"It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country."
Duuuude, you are massively responsible for the country being a shithole. How is this at all incredible?! The incredible thing is it took THIS long for someone to take a shot at either of ‘em.
Several assassination attempts in USA history - Kennedy, Lincoln and a couple of others whose names escape me. Political violence has been part of the culture from the get go, when the Pilgrm Fathers set up their little isis-lookalike theocracy.
IIRC USA President is the most assassinated job.
Yeah, I was wondering why it took so long. I thought the number 2 reason their redneck gun but types give for why they neeeeeed a gun is that they can assassinate their leader if they don't like them. Or maybe it's number 3. Dealing with trespassers, personally taking down an invading military, and assassinations are what I hear the most often
So it's real. I found out through a screenshot of a meme so I wasn't sure
so tired so i'm heating up frozen stuff for dinner.
Good swim, but the afterdrop hitting and I'm trying to cook for 3.
I got this.. maybe
Bloody hell, in this weather?
Pick the worst days and jump in :)
Apparently someone tried to assassinate Trump
I really don't approve of violence for political purposes, but I can't help but feel that the mongrel thoroughly deserves this or something like it. It's a pity the shot went wild. Apparently the shooter is dead according to the abc.
The real downside is that he's going to make political hay out of this - it's a real gimme for motivating his voter base. Maybe even to saint and martyr status.
I sadly think that just secured a MAGA victory. When I saw the photo of a triumphant Trump leaving the stage whilst fist pumping and bleeding, I thought OMG this is going to send MAGA supporters even deeper into blind frenzy hero worship. Project 2025 here we go.
😭😭😭
If only there were a baby near by this could have been a Dead Zone moment when Trump's evil would be displayed for all to see.
https://youtu.be/Aa-3up4-xNk?si=D43e6kYdiZtTSASs start at 3.15
I'm afraid you're right.
Also, that blood looked too red for blood that wasn't spurting.
They keep replaying it over and over on the TV. Disappointingly they miss every single time.
Was it staged? That pose at the end 🤢
No.
It’s very, very hard to aim precisely enough to hit someone’s ear but not the rest of their head. That’s an absurdly precise shot to attempt deliberately.
It can’t be a BB gun or something either. They lose velocity really quickly over any sort of distance, so his ear wouldn’t go to pieces like that with a BB pellet.
Real gun, real attempt.
Can I just say "lol"? That's my first response...
Trump's wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift.
I am not joking but he really is evil
and got his ear…
Ah shit... That's not going to end well
Jeez this isn't going to end well.
Wow. Shit. Never thought I’d see that
Devoured a book in one day like I used to as a kid. So that's cool.
Downside is it was I'm Glad My Mom Died and I related concerning amounts with it. Need to process that, I guess. Good book.
Also I'm an absolute fiend for burritos lately. I want nothing more than to order one but I've already had like.. Three fast food burritos over the last 5 days and that's not sustainable.
It was a good book but gee it was hard to listen to (audio book). I felt so sorry for her.
Yeah. I had to put it down a few times and digest what I was reading. It's a difficult read too.
I fried my brain and triggered myself into orbit reading The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, about C/PTSD and how our bodies physically store trauma. 10/10, but damn one better be in a good, scientific frame of mind because the case studies are heavy.
I've been meaning to read I'm Glad My Mom Died, how did you find it? (Besides the subject matter, of course).
Incredible book. Her writing is punchy and captivating. Almost hypnotic how it kept me interested.
I'll put that on my list of things to look at. I just got an ereader and have lots of reading to catch up!
Forgot there was wet washing in the machine still, so back to the Laundromat lol. All washed and dried and back home, took about an hour. Got a cheeky arvo coffee and had a wander around between Victoria St and Hope St.
I almost don't want to fix the washing machine, it's nice having this date time with my SO. No phones or anything, just hanging out.
I’ve been cleaning out our storage unit and every time we go there my OH jokes that’s it’s a ‘date’.
How did you go with the wet carpet? Hope the landlord was helpful with all of that.
They haven't said anything about it or nothing. I'm drying it out and then I can assess any damage. It's drying okay. Just concerned that it has warped the skirting board a bit. Hard to close the bathroom door ugh.
But yeah, radio silence from them, so I think I may have the time to fix it up lol
I know its early, but I wish to access the wisdom of the DDT hive mind.
Do I :
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- Make chicken & leek & potato soup, thus avoiding going outside in this shit weather, and generating leftovers for the forthcoming week, OR
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- Purchase fish & chips, thus keeping small business afloat and ensuring that fish&chips will be available in the future when I really really need them.
Please be honest.
EDIT: Fish & Chips it is. Bless all of you, unto the seventh generation.
Get fish and chips for energy to cook, then cook the soup and freeze in portions
hey - I had fish and chips earlier too!
I'm making fish n chips tonight!.. that doesn't help you at all. Geez I'm a dickhead sorry lol.
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The kids have a massive flatbed tonka truck I'm constantly flipping on its side so it doesn't become my Skateboard To Hospital. It makes me feel like those guys they hire in Singapore to tip over open pots of water after it rains so mosquito's don't spread
The sound of a random toy going off in the middle of the night because it's low on battery is heart stopping. Thanks furby. Always thought you were possessed.
If you wanted to continue the Singapore theme, you should fine your kids in increasing amounts per infraction... $5000 and/or 3 months jail from the third time on.
Maybe I'll put them to work doing the actual cleaning up like all the old guys in Singapore
I'm sorting through clothes. I have a lot considering I live in pj pants, yoga pants and long sleeve shirts.
Same
it's so hard to keep the quantity down
there's summer and winter clothes and special clothes like going out, PJs and activities, I used to have a bunch of extra black clothes just for when i did calligraphy
A lot is new merchandise that would have gone into landfill and I'm like "I'll take it for around the house". I'm slowly drowning in it now. I never need to buy new clothes ever again.
washed car
water cold
appendages itchyI woke up okay but procrastinated on my phone in bed to the point of a throbbing headache once again. And now I'm nauseous and feel extremely yuck. Why did I do this to myself? I can barely think now. I'm sure I would've felt a lot better if I yoinked myself out of bed at 9 and ate and drank like a normal person. Then I saw the news headlines and my immune system probably decided to give up at that point.
I am doing my best not to keep thinking about how sick I feel and woe is me. I don't think I'm actually sick sick. Having some fancy shop bought minestrone soup to try and soothe the system. Need energy to do some meal prepping and then pick someone up from the airport tonight. I can do this...
You've got this :)
I really can't afford to get sick this week but I kinda hope I am because today was a bit black mindwise and feeling really foggy..managed to catch up with family and that was nice. Glad I pushed to do that.
Anti-gratitude thread.
Only slept around five hours last night and I can't be stuffed meal prepping. But I shall persevere.
When cafes are selling bowls of soup for 17 dollars and bowls of porridge for 19 dollars that's when you know the country has lost the plot.
Might as well be living in Argentina with this kind of inflation.
Woolies delivery went to my neighbours by mistake, even though both of us have house numbers clearly visible. Then it turns out they forgot several items and crushed the baguette things Miniest wanted for school. These "partner driverx deliveries so hit and miss.
Not ungrateful, just dreading:
Tomorrow is the start of another week. I only have a couple of things planned tomorrow, but I think it's going to be a busy week trying to deal with my org and begin to get some things replaced. I should probably also go down to the police station and see if they'll let me know what the go is and if I can safely start moving things around and throwing out/having repaired the broken stuff
This weather. No thank you. Return to sender.
How is it fair that when I warn the Mrs she’s feeding the kid too much cheese that I’m the one that gets puked on?
Proposal: feed the kiddo cheese and give them back to Mrs Break. :D
I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if someone tried to assassinate me. I'm stuck on a complete inability to imagine anyone caring enough about what I am doing to make an attempt.
Same here. I'd rather live an uncontroversial life of plain living and good acts and be missed by only a handful of people than gestures in Trump's general direction stir up a hornets nest of cultish populism and intolerance and be missed by a gunman.
sometimes it's not you, it's what you symbolise/ideology or a position you hold
for example, you might be a famous gay person or someone of a particular faith, or you might be a politician or business leader
We would open the space time fabric and redirect the bullet at the shooter
I'm watching I want my MTV 80s and there's a common theme in all the videos.
Hats.
Today I will be making a loaf of olive bread and refurbishing some antique chairs, not fancy chairs, some solid arm chairs. I bought Japan black for the wood and a load of tapestries to recover the seat.
Please do share photos of the olive bread if you are inclined.
ok ... 🌞
Bleh. I have obligations today. Do not want
Oh nah. Woke up to the sounds of something scurrying and scratching in the roof. Possums? Rats? We get possums quite regularly but the sound they make is a bit of a thud when they run across the roof, and this sound Is different, like something is inside the roof.
Rats. 100%. They can lift roof tiles and squeeze into the tinyest of cracks and stuff. They’re an absolute nightmare tbh.
Rats are difficult to be rid of. Basically you want to find their run (their paths) and bait around there.
There is also bait you can chuck up into the roof. Iirc, they dehydrate the rats and they leave to find a water source. Be aware of you have pets though, as cats may catch the rat and get poisoned too, or dogs may eat the bait.
Other than that, trying to find where they're getting in and closing it up. They're notoriously difficult, but don't leave food out or anything that would attract them.
A pest controller wouldn't do much more than the above tbh, having worked for a pest control company.
I setup my security camera yesterday and it caught a few possums overnight! I had to turn the sensitivity down and customise the monitoring zone because they kept triggering movement notifications
POSSSSSUUUUUUMMMMM
apologies we were collecting a sample
Lovely rainbow over Thornbury this morning.
Bonus quiz cos you've all been good little vegemites this week.
Yay, got 40.
20!
45! My best ever score, with a couple of good guesses
also 45, with a couple of guesses
Better than me! But then, I don't watch Bluey.
30 for me this week
Some bastard sat in my favourite seat in the break room and now I have to eat my lunch at a different table.😡
Just had an Uncle Tetsu's cheesecake tart. Holy shit. Bad idea. It was soooo damn good I'll have to go back frequently
I really should have taken my clothes down yesterday when it was still sunny, even if they weren't 100% dry.
Looks like a trip to the Laundromat is likely today unless it decides to stop intermittently showering.
Rainbow pretty
Night, fam. See you in the morning.
Anti-gratitude thread.
Only slept around five hours last night and I can't be stuffed meal prepping. But I shall persevere.
Also the cost of groceries. $100 just for my food? Kinda crazy.
2 anti gratitude threads in 1 day??? Must be a rough day
Must've accidentally posted twice!
Gratitude thread.
Went to the 1000 steps yesterday. Was good fun. They even had toilets with toilet paper, soap and hand driers.
I'm grateful for the amount of shit I've accumulated. I was actually thinking about it last night - I've managed to gather a lot of stuff over the last 5 years. Before that I actually had very little, I had a $30 Optus phone and a rubbish bag with a days worth of clothes. That was all I had when I entered care in 2018.
Since then I've managed to get so much more than I could've ever predicted. It's really, really weird to think about. And even with the theft and destruction of a bunch of things, it hasn't really affected me much. I don't mean mentally, obviously it didn't feel good to lose my things, but in terms of everything else, I still have enough things that I'm able to do just about everything I want/need to do. I can still play my games and work on (some) of my projects. That's crazy too, and I'm really really lucky to have the amount of things I do
Went to the gym which I enjoyed
The fluffy rascal
Some new sounds I've discovered for my songs.
I had a lovely lunch with friends today.
Winter strawberries from Queensland are delicious.
I'm grateful I can crochet, and keep myself busy and occupied while making something useful and often pretty.
I eventually recovered from this morning's headache with some decent pho, only to end up staying out late with a wine and cider. Probably will be okay, I don't feel as crazily buzzed as I did last night, but I've taken a preventative Nurofen anyway. It was a good night of catching up so I don't mind. Lots to do when I wake up though so hope I don't feel too crummy in the morning. Good night everyone.
Get in loser, for the JOYRIDE!
Have you seen the meme video version?
You know how sometimes when you're hungry you can open your mouth and saliva fires out from your salivary glands under your tongue like a friggin venom spitting snake? Usually happens at the worst times and a loved one might catch a stray. I might be nuts but I think I can do that on command. Is that normal?
Some of us can gleek at any time.
No.
Nornal? Subjective. But it's a thing people can do
I used to be able to do it on command as a kid for a while. Like Spiderman but with saliva. And from under my tongue
I've been able to do it on command since I was about 7...
We used to call that "gleeking"
Today was sorting day, since I wanted a clear day to tackle the back room. Didn't quite get the floor cleared but got a through path and more stuff on the shelves (and crap off the shelves).
Also got on a roll this evening and got the DVDs unpacked and shelved. And found the pyrex, so bonus!Fell asleep to some video of the difference between Quebecois and Parisian French. Felt somewhat better after and made it to airport short term wait area. No hope of any meal prep tonight so I think I'm just gonna have to write off the rest of today and consider a sickie tomorrow if I don't feel any better. Blurgh. Brain no can use
e: do you know where they should take people for their driving test? Airports arrival queue esp turning left from Centre Rd. Straight up insanity. If you can survive that and keep calm and not make any wrong turns/lane changes you're good to go. Home now and getting straight to bed.
I’m starting to loathe internal work wake-up clock. Grr…
But now also wondering if Zelda’s is open… 🤔
(Yes, I will drive suburbs and brave the cold for a cookie.)
Edit: No luck. Probably a good thing. (Also still annoyed about my crap steak last night. Can’t believe how much it’s bothering me.)
Send the food back next time.?
I really should have, but it was one of those nights…
ocean and sky pretty
General cold and flu symptoms have given way to just a really sore throat.
I'm not sure which is worse given I'm outnof Strepsels
It's interesting how all of the westfarmer companies use different delivery services. Coles has their own trucks and drivers, Kmart generally uses either courier please or auspost (but sometimes use niche ones for large deliveries), Officeworks use toll, and Bunnings use zoom2us which I think is like some weird parcel delivery uber knockoff thing. Also I don't really order from catch, but I think the one time I did they used one of those companies with a stupid name that AliExpress uses, mad cow express or something stupid like that
(I know Coles isn't westfarmer anymore, but I basically think of anything I can use flybuys at as being all the same)
Also PAGIKKKKK
I'm not sure I trust this bloke though, he looks kind of fake
Also he ran a stop sign, but for some reason I can push a button and then it gives me he phone number so maybe O should ask him to not run stop signs
Ooooh I've discovered the world of spicetify and spotify client themes
I mean look at this!
There's also flashbang mode, if that's your vibe
One with animates stars
I prefer the last one. The white, middle one is gross af
Agreed. I could barely see what I was clicking. I'm rocking the first one at the moment because I like the vibe, but will probably switch to the animated star one long term.
There's also an extension that adds better lyrics which sync better to the song with a fullscreen lyrics thing. I like it, but it uses album covers for its theme which clashes a bit awkwardly with the rest of the UI
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋I'm about to go out for lunch with my dad and his partner, so I don't need anything from the food truck. But where should I go eat? CBD
https://www.wakuwaku.au/ This is Chef approved.
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Yeghes da!
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I feel like Mlem isn’t showing all my comment history.
🎼I want this like a cigarette
Can we drag it out and never quit?
And oh my god, you are heaven sent
With your dirty mind, yeah, you're perverted
You give me guilty, guilty pleasure 🎶🎶🏳️🌈Did anyone think the temperature last night was extremely random? I go to bed cold so I get an extra doona. Then I wake up at 5 am absolutely cooking.
