Notices by WearyBonnie (3tomatoesshort@disabled.social)

@Infoseepage
Eh, it always works eventually, so it's not a priority to spend money on 🤷🏻

@Infoseepage
My husband says it's something to do with the copyright protection, but I can't remember exactly what he said

@Infoseepage
I'll have a look next time I'm up, but honestly I've had trouble work so many of my discs. Frequently the Xbox complains about the HDMI cable?? Even though nothing has changed and after a couple of restarts it will be fine again. I've just found the Xbox + app combo to be way less reliable than the olden days dedicated players used to be.

@Infoseepage
It did end up working after several restarts and just me writing patiently for a very long time for it to load :/

Blu-ray app is refusing to play Pride and Prejudice 😭😭

If a research study asks if you've been formally diagnosed with dysautonomia, would you count a formal diagnosis of POTS? It would be nice if the research study was a bit clearer :/

Papunya residents living in extreme heat sue NT government over unsafe housing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-22/papunya-sues-nt-government-unsafe-housing-extreme-heat-climate/106566892

> Residents of the Central Australian community of Papunya say the scorching hot outback summers are killing their people in unsafe housing. Now they’re suing the Northern Territory government to try to force change.

Some country towns could lose more than half of their shade due to aging trees

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-16/regional-urban-canopy-strategy-country-towns-lose-shade-trees/106551144

> Some country towns could lose up to 80 per cent of their shade due to aging trees, but replacing them is not simple for councils. 

@Infoseepage
I must admit it does give me a mild case of heebiejeebies to think about it - but then if I think about all the whippersnipper plastic line converted into garden microplastics, those heebiejeebies are much worse!

Wait you can get whipper snippers with metal blades instead of that awful plastic line??
*Off to investigate*

Manufacturing consent to reducing spending on support for disabled folks. Started out gradual, once they start saying 'social licence' it's become more explicit.

"The NDIS's 'social licence' isn't just at risk of eroding – it's close to collapse"

If that's true then as far as I can tell it's purely because of what the government itself keeps saying about it 😑

Watching Pride & Prejudice and I think we should bring back the concept of silently curtseying to respectfully leave a group of people when you don't want to be there anymore, but they're also in the full flow of conversation and you don't want to awkwardly interrupt and like, say stuff. What a good system that was.

Critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle returns to wild months after beach rescue

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-28/hawksbill-turtle-rescue-beares-beach-nsw-south-coast/106497594

> What passers-by thought was a "sandy rock" was in fact a critically endangered turtle far from home.

I will never not read ffmpeg as ffmpreg 🤷🏻♀️

I wish them well in their advocacy. Personally I'm ready to fucking burn the system down, rather than gently massage the ego of biased, disrespectful doctors. The doctors don't deserve my grace until they at least start admitting there's a problem, and they're part of the problem.

Medical advocacy is crucial for young women but it can feel like a 'catch-22'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-18/young-women-with-chronic-pain-pots-endo-adeno/106254488

> Young women have detailed their experiences being dismissed and misdiagnosed as chronic pain sufferers. Now, they're teaching others how to advocate for their health.

> "The confidence to advocate for themselves when they go see their doctor, and to be able to say, 'No, this is not working.'"

Oh come on. You can do this for literally years, and still be left to fucking rot by the system. THE DOCTORS NEED TO GET BETTER AT FUCKING DOCTORING, THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE CAUSED BY PATIENTS.

Katherine flood victims forced to stand in line for hours for relief payments

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/katherine-flooding-line-up-for-hours-for-disaster-payments/106445750

> Katherine region residents displaced from their homes by the recent flood emergency have been forced to wait in line for hours to access disaster relief payments.

High-pitched anti-homeless noise devices switched off and labelled 'hostile' by WA government

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-17/anti-homelessness-noise-devices-perth-bridge-removed/106354270

> High-pitched noise devices installed under a bridge to deter rough sleepers are labelled "unnecessary" and "humiliating" by housing campaigners and condemned by the WA government.