Jacquetta

Homeless Australian cat lady. Spoonie. User of fruity language.

I've just started a new blog to replace my threads, but please be patient as I'm parking it for a bit while Miss Tabby and I adjust to our new life:

https://livingthezeitgeist.wordpress.com/

I aim to favourite posts that I've read, but I'm often too exhausted to reply. Sometimes, you might get an emoji.

Chatty posts are set to self-destruct to keep my timeline clean.

Last Notes

2025-08-29 22:30:21 UTC

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My close circle of friends (who have known her since a kitten) and I were always of the opinion that, if her sister was to die, I should get her euthanised. She does not travel, gets car sick, wilfully roams, and is a very detached cat. Her sister morphed into my therapy animal.
I do love her, but I also need to think about what's best for her (and also for me, as managing her could prove to be impossible). However, there are things afoot which will delay that decision for hopefully quite some time. I am not going to do anything I can't reverse for some time yet.

2025-08-29 00:48:15 UTC

We're holed up in the tent, so I've been catching up with things (and Miss Tabby making anything other than phone use impossible).
This nonsense of rural Australian inequality breeding sov cits is ridiculous. I've lived recently in urban and rural environments, and I've also lived remotely, and here's what I know to be true.
Rural and remote places attract some deeply unpleasant people who can not function in urban environments. They choose these places to hide.
There was a saying that remote workers were either mercenaries, missionaries, or misfits, and my own experience extended that to include megalomaniacs.
Rural Australia is lovely, but the warts of Australian society are easily seen. You can avert your gaze in a densely populated urban environment and cosset yourself in your own bubbles.
Yes, life is hard. Yes, government agencies and politicians screw people over and make people's lives a misery. Yes, life is uncertain and cruel, and we don't deserve it.
But, despite having my life destroyed by politicians and government agencies and having been marginalised, othered, gaslighted, and scapegoated for over a decade, I am not a sov cit. Nor have I any desire to be.
Community is everything.
Instead of importing some shit stain's wankery from the US, the so called sov cit cookers should expend their energy on lifting up their communities instead of engaging in lunatic cos play.
I am tired of US hegemony and the cult of individualism and, quite frankly, I would deeply appreciate it if they could all go fuck themselves.

2025-08-18 02:01:10 UTC

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:blobcat_hug: :blobcat_hug:
I'd like men to stop staring at me. Gives me the irrits.

2025-08-15 22:43:51 UTC

Rightio, thanks to @npub1emv…wnhu, I'm going to try to remember to hashtag carnivorous posts (#meat) so that, if you don't want to see meaty meals, you can filter it out.
I rarely cook meat or have meaty meals, but the butcher up here is the nicest man alive, has amazing meat, and I'm rather passionate about supporting rural small business owners. To regularly buy his meat is a no-brainer and especially now that I have my fridge on.
I'm also a fan of eating locally wherever possible and it's sheep country up here. I know my farmer butchers his own and nothing beats a free range, happy, and doesn't leave the farm, lamb chop.

2025-08-03 21:03:45 UTC

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OMG Caity!
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2025-08-02 18:37:32 UTC

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I have the same book!

2025-07-28 08:58:26 UTC

Lovely evening!
Calm and still, lambs baaing in the distance, and the Girls frollicking in the scrub.
On stepping out of the car in town this afternoon, I got a warm welcome from the Op Shop staff, a long chat at the post office when I collected my glasses, and even a cheerio as I stepped into the loos :blobcat_giggle:
It continued with a chat at the supermarket, and then I did a solid four hours volunteering.
The database is proprietary and a little annoying (and obviously designed to extract the maximum dollars out of their clients), but after a frustrating half an hour, I'm now off and running.
Managed 30 records with all the chatter and stuff. Only around 7000 to go :blobcat_giggle:

2025-07-24 06:14:52 UTC

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On the bright side, the wind picked up today and not tomorrow when it's going to be pissing down!
I may have turned the air blue this arvo but I was dry while doing it 😭