ah feck
Round the twist again
Indeed
My words were a little more x rated but yeah.
☹️
This literally impacts my life as now I refuse to work for any company that has an office in the US unless it’s to be a malicious actor.
Edit: will delete this soon.
My cat’s heart isn’t working well and he doesn’t have a great prognosis, but he’s well and happy in himself and I’m focusing on that. We’ll be ok.
I’ve just ordered takeaway for the first time in yonks. Fried goodness is now on the way to me and in the meantime I’ve poured a glass of wine. I will enjoy it and not wallow.
And I’m putting my fingers in my ears and ignoring the news out of the US.
I’m sorry. I’m hoping he has some more good days and can soak up the love for as long as possible
Many hugs to you and puss. ❤️
Just as a little moment of grounding… What are we all having for dinner on this sombre evening? I gotta use up my other half tin of coconut cream, so I’m going to do a rich tomato curry with tvp balls that I also need to use up. Along with the leftover everything-in-one veggie and dal curry and boiled eggs my aunt gave me.
I’m still fairly limited in what I’m able to have but a few squares of dark chocolate just climbed into my mouth
Very dopaminious choice for the evening 👍
I might be done for night.
I ate a bunch of bread with peanut butter. Started to feel a bit like I had too much because the bread was very doughy.
We’ll see how I feel later.
I’m hoping you get to have a bit more than just pb and toast to keep you going through the night, but also, there are days that are like that. Getting up at 12 midnight feeling ravenous is the worst tho…
I’ll see how I go.
Feeling off at the moment, unsure of how I’m feeling exactly but I’ve been sitting here doing nothing in silence for the past 30 mins.
I hope the physical feeling passes soon. Mentally I think quite a few of us are staring at walls right now…
Keeping it healthy tonight. I had a big lunch so I’m going with a chilled, fermented, yeast activated hop and barley soup
No sardines to wash down the beer?
Chicken roast, with roast potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower.
All hail the faithful potat. And the wholesome feeling of a dinner roast! I actually wanted to have something similar for dinner myself but remembered the coconut cream.
Frozen fried rice heated in the microwave - a real cbf dinner. Now the cool change has come through I NEED CALORIES! Had a nice salad for lunchies with some gorgeous red grapes after - grapes rn are pretty wow. These were intensely sweet and almost musky - very much muscatel vibes but juicy. Best I’ve had for a long time.
Ooh, you’ve inspired me to pick up some grapies to share at work on Friday. And yes re: the calories. Very grateful for some potat in my diet tonight.
I’m having thai mango curry with some roti
Yum!! Homemade roti? :o I keep meaning to do it for ages but am lazy to even though I know it’s so easy (and easy to freeze)
Tendies and salad pita wrap.
An excellent balance of health and heartiness!
to help with the mood, here is my son being adorable
So, seeing the early US results, anyone looking for 2 When We Were Young festival tickets?
Hot exclusive seedlings pic in the gardening thread ✨🌱
So there’s now literal children buying anti-aging products like retinol and there’s a hair disclosing spray so women can completely defuzz their whole faces?
People are getting preventative Botox and giving themselves gastroparesis by using Ozempic and 20 year olds are either removing the fat from their cheeks or getting fillers? Celebrities with slightly crooked teeth are getting full veneers or caps?
Earlier periods of history got a bad reputation for their rigid beauty standards and rightfully so but I feel like it’s all much more out of control now because internet. Modern beauty standards are insane.
Screw that I’m crawling back under my rock
there’s celebrities and then there is insta and tiktok celebrity. Insta and tiktok is freaky.
I feel like TikTok is weirdly disconnected from reality
western tiktok has an anti-social algorithm ,
I swear, just seeing pollen makes me itchy.
The real question about the US Election is do they get democracy sausages?
I’m not sure they’ll even have democracy much longer, sausages are probably pushing it.
They haven’t ever had it. Current system is more or less an oligarchy, it’s just called democracy so as not to scare people.
No. In fact, some states have passed laws prohibiting the distribution of refreshments to people waiting in line to vote
This is really at the core of their issues.
That’s wild
There is reason for it. Back in the days where travelling to a polling place was still a major event politicians used to ply people with food and alcohol to buy their votes. It often got quite out of control and was seen as a threat to democracy.
No. In fact when we ask about it, they usually think we are joking.
They do not
Something to distract us all from the doom and gloom shark quiz
I got 3/10 poo
LOL, also 6/10.
6/10 Any knowledge I have is due yo my son and his shark fascination from the ages of 3 to 6.
eee 7/10
I have an intimate knowledge of sharks because one hasn’t eaten me yet.
6/10 - lots of guessing/educated guessing.
I got 5/10 and I dispute the answer for megalodon tooth size. They have many sizes of teeth depending on what kind of tooth. Question should have been, the biggest megalodon tooth. Most meg teeth are about 10 cm.
7/10, not too shabby indeed lol
We have good odds in the ocean.
Same result
What in the ever loving Mary Shelly nightmare is the Helicoprion’s mouth in that quiz???
P
I’ve heard of that one, the tooth whorl is one of the most prized fossil finds evah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicoprion
Funnily, it was the name that gave it away for me lol. Helico-pter, helix, etc.
But yeah, fuck that noise.
Exactly how I worked it out too.
2/10. It turns out I don’t know much about sharks.
Damn 4/10. Those questions were not easy.
6/10. Only because I watched a doco not long ago
Marge had a grumble but Huey isn’t sending it down. Melbcat has still retreated
We had some faaaaaat rain drops… and now sunshine.
I’ve had to move my open mic to next week due to feeling sick :( sorry for the short notice to anyone that was wanting to come along
Edit: I have the day after off from work because Saturday is my birthday so we can have a couple of drinks lol
Dammit. Still, next week will be fine too. Glad to get fairly early warning.
I’m sorry it wasn’t more warning, I just took a really bad turn at lunchtime :(
No probs. Looking forward to next week though.
hope you’re feeling better soon 😘
Thank you ❤️
Jesus Christ I HATE watching this US news, but I cant look away! Some folks are already calling it and I think I might throw up. Thats not a joke or an exaggeration.
Just saw someone talk about a republican house, senate and presidency altogether as a good thing.
Compared it to Obama. Obama had no interest in dictatorship. Republicans meanwhile keep getting real excited about Hitler.
The fact that it’s this close speaks volumes of the US population.
It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.
Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.
It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.
All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.
Have a friend who studied world history throughout uni. His statement about this is ‘All empires must fall’. This is the fall.
USA has been going down the toilet for some time, and the turds getting bigger.
I’m gonna switch off the US crap and focus on our local (milder) shitshow.
thinking on it I am not surprised
for 100 years the press and influencers have been making race an issue as a distraction to class , money and opportunity issues ( to stop the working class uniting , and yes, race is an issue )
the working class have genuine grievances and want a voice, sadly trump says he is their voice ( even tho that’s a lie )
they don’t want to hear more race issues
we need unity
I don’t disagree, but the GOP and Trump have not been the voice of the working class. The fact that enough people have been convinced that they are, is just sad.
This election was also about women issues, and that fell on deaf ears.
The media has a lot of responsibility for this shit show.
but fairness!! S/
the press are either cowards or love the money the drama of trump brings
in the meantime the independent voices in the media are getting shut down
just look at the drama of trying to bring this sub on lemmy under “control”
What do you mean about this sub and lemmy?
there was an attack on our mods last week because they weren’t towing a line, iow, they were being non partisan
https://aussie.zone/post/15068055
can I just say I love our mods , it’s due to their hard work and diligence and ideals that we have the freedom to post here , luv youse guys 😘😘🥹🥹
Yeah the whole ‘fairness’ thing is a load of crap. With the election one side (generally the leftish leaning one) has to be perfect and spotless, meanwhile the other side might a slap on the wrist over something terrible.
One reason I love the ABC and SBS here. The only reason they appear to lean ‘left’ is because they report facts and don’t favour either party, generally. It’s just one side of politics tends to be shittier than the other.
They need mandatory voting, at the very least
I’m very thankful for our electoral system.
We just need to educate our electorate that we can”t “Throw away your vote” by preferencing a special-interest party above a Major party…
Like my gran used to say (she thought she was upper class)… “I deserve two votes” even though she never read any policy. I once flippantly said maybe charlie (her doggo pug) should get one too and she was thrilled at the idea.
Yeah I’m starting to get a bad feeling about it all. About to turn off notifcations and try to bury in work for a few hours
I have friends in the US 😭
It’s looking real ugly over there. People are talking about a red mirage, but…that seems more and more unlikely the longer this goes on.
It’s too early to tell
It is too early to be sure, but it took four days in 2020 to get a result and things looked a lot more purple than they do this time around.
I’m definitely concerned, but I don’t think I pay attention to it till tomorrow. It’s really wracking my nerves.
