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Posts about food, games, tech, politics, being a single parent, and the small humans that wreck me

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skinnylatte, to random
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Eating ‘fire noodles’ at midnight because I can! (Look it up on YouTube if you don’t know what it is)

sortius,
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@skinnylatte here's hoping you don't wake in agony at 3am 😆

grivettcarnac, to Ottawa
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We’ve put roughly 4,800 kms on two e-bikes in just over a year. ~2,800 on the Yuba (no riding Dec-March) since end of April last year and 2,000 kms on our Load4 75 Reise & Muller since the end of August, 2023. We’ve had lots of bus trips and I’m averaging only 9 kms of walking a day. Living without a car can be very fucking frustrating and limiting in a city like but I wouldn’t trade it for anything

sortius,
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@grivettcarnac I did trade my cargo bike(s) for inner city living, and while I do miss them a bit, no regrets. The main reason is the trams here in Melbourne; without them I'm not sure I'd feel the same. I'll probably end up getting a new cargo bike, just to have it, soon enough. 😆

Still, 4800km is quite insane. Even in the suburbs I was doing maybe 1500km a year. Nice work

sortius, to random
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I'm seeing a lot of people fundamentally misunderstanding the difference between the ICC and the ICJ. Mixing the two up is the first tell-tale sign you should not be commenting on the ICC prosecutor's applications for arrest warrants

sortius, to random
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Aaah, great, Biden, so hell bent on facilitating genocide, has now attacked the ICC, and, by doing so, legitimised Hamas' 7th of October attack.

By dismissing the charges of the ICC's prosecutors, Biden has made clear that the ICC is wrong in all counts, and that both Netanyahu, and Yahya Sinwar, are off the hook.

I'm not sure that should sit well with Zionists, or anti-genocide groups, but that's what Biden has done.

Tell me again how he's better than Trump

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@msquebanh yeh, I grew up with the two Bush Presidents invading Iraq, Obama was a breath of fresh air until he started justifying his drone strikes on weddings.

At that point I knew the American experiment was finished, or maybe it never even started.

As much as I think there's a large portion of Americans who are decent people, their political options are limited, and their governmental and electoral systems are designed to disenfranchise them at every turn

sortius, to auspol
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Bandt on the money, again.

Why are they acting surprised that Labor is backing gas? Labor is a party funded by fossil fuel companies, and bolstered by the MEU, once part of the CFMEU.

No one can be so naive to actually think Labor would take real steps against climate change, right? Look what the unions did to the last Labor PM that actually did

sortius, to random
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Well, RFK Jr's brain worm is at least a high profile case that will maybe give people pause about their food hygiene.

It's something that I harp on about with the kids: the two most dangerous foods in the house are pork and chicken. Pork for the porcine tapeworms, and chicken for the salmonella.

Both my kids know that on a stove (not sous vide!) you get pork to 64°C and chicken to 74°C

sortius, to random
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sigh my daughter is currently turning the double stuffed Oreos she got as a treat at the shops into quadruple stuffed Oreos

sortius, to gaming
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My ex is heaps into the idea of "10k hours" becoming mastery.

So I sent her this, with the caption "I'm a double master at "

sortius, to auspol
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Equality Australia, who were mostly behind the successful Marriage Equality Plebiscite campaign, have a petition up about Cumberland Council in Sydney importing American book bans to the local library.

I don't normally ask people to sign petitions, but if you're in Australia, we need to end this practice before it begins, so, please do sign.

Book bans are causing immense harms in the US, we don't want or need it here https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/

sortius, to random
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Ugh, I think my gout is spreading to my ankles, thanks to my regular intake of allopurinol 😖

Not pleasant at all

sortius, to random
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Oh great, Wednesday is a pupil free day. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with the kids.

Maybe finally take them to SinJeon for lunch

stux, to Sony
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Well, I guess that’s it for #HELLDIVERS! It was fun as long as it lasted but like always, corporate greed has taken over

#Sony now required people to link their #Steam to their Sony-soon-gets-hacked-again accounts

I, like so many other players refuse this and just stopped playing all together since Sony just doesn’t give a shit about security

Review updated, guess they got what they wanted

sortius,
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@stux I've seen some pretty poor defense of these actions, and I can't really swallow it.

They knew from the start that Sony was going to do this, they should have made clear that a Sony PSN account would be needed.

It's pretty deceptive, and I'd be pissed, too, even if I had a PSN account already

sortius, to auspol
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I see we're already getting the centrist hacks painting it as a "tough budget" for Chalmers.

Fuck off.

There's nothing "tough" about the budget. It's fucking champagne and caviar... for the rich.

For the poor it's "We'll do what's fiscally responsible", a meaningless phrase created by meaningless people like Chalmers and Albanese

sortius, to random
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Morning feed drama in the big tank!

The firemouth is real skittish, as expected, and the Jack Dempsey is just chilled as this morning. The firemouth snatched a food granule, went and hid below the wood structure, and started chewing, the JD just cruises over and starts chewing right in his face, staring him down.

She finishes the food, yawns, and he bolts toward the back of the tank 😆

At least I got to assess his damage: scratched face, half his tail missing, and a chunk of dorsal fin gone

sortius, to random
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Doritos for breakfast is ok, right?

sortius, to random
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The things that happen in Fitzroy.

Walking to/from the local community backyard and someone was sitting on the side of the road, playing an ocarina

fakeyarratrams, to random
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After community consultation we have redesigned the new G class tram, to fit more in with the recommendations.
But to be honest, we think Depot Cat may have swayed the results somehow. What do you reckon?

sortius,
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@fakeyarratrams unfortunately I showed him, so the only job left is Yarra Trams exec 😖

sortius, to random
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Another brown jounalist loses their job for daring to challenge genocidal Israeli propagandists.

LBC have taken Sangita Myska off the air for her questions regarding Israel's acts of aggression against Iran.

Any news organisation that attempts to protect Israel is actively participating in genocide, and every employee, willingly or not, becomes a party to said genocide.

If you choose to stay silent as a journalist, you're the problem

seachanger, to random
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thinking about rebuilding our public squares in a hybrid digital age

  1. encourage public entities to share public info on public channels, not private platforms

  2. embrace sharing in real life, use email, snail mail, private messenger, radio, newspaper, public forum, neighborhood scale gathering

  3. create and use nonprofit and publicly owned social sharing platforms, but prioritize real life sharing when possible

sortius,
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@seachanger I know this is something people don't want to hear, but I can only speak to my lived experience.

What kills communities is cars. As much as we like to think about "online communities" being communities, they are not. I'm not saying they're a bad thing, but they're not a replacement for actual community.

I spent the last 7 or so years living in suburban Melbourne; great despite public transport, car central. No one walked, everything was "a quick drive to <insert place>" 1/2

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@seachanger I rode my cargo bikes, but even then, no one interacted with me.

It was until I moved back into the city I realised how much cars prevent day-to-day "hellos" in the street.

In the suburbs, where the car ruled, I was gaining weight, isolated, felt like it was killing me, but now I know people I live around, shop owners, even local figures (like "Carrot Man"); hell, I've even lost weight!!! All because most people walk or ride around here 2/2

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think we can now stop saying “google it” when looking for info. No one will find it there.

sortius,
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@StillIRise1963 hear hear, I know it's difficult for me to drop Google, but I've been making a concerted effort over the past few years to say "Do a web search" rather than "Google it"

msquebanh, to random
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The #HiddenDisabilitiesSunflower program is designed for people who have what are sometimes called #InvisibleDisabilities.

A sunflower symbol displayed on a green lanyard, which is available for free at the airport, allows the wearer to voluntarily show that they have a -disability and may need extra time, patience or help.

Burns said the lanyard could be used by anyone with a hidden disability, such as autism, multiple sclerosis, COPD, dementia and hearing loss.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/travel/news/moncton-airport-adopts-international-program-to-recognize-people-with-hidden-disabilities/ar-AA1nzdD0

sortius,
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@msquebanh I like this idea. I feel bad asking for tram seats, even if my feet and back are screaming, or my IBS is causing me to double over in pain.

I don't feel like justifying my invisible disabilities to randoms 😖

sortius,
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@msquebanh yep, even if just to make interactions less uncomfortable. I'm sure I'm not alone in avoiding confrontation when it comes to travelling

sortius, to random
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I'd forgotten about this, but was reminded when looking through some old notes.

Netflix has super secret categories that you can't find without using category codes (all explained here, with a comprehensive list of them https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-netflix-id-bible-every-category-on-netflix/).

A good example for us Aussies is trying to find Australian movies, look no more, category 5230 is where you want to look (https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/5230)

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