It’s the eve of a 4 day weekend. Sadly I have a day filled with BS meetings that actually require my mental presence.
Happy Faux Friday!
Thanking you kindly
Dear boss:
If you try and do something and it doesn’t work so you throw it up to me that’s ok, just fucking tell me. Don’t go ‘oh I was gonna do it but was too busy you do it’
Signed: the woman who prepped and went to build a server only to find the PERC is fucked.
Nearly finished watching Quiet on Set , about Nickelodeon.
it bothers me that companies will overlook pedophiles with a criminal background as long as the money is coming in 😡
companies need to be made to have it be financially unworthwhile, like billions in fines and jailtime
How does a pampered house cat get her claws so sharp?😖 Melbcat is tap dancing in my lap to get comfy, pulling threads out of my good trackies and the skidding with her weight is dragging her claws through my flesh.
She much prefers to be grubby and wild but I need to clean her eyes, have another wipe at the remnants of the ear drops, give her ears another wash and clip her nails.
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_ How often do you trim her nails?
A good scratching pad can help too.
As often as she allows - which is to say, not often. She also grows them back so fast.
She’s got two cat trees she uses but those just seem to file them sharper. I’ll see if I can find an affordable scratch pad
She’s got two cat trees she uses but those just seem to file them sharper.
sharpening is exactly what she is doing, she’s removing old nail layers to reveal the new sharp ones
walking outside tends to dull cat claws
Ahh, no chance of that. If I let her outside she’ll pick up fresh fleas and/or abscond
Edit: She refuses to walk on a leash
It might not. I have two, one blunts himself perfectly, the other is pointy as F. Same scratch trees etc never tried cutting them. Best guess is the blunt one spends more time in the tile end of the house, grout.
@Catfish I’ve found the secret is to get them when they’re still half asleep.
And just one paw at a time — don’t think you’ll get all four done in one go.
This bogan piece of shit in cobram that’s been arrested makes my blood boil. And while he was found not guilty for the murder of that toddler innocent people don’t hide dead babies in their roof. That toddlers last moments alive were being brutally assaulted and I just find it so upsetting . At worst he did it and they couldn’t prove it. At best he was an accessory to the crime.
Really makes me want to bring back the death penalty. Some people just need to be gone for the sake of society and no amount of meddling is going to fix their fucked brain.
poor baby 😭
Hello possums.
Hello koala
6 hours of watching Superstore and a 2 hour nap. Busy busy day.
People, people! Please do not attempt to use a portable fire pit indoors! A very smart otherwise friend just made a very bad mistake.
Oh dear. Did they burn the house down or just give themselves smoke inhallation?
No persons or felines harmed. Nor purportedly furniture. I fear for the floorboards.
@Catfish @RustyRaven Oh dear.
By any chance, did this otherwise smart person have a few drinks before deciding that bringing the portable firepit inside was a good idea?
Nope. It was an intentional plan & new purchase. The cunning part lacking.
@Catfish Okay, so you have to tell us the full story.
What possessed your friend to do this? Why did they think an indoor fire without a chimney was a good idea?
My knowledge is limited. They are being deliberately oblique about just how bad it got. However they have been soundly told off by many, many people.
Did they at least get a visit from some firemen?
I wish I had one of those and a proper yard to put it in… Marshmallows and bevs
Temperature dipped below 12° briefly yesterday before maxing out at 24 or so. Similar temperatures forecast for the next week. It’s been shorts and tshirts weather all year to this point.
Brace yourself. Winter is coming.
I’ll be wearing short sleeves until they pry them off my (very) cold, dead body!
@Force_majeure123 @Nath T shirts should always be short sleeved.
Then you put a jumper over it.
I love winter. All my best clothes are winter clothes lol
You’re in the right city if Winter is your thing.
I hope it has changed, but I found the blacks and greys of jackets and coats in Melbourne through the winter a bit boring.
I learned my lesson after the last time I went away and I’ve done aaaaaaall of my laundry over the last 2 days. Ready to rock and roll.
👍 Have you cleaned out the lettuce from the fridge?
I’m not sure my fridge has ever seen a lettuce lol
Oh god I really think it may not have seen a lettuce ever… that’s sobering
Have you emptied the bin in the kitchen?
I’ll do that tonight after dinner!
So I watched Quiet on Set.
It’s a post modern series that does very little other than look at very few facts and talk to victims about their feelings.
No experts in the child acting business, child safety or law are talked to. No forensic psychiatrists are talked to about the kind of people these criminals are. No solutions are explored other than, "we should stop this. "
But there ARE experts out there who deal with looking after child safety, there are experts in law regarding child abuse , there are psychiatrists who deal with child abusers in court.
Over all this show was nothing but victim porn that gave no solutions. I doubt the makers of the show even understand how what they did is very little help.
And I’m sure the adults interviewed about their experiences thought they might be helping other people in the same situation.
But without solutions it’s very little help at all. It’s just more exploitation.
I give it 1 hobbit for dealing with the subject of male rape at all.
Studios like to tell talent there are hundreds of people lining up to take their job so they should be grateful for what they have.
They never seem to apply the same logic to the creepy people making middling TV shows that any writer could helm.
actors cost money, writers make money
maybe that’s how the bad logic goes
It took less than 30 seconds looking up sag aftra on line, they have so much information on there about looking after child actors. Looked up a security expert, deBecker, he has information on protecting children.
They could have interviewed producers who work with children to get some perspective on what good people do.
How hard would it have been to interview these experts.
I admit, I am very angry for these people who were abused, even raped. Them and their whole families have been destroyed.
Just heard that it took 5 months for bands to be paid following gigs at the Bendigo Hotel.
No wonder why bands were refusing to play there.
I’m going to miss that place so much, but it sounds like they were running it into the ground.
Gah. I spent all day and night troubleshooting tech and why things weren’t charging.
Go out and buy a replacement part and I think everything is suddenly working and connecting together.
Felt like I just wasted money today figuring that out or just having it fixed magically.
Well at least I went and stocked up on spices which was the original aim of today.
Coffee time!
ooh, what spices did you get 😻
I picked more mild Moroccan Hoyt’s.
It’s so nice!
yum, I used to add that to mixed vegies, tomato, couscous and sliced spanish chorizo, ate it most days for a few months. Lost tons of weight
That sounds delicious!
I’m up early after another night of bad sleep with too many thoughts in my head. But I think I have made a decision that will make things less stressful for me - I’m going to withdraw from my climate change course. It’s interesting material and I would like to be able to do it, but I just don’t have the focus right now. I’m still doing the Sustainable Living Diploma, but I don’t need to finish that until next year so I might move another subject to next year so it is not such a time commitment.
so many hugs
