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davej

@davej@dice.camp

Carer by necessity. Catservant by demand. Roleplayer by avocation. Australian by birth. Ethnically Gen-X/culturally Millennial.

Formerly @il_beavo on Twitter. Previous lives in politics, hospitality, and frontline passenger rail management. Currently a full-time vagabond.

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davej, to australia
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‘Enormously exciting’ found in opal field suggest had ‘age of ’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/27/enormously-exciting-fossils-found-in-nsw-opal-field-suggest-australia-had-age-of-monotremes

davej, to Portraits
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It transpires that there’s not one, but TWO that 's richest person wants taken down. I include them herein for your artistic critique.

A colour, painted portrait of Gina RInehart, with “Gina” written above it. Here, she’s shown with a receding hairline, broad forehead, a more slender face, but again, multiple chins.

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

davej,
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@RickiTarr I don’t often love an ENTIRE album, but Alabama Shakes’ “Sound & Color” is one of those rare exceptions: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nXCzuULcqEBntzlvhv7VWuju50aUuv2Vk

davej,
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@RickiTarr Granted, Spoek Mathambo’s “Control” is a cover, but it leaves the Joy Division original in the dust, IMO: https://youtu.be/UKfwSFI8LhQ

davej,
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@RickiTarr And how can your acquaintance not even have heard of funk? https://youtu.be/9J3lwZjHenA

RickiTarr, to random
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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

davej,
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@RickiTarr We sold our house 7-8 months ago and bought a (secondhand) SUV and caravan. My wife, my cat, and I are travelling Australia—we’re about 6 weeks into a 12-month stint in Tasmania, then we’ll head back to the mainland.

Pros: It really is a beautiful place, if a bit unforgiving. If you get sick of one spot, move onto the next. (Also, you don’t realise how stressful owning/renting a house is till you don’t have one.) (1/4)

davej, to random
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When I was young, all libraries had were photocopiers. 😕 https://mastodon.scot/@HornedLivestock/112260424761333847

timrichards, to Tasmania
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Labor and the Greens in the end have more seats together than the Liberal Party - why the hell is Labor not interested in trying to form a government? Cowards.

Who are the new and familiar faces of Tasmania's incoming parliament — and who didn't make the cut? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-06/tasmanian-lower-house-2024-state-election-new-mps/103666470

davej,
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@timrichards Were I to guess, whilst they could cut a deal with the Greens, Labor probably doesn’t relish sharing government with the Greens and either the JLN or all of the independents.

davej, to random
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I confess I sometimes get celebrities with similar names mixed up. I couldn’t for the life of me understand why it was such a big deal when Michael Cera appeared naked at the Oscars.

davej, to journalism
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Just wait until the #media outlets losing their shit over #PrincessKate realise that all THEIR photos of the #Royals have been doctored, too. 😱 #KateMiddleton

cstross, to random
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Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decade long Effort

The most recent approach discussed internally was delaying a car release until 2028 and reducing self-driving specifications from Level 4 to Level 2+ technology.

Many employees on the car team — known as the Special Projects Group, or SPG — will be shifted to the artificial intelligence division

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai

davej,
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@cstross @BigJackBrass FWIW, it only just occurred to me that the hamster in The Young Ones was named after something. (Over 40, but Australian.)

RickiTarr, to random
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Why am I both people in this conversation?!

davej,
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@CWilbur @RickiTarr @humanhorseshoes But do they really ever die? https://youtu.be/ruCcGDkPQ6Q

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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It’s not just that there’s just a 3-year age difference between and , or that only Biden was infamous for flubs when he was young.

The poll they’re referring to only had a 10-point difference between the 67% who said Biden’s too old to serve and the 57% who said the same of Trump.

davej,
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@JoshuaHolland @kcarruthers There’s an analogy I read recently:

Your basement’s on fire. Two elderly firefighters arrive: one with a fire hose and the other with a flamethrower. Should you stop and argue over which is the oldest?

RickiTarr, to random
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Since I've talked a lot about change today, I'll ask a question about it:

If you've changed something in your life or about yourself, how did you do it, and why?

davej,
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@RickiTarr I gave up cigarettes about 16 years ago. My wife hates smoking and my habit was also starting to get expensive. (Australia levies huge excises on tobacco.)

Nicotine lozenges irritated my throat, and I’m too hairy for patches, so I went cold turkey—it helped that I was several hours away from the nearest shop at the time.

davej, to ChatGPT
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Scientists Are Putting Brains Inside Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The effort to give robots brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-are-putting-chatgpt-brains-inside-robot-bodies-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

RickiTarr, to random
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This is Cornhole, you may not like it, but this is how it's played.

davej,
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@RickiTarr It's like the redneck remake of Requiem for a Dream. 😳

davej, to politics
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Just a friendly reminder: everyone you know who pays attention to is traumatised. Gay, straight, cis, trans, left, or right. Some of them may not realise it. The people blocking it out probably are, too.

Vast portions of our lives rely upon this basic functioning as it does. THAT is why we can’t have nice things.

davej, to music
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‘[A]ll of the [Luke Combs] released before “Fast Car” had been classified, for chart purposes, as . That meant that when “Fast Car” won song of the year at the Country Music Association Awards last November, [Tracy] Chapman became the first songwriter to win that prize. This felt less like a cause for celebration than a stark reminder of how few Black women get to be considered “country” artists…’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/arts/music/tracy-chapman-fast-car-grammys.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE0.Oqx4.UNVvvfQ7cQem&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

davej, to spiders
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Finally! We can get rid of #spiders, right? 🤞

Scientists spin naturalistic #silk from #artificial #spider gland: https://phys.org/news/2024-01-scientists-naturalistic-silk-artificial-spider.html #material #science #polymer

davej, to ai
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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already -Translated Trash, Scientists Determine: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w4gw/a-shocking-amount-of-the-web-is-already-ai-translated-trash-scientists-determine

georgetakei, to random

Care to weigh in here?

davej,
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@georgetakei Why the hell did she breed with this man?

cmdr_nova, to meta

This is one of the reasons I’m not really posting much on Threads

is diving deep into the death of creativity and expression phase of Grifter Internet Fads

davej,
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@cmdr_nova @kcarruthers I’m probably completely off-base here, but I get the feeling that since the market worked out that cryptocurrency’s a scam, there’s container-loads of back-ordered GPUs that need to be monetised—by any means necessary.

davej, to science
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Starting in 2025 the will increase the number of known objects circling the sun by roughly tenfold, spotting new , exotic from other stars, and perhaps even the elusive .

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/is-there-a-planet-nine-we-may-find-out-vera-rubin-observatory

davej, to Archaeology
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After 16 years' , the Palace of , where was crowned, opens to the public: https://apnews.com/article/greece-ancient-palace-alexander-great-archaeology-950311aee8eeaa46e77c2621a5d9ca43

cstross, to random
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If 2024 is as spectacularly shit as 2010-2023, then we're going to end up with Prime Minister Kemi Badenoch before it's over, aren't we.

(To be followed, in less than the lifespan of a wilting lettuce, by the Emperor Dalek.)

davej,
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@cstross Given that the Tories and the Liberal Party of Australia appear to sing very much from the same book—CTF Partners may have something to do with that—it's likely only a matter of time before the Tories' own stink finally whisks them from office.

I just hope that nobody has to be raped (allegedly) to precipitate that, though.

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