forcing myself to send off queries for next week's stories. future self will thank me, but it's hard to focus on a Friday afternoon of a week like this.

Tbh I wouldn’t make the first frame of a video of a middle aged white guy telling the kids why they have to get off their phones look quite like this.

is it overreacting to back out completely of a tradie deal when they accept a job then immediately start trying to change times you'd made clear were not flexible? I just don't need the angst, and it's such a not great start to a relationship.

Hard rubbish gods are with me today.

So Rip Up The Bike Lanes, led by a serial long term candidate, got more than 4% of the vote in Melbourne. :/ vec.vic.gov.au/voting/2024-lo…

Cakes that are edible….

I’ve had three coffees today and now I’m at Bunnings. This could be ugly.

Only chocolate in the house is a forgotten gift box of Lindt balls 3 years past use by, so I’m pretending I’m the only survivor of a global disaster, surviving on the remains of the former human race, reaching the end of my supplies foraged from abandoned houses in the woods.

What sort of amazing bright blue-green ant is this?

The work:break ratio increases in line with the tediousness of the work. Seven annual reports summarized in 90 minutes means:

when I am President of the World, all public and semi public organisations will be forced to timestamp all web publications and updates. So hard sometimes to tell what's current and what's a hangover from 2000-and-something.

What kind of holiday turduckery is this? Chrisween? Hallowmass?

Just hired a guy to take apart and bin-size an old desk I couldn’t give away and now there are terrible wrenching sounds coming from the lift well and I feel like an accessory to murder.

Trying to move across to [email protected] Would love to know how to search for people I follow here…