We’re all normal to ourselves. I write. Hates hustle, loves shiny objects. Can’t even influence an ant. Anthropology & sociology graduate. Author of books.
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Joined February 2012
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Vanessa Smith retweeted
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Vanessa Smith retweeted
ALT An illustration featuring dark text centered against a sage green background that reads: "It's easy to believe the system works when you've never been the person who needed it." At the bottom left, a minimal figure in a white shirt and beige pants uses a black rollator walker. The bottom right corner features the artist's signature, "Jan Mariet."
Vanessa Smith retweeted
Another LDN study is being published that was not designed well.
They dosed too high and too fast for most people with ME. Something we warn about constantly.
Now we’ll have another paper to push back on with our doctors.
Feeling incredibly wiped. I don’t see myself getting a job this year & I don’t think my money will last into next year.
So many places move very slowly & others won’t give feedback & yet other others won’t tell if you’ve actually been rejected.
Wow they find new ways to fuck you over. Can't submit my claim until l've had a video appointment for my ID & I can't get an appointment until fucking Friday.
I've done all I can now 🤷♀️
This week is rough already.
We've had real heat kick in, me mess up my sleep meds while trying to adjust my sleep time, some of my heat management tools need to be replaced...
I haven't applied for any jobs this week and may not get to until
As I said in last weeks podcast episode, I am also at the point where no one will tell me what I can "fix" to get hired (and actually now some people are ignoring my request for feedback) which tends to mean one thing:
Vanessa Smith retweeted
“It should be the government's highest priority to ensure that inflicting this pain on people in poverty is ended entirely, not making it lawful, but at the very least she should be taking responsibility for upholding the law.”
Despite strong continued opposition from experts and advocates, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will today resume certain elements of the controversial compliance scheme that underpins Australia's employment services system: buff.ly/qwygNvZ
Vanessa Smith retweeted
i want everyone to know brazil just won against fascism
despite them having the media on their pockets and the elites on their side
despite millions of dollars of american interventionism
despite totally unrealistic odds
if we can do it, so can you
I fucked up my meds last night and had to put so much effort into sleeping. Stressful night of forcing myself into sleeping. No it doesn’t really make sense, it just sucked.
It’s also the first gross hot day of summer for my heat intolerant ass.
Gonna stare at a wall today.
Vanessa Smith retweeted
Why is the word violence used when a protester in France smashes a window, but not used when French police assault protesters?
Is it somehow no longer violence if the action is committed by an employee of the state?
