msdropbear42

@msdropbear42@venera.social

👍: Classic Oz+Eng lit, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, satire; Linux+FOSS; Kindness; Gaia.

👎: Cruelty; RWNJs; Anti-Gaia.

Stuff:

  • She/Her.
  • Straya born, Thailand reborn.
  • Linux+FOSS distracts my sadness.
  • Posts autodelete @ 3mths.
  • For Follow-Requests, you MUST have Profile & Public posts, else i'll Reject.

26/8/23: After testing pretty intensively over recent days & nights, i've decided now to give it a go as my new daily home. There's been many accounts, & a couple of ones, since i decided to venture into the Fediverse last November, but none of them quite captured the full Goldilocks essence of what i desire in a Fedi client. Will this one be it? 🤷‍♀️

2/9/23: Unfollowed all my hitherto * hashtags, as just too depressing & pointless 😭

13/9/23: I've broadly enjoyed my UX with Friendica, & admire many of its nice UI features & functions. However, i realised today that many of my posts from my venera.social Instance seem not to show up in my old Mastodon Instance. Whilst i completely recognise that Masto is NOT the Fediverse per se, it's become an important part of it, & i regard it as non-negotiable for my Friendica posts to federate more widely. Hence, from now, til further notice, my primary Fedi home reverts to @MsDropbear .

21/9/21: Ha, flip-around. Have now decided to make aus.social my new daily default [geez i seem to be very flighty!]; @MsDropbear84.

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dgar, to random
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msdropbear42,

@dgar Atm i'm standing at my , & you nearly made me lose my balance & fall over, i was laughing so hard.

You callous monster!

🤣

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Are you the person you always thought you would be?

msdropbear42,

@RickiTarr Yes & no. Prolly mainly no.

dgar, to random
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Incorrectly is the only word that even when written accurately, is still spelled incorrectly.

msdropbear42,

@dgar And in other late-breaking news...

  • Water [in all its phases] is the only stuff on the planet comprising H2O.
  • Wind is the only meteorological agent on the planet measured on the Beaufort Scale.
  • Fire is fscken hot & no correspondence shall be entered into.
  • Earth is the only name of Manfred Mann's band in 1971.
  • Wrong is the only word on the planet which, when pronounced correctly, is an exact rhyming match for Triantiwontigongolope.

What an amazeballs rock!

msdropbear42, to auspol

Taylor Swift Unveils New Outfit for Sydney Shows

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour heads to Sydney this Friday with the singer set to reveal a stunning new set of outfits for the asbestos-ridden city.

Insiders say Swift will take to the stage in a figure-hugging hazmat suit for the first part of the concert, before changing into dazzling sequinned polypropylene coveralls as the show progresses. Throughout the show, Swift will also wear a series of purpose-designed full face silicone respirators, each one representing a different era of her career.

Swift’s promotors say audiences will hardly notice any difference. “There may be some slight rasping noises as Taylor comes to terms with her breathing apparatus, but we don’t think it’ll affect the show,” a spokesperson said.

Sydney Swifties say they are excited to see their hero on stage in her new costumes. “Oh my god I can’t wait to hear her do Blank Space while wearing a breathing apparatus,” one fan said.

theshovel.com.au/2024/02/22/ta…

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

I wasn’t going to toot because I don’t have anything to toot about, but then I decided that I would toot, and this is that toot.

msdropbear42,

@dgar The fediverse equivalent of work for the dole schemes painting rocks.

msdropbear42, to australia

This is fantastic!

abc.net.au/news/2024-01-28/aus…

I absolutely adored the 4' B&W vox pop clip in Kings Cross; just hilarious & captivating. Listening to the voices & delivery therein was only part of the fun though; i was staggered by the massive invasion of personal body space by interviewer & interviewees compared to my own sensibility, plus i suspect that many of the interviewees were around my age now [60s] yet looked 20 years older [which is a major social trend i've observed over my lifetime; what "old" peeps look like has been getting older & older IMO].

#Straya #Strine #Orstralia #Australia #Language #Accents #Pronunciation #Linguistics #Sociology

msdropbear42, to auspol

Rich people who claim to be ‘representing the real working class’ weirdly mad at idea of letting working class people relax after work

Leader of Opposing Peter Dutton has appeared in Parliament today to try and stop the evil unions working with Labor and the Greens from allowing the working class to disconnect and not respond to their bosses emails when they aren’t being paid to.

“The modern Liberal Party is the party of the worker,” he said, “and that is why I support making sure workers are forced to be available to work 24/7. Workers are best when they are made to never allowed to not be workers.”

“Working 9 till 5 is woke nonsense. Lazy entitled people think that the workers should be allowed to do other things with their day, but only the Coalition understands that the average quiet Australian worker loves rushing to respond to texts from their bosses at 3am.”

“The elites say workers should have rights, but I know the workers like to be jesters who dance on the command of rich people. Just the other day I even saw a working class person while she cleaned my office, before I had her fired for trying to look me in the eye.”

chaser.com.au/national/rich-pe…

msdropbear42, to climate

This is great news.

abc.net.au/news/2024-02-22/end…

We should celebrate.

How should we celebrate?

Yes, i know; perfect.

We shall the fsck outta this forest!

samhkennedy, to random
@samhkennedy@aus.social avatar

Labor trying to fix something that it broke. The cost to kids to go to university is a high bar to overcome and to many not worth it.

———-

Australian school attendance and retention rates in long-term decline, report shows https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/06/australia-school-attendance-retention-rates-decline-university-high-school?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

msdropbear42,

@samhkennedy My uni degree was free; i was one of the last generations to have free tertiary education. The entire concept of commercial for-profit tertiary education is abhorrent immoral bullshit. This most stupid & venal of "Clever Countries" has no idea of what is actually important in life, prioritising money, power & Me Me Me over all else. It's disgusting. We're despicable.

dgar, to random
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Don't call me Shirley.

msdropbear42,

@rdm @dgar It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now. 😊 ✈️

msdropbear42, to nature en-gb

Out of pain, comes some welcome joy. 💜

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-01…

msdropbear42, to productivity

Economists and commentators are out of touch with a rapidly feminising workforce

{excerpts; i didn't need to login to read this, so maybe it's not paywalled?}

Soon one in four jobs in Australia will be in health, caring or education. But you'd never know it from our witless 'economic debate'.The impacts on female employment of the government’s revamped stage three tax cuts continue to attract less debate than notionally more glamorous subjects such as the push for more “tax reform”. That’s of a piece with how the ongoing and significant feminisation of the workforce is routinely overlooked by the media and politicians.

What passes for the “productivity debate” barely addresses that the very concept of productivity in education, health and caring is at odds with traditional labour productivity measures. And industry policy is relentlessly focused on manufacturing and trying to re-establish a long-gone past when Australia made trains, or a future in which we make nuclear submarines, and pump out lithium batteries because we want to be a “renewable energy superpower”.

Caring and education services rarely feature in these utopian economic dreams. They crop up more in debate as problems to be solved, not exciting new (old) frontiers for investment — the NDIS is blowing out, there’s not enough access to health services, our educational standards are falling because of poor curriculums/lefty teachers/the woke agenda/not enough employer involvement, public sector pay rises are a disaster for the budget — and so on.

crikey.com.au/2024/01/31/econo…

msdropbear42, to random

Just read this interesting analysis of the recently announced death of .
smh.com.au/business/companies/…
Peeps "of a certain age" will have clear memories of this once iconic vacuum-cleaner business, not least for its "legendary" tv ads [which personally sit in the same exalted pantheon of my teen years as K-Tel ads memories]. After the article itself i then began reading the comments. This one made me gasp & splutter at its cruel wit [again, it'll make no sense to anyone unfamiliar with the old tv ads]...

Godfrey’s has gone the way of the comb-over

😮🤭🤣

msdropbear42, to feminism

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

💯✅👍

Misogyny is a resilient beast with much to protect, ready to shape shift as its survival demands.Women have been taking a more progressive view on politics all century. It is a growing trend that is repeated in Australia.

This is something to celebrate and encourage. Instead, the commentary has focussed on the more reactionary views of some young men – which threaten to embolden authoritarians. The pattern is unmistakeable but local specifics vary and matter.

As almost half the world goes to the polls this year, we will learn whether this generation of better educated, more aware and powerful young women are able to tip the results against authoritarian populists elsewhere as well. As Donald Trump regularly demonstrates, belittling women is a marker of this world view.

Australia, in its occasional role as an early marker of global trends, embraced this movement early. In the 2022 election professional women in the teal independents remade the traditionally conservative inner suburban heartland of the Liberal party in their image. The Labor party pre-selected record numbers of women and acknowledged their power to change the agenda.

This was in no small measure the result of the grand lessons of courage and refusal to be shamed, embodied by Grace Tame, Chanel Contos and Brittany Higgins. Their advocacy changed the political terrain – taking men and women on an empowering journey, changing laws, curricula and expectations.

They have since been battered by the business-as-usual brutality of the Australian political/legal/media machine.

By focussing on the political gap between young women and men, the beacon of hope is obscured. In Australia the data shows that young men are also more progressive than they were two decades ago.

msdropbear42, to auspol

Australians Who Don’t Have Fun on Australia Day Should Be Fined, Dutton Says

Australians who are caught not revelling in the delight of Australia’s national day would receive a $149 on-the-spot fine under a Coalition Government, the Opposition Leader has confirmed.Announcing the new measures, Dutton said 26th January was a special day for our nation and people better bloody well enjoy it.

“Australia Day is an absolute privilege and I would be very disappointed, furious in fact, if it wasn’t the highlight of the summer for each and every one of you,” Dutton said.

The Liberal Leader said Border Force and other national agencies would be used to personally ensure both citizens and permanent residents were having an absolute blast. “I don’t care what your excuse is. If you’re not having a fair dinkum crack at having a good time, then you better bloody well start enjoying yourself quick smart”.

Those not showing outward signs of enjoying themselves will be given one verbal warning, before being issued with the fine.

theshovel.com.au/2024/01/17/au…

yanncphoto, to random French
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    msdropbear42,

    @yanncphoto She turned me into a newt!

    ada, (edited ) to random
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    Important poll time

    Is your fediverse handle also a valid email address for you?

    msdropbear42,

    @ada Nope.

    msdropbear42, to auspol

    If the result tonight goes to , then i'm done with this country, hopping in my car, driving north, crossing the border, & moving to Canada.

    No, wait...

    sister_ratched, to random
    @sister_ratched@toot.community avatar

    I've forgotten my hearing aids, AGAIN. I've had bright orange signs on the front door for 5 days and am already inured to them! I'll have to start setting an alarm for every time I'm going out. Grrrrr....

    msdropbear42,

    @sister_ratched @melissabeartrix Glasses broken.

    Oh noes! 😱

    18+ ada, to random
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    I saw Dune 2 yesterday, and it somehow, it felt like it was too long and too short.

    I've read a lot of classic sci-fi, but I couldn't get through the Dune books, so I didn't really know the storyline going in, yet the second half of the movie felt like it was jumping all over the place without really taking the time to provide context or explore the consequences/meaning.

    Yet I also couldn't wait for it to end. Not because it was bad, but just because 3 hours in a cinema is too long for my poor ADHD self, and the wriggles were kicking in big time.

    If they'd have turned it in to two 2 hour movies instead of a single nearly 3 hour movie, I think I'd have had a much better time.

    msdropbear42,

    @ada I read the series in my teens. I confess i found it a real slog; the rich dense lore was so overwhelming that i felt i was consistently wading thru literary molasses. I still have the same paperback set on my bookshelf now, but almost 50 years later, with fuzzy vision, shortened concentration span, & ever-declining cognition, the probability i'll re-read them now is zero. In the 80s, my 20s, a friend & i saw the original film. It was unambiguously one of the all-time worst films i've ever seen.

    luciedigitalni, to auspol
    @luciedigitalni@aus.social avatar

    ICYMI the AUKUS nuclear submarine fantasy is over, already.

    So can someone please stop Richard Fucking Marles from handing over billions of Australian taxpayer dollars to prop up the US submarine production facilities that will provide precisely zero direct benefit to Australian's national security?


    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/us-defence-announcement-raises-questions-on-aukus-anniversary/103578408

    msdropbear42,

    @sister_ratched @luciedigitalni

    on abc morning radio with PK

    A certain leather jacket was on with her this morn, saying this as well.

    heluecht, to helpers

    I want to create a new functionality and I need some ideas. I want to add an option to contacts, so that their posts don't appear in the network timeline anymore. But in difference to "ignored", "collapsed" or "blocked" this has got no further consequences. It is meant especially for contacts that you want to aggregate in a dedicated channel. So for example you could decide to subscribe to a lot of news channels, but you don't want to see them in the network timeline, since they post that often. Instead you create a channel for them and browse them from time to time. Same could be an option for groups or for feeds.

    This filter would work for threads that are started by this special account. I would try to expand this to posts that are reshared by these accounts or by threads that are fetched, because this account commented in the thread. (The last two parts could be more challenging)

    My questions are:

    • Do you think that this is a good idea?
    • Could it be done better than an option on the contact page?
    • How could this be named, so that users don't misunderstand the functionality?
    msdropbear42,

    @hypolite @heluecht Yes

    receiving posts from ignored and blocked contacts, which then become collapsed.

    I discovered this yesterday & today, to my chagrin. Tbh i was unhappy, coz when i've decided that someone is so unpleasant that i never wish to interact [even passively] with them again, i was shocked & unhappy that they still show in my network timeline, albeit collapsed with warning as you said. If i had my druthers, i'd never see any aspect of them again.

    Melpomene, to mastodon
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    Thinking about moving instances; feel a bit isolated where I am. Any suggestions? , , ?

    msdropbear42,

    @Melpomene Not only

    , , ?

    Also

    ,

    Wrt the former, fyi:
    friendica.fediverse.observer/l…

    z428, to helpers

    I'm then and now experiencing a strange behaviour in Friendica web (frio): Having a post with a longer thread below, I expand the thread and interact (like, reshare) with some messages in there. If I do that, more than just once a few moments after that interaction the display somehow seems to "scroll" or "jump" or reposition, not sure by which pattern, in some cases the comment I interacted with being scrolled to back or bottom, in some cases scrolling up or down the thread. Seems to happen on all browsers I tested so far, and somehow feels related to clicking, say, a "like" thumb and the background activity triggered by that being finished. Am I the only one to see that? Anyone else? This isn't really a big deal but a bit annoying as you again and again lose track of where you were.

    msdropbear42,

    @z428 It happens to me a lot, & tbh it's pretty exasperating. Because of it i frequently lose my reading place in my network timeline, & need to manually scroll up & down to "rediscover" where i was. This does not happen in my Masto* account.

    I have a [non-technical, entirely guessed] hypothesis. I suspect that "interacting" with the subject post somehow "triggers" to then check for new items in the fediverse, to insert at the top of my timeline, which then abruptly displaces my "reading point" down by the number & size of new posts added.

    • If true, i would mention this; Mastodon allows users to avoid this unpleasant inconvenience, by an optional setting in Preferences. When enabled [which many Masto users do, afaik], new toots are prevented from automatically entering the top of the timeline & displacing it down, instead generating a small notification atop the timeline noting the availability of new content. Then, at a time chosen by the user, they can manually click that actionable notice, which loads the new content. I really wish we had this in Friendica!
    luciedigitalni, to random
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    Just remembered to get the recycling bin out and the truck came a few short minutes later.

    This is going to be a good week

    msdropbear42,

    @luciedigitalni Noice! 🎉

    There's so much about how the universe works that's utterly incomprehensible to me. Here's a recent one, for instance.

    Last week i had someone come over to do some extensive tree trimming. He did it, pretty well afaict, & ofc it generated heaps of residue. He spent much time cutting up the smaller stuff & stuffing it into my council green wheelie bin, til it was as full as a goog. He kindly offered to wheel it down to the street kerb for me. I said ta, & he did; i accepted that i'd possibly have silent opprobrium from some neighbours at my bin being out there for the almost week it would need before its designated "bin day" arrived again.

    The next morning, opening my blinds, i was gobsmacked to see the bin had been emptied. It was still several days from the "right" day.

    I give all credit to environmentally-conscious space-aliens (oh, & ofc also to ). Nothing else is remotely plausible. 🤪

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