Ms Cat Kat @pelagikat@eigenmagic.net

The corn and zucchini bed, with some tomato seedlings I haven't planted out yet. And our first baby tomatoes!

Avocados, capsicums, and the big bed with climbing beans, more capsicums, zucchini, pumpkin and silverbeet.

We seem to be staying at the raspberries for a moment so I'll nom some.

Beans, snow peas (and a couple of silverbeet plants) and some raspberries.

I am having a slow amble around the backyard with Chrissy, so I'll do a short thread of garden pics. First up, Chrissy with her head in the monstera

Bopping along to some BSG this afternoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yj0Iwa8_gk

Made more tweaks to the possibly terrible tree diagram. I think either now it's fantastic or it's gone completely off the rails.

Scotland just passed a law making all period products *free*. They also have all the migraine prevention medications we're fighting for here in Aus on the NHS, so now I want to move to Scotland.

Oh thank christ that's over.

FFS. The question time is being dominated by all of the white men who gave presentations.

I really want to ask a question but the first old white man won't stop talking through the question time.

And now we're finishing off the presentations with a final old white man.

Now we move onto a middle aged white man. Talking about a podcast 🤦‍♀️

Ah, finally a (white) woman.

A program for helping young people in the response to COVID - based in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, which are overwhelmingly white and privileged.

Oh good. Third old white man.

Oh god. Now we have another old white man who's talking about the "third world". 😣

He also ascribes Trump's election loss to COVID. I'm not certain that's entirely why he lost the election.

This speaker is supposed to be some big shot in our field, but he sounds surprised about the failure of capitalism to deal with inequality, and the inability of developing nations to afford the cost of COVID vaccines so I'm left wondering what exactly he does know.