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@Snowshadow
We managed to house the homeless during the first 2 years of the pandemic. Political will.

@Snowshadow
Have you seen the Michael Moore doco Where to Invade Next? Stupid title, but he looks at European countries with much better ways of providing certain services, working conditions etc. So much better than UK, USA, Canada, Australia etc.

I don’t get people’s utter complacency about Covid. In an audience of about 250 people at a concert last night, we were 2 of about 6 people wearing masks. None of the main choir were masked, but 2 of the junior choir (18-29) were & I admired their will to be different.

I’m trying to live my life in a pandemic. I’m not panicked, just taking precautions. My mental health would suffer too much if I further reduced my social interactions to reduce Covid risk, but I’m simply not capable of lying to myself & pretending that there is no need to take any precautions. And the fact that other intelligent people are capable of doing so is beyond my comprehension.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/children-with-long-covid-dismissed-doctors-myth-virus-harmless/103959078?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

I think that one of my neutered male cats is attempting to mate with my dressing gown. Kind of disturbing.

@PhoenixSerenity

The dressing gown didn't show a great deal of interest.

@PhoenixSerenity

One of their favourite toys is a long length of cord. they haven't managed to tie themselves up it it, but they do get tangled when we're playing with them and the cord. 😆

@PhoenixSerenity

I love that! George has managed to extract a few things from a kitchen drawer, but not a chopstick so far. He loves a little clear plastic lid from a little cleaning spray for my glasses, but keeps losing it under the furniture.

@PhoenixSerenity
Please!

@PhoenixSerenity
😁

@PhoenixSerenity
Exploring the potato cupboard.

@bmacDonald94
Love, love, love this song.

@bmacDonald94 @Rory29 @AnOldGuy
I think the enormous cruelty of the man’s actions put me off listening.

@Rory29 @AnOldGuy @bmacDonald94
I don’t remember that.

@bmacDonald94 @Rory29
It’s all relative. My brother had the privilege of being “white”, but had other demons. How sad that your father was like that. To suffer racism within your own family must be awful.

@Rory29 @bmacDonald94

I suspect that he was AuADHD like me. Very bright, engaged with social justice issues etc (Idi Amin was a brutal Ugandan dictator), & got into drugs of all sorts in his late teens. Personal ethics not as admirable as his broader ones - he bullied me. He managed to get his life together, qualified as a nurse, married & had 2 kids, but was awfully arrogant & life fell apart in his early 40s. Homeless on & off, neglected his health, died of bowel cancer a few years back in his early 60s. (Family history, but he took no action to monitor or his own risk.) I saw him once a few months after his marriage ended, & briefly just before he died. Did that mainly in memory of my mum. He wasn’t a nice person, but I realise that he suffered a lot & might’ve turned out so much better under different circumstances.

@bmacDonald94 @Rory29
Uganda? Libya was Gaddafi.

@bmacDonald94
I remember when my brother flipped out in a drug related psychotic episode. He was going to fly to Uganda to assassinate Idi Amin, then to the US to ask Carter to tell everyone to put uranium back into the ground. 1977.

When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time on the land across the road, formerly 2 holes of a golf course bought by the education department before I as born, for a tech school that did t open until I started high school. Big gum trees between the 2 former fairways, ti-tree scrub along the back & a virgin bush are at one end, sand bunkers that were the scene for our “list in the desert” games… My friends & I climbed & jumped out of trees, spotted lizards & butterflies, got lost in the jungle & played ball games on the fairways. My own kids had access to similar if smaller reserves & a linear park along a creek. So much fun & adventure. #childhood

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-09/risky-play-teen-mental-health-crisis/103939412?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

@bmacDonald94

I’ve been told that I have an overdeveloped conscience & care too much. She’s really not my people.

@bmacDonald94

I absolutely loved Morgan Freeman’s reading of Douglass’ letters in Ken Burns’ Civil War.