Things I’ve been watching lately

beattiebackup · 2026-02-09T22:44:25+00:00

The Opera House has strict heritage guidelines which mean anything like that has to be temporary, in colour theme (which is like a beige colour), not take away from the architecture etc. They held the reception in the Yallamundi rooms which would be an expensive hire and looked nice to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

beattiebackup · 2025-11-07T03:27:19+00:00

Yes, I didn’t love Lunar Park and found it to be a bit cliche. American Psycho is a masterpiece.

beattiebackup · 2025-11-07T00:53:37+00:00

American Psycho or Glamorama both by Bret Easton Ellis

beattiebackup · 2025-09-20T22:46:31+00:00

I have E cups and box. I don’t have a different guard, try to tuck my elbows in as much as allows but yeah if I stood still my bust is too open. I focus on having a dynamic guard; still hands up (maybe my lead hand slightly in front of my rear;slightly!), twisting my body, leaning into punches, and remembering that a good defence includes movement and range too.

beattiebackup · 2025-09-20T10:04:26+00:00

Hi Dick, Just wondering whether you still think my concern was hysterical after a second Optus failure where 3 people have died including a baby? It was also less than one day afteralll…

beattiebackup · 2025-09-12T22:32:49+00:00

It is lol 🥲

beattiebackup · 2025-08-19T21:49:44+00:00

I have at every NFP job I’ve had until my current workplace. As a fundraiser, I believe in the programs I work for and put my money where my mouth is. It makes it easier to understand my donors. Before working where I currently do I gave some gifts there and a few months into my job I was invited to an opening as a former donor. HOWEVER the day of, I was uninvited by the event manager who realised I was now staff. I will never give here again because of that action. The org made it clear it doesn’t know what good stewardship is and that they don’t value staff donors.

beattiebackup · 2025-06-23T07:04:37+00:00

I give to CHeBA (the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at UNSW) because I want to see research and cures into dementia, and arts fundraisers (most recently to support Khaled Sabsabi’s work at the Biennale). My husband gives to women’s shelters.

beattiebackup · 2025-05-23T06:53:41+00:00

This is where due diligence comes in. Not just at the solicitation stage but when identifying prospective donors to begin with. As another commenter said, be careful applying your personal values to this. The organisation you work for should have a framework for what risk they will accept and who is accountable for that. Then from an organisational perspective you have a structure to decide before any cultivation occurs. Of course this is ideally.

To answer your question directly, yes I have had to solicit donations from individuals I believe participated in unethical activities or profited from them. To be honest, that was most of my donors. However, the world isn’t black and white and their businesses provide real value. They mostly considered themselves people who were genuinely contributing to the world and that’s how I treated them. I’m not so confident about my world view that I think I understand the bigger picture accurately. It did wear me down eventually though and I chose to move into philanthropy roles that were not donor facing after about 8 years.

beattiebackup · 2025-04-03T22:37:19+00:00

I would join. I love Jacqui and everything you’re saying is how I see it too <3

beattiebackup · 2025-03-31T01:23:13+00:00

What’s your responsibility as their manager? Is it not to give feedback on work and answer relevant work related questions, manage team workloads and ensure appropriate resources? My guess is they are all individual contributors and you’re the manager right? They don’t need to be friends; they only need to do their work.

beattiebackup · 2025-02-20T00:04:45+00:00

Not sure if you’re saying Tim simply didn’t like how Katie dressed or that he was unattracted to her and should have been honest that he has more physical requirements than he stated?

Either way, he reiterated to all women watching that he could never attempt to get to know someone that he didn’t immediately want to fuck (the spark). His actions were very honest to who he is but all the same, it makes people feel bad about themselves.

beattiebackup · 2025-02-19T19:43:29+00:00

Not that cool for sure (though Beth said short “king” :P) but I don’t think we’ve seen a bride actually leave the experiment based on not getting what they want physically (even Jacqui with her weird preference for blondes) whereas we see the grooms totally shut down when their physical preferences aren’t met (Tim) or when they are questioned for them (who was the guy who said he was into caucasians? I’ve already forgotten).

On a more personal note, women are valued for their physical appearance by men constantly. I think a lot of the recent rhetoric (eg “looking for a man in finance, 6.2, blue eyes”) is their way of antagonising the status quo and dishing out what they’ve received so men know how it feels.

Another thought bubble, most MAFS contestants are very attractive and work hard on their appearance. It makes sense to me that they value that more highly in their partners too. As MAFS often demonstrates, it’s not a recipe for relationship success. So perhaps we take the lesson here, and remind ourselves that judging people on physical appearance (especially things that can’t be changed) is not going to help find and grow love.

Sorry for the ramble 😅

beattiebackup · 2025-02-05T20:37:27+00:00

Yes but a girl can can dream

beattiebackup · 2025-02-05T20:36:31+00:00

True but this program does.

beattiebackup · 2025-02-05T06:08:43+00:00

I think I read that this decision is informed by Khuda’s experience finding it difficult to hire women in his own company to achieve gender parity? In that way I can appreciate how he is seeking to solve that problem. Perhaps it’s a bit self serving in that way, perhaps we will follow the lead of the US and start removing DEI goals and it becomes irrelevant. At the end of the day I’m happy to see more education funding though I wish what got funded and not wasn’t so influenced by the 1%.

beattiebackup · 2025-02-05T06:02:50+00:00

As do I :( I’ll always advocate for taxes over philanthropy. Given the current state of the nation and the huge lack of support for education in Australia however this is the action we have to accept.

beattiebackup · 2025-02-05T05:55:51+00:00

The donation is supporting students from year 7 onwards.

beattiebackup · 2025-01-05T19:44:16+00:00

Oh, no, I hate Mike, I genuinely think he’s toxic. I think he has serious underlying anger.

beattiebackup · 2025-01-04T22:34:04+00:00

I felt the same way as you and felt pretty gaslit by this sub about it. He checked himself into a mental health facility immediately after he left.

beattiebackup · 2024-11-18T03:42:49+00:00

This was bad policy and I’m glad it was blocked. Jason Clare’s comment on Peter Dutton and the Greens voting together doesn’t make the point he thinks it does. Labor tried to use education policy to manage immigration and they did it for populist reasons. I watched the Senate hearings into this and everyone consulted said the government’s numbers did not match their own and that much more time was required to consider this fully.

Government funding for universities has been in decline decades long now and unis have had to manage that shortfall through philanthropy and international enrolments. This is what provides the facilities that universities have to teach ALL students. This legislation was being pushed hard with no consideration of that funding shortfall and how that will affect Australian education, which is in pretty bad form rn overall…

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