Where I post about the things that happened in my life. Sometimes they’re diary entries, sometimes works of non-fiction, sometime just random photographs.
I woke at sunrise this morning, courtesy of the cat attacking my feet and then ruthlessly demanding attention for twenty minutes. She spent a good chunk of last night stalking a gecko, and I suspect she failed to capture it going by this morning’s behaviour.
I would be mad at her, but there’s 40 emails in my inbox and things that need editing, so it’s not like getting up early is a bad thing…
One of the weird things about living in the twenty-first century is having these incredibly powerful, multi-purpose microcomputers in our pockets that don’t necessarily turn off the way you expect.
Ergo, you occasionally find weird photographs on your feed: blurred images snapped as the phone gets slid into the pocket; or snapshots taken while trying to set up the phone to navigate with GPS.
I like to think they’re glimpses of another universe, one that makes less sense than our own, trying to get out.
I’ve been watching a motorized scooter helmet migrate around the neighbourhood for the last few weeks. It started out in the neighbour’s yard, moved to a spot behind another neighbour’s rubbish bins, and now exists in the liminal space beside the trainline that the public can’t access.
My guess is that it will stay there until the next round of track work, or somebody needs it bad enough to jump the high fence and recover it.
The days are long and hot here in Australia. Two states are basically on fire courtesy of the Summer bushfires. Our government has largely shirked the issue, as treating bushfires like this as serious seems to suggest that they may be wrong on issues of climate change.
I keep thinking of a quote from a recent news article over on the ABC:
“If anything, this Government is more ideologically driven than Abbott. They want to win the culture wars they see in education, in the public service, in all of our institutions, and they’ll come for the ABC too, of course. There will be a big cleanout at the top of the public service, but Morrison will wait for a while to do that. They believe the Left has been winning the war for the last 20 years and are determined to turn the tables. Morrison will just be craftier about the way he goes about it.”
Sourced from: Inside the Public Service Shakeup, Laura Tingle, ABC.net.au
As someone who, frankly, wishes the culture wars of the last twenty years had seen more gains for the opposite side, it’s a timely reminder that you no can no longer get the kind of government (or world) you want merely by voting for it and hoping other people will do the work.