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of fucking course ghe australian gov has decided to join the atates in saying the latest round of bombings was justified. utter scum

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of fucking course ghe australian gov has decided to join the atates in saying the latest round of bombings was justified. utter scum

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Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

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Transcript: "Bad biscuits make the baker broke bro."

Please do not spoil who the character or voice actor is in the replies or reblogs. Thank you

I am on vacation! Answers may not be posted right away--please remain patient.

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The way the NDIS is structured means you basically have to treat it like a job if you want to actually get your needs met. I need an OT for several things and in order to get everything done, they need to bill for about 30 hours of work (some of the assessments are all-day things, and then the rest are for actually writing reports). They can’t accept the job until I confirm I have that. The document I have about my plan don’t say how many hours I can get, just says a total $ amount. So I have to look up what the rates for OTs are (which of course is about to change) and do math to figure out if I have that. I think I do, but I’m not 100% certain because the rules about how I can use the funding keep changing. So I need to call someone to confirm. my LAC I think? But my LAC is only available Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. When I’m working. I work from home so it’s not the end of the world but these phone calls can take hours depending on what we’re discussing.

That’s not even taking those all-day assessments from the OT which are needed to get any funding on my next plan into account. Most OTs have the same work hours too. Also the specialists appointments I need to confirm my disability effects what I say it does so they’ll even look at the OT’s report, and everything else. so I’ll likely end up loosing at least a few days of work at least by the end of it all. Oh and if you don’t do it fast enough they take the funding for the OT away because, “well you’re not using it”.

And then the gov complains about how too many of us “don’t want to work” and are on DSP? How do you expect us to hold down normal jobs when you keep making us jump through all these ridiculous hoops that can only be done during work hours?? You can only take so many days off and answer so many calls on the job before your employer starts getting the shits with you, even if they’re legally not supposed to. Again, I work from home and the only people I need to answer to right now are commission clients who are generally very understanding, but even that’s hard to balance with all this stuff when I need big adjustments done to my plan. The closest thing I’ve had to normal jobs have all been with specifically disability orgs who are understanding of this, but when all your employees have to jump through the same hoops every year it gets hard to manage. They’re understanding but they still need staff to cover shifts. And what about those of us with full-time jobs outside of the disability sector? A lot of people I know end up using up their holiday time to sort all this out.

I’m not ranting just to rant, I keep seeing people not on the NDIS, people who don’t know any disabled people or are the friend of someone’s niece’s husband who’s disabled, complaining about how easy the system is to rort as an NDIS participant but they have no idea what the system is actually like to navigate. And this is all just if everything goes smoothly, it usually doesn’t and then you have to spend weeks, months or longer fighting with them to fix it, usually by getting more input from OTs, Specialists, and other stuff that all takes time and often our own money. It’s not some get-rich-quick scheme, we don’t even get the money directly. It’s locked up and has to be approved before we can even use it, and it can only be used on increasingly specific things.

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Senator Watt's decision last month to approve the operating life of Woodside's North West Shelf project, the largest gas installation in the country, out to 2070, prompted an explosion of criticism from environmental groups and reignited debate over whether energy projects seeking environmental approval should have to answer climate concerns in those applications. Ms Plibersek's original "Nature Positive Plan" was intended to include "mandatory consideration" of climate change in environmental planning, but that was walked back as resistance to the EPBC reforms mounted.

Labor working for the fossil fuel lobby, part 3245678765432547543243322.

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self discipline is so hard like. i know the sucker who's in charge...a pushover who hates authority and loves hedonism

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DONATE TO THE SAMEER PROJECT 🕊️

Mosab Emad Ali, part of the heart of the Sameer Project, was also martyred recently. The organizers could use all the support they can get right now.

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comic idea i hatched for the holidays that i'm only just now getting to--better late than never!

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i love high contrast photos of fruit floating threateningly in the night

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random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

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Triple J's holding an Australian Music Hottest 100, lets gooooooo

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/countdown/hottest100

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WAIT IS THIS WHY IVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE BEEF STROGANOFF?

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Some of my fav images of all time

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a plastic chair anywhere can be like home