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Also, I feel mentally, physically and emotionally so much better. And my nails are glossy and strong! And I have a shiny nose and waggy tail! Ok, the last bit might not be true...

Then Hawke and Keating destroyed Gough's legacies of free tertiary education for all & sold off publicly-owned essential services. All Labor governments since have continued in the same vein, adding in undermining bulk billed medical access and defunding tertiary institutions & e.g. the CSIRO.

Could we also see how many are lost through e.g. funding cuts to public universities, the CSIRO etc?

When I last voted, the results showed there were over 7,000 empty residential properties in my electorate alone. If laws were brought in to prevent perfectly habitable properties from being left empty there would be no housing problem!

Who do you vote for instead? I mean, I don't put the ALP first, but I'm certainly not going to preference them below the coalition. Sadly, as we have two major parties that are practically conjoined twins policy-wise, there are no viable alternatives.

This. It is particularly disappointing that Albanese calls himself Labor left. Left of what exactly? Certainly not of centre.

Also, furious! At least I'm funding the CSIRO a little by being on the diet (and having fortnightly CSIRO dietician appointments!)

I've been back on the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet for a bit over two weeks now. Put on 100g in the first week - a little disappointed but hey, muscle gain = heavier! Weighed in today: 600g down on last week, woohoo! And the food is DELISH!! :) #Totalwellbeingdiet #csiro

Finally given in & watching #Murderbot despite a clearly male actor playing the non-gendered unit. Love Alexander Skarsgård, and him being slim, not a bulky "muscle man", is good. It could have been perfect if they'd dubbed an androgynous voice. Great job padding out the first book, though :)

OOF!

I'd love it on a t-shirt :)

Apologies for my nosiness, but I love picking brains about art. Am I right in thinking you start with pencil, ink in (which pens, btw?) then tone/tint with watercolour?

Singapura! I feel like a failed crazy cat lady not having heard of the breed :D Beautiful, with that Abyssinian-esque spicy colouring.

Fab! I love your subtle and sparing use of watercolour, a medium of which I am terrified :D

I still hear nightmare stories of women & teenaged girls seeking diagnosis being told they can't possibly be autistic because they are able to love (!!!), can be occasionally sociable etc. There are many dinosaurs left in the diagnostic field, and, of course, a massive shortage of diagnosticians.

A little surprised "female" or female at birth isn't there, though I guess recognising less obvious, "male" traits is improving. I was diagnosed 2 years ago, in my early 50s, due largely to me realising I am autistic despite presenting very differently to my dad & brother, and seeking diagnosis.

Sadly, 'no contact' lasted a bit over a week. At least, since then I've often had others with me when around her. Even then she will drop the mask eventually and be nasty/abusive to me. Sigh. Hopefully, with guidance from #carersWA, I will learn how to protect myself better.

Serendipity! The first day of feeling positive since going 'no contact' with my malignant covert narcissist mother, I put my Tidal favourite tracks on random play and this is the first track it plays me!

TIRED arses, though they are probably also werd after the 17-hour flight which landed at 5am. Waiting for our rather fabulous Kensington hotel room to be available. A bit under three hours to wait...

Resting our weird arses in Holland Park, admiring enormously fat pigeons, splendid song birds and many cute doggies being walked. Our view isn't amazing, but we are footsore and a bench is a bench!

Woohoo!! Finally got the Tilda inspired haircut I've been preparing two years for. London, here I come 🥳

Gotta say, that's cheaper than at Perth Glory (Western Australia) women's matches (I don't attend the men's matches for... many reasons) but at least the food at the Sam Kerr Football Centre is MUCH better quality!

This. If it's going to impact you, you are the problem.

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Oops, I just saw this. Probably silly question, but is there likely to be another/more? I have my first plan and am part way through an FCA. And nervous!

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Tell regulators AMF and FCA to act now and investigate these banks.
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Now I wish I'd made it larger than A4 so I could print it out at A3 or A2 as a poster. And wish I remember which exact filter settings I used to get this result so I could create a larger version easily. Meh. I'll figure it out. Hopefully.

Unfiltered version of the source photo (actually phone photo of print of source photo, if I wish to be pedantic.)

Stuffing about with source image for complementary colours homework: like this effect on a photo I took of housemate/best mate several decades ago. The purply bits will be red tones to fit the brief. I'm enjoying this version and v much looking forward to painting it :) #art #curtinunifineart

My mum just sent me this, but it's not relevant to me - funny duck, she is! But may be of use to others: www.garvan.org.au/news-resourc...