PeterWyrm

PeterWyrm, 8 days ago to random

I was surprised reading this article! I’m a descendant of settlers/invaders, but I grew up on Gangulu country, on a farm about 40 km from Woorabinda, the town mentioned in this article. (I think that one of the factors contributing to the loss of the local language was that the Queensland government forced people from lots of different places in Queensland and who spoke different languages.) https://newsmast.social/@ausgeo/112544768489251893

PeterWyrm, 13 days ago to random

Bicycle folk! I’m hoping for some help. I took a bike to the petrol station to use the air compressor. I had bought a valve that I was told would be an adapter between Presta and Schrader. I can’t get air into the tyre. I unscrewed the valve on the presta (and now the tyre is completely flat) but maybe my adapter is too short. @ash @stufromoz

whitequark, 1 month ago to random

please tell me the most obscure joke you know

(feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

Heliograph, 3 months ago to random

@benroyce voting third part applies to OZ as much as it does to all countries I guess... and but yes fully agree

PeterWyrm, 4 months ago to random

“Now night drew near, enfolding the wide world in shadowy wings.”

Virgil, Aeneid, 8, 368

Nox ruit et fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis.

PeterWyrm, 5 months ago to Stoicism

“We are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No-one confines their unhappiness to the present.”

Seneca, Letters, Letter 5

@stoicism #Stoicism

PeterWyrm, 5 months ago to random

Interesting photography in public spaces devoid of people.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-26/rocketgirl-chronicles-melbourne-photographer-andrew-rovenko/103253728

PeterWyrm, 5 months ago to random

I’ve been a bit slack with blasphemous memes this year: my humble apologies.

PeterWyrm, 5 months ago to climate

"Somebody here has had a successful COP, that's the 2,000 lobbyists. And you know, we're given crumbs to celebrate, but it's like asking us to celebrate flowers that will lie on our graves, you know, how do we celebrate that?"

• Brianna Fruean, a Samoan climate activist

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-14/pacific-islands-cop28-agreement-climate-change-sultan-al-jaber/103227422

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #environment #COP28

PeterWyrm, 6 months ago to random

Mon dieu ! #Duolingo

JonathanMBR, 6 months ago to random

There is a youth counselor here who is counselling youths on why they should not tackle their problems by suicides which is “cowardly” move, who doesn't fear death?

PeterWyrm, 6 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

A presenter at my online social-worker conference just said that the impact of artificial intelligence will be greater than that of electricity and the internet combined. #Artificialintelligence #health

PeterWyrm, 7 months ago to random

I’m surprised and pleased that the Australian government will allow the people of Tuvalu to resettle in Australia. (Of course a better option would have been for Australia to have taken greater action on climate change decades ago and shown leadership on climate action, to reduce the chance of island nations like Tuvalu being inundated.)

hankg, 7 months ago to cooking

I've seen some ambitious recipes on modern cooking shows. What I've never seen is sweetbreads (throat lymph nodes or pancreas) and brains. Yet here is Julia Child in 1966 teaching her viewers how to make it so they can "get out of their meat rut of steaks, chops, saddle of lamb, Beef Wellington, or hamburgers". Minus the hamburgers that's quite a fancy and diverse rut, if I do say so myself. #JuliaChild #cooking #food #FoodHistory #retro #vintage www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e8Fq1…

PeterWyrm, 7 months ago to random

PeterWyrm, 8 months ago to random

It’s 2023. I just heard Chas Licciardello (WTFAQ on the ABC) use the phrase “sexual preference”, and not for comedic effect.

PeterWyrm, 9 months ago to auspol

I went to a local market today to support the Yes23 campaign for the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to parliament. I handed out some brochures and chatted to some people. About 95% of the interactions weren’t rude.

Note: The Voice provides permanent representation and recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution. (Indigenous people were not mentioned in the Australian constitution.)

#AusPol #Voice #Yes23

PeterWyrm, 10 months ago to random

I’m planning to buy an electric shaver. Any advice, specific or general? Features one needs or things to avoid?

PeterWyrm, 10 months ago to random

There’s always a kinder choice.

PeterWyrm, 10 months ago to accessibility

@PleaseCaption I thoroughly recommend following this bot if you support accessibility but (like me) you sometimes forget to add alternative text to images. The bot has politely reminded me twice in the last few days. Thank-you! #accessibility #AltText

PeterWyrm, 1 year ago to random

Do you know the name of the musical that uses the Latin words of the Catholic prayer “Hail, holy queen” as lyrics in a song? (Maybe CW the answer, in case anyone cares…) #quiz #trivia #musicals

PeterWyrm, 1 year ago to random

Sometimes I think I’m not prudish or conservative and then something hits me like hearing that one of the sixteen-year-olds has watched a tonne of Shameless (all that substance abuse and sex) or (worse) watching Ru Paul’s drag race with the other sixteen-year-old when there’s a segment where they have to reach through a glory hole to randomly choose a puppet. (And I thought that I was an EX-Catholic.)

PeterWyrm, 1 year ago to random

I think it’s very disrespectful to use phrases like Charlie Windsor or NotMyKing or Charles the Turd to refer to Charles the Third, by the Grace of God King of Australia and His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. #sarcasm

PeterWyrm, 1 year ago to random

I love the words that English borrowed from Arabic that have the definite article (= the) as part of the word: alcohol, algebra, alfalfa. Imagine if we had cohol, gebra, and falfa instead!

‎كحول

#vocabulary #Arabic #English

PeterWyrm, 1 year ago to random

This machine translation made me laugh!

I don’t always wear a mask, but I always carry one.
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Je ne porte pas toujours de masque, mais j'en porte toujours un.