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  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    I’ve had enough corporate nonsense for breakfast this morning and I’m glad to be sitting away from work and having a pie and chips for lunch.

  • StudSpud The Starchy
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    2 years ago

    Sailing away on hopes and dreams
    But all’s not as calm as it seems
    A monster makes noise 'neath my bed
    Reluctantly I shuffle so out pops my head
    It chews on my bottle and on powercords
    This cat I will yeet, I swear to fUCKING god.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    Fighting a new brand of ink. Watered down it looks grey and even when the ink is thinned the brush doesn’t spring back into shape after use. That’s a no for that ink.

    The metallic paint can’t be thinned down, the brush “strains” it, so at the start of a brush stroke the ink is thick and dark , by the end it’s watery and grey. Looks grey even with added india ink. Nice sparkles tho.

    Looks like Daiso ink for the win.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    That Extreme Ironing thing that @[email protected] mentioned was cool, typical of a Brit eccentric to invent it!

    Got me thinking though - I don’t think I’ve ironed anything since the covid restrictions and lockdowns kicked in? I used to iron everything, I wouldn’t leave the house in anything wrinkled and I did this for decades. Now I just don’t care unless it’s a smart function, it’s been liberating.

    • StudSpud The Starchy
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      22 years ago

      I do not have an ironing board, nor an iron. The last time I wore something that had been ironed, it was my HS uniform, 15 years ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      I try to buy everything to be non iron and when washing and drying try to smooth as much as possible

      The last thing I ironed was forty large sheets of calligraphy paper … 😂

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      I actually enjoy ironing, but my wife doesn’t, and our ironing board in Melbourne is covered with her junk so I can’t actually use it. I just avoid wearing stuff that needs ironing most of the time in Melbourne. I iron my clothes in Sydney, though.

  • 🇦🇺Baku
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    82 years ago

    Wtf, this Twitter becoming x thing is for real? I swear every single time I hear about what that childike billionaire is doing I think it’s either satire or fake… And then it actually happens

    Do have to give him credit though, that was very efficient

    • Hongohones
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      32 years ago

      He’s a joke. While I’m not a huge fan of zuck either, I enjoy the fact that threads is doing well. Twitter can become a right wing incel zone and most of us won’t care or notice by the time it does.

      • 🇦🇺Baku
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        42 years ago

        See? So efficient he didn’t even check with his lawyers… Now that’s what I call a bloke who gets shit done 😎😎😎 /s

          • @[email protected]
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            52 years ago

            Apparently not him because he’s also suing the law firm that Twitter hired to fight him when he tried to back out of the deal. His argument boils down to “Twitter overpaid because my excuses were so flimsy an intern could’ve beat me in court.”

            • @[email protected]
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              62 years ago

              Suing a law firm is always a good idea.

              I’m assuming he has a legal team on retainer and they’re just milking him for all they can.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      Not enough money to pay for leases or employees, enough money to pay for a rebrand. Business genius.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    Meetings at 4pm are bad enough, but you know what’s worse?

    When some fuckwit actually says ‘Hey can everyone please turn their cameras on so we can see you all’. They said it with waaay too much enthusiasm for a 4 pm meeting, or any meeting for that matter.

    • bull⚡
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      42 years ago

      I’d activate my avatar (this is in Teams, not sure if other apps have similar)

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      My workplace forgot to issue me a camera and I haven’t bothered to push the issue. Maybe it’s time for your camera to break and for IT to drag their heels on a replacement.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I just got a new laptop not long ago. Do not want to go back to the old one while this one is being ‘fixed’

        I’ll just keep the camera on and not pay attention as usual.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    Back to Melbourne for the first time in a few months over the weekend. I was sick for most of it, but little one went to ifly and had fun. She was so small compared to every else. Some poor bastard was told in front of everyone he was (basically) too fat to do the hifly.

    I went to my old primary school and donated two copies of my kids book. It’s so surreal seeing how much it has changed. I’m hoping to make it back to do a talk with them sometime this year.

    From time to time I think about moving back to Melbourne and then I drive along Plenty Road and remember why I never will. God I do not miss that road.

    And woke up at 4am to catch my flight on Sunday morning. Of course it was cancelled. Thankfully mum picked me up and I napped for a bit. Caught the 2.50 flight and drove 90 minutes home and slept like the dead.

    Still feeling like crap though. Took yesterday off work because my throat felt so raw.

    3 weeks straight I’ve been sick with various things. Kinda getting over it.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    Was wondering what the blackboard bold X (𝕏) represents in mathematics… looks like someone’s helpfully adjusted the description on Wikipedia already.

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    Screenshot of "Blackboard bold" article on Wikipedia. It describes the mathematical usage of uppercase blackboard bold X (𝕏) as "Represents a very poorly managed social media service, or occasionally denotes an arbitrary metric space."

    • @[email protected]
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      102 years ago

      Once babies acquire a taste for human flesh you have continue feeding it to them.

      Not the best solution to the homeless situation, but a solution nonetheless.

      • Rusty Raven M
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        82 years ago

        I thought we were supposed to eat the rich? Have we changed the plan again and no one told me? I seem to miss all the memos, who do I contact to get my name put back on the email list?

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          Eating the rich is the goal. Eating the homeless is a temporary solution to satisfy hunger. They are not mutually exclusive.

          • Rusty Raven M
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            62 years ago

            Fair enough. Canabalism is arguably the most sustainable diet. Based on the the ecological footprint calculator I was looking at if I eat just 5 other people my current lifestyle would be sustainable. If I can eat 25 I can live the lifestyle of the rich!

            • @[email protected]
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              62 years ago

              Now imagine if you could eat 25 rich people and gain their assets!!!

              Then of course you’d be in line to be eaten next, but since you’ve been not-rich before, you could probably fool the ravenous hordes.

              • Rusty Raven M
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                62 years ago

                This could get mathematically complicated. If I eat 25 people, who are each living the lifestyle that is 25 times the sustainable amount and take their assets, I would have the assets to live the lifestyle of 625 sustainable people. So I would have to eat another 600 people to make it sustainable, which would in turn make it unsustainable. A terrible paradox.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          I’ve been chewing my nails and cuticles since I was 6 because I believe in a closed-loop system