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Retired nurse and member of the Vintage Reds, lifelong union member. Good food, whisky, architecture, landcare. Always learning. #FreeGaza🇵🇸

Put your country in your profile, please.
And keep to the left you bastards.

Canberra (Australia), unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri country.

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timrichards, to restaurants
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The thing I like least about the recent wave of inflation is having to now forensically check every cafe/restaurant menu to decide whether I can afford to eat there. Never really had to do that before. But prices are soaring while my freelance income remains much the same.

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@Susan60 @timrichards The thing about this ongoing convo is that most cafes etc run on very slim profit margins. Rents are ridic, cost of ingredients too, but wages is the clincher. Are the staff being paid properly? All other things being equal, you have to wonder whether the cheaper joints (eg Asian restaurants) are paying staff properly. Just something to bear in mind.

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Noticed the payment wasn't coming out of my bank account. We mailed it April 26th. Mortgage company got it today, May 14, said it was postmarked April 30, waived late fee.

said it went from here & got shipped to another postal center & processed then sent to another center & finally back to the local post office

Our mortgage payment was late because the is screwed up

Our post office, mortgage company & I are within a mile of each other

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@paul You MAIL your mortgage?? Can't it just be direct debited somehow, online?

timrichards, to australia
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Fair point - if you're not using digital payments, you should make the effort to get used to them. Cash is (mostly) going away. (This article also contains a guide to getting started with digital.)

Cash is dead. Why are we still pretending it isn’t?

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/money/saving/cash-is-dead-why-are-we-still-pretending-it-isn-t-20240510-p5jcl1.html

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@treleanor @timrichards Yes, the homeless beggars are the big losers. I keep a few small notes tucked into my phone case just for this purpose (I don't even carry a handbag any more... my phone does everything).

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@timrichards @treleanor Yes, The Big Issue solved it quickly.

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@treleanor @timrichards They have one of those little white squares, linked to their phone.

timrichards, to melbourne
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New at my Patreon... I visited Matta, a delightful brunch cafe with Japanese influences in the quiet leafy middle suburbs. Curry omelette rice with chicken karaage, anyone?

Dateline Melbourne: Japanese brunch in the suburbs https://www.patreon.com/posts/104028257

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@timrichards Disappointed you didn't try the octopus Tim!

skinnylatte, to random
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I haven’t encountered a single vegetable-centered dish at any of the Thai, Japanese, Malaysian restaurants I’ve visited in LA. It is possible to eat differently from the rest of the world (re a conversation a few days ago about always having to order veggies)

(To be clear, I agree everyone should eat veggies if they want! But also that, there are many cuisines which simply aren’t vegetable-centered)

(I had a very large raw papaya salad, lots of fiber but also enough chilli to kill a bear)

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@skinnylatte Portugal: meat and 4 carbs with every meal! Potato, rice, chips, bread. Tiny bit of salad if you're lucky. 😱

sister_ratched, to random
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Apparently 82% of first- time cruisers will cruise again. Which leaves me in the 18%. #cruising

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@Joseph Yes, I was dragged kicking and screaming to the one cruise I did. I was not pleasantly surprised. And yes, there are so many downsides to it.

timrichards, to random
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I'm off to the Secret Post Office [hums the Secret Post Office tune]

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@timrichards Very sneaky!

NunavutBirder, to worldwithoutus
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As of today the sun will not set here. Not until August. Around the 8th of August.

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@NunavutBirder Woohoo! That was quick.

luciedigitalni, to auspol
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"The gas giants won’t have to explore for new gas fields themselves. Santos, Woodside, Origin, Chevron, BP and Shell won’t have to spend a cent looking for new deposits — you’ll be paying for it instead.


https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/09/labor-gas-plans-fossil-fuel-industry-capture

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@luciedigitalni @MorpheusB Speaking of which, and very rudely butting in, are you across Fiona Carrick (with her party with their own column on the ballot paper) is standing in Murrumbidgee, Lucie?? 🥳

sister_ratched, to random
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Hands up anyone who doesn't own a !!
👋

skinnylatte, to random
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being from a country that's 31 miles at its widest, it'll never not surprise me that i can get in a vehicle and go many hours in one direction and still be in the same country

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@skinnylatte Aussies can get in a plane and still be in Australia after 3 hours.

sister_ratched, to random
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Picked up the lovely French trio again and delivered them to the concert hall. It was dusk so the cockies were deafening, which amused them no end. Looking forward to hearing them do Beethoven tonight, once I've wrangled all the nannas in and out of the lift.

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@MarkAsser Lol. Depends entirely on walking frames and wheelchairs... how many of those were in the Beetle with you?

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@MarkAsser @caity Bloody hell.. four?!

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@MarkAsser @caity Driving suggestions... yes, good description of most Canberra drivers (they'll book me for road rage one of these days!).

jorijn, to random
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It's been an amazing journey since I started toot.community. However, due to personal commitments, I'm stepping down. The community deserves undivided attention, which I can't provide anymore. So, I'm handing the reins over to the reliable hands of the Fedihosting Foundation (https://fedihosting.foundation). I have confidence they'll keep treating you the way you deserve.

I'm grateful for the connections I made here, and I'd like to thank you all for your support and trust in me. It means a lot. ❤️

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@jorijn Oh, we'll miss you. Thanks for everything and I hope you have a well deserved rest (children notwithstanding!). Xx

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When could Australians have access to a new COVID-19 vaccine? | SBS News

On Tuesday, the WHO and EMA recommended an update to COVID-19 vaccines to target the JN.1 variant.

Professor Raina MacIntyre was part of the WHO team which made its recommendation.

Vaccines using mRNA technology can be updated and manufactured in under two months according to MacIntyre and Griffin, but regulatory bodies need to provide the green light, which can lead to delays.

"The speed of the process, from [Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation] recommending it, to [Therapeutic Goods Administration] approvals to roll out is one challenge, which adds to the delay in getting vaccines into arms," MacIntyre said.

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/when-could-australians-have-access-to-a-new-covid-19-vaccine/lyng5ccva

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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 TGA... famously known as a road block, but maybe that's a good thing, generally speaking?

sister_ratched, to random
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On ABC radio this morning there was news of a rehab facility housing male perpetrators of ... yes, they remove the MEN from the home, not the WOMEN and CHILDREN. This is the sort of thing our federal govt should be funding. It makes so much more sense, for so many reasons.

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Library shock (temporary) closure. Smacks of election related motives. Due to reopen a month or 2 before the ACT election. Closes next Wednesday and there's been no announcements til now. Honestly... 😡.
Excellent interview just now with @wodenvalley president Caroline Le Couteur on the ABC.

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Happy May Day !!

timrichards, to Trains
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I'm off on this sleeper train tonight - across 1,325 km from Brisbane to Longreach:

Spirit of the Outback http://queenslandrailtravel.com.au/railexperiences/ourtrains/spiritoftheoutback

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@timrichards Yay!!

sister_ratched, to random
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While we're on the subject of , I'd just like to announce that a common family phrase here, still in use after 6 decades, is "You're such a help, Miss Pat", usually used in situations where someone has stated the bleeding obvious. 😆

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