Vet just called - as before, nothing detected in the external examination and nothing in the blood tests. They’re going to x-ray her and if nothing shows up on that, organise an ultrasound. Also they’ll give her fluids and an anti nausea injection since she has been vomiting on and off since Thursday.
You wish they could just tell you what’s going on.
You do 😕
so many gentle hugs and good wishes
Thank you 😊
I was surprised by the Wattle Festival and just the sheer size of it yesterday. We only did part of the main street of Hurstbridge and we hardly got to the whole thing.
I was going to go last year - they were running steam train specials out to Hurstbridge. Don’t know if they did that this year. Unfortunately we missed our train which made us miss the other trains and it wasn’t possible to recover from, even though it was a shuttle train
Yes, they had the steam train out again. I might try to get the kids on there next year because they were getting tired around 11 and we had afternoon plans. We got to see it leave before we headed off at least
Yay. Day 1 down with no embarrassing moments to report. New place is nice. They have cold soda water water on tap 😍
Awesome. 🥤
For those going to the CFMEU protest tomorrow, be advised the location has been changed to the Trades Hall due to expected large crowd.
What’s being protested
Here’s a quote from the ETU:
We’ve had Royal commissions into the severe misconduct of the banking and finance sector, the Robodebt scandal, and the aged care sector. Each of these Royal commissions had DAMMING FINDINGS, yet NOT ONE person lost their job, NOT ONE company was put into administration, and NOBODY went to JAIL!
The CFMEU on the other hand - one of Australia’s strongest unions, is now FORCED straight into administration on the back of a handful of rumours and allegations.
The HYPOCRISY is staggering!!
We call on all jobs to stop at 10am this Tuesday to support the CFMEU and attend a Rally at the State Library[*] 11am sharp!
Let’s fight for our wages and conditions!
Let’s fight for the future!
Let’s all stand together!
SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!* Note the venue has genuinely changed to Trades Hall as of about 11 AM today.
So their argument is: some other bigwigs were corrupt, and government stuffed up robodebt, therefore we should be allowed to continue being corrupt thugs on building sites! If that’s the best argument they’ve got, they’re in trouble.
I think it would be more politically astute to accept the charges
and protest outside of federal liberal party headquarters demanding equal action on political corruption
looks like a nice day to go out for a bit
luv youse all 😘 have a nice arvo
You too mate 👍
Geez this stranded astronaut thing is a schmozzle. They are doing a lot of ‘everything is fine’ PR, but it must be stressful to be stuck up there, and I’m sure there are some very tense discussions being had.
I feel really sorry for them, they certainly didn’t sign up for this. It reminds me of Sergei Krikalev, the guy who was stuck in space while the Soviet union collapsed and the country that sent him into space no longer existed.
Funny bones ain’t that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I’m like “DON’T THROW IT. DON’T THROW IT”.
It’s the last week of the month. If you want to change jobs now is a great time to apply for roles coming up to 14 days old
Why is that the case?
Recruiters’ commission is monthly and job ads are usually up for 2 weeks. Applying for something that’s going to close soon now means they’ll try extra hard to place you before the month ends.
Good lord. Spotify free version doesn’t even let me play a single song I want to hear, just a playlist that includes it. What a disaster
I never joined and don’t listen . Once last.fm died as a music player I gave up enrolling and getting subs and apps
Android? There’s a few modded Spotify clients floating around. I used to use one back before I had pocket money.
I’ve actually been considering going back to one in priest, cause they don’t consider high school students to be friends. I was annoyed but not downright pissed about that. But I checked if my new course would land me the student pricing, but nah, they either don’t consider TAFE students to be students, or don’t consider my school to be a TAFE
I can afford normal Spotify, so perhaps I’m not in the target demographic, but it just annoyed me that they keep pushing their discounts in my face and then at the last minute being like “jokes! You don’t count.”
F today right up the B
Sideways.
Bunghole?
That’s still A to B
This TAFE course seems pretty fun. The wifi signal down this end of the house is abysmal though, and because the repeater I had laying around needs LoS to the router, it doesn’t actually help at all.
I was meant to do a janky under house ethernet setup today but the person I had convinced to crawl into the spiders lair (aka under the house) is sick. As soon as I do I swear I’m setting up a janky mesh network
Anyway the course seems nice. I like the diversity. There’s more people around my age than I thought there’d be, as well as a few older people. The trainer gives off nice but stern aunty vibes too, but seems sweet
Also also, every time I have to meet new people, I’m always astounded by how close my mental pictures are. Just through 1-2 emails and their name and role, I can usually figure out what they’ll look like before I ever actually meet them. It’s like a party trick at this point
LOL that’s hilarious. There is actually that stray cat that everyone thinks is a massive chonker, but is actually just really floofy. It seems happy to go wherever if there’s a bit of ham involved, maybe that’s a solid idea!
I just finished. It was nice. I still don’t really know wtaf I’m doing, and feel rather out of place, but there’s a bit of an uncontrollable smile on my face at the moment
This whole CFMEU saga is equally entertaining and concerning.
I don’t even understand what’s happening. Tbf I haven’t really tried to though
In summary, years of corruption and criminal infiltration on work sites are finally coming to light and heads are rolling.
Colour me surprised
When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it’s good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.
My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it’s taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.
Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they’re becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.
The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it’s being taken care of, but I don’t trust either gov party to act as administrators.
Yeah, the whole power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely thing. Unfortunately inevitable, unless there is robust pushback from the rank & file. Same thing happens with political parties. The point of short electoral cycles is that the bad apples can be booted out before they’ve done much damage. Variable election dates also help with the booting process. What gets really nasty is a fixed election cycle like in the USA - where the last 2 years of an election cycle is spent getting re-elected instead of actually accomplishing anything. The appointment of a ‘king’ with no pre-specified end date for power works quite well if the ‘king’ is sensible, but if a bad apple gets power …
Pushback from union members would be something, but unfortunately there was very visible intimidation from Setka’s supporters. The more I look at our Federal 3 year terms the more I appreciate it. Also having 8-10 weeks for an election is perfect.
To be fair there are plenty of non-evil unions. I’ve found the Australian Services Union pretty good.
Yeah for real. The CFMEU is just the most prolific and loud. I’m with CPSU and they’re kind of a toothless dog, but do help out when needed.
I found CPSU to be entirely useless when needed, Sadly.
100% agree. Love watching people get their just deserts.
8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn’t want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I’m glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!
I’m going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I’m 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately…
I just saw this. I haven’t used Zotero but the Lemmy nerds recommend it https://mander.xyz/post/17175983
as an academic, zotero is absolutely the way to go.
Endnote does a job, but is comparatively slow, clunky and huge as a program - not to mention expensive, if you don’t have institutional access.
Even WITH institutional access to endnote, I use zotero and pay for syncing myself.
First cherry blossom out! which means shorts starting from tomorrow.
Mine are almost finished.
Jeez mines’ a bit slow then!
edit: should point out that this one only flowers for a week then a small gust of wind it’s all gone.
I’ve been getting about ten days of petals the last few years. Less and less each year :(
T-minus 2 hours until my first class. Freaky.
The only issue is, my internet is down :D
Fingers crossed it comes back online!
I managed to fix it by giving the NBN box a good old smack and power cycle
Aye I’m glad the ways of the elders have trickled down to the youth.
I’ve fixed many an old box TV by smacking it on the wide.
It’s kind of hilarious how as soon as something as technologically advanced/sophisticated as modern technology breaks, our monkey brains still resort to “SLAP BOX”, and usually the box of wonders starts working again right afterwards
I have a laptop I use as a seedbox whose fan will just randomly start freaking out. Sounds like a jet plane.
I kick it.
It stops freaking out.
We have an understanding.
