I dunno how many lagoons there are in the mountains here but costally yeah.

The pfas is attached to a conservation project where they make these floating islands to protect turtles and waterbirds from cats/foxes and they’re like “well since we’re growing these plants maybe we can do remediation”. So it’s in the school of conservation and the group does fine stuff like photograph wildlife to assess effectiveness. And also murder, to look for verticle transfer of contaminants like pfas.

I am leaning towards that project if I can keep my distance from the killing. It seems less depressing than enumerating all the ways we’re fucked.

Chattin’ to some academics re Mres.

Got a couple of cool looking options:

1- assessing local rushes for pfas nomming (airfarce base has heavily contaminated local environment) 2- assessing how local peatlands react to the climate change.

Both seem to have a good amount of chill field work. I fucking love vegetated swails so I’m leaning towards the first for future work but a bit warey of the fucked up ethics of conservation ecology. 2 is using more of my physics skills, but maybe more boring and less paddling about lakes and watching grass grow.

Winter is upon us, still very warm (holy warming Batman) but below the condensation point of depression so I’m resisting the urge to crawl into a hole and hibernate till spring.

Thanks, I do too. He’s far from perfect but he is a good man and he brings a lot to the world. It’s crap to see him struggling so much and in such dire straights because of a brief interruption of his ability to improve the profits of shareholders.

I was handing out propaganda with an academic, and apparently I made an impression as he sent me an extremely helpful email today with a variety of positions on offer. That is defs a confidence boost and it’s great to have help there.

I’ll be right, they are the ones that have to go through the hard shit. People you love nearly dying does tend to make a lot of stuff just seem not important though.

Also a massive stressor preceding this was the tech ai layoffs to eviction pipeline so I’ve ended up even more angry at landlords and other capitalists. Like this shit is playing out everywhere so some dickhead can get more spare homes. I don’t even know if the rich are human in a recognisable way.

My ex/close friend necked himself. Didn’t die cause his wife found him in time and being a med school dropout has advantages.

Been reevaluating a lot of shit since then. I think I’m going back to grad school, I realised if I lost him (and you don’t go from trying to kill yourself to life being peachy. It’s still very day by day) I would have basically no regular contact with people smarter than me which is just depressing.

Who knows if I’ll succeed this time, life is in a better place but my body is a complete unreliable wreck. Still we shall see.

In other news evaluating the risk of moving my ulnar nerves surgically. Very small risk of paralysis, large (~10% risk) of needing salvage surgeries. Scary stuff, expensive too. OTOH being able to hold a book again would be cool.

The AEC is responsible for ensuring that staffers/volunteers at polling boths are conducting themselves within the bounds of the law and that voters are not intimidated.

If she is alledging that people are being harrassed in line etc and the AEC is not reporting this/involving the police she is alleging AEC corruption.

https://youtu.be/gdbqVaXHJik

Did Jacinta just seriously waffle out an implied allegation that the AEC is corrupt? That’s fucking insane.

Thesis please

Did she say chemical Ali?

Yeah it’s a shame. Might be better overall for the quality of aus politics in the long run but labour has been extremely shit in some regards.

Hoping that the Senate will force some progress and the improved confidence of labor will lead to more bold policy but we shall see.

People of Dickson had an opportunity to do the funniest thing of all term and they took it.

You bloody rippers you <3

Yeah Jim, look for some corn while you’re up there!

This long after sundown too, usually he’s hungry.

All the running from the cops after vandalising signage keeps us fit and trim

Preferences one nation

WHY ARE PEOPLE CALLING US RACISTS?

Man by the way they go on you’d think the greens had been in government.

Furious too

What do you mean, we’re all total babes.

Never thought thinking about Dickson would make me feel a certain something.