Gdi Curtin doesn’t, but UTS has it online, however my UTS sign in no longer works because I guess not studying there for 2 years & no longer paying them means I can’t use their library, OKAY I GUESS (you might be able to request it from there somehow though, idk)
(In case it helps here's the UTS Library entry for it search.lib.uts.edu.au/discovery/fu...)
Ah the classic “I’m applying for the same job 3 times & using the same basic cover letter but did not remove the wrong company name from one of them so I am never getting a call back” fuck up, guess I just jettison that one into the sun unfortunately
So my dad got into watching Merlin while he was in hospital, & I don’t think I ever saw the end, so we’ve been watching it, & last night he said to me “…is it meant to be an allegory? About coming out?” & I was like we are two seasons deep my dude, tell me you did STEM at uni without telling me etc
a screenshot of the music video Planet of the Bass, it has a man in a white outfit and angel wings, a woman in a robe and a crown, the caption reads "Women are my favorite guy"
happy international women's day to all my international women
(I mean both of mine were approved with the caveat that one of my assessments is a 4 day open book exam so I don’t get extra time, which, fine, literally all of my law exams were like that & I don’t need stretching time if it’s like that, but what if they weren’t?)
Oh that’s a fun one I’ve never had happen before, apparently at Curtin the unit coordinator has to approve my accessibility plan before it’s allowed?? ExSQUEEZE me that’s not how disabilities work, you don’t get to approve the reasonable accommodations I need, that’s the accessibility office’s job
I have heard this, unfortunately this has been a life long problem (I have small, crooked ear canals, as diagnosed by several professionals, & my Eustachian tubes are absolutely munted & only got worse after I walloped one of them by fainting on it) so there’s no way to tell if that’s it lol
I had to go to the hospital to have the end of one removed from my ear after it came off, & the ER dr was like “you know not to do this right” & I was like “yeth” but I knew in my heart of hearts that when my tiny ear canal got itchy the next day…oh boy I’ll be back in there
(It hasn’t been helped by the fact the aircon in my dad’s apartment has been broken for about 3 months, & while I don’t have aircon at home the house is a freezing Victorian terrace not a tiny new build that is basically designed to have the aircon on 24/7, so it’s been 28 degrees in here all week)
Me here googling “ozempic stop working when please help” while sweating bullets after 10 min of upright time, by which I mean sitting on the couch not moving, I now have to LIE on the couch unmoving to stop the sweats/dizzies
I have never seen this before and as someone who takes legal meth every day to make my brain not go brrt quite so much I’m kind of losing it
Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026
Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.
I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.
Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.
These are the ones that look like a cruel caricature of me, & every time I see one I’m like whomst is using my likeness without permission
Restraining myself from saying “and how many litres of water & people’s copyright works does that use” during the lecture on how genAI is helpful if you are, like my lecturer, “a neurodivergent”, what do I win
And this goes even further back - the 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther caused all sorts of moral panic
(I have a feeling that will probably be my main beef with this course bc earlier this week they sent round this document inviting everyone to body doubling zoom sessions every Friday, they know who does library/archive studies & it’s the people who catalogue their hyperfixations in a spreadsheet)
I’m sure they’ll pick up on the “I don’t think there is ever a reason to use a stealing machine” vibe I bring to every situation eventually, I just don’t know if opening with it is the one
Anyway I think at least one of my introductory lectures this week has a portion about what it’s okay to use AI for, & I need a higher power to grant me the serenity to not scream “NOTHING, GENAI IS NOT OKAY TO USE FOR ANYTHING, IT IS MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE” when I have just met these people
I have in the past few years come to the realisation that my gender is “woman things not in a woman way”, eg long hair, painted nails, weird clothes, but it is hard to convey “I am spiritually a gnc man” with tiddies & hips, & I’m not bothered enough to change that, so it doesn’t read like that lol
(I like to think I’m not THAT autistic about food, like I definitely don’t have ARFID or anything, but I had to fill out a survey for my OT the other day about sensory triggers & uhhh…look I do have some very strong opinions about how I’ll eat certain things & textures, apparently)
Oh that I could just eat vegetables & protein & nothing else, but alas, both my stomach & my weird brain absolutely hate that, especially when I could instead eat one (1) piece of toast with peanut butter & some noodles as my food during the day, which are both low in fibre & do not give me The Ick
Me: hey so I’m not taking the Ozempic anymore, it caused a massive POTS & Crohn’s flare & I felt terrible for 2 weeks straight
My GP: okay sure but have you thought any more about keto, because that might help
Me: …I eat about 3 things a day Alex, & you want me to cut them out?
I’m a Sydney Symphony subscriber, & we have one of the few head female conductors of a major orchestra (she was the first woman to conduct the Ring Cycle at Bayreuth & that was only last year, I think; it started in 1876), & this kind of tells you why, it’s a huge sausage fest of terrible dudes
We’re going to have tremendous gender, folks. You’re going to be tired of gender and you’ll say please, professor Judith Butler that’s enough. No more gender. But it won’t stop folks.
Okay I have barely finished my laksa but a man one table over at the bbq place has started playing tiktoks at what I can only describe as a “private space” volume, it’s time to go
I had no eyebrows until I was about 16 (I had mid brown hair, it was not a matching situation) & still have very blonde ones with an empty patch in the middle of one, & I agree the idea of getting rid of the little I’ve managed to scrounge up is absolutely horrifying
Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays, 1978-83
Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays, 1978-83
Spent the morning at the NGA getting bodied by how hard this 1978-83 Jenny Holzer work still goes in the current climate
(By which I mean my most recent a1c was 7.4; 7 is diabetic, between 6 & 7 is borderline, so it’s not even that high & would probably be corrected if I was able to consume artificial sweetener & all my safe foods weren’t carbs, but unfortunately I’m fat so it’s an absolute emergency 🙃🙃🙃)
