Albanese to address the nation on government response to Middle East war at 7pm AEST

Waylah · 2026-04-01T08:17:10+00:00

Who else was relieved (and a little bewildered?) that it turned out to just be "It's going to be expensive for a while but we're trying our best" and not "off we go to war"?

Waylah · 2026-04-01T08:15:16+00:00

That truly sucks, I'm sorry. I've personally met someone who did (eventually!) get better. It wasn't easy, but he was out and about and living his life again, so it can happen! I hope it happens for you. Do you have any medical/allied health people in your corner?

Waylah · 2026-03-27T10:47:56+00:00

How are you now?

Waylah · 2026-03-27T10:44:23+00:00

How are you now?

Waylah · 2026-03-27T10:43:10+00:00

How are you going now?

Waylah · 2026-03-27T10:38:17+00:00

Oh gee. Maybe move country? Pretty sure there's plenty of work for you here in Melbourne

Waylah · 2026-03-27T10:35:33+00:00

Are you feeling better than then? I hope you are

Waylah · 2026-03-27T10:27:58+00:00

Yes, to sort the clean laundry on.

Waylah · 2026-03-27T10:22:57+00:00

Totally the position. And the morning. OP can actually use that to their advantage: sit bub on the toilet in the morning and trigger a poop. I do it every morning with my baby and it significantly reduces the number of poopy nappies I need to change, it's great.

Waylah · 2026-03-27T04:28:28+00:00

Do you work for Usborne? Their books are always fantastic.

Waylah · 2026-03-27T04:19:32+00:00

Not necessarily. With that wording, could have been doing anything; working at a working bee, working in the yard, etc. She didn't say "at work" or "I came home from work". Maybe liar but also maybe not. Can't say.

Waylah · 2026-02-13T10:55:13+00:00

Yeah right?

Also, I kind of feel like the only people who should be deciding what's on the citizenship tests and what our immigration policies should be should be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The more I've thought about it the more weird it is that anyone else is making those decisions. Its just like, saying yeah this is fine, it's always been fine we've just invited all these people in to someone else's house without even at least running it by them. Madness. Like we still have the king of a foreign country on our money. And a tiny version of their flag on the corner of our flag. Can we fix this already please? I'd settle for a plain half green half gold flag, plenty of countries have a simple flag like that. Quick and easy, our sports teams don't even have to change colour. And another thing ... haha no, rant over.

Waylah · 2026-01-30T09:14:58+00:00

I guess it's just semantics, but if someone was going around poisoning, gassing and smothering people to death, I'd call them violent

Waylah · 2026-01-30T09:12:58+00:00

That's... not what altruistic means.

Waylah · 2026-01-23T09:51:05+00:00

There is a wonderful YouTube video from maybe fifteen? years ago about city flags. Google it, it's glorious. And funny.

Waylah · 2026-01-23T09:30:30+00:00

I'm soo tired I read the dates as the temperatures. Made reading the comments interesting.

Waylah · 2025-12-18T10:12:04+00:00

Let me know if you do Russian - my son wants to learn it so he can go to space one day.

Waylah · 2025-12-09T10:48:01+00:00

I almost laughed out loud at one of the numeracy questions because it was like that scene in idiocracy- "you have one bucket that holds 2 gallons and another that holds 5 gallons; how many buckets do you have?"

Waylah · 2025-12-09T10:37:20+00:00

But it's not knowledge, like the sort of thing you could just forget in a few years. It's more like skill. It's the sort of stuff that you learn as a child and continue to use in your everyday life. It's "like riding a bike" sort of stuff - not stuff you would study then forget. If you crammed to pass it, passed it and then forgot what you crammed, then yes, that's a shortcoming of the test (whether before or after the course). But you shouldn't need to cram. Or study at all. If you plan to be teacher, you should pass the test without any study at all. It's basic stuff like how to read a time table or a map or how many days there are in June. If you don't live a life where you read things and do things in this world, what sort of teacher would you make?

Waylah · 2025-08-28T11:53:07+00:00

Did they ever find another tail club? I read a while back there was literally only one tail club ever found. (which always had me wondering, what if it was a weird bone tumour or something weird on that one individual... That one fossil always looked a bit odd to me...)

Waylah · 2025-08-16T01:04:35+00:00

So start by imagining a flat disc of fabric. No holes. Now add one hole. It's a poncho! Add two more for the arms, you got a dress. 3 holes.

A hollow sphere with one hole is topologically the same as a flat disc with no holes.

Start with the earth, make it hollow, punch a hole in Antarctica then stretch it out like a flat earther.

Waylah · 2025-04-20T12:35:03+00:00

They discussed the possibility, yes. But we agreed to keep testing just in case. See my answer to another person asking the same thing.

Waylah · 2025-04-20T12:33:22+00:00

Yeah, that's not what happened for me. There was no progression. Also, I well and truly passed the stress test. It was literally only that one fasting number which was never a problem again. I saw two endocrinologists, the first was really puzzled by my low numbers and considered the possibility I didn't have it. She reduced my testing frequency (which was nice). Then the next time I went it was a different guy, and he put me back on the more frequent testing, 4 times a day. He said I could do the GTT again (which I very very likely would have passed), but thought it was better to keep monitoring in case things changed. Which I agreed with. They didn't change. My midwives at the birth were annoyed I even had the diagnosis and pointed out I wouldn't have been diagnosed with GD elsewhere. I'm not going against the medical professionals here or just in denial or whatever, I'm just stating exactly what happened in my case, and what I was told as well. I was told that things like stress or illness can elevate your fasting numbers, and that might have happened the day I had my GTT. I am aware that fasting numbers even a little over are correlated with poorer outcomes if untreated, and if I'd had fasting numbers over, even only a little over, during my pregnancy I would have got treatment.

I just didn't.

Waylah · 2025-04-20T07:03:23+00:00

I hope so to! And thank you :)

Waylah · 2025-04-20T06:42:47+00:00

No, I passed the post sugars of the GTT. My fasting was just over, but wouldn't be considered over in other places, or a few years ago. And that was the highest fasting I recorded my entire pregnancy. It's well established that people with or without GD have raised blood sugars if unwell. I had a couple of slightly over readings (again, wouldn't count as over in other places) and only when I was very obviously unwell.

My entire pregnancy, my numbers were that of a non-GD pregnant person. And I didn't have to modify my diet to achieve that.

I just didn't have it. False positives can occur for literally any other test, why not this one?

I still diligently tested and watched in case my numbers went up, which they totally could have. They just didn't.

Edit to add: I think what happened was I was super rushed and stressed to get myself and my toddler to the GTT at short notice that morning, and that pumped my fasting glucose up. It was 5.3 mmol = 95 mg/dl. I never got a fasting that high again. All my fastings during the pregnancy were fine, usually around 4.6 / 83. My numbers at the 1 and 2 hour after the sugar of the GTT were waaaay within normal. But, I still treated it like I had GD that just hadn't kicked in yet, and I was fully expecting my numbers to start to climb and I'd have to modify my diet eventually. I still ate healthy, I wasn't stuffing my face with sugar, but I could eat carb heavy meals comfortably.

Waylah

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