so my ebay seller got back to me. We swaped out the faulty X for Sun. and I've gotta say, I'm having a stack of fun with it! Despite the fact that its insisting on holding my hand despite ~25 years of playing pokemon games it looks great on the 3ds. They've also included a bunch of OG pokemon so its only 1/4 of every encounter where i proclaim "WTH if that thing!?"
Now that I've finished the planting in my Mum's garden I've started to make some more serious decisions about mine. I've neglected it a bit because I'm not really sure what to do with it, and it's mostly filled with vegies gone to seed. I've decided to pull up everything in the main beds and replace with a mix of basic shrubs, mostly natives, and just keep the two raised planters with vegies in them. That should keep everything neat and be low maintenance, without costing too much. I'll get cheap tubestock that will hopefully grow a bit before the house goes up for sale and fill in the garden a bit and I'll fill in all the gaps with mulch. It will probably be a few days of solid work, but at least I won't have to cart soil or do anything too heavy.
Seems the new storm bypassed us. Clothes can remain on the line outside for a wee bit longer.
new storm
*nu storm
Doomscrolling, American politics, a second apology
Iโm really sorry once again for my tasteless joke.
My doomscrolling had consisted of the wild suggestions that RFK junior had been kicking around for Americaโs health system. Such as removing fluoride from water and vaccine skepticism - but also the proposal of having โwellness farmsโ (labour camps) for people who used illegal or legal drugs including antidepressants or adhd meds.
Iโm quite concerned about suggestions like that which slide easily into fascism. Hoping that none of the really crazy stuff actually happens over there - or filters down into Australia. As American culture or conspiracy theories can tend to do. Iโm worried for the future. What happens to anyone outside the norm if that idea gets legs.
But even as dark humour and worry for the growing fascism in America and Australia, it was hurtful and not ok for me to say. Iโm very sorry to survivors and relatives of people who did actually endure internment.
I just have to stop looking at or worrying about this stuff. And not smart off about painful serious things.
We certainly live in dark times. The times only get darker if we cannot joke about them.
No one has a monopoly on horror.
No one should make you feel like you cannot joke about those horrors.
It is not tasteless to joke about the horrors that exist, and have existed. It's tasteless to pretend they didn't exist, don't exist.
I want you to forgive yourself for making light. We NEED light.
The dead have already suffered. The dead do not command us. The dead do not control us.
Live for the living. Laugh for the living. Laugh for yourself. Laugh for me. Laugh for us. Laugh because we need laughter.
Here is one of my favourite jokes:
A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.
God says, โThatโs not funny.โ
And the man says, โI guess you had to be there.โ
Don't worry about what Seagoon said tbh. My urgroรvater (great grandfather) was captured by the Russians and spent the rest of the war in an actual gulag, he suddenly returned home after the war ended. He could not and would not eat with his family, and would only make himself a sandwich when everyone else was finished (he didn't trust anything he didn't make himself due to his experience). And yet, I have joked many times, while going to work, "welp back to the gulag".
It's an offhand joke, and not worth worrying about tbh. I only said the above to state that everyone has different opinions, and different ways of coping and joking, and I personally do not see an issue with what you said.
But yes, doom scrolling, reading about the US and worrying, it doesn't help our mental state. It's feels heavy and insurmountable.
But, you have us and your hobbies, and while it may be difficult to do everything you want, you can still find joy and peace away from those news sites/reddit/whatever. They are nothing more than enragement engagement machines designed to make us feel angry, sad, and helpless. But you are amazing, kind, considerate, thoughtful, clever, you have so much to offer the world. Don't have to take any advice from me, but overall it's better to avoid the sites that bring us down. You are an integral part of this community ๐๐๐
I've got my harry potter paint book https://www.dymocks.com.au/harry-potter-watercolor-magic-by-tugce-audoire-9781647224622
I've got loads of brushes, good ones and cheaper ones, tube paints and a palette of colours in trays. I have spare paper for messing about and a big jar of water.
Now I will read the book carefully and follow instructions. Starting with doing a colour test of all the paints. :)
One plethora of plants has now been ordered, and I have a rough planting plan drawn up. Now I need to add on another small fortune for mulch and fertilizer and I'll be set.
Rumble Rumble Rumble
Beep Beep ๐
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I'm too hot & sticky to be hungry rn. Maybe a tall iced lemonade?
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