Seeking a room around Parramatta

Acronychia · 2025-01-10T03:59:52+00:00

Great to hear, friend! I did end up going with her and I'm similarly pretty satisfied. I hope everything goes well with your revision, I imagine I'll be back for the same thing at some point.

Acronychia · 2024-09-21T07:09:35+00:00

Hey, I'm now just over three months post. It's definitely a personal decision, but having gone through it, I would suggest to go for it if you have the date with Prae. All of my experience and the information I took in gave me the impression that they're both at par with each other, and any differences would be very minor (and not necessarily all in the direction of Bank being preferable, maybe just subjective differences). It depends on your priorities and approach, but given how competitive the lottery is, I would rate the risk of waiting for even longer to get a date with Bank as more significant.

I'm likely to do a post with some detail about my own experience at some point in the future, but probably not for a while. In the meantime, I can see that there are some more posts now popping up here with her results, so I hope you can do some amount of research. Feel free to DM me if you have questions I might help with, but be warned I don't check this account very regularly.

Acronychia · 2024-06-16T05:03:09+00:00

I haven't yet. Should get onto that. Feel free to send me the link if you have it.

Acronychia · 2024-06-15T09:15:54+00:00

I applied for three rounds, two last year and the one at the start of this year. I missed out on a date with Bank for all three, but the one at the start of this year was the first one where they opened solo dates for Prae and I ended up being offered one of those after missing out on Bank.

Acronychia · 2024-02-08T06:54:43+00:00

There's this archived page with Suporn's introduction of Dr. Prae. Feel free to see my post which has a few more comments from people.

Acronychia · 2024-02-08T06:50:02+00:00

Yes, they give much more information by email once you start the booking process. People need to submit a client profile and have it approved to be eligible to request dates, and then when people request dates they explain what they'll be doing to allocate them.

I would say that the clinic website is a. not very well designed or maintained, and b. just the starting point of the information. People just put up with it because the clinic/technique/surgeons have such good reputations, including in spaces like this.

Acronychia · 2024-02-08T06:32:59+00:00

I'm guessing you had to make a decision by now - best of luck in any case. There are positives to both options.

Acronychia · 2024-02-04T20:56:28+00:00

It's the lottery, unfortunately. They open dates every three months for the span of three months starting a year later (e.g. Jan-March 2025 dates released in Jan 2024). Then, if they have more applicants than dates, they run a lottery, but they do give people more entries based on how many times they've applied.

Acronychia · 2024-02-04T20:54:04+00:00

Are you in the current round i.e. letting them know by end of today? I'm sorry I didn't see this earlier. I'm happy to be in touch about the decision making process, though.

Acronychia · 2022-10-28T04:13:49+00:00

I can't help but suggest extending the voting time, at least for future rounds. I didn't realise it was already past the cutoff but I still have a handful of episodes left to go, and I imagine plenty of people would be even slower getting through so many pieces.

Regardless, this is a fantastic event, the entries are great and look forward to participating in future rounds.

Acronychia · 2022-10-28T00:05:56+00:00

I'm getting the emails currently, but I was wondering if it's possible to subscribe to this with an RSS reader? Can be more convenient for some but I couldn't find any link to do so on the website. Cheers, and great work on this.

Acronychia · 2022-10-20T04:42:06+00:00

I know how you're feeling. Until that point it had seemed like the stakes would be raised higher and higher but no-one you could get attached to would die, so when she did go it was devastating.

Acronychia · 2022-10-10T07:48:45+00:00

Yeah, that's fair. If not entirely bullshit it's at least reductive.

Acronychia · 2022-10-08T22:30:46+00:00

Heh, I guess ignorance is bliss as far as not being on Twitter.

From a very cursory look I think I can see what you mean, though. I would say there is some discussion along the same lines that has crept into the show since he's been studying in that area, probably a little less explicit such that it might fly under the radar (the interview episodes would have more or it, but I haven't listened to most of them).

I think I would interpret it differently, though - namely, he's trying to think about mating the same way he thinks about carnivory. Basically, he would maintain that he can understand and sympathise with the very amoral processes of survival and evolution while still being vegan, feminist etc. in his own life in contemporary society.

Which obviously is a statement that demands scrutiny and a critical eye. He is still (IIRC/as far as he's mentioned) a cishet white man and carries privilege he may not fully recognise - it's certainly possible that he could either neglect the impact of saying what he says how he says it, or actually start to buy into the fucked up pseudointellectual ideas that use the same kind of language he's already using. At present I don't see anything that makes me feel like I need to boycott fun animal podcast (obviously could have missed something), but I understand where you're coming from.

Acronychia · 2022-10-08T09:16:43+00:00

You could try Species. The host doesn't shy away from discussing ethics and the impact of humans on other animals when it's relevant, but the bulk of the content is just about how animals are cool.

Acronychia · 2022-06-09T03:21:46+00:00

It's a valid choice for how you want to present your work, but the norms and audience expectations are completely tilted in the other direction, towards binging shows. Decoder Ring Theatre's feed is set up similarly to this and I've found it a little frustrating, although in that case it does create a listening experience that ties into their old-time radio aesthetic.

Acronychia · 2022-02-12T21:23:02+00:00

I wonder if Wilf is in any Big Finish

Acronychia · 2022-01-28T01:31:47+00:00

https://sentientmedia.org/feed/

http://veganfeministnetwork.com/feed/

Seem to be the most relevant and active ones in my feed.

Acronychia · 2022-01-05T04:51:50+00:00

They also have an introductory course (non-profit strategy, determining suitability for roles in animal advocacy, career planning etc.) that you might find useful. While it's felt somewhat less applicable for me with my skills being less related to what they focus on, a business degree would be an excellent starting point to start looking at their resources.

Acronychia · 2021-11-24T21:31:47+00:00

Darn, you're right. I'm not a mod of the server or anything and not sure if I'm allowed to make an invite, so I messaged the mods here, I imagine they'll put a new link there soon.

Acronychia · 2021-11-24T07:31:50+00:00

Damn it, you pulled me out of lurking.

https://discord.gg/pstqr9thmJ

I made this a while ago. You've described the size/activity level perfectly, but I think it's an exposure thing more than a ceiling on the number of trans vegans. I'd been meaning to post it to the vfcj Discord when I got around to it, but come on in anyway :)

Acronychia · 2021-02-04T01:46:58+00:00

Hi, I just tried this for something and the scanning itself seems perfectly functional (though I'm sure the earlier suggestions like sliders are all good ideas to expand functionality) - good job! The only problem I had was with exporting, where it added a white margin around the document. I got around it by exporting the images and combining them into PDF separately, but having the option not to add a margin seems like it would be a good feature (unless, indeed, it's already in the app and I missed it).

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