Quokka
@Quokka@quokk.au
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 days ago:
American suburbia.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Saturday 24 January 2026 4 days ago:
Google Maps shows the building I’m eyeing having existed since 2014. I can see scaffolding on the 2022 photos, seems to have had some exterior work done to the whole complex.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Saturday 24 January 2026 4 days ago:
I’m looking at buying an apartment for my own living needs. It’s my first time doing this. What sort of things should I be looking for during inspections and what questions should I ask?
- Comment on Colonial monuments vandalised, graffitied in Melbourne gardens 4 days ago:
Nice!
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 4 weeks ago:
You don’t need to live in a HOA for that. I don’t think we even have those in my country, but the council would act if alerted.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 4 weeks ago:
And all the smoke will make some nice new stars.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 4 weeks ago:
“A frogge bith a smale beaste with foure leggys”
I love how Middle English sounds so silly.
- Comment on Israeli president invited to visit Australia after Bondi shooting 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, let’s maybe not leave that up to the state/legal system to decide who is and isn’t a war criminal. They’re terribly biased and bad faith arbiters.
- Comment on Trure 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong
- Comment on Radon 2 months ago:
I make problems
- Comment on And it's BILL by a... Er... Uh... 2 months ago:
Is that talking about babies in the first part? 😢
- Comment on The moon 2 months ago:
What kind of cheese is that?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Saturday 8 November 2025 2 months ago:
That’s really cool. I hope they make it affordable so that it catches on.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 months ago:
I grew up with DOS.
- Comment on Her mango 2 months ago:
As in the Indian drink?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 2 months ago:
The guy has literally interviewed the KKK, but this is radical rhetoric too far?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 2 months ago:
Thanks, I respect him even more now. Death to the IDF indeed.
- Comment on The Duckstein Files 3 months ago:
Disturbingly related.
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- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 3 months ago:
And due to higher living expenses we end up with less disposable income than Americans.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 3 months ago:
I work in ECE in Australia, and from this
The next day, in a second email the management committee proposed to charge $2,200 for a scrapbook of artwork produced by their children and photographs of them to help pay off the debt.
They 100% mean printing out on the shitty work printer and pasting photos they took on their iPad alongside some pages of their artwork in one of those $3 black 48 paged A3 scrapbooks from OfficeWorks.
- Comment on Trapeze artists 4 months ago:
Take a bowel.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 4 months ago:
;(
- Comment on Incident 5 months ago:
That’s the same excuse people who hit their kids use. You could have turned out even better, with better care and education.
As for tracking nappy changes, it can help with assessing any health issues and tracking long term trends, it’s useful for toileting as we can see how frequently and volume of accidents to help understand their needs for prompting, it’s useful for parents to know if for example they’re going out straight away and need to change before hand, and it’s useful for child protection (our records show that this educator changed the nappy at the time of the incident etc).
- Comment on Incident 5 months ago:
No, that’s not sufficient. I’m sorry you were let down by the educational standards at the time.
- Comment on Incident 5 months ago:
Yes.
The current advice I’m given in Australia these days is that it’s better for children to sleep and be monitored than kept up and to become exhausted.
If we had genuine belief that a child had a concussion and not just hit themselves on a fall (happens daily), we would ask for the child to be collected by parents.
- Comment on Incident 5 months ago:
Management can not just slot in to replace an educator.
Especially not when you have 6 rooms of adults picking their kids up after finishing work at 5.
The simple matter of fact is there is not enough time to talk to ~20 families each evening and give a summary of their kids day.
- Comment on Incident 5 months ago:
We log this information for a whole host of reasons. Many parents sadly don't get the chance to speak to an educator in depth to discuss their kids day, tracking medical needs, etc. A lot of parents don't even look at this, but it's useful to have if it's ever needed.
My only complaint, and this extends to all the genuinely important paper work we have to do is that we never get enough time to be off floor to do it.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
We cannot undo it, but we can start to fix it and work on a more equal way of living which is exactly what is being done here.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Colonialism is theft, embrace undoing it.
