Hugs. It's one of my terrors - that I'll end up having to deal with it somehow. And I wouldn't cope, I know I wouldn't. (Also very middle class professional 😐). No-one should have to deal with it. We should just look after people who need help.
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
Please go to one of these events next week! If not because you care about Pa-lest-ine (spoiler: you should care about Pal-est-ine), do it because you care about our democracy and human rights (and the right to protest in NSW is seriously under attack and that affects all of us).
Nice! Looks like they do some larger sizes too.
That is a really amazing article, thank you for sharing.
Spot the diplodicus 😍
Succulents looking gorgeous!
I was so excited for your plans there! Times are hard for science I guess 😶. Happy to chat anytime.
I think there's 3 interlinked concepts: 1) modern paganism & witchcraft, 2) the connection many people of all genders feel with witches as a genre, and then 3) the women who were murdered and the loss of our traditions. Which is tied in part to 4) justified modern anger about violence against women.
I'm uncomfortable with memorialising the women murdered during the witch trials as "witches". Because it misses the point that witches never existed. The people murdered were women who hadn't done anything wrong. What we actually lost was our traditional knowledge, stories and healing practices.
This juxtaposition 🫤
Spring beauty alongside filthy storm drain this morning. I wish we had a better way to manage our creeks - and less plastic rubbish all the time!
I live this plant. I basically ignore it and every year it gets bigger and prettier 🩷
G: The beacons are lit! Halloween calls for aid! Will Christmas answer?
E (not really listening but assuming she is Rohan in this story): Yes! I will answer.
G: You're not Christmas!
E: I *am* Christmas! ... Wait ... Why are we talking about Christmas???
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Brief moment of elation at the Queensland Supreme Court decision only to be downcast by the Queensland minister's decision to ignore science, experts and the needs of kids and reinstate the ban on puberty blockers and gender affirming drugs 💔 Well done the family who made the court case happen.
We need to do as much as we each can to spotlight these deportations (what the article describes as "exile to a remote island penal colony"). It's unfair and inhumane.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Tasmanua has a goblin forest??? When are we going? 🩷
Today is proudly brought to you by this fantastic moss growing in the local storm drain (aka something that was once a creek).
I remember watching a sad movie with a friend and crying, and feeling very guilty about how intense my reaction was, and then her pointing out all the technical things the movie makers had put into the film in addition to the plot and acting at precisely that moment to make me cry 🤣.
Halloween ready 😍
White or very soft pink orchid flower with five petals and some buds and leaves in the background.
My white Chinese ground orchid has flowers for the first time!! Bletilla striata alba 🩷
I loved that the teenage intimacy in it unlike many teenage films with sex wasn't unpleasant. Even when the outcome was bad or people were making bad decisions. And it wasn't just or at all about sex-crazed boys obsessed with girls - the boys wanted to be the girls' friends and that was beautiful.
It made me feel seen - as a person who spent much of my early life wondering when I would start to live. I don't know if it was intended as a deeply feminist film, but even in its magical non-realistic realm, I felt it had something really important to say about what it's like to be a teenage girl.
I was worried it was a film where women/girls die in order for men/boys to have emotions - and where the male emotions are the most important thing. But instead for me it was a film where women dying (and in fact never properly living) makes everyone's lives and the *world* empty - even broken.
Calanthe (orchid) flowering for the first time 🩷
The solution is still "just release information" and make it part of your business as usual to publish it. Plus it's super reasonable for people to seek this information.
Really worth reading (and then becoming politically active to prevent the rise of the far right in whichever country you're in).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As someone who grew up isolated in rural Australia I can't tell you how much this post means to me. My life changed when I got my own device and the internet (in my 20s). Suddenly I could find topics I cared about and people who were like me without the surveillance of family and community.
