Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 18hOnly two, I ask?! That's 98 more in the house to jumpscare the shit out of me. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 18hMy niece just returned to Brisbane after two weeks in Sydney, and informed me that two moths had hitchhiked to the Sunshine State in her luggage. There was also screaming in the background, a state I am only too familiar with. 110
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 18hApart from the Bogong moths themselves, the most excited for their migration is my 10 mo son, who tried to make a lunge at a moth that had gotten into the house (one among a hundred) and then looks around the room when we ask, ready to point a wee finger at this new intruder upon spotting it. 100
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Was it the word "certainly", "beautiful", or "country?" Or were you having difficulty with the prepositions and articles? 110
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You know the best part? "This place is stunning, honestly." 😂😭😂 110
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sigh, it's some Wattpad kid who allegedly loves literature, but not nearly enough to preserve it. 210
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nothing like your baby tearing one of your books to inspire you to get some baby proofing done (when I say I, I mean my husband). The open shelf on the right is for his books (board books he chews to bits). Hopefully we'll get to the glass shelves before he decides to either smash or hang off them. 020
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A (fugly) fibreglass nude in the garden which squirted water from the crotch. Rhinestones pasted on the bathroom window. We've been living here for 5+ years and the ghost imprints of those rhinestones still haunt me. 110
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ours had "interesting" taste. Red chandeliers in the living room. You turn on the lights, and voila, you're transported to an opium den. A leather bed, and a TV on the ceiling of the attic (and master) bedroom. Huge dogs but door flaps for when they were puppies for two seconds. 110
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That looks like Minas Tirith when Mordor freezes over. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maybe something by Terry Pratchett? The Colour of Magic would be a good, fun, non-kid lit read. 030
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bless you for not suggesting you'll make them from scratch. I can see the future and I know I am going to be that idiot. 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I read a lot of Colwin while giving baby contact naps this year, sometimes verging on too much (like the article says, breaks are good), and I can see a lot of writers trying her style, but it's only endearing when it comes from Colwin's pen. 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026After dealing with my father quibbling over non-issues all day, I read this and decided that all three people (my father included) need to be deleted. 041
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Point received, but I still think the use of "-maxxing" goday as hell, it's not exactly discriminating against an underprivileged group in this case, it's just time to bury the term and move on 😁 001
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Fair enough, don't blame you at all! I did mention in a comment under that it is loaded with classist overtones, your illustration proves it. 100
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well, I am okay not winning any comrades over the use of the word "goday", said in my heavily elocutionised Colombo English accent. Some of us can't help being products of our environments and parental aspirations lol 🤷🏽♀️ 100
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can we just have un-goday ways of describing things??? That's my main complaint. 020
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Leaving aside the fact that words already exist to describe whatever ----maxxing phenomenon is being described, it's also, to borrow a Sinhalese word, GODAY* as hell. *meaning gauche, but with a shit tonne of classist undertones. Yes, I am looking down on you. 100
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Don't mean to wade into bs generation wars here, but someone needs to let the Gen Zs know that "-maxxing" is well past its expiry date. 220
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But don't forget the standout line: "me spotted dick!" 1194
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This was such a fun watch, I think I've watched it twice now. I read the book yonks ago, too, but honestly don't remember much of it. 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Always feels like a threat when I get an email from IKEA saying "have fun with your items from IKEA." Not sure I will brother IKEA, sorry. 011
Reposted by Gazala Anveraaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026apartheid is not theoretical or just walls and borders, which is something I think people do struggle to understand it's taking a whole society and breaking it down into people who have freedom and people who are controlled to varying degrees in every aspect of their daily lives 38452
Reposted by Gazala AnverErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...himalmag.comMary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritageA US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States 6211113
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Suspiciously used twice, totally BECAUSE IT'S VERY SUSPICIOUS and not because of mom brain fog. 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you know anyone with a crotchet dildo kink, I can mail it to them. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Pile of hand-me-down toys revealed this suspiciously dildo-looking rattle. It has the right "hand feel" of a dildo too, and the bottom seam (not pictured) looks suspiciously like the real deal. And the worst part? My son likes it. 😶 200
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It has taken me 35 years and a baby to realise that bubbles are a soapy mess. Siddhartha found his first book fair at Sydney Uni a little tedious, but the bubbles made up for it. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I did this today, for an email I received in the morning and to which I responded in the evening. 😅 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Award for the funniest passage in literature goes to...Wilkie Collins! 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My husband, once, very seriously and clearly distressed in his sleep: "not enough curry..." 060
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I may or may not have panicked and bought a pregnancy test because I started receiving compliments on my appearance and because I can't take a compliment I panicked and bought a pregnancy test aaaand... it's just a compliment, folks, turns out I look human again. 😅 120
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Insomnia was incredible, and Stellan was absolutely terrifying (and terrifyingly good). Would definitely not watch again because fuck that was disturbing 😅 020
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Girl is full of contradictions: the kitchen is small, but that counter under the ledge never gets used, but every bit of space is premium so where would the recycling box go? On that allegedly unused counter, you savage. 051
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 03/09/2026(And sometimes the only source of truth when babies don't come with instructions and the doctors don't gaf) 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I often wonder what an alien civilisation would think of us if they were to base their opinion purely on what people say (and claim to do) on Reddit. 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I lurk in another corner of Reddit trying to diagnose my son's every twitch, and I can predict the insane responses even the most innocuous question can receive, sometimes escalating to "if I knew you, I'd call child protection services" because a new mom idk, farted around her kid or something. 110
