Unsticking a ball that’s been stuck against your inner thigh.

Decades of morning breakfast shows, news.com.au and trashy magazines laundering Pauline’s identity is about to pay off big time. Everyone who’s ever offered her cash, from the NRA gun nuts to Clive and Reinhardt will be charging their glasses.

I’m really not sure about Australia. If you live up north you barely ever even wear shoes.if you live on a farm you better kick off those filthy gummies before you step in the house. If you’re a tradie, you’d better kick off those filthy Blundstones before you walk in. If you live in the suburbs, it’s a coin flip either way.

I was nominated to be under secretary of finances for the South Kensington arm of Antifa but I didn’t have the endorsement of the board.

I mean. There’s still a lot of people out there who’d love to show Daddy Trump their ass.

I will always repost this article: Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported - Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

“I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”

It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished.

Sure a per capita (18+) comparison would be more useful than NET expenditure? It might be lower but there are too many possible variables that aren’t accounted for.

For example the graph below seems to indicate younger audiences drink dramatically less beer and wine than older generations, but dramatically more Hard Seltzers than Baby Boomers.

I was once a consultant for wine companies. I was working on helping establish a new wine brand. The client was really clear that they did not want to rely on the idea of terroir, nor their vineyards closeness to the ocean as selling points.

My boss thought the brand should use a bunch sails and anchor imagery to sell the terroir and the vineyard’s closeness to the ocean.

I told him the client wouldn’t like it as they’d been clear that’s not what they wanted. He said I was wrong. If he’d told me the client was wrong that would have been fine but he insisted that I had heard it wrong and started gas lighting me.

Turns out the client felt they’d been really clear that they didn’t want a brand that focused on the terroir and closeness to the ocean and refused to pay for that round of work.

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

• This covers a broad range of Country and People’s but there’s a particular focus on the Eora and Gamilaraay, good coverage of the comparison between pre colonial life and the disruption caused by colonisation.

My Country All Gone the White Men Have Stolen It: The Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870 by Fred Cahir

• Focuses on the Wadawurrung of the Kulin Nation, creation stories, agriculture, culture and the changing nature of their relationship with European colonists over the 1800s.

The People of Budj Bim: Engineers of aquaculture, builders of stone house settlements and warriors defending Country By the Gunditjmara with Gib Wettenhall

• Heavy focus on Gunditjmara people, their culture, infrastructure and the Eumerella Wars.

Blood on the wattle : massacres and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788 by Bruce Elder

• Broad view of the various massacres that took place all across all countries post-colonisation.

Been fun watching the conservatives self immolate for the past few weeks. Not gonna be as fun when the hard right is all that’s left standing after the next election.

If I had to pick from the four decades I’ve personally experienced. 2016-2026 is probably the fucking worst.

Of all time? 1936-1946 is probably up there.

Probably 9th or 10th grade. A group had ganged up on one of my friends. They bullied him mercilessly, shit in his locker, pushed and shoved him whenever they saw him. I wasn’t the target but there was nothing I could do that would stop them. He cracked it one day and hit one of them after being harrased for 30 minutes straight, turned into a group brawl.

Our group of friends all got on well but we all felt like we were on the outer. Thankfully it got better in subsequent years after the worst of the bullies dropped out of school.

Nobara has been great. I fucked it up once and had to do a full resinstall. I also tried Mint and Bazzite but ended up going back to Nobara. Only had to go boot into Windows a few times to use some old programs but pretty much everything else has been perfect for me.

purplepingerstm@gmail.com keeps an updated spreadsheet of potentially empty tenancies.

My banking app gets more screen time than my media apps.

He was leading the unionisation wasn’t he? Until Hulk Hogan ratted him out?

Good for you. Celery is not my favourite but that’s probably because I grew up eat ants on a log a little to often.

An embarrassment

I had no idea he was connected when I was looking at the mod retro originally. No way I’ll have anything to do with them going forward. Utterly ghoulish.

I see you fellow Aussie