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Still learning…but this is me. Love physical exercise like yoga 🧘🏼‍♀️ pilates or balance 🤸🏼‍♂️plus a bit of pump 🏋🏼‍♀️ but also happy to just walk 🚶‍♀️ I believe we’ve lost our way when it comes to food & am a proponent of J.E.R.F. Just Eat Real Food & very little processed or packaged food. Love my garden, especially when I grow my own produce. Not very good at it, but that’s ok. At 71 life is pretty damned good, healthier than I was 30yrs ago & intend to stay that way for as long as I can. Wiradjuri country.

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timrichards, to Trains
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Another V/Line train trip today. I'm heading to Bendigo to have lunch with my brother. As you do. A bit easier now that the country train fares in Victoria Victoria have been capped at $10.60 per day.

feather1952,
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@timrichards
Have a great lunch with your brother.

feather1952, to random
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Ok mastodon brains trust, especially Aussie ones. Anyone know what little bugs come out of this. There were two of them & both shaped almost like the Tesla logo. There was also a little green praying mantis nest (or whatever they’re called) nearby. Very soft & papery to touch.

feather1952, to auspol
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Why would Laura tingle be under fire when she’s just saying what we all see & hear!

ABC's Laura Tingle under fire for 'racist Australia' comment

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2024/05/27/laura-tingle-racist-australia

feather1952, to sourdough
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Good morning tooting friends. Slept incredibly well last night, I get super fidgety when I’m tired & I was that way by about 9.30pm last night probably due to the lovely walk yesterday. A little frost outside this morning, first I’ve seen this year although I know there’s been another one at least. Oven on as soon as I got up at 6am & I have freshly baked bread by 7.30am, smells awesome. I’ve already had eggs 🍳 for breakfast though, this will be lunch once it’s cooled. Gym first up today then a visit to my daughters to drop some things off & a coffee. I enjoyed yesterday so much I have it in mind to go for another walk this afternoon. I’ll see how I feel later.
Happy Monday everyone

feather1952, to auspol
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Extreme inequality has gotten worse!

‘Everybody has not won’: trickle-down economics was an idiotic idea. How do we fix the inequality it causes?

https://theconversation.com/everybody-has-not-won-trickle-down-economics-was-an-idiotic-idea-how-do-we-fix-the-inequality-it-causes-223296

feather1952, to auspol
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Bloody hell!

News Corp and OpenAI partnership raises ethical concerns

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2024/05/23/newscorp-openai

timrichards, to random
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That's odd. The UK election is being held on the USA's Independence Day, while the US election is being held on the UK's Guy Fawkes Night.

Don’t know if we can draw anything from that, but it's curious...

feather1952,
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@timrichards
So there will be all sorts of fireworks 🧨 on both days now 😁.

timrichards, to random
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Good overview.

A humiliating election speech, with little to offer. Sunak’s USP was competence – what of that now?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/election-rishi-sunak-pm?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@timrichards
I won’t be sad to see the back of Sunak & his government.

feather1952, to random
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Good morning tooting friends. Lovely day yesterday wandering Yarrawongas foreshore & main streets with my friend. We were trying to find somewhere for lunch & came across a tiny gated alley way with sign out front advertising homemade foods, so down we went & there was a lovely grassed area with tables & chairs, a few small raised garden beds & a little building where the food was prepared & sold & it was just lovely. I had house made tomato soup with toast & my friend had pumpkin risotto. Absolutely delicious & reasonably priced. Hidden gem. Obviously popular with locals as within half an hour of arriving there the place was full.

feather1952,
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@msquebanh
It’s lovely isn’t it. I’ve always enjoyed exploring alley & laneways - you often find interesting & quirky things.

timrichards, to streaming
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    feather1952,
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    @timrichards
    I don’t subscribe to any at all & I still have more than enough things to watch. Some of our on demand stations are really good so why pay? When I house sit, most homeowners have some streaming services & I check them out but mostly I’m meh!

    timrichards, to writing
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    If I ever wonder whether travel writing might be frivolous, I think of the poor souls who write recaps of reality TV episodes. If I found myself doing that, I'd be seriously questioning my life choices.

    feather1952,
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    @timrichards
    I find this type of reporting rarely clever, often cringey & often eliciting a groan & eye rolls!

    feather1952, to random
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    The book ban by Cumberland Council has been reversed 12-2. Brilliant news.
    https://www.instagram.com/p/C6_VPtDPGUa/?igsh=bDhyYmVlNHk2aHVs

    feather1952,
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    @MorpheusB
    Absolutely & I’ve just read in all the years it’s been there it’s been taken out just once. Although I guess people could read it in there.

    feather1952,
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    @MorpheusB @luciedigitalni
    I did think that myself 😁.

    luciedigitalni, to auspol
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    Don't look at this unflattering portrait of Gina Rinehart. It upsets her.


    https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait

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    @luciedigitalni
    Such a shame I can’t get to Canberra to see it especially as Gina has drawn attention to it.
    It’s obviously how the artist sees her & that’s how it should be.

    timrichards, to hongkong
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    Some cool street art I saw in Hong Kong in 2017. It's quite small, just above the steps.

    feather1952,
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    @timrichards
    I love it 😍.

    anathema_device, to random
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    This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

    Researchers engineered a hair-thin fabric to create a lightweight, compact, and efficient mechanism to reduce noise transmission in a large room.

    https://news.mit.edu/2024/sound-suppressing-silk-can-create-quiet-spaces-0507

    feather1952,
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    @anathema_device
    I’ll have these down the side of my unit so I don’t hear the dogs barking & one for the back bedroom to cut the road noise out.
    Actually - I’ll have curtains out of this for every room in the house - I love the sound of silence.

    timrichards, to melbourne
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    this looks good. Another fancy sandwich place,but this time serving something unusual called a tigella. Sounds tasty.

    Emilietta sandwich shop in Melbourne CBD serves Italian sandwiches

    (maybe paywalled) https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/melbourne-eating-out/this-hatted-city-restaurant-is-now-serving-a-rare-italian-sandwich-you-should-know-about-20240509-p5jb8a.html

    feather1952,
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    @timrichards
    This type of thing would definitely appeal to me, maybe for the next time I’m in Melbourne. It says it’s in Gills Alley, but I can’t find it on the map 🤷🏼‍♀️.

    feather1952,
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    @timrichards
    Thank you ☺️. I know exactly where that is now.

    timrichards, to hamburg
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    A photo I took on this date in 2016 - a somewhat nautical mural on the stairs at the Ameron Hotel in Hamburg, Germany.

    feather1952,
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    @timrichards
    It’s pretty cool. I love finding things like this in places I visit.

    johnquiggin, to random
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    Hard to see much difference between and these days Fortunately, my local member is Elizabeth Watson-Brown, so neither will get a preference from my votes.

    feather1952,
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    @johnquiggin
    Minority government next time around I think.
    Although honestly a minority Lib government isn’t at all appealing as they’ll have the Nats on side every step. Minority Labor would be best.

    feather1952,
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    @Susan60 @johnquiggin
    Labor need another bloody big scare imo. Maybe 🤞🏼if they get one we’d actually have an effective government not just after the next election, but the one after that.
    Dutton & the Libs can get on the scrap heap. They don’t work for anyone but themselves & their cronies now.

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    Today's random bonus item in my Woolies delivery is a $46 bottle of magnesium tablets

    feather1952,
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    @luciedigitalni
    I take one of these every night & that’s one expensive bottle!

    timrichards, to random
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    Every time I read or hear the word "eshay", I look it up and then immediately forget what it means. I've just been watching Heartbreak High, looked it up, and now I think I've forgotten it again. Will not stick.

    feather1952,
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    @timrichards
    I had to look that up as I’d never even heard it before.
    I’m the same with shortened or initialised phrases like tgif - & that’s the only one I can think of right now because I don’t remember them!

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