that' and 'no, put some of those options away'.
It's the stupid details that throw me out of stories.
Today, it is that on admitting a newborn to the Neonate Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the birthing parent wasn't sent there. More damningly, from my perspective, not allowed to see the baby for days.
It isn't set in the country I live in, so maybe things are different in the country it is set in. I'd be surprised. Because standards of care keep the parent/baby dyad as close together as possible. It helps for bonding, for getting lactation established, and a host of other things I've managed to forget in the decade I've been out of the relevant medical research area (and yes, some of our research was in one of the two NICU units that were in our state at the time)
Also: two decades and change ago I spent three weeks as the parent in the other of those two NICUs. And when I say three weeks, I mean 24/7. Because of the circumstances*, I was provided with a room to sleep in, and when I wasn't asleep, and the baby wasn't asleep, I was in there, watching what was going on. Parents were welcome there all the time. Most families at least one parent was there hours in the day. There was one exception, of a parent with other kids, no car, who lived a way from the hospital, and the nurses were some worried about how little time parent and baby were getting together.
*Term baby, established lactation, fully breastfed, admission not related to the birth, and I never had got pumping to work.
for your entertainment:
I just misread something as "You need a complete diet with grains and tons of vegemite"
yesterday's hear-o: "web two point rogue"
Don't leave your friends and even acquaintances to go to the hospital alone. If they don't have someone already going with them and don't explicitly tell you they don't want you there, go to advocate for them. Outcomes for sick people change dramatically when they have someone else there to observe doctors (making them know they can't get away with negligence) and note symptoms from an outside perspective.
Going to the hospital is scary and even someone totally unprepared to be a medical advocate or physical support will be better than nothing, purely from their presence. You can grab food, be there with your phone to search if theirs dies, go in search of a doctor, distract them from pain or discomfort... go with them.
"'I don't know' isn't an answer" alright man then I'll just. Fuckin. Enter my philosophical mind-palace and check the fuckin akashic records. Real quick lemme just catch and cook and eat the Salmon of All Knowledge. Tell me ur question again so I can real quick climb to the highest branches of the Yggdrasil and lay it at the feet of Freda the all-wise Queen of Heaven. Dickhead.
"I don't know isn't an answer" and "there is no try" are the two phrases that took an otherwise honest child and created a child who carefully calculated lies about deliberate naughtiness so that I didn't get talked at for hours. I still got talked at for hours, but at least it was about the fictional child who had deliberately done The Bad Thing.
I worked out that "it looked like fun" was a good lie. "Other kids were doing it" was a bad lie, as was "I didn't think about the consequences". "I wasn't thinking about how you/other adults would feel about it/perceive it" had to be carefully used. Anything that implied lack of understanding brought out the lectures about how I was Responsible, and other bullshit words that mean 'I don't want you to behave like a child, why can't you be a little adult with no agency and no desires'.
As an adult, I lie like breathing to people I don't hold tight within my heart. Not big lies. Little lies, like making up a fussy family member I'm looking for a gift for when attempting to explain to a store clerk why the thing they have so helpfully provided doesn't suit. I make a concerted effort to give only truth to those I hold tight, but I make no promises that I'm ever giving the whole truth. I don't have it in me to ever be truly transparent.
Those phrases, in part, also created the mindset that led that same child to contemplate trying to hide/clean the injury that needed 27 stitches. The young adult who never gave anything of their personal life to the parent. The adult who won't ask people for their personal information, it has to be volunteered. Who possibly has never had an honest and free discussion with the non-custodial parent.
Thank you @fromagesse and @jupeter-andrews for the tag!
Steal an item from my room!
one of the containers with yarn
ammonite fossil
macrame owl
??? shawl
spathiphyllum in bloom
wooden kaj bojesen monkey who got a tail added by my mom in the 70s
Tagging: @chani @ophidiae @lalalenii @maxwellshimbo @fredmouseoz @erika-sanely
"We need to end mass-migration! We're becoming too crowded!"
Immigration has been declining year after year after a temporary post-COVID spike so there is no "mass-migration" happening at all. It's a normal amount.
Australia's population growth is slowing down to a record low of 1.3% - in part thanks to a decrease in migrant arrivals and increase in migrant departures.
Yeah, migrants aren't causing a population crisis. Even if we disregard all the economic benefits of migrants, how they make up a significant proportion of vital industries like healthcare and construction, then the bare basic maths just demonstrates migrants are not causing a strain on our population.
So why do right wing parties dislike migrants? Simple: they need someone to throw under the bus to distract from how their own policies don't benefit regular Australians and migrants can't vote so they can attack them as much as they like.
Don't be gullible. Don't fall for anti-immigration propaganda.
you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect
is it worth it?
yes!!
the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT
meh it's okay
the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it
Results/option I didn't think of
What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas
oh this is so fucking easy when you're not in the northern hemisphere and live in a place where none of these things exist natively. So let's start!
We have over 12,000 species of wildflower in Western Australia alone, with around 70% endemic and found nowhere else in the world, let's GO
Banksias (specifically Acorn Banksias, and Menzies Banksias) Hibbertias Daviesia Every member of the Lechenaultia family but a shout out to Lechenaultia biloba and Lechenaultia formosa Stylidium (Trigger plants!) Correa (Dusky Bells in particular) Marri Kangaroo Paw Purple Enamel Orchid Carousel Orchid Morrison's Featherflower Pink Summer Calytrix Swan River Myrtle Golden Long-Heads Creamy Candles Blue Tinsel Lily (not like the lilies you're thinking of) Native Wisteria (Hardenbergia comptoniana)
That's a good start. I know I'm missing so many. So many favourites. Many I've had the joy of growing in my garden over the years.
supporting disabled people?
australia says no.
