fredmouseoz
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Early 50's Australian queer. Gives a damn about science, family, books, politics, and music, not necessarily in that order.
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#i need a many option#long distance drives with just me? podcasts#long distance drives of the under three hours variety? talking or silence or the radio#long distance drives of the six days variety?#are we in radio range? if yes probably the radio. if no depends on which car we are driving#we did Perth to Sydney with three small kids#nearly 20 years ago#and we listened to the same small set of CDs#both ways
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No, Mr. Horse, don’t worry, I certainly don’t have a Plinko down here! What I do have is this lovely cask of wine, specifically for horses, Amontillado in fact! Exquisite vintage.
I know you’re not supposed to be in this hospital, but if you’ll just follow me down this corridor—no, that’s not blood on the floor, it’s color theory, I’ll explain it later—I can bring you to this cask of wine that is certainly NOT a plinko machine—
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As an Australian who usually doesn't know what they are talking about, OP would survive just fine. After all, my friends and I have been getting along just fine for decades, and some of them work in academia.
I fully admit that I have no idea what I’m talking about most of the time.
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just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone
🔁 pls reblog for sample size
#I've done all of these#have gone overseas on my own twice#and a few times to the other side of the country#so very peaceful on a plane where there are no distractions#and meals turn up regularly#movies was when the kids were little and I sometimes spent my allocated 'go out alone' at a movie#meals are just an 'I need to eat'#although i don't go to fancy restaurants#shows is less common because there is usually someone else doing the organising
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#after thinking about it no#but i do have a left over team only shirt#that belonged to Youngest that I haven't rehomed#and their old named bag with the state on it#one of these days I might get a team shirt for the local ice hockey team#if i ever get back to going and seeing games#yes this is australia#yes we have an ice hockey league#state and national
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hey you do know that neurodivergent doesnt only mean autism and adhd right. like it includes ocd and anxiety and depression and even cluster b disorders. you know that right.
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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.
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Alright!
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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽
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this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious
#i'm counting one#because while we only transitted the aeroport#we still had to go through customs#and it was a shit-show#i have paid good money#to transit other countries in preference
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#a veritable mix#including--but not limited to--size#because we have various sizes of bookshelf#the first delineation is fiction v non-fiction#(poetry is its own special case)#then size - two sizes for non fiction but three for fiction#single author fiction is by last name#psuedonyms are a crapshoot and I don't promise to be consistent#anthologies are by title so that the series with different editors are together#non-fiction is a mix of subject and where I'm likely to look for it#which comes awfully close to vibes
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Feel free to add what kind of book, whether it was a novella or a tome in the comments/tags. I'm curious as I've only ever done it twice, many years ago.
#i think my record is four books in a day#for actual novels#the first four books of the stainless steel rat series#which were short by today's SF standards#i read them instead of studying for either my math 2 or math 3 final (year 12) exam#i was very relaxed on the day of the exam#and did fabulously well#so it wasn't a bad choice#in terms of sheer number of books read#i hate to think what the total is#when i had small children and a large collection of picture books#and a rule that I wouldn't read one twice in the same day#you can read a LOT of picture books in an hour
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Holy shit… please…take this quiz…
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They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.
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Reminder from someone with actual literal brain damage from a brain injury to stop fucking using "brain damage" and "brain injuries" as a means of describing someone whose opinions you don't like or deem as stupid.
It's ableist and offensive as fuck, and for some reason a lot of leftist people think it's okay to use. I've seen posts replying to right wing racists calling them "brain damaged if you believe this" and "do you have a brain injury? do you not understand X?". Just now I saw a beautiful post about fat people throughout history that was absolutely ruined by opening with "How do we break it to boomers with actual brain damage and nostalgic brainrot, and the 'tradwife' thirsting Andrew Tate fans..." before continuing to say that fat people existed throughout history.
Brain damage does not make you racist. A brain injury doesn't make you stupid, or fatphobic, or unaware of history and politics. Stop fucking using my disability as a catch all to describe people you think are shitty. Y'all use it like it's a replacement for how people used to use the R-slur, which shows you learned absolutely nothing about why the R-slur was wrong to use and decided to throw in other disabilities instead. Fuck off and stop doing it.
(And don't do it with other disabilities either, because I know y'all do.)
I know a lot of people with brain injuries. They're smart, and funny, and compassionate. They learn about the world and care about social issues and wish they could go to protests if their disability won't allow them to. Are there right wing people with brain injuries? Sure, absolutely. But they are not right wing because they have a brain injury, and using any disability as an insult is still fucking ableist.
Tldr - stop using brain damage and brain injury as an insult. It's ableist and incredibly offensive.
Love, your local brain injured/brain damaged pal
#i've known a few older people who've had strokes#and while the resulting brain injury affects their lives#i have not noticed a single one become less compassionate#or more right wing
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my favorite out of context quotes from my archeology professor so far in no particular order
and floridians are just as human as you and me!
and the moral of the story is that there are no deadly snakes native to alaska
you might know this guy as one of the only archaeologists cool enough to be mentioned by indiana jones
it’s my dream to have my name said by harrison ford
i’m not going to apologize for having this class at 6am because you paid for it and it’s your fault.
we don’t all dress like lara croft. i tried to get it to be a thing on a dig and my colleagues yelled at me.
they were pretty good archaeologists except they were too racist to realize anything they found.
i take back what i said about us not dressing like lara croft because lewis binford here is wearing nothing but short shorts and a cowboy hat. take notes for an academic halloween costume!
archaeologists can be good artists! not me, though. or anyone i know. but if you can draw just know you have options.
sometimes you find dead bodies when you dont really expect it and you just have to deal with it
archaeologists are the only people allowed to get exited when they find corpses.
once i ruined thanksgiving dinner when i told my family i had gotten my degree in archaeology and my uncle commented he liked dinosaurs too
the closest i’ve ever been to a grizzly bear is when i left my glasses in my tent on a dig in alaska, saw a big rock in the distance, and almost screamed
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I'm gonna miss the boopening. You may have been here only for a day and half, but you brought the joy of many many MANY boops to completely random strangers, watchers and mutuals.
God speed you adorable chaotic kitty paws.
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