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anne_twain

@anne_twain@theblower.au

Retired teacher and bookseller. Born 1952. She/her. Living solo if you don't count 3 cats and 2 hens.

Interests: climate survival, climate politics, my electric car, pandemic response, cats, Australian politics, human rights, turning Australia into a republic, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, early offshore whaling in Australia and New Zealand, genealogy, colonial history, dressmaking and design, recycling and repurposing, Buy Nothing Group, gardening, chooks (chickens)... etc

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shoq, to random
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I don’t get it. My very expensive AfterShokz bone-conductive headphones arrived, and they vibrate my temples to distraction, just like the clones did. Maybe my bones are just atypical? I can’t believe anyone finds this pleasant. Oh well, back they go.

anne_twain,
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@shoq Well, they are bone conduction. They work by literally vibrating your bones.

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes the way people phrase things is so telling. For instance, telling women they should be "taking care of" their husband and children. Another adult doesn't need taken care of like a child, what you want is for women to be a Sex Mom.

anne_twain,
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@thepoliticalcat I was born in 1952. Women of my mother's generation hated the role, yet at the same time felt heavily obligated to carry it out. They would have joined in condemning a woman who didn't "have dinner on the table", shirts ironed, nappies pegged on the line etc.

The domestic side of things was the only area of their lives where they had control. The whole of society saw the man as boss in every other aspect of life.

Unknowable, to random German
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@rahmstorf @W_Lucht cc @pvonhellermannn

via World Bank and EU Commission

>>Europe is facing overwhelming losses and destruction from climate-related disasters.

"A piecemeal approach is no longer enough. EU’s substantial climate risks require reforming institutions, legal frameworks, across sectors and ministries, planning, fiscal, and sectoral strategies" explains Solene Dengler, a senior climate change adaptation specialist with the World Bank.<<

https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/brief/economics-for-disaster-prevention-preparedness-europe

anne_twain,
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@Unknowable @rahmstorf @W_Lucht @pvonhellermannn Will governments listen to the World Bank? Is there anyone they'll listen to?

anne_twain, to random
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Fell over again last night. Tripped over a 20 kilo bag of cat food and crashed into a few things on the way down.

Now I can't lift the bag of cat food to get it out of the way. 🙄

timrichards, to France
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Trouble in paradise... good overview of what's going on there.

New Caledonia state of emergency: A South Pacific nation goes up in flames

(maybe paywalled) #NewCaledonia #France https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/a-two-hour-flight-from-australia-new-caledonia-goes-up-in-flames-20240517-p5jeiw.html

anne_twain,
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@timrichards Yep. It's paywalled.

anne_twain,
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@timrichards Just sayin. Because it's frustrating. I'll try the ABC.

StillIRise1963, to random
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“Woe is me” is NEVER an acceptable frame of mind.

anne_twain,
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@justafrog @StillIRise1963 In my lifetime of seven decades I've learned that it's not possible to gauge someone else's level of pain, and for that reason no-one is in a position to tell another person how to respond to or express pain.

Both emotional and physical pain can be crippling.

I suggest you stop judging others and pay attention to how you live your own life.

anne_twain, to HashtagGames
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"She's cli-i-mbing a stai-ai-aircase to Kevin."

cathywilcox, to random
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Your handy green guide.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

anne_twain,
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@cathywilcox The beauty of a net zero by 2050 plan is that they may never have to fulfil it. World carbon emissions are still increasing, natural systems are already collapsing and there will be chaos in both the natural and human world before 2050.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you're like me, and Mother's Day is a rough day for you. I'm thinking of you, and I hope it's a good day anyway.

anne_twain,
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@RickiTarr Thanks Ricki. Lost my mum to leukaemia in 1961. A good day to think about how devastating it is for a small kid to lose their mum, and how it can affect your whole life.

Skepticat, to random
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You don't say...

Neuralink disclosed that their device has experienced a malfunction.

Parts of the brain implant have broken loose and are floating around inside the test subject's brain.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/elon-musks-neuralink-reports-trouble-with-first-human-brain-chip/

anne_twain,
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@StillIRise1963 @Skepticat It's a robotic brain worm lol.

alx, to Palestine
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'Insectifada' for the win.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-800712

anne_twain,
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@alx Sometimes there is justice.

shoq, to random
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Well, that’s certainly news.

In reply to…
https://mastodon.social/@politicalwire@politicalwire.com/112407809549332125

anne_twain,
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@shoq At last!

blogdiva, to cooking
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to this day, i have no idea what rhubarb tastes like. it's been for so long one of those weird things euroamericans eat, that am afraid to taste it and be ghastly disappointed in my notion that, yup, doesn't taste good at all.

anne_twain,
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@DukeDuke @blogdiva If you need to extend the rhubarb a bit, add a peeled and sliced cooking apple (eg Granny Smith). Or just because rhubarb and apple is good.

If you're English or Australian, serve with custard.

MLE_online, to random
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Lettuce always finds my freshly cleaned laundry. She's drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

anne_twain,
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@MLE_online She looks very relaxed. 😽

anne_twain,
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@MLE_online Is she a rescue cat?

maxleibman, to random
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Blocking somebody? Baller move. You’re in charge of your account. You decide who has access to you.

Telling someone, “I’m blocking you for that!” immediately before blocking them? Baby move. Your dysfunctional obsession with getting the last word in is showing.

anne_twain,
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@maxleibman ⬆️ How to get the last word in while posing as a real cool dude who would never do such a childish thing.

futurebird, to random
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"... averages 31 years, with the longest recorded lifespan reaching 51 years. This meter-sized beetle is native to Mexico and Central America, where it inhabits dry and arid environments...."

Meter sized?

METER SIZED?

I need to stop using google the first few results it shows for simple insect questions are always GPT garbage ... LORDY.

anne_twain,
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@futurebird Soon it will be no better than the Middle Ages when people relied on hearsay, folk tales, uneducated guesses, incomplete memories, divination and divinely inspired visions for information.

"What a gift the internet of information was" they'll say. "If only we'd protected it."

gerrymcgovern, to random
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""It has happened," wrote developer Arian van Putten in a social media post over the weekend. "The number one Google result was an official Pulumi documentation page that was clearly written by an LLM (it had a disclaimer that it was) and hallucinated an AWS feature that didn't exist. This is the beginning of the end.""

"Search quality has declined because search engines index low-quality AI-generated content and present it in search results."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

anne_twain,
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@gerrymcgovern I predicted this, that generative AI would start referencing faulty AI material and become progressively more useless. People should listen to old ladies more. We're smart.

Alice, to random
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Would you be surprised to learn that I teach kindergarten?

I mean, I don’t because holy shit could you imagine those poor children?

But would you?

anne_twain,
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@Alice Um... I used to be a kindergarten teacher. Not sure how to take this.

parismarx, to tech
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Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.

It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/metas-reality-labs-posts-3point85-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html

anne_twain,
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@parismarx What's the metaverse? ( Rhetorical question. I really don't care.)

Trenton_Hoshiko, to random
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There is a white spot in the bowl of dry food
-cats

anne_twain,
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@Trenton_Hoshiko 😄 I've got 3 cats and they literally stand there and assess which bowl has a little more food in it!

cathywilcox, to random
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There we are.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

anne_twain,
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@cathywilcox Yep. And thank you!

anne_twain,
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@cathywilcox I just noticed Wally climbing out 😄 ! Even Wally is leaving!

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could have one new skill starting right now, what would it be?

anne_twain,
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@RickiTarr Getting along with people.

If I can't have that, I'll settle for being a very accomplished operatic soprano, like Dame Emma Kirkby. And I would sing this beautiful song by Vivaldi : " The World Needs Peace".

https://youtu.be/XM3lDvhRzsQ?feature=shared

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