Keep the day job for now and start volunteering what time you can spare to a cause that resonates with you.

That might be the night time soup kitchen, or planting trees with your local working bee, or companionship sessions with the local nursing home. You may find an idea for a vocation reveals itself, and be in a position to hear about any opportunities.

Lefty friendly and community work are pretty well aligned so I think that’s a start.

I feel you re IT and related industries. I just want to close my laptop and never open it again, but it’s not an option right now.

Oh that’s handy!

Are you likely to have enough newspapers to keep up with demand?

You a ranga by any chance?

Hartley’s!

Women are still interested in the morning and I will be in the morning

I’ve wondered this as a ciswoman who is hetero and far as I’m aware, neuro typical.

Growing up I had all kinds of identity questions and it’s taken me a long time to both understand who I am and what I want for myself; to make peace with a few things about my personality etc.

I wonder if the struggles of trans/queer/ND people to find their identity delay those additional questions? Or are they layered on top as well?

No real point, just a musing I’ve had. Being a human is hard even when you’re already ticking boxes that society says you should.

I’ve literally only been exposed to it via screenshots back on Reddit and now here.

I don’t think it was ever a big thing in Australia though

Oh cool! My goodness things move well around this place.

Word salad that looks like a coherent thought at first glance because of the keywords being on topic, but absolutely nonsensical on closer inspection and with that strange aloofness of bots. Unable to engage with responses in any meaningful way.

You’ve changed your name. Still a bot

Go away, bot

Go away, bot

Fucked my libido so bad. After my second implant I couldn’t do it anymore.

His stumbling over the sentence cadence made him accidentally say the opposite. He meant to say that he wouldn’t have picked her for VP if she wasn’t qualified for president - think about it, that that’s a far more normal thing for him to have said and I’m positive what he meant. He just tripped over the words.

I have a cold virus at the moment. Home test confirmed it wasn’t Covid, influenza a/b or RSV. So just a bug. It’ll run its course and I’ll be ok soon.

I feel pretty bloody ordinary but not as bad as I did when I got Covid when I couldn’t stand up for more than 45 min at a time due to fatigue. Or the only time I’ve had influenza A which absolutely rocked me and necessitated a hospital visit for fluids.

I’ve not had cause to leave the house since I became symptomatic but I need to tomorrow. I’m going to wear a mask and keep my distance as much as possible. I was reflecting that a few years ago I would have gone to work in my office. I would have justified it as ok because I feel like I’m on the tail end of the illness and can probably handle going in, even if I feel like shit.

And my workplace would have also expected that. So bizarre to think about.

That’s just how his mum still feeds him so you can forgive him the assumption

What do you mean by poor? As in ‘shit’ or that they’d be cut off from resources/at the mercy of neighbouring trade etc?

-/genuine interest in what you mean, not snark

Watched Fury road for the billionth time last night. God it’s good. Doesn’t set out to be anything it shouldn’t be; delivers what you want. Not too much dwelling on the past, no shoehorned romances. Just fast and fun.

The incels have moved in too. The place is feeling more and more like Reddit.

I’m using the block option a lot.