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Oh, pre-stained!

Some kind soul has made a AUD/litre to USD/gallon converter! I got Ethanol 94/E10 petrol at a crazy low price AUD 1.47/L on Feb 21. Which is USD 3.91/gallon. Today the same station same mix is AUD 2.17/L aka USD 5.71/gallon.

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It makes basically no difference in the long run, but I'm very happy that I got petrol before prices went up, and then haven't driven since last Saturday, so I still have 80% of a tank.

Everything hurts. I'm going to stop rationing the codeine. Too much pain to do anything except lie in bed, which also hurts.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a building height ordinance.

FAQ Friday What is the Broken Arm Theory?

The broken arm theory or ‘syndrome’ describes a common experience faced by some marginalised groups in medical settings. It occurs when medical professionals let personal stigma or bias shape the questions they ask or how they treat their patients. The broken arm theory originated within the transgender rights community, to describe the medical misattribution and invasive questioning that many trans and gender diverse people experience within general healthcare from medical professionals. The theory extends beyond gender, LGBTQIA+, and sex work discrimination also affecting other marginalised groups. It can be based on factors such as disability, weight, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status, drug use, and more.

How does the Broken Arm Theory show up for sex workers? Picture this: You’re a sex worker and you walk into a clinic with a broken arm from a sporting accident. Instead of having the presenting symptom (your broken arm) be the focus of the appointment, somehow the doctor’s attention seems to be on your work. For example, the doctor might assume the injury is from a client.

While in some instances, healthcare providers may focus on sex work in a way that feels outwardly hostile, the Broken Arm Theory can also show up in pathologising or voyeuristic ways. I had cold and flu symptoms and went to a new GP. Once I disclosed my sex worker status, she asked irrelevant questions about my job and became focused on STI tests. I just had to sack a very sweet mental health professional... they were too interested in my life as a sex worker and our sessions were more discussing my history and stuff like that than about helping me.* *Treloar, C., Stardust, Z., Cama, E., & Kim, J. (2020). Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia. Social Science & Medicine, 113468.

Have you ever had a health care professional's stigma and bias impact your healthcare? You may have experienced the Broken Arm Theory.
If you're a disabled and/or chronically ill sex worker in Australia who has experienced barriers in healthcare, we want to hear from you. buff.ly/hZ6aGJj

Massive floods in 2022 and no one wants to live in the flood zone but plenty of people have no choice.

Sounds like my hometown. Population 3500, continual housing crisis, prices equal to Sydney and no one can afford them.

Normally I wear an Aura but my nose bridge was too torn up to cope with the pressure of the Aura nose bridge.

As soon as my nose heals enough I'm going straight back to the Aura in public indoor spaces.

I had a funny throat yesterday and I was hoping it was just a quiet nosebleed but no! It is the bad times!

Mask = humid = nose dressing falls off. I was wearing an ear loop one anyway about half the time but it wasn't enough and didn't really seal.

I wish they hadn't made panadeine prescription only in 2018. I'm rationing the forte bc my GP only prescribed 10 of them. I would be perfectly fine with panadeine extra (500/15) or even plain panadeine (500/8) but I have to break up the fortes and stress about making them last.

I need a better GP.

One hour after half a panadeine forte (paracetamol 500mg codeine 30mg, so actually 250/15) and a panadol (500mg) is clearly the pain relief sweet spot. Enough brain to post.

I am putting a psychic violence upon them for you

Bc my face was fucked up in couldn't wear a mask which caused me to catch a cold and now I am truly miserable with impact injuries and viral joint pain and even more fatigue

Very bad

Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: I have read different things.

In 2017 I was trapped in a hospital waiting room for 8 or so hours waiting for foot surgery. It was during the marriage equality survey. I seized the TV remote for myself and enforced ABC only to get away from the homophobic adverts on all the commercial channels.

I see you've been reading the New Yorker style guide!

Swollen lip with scab on it - the scab pulls at the swollen skin and it's hard to talk, to eat, it's painful and also really annoying. Thank god that's healed up.

I don't think I could have managed a dentist until today bc my lips were swollen and fucked up and painful. Today they're much better.

Med cert, panadeine forte & antiseptic ointment scripts. Dressing change on my knee. I rang my normal dentist and she's on leave so I went to the dentist next door to the GP and they'll squeeze me in this arvo.

At the GP mainly bc the hospital told me to follow up with him. Medical certificate would be good. Maybe the nurse does a better dressing than Urgent Care. They're playing QI with Sandi Toksvig on the TV - i didn't know doctors surgeries were allowed to play TV that doesn't make me homicidal 🤔

My dad has the same first name as his baby brother. My grandfather, baby uncle, my dad, and my dad's maternal uncle all have or had heart issues. If baby had been born even ten years later he might have lived.

He spent WWII at Camp Greta outside Newcastle, teaching Army guys to be telephone technicians. Which is how I had an uncle who died as a baby in 1943 - he was able to visit my nana relatively frequently. My dad was born Jan 1945, a very early boomer. We have his dad's Telecom work box and tools.

I shouldn't minimise my paternal grandfather. I never knew him bc he died in his 60s, in 1983, before I was born. He was working for PMG before WWII and when it was declared, his whole dept got turned into an Army Signals company.

Tangier International Zone - Wikipedia

We know he did something to land him in prison in Morocco because my uncles remember visiting him in prison when they lived in Tangier. But _you_ try finding records for 1950s Morocco! Start here and when you're sufficently overwhelmed, collapse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangier...

Working as a teacher somehow? Morocco/Liberia 1950s-1960s. In debt and maybe doing crime again, 1950s/60s. Conned the Canadian government into taking him as a migrant, 1960s. Then I think he mostly stopped doing actual crime. Just faked credentials.

Met & married my grandma, Mar/Apr 1945. She did NOT KNOW about his criminality! Defrauding the Americans and then they kicked him out of Shanghai, 1947. Black marketeering, Stuttgart, 1949-1950. Some kind of other crimes I can't work out, Morocco, early-mid 1950s.

Leaves Stockholm for Asia 1940, deserting 1st wife. Somehow gets to Japan, arr July 1940. Tokyo then Yokohama then Kobe. Arr Shanghai September 1940. Oct/Nov 1943, caught & going to be on trial for defrauding a LOT of ppl & businesses, but I'm not sure if he ever went to prison.

Best as I can tell his life goes like this. Born Königsberg East Prussia 1914. Family moves to Danzig somewhen around 1915-1920. Moves back to Königsberg in the 1930s. Joins the Nazi Party c1930. They kick him out 1938. Marries 1st wife 1938. Flees to Stockholm 1938/1939.

I used this SCMP article to track down the original story about my grandfather's 1947 fraud in the North China Daily News. Luckily for me the SCMP and the NCDN were both English-language papers.