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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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Shout out to the people asking what the opposite of in is.

si_fuller,
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@dgar The cool kids always tell me the opposite of in is me.

dgar, (edited ) to Nostalgia
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#Dgar Now listening to:
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast
~ Roger Glover and friends.

The entire concept album. Simply amazing.

#DgarRadio #PsychedelicRock #ConceptAlbum #Nostalgia #ExperimentalMusic

https://songwhip.com/roger-glover/the-butterfly-ball-and-the-grasshoppers-feast

si_fuller,
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@dgar Sung by the frog who would become heavy metal legend Ronny James Dio.

dgar, to random
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Life is too short to remove USB safely...

si_fuller,
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@dgar At my last job we had a photocopier where it actually made a difference. If you didn't safely remove it, you'd lose your work.

si_fuller, to random
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Six years I've lived in the desert,
And every night I dream of the sea.

si_fuller, to random
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The graffiti is more refined down this end of town.

timrichards, to coffee
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The Google Doodle today is a flat white. Cute. Is it international coffee day or something?

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Google doodles were once quirky, fun, rare, and often informative. There doesn't seem to be any point to them now. The difference between doing something lighthearted because you can, and doing something because market testing suggested a 3% increase in eye focus, I suppose.

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A confession. I am fully supportive of trans people, and have been for some time. Someone very close to me is in the early stages of their journey. But I cannot fet my head around the "they/them" pronouns. I try, but the language centre of my brain rebels. I think the problem is that it's plural. "She does", "he does", "they do". It doesn't compute to my brain. I'm not trying to make any point here, it's just where I find myself.

Anyway, I will continue to try to be a good ally. I'll master the language eventually.

18+ dgar, to random
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One of the biggest mistakes I ever made in life was back in 1987...

When this pair of dodgy looking bespectacled dudes knocked on my door asking about some sort of sponsored walk.

I stupidly offered them £10 a mile.

And if that wasn't bad enough on its own, they went well overboard letting everyone know about it.

(Stolen from Andy Robinson)

si_fuller,
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@dgar a little while ago I played that song as a joke, it's such a silly thing. But on listening, I was reminded that for all the silliness, it's a damn good tune, and I ended up adding it to my playlist.

mrundkvist, to Astronomy
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Strange coincidence: the ancients name a moving star God the Father, and thousands of years later it turns out to be the biggest planet in our solar system.

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist I don't know if it's a coincidence, it's also the biggest-looking planet from Earth (assuming you don't look down).

dgar, to random
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I’ll never date another apostrophe.

They can be a tad possessive.

si_fuller,
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@dgar I dated a full stop for a period.

dgar, to random
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si_fuller,
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@dgar needs a sleeper car.

mrundkvist, to scifi
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Near-future scifi talking about classic books music movies. And somehow none of them are from the decades between now and the near-future setting.

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist That's one thing William Gibson did well. He had broken down, even antique tech that is futuristic to the reader.

mrundkvist, to history
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A couple of 11th century runic spell amulets found at Köpingsvik invoke Christ and the Virgin Mary on behalf of a woman named Oluv. She is being threatened by ”the roaring giant”, ”the three-headed giant” and ”the unmanly/homosexual giant”.

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist Any idea what these giants were? Presumably she wasn't scared of actual enormous people. Some kind of forces of nature?

timrichards, to auspol
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Why his electorate keeps voting him back in is a mystery. But then Bob Katter keeps getting re-elected too. Personally I'd like something more than "colourful" from my local MP.

Barnaby Joyce video: Parliament’s most colourful character has fallen down. Can he get up again?

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/parliament-s-most-colourful-character-has-fallen-down-can-he-get-up-again-20240214-p5f4w4.html

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Speaking as someone from Katter's electorate (no I don't vote for him), Katter is a loon, but he's a reliable loon with integrity, who genuinely represents the wishes of his support base (entitled farmers).
Joyce is none of that.

dgar, to random
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is checking you out today.

It's long overdue.

Dewey belong together?

Will we find love between the covers?

Happy !

si_fuller,
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@dgar Oh yeah, I forgot libraries shamelessly co-opted a more famous day for themselves. I do miss being a librarian.

timrichards, to random
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Ugh shouty heavy metal on Triple J at 9.15am. Too early in the day.

young thug trash GIF by Kasland

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Never! I used to have a Judas Priest song as my wake up alarm.

I aged out of Triple J years ago, which isn't a good thing. Congrats for carrying the torch.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards @NarrelleMHarris I have the classical station in my car, but mostly I listen to my own online playlists (which contain virtually no classical music)

si_fuller, to random
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Good god. My 6 year old just used the voice command for the TV to play Teen Titans Go. The TV agreed happily and brought up Guyana: The Tragedy of Jim Jones.

si_fuller, to wildlife
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This dragonfly was busy moulting or being dead or something. It ignored me completely. The intricacies of the pattern on its abdomen are awe-inspiring.

#

timrichards, to random
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Blocking people who whinge about paywalled articles. Very satisfying. That is the number one irritating thing about Mastodon, entitled people who insist you post stuff entirely for their convenience.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Is it a convenience thing or an ideology thing? The other place was often "eat the rich", but Mastodon has the recipes all worked out.

timrichards, to Travel
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This is the sort of famous tourist attraction I never ever end up visiting. Life is too short.

Little Mermaid statue, Copenhagen: The world’s most overrated tourist attraction?

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/is-this-the-world-s-most-overrated-tourist-attraction-20240128-p5f0ju.html

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I never know if things like this are a "just me" thing, but surely everyone knew and loved the story long before Disney got its big three-fingered gloves on it. Or at least everyone knew of it.

Tim_Eagon, to Bluey
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I finally watched the 10 S3 episodes that were recently added to Disney+. "Dragon" may be my new favorite, and like every episode that focuses on Chili's family, is subtextually, incredibly sad. And then I saw "Cricket," and I love me some Rusty...

si_fuller,
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@Tim_Eagon Rusty is the best character, always has been.

si_fuller,
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@Tim_Eagon @b4ux1t3 Wait, what? Is that why the horse flies away at the end? My kid has been watching about 6 episodes on constant rotation, and that's one of them. I never got it.

si_fuller,
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@Tim_Eagon I know Disney doesn't air all the episodes, did you see Early Baby?

si_fuller, to random
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Things I accomplished cutting down the (now wasp-less) tree limb with an axe today:
*3 blisters
*skinned elbow
*aggravated damaged nerve
*sore hands
*broken axe handle.
Things I did not accomplish:
*Cutting off the limb.
I've cut 2/3 of the way through, damn thing is defying gravity like a Road Runner cartoon.

si_fuller,
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Maybe I should climb on it and frustratedly jump up and down on it

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