I'm personal aggrieved and offended by how badly designed this fork is and believe I'm entitled to some form of financial compensation

There's a lot of media headline focus on the whole 'last 5 years of your social media' activity as a pre-req for getting into the USA under the ESTA system, but I think the other requirements are much worse and far more outrageous.

I'm just a girl, sitting in front of a screen, pathologically replacing every 'like' that should in fact be 'such as', twitching internally and gaining a newfound respect for my grumpy, pedantic, elderly Form 3 English teacher who despised the word 'nice' as a descriptor.

Quite a lot going on here.

Ooo, I actually called this out weeks ago! You mean I was actually ahead of the game on something? (and it was the White House using outdated fonts?) Yeah, sure, that tracks.

I haven't had to do one of those 'select one of these 3 potentially catastrophic future data breach options to continue' age verification thingies yet, so I'm guessing my profile pic has been scanned by The Machine and there's a self-care package currently winging its way over to me.

Miss Piggy haiya-ing everything she had a problem with was quite honestly a vibe in my formative juvenile years.

Life is short. It's even shorter for a dog. Just shoot your shot kiddo, and let the chips fall where they may.

Yes, I realise it would have been smarter to pick one fake date of birth and stick with it across all the platforms but what can I say? I'm impulsively cantankerous in my pursuit to not give away excessive personal data. I've lost track of how old I am, but I believe it ranges from 35 to 70.

Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking

Just back from my annual pilgrimage to the post office to send out various seasonal sundries and say 'Jesus Christ WTF?!' under my breath a whole lot. Despite not sending any gifts internationally this year after nearly suffering an existential meltdown last year, the situation remains batshit.

Look, right up front I hate using CheatGPT. It's occasional, but I resent that it's the only way I can get on top of my excessive and continually growing workload. But posts like this make me really wonder....how TF is everyone else using it? Because I sure as shit am not using it like this.

I can't be the only one who thinks people wearing full.overear headphones in a car is just odd, disconcerting and possibly dangerous right? Right? It gives me vague 'wearing socks in the bath' levels of discomfort.

Will never not find this hilarious

I'm surprised the Trump Govt hasn't run a false flag operation yet, maybe there's no-one left who's halfway smart enough to pull it off. Seems to be a flavour of corruption that's relying more on complicity than complexity.

I was trying to find a clever way of making this point but I did have a sinking sensation this morning that we're all about to be subjected to an onslaught of venal corruption and unforgivably bad grammar

I take at least this many steps per day returning to where I was after forgetting what I'd gone to get. And then remembering and going back to get it a second time.

Well, I say, I say, I say, anyone want a job teaching AI how to be funny? I mean, this ad made me laugh but maybe not in the way they were intending.

Remember when cheap cane laundry baskets that you got for for about 10 bucks from K-Mart were super common? Well eventually they start breaking and between now and whenever the last time I bought one was, they've vanished.

Even when you avoid them by catching your own fish the Tasmanian salmon industry is still hell bent on ruining it for everyone. Wonder if we'll be able to swim at the beach this summer or if we'll get treated to another round of oily balls of rot www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Being a person that is very behind the times on what's trending + procrastination mentality + trends being cyclical = Very often inadvertently ahead of the trends

Psst! Did you know I have a blog that I only sporadically post to and barely ever promote? Anyway, it's not behind some annoying substack paywall and it's mostly about growing food and living in rural Tasmania. I hear blogs are becoming a thing again www.applewoodandearth.com

On Monday I got a LinkedIn email from a marketing company. Not unusual. Ignored. Then a request to connect from an employee. Then an email to my work address. Then a phonecall (thanks but no thanks). Then a follow up email to my work. Now I've been added to their mailing list without my permission?!

The inevitable capitalist trajectory www.youtube.com/watch?v=xed-...

I'm assuming she dressed as herself

I guess Sussan 'recovering punk' Ley has made a full recovery

I want someone to do a psychological profile on the type of person that thinks it's totally fine to pull out directly in front of an oncoming car cos they're only going an itty bitty little way up the road before turning off. Signed, my brakes.

Everyone saying the Louvre heist is an Ocean's 11 moment needs to get their heads out of American media for 5 seconds and educate themselves on Arsène Lupin.

And on that day, not a single shred of dignity could be found. Spinelessness in leadership has become the defining trait of our modern era. I should probably stop being so disappointed.

One of these days my foggy perimenopausal brain is going to feed my dogs twice in a row and it's going to be their best day ever. Signed, someone who just tried to fetch the same thing from the freezer twice in under a minute and couldn't figure out why it wasn't there the second time.

Look I'm not a mosquito (last I checked) but this seems like an obvious choice.

'Would you like to switch off your upcoming alarm?'

A non-Australian instagram account posted a reel of Margaret Pomeranz that was a sequence of clips of her funny intros and someone in the comments still somehow managed to make it about Charlie Kirk.

Just apropos of nothing, one of my favourite Shakespearean phrases is to be hoist with his own petard.

This is no longer a beach. It's a 4WD parking lot. God I loathe cars on beaches with the passion of a thousand suns.

The audacity of FaceBork asking me to participate in a survey. YOU HAVE ALREADY HELPED YOURSELF TO ENOUGH OF MY DATA YOU META-GHOULS.

My neighbour keeps giving me a ridiculous amount of lemons because I just live in one of those kinds of quaint rural situations, so it's lemon drizzle cake time! (And preserved lemons, and lemon curd, and lemon sorbet)

I just got loudly and aggressively complimented by a teenage girl. EXCUSE ME!! I LOVE YOUR BAG!! .... ... me: um, thanks! Strangely terrifying to be honest.

I entered a new decade this week. Boy, they do just keep piling up don't they? Anyway, this was me trying to look cool as I hurtle ever onwards towards geriatric mayhem.

What in the dystopian fever dream kind of game is this? You're supposed to unbolt the cage before the dog drowns? BEFORE THE DOG DROWNS?!? Think I'll skip the trauma and just keep matching candies and smashing bubbles thanks game devs, also please go and see a doctor. . . . Seriously wtf?

Turns out that the 'leave us alone to garden' approach to societal collapse might not even work. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ordered a new phone case and it's been dispatched from somewhere called The Fulfilment Centre, and I'm unsure if that sounds more Brave New World or some weird sex thing.

Look, I'm not going to lie, most of the Top 20 made me feel like I'd walked into the wrong lecture room. In my defence, I voted for one post 90s song which is very progressive of me.

I work in a Govt funded sector that operates nationally. What our collective 50+ orgs could do to support the environment and climate resilience with $1.6B would be huge. Instead we have to prostrate ourselves for a fraction of that once every few years. What a colossal, unforgivable waste.

Is it just me or does it seem to be standard practice now for a lot of trades/services to charge you for their time to come back and fix a thing that they didn't do correctly the first time? Is my brain in a different era where you just don't charge to fix your mistakes?

Midwinter Sunday tune on a cold rainy night youtu.be/bTqv7xEtnxI?...

Meals of note, Darwin edition: Laksa at the beach, tropical fruits (jackfruit, guava, plum apples, dragonfruit), sticky rice with banana,Thai pawpaw salad.

A few snaps from Darwin in the dry #northernaustralia #tropics #holiday

Oh my god are Trump's trade letters written in Times New Roman? Times New Roman?! Is it 1996?

I'm in Darwin this week and it's just lovely. Silting in a cafe about 2km from where I was born.