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joannaholman

@joannaholman@aus.social

@joannamuses on twitter. Thoughts on books, Eurovision, Melbourne happenings, music and culture with bonus architecture and cute animal pictures.

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joannaholman, to melbourne
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May you live with the confidence of people making yet another attempt at bringing a big Ferris wheel to

https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/news/sky-high-fun-a-huge-new-ferris-wheel-is-coming-to-melbournes-cbd-042624

joannaholman, to random
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Just met a delightful dog

joannaholman, to random
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I wish we’d kept up the early pandemic norm of hand sanitizer being available everywhere was still the norm. Germs are still a thing

joannaholman, to random
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Love waking up to find out six hours ago someone edited a toot I’d boosted to say something wildly different and kinda problematic. There should be a limit to how much you can edit toots that have been boosted. Fix a typo? Absolutely. Totally change the content? No

joannaholman,
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@jedsetter it’s possible some servers have worked out how to set up stricter rules but the standard is it lets you edit and then notifies the people who boosted you of the edit

joannaholman,
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@stib @jedsetter as is you can easily unboost it. I think the big problem is a lot of people aren’t here all the time and/or are flooded with other notifications so a maliciously edited boost could easily sit on their profile for days before they notice

joannaholman,
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@timrichards possibly. Changed it to a strong political sentiment unrelated to the original post

joannaholman, to random
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People have been eating and thinking about food since the dawn of time, but good luck redefining what it means to eat, random small salad place

joannaholman,
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@timrichards what I saw on their menu did not give me confidence in their success

timrichards, to random
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The big price rises at cafes and restaurants are helping me save money, because there are red lines I will not cross.

Eg I'm not paying more than $15 for a sandwich or $25 for a pub/cafe main. And I'm definitely not paying double figures for a slice of cake! Jesus.

Pubs and bars are getting a bit cheeky with pricing zero-alcohol beers too. I don't mind $9-$10 for a Heaps Normal, but no way am I paying $12. It's soft drink after all, get real.

#CostOfLiving

joannaholman,
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@timrichards recently started using the EatClub app which sometimes discounts stuff enough to make them reasonable.

joannaholman, to melbourne
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folk, the ANZ banking museum has reopened in the gothic bank on the corner of Collins and Queen streets, moving into the ground floor grand chamber. The banking paraphernalia may or may not be interesting but the building is gorgeous and you can now get a look easier than when the whole floor was a bank branch

An ornate ceiling and columns

joannaholman, to random
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Turns out today’s most culturally significant album release wasn’t from Taylor Swift, it was from the Wiggles dropping a rave album https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZZnrkjq3sKWHwEkvtHLdp

joannaholman, to random
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Cannot square all the nobody is going to the office anymore alarmism with how many people are on my peak hour train

joannaholman, to random
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One of those who passed away in the Bondi Junction attack was Faraz Tahir, a Pakistani refugee newly employed as a security guard who was killed protecting others. I'm making a donation to ASRC, a charity working with refugees in his honour, consider doing the same if you are able. https://asrc.org.au/

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Worst horror movie concept ever

joannaholman, to animals
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I’ve been babysitting Boston whose greatest love is sitting on the balcony judging the neighbours as they pass

A creame coloured very fluffy ragdoll cat looks through a balcony railing
A crème coloured ragdoll cat on a balcony stairs intently at something

luciedigitalni, to random
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Incredible that this totally viable project is not working out

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/10/the-line-saudi-arabia-scaling-back-plans-105-mile-long-desert-megacity-crown-prince

joannaholman,
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@luciedigitalni And yet they've been busy advertising a bunch of new equally unhinged projects

timrichards, to melbourne
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Good to see. Not every CBD building needs to be a bubble tea shop or a cutting-edge restaurant charging $40+ for mains.

Hill of Content looks set to stay put after investor buys CBD building

(maybe paywalled) https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/hill-of-content-bookshop-gets-the-good-word-as-investor-buys-cbd-building-20240410-p5fir8.html

joannaholman,
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@timrichards or a convenience store. I like a slurpie as much as anyone but I’m baffled as to how the CBD sustains so many, especially since there’s mini supermarkets with usually better prices

joannaholman,
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@timrichards they’re the brightly coloured one right? Their store making centre place look tacky still makes me angry

jpm, to random
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From: my bank
To: me
Subject: We're making changes to your account(s)

Deposit book availability and usage
• Some of our accounts currently allow you to use a deposit book when you make a deposit with us. You will no longer be able to order deposit books on these accounts.
…

Cheque book availability
• We’re phasing out cheque books as we’ve seen an ongoing decline in cheque use as more customers choose faster and easier ways to do their banking.
…

About fucken time!

joannaholman,
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@jpm @MarkAsser it is amazing how many older folk in Australia still use passbooks, many as their primary banking option

timrichards, to random
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Ugh why am I always sitting near a kid playing an animated movie on an iPad when I'm travelling by V/line train? What happened to a) reading; or b) headphones?

joannaholman,
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@timrichards Last week I got stuck on the train next to someone having a speakerphone conversation where someone was giving them credit card details!

joannaholman, to random
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Don't know if Bluey doing promotion on a real estate website is cute or a sad example of capitalism invading everything https://www.domain.com.au/2019156678

joannaholman, to random
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So many tech/business bros out there prattling on about how normal jobs are a meaningless way to live and people should be pursuing entrepreneurship or at least joining startups. How do said dudes expect society to work? The electricity grid, roads, hospitals and a LOT of other things necessary for society to not fall over require a lot of people having normal jobs at very quite large companies to build and maintain.

timrichards, to random
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Just had a $2 cup of 7-Eleven coffee on the way to a Comedy Festival show (sleepy emergency). Now I know what they do with waste sump oil. I'd often wondered.

joannaholman,
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@timrichards the only upside is their ice coffee is stronger than many places do it so it’s a solid emergency caffeine delivery option for those of us who don’t drink hot coffee

joannaholman, to random
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That apps to help you manage all your streaming subscriptions are a thing should probably prompt our society to do some soul searching

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