On the way home from dental surgery, I did stop in at Melbourne central.
Bought some new tumblers from EB Games (Mario themed) for $9, then bought 10kg of rice to take on the tram home; Royal Umbrella jasmine, and some Taiwanese stuff I'd never had before.
I was that weirdo on the tram with packed shopping bags full of random shit, which is kind of normal for me
Spent my time talking to my mate ex-crim/drug dealer. He apparently likes my gummies, and he wants me to get him more.
Us old fells just need weed and beer, and we're fine
Went to Hippo, because Kent St is out of sour, having an insane oak sour. Like a cross between Champaign, beer, and cider
On the way home from Black Cat yesterday arvo, we stopped in at the Dangerfield outlet store.
My daughter convinced me to spend $15 on a purple and black jumper with "No one's baby" emblazoned on the front. I'm such a sucker
Apparently the method for slicing the potatoes tonight is 'terrifying', according to the kids
You know, it's funny, talking to actual (non-violent) crims about how to stop violent crime in Melbourne, and they all agree: cops walking the beat is how you stop it.
Not only is that a deterrent presence - don't commit crime here because you'll get caught - but it builds that community-cop relationship that's missing, and leads to ACAB (believe me, as a poor person, I teach my kids ACAB).
If the cops spent time not being dodgy pricks around petty crims and poor people, they'd make their own jobs easier, and not be hated
CENTCOM's claim of "escorting over 1000 ships in the last 30 days" through their southern Hormuz route is utter bullshit.
Traffic has barely broken 20 ships/day, with the average being closer 15/day.
"Over 1000" would be over 30 ships a day. It's just not happened.
They're lying because they don't have enough interceptors left to fend off another round with Iran.
Paper tiger doesn't even come close to what the US is now
A teacher today commented on how close my kids are, and I'm like "yeh, they are really close".
They said "it's really cute".
My only response was "yeh, it really is, until they gang up on you"
We could all stop eating meat, and start hating life, but it'd have zero effect on emissions. Literally fractions of a percent of change.
Whatever reductions in climate change happen would be offset by energy producers.
If you want to not eat meat, fine, just don't act like you're doing anything other than making yourself feel better for no reason
This is just getting ridiculous. There's an implied right to political communication in Australia. If you don't like it, you can move to Israel where there's no right to political communication.
Why does "Free Palestine" frighten these Zionists so much? It's kinda weird they're never challenged on this.
All I does is show this Antisemitism Royal Commission for the joke it is
I love how rich people are begging the poor to 'fight for civilisation' right now. Really? What do we have to fight for? More of the same?
Nah, we'd rather just watch everything collapse, again
Kinda weird that Tim Wilson is out there calling Labor a criminal cartel while the Libs are in ICAC in NSW getting raked over the hot coals, and mentioning Angus Taylor twice now.
Labor are a mess of neoliberal garbage, but that's a criminal enterprise right there
Son is a bit sad this morning. His sister is away at camp, and it his first morning without her.
I was prepared!
Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels for breakfast, and koshikiari rice for school lunch, then some steaks (currently drying in the fridge) with mac & cheese and something else for dinner
The lesson here is, if someone puts a piece up, leave it, because the taggers will generally leave it alone
I love that graffiti is so integral to Melbourne culture, to the point there's a Pam/Snowman divide. Around West Melbourne the graffiti changes from a lot of Pam the Birds to Snowmen.
This side of town, it's all Snowmen, even above the Alpha 60 across from the place I drink there's a huge one.
That said, there's some very unique pieces up around here, and almost nobody touches them. The suburbanites moving in because they have cash tend to paint over them, then just get tags
I love my new bag. As much as my old one was awesome, and still is, the rainbow flag flap and navy satchel look great. Add in that it's a bike courier bag, it works so well for recreational use.
As I said to the ex tonight when she picked up the kids, for work it's shite. It's not secure and it's big, but for going to the pub, or just wandering the city, it's perfect.
It can take a 6 pack of beer and not even flinch
Fucking horrific.
This is what the right means when they "don't want queer shit in our face".
It's not unexpected from Germany right now, leaning heavily into the far right, which, for most of the world, is a serious worry. We know how that turns out:
One dead, 16 injured as car slams into crowd at Berlin LGBTQ event
Oh god, Israel has no right to exist.
There is no codified right to a country to exist.
Don't like it? I'm sure there's other planets with more forgiving political climates for you to perpetrate this lie. Unfortunately they don't have physical climates conducive to life.
Every time I hear "Israel has a right to exist" I think "Did Yugoslavia? What about Rhodesia? Maybe Nazi Germany? Or Prussia? Where does that line get drawn of "right to exist"?"
The bottom line is ONLY Israel "has a right to exist", and that's not international law, that's fascism
Well that was the most 2houry 30 minute nap I've had 😆
