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si_fuller

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I'm a middle-aged single dad living on the Atherton Tablelands, Australia. I work in Aged Care. Hobbies include tabletop roleplaying games, casual computer gaming, short hikes, and wincing in pain. Take it as read that I believe in all the usual left-wing, egalitarian stuff, but I rarely post about any of it.

I talk about Sweden way too much for someone who isn't in any way Swedish. Sometimes I even try writing in Svensk.

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dgar, to random
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Some people like floors.

I'm more of a ceiling fan.

si_fuller,
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@dgar Viva le revolution!

dgar, to random
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threw a party on the weekend.

It was like an S-Club party.

si_fuller,
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@dgar I made that group you know. Google it if you don't believe me.

si_fuller, to random
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Odd this evening.

Furrowed clouds at dusk, dyed pink and orange by the setting sun.

timrichards, to auspol
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I suspect the upcoming Labour government in Britain will have the same basic problem our Labor government has in Australia – that it's far too timid for its own good.

Keir Starmer’s ‘first steps’ might get him into Downing Street. But there is danger ahead

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/keir-starmer-first-steps-downing-street-britain-labour?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Preaching to the choir I know, but that's why we need five or more parties that are roughly on par. Not this two party nonsense.

The worst thing is, there's nothing in our country stopping parties like the Greens and Democratics and (god help us) One Nation from stepping up, except momentum. At least the UK and US have wonky democracies to blame.

si_fuller, to random
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Ever noticed how a cat's totally honest love for you increases on cold days?

dgar, (edited ) to random
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Hashtag:
Hosted By: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject:
Submission: Don’t Stop Me Now
By: Queen
Submitted by: @dgar
Songwhip Link: https://songwhip.com/queen/dont-stop-me-now
Context: https://mindly.social/@bborn/112453532374865377

“I'm a shooting star, leaping through the sky like a tiger
Defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car, passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go, go, go, there's no stopping me”

si_fuller,
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@dgar @MarkIngs @bborn The redemption of that entire album.

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I have to take a bunch of teens down to Elixir Music House in Cairns to watch some bands. I've never heard of the place, but I was ready to be the one old guy in a crowd of children.

I just looked at their Facebook page, I now think I'll be on the young side.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I don't have a clue.

timrichards, to melbourne
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I'm not too bothered by this. Libraries have other roles than lending books nowadays; the increased study space is much needed.

Melbourne City Library: Book collection culled as shelving reduced to make way for more meeting spaces

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/pulped-fiction-thousands-of-library-books-removed-as-collection-culled-20240509-p5jb7a.html

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Hahaha if only they knew the dark truth. Libraries discard books constantly, often large sections of the collection. I personally destroyed many thousand books in my former career. Often, I enjoyed it.

timrichards, to Korean
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Note: it's "yea or nay?", not "yay or nay?" (Though the pronunciation is the same.)

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Ja eller nej.

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Back home again! My journey back from Longreach to Melbourne broke down as follows:

Spirit of the Outback train 🚂
Airport train 🚊
Plane ✈️
Airport bus 🚍
Tram 🚃

Phew. Feel exhausted just writing that down.

Also on the walk from the tram to the apartment I passed H&M, which had somewhat lurid brothel colours going on:

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I didn't know we had H&M in this country. I bought a selection of very nice undies from H&M when on holiday in a AirBNB that didn't have a washing machine.
Travel. It's all about the memories we make.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards It looks pretty amazing from the outside too.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to Parenting
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I am considering a new dissertation titled

"Parental gender roles, weaponized incompetence, and differing masculinities: Bandit vs Papa Pig."

si_fuller,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy The thing about Bandit is in the first season he was competent, a caregiver, all that stuff that gave the show a good reputation. But later he became more and more like the stereotype, beside his hyper-competent ultimate authority stereotype Mum. He even picked up a weight problem, which is weird because they're all identical rectangles. But the reputation remained.

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Just when you think that food cannot possibly call you on your phone....BOOM!!!

Onion rings.

si_fuller,
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@dgar

si_fuller,
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@dgar It was the most pointless cartoon, but Richard Ayoade voiced Onion, and he's great.

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I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.

I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?

si_fuller,
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@futurebird You know how at the end of Raiders where you see the huge secure warehouse full of mystic artefacts? What if that's exactly what the hidden temples were, and there was some Biblical Indiana Jones who stole the Ark from an even older secure site. And some day, a 45th century Indiana Jones will rob the US warehouse and defy its security.

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