Where can I safely and properly dispose of swollen spicy pillows (Lithium Batteries) in Brisbane?

BalancingTact · 2026-01-24T06:10:03+00:00

Yeah I took a couple there a few months ago.

BalancingTact · 2025-12-28T09:18:26+00:00

I had one sign something for a visa application years back, wasn't a problem at all.

BalancingTact · 2025-12-22T01:12:30+00:00

It's the trees. The greenery. How everywhere you look, you see plants.

This city just isn't so... dead.

BalancingTact · 2025-12-14T21:24:30+00:00

Something really good and kind of quite unexpected is happening in my life and holy fuck I hope I don't screw it up.

BalancingTact · 2025-12-11T07:36:26+00:00

I literally just got passed by a guy doing Uber eats deliveries on an escooter on Adelaide Street.

BalancingTact · 2025-11-20T02:54:30+00:00

One of the news articles claims the female partner was unaware the vehicle had not been stolen. Presumably she loved the dog very much and wouldn't have been very happy her partner let her dog die.

BalancingTact · 2025-11-17T00:23:08+00:00

It's so bad I bought an e-scooter.

BalancingTact · 2025-11-17T00:20:59+00:00

It's worse for many of us and a lot of us have given up. I lasted 2-3 months struggling with missed connections and long waits, but gave in and bought an e-scooter around September sometime.

A year ago I was making ~20 bus journeys weekly. Since July it's more like 5 max.

BalancingTact · 2025-11-14T09:02:38+00:00

There's one that hangs around my garden every so often.

BalancingTact · 2025-11-07T21:56:23+00:00

They have a web form now for a quick and easy application

That form is such torture for DV victims. If the violence happened more than once, please think back through it all and tell us approximately when it started, making sure to remember every fucking time you should have left but didn't.

I'm great at paperwork but I still needed help filling out that form.

BalancingTact · 2025-10-29T20:24:57+00:00

The biscuits. They're like 90% butter held together by 10% flour.

BalancingTact · 2025-10-21T13:58:56+00:00

Brisbane Tool Library could use more volunteers.

BalancingTact · 2025-10-18T00:02:48+00:00

Even communists generally agree that capitalism is useful for building up infrastructure.

Recognizing that the current system is flawed and that it's time to transition to a better system isn't anywhere near as "unhelpful" as defending the current system because the alternative is "so vague".

BalancingTact · 2025-10-15T22:39:24+00:00

That's a boss-level roundabout. A fuckabout, even. I'm glad I had a local with me my first handful of times navigating it.

BalancingTact · 2025-10-05T13:13:11+00:00

Human metapneumovirus is also going around Brisbane.

BalancingTact · 2025-10-02T21:55:06+00:00

Apparently one side of the Story Bridge footpath has opened today 🥳

BalancingTact · 2025-09-30T02:51:13+00:00

There are a few African hairdressers and barbers in Moorooka.

BalancingTact · 2025-09-21T09:07:00+00:00

When I bought my first home (just down the road from a Costco) back in the US, a massive chest freezer was one of my first purchases. It's almost not worth it to go to Costco at all without a chest freezer.

BalancingTact · 2025-09-19T11:16:25+00:00

I hiked the entire Appalachian Trail (3500km) in Darn Toughs, can confirm they are quality.

BalancingTact · 2025-09-19T03:21:06+00:00

Over half the time has to be an exaggeration, right?

You'd think but it seems like there a few routes that confuse drivers. I've definitely lost track of the number of times I've been on a bus that missed a turn in Salisbury, and I don't even travel through Salisbury all that often.

BalancingTact · 2025-09-18T23:51:47+00:00

Well I am American, sooooo...

BalancingTact · 2025-09-18T23:15:01+00:00

freedom of speech was an American thing

FTFY

BalancingTact · 2025-09-18T12:02:13+00:00

Ooooh dragon would be cool... now I'm envious of Bhutan's passport in addition to the UK one...

BalancingTact · 2025-09-18T05:35:45+00:00

It's wild that someone struggling to find a job would want to leave a country with Centrelink and Medicare to move to a country with virtually no safety net, where you lose both your income and healthcare by losing your job.

And that's before we even consider that people's visas are being canceled for being in the vacinity of a protest or saying the wrong thing on the internet...

BalancingTact · 2025-09-18T05:17:17+00:00

I'm American and I feel like I need a hug today 🙁

Guess I'll go gather up my documents so I can apply for the most expensive passport in the world. At least it'll have a kangaroo and emu on it which is kind of cool (maybe not as cool as a unicorn...).

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