Trying to move across to jennysinclair@bsky.social Would love to know how to search for people I follow here…

Just hired a guy to take apart and bin-size an old desk I couldn’t give away and now there are terrible wrenching sounds coming from the lift well and I feel like an accessory to murder.

Not quite in my area, but does anyone know whether there will be enough teachers to run the government’s preparation for uni program? Clare is talking about how much money there is for the program, but won’t it require Year 12 level qualified teachers?

Ooh minister turned up in person! What’s that about?

Head of Productivity Commission has just alleged you can buy a bike with six hours’ wages these days. Not the kind of bike I like you can’t.

Yes it’s my annual thrilling tweeting of the tertiary standards authority conference. Sorry about the work you were planning to do today; obvs you’ll be reading me all day instead.

Love how quickly university types shut up when proceedings begin. And how attentive they are to procedural faff.

What kind of holiday turduckery is this? Chrisween? Hallowmass?

when I am President of the World, all public and semi public organisations will be forced to timestamp all web publications and updates. So hard sometimes to tell what's current and what's a hangover from 2000-and-something.

The work:break ratio increases in line with the tediousness of the work. Seven annual reports summarized in 90 minutes means:

What sort of amazing bright blue-green ant is this?

Only chocolate in the house is a forgotten gift box of Lindt balls 3 years past use by, so I’m pretending I’m the only survivor of a global disaster, surviving on the remains of the former human race, reaching the end of my supplies foraged from abandoned houses in the woods.

I’ve had three coffees today and now I’m at Bunnings. This could be ugly.

Cakes that are edible….

So Rip Up The Bike Lanes, led by a serial long term candidate, got more than 4% of the vote in Melbourne. :/

Hard rubbish gods are with me today.

is it overreacting to back out completely of a tradie deal when they accept a job then immediately start trying to change times you'd made clear were not flexible? I just don't need the angst, and it's such a not great start to a relationship.

Tbh I wouldn’t make the first frame of a video of a middle aged white guy telling the kids why they have to get off their phones look quite like this.

forcing myself to send off queries for next week's stories. future self will thank me, but it's hard to focus on a Friday afternoon of a week like this.