It is my birthday! Here in Australia, it's a perfectly normal date, the 7th of June. But America's influence filters through everywhere, and so I am now burdened with a Funny Number birthdate.

Watchin' the TADC movie! It's honestly kinda cute seeing cosplayers in the cinema but I admittedly do not anticipate a very pleasant cinema experience.

How to use litterbox

My jerk crow friends (and some currawongs I haven't met before)

I bought expensive mixed nuts to give to my jerk crow friends and they didn't even bother to show up on my walk But! I did find a cockatoo crest feather!

When I was really little, for some reason I thought cross country races were something like an obstacle course. I don't know how the thought got in my head, but I was jealous the older kids had to do one. I think the reality crushed me more than doing the actual race did.

I buy the takoyaki. I eat the takoyaki. I burn my mouth with the takoyaki. I fail to learn from my mistakes with the takoyaki. I buy the takoyaki.

Heaps of people say cats are standoffish jerks, but honestly I think it's remarkable how much they can tolerate humans touching them and petting them and all that nonsense.

Hm. Fire Pomeranian.

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... Sixteen-year-old me is super happy. TVTropes can be a doofy site, but... I do like spending time on it when I don't wanna think too hard, and it's just one of those little milestones I always wanted to see, haha.

New headphones! I am not immune to copper detailing.

Gotta say, tubing on the river? Kinda kicks going to a water park's ass. I am very beat up now though.

>:(

My most boomer-ass complaint is I can't stand any memes or images that have someone sticking out their tongue. It just viscerally pisses me off, no matter the context.

I'm seeing some sub-only fans going "seethe and cope more, trash English VAs" and like whatever, you're allowed to like subs and dislike dubs. ...But what happens when AI comes for Japanese VAing?

A car just blitzed by and completely took out a street sign that was in the middle of the road on a refuge island. They also managed to smash someone's side mirror. They just kept driving on. But they dropped their number plate :^)

I kept dunking on these flannel headphone pads but then they were on sale as my old pads began flaking into confetti so I copped 'em and I guess they don't look tooooo bad.

Youtube algorithm, are you okay

It's really gotta stop raining here every Halloween

Power has not returned. Aaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhh is becoming stronger.

On one hand, this power outage is nice because it's super dark outside since all the streetlights have turned off. On the other hand, aaaaaaggggghhhhh

(Mild/implicit Pokémon Legends Z-A spoilers) Cowards. You should have committed to the bit with Canari.

Gamefreak... Pokémon Company... Whoever the heck holds power for this godforsaken franchise... Give the Pokémon models proper textures. I beg of you. On my hands and knees, I beg of you.

Shoutout to the IGA near my hotel that's been playing flamenco over the speakers every time I walk in

I'm off to PAX Aus tomorrow! My priorities are probably gonna be chatting with other VAs, finding Limbus/ProjMoon stuff in the Artist Alley, and reading old-ass gaming magazines.

Melbourne. Melbourne you've gotta get on it and get those countdown timers for crossing lights. Feel anxious without 'em.

Kinda wanna get the new Digimon game, kinda don't wanna spend $100 AUD right now.

So I got this ad for a jumping castle hire company of all things here on Twitter, so I decided to have a look. Everything was pretty normal, but I don't know any kids who'd desperately want Mighty the Armadillo, Pachacamac, and what I think are some Deviantart OCs on a castle.

One thing I just really don't like about modern Pokemon designs is how rounded and toy-like they are, rather than looking like... y'know, creatures. They're marketable plushies first, animals second.

People who make videos of music on Youtube that are like two hours long but are actually like 30 minutes' worth of music looped several times deserve to be kicked

The curlews are screaming again

I went to Costco. Beyond the novelty of the bigass bulk items, the American decadence in the food court was unreal. Pizza slice the size of a normal pizza for $3 AUD? Bottle of water for 50c? The hell is this, the 90s? It's actually kinda rad. Pizza was solid, too.

One of my housemates is the kinda guy who wants to try eating weird regional foods. He wanted to try eating natto, so I grabbed some when I was at an Asian supermarket. My verdict: I can see why someone would enjoy the taste, though I didn't care for it. But boy does it *stink*

A lot of fandom memes and injokes nowadays feel like they think they're making an original joke but *every* fandom has the same ones. Like cities trying to say they're unique. "lmao us [blank] fans can't read!!" "You know what they say, if you hate the weather in [city], wait five minutes!"

I got the Myst remake running in VR the other day. As cool as it was fiddling with the doodads from my hazy childhood memories, I very much did nearly puke because of motion sickness. What a shame.

My housemates have gone mad with power

Heh heh heh ...Though as patient of a person as I am, I do kinda hope the next season of Limbus doesn't give me enough time to get all the way to level 1000 with minimal grinding.

Uggghhh whaddaya mean Deltarune releases at 1am my time on a work night I ain't a dumbass uni kid anymore, I'll only be able to buy it and maybe install it before conking out. Annoying as hell.

I don't really like getting political, but it's really funny to see how Trump getting in *absolutely* made both Canada and Australia decide they did not want that at all and swing towards parties that otherwise looked like they were gonna lose.

Obligatory democracy sausage (+lamingtons) #ausvotes

I like to complain about Word when I'm using it for my day job but most people who complain about Word just do not know how to use it at all. It ain't as hard as it looks, it's just a bit of a bastard.

I'm seeing everyone (rightfully) dunk on that AI-dubbed donghua, but remember: Not even five years ago AI art looked like smudgy blurs, and now they can produce some alarmingly competent works. So keep fighting against it, and do your due diligence when it comes to protections.

Surgery time (the floor got cracked, gonna replace it and add some more blocks so that doesn't happen again)

>Anne of Green Gables anime >doesn't have a Canadian dub Dropped.

I went to Carrara Markets the other day and bought this truly dogshit (yet surprisingly comfy) anime shirt. Also there was Crab Sword.

Sometimes, when it gets floody, a place near me will trip an alarm which keeps repeating "EMERGENCY. EVACUATE NOW." and it sounds maybe just a little bit apocalyptic.

The streets are, for obvious reasons, really quiet and empty. It reminds me a bit of COVID lockdowns. #CycloneAlfred

Local boy zonked after dental treatment for mysteriously broken tooth

Somethin' special about hotel UHT milk.

Today in Australian* (*arguable) foods I and and my housemate will probably regret trying: Foster's