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ameel

@ameel@mastodon.social

Geek, techie, drummer. He/him. Living on Woiworung land in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).

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ameel, to random
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Any recommendations for refurbished laptop stores in Australia? I found two local Melbourne stores (Reboot IT and Renewd) and a store each in ACT, NSW that I can order from online (Australian Computer Traders and Recompute). Please let me know if you've used these or can recommend other refurbished tech stories. Thank you!

(I'm looking for a 5-ish year old ThinkPad to install Linux on for everyday use. My current one is an old gaming laptop, so it's big and heavy.)

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"Two professors […] have narrowed down their search for the choreographer to a teacher’s conference in New South Wales in 1975. […] Line dances were reckoned to be a good way to get children up and moving in physical education classes"

Australia and the Nutbush: the quest for the origin of a cultural phenomenon goes on — https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/05/origins-of-the-nutbush-line-dance-australia-schools

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I'm not usually someone who hears a phrase and thinks, "that'd be a good band name" all the time. But then I heard these two phrases, two days apart:

  • Homuncular Flexibility
  • Creeping Rhizomes

And both would make great band names, right?!

ameel, to melbourne
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Yes, that is a gold-tipped, bright red, high-heel shoe on top of a train carriage at Southern Cross Station in .

ameel,
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@anathema_device Hopefully a fun, wild story you love telling your grandkids :)

Animated GIF of an outdoor party or festival at which there is a food truck. There are a few young men standing and drinking on the roof of this food truck, and then one of them jumps off the side and disappears into the crowd below.

ameel, to random
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"Like their association of civil rights and peace demonstrators with communism throughout the Cold War, politicians on both sides of the aisle are now broadly hurling claims of antisemitism against anyone protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, many of whom are Jewish."

US college administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right — https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732

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"The south-Asia correspondent for Australia’s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a sign of the increasing pressure on journalists in the country under Narendra Modi."

Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/23/abc-south-asia-correspondent-avani-dias-narendra-modi-government

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Do vaccines even work if you don't take a selfie afterwards? 😛

ameel, to random
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Keep an eye on the sky out from Anzac Day onwards!

After an absence of 71 years, the green-tinged Devil Comet returns to Australian skies - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/19/how-to-see-devil-comet-australia-return-12p-pons-brooks-jupiter

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A woman's place is in the sumo ring:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-18/female-sumo-wrestlers-fight-inside-and-outside-the-ring/103657938

ameel, to random
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Today is a pizza and paracetamol kind of day.

And having taken the paracetamol and eaten the pizza (at 4pm, no less) I am feeling better.

ameel, to Typography
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I haven't used Times New Roman since 2008. But, type nerd that I am, I still ended up doing a semi-deep dive into the typefaces I recommend you use instead.

Times New Roman alternatives https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2024/3/31/times-new-roman-alternatives

#typography #fonts #recommendation

ameel,
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@james Thanks!

Usually when people consider Times New Roman alternatives for Linux they talk about Tinos (from Ascender Corp and licensed to ChromeOS), Liberation Serif (from Red Hat and used by LibreOffice), and FreeSerif (from GNU).

I can't remember if I'd come across Linux Libertine before, but now I'll definitely check it out in more depth now. I like the look of it!

I use Bookerly for my ebooks too :) Or sometimes Vollkorn.

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It's 8:30am on Easter Sunday in Melbourne and our next door neighbour's house alarm has been going off for the last five minutes. Our next door neighbour is a priest, by the way. I guess Jesus has risen but nobody gave him the new alarm code.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

ameel,
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@thepoliticalcat They're a nice, friendly bunch and the priest is getting on the years so he's a little slower these days. I did go out and took a look at their place; all seemed well. And they managed to turn the alarm off just a couple of minutes later though, so that's good!

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A sobering read of how far Boeing has fallen from an engineering-first company to a stock price-first company.

Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

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"…while Melbourne wasn't what you would call an "affordable" or "accessible" housing market, it had seen subtle improvements in affordability over time, unlike other capital city markets."

Looking to buy a house? Here are Melbourne's most affordable suburbs | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-24/melbourne-housing-prices-affordability/103576532

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🤞 for a future Aus version too!

"Because most universities keep the findings of misconduct investigations confidential, sexual-harassment perpetrators are often able to move to other institutions without having to disclose why they left their old jobs. Now, a think tank is urging UK universities to join an information-sharing scheme that could make old misdeeds harder to hide."

How to stop ‘passing the harasser’: universities urged to join information-sharing scheme | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00795-1

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Sometimes I'm sad that people have become adept at using hashtags. I miss the days of (Susan Boyle's album launch party) and (jobs at Research In Motion).

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"There’s this notion that Palestinian narratives are not as reliable and should be treated with caution. I hope that it’s finally kind of starting to shift a little bit."

Mona Chalabi on storytelling, the power of data, and covering Palestine - https://www.theverge.com/24093294/mona-chalabi-interview-palestine-gaza-data-viz

ameel, to feminism
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Excellent summary of the 'waves' of feminism in the Western world, and a question about whether that metaphor still has more pros than cons in the current day.

What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next? | https://theconversation.com/what-are-the-four-waves-of-feminism-and-what-comes-next-224153

ameel, to dance
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This is such a joy to watch! Choreography to Gotye's 'Somebody that I used to know'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPPgPcw4hk

ameel, to auspol
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'The solidarity of two women from across party lines has rattled the old guard. That can only be a good thing.'

"For some, McKenzie’s show of support for Belyea was representative of positive politics and a sign of maturity from an MP looking forward to working collaboratively across party lines to deliver outcomes for people in the local area. However, for many in the Liberal Party, it was an “unforgivable” mistake as a member of a party “at war” with Labor."

https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-solidarity-of-two-women-from-across-party-lines-has-rattled-the-old-guard-that-can-only-be-a-good-thing/

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The vapid corporate hijacking of this year's International Women's Day theme continues…

Don’t ‘Inspire Inclusion’ and get duped again on International Women’s Day | https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-blog/dont-inspire-inclusion-and-get-duped-again-on-international-womens-day/

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"[From] Tuesday you will be able to look on the WGEA website and find the median gender pay gap of your large private sector organisation […] and how it stacks up against its competitors."

"While naming and shaming will help make this policy effective […] we should instead look closely at whether the organisation has outlined clear steps it will take to improve."

From this week, you’ll be able to look up individual companies’ gender pay gaps — https://theconversation.com/from-this-week-youll-be-able-to-look-up-individual-companies-gender-pay-gaps-224167

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