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damonism

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Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia).

Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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luciedigitalni, to auspol
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I don't think the fact that the AEC is proposing a new seat called Bullwinkel is getting enough attention

#AusPol

damonism,
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@luciedigitalni Cox has entered the chat. (I remain convinced that Cox was a joke that got out of hand, knowing a few people who were on the redistribution secretariat back then.)

damonism,
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@luciedigitalni The question of whether Bean was antisemitic kept me quite busy for a while back then (I think I landed on: probably not specifically antisemitic, probably just a dick.)

damonism, to random
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It’s so long ago that I last used ICQ that even with an email archive that goes back almost 20 years I have no record of what my ICQ number was.

damonism, to random
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I worked from home today so I ended up spending most of the evening tweaking my home keyboard firmware to make it work better with the sorts of computery things I do for work.

damonism,
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I realise this is purely a me thing, but one of my main issues is being able to easily type an em-dash and en-dash in Windows on my keyboard. Without that, I feel lost.

damonism,
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What I usually do is make it work like a Mac – alt-hyphen for an en-dash and shift-alt-hyphen for an em-dash, but this keyboard has too few keys so the hyphen is on a layer, so that would be four keys for an em-dash, which requires a bit more dexterity than I typically possess.

damonism, to random
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Not at all ominous to have an enormous raven land right next to me at the bus stop and state at me.

agiletortoise, to random
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I’m so old I remember when the web was useful.

damonism,
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@agiletortoise I’m so old I remember when the web was fun.

damonism, to random
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This post reminded me of one of my favourite stories from my old job. I was working at a research library and got a call from a librarian at a departmental library. She said, essentially: I know it’s a long shot but I’m looking for this specific document that was used for this one-off event 25 years ago and which never had any official status and which we know exists but doesn’t seem to be mentioned publicly anywhere.

An hour later I called her back: I don’t have a copy of the document but the guy who wrote it is currently driving back from Bunnings and when he gets home he’ll email it to you. Is there anything else I can help you with?

I could hear her jaw hit the floor over the phone.

Sometimes when you’re good at your job it can look like magic. Finding out shit is literally my job, but it’s nice when people appreciate it. https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/112453470424319654

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