joannaholman

joannaholman, 7 months ago to random

I’m off to the Melbourne Royal Show today. What started 175 years as a way for rural folk to gather and show off what they produced to city folk has grown into an unhinged extravaganza that’s parts theme park, petting zoo, food fair, agricultural trade expo, music festival, craft show and market for products usually only found on infomercials. Despite it being kind of expensive and sometimes tacky I love it because it’s such a feverdream of an event.

I’ll be posting the weird and wonderful things I find in this thread. To start with, here’s some well behaved cows

#MelbourneRoyalShow

joannaholman, 7 months ago to random

Ideally public restroom mirrors shouldn’t run windows

#internetofshit

joannaholman, 1 month ago to random

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, 8 months ago to random

It should be illegal for courier companies to send you a you weren’t home so you have to go pick up your parcel from somewhere else message when you were actually home

joannaholman, 3 months ago to random

Today I learned the largest technically possible PDF file is 381 km × 381 km which is this big

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

joannaholman, 4 months ago to random

At a wildlife park that has cassowary encounters as an upgrade option. This seems inadvisable. I’ll pass, I do not wish to encounter the last survivor of the dinosaurs

joannaholman, 9 months ago to singapore

I'm off to #singapore for a week soon which I'm super excited about. I lived there for half a year a long time ago so know all the major things to do but would love to hear about anything great that's new in the last 5 years or obscure enough I might have missed in the past

joannaholman, 5 months ago to random

Wish I could have been in the meeting where this concept was signed off on

joannaholman, 7 months ago to random

What an under-appreciated privilege we Australians have that our question when picking where to vote tomorrow can be which or the half dozen nearby polling places will be selling the best food, not where am I least at risk of violent intimidation or queuing for 6 hours only to have my right to vote denied.

joannaholman, 5 months ago to random

Recently got an Apple Watch. Are there any apps for those that do particularly cool/useful things?

joannaholman, 3 months ago to random

I despise online stores that make you put in all your personal details before they'll tell you how much the shipping costs. I shouldn't have to get my details on yet another database only to find out the exorbitant shipping fee makes the item too expensive

joannaholman, 2 months ago to random

Genuinely surprised someone hasn’t tapped into millennial nostalgia by reopening sizzler restaurants. The cheese bread was a magical experience

joannaholman, 29 days ago to melbourne

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

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

joannaholman, 6 months ago to random

Just saw someone on another platform post about making a fairy bread butter board and perhaps that’s a sign i need to get offline for a bit

joannaholman, 5 months ago to random

I suspect that when cultural historians a hundred or so years from now look back on the present day one of the things that will baffle them is the incessant insistence that famous and even regular people be constantly speaking up and having takes about issues entirely outside their expertise

joannaholman, 3 months ago to random

I know I’m getting old and grumpy, but I’m irritated that multiple songs in the #TripleJHottest100 top 5 are songs from overseas artists that picked up a lot of popularity from being used in tiktok. It sucks this country doesn’t back our local artists

joannaholman, 4 months ago to random

there would be a great book concept to be had in charting the cultural history of Australian sausage sizzles (Bunnings, elections, scout groups ect). Someone more motivated than me please write it

joannaholman, 6 months ago to photography

Sunlight

#photography #melbourne

joannaholman, 6 months ago to random

The people who invent the contents of capsule vending machines are so creative. How do you arrive at the concept of chocolate croissant shark?!?

joannaholman, 4 months ago to random

Is there a gender label for I don’t feel like or want to be anything other than a woman, it just feels like the femininity software didn’t all install properly?

joannaholman, 5 months ago to random

Even as a regular donor to foodbanks, maddening to see Woolworths ask for donations to a foodbank at the self service checkouts when part of the reason people need foodbanks is Woolworths group raised their prices so much during a cost of living crisis they made a 1.72 billion dollar profit last year

joannaholman, 7 months ago to Cats

My workplace loves getting people to talk about how they're feeling in staff meetings so I've taken advantage of this to make the discussion in terms of my sister's moody kitty Winston. Perhaps Winston might help you interpret your moods too
#cats #catsofmastodon

joannaholman, 3 months ago to melbourne

It’s kinda adorable that small packs of cookers are still having little marches through the city. They’ve been at it 3 years and still haven’t found more interesting hobbies. There’s barely enough of them to push their weirdly large portable PA system in front of trams #melbourne

joannaholman, 2 months ago to Dogs

Dogs aren’t usually allowed in public pools for health reasons but on the last day before they close for the season a pool near me invites all the local dogs for a swim. It’s the happiest thing imaginable

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

A happy looking brown corgi in a green life jacket stands on the edge of a pool
Two large wet black dogs at the edge of a pool
An orange and cream chow chow dog lies in a shallow pool

joannaholman, 1 month ago to random

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