Tarale @Tarale@computerfairi.es

@lizardsquid *sound of aussie dial-up*

Fruity tile WIP https://computerfairi.es/media/CU7t8fimmah1L0TZ3tA

@squirrel When people phone and call it a rooter I have to suppress a giggle

@squirrel In Australia we say rOWHters even though it's probably incorrect, but we do it specifically to avoid saying "Rooters" because a root is a word for a fuck. ;)

WIP making a different tiled pattern thing. Pencil has gone flat.

https://computerfairi.es/media/e9YUDH2_KBYYHgKMxQ0

At some point I should probably buy a proper palm rejection glove. They make some that slide nicely across tablets, and give you free fingers to hold the pen and stuff.

I'd like to try to make some more patterns, and the app I use doesn't have good palm rejection so it's time to steal my husband's leather glove again.

If you like it, and you need a notebook or a phone case or a shirt or something, consider buying something from Redbubble with it on.

I don't get a lot from each sale, but I'm not working while I'm a stay at home mum, so every little bit helps. https://www.redbubble.com/people/tarale/works/30993123-coffee?asc=u&p=ipad-case

Made a tiling coffee pattern. Grinder, moka pot, cups, little beans. Tiles forever and ever! https://computerfairi.es/media/LyDEeihMdUMXOZBLgGg

The narc cometh

A lot of people just get angry that you haven't gone NC (No Contact) yet and that you're trying to make things work.

Husband doesn't think his mum is a narc or at least not as bad as I do so I'm kind of stuck.

And if we go NC right now we strengthen their case for grandparents rights if it ever gets that far.

Posted about my narc MIL on reddit and feel even worse now

@lizardsquid You're welcome! I hope they can help. Centrelink are really… really… really… awful. Husband and I (mostly him because I've been doing baby stuff) have been working on some Centrelink related stuff for a while and oh mannnnnnn so bad so bad so bad

@lizardsquid And the Not My Debt people have compiled an excellent page on other legal and welfare resources https://www.notmydebt.com.au/useful-links

@lizardsquid I don't know where in Aus you are but these guys might have some help: http://www.nssrn.org.au/

"But people don't have 99 teeth" you say

HE HAS 99 PROBLEMS AND THEY ARE ALL TEETH

Baby has 99 problems and they are all teeth

@lizardsquid Ahh, so they can send you over to the self-service computers and telephones! God they are fucking useless. On purpose, I (cynically) suspect.

@lizardsquid This sounds like bullshit. Centrelink bullshit.

@lizardsquid I don't think they should be able to do that? I think they have to tell you why they rejected it, like if you didn't meet the requirements for the means test?