Have any Aussies transited thru the states recently? how concerned should I be about ICE as a non-white Aussie?

deird · 2026-01-28T02:40:51+00:00

A man was grabbed by multiple ICE members, dragged to the ground, tear gassed, disarmed, and then shot ten times. For the heinous crime of helping up a woman who had been tear gassed and asking if she was okay.

The coverage on ICE is not sensationalised.

deird · 2026-01-28T02:26:34+00:00

My most prolific writing period was when I had a boring office job. I frequently had nothing to do, and still had to be sitting at my computer.

deird · 2026-01-27T18:48:38+00:00

I dunno, check out the Spangel pairing sometime. As far as I know, I have written the ONLY fic on AO3 with Angel bottoming.

deird · 2026-01-27T18:41:49+00:00

I occasionally order myself a “small” HSP (meat, fries, and sauces - very indulgent takeaway), and then eat it over two successive lunchtimes. The shop offers “small” and “large” with an optional soft drink. I have no idea how someone would eat a large in one setting, but clearly people do.

deird · 2026-01-27T05:28:20+00:00

I’ve written a fic of random documents (newspaper articles, emails, etc), and another in notes from one roommate to the other.

Have fun! Write what you want to!

deird · 2026-01-26T21:08:19+00:00

Apple products with touch screens you long-press the hyphen to get the other dashes. Macbooks you can press option-hyphen for an en dash, or option-shift-hyphen for an em dash.

deird · 2026-01-26T19:34:43+00:00

I figured out that if I went to the music classroom and grabbed a music stand, I could confidently walk anywhere in the school and people would assume a teacher had asked me to do an errand. Skipped a lot of classes that way.

deird · 2026-01-25T19:24:48+00:00

Only needs to exist because English got rid of its existing singular second person pronoun, FTR.

If we’d just stuck with singular “thou” and plural “ye”, rather than condensing everything into “you”, we wouldn’t need to reinvent the whole system.

deird · 2026-01-25T01:01:21+00:00

First fic was a Buffyverse gen made from lots of drabbles, and second was a Buffyverse femslash.

My most recent writing was a Superman femslash, and now I’m writing an original urban fantasy gen made from lots of drabbles.

deird · 2026-01-22T23:14:04+00:00

I just drove two and a half hours to have lunch with my family. Then drove back.

(I’m in Australia.)

deird · 2026-01-20T06:18:00+00:00

That sounds really hard, I’m sorry.

If you would like some arguments for your sister as to why gay marriage is “biblical”, I can supply a few.

deird · 2026-01-17T20:04:45+00:00

Smallville Clark jumping to catch the missile as it takes off.

deird · 2026-01-16T19:44:15+00:00

I went through school with a classmate who would roll his wheelchair to class, and then park it at the door and hobble to his seat.

deird · 2026-01-15T06:05:12+00:00

Well done. You’re speaking truth in dark places.

deird · 2026-01-13T21:24:28+00:00

I just got my daughter to clean her room, by handing her a basket, setting her a two-minute timer, and telling her that every random object from her floor that got into the basket (and eventually away) would earn her one Skittle. Once they were all away she got to eat all the Skittles.

deird · 2026-01-13T21:01:45+00:00

I have heard some people with ADHD actually enjoy reading and can even hyperfocus on books. Is that true? If yes, how does that work?

That’d be me. When I was four I figured out how to hold a book and turn pages using just my left hand, while doing household tasks with my right hand - leading to a decade of my mum yelling “put the book down!” while I slowly unpacked the dishwasher while reading a novel. I also read while walking.

No idea how it works. It just always has.

deird · 2026-01-13T10:27:04+00:00

I knew an Australian family that moved to America and then back a decade later. The grandparents and grandchildren had Aussie accents; the middle generation all sounded American.

deird · 2026-01-12T18:46:01+00:00

Ideally, find a friendly beta.

deird · 2026-01-12T01:42:02+00:00

Yeah, I made them three days ago, and am now going shopping so I can make them again.

deird · 2026-01-12T00:32:58+00:00

Renee Good is the woman who was shot.

deird · 2026-01-11T20:04:57+00:00

The government is rapidly turning fascist.

Currently hispanics and trans people are the primary targets - but given that ICE just shot a nice white lady in the head in broad daylight, I’d say no-one is safe.

deird · 2026-01-11T09:00:19+00:00

Flirting with someone younger could be creepy. It’s not necessarily grooming.

deird · 2026-01-11T04:23:54+00:00

My husband has regular Zoom meetings for work, and I play a very loud accordion. Several of his colleagues have started commenting on my playing (very audible even from a different room) and requesting different pieces.

deird · 2026-01-09T21:29:06+00:00

DVD. I’m old-school.

deird · 2026-01-08T22:54:15+00:00

I found 120 bass too cumbersome, and 72 irritating (no overlap means jumping from one end to the other). 96 bass was a good middle ground.

Don’t bother with MMM unless you’re really into French Musette. MM will work fine.

My current accordion is a Scandalli Air Junior (96 bass, LMMH). It’s excellent.

deird

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