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every night i ask martha if she wants to go out to pee before bed and every night she, curled up and cosy with her lobster stuffy and blanket, looks at me like im the dumbest bitch alive. she will do it for a mini cucumber tho. and that’s on being a rescue labrador

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can’t stop thinking abt how i walked into my therapist’s office this morning and she went “I can’t take any more trump” but i misheard it as “trauma” and so i sat down with my hands politely folded like oh babe im so sorry that sounds like burnout! wanna talk about it?

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guys i had a magic $30 credit at the wine shop so guess who bought a fancy little $30 bottle of wine and did not even have to tap her card. and god have i earned it!

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Authors worried about the Black Inc AI licensing story should read this! www.asauthors.org.au/news/black-i...

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came to a cafe to treat myself to a post-EMDR coffee and somehow ended up sitting next to a USamerican couple talking about the “USAID money-laundering scheme” and how Elon musk is only “auditing” the government and “telling us where our tax dollars are going”

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There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

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proofreading a grant app only to realise i’d misremembered how many books i’ve previously published…..got the year of a large award wrong….no one is less invested in my creative practice and curriculum vitae than me 🩷🫶🏼

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world heritage dad areas (urging me to take up a creative residency via janis joplin quotes)

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the last 10 days have been so joy-filled. oldest childhood friend visiting from italy. bestie’s surprise wedding. the triumph of being the only insufferable person to guess it would be a surprise wedding. but also so many late work nights, deadlines, dad health anxiety. im ready to be nonverbal

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going to morning pilates with last night’s gig or club stamp not quite scrubbed from your wrist….unfortunately i can do whatever i want forever

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thinkkkk i am going to north america to do two residencies back-to-back in april/may…..double homicide

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there is of course nothing wrong with modifying exercise for your body!! but after weeks of being the class loser who has to do modified arm work in pilates on account of my shoulder, i finally got to do something extra hard on account of simply being, and i quote, “bendy”

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

me this morning the day after EMDR, an absolutely manic workday, one (1) glass of nero d’avola and a nighttime trip to the airport to collect a friend culminating in silly chats until 3am

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fridge organisation and general state of the tiny kitchen inversely proportional to the sense of control i have over my own life 🩷

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just had my biannual haircut and now looking 200 per cent less like a golden retriever. never kill yourself

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oh to be a dog snoozing on a sunny balcony……she has never proofread a document in her life…..she knows nothing of heading levels or the internal consistency of bullet list items….

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

today in things that frighten martha: a scarecrow on smith street (idk why it was there either)

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

my bestie asked if i had a hair tie and when i gave it to her i was like sorry it’s got some of my hair stuck to it but that’s just a piece of me for you. and she licked it. we are 12 at a new school we are 17 with fake ids we are 23 being maniacs we are 28 living together we are 34 and still unwell

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do u guys think i could learn to change a tyre be honest. also please dont tell me i should know how to do it. a) i know and b) my roadside assistance payment is like the sacrament to me i genuflect and kneel every time i pay it

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my gp is my biggest hype girl…went for a routine prescription for the first time in six and she was like “great DASS score today!” then she’s looking at blood work and she’s like “beautiful cholesterol levels! nice thyroid!” then she looks at my shoulder mri and goes “what a lovely clean break”

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dad back at chemo today getting the goss from his fav nurse about the wedding she recently attended. this is the same one who once asked if he wanted to be a stand-in grandpa at her daughter’s grandparent-and-special-person day

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just found out there’s been a gas leak from my apartment for the last five years lol

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

my brave 30.5kg labrador once again terrified by marley, the most beautiful cat in the apartment complex

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"Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them" - Janus Rose @janus.bsky.social www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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coming up with the most bonkers diabolical gorgeous heinous loopy narrative concepts in the shower and then immediately forgetting everything as soon as im back in front of my laptop. and then being sandbagged by period pain. like honestly i give up time to get stoned and watch vanderpump rules

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the way i mentally prepare myself for visiting my nan is like an olympic diver preparing for an event. ive marked it out mentally ive assessed the level of difficulty ive visualised landing it perfectly

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my childhood bestie (we became friends in kinder; she lived with my fam for a little while when we were growing up; she hasn’t lived in aus since we were 10) just booked spontaneous flights to melb today and all day ive been so excited im abt to throw up

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White liberals suddenly caring about someone stealing and selling land in Gaza when it's Trump (and not when it was Israel) is a reminder that they're more concerned with who gets to profit from genocide than genocide itself.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

im house/dogsitting for dad for the next couple days while he’s visiting his sister and today i met his gov-subsidised fortnightly cleaner and i was like ‘i feel like im meeting a celebrity…dad’s told me so much about you! also you changed my life! you’re a real-life angel to me!’ this poor woman

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they love exhibiting behaviours at the beach

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