The kids have discovered my old Transformers, which have been at my parent’s house for the last 40 years.
.It’s like watching Woody and Buzz being played with by the next generation. Seeing my old friends playing with my kids.
That’s really sweet. They were my favourite toys as a kid as well.
It was Transformers and Lego. My Lego collection (which is tiny compared to theirs) was absorbed into their Lego years ago.
Good toys are for generations. 💖
( I know this is kinda unpopular, but I like the Transformers movies.
They are well made, look great, have good actors, and the stories are meaningful. True, they are kids movies but being kids movies doesn’t make them lame. )
23 June last year i made the first daily thread here, so like an okay partner, happy anniversary everyone for a few days ago.
Mate we’re in May. Hasn’t been a year yet.
I am pretty ill, I did say okay partner.
Accidental good partner because you’re so early
I’m in a cunt of a mood and I’m about to insult one or more people. Who the fuck orders a salad from a pizza shop?
You can’t make friends with salad.
I don’t want to be friends with a salad.
(I get it’s a Simpsons reference)
Well you can, but ya don’t
One of my local pizza shops used to be run by the old Italians and they did a bitchin’ salad, with bloody beautiful dressing. But that’s certainly not the norm is it.
I was thinking more if you were to peruse a menu from a takeaway pizza shop and decide “I’ll get a garden salad with my pizza”. Even worse “I’ll just get the salad”.
I can’t do anything , I’m on minimum chores so I choose to look after the cats. Dinner for me will be stuff from the fridge, maybe a toasty.
I would be happy if someone got a good simple salad.
Just finished doing a dress alteration for the lady that runs our local caff at the end of the street. Was able to fix her issue with a bought dress that was too long to dance in, but needed the long train for the photos. Heh heh, button and loop to hook up the train worked again! Free coffee all next week for 5 mins work and a button from the stash! Sewing is close to being the ultimate trade goods.
I remember the day I learned to sew a button back on. I was so damn proud of myself. I even practiced on a spare tea towel first lol
It’s just as liberating as learning to replace a tap washer I reckon. Basic humaning skillset includes both. My dad used to reckon that there were 5 tasks that if you could do them, there was no situation for which you were completely unprepared. The older I get the more I think he just might have been right. Sewing on a button was one of the tasks.
don’t leave us hanging- what we’re the others?
My guess:
Sew, Basic home maintenance, Changing a tyre, Budgeting, Cooking.
A coffee in the cool morning light,
Steam wafting lazily, taking flight.
Cold fingers grip the mug, quite tight,
A coffee in the cool morning light.Sip sip aahhhhhhh
Oh noes! A text advising my medicare has been suspended due to unusual activity! How legitimate!!
-_-
I’m going to lose all my coles points ( i don’t shop at coles ) and I have a fine for not paying my toll ( I don’t drive )
Terrible times for us all
Lol, I got the same one. Luckily they are on to it and our accounts are safe now
My Telstra points are going to expire too
Filling out passport applications. Fucking nightmare if you were born overseas with a non English spelling birth certificate with wrong dates therefore the JP translation is wrong, citizenship paper’s wrong and marriage certificate is wrong. This is going to be a nightmare to undo. Just ranting.
Don’t you just love Australian Bureaucracy?
I did the change of name paperwork the other day, and apparently it’ll take 6 bloody weeks to do. Before they closed the BDM office for some reason, it was instant.
I keep having weird dreams at my current accom. Last night it was a very vivid one where I’d somehow had to move into a share house full of irritatingly self-absorbed and messy adults who were in their little northside cliques and weren’t keen on making space for me. It was so alienating and made me desperate to move back to my own place. I bolted awake thinking I needed to email my previous landlord asap and beg to go back to my own apartment. The relief I felt when I realised a few minutes later that I didn’t need to do any of that…
The day before it was about my brother betraying my location to my dad. Definitely a theme of despair and being trapped, and waking up to remember what freedoms I do have.
I think it’s the humidity. 90%+ every day indoors. It always brings up bad memories…
Yesterday was the only day on the island where we’ve had sun. Today it’s overcast again and this afternoon it’s back to more rain… slept in massively after two days of hiking (with a thoroughly unconditioned body), time to get outta bed and go walk to the nearest town for some coffee and to get some postcards.
How on earth do the trees in Japan look so naturally stylish over waterbodies though?!? Is it the tiered structure of the crown?
pretty even in the rain
My dreams last night were weird like that too. My house became some sort of domestic violence shelter and then 2 crazy guys with baseball bats came over because they wanted to kill me. They attacked an old lady who worked outside and then broke the door down and for some reason I tried to confront them which didn’t go well. Then I woke up. I actually had to turn on my light and do a double take and then had to calm down for about half an hour because the fear translated to real life and I thought the baseball bat people were actually in our house
Yesterday was the only day on the island where we’ve had sun.
I think Australia is a little bigger than an island, but ditto. It was a nice sunny day yesterday. Still chilly, but the sun was out
Firefox is the best mobile browser for android. No ads, no tracking and most importantly, automatic paywall bypassing for news sites.
Wish I’d switched sooner.
Also: if you miss the old google search, try udm14.com
This was created by Google to bypass ads and AI results. Enjoy!
And I have an interview with a recruiter tomorrow! Fingers crossed!
Best of luck with the interview. It’s the end of the month so the recruiter might actually do some work.
And congratulations on joining the fox side. You can create a Mozilla account to sync devices like chrome if you’re happy handing those details over
@tombruzzo @Gibsonisafluffybutt I’m in the process of switching over — I downloaded Firefox quite literally this morning.
I’m also playing around with NextCloud as a possible substitute for a number of Google’s other services.
Unfortunately, it looks like Google jumped the shark at this point.
The accountants and managerialists are well and truly in charge. The people who actually cared about building a great search engine, or a great open mobile operating system, have been cast aside.
Panicked decision-making about LLMs and enshittification for profit seems to be the new norm.
@ajsadauskas @tombruzzo @Gibsonisafluffybutt
You may also wish to check out startpage.com as a default search engine. Works well with Firefox on android and seems more respectful of privacy than most (I switched from duckduckgo a while back).
@coffee2Di4@glasgow.social @ajsadauskas@aus.social @tombruzzo@aussie.zone @Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone I run a SearxNG instance and there are tons out there. It aggregates from other search engines, including google, but strips personal identification data from the queries. You can also control which engines it pulls from.
@tokenwizard @ajsadauskas @tombruzzo @Gibsonisafluffybutt
I’ll have a gander at SearxNG
My ability to keep up has lagged a bit in recent decades.
Edited: corrected typo
Themed lunch notes for tomorrow after a visit to the Dandenong Botanic Gardens today.
Those are lovely. 💖
Friends visiting is always awesome because of how far away I live. Enjoy your day everyone ☀️
hooray for left overs from the freezer , I’m having chicken curry, rice with nuts and some chutney
you know it’s cold when the morning birds aren’t chirping
I would go to bed now if I thought I could sleep through the night 😴😴😴 bed and audiobook seems so cosy
I’m considering it. Bed is so comfy and I have my kindle fixed, and loaded with books to read.
So on a road near where I live two petrol stations have newly opened within 900 metres of each other. This is on top of a petrol station that already existed 400 metres away from one of these stations.
And I thought to myself, to make that kind of investment in a new station you’d have to be pretty confident in the future of petrol in the medium term.
This is what makes me somewhat skeptical about the imminent switch to electric cars or hydrogen ones for that matter.
I think EVs mostly are bought by people who are in 2 car family who also own a petrol car, or those who only ever drive in the city. Most people want to do longer trips for weekends, holidays, visiting family etc. So if it’s your only car, it’s unlikely to be an EV. Other barriers are that they are more expensive for the same size vehicle, nowhere to charge if you live in an apartment, higher insurance costs. It’s gonna be a while until EVs outnumber combustion engines.
Let’s not forget the fact that once the battery dies it’s very expensive to replace. And the thing is it’s hard to factor in whether that’s worth it right now since nobody has a very good idea about how expensive batteries will be in 10 years time.
@wscholermann @SituationCake battery technology is improving constantly. I have a 10yo ev, bought secondhand and got the battery upgraded, the new battery is double the range than the old one was when new, and the old battery was still very serviceable and can be used for an off grid home battery system, but new batteries if the size of the old one are getting so cheap now it’s probably cheaper to connect a new battery to an off grid pv system.
It costs less than a new engine. But there are teslas at 200,000 miles (in the US) do it’s not as if they need new batteries every few years. (Had one for 7 years now, no sign of battery replacement required and only 2% degradation.
@SituationCake @wscholermann I’m a single parent who lives rurally but comes into Melbourne roughly every second week for work. While I usually charge at home I’m minding a friend’s house this month and they have street parking only. I’m heading up to Kyneton today. No dramas, my EV only has 30kwh battery but there are these things called fast chargers, they are a bit like petrol stations, you have to wait slightly longer, but 8 only have to use them when travelling long distances. While in the city I’ll largely charge at work. At home I largely charged from solar, especially in summer. Having a family is no barrier and I don’t have a second car. It’s these kinds of myths about EVs that keep people from considering them in the first place. I pay less overall and the extra cost of the battery is paid off within 5 years of fuel at its current cost: who knows where petrol cost might be in 2 years let alone 5.
Also, you’d think having so many petrol stations in one place might drive the price down due to all the competition.
Suspiciously, all the petrol stations around me have the same price, regardless of brand
