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Remote community #JustRuralThings. Tutor at regional teaching hospitals.
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2026-05-27 01:37:42 UTC

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reminds me of animal tech, we were warned up front that of the student cohort there was a good chance 2-3 of us would develop a new allergy to the species we wanted to work with by the time we were qualified to do so (or by a few years into the job).
We all wore n95s to work every day (best known prevention, as the phenomenon is caused by constant daily inhalation of tiny particles) and luckily it never happened to anyone I knew. But it does happen a lot in that career

2026-04-12 03:21:06 UTC

We need to start referring to stuff that doesn't contain AI as 'clean'.

2026-04-07 07:10:12 UTC

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But of course this is not what's meant by "engagement". Much like "agency", this means something totally different in the tech world. Engaging does nothing for your "engagement".

2026-04-07 07:07:08 UTC

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Accounts that claim there's no engagement on the fedi are, in my experience, some of the only accounts not engaging. The only ones not getting in other people's comments with similar interests and just shooting the shit with no other agenda.
You cannot go to a jamboree, sit around your own fire and complain that no other scout troops are coming by to hear your guitar. Your troop has to go to everyone else's fires, listen to their stories, sing along with their songs and of course answer enquiries about whether you can play Teenage Dirtbag.

2026-04-07 03:10:51 UTC

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This is what I mean when I say the fedi is a series of kitchen tables. Not a form of email, not a world of islands, just a lot of kitchen tables.
Everyone is happy to see someone rock up to the kitchen table with a bunch of cat pics, a recipe and a silly question.
No one wants someone turning up to the barbecue with a professional portrait of oneself with cat, a series of YouTube links to polished videos of yourself presenting recipes and constantly questioning why these are not getting enough attention.

2026-04-06 20:46:58 UTC

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/a well known figure in and national go-to for certain issues in a publishing based industry with no relevance to the fedi. Has two cats and a crochet habit that are very relevant to the fedi.

2026-04-06 20:29:00 UTC

I keep hearing "mastodon isn't good for [type of celebrity], they have to go to [other platform] for engagement"
It's not the celebrity type [scicom personality, journalist, author] it's the attempt to run a celebrity account at all that doesn't work on the fedi.
There are heaps of well known people on the fedi. Either it's not obvious that's their day job or they're just quietly being that in among posts about walking their dog. Coming to the fedi trying to sell your day job and hoping people will 'engage' is odd. Like going to the playground or the museum and being mad that bystanders didn't engage your about your day job despite the sandwich board you're wearing and your refusal to talk about any other topic.
Going into a social environment broadcasting [📢this is my content, engage with it📢] is an obvious recipe for disappointment. No one cares about the things you're broadcasting. Show us your dog. Did they have a nice walk?

2026-03-28 20:05:06 UTC

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To be clear you ( [@rusty__shackleford](https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford ) ) have come here to complain that ( @npub1kwa…e0nj ) has blocked accounts other than your own.
Your contention is that this does not "look good". And you have come here to comment on this.

2026-02-22 19:43:14 UTC

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hot take: if you reply to emails for a solid proportion of your day, you are a call centre worker.

2026-02-07 18:35:29 UTC

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Inb4 crispy fried earthworms on salad are the next big gym bro thing.

2026-02-06 18:01:22 UTC

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- I wish taxes were taught
- I wish critical thinking was taught
- I wish comprehensive sex ed was available
- I wish genital, reproductive organ and breast anatomy and health education existed
- I wish systems we live within were taught
- I wish evidence based decision making for everyday life was taught
- I wish personal finances for ordinary average individuals...
⤴️

2026-02-06 17:53:17 UTC

I need a tshirt that says "it is, just not at your school"

2026-02-06 04:06:49 UTC

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they're clearly playing Grapefruit Diet, now come on

2026-02-06 03:47:19 UTC

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jail is clearly not the answer. The people should be forced to produce musical theatre or something.

2026-01-27 06:33:19 UTC

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obviously this is unofficial. Picture taken at 2:28pm today, about 80km inland near the Victoria/south australia border. In shade under an awning.
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2026-01-10 20:05:58 UTC

"A billionaire carries, on average, an investment portfolio in companies that will produce 1.9m tonnes of CO2 a year – roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of 400,000 petrol cars."
Extremely normal planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/world-richest-used-fair-share-emissions-2026-oxfam
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2026-01-09 05:42:07 UTC

https://bushfire.io
#VicFires

2025-12-17 13:02:47 UTC

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Is there a sealion emoji?
I know this isn't an emoji cafe where you can just order shit and expect volunteers to make it, but to be fair there's strong ongoing use case.

2025-12-16 20:45:50 UTC

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From now on I will be asking all job interviewers if their organisation is in a growth phase. If they say yes I will ask them if they have a solid plan for stable plateau and downsizing when that growth ends. If they can't present a plan, they're practically already bankrupt.

2025-12-16 20:17:35 UTC

Roomba is a sign that capitalism is a failure.
Under commerce you make a product. You sell it.
Then you might sell it to a larger number of people. This is good because you make more money.
Eventually you might be selling to everyone you possibly can. This is great, you're now providing the most product you can and making the most money you can.
You won. Relax, set up a foundation, throw some fancy parties. Everyone can have the product now.
Under capitalism you do all of the above right up until "you won". Replace that with "you lost, you are bankrupt now, no one can have to product anymore".

2025-12-08 01:10:55 UTC

Do you want to get rid of your old DSLR? Is it good? Want a bit of money for it? In australia?
I'm happy to go with something aged in good working order. My main interests are macro botanical photography and art nudes in expansive landscapes. I also do some event photography (mostly motor sports) and increasingly, documenting disasters and drought.
I love a dedicated monochrome sensor with an excellent dynamic range, have a fraught relationship with colour sensors.
Interested mostly in camera bodies, although you could almost certainly tempt me to take old lenses off your hands, especially macro lenses.
Edit: I don't care how old it is but want it to behave like it's 1990-2005. Auto focus is good, auto white balance can be nice. An automatic star trail mode is handy. Auto [make this dog look like he's in a romcom] is not for me.
#dslr #photography

2025-11-07 21:10:00 UTC

How much would you pay for a 100% wool, 100% hand processed beanie? Assume it should last at least 20 years on the low end (you could probably pull it out of bog in 5000 years and keep wearing it if you don't mind the colour changing a little).
[working out how much time I can get away with putting into carding/spinning/crocheting each one for the local shop]

2025-10-13 21:44:15 UTC

Is anyone specifically offering UTAS students and/or staff help to change windows 10 machines over to Linux? Like maybe someone under the Clubs and Societies banner?
I want to tell all my peers not to put their laptops in the bin, but I don't have a particularly compelling argument about what someone (with very limited time, interest and prior experience outside windows) should do next.

2025-10-10 02:45:41 UTC

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My class is studying impacts of tourism on nature and values of tourists for nature.
The big takeaways for me:
- Tourists want to be allowed to go places but they don't want tourists to be allowed to go there because they don't want to see any tourists while they're touring.
- Tourists don't want to see any infrastructure that implies there are tourists there, but they are certain every other tourist wants this.
- land managers put in infrastructure like tracks and toilets mostly to corral human damage
Tldr: the idea that 'most tourists like the tourist trap but I'm qualified to go off track' is almost universal among tourists and is one of the biggest problems for land management in australia. No one likes the tourist trap infrastructure, it's there to stop you fucking up nature Greg.

2025-10-10 02:33:58 UTC

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This ties in with how the perfect number of tourists is always one.
Everyone wants to be in a place where there is tourist [x1]. No one wants to be in a place where there are tourists. The S is the whole problem.

2025-10-10 02:31:56 UTC

We need a word for this effect, I hear people explain versions of this all the fucking time:
- I hate the background music in here
- there are other people here
- therefore the other people must be demanding the music
- therefore I also hate all these people
Narrator: no one liked the music

2025-10-08 20:44:30 UTC

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my stats lecturer calls this "putting on your statistics killjoy hat"

2025-10-08 20:43:27 UTC

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I also feel like 'just after' might be doing some work there.
They must churn them through pretty quickly, so there would be a large cohort of people who have been on a Disney ghost train in the last 20 minutes at any given time.

2025-10-08 20:41:07 UTC

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this seems like one to chalk up to stats. I used to work at a mall where they expected people to die inside the mall regularly just because the foot traffic was so high and people have to die somewhere.
[Edit: this is about chaddy, for any aussies looking on]

2025-09-05 22:55:28 UTC

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I'm sure this was not at all unexpected for people who were studying this kind of thing, but is was news to me.

2025-09-05 22:33:27 UTC

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People are losing trust not in AI, but in computers in general because of their association with AI.
The teacher mentioned above trains science students in using R. This is not a layperson's misunderstanding, it's a genuine loss of trust in the ability of computers.

2025-09-05 22:23:19 UTC

Totally unexpected side effect of AI:
A lecturer just told is we need to check our data carefully after downloading it to make sure it matches the source because "you can't trust technology and AI".
We're downloading a csv of data points (human observations) from a selected area of a map, AI is not involved.

2025-08-11 21:05:20 UTC

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Mike needs a coffee

2025-08-11 02:14:17 UTC

The crew have set up a yell chain. Like a bucket chain but for communication in the loud environment.
Pull it back - BACK! - back - back - forward - FORWARD!! - forward - forward - hold - FORWARD! - no hold! - HOLD!! - Hold - hold

2025-08-09 08:38:25 UTC

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incredible amount of resources you had access to there. I hope you used them to feed a lot of people.

2025-08-09 06:55:43 UTC

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sounds like we're saying exactly the same thing: if you have the privilege of access to land, topsoil, compost, raised beds and water, gardening is a great hobby for you.

2025-08-09 01:57:37 UTC

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(assuming you have 600ml+/year of rain, which also comes at a land price premium)

2025-08-09 01:49:04 UTC

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indeed. if you have access growing soil (and in this case even the resources to transport it to where you need it) you're laughing.

2025-08-08 23:27:14 UTC

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if by 'vacant lots' you're proposing agricultural use of small sections of land in cities and towns: get the soil tested for heavy metals before you eat anything.
If you're around any major australian city the lead will be too high.

2025-08-08 18:33:46 UTC

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gaining access to land is the trick.

2025-07-25 21:17:29 UTC

There's pervasive belief that LLMs will become something more intelligent and useful than a simple "most likely word next" machine, because our main touch point for learning is children.
Children go from talking a lot with very little understanding of the deep workings of things, to gaining understanding and eventually explaining the real world and innovating in it.
LLMs are not learning in this sense. They're just getting better at putting statistically likely words in statistically likely orders.

2025-06-30 23:05:56 UTC

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this...
https://godforsaken.website/@pisscotheque/114772705899034101

2025-06-26 10:32:51 UTC

Having witnessed the last few years, I suggest we rename the Great Man of History concept to The Shit Man of History.

2025-06-23 06:54:07 UTC

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Since we're on dealing with grievance culture...
I've probably shared this one before but it's a classic so here it is anyway:
When someone tries to engage you in bonding over being mutually upset about some dog whistle bullshit ["isn't it so terrible that teenagers these days..."], focus the whole conversation on them being upset. Totally ignore the dog whistle and focus all conversation completely on the fact that they don't feel okay and they need strategies to feel better. Make sure they can't get another word in about "the teenagers" (or whatever) because the whole conversation is now about how they can be helped to better cope with emotions.

2025-06-23 04:25:25 UTC

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I like to follow up by asking if the thing they're complaining about describes themselves
Eg. So are you a recent immigrant? So do use you recreational drugs regularly? Are you currently banned from social media due to your age?
Then follow that up with "oh I just assumed, because you're the only person I've ever met who talks constantly about this one thing. Obviously you wouldn't be talking about it that much if you weren't going through it first hand".
This works great because people do grievance BS to try to distance themselves from whatever group they're talking about. Anything that imples they're actually making themselves look closer to the group they hate by hating sends them spinning.

2025-06-23 04:14:44 UTC

I've discovered the sickest burn you can drop on someone who tries to engage you in grievance culture is simply "you're obviously very passionate about this".
They will scramble to tell you that they are NOT hyperfocused on [teenagers/being trans/immigration/recreational drug use]. It's NOT a personal interest of theirs. They just like to approach strangers and talk about it, that's all. Definitely not a life focus, hobby or personal passion.

2025-06-20 08:57:08 UTC

About a decade ago I was covered with glitter for a short film.
For the first few months I saw some somewhere in the house nearly every day. After about two years I was only finding it once every few weeks. After five years I was only finding it rarely.
Since moving house I haven't found any. It has been over ten years.
Just in case you were wondering (for any reason) about how a glittering impacts someone's life.

2025-05-27 23:33:08 UTC

Do you have coloured sheep? Do they have nice wool? Are you a reasonable distance from western vic/eastern SA?
I would like to buy raw wool directly from you.
I'm particularly up for Polwarth wool in interesting natural colours (ginger, russet, chestnut, fawn). If you keep a couple of these sheep, hit me up, I will be buying this for years.
#Sheeptodon #Sheep #Wool

2025-05-27 22:09:24 UTC

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the original premise was "non-metric units stubbornly keep existing and no one can stop them, I'll die on this hill".
So many SI unit enthusiasts have turned up to die on this hill instead of me that it's getting very crowded, I might have to go to the beach.

2025-05-27 21:48:38 UTC

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also worth noting that for 41% of people who have voted so far, their measuring system absolutely is a religion.
https://aus.social/@coolandnormal/114576911347960854

2025-05-26 22:01:31 UTC

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"just learn the necessary subset and move on with life"
Nice idea, but I suspect quite a few people here will have significant trouble moving on with life after I've accidentally pointed out to them that they're using non-metric units. I'm honestly very surprised by how upsetting people have found this fact.

2025-05-26 14:59:39 UTC

I seem to have opened a fedi can of worms

2025-05-26 14:30:23 UTC

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the really interesting thing about this reply is you've decided I must find these meaningful because I have used them, but this is a fantasy on your part. I don't drink beer. I buy potatos in kilos. I measure walks in kilometres and people in kilos. I was raised using primarily metric then trained on SI units as a laboratory worker. Until my 30s I was fully on board, a firm believer in the standard party line that imperial is (always and forever, any day now) on the way out.
Then I read about how the imperial system is derived and why it's used.

2025-05-26 12:48:01 UTC

The imperial system will never die because it's just applying names to stuff like:
-about enough beer
-a good solid potato
-foot
-enough change in an adult's bodyweight to actually be meaningful rather than just you had more/fewer cups of tea that day
-enough beer for all your friends
-reasonable distance for the majority of people to walk without getting massively fed up
-spoonful

2025-05-21 09:41:55 UTC

Have you ever been in a vehicle that got Montague Street Bridged?

2025-05-12 07:19:25 UTC

When you were a child, who told you about things women are meant to be ashamed of in their personal presentation?
Eg visible panty line, leg hair, foundation 'tide line', foundation more orange than skin, open toe shoes with normal non-pedicure feet, etc

2025-05-10 08:01:54 UTC

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I barely remember reading the book, but I do remember being irritated by the elves

2025-05-06 07:16:08 UTC

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I lie, 2003 edition does have an organ labelled clitoris, but it's the size and shape of a cashew nut and it's buried inside the mons pubis.
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2025-05-06 06:59:07 UTC

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Has Princeton review discovered the clitoris yet? They hadn't in the 2003 edition.
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2025-04-28 20:59:16 UTC

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I'm in a remote community in rural australia. I'm 400km from the nearest Starbucks. A 3 hour drive to the nearest train station. Over an hour drive to the nearest traffic light. You reached here.

2025-04-28 05:56:18 UTC

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I would love to start tending these neglected graves, but I actually don't know how you would go about respectfully tending such unusual graves. That would be a complex interaction with the local culture.
For example some grave sites were never intended to be weeded or mowed, to do so would be disturbing their natural process. Many graves would also be expected to rust, it would not be appropriate to disturb that.

2025-04-28 05:50:37 UTC

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There's a grave stone in one of the local cemeteries that's marked by a 2L ice cream container full of concrete.
That's grave as sacred and respected as any other. No more or less so for the size, shape and material of the marker.

2025-04-28 05:05:15 UTC

There's a far greater range of strange graves out here. I like them much better than ordinary headstones. Grief shouldn't have to fit public aesthetic standards.
#JustRuralThings
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2025-04-18 08:21:07 UTC

I've decided to replace "spoiling the child" with "instiling entitlement".
I previously had simply stopped saying "spoiled", because it doesn't seem to exist. You can't treat a child too well. You can't love them too much. You cannot give them too much education, experience, fun or joy. It's simply impossible. But you can instill entitlement.
You can instill entitlement to cut lines, pinch down, hog space and take more treats than the person beside you.
You can also instill entitlement to walk away, say no, hold boundaries, be treated reasonably and be free from violence.

2025-04-17 03:19:59 UTC

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unfortunately I can answer this one: as a manager I was trained to give hard work to hard workers, urgent work to fast workers, fiddly work to patient yak shavers, unimportant work to disengaged workers, easy work to disinterested workers, etc.
It is in no way equitable, but it's not meant to be, it's meant to facilitate maximum extraction

2025-04-13 23:29:58 UTC

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I reckon this is intentional. By placing massive friction around exercising consent, you make any worker who understands consent seem like a source of friction in the workplace.
It takes a worker who understands consent 10x as long to do anything in tech compared with a worker who simply taps [ALLOW] every time.
This effectively purges workplaces of any workers who assert their own right to privacy, have any boundaries or are generally in the habit of standing up for themselves.

2025-04-13 23:18:01 UTC

We don't talk anywhere near enough about how the tech industry is fucking with the general public's understanding of consent.
Fairly often I will opt out of something that would have been obviously reasonable a few years ago, and people will look at me like I drove a truck through the room.
Things like:
- I won't be appearing on camera today
- I don't wish to speak on a recording to be published on the University website
- I won't be giving my personal details to an overseas third party just to use a notepad tool in one meeting
I see this seeping through into attitudes about consent in other everyday life contexts. People are so used to being walked all over by their tech that they're increasingly shocked by boundaries.

2025-03-18 09:46:50 UTC

Describe your ducks!
🦆🦆 :rubberduck:

2025-03-13 06:47:31 UTC

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wait, I thought this was Scooped It Out Of The Punnet scene!

2025-03-13 04:09:08 UTC

THIS is the cooking competition we need at the Royal Show
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2025-03-04 22:49:05 UTC

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A person I have never met just knocked urgently on the back door, they seemed annoyed, like I had parked across their driveway.
Turns out they were bringing me zucchinis.

2025-03-04 01:42:52 UTC

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Boosting the #ShelterList ⤴️ to #CycloneAlfred
To do list for if you think your home might be damaged by a storm while you're inside, in thread above.
Does not include standard emergency planning such as water storage and having battery operated communications. Also doesn't include ordinary storm stuff like putting away outdoor furniture. This is stuff specific to planning for building envelope failure in a major storm.
Good luck 💚💚💚

2025-03-03 22:48:17 UTC

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Just in case you want to be twice as angry, I've also had a professor of Systems Thinking.

2025-03-03 02:52:53 UTC

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There's a less valid argument here that this will all fall apart when people lose interest/capacity and therefore is it not sustainable.
On the first point, good. People should stop doing voluntary stuff they no longer have the resources or motivation to do, boundaries, rest and self care are good actually.
Secondly: the idea that since it could spontaneously stop any time, and probably will, that is inherently by definition unsustainable.
On the same token one might argue singing a song in a group is an unsustainable thing to do. Because you cannot sing the same song together forever without stopping.
You must rest when you're tired, then perhaps sing a different song, maybe with different people. This doesn't make singing songs an unsustainable practice. Most people in sustainability would agree singing songs in groups has a lot of offer sustainability from many angles.

2025-03-02 23:35:35 UTC

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I see the very valid argument that without administion and formal structure, continuity remains only when as the community has capacity to do it.
My argument is that's how things work anyway. You can have all the committee structure in the world, but the actual work is an emergent property of the community's capacity. If you burn out your people, you lose your collective service either way.
Edit: if anyone screenshots this one toot out of context and makes it about dismantling government, I will punch you right in the bicycle horn. This whole thread is specifically about small community groups.

2025-03-02 21:33:05 UTC

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Me: this is how bikes get repaired and recycled in this one small town.
- The junkyard guy leaves nice ones out by his gate for a day or two before dismantling them for scrap.
- there are several people in the town who know they can come past regularly and take anything by the gate
- there's a guy who takes any bikes he thinks we can salvage, they are almost always kids' bikes, there are just more of those
- a rotating group of friends and people who want to learn about bikes work on them
- when they're finished we distribute them by word of mouth: is there anyone around 6-8yo who wants a purple bike?
- the bikes seem to come with lifetime servicing. No one mentions this until the bike needs servicing, then they just say 'we better get onto servicing your bike, hey?' and it happens
- you can do a trade-in/upgrade. Kids swap their bikes for bigger bikes, people service the little bike and give it to another kid
-there is no name, no official location, no contact details for this, it's an ephemeral property that emerges from the community every day that the community has capacity to do it. It is fascinating and I am glad to have witnessed it.
Sustainability tutor: so first off this could never happen without NGO administration, start there

2025-03-02 21:17:57 UTC

Still rent free: the time I did an assignment on my local bike repair/recycle non-organisation and the sustainability tutor gave only negative feedback about how my proposal wouldn't work in real life.
It was an observational report on something that was and is working in real life.

2025-02-12 16:25:58 UTC

Is this for real? Was it seriously 37C in Adelaide at midnight??
It's currently 30C and climing here at the border at 3am.
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2025-02-06 18:50:13 UTC

You would think, looking at my timeline, that everyone in US leadership was doing a really bad job of being a good leader. Because they're just so stupid, they keep failing to do what fedizens want them to.
Instead there's a more obvious explanation. The boss doesn't want what you want.

2025-02-03 06:09:30 UTC

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A lot of general disaster preparedness has been intentionally left off, because that's covered in so many other places and because there's a good chance you have them in place at all times.
Obviously you want to have food and water for anywhere from 2 day to two weeks, meds and self/pet/child care essentials, having independent power, water and gas storage is great, but that's all long term planning stuff, not "just got a take shelter in 15 minutes warning" type stuff.

2025-02-03 05:46:53 UTC

#evacuation lists are easy time come by. What I haven't seen is a similar document for preparing to shelter in place through a disaster that is likely to damage the building. Given we keep getting warnings, I'm going to start my own, just so I have something on hand for when this happens in future.
This is mostly applicable to storms, as that's what we keep getting alerts about.
Anyway #ShelterList
- put on sturdy boots, fresh hiking socks, work pants
- put pets in safest room with water, beds and cages at the ready. Feed and medicate pets
- charge devices including battery packs and headlamps, put in known location
- take meds before event arrives, put meds in known location
- ensure important documents are in waterproof bags in safe
- cover electronics
- clear valuables and bedding away from windows and flood prone parts of the building
- have a meal and a shower (assuming there's no lightning)
- take panoramic photos of each room
- photograph crops/gardens
- while waiting for the event to arrive relax, stay hydrated, keep cool/warm, keep in contact with community/loved ones, avoid intoxicating substances, slow down and plan manual labour to avoid getting injured moving items out of flood water

2025-01-29 02:40:43 UTC

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I've been in the habit of stocking our local for a few months, here's what I regularly get:
- canned veggies, fish and vegetable-rich soups
- oats, long life milk
- peanut butter, nuts
- tampons, soap, condoms, toothpaste, toothbrushes
- laundry detergent, dish detergent
- socks
- pet foods, flea and worming stuff

2025-01-27 08:34:53 UTC

Good luck, love and solidarity to #Dimboola I hope you don't end up needing it.
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2025-01-22 08:40:22 UTC

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I assumed it was for the purposes of enhancing public speeches.

2025-01-22 03:14:48 UTC

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This item has 59 likes. The same guy released an updated design with the word Tactical added to the title and it has 524 likes.

2025-01-22 01:26:49 UTC

Thank fuck for 3d printing is all I can say
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2025-01-20 04:55:14 UTC

Hi #TiktokBan folks, welcome to the corner of the internet where you can publish your butthole on main as long as you describe it in reasonable detail.

2025-01-03 21:50:35 UTC

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I support this union

2024-12-30 19:22:54 UTC

If you had wages stolen from you at RM Williams in Victoria in the last decade, hit me up. I may be your witness.
I was management. I noticed this happening and reported it repeatedly. HR told me to fire the employees who had been underpaid instead of organising back payment (I refused and organised backpay for those I knew about, before being pressured to resign so a new manager could come in a fire anyone needing backpay).

2024-12-19 21:43:30 UTC

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Michael Leunig's work on sex workers is also very worth never seeing.

2024-12-19 21:42:33 UTC

It's a beautiful day the remember that Michael Leunig also hated people who don't conform to his gender ideals.

2024-12-17 20:06:00 UTC

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how can you tell they're married, renting the car and have no water?

2024-12-17 10:03:06 UTC

Rhubarb getting somewhat out of hand
#GardeningAu #GardenUpdate
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2024-12-04 02:28:05 UTC

Wanted: one bright red steel roof.
Today's edition of you can find someone who knows anything on the fedi: does anyone know a supplier of roofing steel in vic or SA in a red colour lighter than Manor Red/Heritage Red?
Colourbond advertises several (under the name 'Colourbond Studio') and Unicote makes a couple, but I can't find a supplier. None of the local roof plumbers gets anything other than standard colours, but they're happy to work with a supplier of more specialised colours if I can find them.
Please #boost out of my echo chamber
Edit: roof will be installed in a remote rural area. Unfortunately it will be travelling a long distance regardless. Supplier can be anywhere from Melbourne to Adelaide. Would even consider NSW suppliers.

2024-11-30 20:45:37 UTC

It's time to update Hanlon's Razor (2020s edition):
Never attribute incompetence to that which is adequately explained by systematic human rights abuse.

2024-11-23 20:44:38 UTC

We don't talk enough about external locus of ethics.
People can have a firm ongoing sense of identity: I am a [political party supporter] from [place] who loves [value] and supports [concept].
This all seems good and normal.
But then what happens when people need a constantly shifting moral compass to keep this position? We recently saw the answer: the moral compass will shift just about anywhere to preserve the rest of the identity.

2024-11-21 08:46:09 UTC

New age verification test just dropped: name any two characters below
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2024-11-19 23:56:01 UTC

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I figure the effect from a distance is more important than the neatness

2024-11-19 23:55:24 UTC

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yes, and not particularly well!

2024-11-19 23:51:50 UTC

Guess who has two thumbs and a series of sample pots in trendy interior decorating colours
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