Kelly M Cheung

Was a good Pope.

a cat is cozy laying on its back on a thundercloud looking up at a starry rainbow emerging from the top of it

weathering the storm🌈⛈️

All I've done these holidays is eat chocolate, clock in 2 hours of The Pitt each day, read Wheel of Time (nearly finished book 13), & exercise.

Feeling amazing, as one would expect with this kind of routine.

What's work again?

Normalise accepting and including disability in all its forms throughout society. Disability is essentially the expression of the spectrum of difference throughout humanity. Diversity, equity and inclusion is the only way forward that doesn’t end in mass murder

'Thought I was dying': Menopause symptoms can be debilitating, but experts say there's hope A physical trainer in the Army, Claire ran marathons for fun, until menopause 'stopped her dead'. Menopause Hormonal Therapy proved a game changer for her motivation and physical stamina.

A physical trainer in the Army, Claire ran marathons for fun, until menopause 'stopped her dead'. Menopause Hormonal Therapy proved a game changer for her motivation and physical stamina.

Quarterly Essays and literary journals are first into recycling. It's all online & free with a State Library card

(Or so I told myself when I turfed my own)

Aussie social media user suffers through second day of unfunny April Fools posts

"The 2nd day is always the hardest, because you aren't prepared and it's now Americans trying to be funny"
chaser.com.au/general-news...

He was so handsome & charismatic

I loved him in Willow

Dutton says job-sharing is an alternative to work from home. Here are the numbers Opposition suggested it could help get women back into the office.

Dutton said job sharing was an alternative to WFH in the public service when asked why he wanted to take away the ability of APS employees to WFH

Turns out only 0.3% of APS staff job share

Another example of him making stuff up when questioned

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/891838...

#auspol

Exactly 💯!!!

A man on the average earnings is ‘stuffed’ to quote @grogsgamut.bsky.social — This means a single woman on average earnings is ‘fucked’, basically.

West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

But will she lose the deposit...

That's a big decision

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

The federal government’s failure to deliver on welfare debt reform Despite the findings of the robodebt royal commission, the government is yet to put a time limit on the pursuit of historic welfare debts.

Almost two years after the final report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme was released, the federal government has done no substantial work on a key recommendation to reinstate a six-year limit on welfare debt recovery, writes Rick Morton www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/03...

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

These are the articles that keep my subscription to The Saturday Paper

The wilful cruelties of government NDIS policies set against the transformative legacy of public education

The @austhistassoc.bsky.social statement on UA's new definition of antisemitism:

Cat in oxygen box Not happy

My cat climbed into my car with me unaware while I unpacked shopping this afternoon.

I'm now $1000 poorer

She's been rehydrated & oxygenated & is glaring at me for saving yet another of her lives.

It has been a big day.

These folks have never *ever* believed in freedom of speech, or freedom of any kind but the freedom to amass levels of wealth that are cataclysmic to organized society.

Cancel your subscription and make a donation to kick-ass independent journalism of your choice.

Art and silence.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Been making a thing ...
#crossstitch #fuckfascism #nokings

Labor polling so dire they resort to announcing actually decent policies

"I never thought it would come to this" said a desperate Albanese
chaser.com.au/national/lab...

Pope Francis, in Critical Condition, Is ‘Resting’ in Hospital, Vatican Says Francis is being treated for pneumonia, a complex infection and kidney problems that have left him in critical condition.

Pope Francis was resting on Monday at the Rome hospital where he has spent the past 10 days with pneumonia, a complex infection and now kidney problems that have all left him in critical condition, the Vatican said.

Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy.

I’m not surprised but also you should know better than to mess with Dolly.

Trump's segregationist agenda is a reaction to Obama And we need to talk about it.

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear.

I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

Our dystopia is both cold, hyper stupid and cruel

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality