Once again, real estate agents show why they are hated so much Hugz & xXx https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/landlord/barry-plant-property-manager-tells-landlords-to-always-put-your-rent-up-to-help-tenants-avoid-market-pricing/news-story/4531438f5a033f6a35fb62a4851f0de9

Have kept digging into the Optus triple zero outage (not the one last night) but they're now doing that crisis management thing of saying they won't answer any questions about it because of the independent review that is due to report back by the end of the year.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s Action and Solidarity Party has secured a sufficient majority of parliamentary seats to stay in power for a second term, keeping the country on the path to EU membership.

Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry: I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]

Kid’s school banned downloading games onto school laptops. Then social media on campus. Then phones. Then VPN’s. Anyway, the students are still chatting during class. Using a shared Google doc

Sudden thumping and thudding on my roof. I had a look, cautiously. Ducks. But of course.

On a bus to Mum's place. It's now sitting immobile at the end of the street my grandmother used to live in, for no clear reason. I'm somewhere between nostalgic and irritated.

Someone asked me for directions to a suburban shopping horror, and I'm proud of myself for providing them with directions and bus information without using the word 'shithole' even once.

I neither need nor desire to know the answer to this question.

⤴️⤴️ Now he is telling someone his thoughts on dog breeds Oh, btw, he is wearing a button shirt, cargo type pants and no shoes ... I said NO SHOES Never trust a male with no shoes, further than 1 km from the beach ... Giggles Hugz & xXx

Suggestion: A button on all apps (and messages from apps), allowing the user to ask "What the fuck does that mean?" and get an answer in plain language.

My internet connection is being selectively rubbish again. I've done about all I can do to fix it, so it's something for my ISP to look at. I'll have to call them. Yuck. My current cop-out position is that it's Monday morning and I should give them time to wake up before I bother them. Maybe […]

Work changed to a new system for tallying leave. I messaged the people in charge of leave because I seem to have mysteriously gained an extra 7 days of leave to use. Either I can't count, or they've got it wrong in the changeover to the new system. Their response to my email was maybe I should […]

Polar bear I can draw one of these for you, if you would like me to. www.worldofmoose.com/products/pol...

I don't normally bother with restaurant reviews, but this one took a turn. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/sep/28/brasserie-constance-london-sw6-grace-dent-restaurant-review

I recommend wearing a latex glove or two while chopping food prior to cooking, especially if there are savage gaping paper cuts on one's hands and one is preparing a curry of some sort. Masochism and cookery shouldn't mix.

The library was open so I did a bit of research on trove.

Had a look at news. Shouldn't have. A strident squawker is whinging that Albo should be doing more to engage with that seppo idiot, not wasting time on international diplomacy. Clearly, Liberal Party spokesidiot M Cash continues to be as thick as pigshit. One of the few constants in an unstable […]

The internet is crap this morning. I've tried two separate browsers and I can't get links to open, or access wikipedia or a few other sites. I could try to work it out or I could say 'screw this, I'm going for a walk'. You won't believe what happens next.

I wonder how the USA will split up Then I wonder how all the backward states will survive, nah not really ... Giggles Hugz & xXx

Sunday morning online is much nicer here than it was on that other thing. Despite that, I still feel like I should be doing something else. Pondering the big questions, for instance. Is there a purpose to existence? Does life have to have a meaning, or can we just enjoy it to the extent possible […]

Apparently there is an outbreak of killer fettuccine going on (per the LA Times). I didn't know fettuccine was contagious. 🫢 #fettucine

Found a secret door in the back of my washing machine. Behind it a tiny room with rows of mice fast asleep in odd-sock sleeping bags.

I have remembered to take something out of the freezer for cooking tomorrow. Could this be the start of a new, efficient, well-organised life? I do hope not, it would be so draining and so lacking in mad cooking experiments.

I should go for a walk, but with no reason to replace 'should' with 'must' it's hard to get started.

People who refused to vote for Harris because she didn’t conform to their precise leftist ideology must be so fucking proud of themselves.

ABC Radio news just referred to Albo "meeting world leaders as well as King Charles." I guess that's the monarchy put in its place.

A day offline now and then is A Good Thing. Recommended

Last night I chose not to take something out of the freezer to eat today. Oh no.

Not many people know this but the dude who made up the fahrenheit scale did it as a joke and didn't think anyone would be silly enough to actually use it

Quick vocab note: I keep seeing people write "block" to refer to a group of associated countries (such as the EU) when the correct word in English is "bloc". For example, during the Cold War we wrote about the Eastern Bloc when referring to communist Eastern Europe. Just so you know. #english […]

Owl. Queen Mary Psalter, London 1310-1320. British Library, Royal 2 B VII, fol. 128v. #medieval #medievalart

Wtf ... This world isn't for me It's so screwed up Hugz & xXx https://amp.nine.com.au/article/d5b73d3f-7160-48fb-b2cc-676e19f72b98

An analogy between personal psychology and geopolitics You know how there's a pattern where some of the most vocally homophobic people turn out to be struggling with their own sexuality. They experienced attraction as something to suppress rather than accept, they assume sexual orientation is […]

Open day at SAGHS (free entry) for anyone in South Australia interested in family history Sunday 12th October 2025 10am to 3pm Genealogy SA Library Open Day https://www.genealogysa.org.au/whats-on/events-calendar/open-day-2025

On top of everything else, this was an impressive, if slightly adrenaline-inducing, thing I had to stop and wait for on the way home from campus today. WOW. The flagger had a hilarious comment about "The commuters aren't bad. The farmers are the worst! They won't stop for anything!"

[Raht-adjacent. The world's a bit rubbish, but you knew that.] Let the record show that I left the house voluntarily and went for a walk. I had thought of going somewhere else, but I wound it back to visiting the local shops. There were elderly frail-looking people in there, shouting jovially […]

It's one of those nights when my brain isn't just restless, it's agitated. Nevertheless, I must try to sleep just a few hours more. Please wish me luck.

I lost my job because of Vladimir Putin.* But still, it's better than having to tell people that you got your job thanks to Vladimir Putin. * Putin --> invasion of Ukraine --> price of gas --> finances of Polish universities

I must get out of the house tomorrow, whether I like it or not.

Blame capitalism all you want, but Adam Smith would have hated this shit too.

Sorry, what?! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/bruce-lehrmann-seeks-funds-for-legal-representation-over-raids/105809920

Lovely place, a small town in Dongguan renowned for its dumplings and bandsaw blades.

#auspol please check out this petition and sign if you agree and are in Australia https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7872 Petition Reason The currently proposed extension of the powers of the eSafety Commission do not show methods to control overreach of the eSafety Commission in […]

You know what's way better than billionaire orbital garbage? Goats enjoying a pile of straw bales.

As terrible as all the pollution from reentries is, I have to say that it's REALLY FREAKING COOL that I now know all the right people to ask to find out what exactly reentered when a journalist sends me a reddit video from a random Canadian city. I don't know the answer yet, but I know who to […]

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Do you think anyone outside the media cares whether PM Albanese has an in-person meeting with the US president? The media seems obsessed with it, but IMO avoiding the bloke seems a sensible approach. #auspol #uspol

Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?

Further proof that life is brutal and uncaring and unfair. I have hurt my foot while merely thinking about getting out of bed. No, I don't know how.