Simone

Love the audacity of my landlord to raise my rent more than $200 in 2 years.
What a fucking scrub

Except that disposable vapes are an environmental nightmare and they're way more appealing to kids.

I spent such an amazing weekend in Brisbane for #GenreCon, with some of the loveliest, smartest and most inspiring writers I've ever met. Not to be genuine in main but I love this community. You make me believe that all my dreams are achievable.

Oh wow I literally got out just in time. The flight before me was cancelled. Hoping everyone stays safe!!!

Successfully made a gamble at ordering nachos 15 minutes before my flight boarded and was able to take the rest with me on the plane. You don't always win at Airport roulette but when you do victory is sweet.

Conservatives thought that if they made childcare more difficult for moms, women would stay home and not work. Instead, women decided not to have children.

Adventures in writing: sometimes when you spend 3 months trying to edit and rewrite a chapter, the simplest solution is to just delete it.

Not pulling up my socks while I was carrying a stack of books, walking to my next class.
Yes it was a private school.

So women aren't as good at sports? What kind of message is that sending?

I'm being bullied into watching MAFS. Definitely not something about corporate culture they tell you at school.

This is so goddamn funny

In my fighting-bigots-on-fb era again. Hello 2016 Simone. I've missed you.

Left the easy breezy streets of Adelaide to land in Sydney and be immediately jam-packed into a metro train with the cricket crowd. No greater reminder of the difference between my two homes.

Billionaires Should Not Exist Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Folks trying to act cool and aloof about the TikTok ban sound genuinely idiotic. If you don’t get why it’s a devastating and dangerous precedent, that says way more about you than the people lamenting its loss. I learned so much on that app. I saw the funniest shit of my life there. Shit sucks.

Not heard a peep from Publishing on how the Tiktok ban is going to decimate book sales. Losing this platform is going to have huge impacts on so many authors careers.

Most users are adults tho. Why must the rest of us suffer because parents don't want to parent?

Bizzare behaviour. We have at least 4 tongs, including 2 baby pairs. Who are these relentless minimalists??

As someone who's launch-week Switch is finally showing its age between persistent joycon drift and a chipped air vent, I'm keen to upgrade to the Switch 2 as soon as I can establish that I can re-download my digital games onto the new console.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

People believing in climate change after their house burns down is the new guy who believes in equal rights for women after he has a daughter

The great irony of being on sick leave is that you have all this time you could be working on your creative projects but are usually too tired/unwell to work on your creative projects.

Oft that's nightmare fuel! Glad you're safe!

The number of pets who die in fires because they've tried to hide under a house or in some small crevice...please just prepare in time and grab your animals.

It's not too bad now, just adjusting to being one of those people with regular meds.

Experiencing a regular medical episode: lame. Boring. Anyone can have high blood pressure.

Experiencing a medical episode so rare they put you in a study: sexy. Exciting. Sure you could have died but now you're a part of science!

My resolution for 2025 is to finish what I started.

Starting with BG3.

By definition submission is the result of oppression.

An equal partnership is the only true free choice. By definition you are not consenting if you are submissive.

I think we need to rephrase how we talk about work. Career? Corporate ladder? Yuk. Icky. A little task? Yeah I could definitely do a series of a little tasks for money.