Happy Extra Day
Final Fantasy Day!!!
Bad case of the CBF’s today. I think I might “not be feeling well” and take the rest of the day off.
You deserve it
Only about 350 books to cover with contact paper.
Will I go insane before I finish?
Can you put some music on while you do it? If so, put a disco/rave/party mix on haha.
I like putting my Eurovision playlist on when I do tedious shit (doing the dishes, vacuuming, life-admin, etc), it makes the time go faster :D
Unfortunately I might have to wear earphones if I do that. Maybe I might put on something quiet from my phone but I am in an open plan area so I don’t want to disturb others as well.
Or Mission Control from SomaFM - A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.
You’ll find yourself invested as to what the weight of those space rocks actually are…
As the husband of a teacher of 20 years, let me guess your profession…? :)
CEO of a multi billionaire company with a weird side hobby?
Nailed it.
Hello possums
Hello and good day to you too.
I hate traffic. Spent way too much time waiting to get onto the Ring Road this morning, then way too much time waiting to get off it this afternoon. It’s been a long day in general with way too much driving for my tastes, so I’m glad to be home on the couch now.
I would very much like this mugginess to fuck off.
Guut nai
Finnish?
Thai
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Hmmm, so Police can’t march in the pride parade but they are expected to show up to maintain law and order. Interesting.
The parade board uninvited the police, who usually march in their uniforms, because it was deemed to be insensitive following the murder of a gay couple by one of their colleagues (with a police issue revolver no less). Individuals who happen to be police were still allowed to march just like anyone else. Now an agreement has been reached that police can be in the parade as a representative group, but in plain clothes.
As for the police that are maintaining law and order, that’s their job, as it is for any large scale public event.
But isn’t it just as triggering to have police in uniform maintaining law and order?
( but are people going to be triggered? Who said they will be triggered? What do the families and friends of the victims say? )
Yes I thought the same tbh. If their mere presence repulses them why have them show up at all in their uniform? At face value this seems inconsistent.
The arrogance also bothers me. I read the articles and no where does it say the board consulted family and friends of the victims. The board also assumes the public and family and friends would be triggered and assume they know best how to handle the situation.
It feels … punitive. We are going to punish police for what happened. Feels very misguided to me since the alleged killer was acting alone. Some people are upset obviously, but punishing the police force is not going to bring back dead people. And of course it raises the question as to what is the criteria to let police back into the march? Who sets the criteria ? On whose authority? And is the criteria realistic?
Which of the articles you’ve read use the word “triggered”, because none that I’ve read say that. Isn’t it also an assumption to say the families weren’t consulted? None of us know that, but it should be kept in mind that at the time the request for police not to march in uniform, the victims’ bodies had not yet been found which you’d imagine would have amplified the hurt for the families and in the wider community.
I have no skin in this game, the only reason I replied to OP was because I happened to be reading this article about it.
From reading that article, “Pride in Protest” don’t want any police there at all, in uniform or plain clothes. That position at the very least is consistent. But it seems the board are sort of half in and half out by letting them attend in plain clothes, but then the cops are also presumably turning up in uniform to maintain law and order.
You can’t have your cake and eat it is my view. If you want to ban police outright no matter their dress, well ok I think that’s shitty and very hard to police pardon the pun, but as I say it’s consistent. But it seems silly to me to say, we don’t like you and don’t want you to march, but also we are happy take from you something that suits us, and it smacks of hypocrisy.
There’s questions to be answered about the gun situation but I do think it’s heavy handed to un-invite the police as a group in the way that they have. After all they didn’t instruct or condone it. In this situation someone killed someone that just happened to be employed by Police, it wasn’t a Policeman acting as Police who killed. And the guy is obviously not all there. Sounds like he would have killed anyway through some other method eventually.
Would they uninvite Qantas as a corporate sponsor if one of their employees murdered someone? What about Optus, or Coles?
Personally I don’t care for virtue signalling, which is what it looks like when Police march. But then again there’s virtue signalling all around. Those big corporate sponsors would drop Pride faster than you could blink if it seriously hurt their financial bottom line.
Oh piss off with that bait
Is anyone following the Marion Barter disappearance. Today is the day the coroner hands down her findings. Such a sad story.
I procrastinated all morning. Time to knuckle down for the afternoon
Driving my old gentleman client for shopping today. He’s a very pious old Greek man and prays before we set off and along the way - I notice we get a smooth run and good parks so I’m all for it!
FF 7 Rebirth disc is in and installing/updating. PS5 ran out of space so I nuked a couple of my games for her. Should have a very impressed wife this evening.
I’m hoping we can get the last game in the not too distant future to finish it off.
Hope you have a lot of fun with it.
I need to wait to get it because I’m picking up Unicorn Overlord next week
Ah that’s true love!
Aaaand I’m done. Wasn’t as taxing as I expected! Still pretty warm out too. Gonna be a nice scoot home.
last of the stars are still out 😊
Just heard someone say tomorrow’s the first day of Autumn. What the hell happened to Summer, how is it finished already? Head spin.
pretty sure the first day of Autumn is the equinox and this year is March 20th