I had a great ride with the boys this afternoon. It’s great to have nice weather and a bit of afternoon sun again.

We caught some of that light sun shower so we got to see ac rainbow on the way home

I feel that way too. I think we’ll need to have more serious conversations about how things are done here

It looks alright outside now but it’s meant to rain a bit this afternoon

I get paid fortnightly and August has worked out to be a 3 pay month. This is the off week though

I’ve taken today off to look after the boys. It will be nice to look after them properly instead of trying to watch them whilst tethered to a laptop

Definitely do something nice for yourself, but don’t put to much pressure on you to make it perfect

This was mentioned in the book ‘From secret ballot to democracy sausage’. Compulsory voting pulls politics towards the centre because you have to appeal to everyone.

Another outlier we have is preferential voting, whichgives smaller parties an opportunity to participate without eating into majorities.

And yeah, it strikes me as weird how they have those massive conventions over in the states, they’re like Comicon for the worst and most boring people. And that people will say they don’t like politics, then be ride or die for someone like Trump

It’s not ideal and it’s tough. I just wish everyone was trying their hardest to make it work here

This is definitely part of it. I feel like suburbs and urban development don’t help either. People don’t work where they live anymore so it’s expected to live on one side of the city and work on the other side.

Suburbs used to be build around something like a factory or an industrial area. Now you live in one place, shop in another, and work somewhere else

I don’t like it but we’ll probably get used to it. Is there a Dark mode for the update? All Tue white space makes the new version especially bright

Kids books would be a big part of the market too. You need to have the physical books out on displayso kids can look at them and grab them.

I’d try go independent either book stores or toy shops first but Booktopia would be the next place to look after that for kids books

I’ve bought from digiDirect before and it seems like they’re doing the right thing by Booktopia’s old employees.

I’ll keep buying from them if they make it possible to browse the website with some privacy extensions running

It’s technically my girlfriend’s place and she got it for her mother. Her mumcan’t work because she’s the carer of my girlfriend’s aunt who had a stroke. Her husband left her and they had to sell the house so this is the solution to keep her family out of renting forever.

Her brother has been allowed to stay in his room so he’s in his mid 20s and has never had a job before. He’s autistic but that’s no reason to let him become a shut-in with no prospects.

I’ve had that where my own sick days have doubled up as carers days for the kids. Unfortunately the support network in the house isn’t great because the people who don’t work and have no other commitments can’t seem to get up before noon or even just walk the kids down to thr park

Unfortunately I live with the less useful side of the family. I avoid sending them when sick, even when they’re just clingy because I know it will disrupt the carers’ plans for the other kids.

There are just a fair few days like this, and responding to a call to pick them up would take too long if I was in an office in the city and got thr call to pick them up

I took them to the doctor today and got a certificate for carers leave for tomorrow.

I’m full WFH and tomorrow is like the one day a year event they want everyone to go to Marvel stadium for a bunch of pro work propaganda.

I may be having problems with my manager, but I might need to ride this out or find another fully remote role because I don’t know how days like this will work otherwise

My girlfriend’s family live with us, so her mother and her brother are here, but I don’t really want to leave my kids in their hands.

My parents are up in NSW so whilst they’d be a little better they’re just not an option

Nat is a lot like that. It’s like he’s playing up the Australian trope of swearing a lot. I’m fine with swearing, even as much as he does, but you take it out and there are no other jokes there

This is where I would kind of work backwards and skeleton out my writing, then look for anything in the research papers that supports it. I know it’s not so easy to Ctrl+f academic papers because they’re so dense, but you can skim until you find what you’re after.

If you’re not having luck then you adjust your argument to something more along the line of what you’ve read so far

What do people with normal jobs do when both parents are working and their kids are too sick to go to childcare?

I have the one in person event I need to attend tomorrow and the way the kids are going that probably won’t happen. Are you supposed to take a day off work every time? Normal people can’t do that