I don't particularly need CWs myself. Nor disabled parking spaces, curb cuts, regular benches along footpaths, prayer rooms, low sensory hours, breastfeeding rooms.

But I still understand their importance. In part because I've lived on military bases, environments which specifically exclude these kinds of things and are overall more toxic for it. Their absence is felt throughout the culture. To be uncaring and uncared for on a systemic level is essential to the military mindset. One cannot be manipulated into doing what an ADF member must do, for so little reward, without the artificial backdrop of an utterly uncaring society.

"I shouldn't have to be decent, you should be tough" is such a meaningful measure of a human.

You don't have to. That's the entire premise. Your body doesn't force you to be kind in order to keep you alive. It's optional. You can choose to be decent and respected or not and not.

No one is holding a gun to your head ordering you to be likable.

Imagine being a young singer in 2010, going to a music school and having them spend more than half the class time on responsible use of autotune.

You tell them you're not singing into microphones at all right now and you don't have a computer, you actually want to learn about scales, reading music, warm-ups, how to engage the diaphragm, voice box anatomy and building out a repertoire.

They tell you that before any of that you must learn how to use autotune properly and how not to use it, otherwise you'll be left behind.

All the exams are primarily testing that you're not using autotune to 'cheat'. You're not sure what you would use it to cheat at or what other thing you should be doing, because the only thing you've been shown how to do is interact with autotune. None of the teachers seem to know how autotune fits into singing, but they know it's equally naughty for students to use it and to refuse to use it.

This is what uni in 2026 is like.

https://facilethings.com/blog/en/decision-fatigue

I wish I was still in first year stats class so I could sent this to them.

Maybe the people full of cookies performed better because they lacked 'ego depletion'. Or maybe they performed better because they were *full of cookies*??

Our geese knew they were valued.

Last time I bought a goose it was $80, in about 1999. This was a fairly rare breed, common ones were more like $40.

Goose has long been valued. It's weird that no one ever asks farmers this stuff.

Very much on a vegan by vegan basis, surely.

Pretty bold philosophical statement from a food package

You all probably know this, but I collect books of outdated information on sex, gynecology, sexual health, reproductive anatomy and 'marital advice'.

I am not looking for current or accurate information, nor for jokes and parodies. I collect histories of what people with intent to be accurate genuinely thought to be true at different places and times.

I have no cut-off for when a source becomes 'too new', but I'm specifically looking for materials that contradict current teaching in australia. I especially love older materials (pre-1940s is great, pre-1900 is excellent) and those from medical systems or understandings very different from the current australian system.

If you find a book, pamphlet, poster, etc that meets this description in your grandparents' attic, please send it to me.

Unfortunately I can't pay a massive amount at the moment, but I'll obviously cover postage plus a reasonable used book price.

Them: oh you got rimless glasses...?
Me:
-yes, I like to keep all the rimming for myself
-yeah rimming is kind of a lot of work so I didn't bother
-I didn't know the optometrist that well so I didn't want to get rimmed the very first time...
-I am 30 or 40 years old, my rimming days are over

Etc

I just realised there is going to be a rich seam of rimless puns

The whole spy camera on your face thing [I hesitate to call it a trend because I've never seen a real life human do it] makes me like rimless glasses even more.

Look mom, no [filming your dick at the urinal]!

Imagine being the most popular brand of cheap plastic teen sunnies for generations then throwing it away for [checks notes] a machine that spies on little girls and puts it on the Internet no wait that tracks

By gone out of business I mean in making plastic sunglasses. They now work making cameras for Facebook.

Super sad to see Oakley has gone out of business. They used to make some worthwhile cheapies.

I'm delighted to discover rimless glasses no longer start at $800 like they did in the 90s.

I'm such a rimless glasses bitch, this is great.

Folks who wear glasses, why do you buy them?

My local optometrist only has a tiny stock on the shelf, so I'm probably looking online. I need something very lightweight and minimalist, so I'm mostly restricted to wire frames.

This was a very strong theme when I was studying human visitation to the Grampians.

Almost everyone I spoke to hated tourists and wanted to get away from them, that was generally the first thing they brought up, before speaking about the landscape, the animals, the plants, the geological features or the cultural history.

They defined a tourist as any person visiting the Grampians other than the one I was currently speaking to.

I see this misconception all the time and I wish it had a snappy shorthand name everyone understood.

- this bad thing exists, it inconveniences me
- it is being provided by a large corporation (or possibly government) to the general population
- therefore the general population must have forced the corporation to do this in this exact way, the bad way, which they like
- but I wouldn't do that, because I recognise that the bad thing is bad
- the general population doesn't recognise that the bad thing is bad, obviously, otherwise they wouldn't force the corporation/government to do the bad thing to them
- I must be so much more capable than the general population since I'm the only one to recognise this

Everyone else: nah optus just sucks dude