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CaraBruar

@CaraBruar@sfba.social

Fantasy writer and poet. She/her. Lover of plants, water and sky. I'm a very visual person and love images, art and design. I try to grow things and make things out of yarn. Living on Wiradjuri country in the Riverina in south eastern Australia.

I also write mysteries and romance as Jai Baidell.

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samhainnight, to random
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While I was at Ross yesterday, I came across a collapsible canvas roof like thing, like you’d see over a stand at a farmers market. Only $35! I’ve been wanting one, so I grabbed it up! Last that evening, I saw one at Costco for $150, so I was like, Score! Still I wondered why no one else had grabbed it from Ross before me.
Dear reader, I realized in the middle of the night, it was because the canvas was red, & no one wanted one for their farmers market booth that might be associated with Trump.

CaraBruar,
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@samhainnight you could paint it. Flowers maybe?

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Love this ivy-pattern tile from a tenement close in the Thornwood area of Glasgow.

CaraBruar,
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@thisismyglasgow that has a folkloric Green Man feel about it

CaraBruar,
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@thisismyglasgow maybe Protestantism frowned on such depictions

timrichards, (edited ) to Trains
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Now free for all to read... I spent two days in the middle of nowhere, rolling across the Nullarbor Plain aboard the Indian Pacific train. Here's what it was like:

Rails across the Nullarbor https://www.patreon.com/posts/97387169

cc @seatsixtyone

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards @seatsixtyone I took that trip for some time alone. It was fantastic as long as I stayed in my cabin otherwise there was too much enthusiastic socialising. Not what I was there for.

CaraBruar, to australia
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Bushfires in Victoria are about 350 to 400 km from us but the smoke from them has arrived here this afternoon.

This is a screenshot from our backyard PurpleAir quality sensor. Best to stay inside.

timrichards, to sydney
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Crikey! Big walking day today.

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards that's a lot of steps. I need a day off if I do 5000. And Sydney is very hilly and humid. I've been enjoying your photos.

skinnylatte, to languagelearning
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Every week I do my language homework, panic about how ‘I don’t know these words’, then realize that all the words I don’t know are the Taigi words that originated from Japanese

Also, I have to zoom in to see how to write some traditional characters, coz I’m getting old (and I actually only know how to write simplified)

CaraBruar,
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@skinnylatte that's interesting, I didn't know that Japanese words were used in Taiwan. Makes sense with the history. Are there also Taiwan origin words and grammar as well as Mandarin?

Fury, to random
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Reading about tuberculosis. In 1815 - UK, 1 in 4 deaths were due to tuberculosis. If you got it, there was no treatment back then, 50% chance you'd fade away slowly within 5 years. 1921 vaccine, 1946 antibiotics. It's still around and is latent in 1/4 of the population. Makes COVID sound like a walk in the park.

CaraBruar,
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@Fury @chestas in the 60s in Adelaide South Australia everyone had to front up for xrays which were done in mobile caravans probably using immense doses of radiation. At age 11 all public school children received TB vaccination which created a horrible scar. Mostly what I remember is the girl in front of me fainting in the queue. So all of us test positive to TB because we have antibodies from vaccination, might have worn off a bit 60 years on 🙂

CaraBruar, to iPhone
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Does anyone else have trouble making touch id work? My hands must be too dry or something. It's becoming a nuisance

CaraBruar, to random
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Finally home after 18 days in hospital. Ok but taking things slow. I was probably ill for months before but didn't realise.

the_rail_life, to random
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Now blog post - The Outback Xplorer

https://theraillife.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-outback-xplorer/

CaraBruar,
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@the_rail_life @timrichards deep down public transport managers don't believe anyone wants to go places other than capital cities

CaraBruar, to random
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Watching Star Trek Prodigy on Netflix. Hugely entertaining.♥️

qurlyjoe, to random
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tonight is The Siberian Dilemma, by Martin Cruz Smith. One of the series of novels featuring Arkady Renko, a senior investigator for the Moscow Police. He always gets in trouble for screwing up official cases by discovering the truth against the wishes of his superiors. The series started during Soviet days and continues to the present. Smith has been banned from Russia because of the bleak accuracy of his portrayal of Russian society. I recommend the whole series.

CaraBruar,
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@qurlyjoe totally support your recommendation, especially Polar Star, fantastic book with amazing descriptions of ice and even a ribbon of humour.

sysop408, to random
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Does anyone else feel like a colossal dork when you enter a store wearing clothes that you bought there? Even better is when they still sell the items you’re wearing.

CaraBruar,
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@sysop408 yeah, I try not to wear them in case they accuse me of theft. I rehearse responses where wearing them is unavoidable

timrichards, (edited ) to random
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I never answer these feedback requests. My time is valuable - if they want feedback, they can pay for it.

The most annoying words online: ‘We’d like to hear from you. How did we go?’ https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/the-most-annoying-words-online-we-d-like-to-hear-from-you-how-did-we-go-20231212-p5eqwk.html

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards these companies are so emotionally needy it's amazing they can turn the lights on each day without someone to tell them what a great job they're doing

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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I finally managed to track down the last couple of street art mosaics in Wilma van der Meyden's Glasgow Street Swallow series. This beautiful one on James Watt Street is made from the type of unglazed porcelain tiles often uses to make threshold mosaics on older Glasgow buildings.

CaraBruar,
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@thisismyglasgow wow, spectacular. I've been enjoying your Glasgow images but this one is truly impressive

skinnylatte, to animals
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Old lady on a rainy day walk

CaraBruar,
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@skinnylatte is that a common thing, boots for dogs? Makes sense but I've never seen them in Australia. They would be good for protection on hot footpaths in summer

sfwrtr, to 13thFloor
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11.28 — Do you target your work to a specific audience?

I was going to say, vaguely, YA, fandom, and SF. Having read so many impassioned responses to this prompt, however, I am going to go with "I write stories that I'd like to read." Indeed, when I reread my own stories, I often get lost in them for hours. I hope you'all will like 'em, too.



CaraBruar,
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@sfwrtr I find myself laughing at my own jokes. Quite pathetic really.

CaraBruar, to photography
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My photo of Hobart, Tasmania, from 2010. I like the foreshortening effect that compresses all the layers together. It might make a good (difficult) jigsaw.

timrichards, to random
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Lovely day here at Middle Park Beach. I can see a cruise ship is in at Port Melbourne. That explains the confused passenger on the number 12 tram who I redirected to the 109, as he was trying to get to a ship.

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards jealous

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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The firm is one of the foundational myths of capitalism. We are trained to believe that the firm—hierarchical, exclusively owned, wage-paying and profit-taking—is a transhistorical phenomenon, a natural and self-evident way of organizing cooperative behavior.

The story goes something like this: a very smart person has an idea, or a very thrifty person has saved capital. That person then hires other people for wages in order to produce some good or service to sell in the market. This person is the owner; the owner owns the whole firm, setting all the rules and issuing the instructions including all of its assets, and collects all of the revenues. They belong to the owner, so obviously that we don’t need to even question it. Workers get compensated for their contribution via wages, a smaller but guaranteed payment now in lieu of a share of larger but riskier profits later.

So the story goes.

1/

CaraBruar,
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@HeavenlyPossum really the firm is a reinvented form of feudalism, rebadged to look modern. The results are the same for the serfs.

timrichards, to random
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TBH I think it's the exchange rate; everything seemed bloody expensive there when I visited last year. Europe by comparison was OK this year, especially for food.

Australia tourist numbers to the US drop: Has the Land of the Free lost its lustre? https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/travel-news/australians-are-avoiding-the-us-has-the-land-of-the-free-lost-its-lustre-20231024-p5eekd.html

CaraBruar,
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@timrichards maybe people don't want to be shot?

JenniferJorgenson, to pics
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CaraBruar,
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@JenniferJorgenson that's an incredible curve of wing you've captured, thank you for sharing it.

melissabeartrix, to random
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Things the government should never sell

Bank
Public transport
Electricity
Water
Gas
Road building and maintenance
Education
Advisors
Unemployment services
Old age services
Retirement homes
Post
Prisons
And more.... I forgot the most important one HEALTH care

Hugz & xXx

CaraBruar,
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@melissabeartrix absolutely agree.

CaraBruar,
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@melissabeartrix state finances are very dodgy. Country towns are full of unused abandoned buildings eg old hospitals, tafe buildings, ambo stations, fire stations, railway sheds, schools. Often built and paid for by the local communities then taken over for 'efficiency'. Now crumbling eyesores that SHOULD be sold for some useful purpose or returned to the community. Instead they are kept, I assume because on the dodgy ledger they can be counted as assets.

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