This semester has been massively overloaded, I’ve been marking non stop for 8 weeks and in my week’s reprieve before final assessment times I got COVID & had to lay down for a week. Now I don’t know if I can break iso without infecting my partner, and have to go straight back into the […]

Actual footage of my supervisors receiving my latest exegesis drafts.

Public holidays are when the greatest threat to cyclists are people on the shared path instead of people driving cars.

Working on campus today for better focus, which has been helpful aside from the fire alarm, building evacuation & visit from the fire brigade.

I want to know what goes on in this room before my class. A bunch of these post it notes were on the wall in thematic groups. Wishing for things like greater urban density, walkable cities, an end to misogyny (specifically as expressed through alpha male podcasts) […]

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Good lord everything is awful. Aside from all the doom, and the ridiculous demands on time/energy, I broke my favourite pen. Not even that small pleasure.

Some days writing an imaginary resignation letter is actually really helpful.

In our effort to explore products not from US companies, our sauce for tonight’s White People Mexican Night comes from *checks notes*… Mexico.

Good morning to everyone except the Transperth bus driver who nearly killed my partner, twice, while on the way to work.

Wrote a poem about my dog.

Dawn
The dog climbs up & drops
right on my pillow
‘Mate, really?’
My ear pressed to his ribcage
I feel the resonance of his
heart, allow it
to run right through me

How does he know?
My day will be filled
paperwork tasks texts
begging for more time
And emails, oh god […]

Wrote a poem about my dog, posted it online, then deleted because it feels silly to write a poem about your dog. He’s the goodest boy though.

One of the units I teach has an assessment in which students connect their future/aspired profession to climate change mitigation. One student aims to work in the oil & gas sector. So that was a fun conversation.

Having some Fun Times* as a casual employee watching the program I am employed in implode, the lead resign, and be asked to suggest solutions without pay. This while distracted from the work I am paid to do, and want to do, which goes neglected. Very March 2020 vibes.

*The times are in fact no […]

Honouring here this noble member of our community, a bollard that is snapped off every week, replaced the following week, on repeat. This week it’s been returned with some reflective tape and a traffic cone guardian. Long may it serve us.

In 2023-24 Australians paid more than 4 times on HECS/HELP than gas companies did on PRRT […]

A great piece from Dave Milner. On the madness that is the casual acceptance (and censorship) of colonialism, genocide and oppression.

"Now, again, why am I writing such a basic, supposedly uncontroversial account of the roots of the Israel Palestine conflict in 2025? Because I am concerned […]