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franksting

@franksting@theblower.au

You might remember me from the early days on twitter

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franksting, to running
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What is with Americans using "miles" in their training plans for km based distance runs (and then also using metres in the plan as well)‽ #running

franksting, to books
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Neal Stephenson makes the gradual disintegration of the moon into a fun read. @bookstodon

kcarruthers, (edited ) to random
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Kyiv is pretty old, it’s older than Russia.

Happy birthday to Kyiv. Long may it stand.

franksting,
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@kcarruthers love kyiv. Can’t believe my trips there were so long ago that none of my photos are in my stream

franksting, to random
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So the Commonwealth Bank decreased their Interest Free days from 55 to 44 on their credit cards...without any official notice to customers. Is this legal? https://www.ratecity.com.au/credit-cards/news/cba-cuts-11-interest-free-days-its-rewards-cards

franksting,
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It turns out that the notice was at the end of the last couple of statements. Does the bank really believe that people read past the transactions in their statements, if they read them at all, and how hard would it have been for them to send a separate notification to customers about the reduction in value?

franksting,
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@jpm when AUD10,000,000,000 profit is not enough

timrichards, to random
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Today I'll be writing a piece about my visit to Venice, and how I arrived via the back door (ie not along the Grand Canal)...

franksting,
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@timrichards ms18 will be there soon. She’s in Nice now and getting train to Naples, then Rome, Florence and Venice over the next few weeks.

franksting,
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@timrichards I'm trying to convince her to go to Croatia, but she’s wanting to go to Munich and Vienna after Venice

franksting, to books
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Book 18 of 2024 was this very short, yet highly original and tremendously powerful novel/(novella?) by Natasha Brown. A must read
@bookstodon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58600914

franksting, to bookstodon
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Natasha Brown’s Assembly is quite the Novella. “I've watched with dispassionate curiosity as this continent hacks away at itself: confused, lost, sick with nostalgia for those imperialist glory days - when the them had been so clearly defined! It's evident now, obvious in retrospect as the proof of root-two's irrationality, that these world superpowers are neither infallible, nor superior. They're nothing, not without a brutally enforced relativity. An organized, systematic brutality that their soft and sagging children can scarcely stomach - won't even acknowledge. Yet cling to as truth. There was never any absolute, no decree from God. Just viscous, random chance. And then, compounding.” @bookstodon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58600914

franksting,
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@lunalein @bookstodon as a middle aged white man i learned lots from it. while, being Irish, I also empathised with large tracts

kcarruthers, to random
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Oh wow. Hubby has tried doing some mould removal using bleach (instead of white vinegar as I suggested). The house reeks now.

Gift Hr GIF by hr-fernsehen

franksting,
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@kcarruthers @misswired clove oil. Tell me more.

franksting, to random
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Goddammit Thiago and my lad Joel both announcing they’re leaving . Bot unexpected but terrifically sad all the same.

Joel Matip No GIF by Liverpool FC

franksting,
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@mlawton and yet, having watched Jarrel stride forward recently, Matip/Hansen/Gillespie style, I'm optimistic the young fella has learned from the best

purserj, to random
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Holy fuck, I just signed up to a site and it sent me a confirmation message WITH MY PASSWORD IN PLAIN TEXT.

Not an automatically generated one but the supposedly secure one I am meant to use to sign in!

franksting,
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@purserj oh wow. I recall people doing this

franksting, to running
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Saw a big mob of gorgeous Calyptorhynchus funereus gorging on a banksia in Beaman Park while out ths morning. https://www.strava.com/activities/11419996887

franksting, to scifi
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I’m watching and reading EE Doc Smith’s Skylark at the same time. And the similarities are striking, even if the timescales are a less realistic in the century old books. @bookstodon

franksting, to coffee
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Reminder: when you clean the machine, also make sure to take the shower screen off and clean it!

franksting,
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@jpm i just left it sitting in bicarb and vinegar for a few minutes

franksting, to security
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Another of customer privacy because of poor customer data . Why is an energy company storing this information? There will be no accountability for this sort of nonsense from corporates until we start sending execs to gaol “Sumo said that the following customer information was compromised by the breach: names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, credit scores, as well as either passport, Medicare, or driver’s licence details.” https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/10565-exclusive-australian-energy-internet-provider-sumo-confirms-customer-data-breach

franksting, to random
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Who decided that Hydrogen was “the future of decarbonisation” and why was it rich pricks like Andrew Forrest?

franksting, to random
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The last fifteen minutes a summary of season there.

jpm, to random
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Get you some mushrooms with actual flavour

franksting,
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@jpm filter it with a tea strainer or aeropress filter

MattHatton, to random
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Stuck my head into IT's office while I was making a coffee.

One of them is dancing like a lunatic to some raccoon-meme-song-thing.

The other is wielding one of those long armed BBQ lighters menacingly.

Another normal day at the day job. Never a dull moment.

franksting,
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@jpm @MattHatton sounds like an episode of the IT Crowd being filmed

franksting,
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@paulwallbank @ajsadauskas @unionagainstdhmo @firstdogonthemoon @stilgherrian @mpesce does grundle still wallow in his own bad takes over there?

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