Now I’m super nervous.
Let’s see how today goes.
You’ve got this!!
Sydney is weird. The people I mean.
Otherwise so far so good with the cousin!
The people I mean
This is why we need to widen the Murray river.
At the very least, re-install the Customs booths at Albury and Swan Hill and Mildura. They’ve only been gone for a century at most. We need them back.
I second this, if only to make it funner and safer for wakeboarding lol
Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to ride a bike through the Sydney CBD. I speak from personal experience. Sydney has nice bits, but the traffic! And they say rude things about Melbourne traffic which I think shows a serious lack of self awareness.
One of the weirdest feelings for me when I was last there was feeling boxed in. Because none of the streets are straight you can’t see as far around you as you can here
And there’s bugger all greenery
Yes I am an adult so that means I get to eat
like a small child at a rich kids birthday party
Gibson has been in and out of the bedroom wondering where her usual slave is. She’s very loving, but too many pats gets a curt hiss lol then it’s back to giving her chin rubs until she’s had enough of me. I love her.
Edit:
oh haha there she is!
I approve of all of these choices, the joy of being an adult is getting to pick whatever you want!
Hooray for Gibson photos!!! She’s so pretty!
The IGA has some of the best munchies snacks hands down. The life savers make my burps taste like fizzing rainbows lol
I see a lot of human snacks… Where gibson snacks?
Believe me, she has plenty lol
I was gonna say, there’s a whole pantry-load of Gibson snacks haha
I am so glad Gibson is getting loving!
I will love her whether she lets me or not! Mwahhaha!
Nice to see her RBF remains on point!
do not forget she loves TP 🧻😻
Ah of course! Ty!
I finished reading Enshitification by Corey Doctorow the other day and it was great to see him mention the fediverse, especially when I’m already on it. He was mostly talking about Mastodon though, I much prefer here.
It’s nice to know a place like this has a lot fewer downward pressures to make it worse. No open source/FOSS project is going to be perfect but you can’t map the stages of enshitification to growth and funding cycles in the same way.
Did you enjoy it? It’s been on my list for years but I partly feel like I know a lot of that stuff already so it might just be vaguely depressing…
It was a good read. I read his last book Chokepoint Capitalism and I listen to a lot of the podcasts he appears on so I was already familiar with a lot of it, but there are some good points he highlights. It’s probably a good one if you haven’t ready any Doctorow before because it covers things more generally, whereas Chokepoint was more specifically about the outsized influence monopolies have thanks to mergers.
Cool. Thanks! I’ve vaguely followed his work for a while so I will bump both those up the reading list
sounds like an interesting book
It is, and a good one to recommend to normies who wonder why technology sucks so much these days
I’ve worked in the corporate world, am painfully aware of the unstoppable enshitification machine. I’m kinda tempted to read books like this, but also know it will just make me disappointed.
It is a sad read but it’s good to get a more formalised framework of how things get worse so you can identify it in other areas
Word of warning for everyone to avoid any news stories about Perez Hilton, the OG Internet Troll, just in case there is any screen shots of what he’s done while having a mental health episode.
trigger warning
very graphic life streamed self harm involving various knifes. From what I’ve heard, emphasis on the very graphic
I understand he’s probably a niche part of the internet these days, but it’s too easy for awful things like this to spread due to malicious people. I hope he gets the self he so clearly needs.
I saw an article saying he had a “disturbing” live stream. I didn’t read it but I thought it was a very interesting word to use. Thanks for letting me know why
Lol yeah I saw that. I don’t like the dude, but that was a total mental health crisis and no one should have to suffer that.
Absolutely. And I really hope his children don’t suffer for it, people can be so cruel.
A good reminder to be kind to people no matter their struggle, including mental ill-health, because it could be you some day.
Absolutely! I am excusing none of his past behaviour, but more hoping for a better future for his kids.
I was making a general comment, sorry! I definitely agreed with your post.
Hahah, all good, I was agreeing you - but just wanted to acknowledge that I’m well aware of his shitty, shitty behaviour! :)
thx for the heads up, more than happy to skip nasty shit online.
Latin study continues.
I have only half an idea of what I’m doing. All the tenses and genders are doing my head in.
carpe cervisia!
seize the beer?
Sic erat scriptum!
exactly?
( I am still very much a beginner )
yea pretty much :)
observations on enshitification
this morning put on new alpaca and sheep wool mix jumper, tried it on in shop, it was warm and comfortable fit and felt soft to touch
at home wear for 10 minutes, damn it’s itchy even through long sleeve spencer, why is the wool so crappy,
I wonder if it’s “shoddy” ie reprocessed wool from recycled garments
The enshitifcation of the world just gets me down. I have to actively choose to not think about it because it makes me so angry and upset. In fact, I went into a rant and backspaced the whole thing because I’m trying to stay calm.
Put the jumper in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer for 24 hours. This will stop the itching (which comes from short fibres poking through the yarn). Dunno why it works but it does.
I love that people somehow come up with things like this, it’s great.
Standard practice for any woolly item containing cashmere too. If it’s real cashmere, there’s always a few stiff goat hairs included and they itch something shocking. Freezing the item seems to solve the problem.
ok, thanks, I’ll try it
Sometimes, I really am just a picky princess 😭 but I don’t like touching slimy horse float walls 😭
Yeah nah that’s not picky.
Just really, really glad I didn’t trip over and get it anywhere else.
Not sure I want to know, but as someone that’s never been in a horse float, why are the walls slimy? I would think their pee and poo just drops to the floor?
Atmospheric moisture plus the fact that the poop & pee (for mares) originates at about shoulder height on us humans, or higher. And splashes, and gets kicked around, trodden on and smeared. And if the horse is feeling a bit nervous, then EVERYTHING comes out in liquid form and splashes. I have seen splashes on the roof of horsefloats.
I hate all of these words (in a completely non-personal thank you for the information sort of way)
you forgot the tail helicopter
Didn’t think that needed saying, as such. I still reckon the stomp/splash is more effective as spreading the goodness around.
Ewww. But also wow there is nothing you don’t know!! You must have had an interesting life!
Was a professional showjumper and eventer for a few years. Many moons ago now.
oh you sweet summer child.
Nobody likes touching such things. I have had a lot of experience with this phenomenon, and I can tell you this hand on heart. And I am no picky princess.
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Thank you.
Pickled carrot and potato salad please chef.
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Thanks chef!
Steamed dumplings please, chef’s choice
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I got some shoes recently and I swear the ones I took home are a size too big. I got some dud shoes a while ago which makes me paranoid about getting the wrong shoes and it’s annoying because I swear they fit properly in the store.
But as annoying as it is, it feels like a plotline from one of those network dramas from the US where they try to normalise the lives of people that make over $250k a year. Things must be going alright if that’s one of the biggest problems in my life.
