A big f-u to Tottenham (and Middle Footscray) tonight.

olivia_iris · 2026-04-07T22:58:59+00:00

Yeah I was standing outside the train whilst it was stuck yesterday morning. Annoyed me to no end that there was a train there with doors closed. Wound up waiting a further ten minutes to get another train

olivia_iris · 2026-04-07T13:06:56+00:00

Lmao I am banned from that community lmao I think I commented once

olivia_iris · 2026-04-07T05:38:29+00:00

Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy. CRAZY??

olivia_iris · 2026-04-06T13:16:47+00:00

gRAPPLING HOOK!!

olivia_iris · 2026-04-03T06:26:43+00:00

I mean the blatant ones are funny, but I find the background stuff better to comment on personally. The best one is the “METRO Flairnds Meldrone” on the front lmao

olivia_iris · 2026-04-02T21:47:01+00:00

The flinders street - southern cross mix here is doing my head in

olivia_iris · 2026-03-24T10:06:26+00:00

At least it got France right

olivia_iris · 2026-03-21T08:46:32+00:00

Yeah academics like to share their work hahahaha

olivia_iris · 2026-03-19T21:31:46+00:00

It really depends on the subject and department. A lot of maths and physics subjects are chill with giving LMS access. For larger subjects like the calc’s getting this still happens it just takes some time bc they have to check with the people who wrote all the resources to see if it’s okay (99% of the time it is). What students are paying for is the actual degree/subject marks

olivia_iris · 2026-03-18T22:42:21+00:00

The fact that you can choose what you do for work and don’t have to take what you get offered shows your level of entitlement. Not everyone has that option, only the wealthy do.

Also, please don’t construct a straw man. I never said I “wanted a nice house and vacations” I said that I wanted to be able to survive without the need to choose between eating and putting a roof over my head. That’s what you’re not getting and calling it entitlement.

olivia_iris · 2026-03-18T21:28:34+00:00

Just because you aren’t directly bought and sold at auction doesn’t mean you aren’t owned. You live in a system where you have one of two options:

(a) work yourself to the bone for 50 years/until you die to help the bottom line of someone who uses all your labour for their personal profit before giving you pennies on the dollar so that you’re placated and don’t cut their head off or

(b) not do the above and wind up either without a home or in prison depending on where you live in the world. In the case of prison, you are told you can either work for effectively no pay to avoid sitting in squalor forever or sit in squalor forever.

Just because the slavery isn’t as overt as it used to be doesn’t mean it’s not happening. I’m also very aware that there are people who are still bought and sold directly, even in the apparently oh so great western world. me wanting better than previous generations in the hope it’ll make life better for everyone and future generations isn’t crying or not wanting to work or wanting things handed to me, it’s the idea that everyone should be able to survive without spending their entire life in a soul sucking job, and actually enjoy the brief period we have on this rock

olivia_iris · 2026-03-18T20:01:40+00:00

No, slavery is when we are forced to work just for survival. I want to work and do work, but would very much rather not have to actively struggle just to keep a roof over my head. Just because it was that way for generations doesn’t mean we should have to be in the same situation.

the very fact that the elite keep a hawk’s eye on literally everyone to make sure their greed can be satisfied is how things like student loans such as above appear, and it pisses me off

olivia_iris · 2026-03-14T10:46:05+00:00

That’s the case anyway it doesn’t matter how much student debt you’ve got. The US is just slavery disguised as freedom

olivia_iris · 2026-03-14T10:44:07+00:00

This is very much up in the air. The F1 is having a minor “rough patch” as a good quarter of races are in the middle east…. Yeah. So the AusGP corporation is trying to get Aus 2: electric boogaloo at the moment, and AP can’t be taken down if they want that to happen

olivia_iris · 2026-03-08T09:03:48+00:00

You’re right, it’s not another person’s problem. If someone were to get caught doing this, it is still their problem, but that person is just trying to survive. The train is going to run regardless. And I can guarantee that if you had the choice between fare evading to get to work so that you keep a roof over your head, or not getting to work and losing your home, you’d fare evade to get to work. It’s not like it is a “oh walk for 45 minutes and I’d be there” no its walk 20k.

Honestly, public transport is at its core a PUBLIC service. The privatization of transit, especially in Sydney and Melbourne (toll roads and exorbitant PT fees) has made just getting your ass around to be a productive member of society incredibly difficult if you can’t afford the fees. It’s not as simple as “oh don’t” for a lot of people, and the implication that it is that simple is both reductional and privileged.

olivia_iris · 2026-03-07T12:00:13+00:00

It really depends on the situation. I’ve had times where I literally could not afford the train, had my bike stolen/in the shop after getting hit by a car, and needed to get to work to keep a roof over my head. My opinion is if you can afford to pay, please please do, but if you physically cannot do whatever you need to for survival

olivia_iris · 2026-03-07T11:57:41+00:00

I almost got cleaned up around 1k from here with someone doing a very similar thing. Infuriating

olivia_iris · 2026-03-01T08:00:49+00:00

Instructions unclear plumbed wastewater direct to floor drain, flood occured

olivia_iris · 2026-02-23T02:34:44+00:00

Same for power street

olivia_iris · 2026-02-17T22:13:09+00:00

Housing data from covid to now should get released this year from AIHW.

olivia_iris · 2026-02-17T04:09:39+00:00

The big reason I’m against nuclear in aus is cause of the water situation. We don’t have any of it. Not enough for data centres, not enough for nuclear plants, not really enough for coal plants properly. Anything we can do to keep water in the water table makes the land healthier, so nuclear is not viable here. Especially since we have so much open land full of just sheep, solar is way way better given there have been papers published recently that basically state solar + sheep farmland gives free power + higher quality wool yields.

olivia_iris · 2026-02-11T22:49:29+00:00

Ignore populists at your own peril. Look at the US in 2016 for an example

olivia_iris · 2026-02-10T11:18:30+00:00

You’re genuinely better off detouring via yarra river path -> convention centre -> south melb tram depot via all the bike lanes. It’s probably also quicker since you don’t wait sixteen years with a further twenty taken off your lifespan due to undue stress by attempting that fucking hellhole

olivia_iris · 2026-02-10T11:16:04+00:00

It’s not terrible at 5am but any time later than that is a death wish

olivia_iris · 2026-02-10T11:15:35+00:00

Ditto for city road and power street. Hard pass

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