Lisa

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow !

Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

A few years back, my colleague and his wife were returning from a visit to his son in Berlin. Malaysian Airlines' standard route over Ukraine.

Yes, and I wouldn't go out of my way to stay there, but I have - flight delays have seen me have an unscheduled stopover. Many of the thousands quoted in the media will be hapless travellers rather than destination holidaymakers or ex-pat influencers. I've got a trip booked that I'm worried about.

For those of us in Australia and New Zealand, the routes through the Middle East are how we get to Europe. I've flown London to Sydney via LA once (AWFUL) and would choose Emirates, Ethiad or Royal Brunei in that order. This, for me, is a Covid-level disruptor in terms of seeing family.

because I’m doing these in chronological order a lot of the stories mention each other. this death only came a few days after the one I did yesterday. these cases of AT BEST appalling medical neglect are so much more frequent than I realized and seem to be centered on a lot of the same facilities

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory”

this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

#auspol
Does anyone know a Centrelink advocacy service that can help?

I went through and added up the total paid rents through our adopt-a-rent program, and it is 329 families for $463,217. All peer-to-peer, no fundraising. Just neighbors helping each other out.

If you want to adopt a family, and can afford to give $500 or more, signal me at asiniiwiikwe.72

Setting fire to the whole Middle East.

A year on a cancer vaccine trial at London’s oldest hospital This 21st-century centre of cutting-edge science is also a medieval site of celestial auguries, of miracle cures performed and witnessed

A year on a cancer vaccine trial at London’s oldest hospital - www.ft.com/content/7000... via @financialtimes.com

A beautiful essay

300.

This is an action aimed at 300 people.

This just highlights how vulnerable the transgender community really is—and how monstrous these policies attacking them really are.

It’s exactly how the Nazis targeted Jews. Exactly.

Poster's Madness A streaming PowerPoint telethon for mutual aid

please please please keep donating, it would be amazing to get to $20,000 by tomorrow for these three great organizations!

even if you aren't able to donate, please boost and share - the livestream is here and so is the donation information! postersmadness.wordpress.com

Now restrict fossil fuel exports.

Trans folk add so much joy and enrichment to my life, and watching trans kids thrive and live authentically is a blessing.

My 18yo daughter is 6'2" and 120#... and has been scouted for modeling because she is ridiculously thin.

Given the day I've had, my minor request is that if a doctor is requesting an invasive test the patient should be informed of this is advance. Full bladder? Yes, prepped and understood this would be a jelly-on-belly ultrasound; being ambushed with a part II internal probe was an unwelcome surprise.

You probably guessed where this is going: the entire "anti-woke moral panic of the last five years is an absolutely *textbook* example of how horrors happen. It was never going to stop with bathrooms or sports or HR policies.

You have absolutely made my day 😀

Thank you! Every South African person I have ever met (loads!), I have asked if they ever saw him... you're the first!

A Little Strollette With Kenneth Williams On a recent visit to London, between doing a bit of Christmas shopping and meeting my brother for a drinkette I decided to troll around ...

A final astonishing coincidence, for a couple of years I lived in the same building (QAM on Judd St) that Williams did on and off, though not the same flat drmattkerry.blogspot.com/2011/12/litt...

I think he did have fun; allegedly, lots! Jack to his family, I never got to meet him, but I heard stories. Once there, he didn't come home from South Africa - possibly, he didn't have a visa and was scared he'd be unable to return. But, the whole family was very proud of him (and I still am).

John Hussey | Actor Known for: Get Carter, Gold, Rage to Kill

The great uncle in question www.imdb.com/name/nm04040... he also had a small part in Oh What a Lovely War! before he left Blighty for the warmer climes of South Africa

My (very) tenuous claim to fame is that my great uncle was, for a short time, an intimate pal of Williams. He got one tiny namecheck in the autobiography.

may be his birthday but today is a gift to all of us

Screenshot of article link.

“The Victorian Parliament has passed laws banning unnecessary medical interventions on children born with variations in sex characteristics.”

This is great news! We need our laws to affirm bodily autonomy, especially for intersex people enduring institutional violence.

qnews.com.au/victorian-pa...

The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.

YouTube video by Johnnie Guilbert Two bros chilling in a hot tub

*What, what, WHAT* I said to myself and then this arose, unbidden...

www.youtube.com/shorts/Dfcxj...

I can see it being amazing for beans, lentils, hearty soups etc, but the unrelenting soggy boiled veg of my childhood and the ghoul scrape of the aluminum trivet night after night... *shudders*

An original model Prestige pressure cooker. Evil, food-ruining device.

Thing of nightmares.

When I left home, my mother offered to give me her spare pressure cooker. I vehemently declined.