Yeah... Next time I'm just not going to bother declaring low risk items that they never ever check anyway in my experience over 15 years (unopened tea and highly processed biscuits).

Imo it's not a loss for Australia when the only opposition is batshit insane and dangerous. They needed a harsh slap on the face. They need to be told in no uncertain terms that this Trump-lite bullshit is NOT welcome, it is not to be entertained even in a "but muh both sides!" debate. The Libs entirely deserve this bollocking.

I do really hope they can become an effective opposition again (and the greens too). But it'll require some big changes. If the libs do another moronic pivot even further right like they did after the last election and the loss at state level in Vic, then seriously, that's not even remotely Labor or the Australian public's fault. I'd love to see the libs die and some alternative parties come up instead.

Keen to see how Casey and Flinders fall too. But I'm really hoping the Greens could squeeze through in Wills, not a good election for the Greens overall. Shame about Gen Z hero MCM in Brisbane but I'd have been surprised if he stayed past one term...

Landed. So glad for my friends tip to use the VERY first ticket machines as you disembark - no queues at all, skipped past the nightmare later on. Now if only the bags would come soon on this bruised old conveyor and I could get through the damn customs queue. Sigh, what an experience to come home to, but I accept why no Australian airports can ever match Changi...

Edit: oh man customs was a bitch today. I'm never bringing back any tea again, not worth standing in line and getting yelled at by rude officers and having to redo my bloody form because the ink was a very dark green and not black 🙄

E2: Soup results were very disappointing. Ah well. I'll hold onto my euphoria from last night over the results here

E3: 2 hours later and I'm still salty at the power tripping customs people demanding I rewrite my form because it's not 100% perfectly black ink. They should be embarrassed to still have paper-only forms in this day and age...

Things have been going almost comically far right with the Libs in recent years so I hope this is finally the wake up call for them (although tbh I'd rather hope they die and there's more smaller parties that rise up from the ashes)

Fuck yeaaaaaah

Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!! Antony Green called it for Labor and WA has barely closed lmao

Check it out, following all the way from the Soup:

I'm firing up the ABC on my laptop while I've still got a few hours before my flight. Excited

GP appt on standby to ask for some medication for these trying times, should that nightmare come to pass...

I've done my duty in the Tropical Soup 🫡 things are far more streamlined here because we're lucky to have any kind of opposition at all in the first place, and there's only one house in the government, and it's just FPTP without preferential voting... Got in and out in about 3.5 minutes and used an inked stamp to press X on one of two boxes.

I wish I could vote in Australia but that likely won't happen until my mum passes away and I can finally let go of my original citizenship. So for now I will live vicariously through everyone else - and have to tolerate 7 hours of uncertainty on the flight that leaves just as polls close 😭

Managed to squeeze in a real full-body massage that had me being knelt on and every last knot massaged out, every finger and toe and every muscle in my shoulders and even my eyebrows got a massage. Ahh, bliss. I can sleep well tonight

I would like to see this video please. I sometimes watch videos of cats yelling to help me fall asleep

Oh Ted. I want to bury my face in all that glorious floof. Although you might not like it

Wow, it felt like that was never going to finish. It'll be great to see that whole area open again!

The police actually followed up! With that kind of luck you might have to buy a lotto ticket

Most of the ones I've been to are like that. The less terrible ones are the ones with more space like the High St Northcote shop.

It's a clear sign that I've lived too long away from this place that I look like a lost and bumbling tourist at the wet market. Doesn't help that I'm brandishing my own bags and containers like my mum does but the stallholders don't recognise me so I have to explain and stop them from giving me new bags.

Anyway, fresh you tiao!!! 😋 😋 😋

YarraByte seems to be taking the 1st off in honour of labour movements worldwide.

Procrastinated biiiig time today but wow, I have to confess, when I finally got around to it... ChatGPT saved me hours of time and heaps of mental energy by spitting out a perfect script that did exactly what I needed it to and I got the thing done in 5 minutes. Even was able to get an instant solution when I initially got an error (it was because my Python path environmental variable had been misconfigured which was an easy fix). And able to get it to explain or run snips of the code to see what the output would be like...

I feel a bit dumber for not figuring it out myself but then again, seriously, I have better things to be doing with my time and brain right now. So excited that this did what I needed!

Having fomo looking at the weather in Melbourne atm. Figures that almost as soon as I get back on Sunday the weather will get warmer again.

Today's the first day I've had some time to myself... or so I say, but I really need to get onto the Python thing for work and wrap that whole thing up today so they can invoice tomorrow. Uggghh I just want to switch my brain off and lie in bed with the AC on watching Animal Kingdom S4 (finally Ellen Barkin is getting phased out. I hate her acting in this show)

But nope. Time to fire up the laptop and get to asking chatgpt how to do the thing