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Cat Fitz

@catfitz.bsky.social

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Studying Bachelor of Visual Arts. Life drawing, urban sketching, watercolour, ceramics. On the lands of the Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair people Master of Environment in Climate Change Adaptation B App Sc Med Lab Sci

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Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Sep 3

But, paper patterns are a good option for many people for various reasons, I’d be sad to see them disappear.

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Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Absolutely. I haven’t bought from the big 4 for quite a few years. I use mostly pdf patterns from indie designers. I have a non standard body shape and have loved designers who provide patterns for large busts and curves. Thinking I might even try projector patterns one day.

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Sep 1

My understanding is that indie pattern makers who provide paper patterns, use the same printers as the big 4. So this is a potential problem for all pattern makers who provide paper patterns.

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Aug 16

A cold Sunday morning is for staying in a sunny bed.

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · May 26

The problem with it being “normal” is it will never be investigated further. Coming from a menopausal woman who just found out that her periods were “abnormally heavy” because of fibroids 😞

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · May 3

I heard it too! I think he was mixing up Dutton and Dickson, but I don’t care 😂😂😂

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · May 3

At 8:25 Antony Green says LNP can’t win a majority 🎉🥂. Labor will form government weather minority or majority

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · Apr 28

hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...

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Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Apr 21

Growing food is difficult. It’s good to try, but don’t have to rely on it.

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Sally McManus @sallymcmanus.bsky.social · Apr 19

Hundreds of thousands of working Australians will be getting penalty rates when working over Easter. The bosses are trying to remove them. Labor has just committed to changing the law to protect them forever.

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Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Apr 1

Not just too low, but the insane hoops and punitive nature of the application process is ridiculous for such a small amount. Honestly, given how much a difference it makes to those who need it, the application and administration needs to be so much easier.

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100% Samfucious - with added ingredients @samfucious.bsky.social · Mar 24

I don't want efficient government.
I want effective government.

The talk of "efficiency" is thinly veiled austerity. And there's no reason for it. It's irrational. It's a greedy agenda being pushed by a population of self-important wannabe aristocrats - the parasites of civilization.

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Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Mar 7

No, he’s not “allowed” on the table.

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Mar 7

My beautiful boy helped me with my photography homework.

Happy #caturday

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leeleearnold.bsky.social @leeleearnold.bsky.social · Feb 26

“Worried about how the government will pay for $8.5bn over four years? … the richest 10% will get $27bn this year in tax breaks from the capital gains tax discount, negative gearing and the superannuation tax concessions” Greg Jericho #auspol
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

It’s time we asked: what is the cost not just to the budget, but to society, when the richest are helped to get richer?

The question ‘how do we pay for it’ only seems to come up when the government spends money on things that help low and middle-income earners

www.theguardian.com

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Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Feb 23

Absolutely! This analysis is what is missing from journalism.

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Feb 17

This is so frustrating. I want them to go further. Talk about policy, then get experts to discuss how these policies might actually impact different sectors.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Feb 15

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · Feb 15

I need some DOGE insignia gear so I can turn up at a bunch of shadowy Australian departments and walk in like I own the place

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Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol🐸 @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Saturday Paper
"10 dead after welfare glitch ignored by Gov" Page 1 story.

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Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Feb 12

The LNP don't actually care about rural folk 😁👍

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Feb 12

Doesn't the water have to be below a certain temperature? I thought that was why they are normally beside the ocean, large lakes, or rivers.

Cat Fitz @catfitz.bsky.social · Feb 12

😁👍 and we never have droughts either!

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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · Feb 12

the major parties have seen their primary votes fall from 96% in 1975 to 68% in 2022.

they had two options to arrest the decline:

1. win back trust with good governance & good policy
2. rig the system

tonight they chose to rig the system.

a dark day for australian democracy.

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · Feb 12

Yep, that about sums it up. Carbon offsets have been a huge distraction from efforts to cut actual emissions from fossil fuels for too long - time to focus on ‘real zero’ and the need to burn less fossil fuels.

Its the fossil fuel companies that benefits from distractions and faked complexity

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