even medicated my executive dysfunction is so bad i got my psych referral letter for surgery last year, and only sent it in today. only to find out as of this year they have more stringent requirements for the letter...
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woman on a mission.
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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network i think a lot about how i like wfh but i don't like the way people talk about it. wfh can only be healthy in a society where home isn't an isolating place.
wfh shouldn't mean staying inside in your sprawling suburb and never seeing people--it should mean when you log off for lunch you can walk to the café on the corner or on the ground floor and get a pastry with a side of a chat, and when you log off at the end of the day you can walk to the local grocer to pick some some fresh veg for dinner.
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@cestfleuve/116948860187829595
i'm told that this is a pretty good piece so it seems like a good time to mention i am looking for a new line of work and my blog is a writing portfolio, if anybody is looking to hire a writer.
it's my birthday! buy me a pussy? https://ko-fi.com/riversurgeryfund
i'm 30
what does having multiple partners have to do w being Polynesian
when politicians talk about using AI for things they actually mean magic
"we're going to improve productivity using magic"
"we're going to improve the health system using magic"
i wish part of me weren't holding on so strongly so i could finally let go
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@cestfleuve@mastodon.nz
bellyaching about things being paid for with taxes is a fascist sentiment regardless of what those things are. whether taxes were spent on something doesn't change whether it's good or bad
"they're using our tax money to bomb kids" ngl i am concerned that they're doing that using money from any source
so like does anyone else feel like you know how you're gonna die it's just a question of how long you manage to put it off
i've been doing this "turning 30 will make me an older woman" bit so much i'm worried ppl might think i think 30 is actually old
my 30th birthday is this month. help me get what i really want? 🥺
https://ko-fi.com/riversurgeryfund
feeling yuck about being unshaven for electrolysis so i'm compensating by wearing a nice figure-hugging outfit for my ride to and from work
remembering how when i was 12 and in the school band the other guitarist had the letters "NFC" for No Fat Chicks taped on his guitar
i don't like "why are we focusing on this when we have high unemployment etc.?" bc it implies that if we didn't have economic issues then it might be fine to focus on restricting human rights
til now i've mostly published opinion pieces, but i'm more interested in writing this kind of thing
a single sex space is one where only masturbation is allowed
my latest blog post is called "the bill"
given up on trying to publish on the same day of the week every time. blog posts come out when they come out.
wrt the job cuts the last people i feel sorry for are hospo business owners; especially the ones who put up posters fighting efforts to make the city safe, and supporting right-wing politicians whose cut cut cut philosophy is cut cut cutting their customer base
once i've locked down funding for my surgery and know i can afford it i wanna budget some funds to go towards other people's fundraisers
is it uncouth to leverage recent events to plug my surgery fund?
maybe. but if i can't have trans rights i should at least be allowed some trans wrongs
a personal development that happened without my noticing is ending whatever insecurity i had that made me feel like i couldn't talk about having sex without it coming across as a humblebrag. maybe it's bc i'm almost 30.
i do standup. i've performed personal poetry on stage. i've posted about half the thoughts i've ever had.
can someone explain why i find flirting so intimidating. can someone explain why i even find it intimidating to flirt *with people i'm already sleeping with*
tbh i think trying to appeal to the good conscience of national mps is like trying to appeal to the good conscience of members of the nazi party
labour are so preoccupied with what they think the electorate will accept but don't seem to have their own line of what they will and won't accept
if you have ADHD this post is for you:
are you satisfied with your meds?
have you tried other meds?
I ask bc it's way way too common for people to have only tried one, to not know if others would be better, or to even feel outright awful on the meds they're on and to just accept it
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i think it's been a long time coming. for years the problem was "child poverty", now we don't even care if they're impoverished
i think i figured out why the term "cost of living" bothers me so much—it's completely supplanted the word "poverty"
it's a term that refers to the comfortable being a little less comfortable, and not the uncomfortable being pushed to the brink
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@RedRobyn@mastodon.nz
@RedRobyn@mastodon.nz i don't think it's an original observation on my part
i'm so sick of being angry. i don't know if my body can take any more.
never ever forget that in the cycle discussion there are two sides: people who don't want to die, and people who are happy for other people to die for their convenience
another good reason to replace buses with trams is unlike bus drivers, tram drivers can't overtake you by inches in the wind and rain and then argue with you that you were supposed to be keeping left as though breaking their false reading of the law would make it ok for them to FUCKING KILL YOU
people will go full-on hitler with exterminationist rhetoric about the idea of houses being built near theirs and blocking their sunlight, then park their 8ft tall vehicles in front of their houses where they block all the windows
while we're talking about high-income trannies: i'm a low-income tranny. put in to my pussy fund?
https://ko-fi.com/riversurgeryfund
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@cestfleuve@mastodon.nz
i talk about what my bike means to me as a disabled person in this piece i wrote last year about disabled people being used as shields against the reallocation of street space: https://riverwrites.ghost.io/car-parks-and-disability-warriors/
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can every disabled person cycle? of course not. but neither can every disabled person drive. and sometimes, disabled people have needs that conflict with each other. ask someone with arthritis about tactile bumps!
as a disabled person whose primary mobility aid is an e-bike i'm tired of constantly feeling erased in transport discussions
i cycle so i can't be disabled, or if i can cycle i mustn't be *that* disabled, or it shouldn't be a big deal for me to "just" dismount and walk my bike
back in the day my papou worked for GM and they sent a bus to pick up him and all the other workers
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@airshipper@cloudisland.nz
@airshipper@cloudisland.nz it's persistent. public transport is for wealthy office-working city-slickers, and car is for the working person
making a sign to stick on my back while cycling that says "saved some fuel for you—you're welcome!"
public transport being talked about like a privilege... the vibes are off
i'll give you 10 years of my financial records and you show me where in there i was supposed to budget buying and operating a car
commenting on posts about farming "but not all of us live in the country"
just spoke to a financial advisor and so far it's looking like i'll be borrowing $35k for surgery
help me borrow less?
The Beths GOAT at making me cry
anyone here taking buproprion and care to chat about it w me
i'm worried that all the caffeine anxiety has been masking a deep depression i'm going to have to deal with once i've quit
i wish i could be there for people without feeling like what happened to them is happening to me