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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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timrichards, to random
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Amazing how much more enjoyable this place has been since I muted everything related to the virus and Twitter. Muting works.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I sometimes regret some of the excellent posts I must be missing out on, just because they share words with subjects I've muted.

A muskox in the snow

timrichards, to random
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Apparently northern Sweden is a bit cold (well we knew that anyway)

‘You live in your own bubble’: Swedish city takes on loneliness with a simple hi https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/swedish-city-lulea-loneliness-campaign-to-say-hello?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I used to know someone in Luleå, but I lost contact when that thing happened to that social media company.

timrichards, to random
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Maybe superhero movie fatigue is real. I like comic books but not often the movies based on them, increasingly pedestrian and derivative.

The Marvels: Brie Larson film opens disastrously at box office https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/what-went-wrong-as-the-marvels-opened-disastrously-in-cinemas-20231113-p5ejlk.html

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I don't know, they've been talking about superhero fatigue since, what, the first Avengers movie?

But it is interesting to see that most of the top grossing Marvel movies are also my least favourite.

timrichards, to random
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Lovely day here at Middle Park Beach. I can see a cruise ship is in at Port Melbourne. That explains the confused passenger on the number 12 tram who I redirected to the 109, as he was trying to get to a ship.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards

mrundkvist, (edited ) to fantasy Swedish
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Facebook has realised that I'm into and . It mistakenly believes that this is a good reason to bombard me with jokes pertaining to Star This, Star That and the Lord Have You Got Bling movies. Apparently people who like these genres but are not interested in "franchises" and never watch TV series are a rare demographic.

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist I started again on Facebook the other day because it's the only way my kid's school chooses to communicate.
For reasons that elude me, Facebook has decided to bombard me with accounts (plural) devoted to photos of young women driving tractors, of all things. What the hell is the market for that specific combination?

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist Slightly more cleavage, but only slightly. And much less interesting tractors.

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist

Another, just to prove there are multiple accounts of the same thing being suggested at me. I just don't get it.

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist Haha, you must be my age, when you start looking for your kids and not for yourself.

mrundkvist, to mentalhealth Swedish
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Sad and weird to listen to Soundgarden's excellent song "Blow Up The Outside World". Chris Cornell, then 28, sings pretty explicitly about contemplating suicide, and eventually he killed himself at 53. )-:

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist I didn't realise he'd died. Sad.

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I'm sitting in café, working on my laptop like some kind of Melbourne person.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Atherton. I didn't think to bring a power cord ...

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@timrichards Atherton has like 20 cafes on the main street alone. It's cafe mad.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to 13thFloor
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Just found out there is a version of the Iliad where, after the death of Achilles, his mother Thetis turns into a seal and takes revenge by hunting down Helen.

There is an ancient Greek horror story hidden in there somewhere, about Helen being hunted by a vengeful pinniped...

#mythology #folklore #storytelling #FolkHorror #seals

si_fuller,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy I like the ghost seal in Eyrbyggja Saga. It just kind of popped its cute puppy head out of the floor boards and stared, and all these manly vikings fainted.

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At home, much closer to the actual fires. No filters, the fire isn't that far from my house. Not at risk yet, but preparing just in case we have to go tonight.

timrichards, to random
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Hello, that is very acceptable weather indeed. Think I might go for a walk to North Melbourne at lunchtime.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Here's my local weather report. Bushfires are actually getting a bit close to my house for comfort now

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Actually no. I'm not in that much risk yet, but normally I'm at no risk at all. I will definitely prepare today though.

mrundkvist, to scifi Swedish
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Did anyone hear my talk?

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist No. But on the subject of exposure, a podcast I listen to, A Flatpack History of Sweden, has cited you a couple of times. That was nice.

si_fuller,
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@mrundkvist I can't remember exactly right now, but to do with your archaeological work. It's a nice cozy podcast, currently looking at 15th century Sweden.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to animals Hungarian
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Alright Mastodon, tell me about your favorite weird animals 😄

si_fuller,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy The muntjaq is one I recently learned of. It’s a tiny deer with long fangs, and it has all of these scent glands on its face that pop open and closed in a very unsettling way.
https://youtu.be/XDKiBL8bVsk?si=Q_UdPwVb02NNp9Zz

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    si_fuller,
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    @decryption I haven't benn in decades, but I used to love it. Do they not still have that German tank?

    timrichards, to melbourne
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    Unusually coloured car captured as I walked down the narrow end of Bank Place toward Collins Street the other day.

    What is that colour, anyway? Mauve? Fuchsia?

    si_fuller,
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    @timrichards Is there a tone called Haemorrhoid?

    mrundkvist, to space Swedish
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    The V2 rocket was the first artificial object to reach outer . Its fuel was made from potatoes.

    si_fuller,
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    @mrundkvist Spudnik.

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    I just found this on the body of a guard I murdered for fun. Baldurs Gate knows how to hurt you.

    timrichards, (edited ) to random
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    Somewhat regretting choosing the café closest to Docklands Library today. It's in a building appallingly designed for cold weather - big sliding doors that regularly funnel cold air through, cafe door open to that blast, cafe window open for coffee sales. Fine on hot days, horrible on cold days.

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    @timrichards Europe has this down to a science, of course. Sensible exits, double glazed windows, effective insulation, you end up more comfortable and save money heating and cooling in the long run. They have less of a "why bother" culture, of course.

    mrundkvist, to Archaeology
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    All arguments that the 700s should count as part of the Period can equally well be used to argue that the 800s should count as part of the Vendel Period. It's a pointless thing to try to change.

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    @mrundkvist I like the idea of middle-aged vikings sitting around in the year 830, saying "remember the vendel period? The awful clothes, the awful hairstyles, so embarrassing."
    "Oh Thor, remember those ridiculous elaborately decorated helmets we used to get about in? Mine had pigs all over it."
    "Yeah we thought we were so cool. The music was pretty good though."

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