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      My boyz wiggle their tails when I say their respective names. They know. 😺😺

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      I say I love you to Melbcat or kiss her little head and she purrs at either, so they know. Also the cuddling lets them know.

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      He understands, he just doesn’t want to accept it. It’s not about swaying you it’s about making you so uncomfortable that you’ll say yes just to get it “over with”.

      He doesn’t care about your feelings or consent. And do not let him into your house again.

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        This.

        It is such a good idea to have your own transport arranged to get home

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      No means yes or possibly yes to some people, no matter how clear you are.

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      What is up with men who can’t take a hint? Unfortunately not uncommon with some meetup groups :(

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      Yikes.

      This guy was being wilfully oblivious, ignoring all boundaries and just trying to take advantage ⛳️

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      Maybe next time don’t ask boundary challenged guys in to meet the cats

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        Ugh I have no idea why you are downvoted - I agree wholeheartedly with this.

        Do not allow men into your home who have already ignored your consent. Not victim blaming, but people perceived as women must be careful in today’s world what with the utter disrespect and violence towards AFABs/women/femmes.

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          exactly, don’t invite trouble in to your house

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    Long day… cranky… not a drop of moisture all day, but I just managed to miss the rain and got to come home to silky kitty and a bit of silliness (=much-needed energy expenditure) with the feather toy. Thank god I have food in the fridge… rest my tired soul with the sound of rain and a nourishing meal. I’m spent.

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    It’s mandatory Fun 👏🏻 Family 💕Friday 🎊!!! Team Group Hug!

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      HR policy expressly forbids any shows of affection in any form. Now please, go back to your desks and continue to sob quietly.

      Remember, there’s no I in team, but there is a U in unemployed!!!

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      Happy FriYay 😉 everyoneeeee 🤗 thanks for all your GREAT efforts this week gang! 🙏 Get some well earned rest 🛌 this weekend so we can all be full of Zing ⚡on Monday, ready to smash our targets 🎯 next week! 🥰

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        I am hearing this in smarmy American blonde

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          The male version has a loud comedic tie, the female an impractical manicure in something named shimmer

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        Please be warmly advised that you may only eat during your meal break 🙂

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    Fed the kitty this morning and we went back to bed, cuddling sweetly… she stretched her arm, dropped it and punctured a single secretly sharp claw into my eyelid like a fishhook.

    After a delay of refusing to get up it was washed with antibacterial hand soap and dabbed with Betadine so fingers crossed. I have a spare box of antibiotics ready to go.

    But yeah, that was literally half a centimetre from my actual eye.

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      Reaching out
      Touching me, clawing you

      Sweeeeet Mother of Jesus
      Fuck fuck fuck 🎶

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      My WhiteBoy used to wake us up by delicately inserting a single claw into a nostril

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        You can pick your nose but you can’t pick your alarm clock

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          Zelazny quote about many legged furry alarm clock

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        My dog was having cuddlyboos on my chest and he reached out and touched my bottom teeth with his nails. 🤮

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      That makes me feel sick because I can’t have anything go near my eye ( like I can’t wear contacts because I freak out about it )

      My painful cat encounter story is, I was trying to save someone’s cat in a tree so I climbed way up and grabbed it.

      It got scared and wriggled and thrashed around so much that it fell…almost. It managed to hook a single claw into my forearm and was just hanging there…stretching my skin.

      I could only freak out and scream and shake it off. Of course it landed on its feet and just sauntered away.

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        It’s ok, it was just the top eyelid near my eyelashes. Nothing actually went in my eye.

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      Yup, they’ll do that. Cerys sliced my left nipple in half once.

      Keep an eye on that shit. Uh. Pun unintended

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        I clip her claws but she always secretly sharpens just a single one so I don’t notice. It’s her stiletto.

        Wondering about those colourful nail caps but they seem like they’d cause distress

        Edit: And yes, I’m watching it because litterbox paws and will start the box of antibiotics that’s on hand if anything changes. It would be a nasty spot for an infection

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          Tbh i just gave up. It’s what happens when you live with a cat.

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    Congratulations Mumma and Pappa Peregrine Falcon on the safe arrival of chicky no.3 only minutes ago. Cheers 🍺

    However some of youse here have disappointed me greatly today. Lucky I don’t hold a grudge. Cheers 🍺

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    Tonight it’s singing practice. I cancelled my plans so I could have the evening to myself to get my voice back to a usable state.

    I miss performing so much. I just love the vulnerability that you feel when you’re giving a part of yourself to strangers for a short while. Putting yourself out there.

    Music had been such an important part of my life. Every step of the way music has kept me going when I felt I didn’t want to. I could always rely on making music for catharsis.

    And I think that’s what makes it such an important part of my life. I feel like everything is bottled up unless I’m playing regularly.

    /end over sharing rant

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    Just had a company meeting about raises. I don’t quality because I just started, but they gave everyone:

    2%

    You should have seen everyone’s face. The mood in the meeting plummeted instantly.

    I’m expecting some resignations in the next few weeks.

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      The beatings will continue until … every employee is 18 and doesn’t know any better

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      We love an effective pay cut

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      That’s barely covers inflation these days. It just make sure you’re taking home the same realised income as the year before

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        I’m here for 12 months to up skill. If I get a real promotion and it’s equivalent pay rise, cool. If not, other plans will come into play.

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        The only way to get a pay rise these days is jump ship, it seems. Unfortunately

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          That’s how it has become these days. Companies don’t invest in their people like they used to, so you have to become the master of your own career

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      Wow! And I used to get upset about my 5% yearly raise at my last job.

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      Ive got the wash going.

      I’m hoping I can still make it before the sun goes away!

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        Today was all about mixing whites and colours. Two large loads. Done. Fuck the labels and warnings.

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          I have never ever separated clothes by colours or anything, just throw it all in.

          Nothing bad has ever come from that, even throwing new colourful clothes into a wash with old white clothes. Never had colour leech, nothing has ever broke or whatnot.

          But it may also have to do with the fact that I wash everything in cold water, not hot 🤷🏼‍♀️

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            Dyes have greatly improved the past 20 years

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              Stay mad lol it’s worked for me so far and it will continue to work for me until it doesn’t 😂

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                I’m waiting for one normal person to tell me they do things correctly. Just one and I’ll be happy.

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                  👋 here! Not normal but I do know how to separate my loads.

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                  All I can offer you is that I don’t put StepOne undies in the dryer, they get hung up to dry per the label haha

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          Suns gone but it’s sort of warm outside.

          I wonder if it’s still worth putting something outside?

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          I have never separated whites and colours

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    I was flash flooded down here on the bellarine. Holy fuck I’ve never seen rain like that. Every gutter was overflowing. Here was the start:

    Been spending the last 2 hrs having an intimate conversation with a bucket. I have not seen this level of water down here before.

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      we had 10 drops and one flash of lightening

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      It was pissing down hard in Heidelberg but only for 20 minutes or so. It looked like the Bellarine and Mornington got all the extreme stuff.

      Hope you don’t have much damage.

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    Well that’s a first. Found a stick insect on my subwoofer. I don’t think I’ve actually seen one before in the wild:

    It has been put back outside on a tree. But glad to see there’s another real junglist saying wicked.

    This most definitely calls for a rave choon:

    Considering it was on the subby… Suicide bassline!

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    Speaking to my therapist last night. We were talking about my anxious mind craving distractions and the amount of screen time I’m racking up on my phone. He was talking about just sitting, no noise or anything and just taking in whats going on around us. I’ve never been so proud of myself cause I stopped short of shouting “RAWDOGING! Gen Z call it rawdogging when you just sit on a flight and do nothing!”

    Fuck i’m weird ey.

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      I’m looking forward to seeing Seagoon translate today’s word RAWDOGING into emojis in tomorrow’s thread.

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      They call it rawdogging? (I ask, as a Gen Z person)

      Also hard relate. I’ve noticed I’ve been watching YouTube and scrolling through Reddit to try to numb anxious feelings.

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        I hope they don’t call it rawdogging because I know it as another thing.

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            Been awhile since I’ve heard it been used.

            Thought maybe I had forgotten.

            😂

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        Reddit only seems to exacerbate my anxieties. Too much bad news coming from the world, condensed into a toxic cesspool of misogyny, racism, and arguing in bad faith.

        I prefer YouTube, but avoid the comments.

        And yeah apparently some people use “rawdogging” to describe going without their phone/music/whatever when travelling or doing something - which is just… No.

        Rawdogging is a gross term to use colloquially in those situations. But language is language and youth will create slang as they always have done since language became something utilised by humans for communication.

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      This is something I’ve been working on for about 18 months now, and it definitely helps.

      When I get home from work my phone goes in a different room and I don’t touch it at all. No laptop or iPad either. I usually read once our 5 year old is in bed and the dishes and chores are done and I get the chance to sit down.

      I flew to North Qld and back a few weeks ago, no devices or screens.

      My ‘online’ time is during breaks/lunch at work and that’s it. I deleted Instagram a couple of years ago and haven’t had Facebook since 2008.

      I drive to work and back with NOTHING playing, no podcasts or music or anything, 3-4 hours of driving per day.

      Being ‘in the moment rather’ than being attached to a screen or ‘content’ has really helped. Although I’ve found it DOES make me irrationally angry when I walk around (or even am at other family member’s houses) and everyone is glued to their screens. Not to mention the at least 1 person a month I see watching YouTube while driving on the freeway…