Got to cuddle nephlet, he made himself quite comfy in my arms, accepted being passed around to B1...and then turned into a big waily crybaby when it came time to feed him.

So tiny! So adorable!

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I am feeling, as the subject says, restless and unsettled.

The omicron variant has taken away much of my usual summer activities along with the people I ( Read more... )

I decided not to go up to visit the friend on the farm.

All my COVID rapid antigen tests come back negative (they're the 90% accuracy sort), but I'm still tired and exhausted and 'bronchial' (as I've been on and off for months), and I didn't want to be expending the effort of navigating a strange place and my health and the risk levels all at once.

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I'm thinking of starting an embroidery project, a very small, very specific version of the Tiny Pricks Project for Australia.

I'd call it "Embroidering The Truth" and it would be embroidering quotes from Australian politicians, or about Australian politicians - their words and only their words -on fabric and posting them as often as I could finish

Tomorrow is a public holiday, and then on Tuesday, NSW goes the way of any Republican-led US state.

Our state Premier resigned on Friday over a matter of corruption. ( state politics )

I woke at 3:45am, cursing. So damn tired. But I went looking for the inauguration videos, and got the tail end of Biden's speech, Amazing Grace, the young poet laureate, and the prayer guy. Started to watch them all go out, then got hit by tiredness, turned it off and went back to sleep. Woke up to a 7:15am work alarm to check on a transfer that's ( Read more... )

I would usually write "a plague on whoever came up with that old 90s R&B vid of the guy singing the song about counting before he 'starts all over again' and posted it EVERYWHERE to describe Nevada's ballot counting" but with COVID on the planet, it seems unwise.

BUT DAMMIT I'VE HAD THAT SONG IN MY HEAD FOR FOUR FREAKING DAYS.

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My maths/politics ( Read more... )

It's become more clear to me as the US election comes closer that mandatory voting is less about forcing people to vote and more about forcing governments to enable people to vote easily and without undue hardship. It's about enabling democracy to happen, which doesn't tend to happen when the people in power are allowed to control how democracy ( Read more... )

Today is a 'double donut day' in Melbourne, Victoria.

0 new cases.

0 deaths.

Look, lockdown isn't fun, and no, it shouldn't be permanent. But in mid-July, Melbourne was getting 700+ cases a day. They went into lockdown and now they're 0.

Everywhere else that's comparable continued to have citizens wandering around, and they're reading 15K, 25K, 40K new ( Read more... )

It's not really possible to avoid it right now. Even in Australia.

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Melbourne went back into hard lockdown this morning. Too many people thinking Level 3 didn't apply to them, so now it's Level 4: pretty much full lockdown - no going anywhere unelss you have a really good reason (medical, shopping, necessary work, urgent travel).

Meanwhile all the people who were screeching that the (non-conservative party) Premier ( Read more... )