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  i would like to call out Tixel for email crimes. would YOU assume from this message that you could not download your ticket and in fact had to get in contact with another human and help them navigate Ticketek's transfer process?

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  the highest praise I've ever received for a quilt was one sister stealing it from the other "because my favourite colour is rainbow, so i should have it" obviously the only solution here is for me to make another rainbow quilt #quilt #quilting

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  it absolutely grinds my gears that now that my mother is in aged care, so many professionals across multiple industries refer to her as "mum". Not "your mum". Just "mum". Even I don't call her that.

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  i laid these out while contemplating whether i have an unhealthy relationship with the fabric remnants bin at spotlight. when i came back to them, a tiny pug was standing guard - this is completely unposed.

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  all the things Australians complain about - mostly things being expensive - and express surprise that I'd move here given that, are ALSO expensive in NZ. and way more crap. e.g. housing - also expensive, and much much worse quality. e.g. utilities - also expensive. also breaking far far more frequently due to massive under investment. e.g. public transport - expensive and laughable, particularly in Auckland.

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  the cutest in-flight entertainment for MEL-HBA. do you see the tiny snips? they are SO CUTE

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  i need to stop thinking about work as i drift off to sleep because then i have nonsensical lucid dreams that i think are real the next day. recently: - a colleague owed me a coffee because i bought his wife some skincare thing - someone i work with only tangentially was fired and we held a memorial it needs to stop, it's getting spooky

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  i have interacted with four people in hobart thus far and every single one has been absolutely delightful

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  i have cat-like reflexes, in the sense that i knock things over all the time, but also in the sense that I'm usually fast enough to catch them

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  i take malicious pleasure in simply and clearly explaining comp sci concepts to the partners of software engineers who hand wave it away as "too hard to explain" that's YOUR skill issue, actually. if you're talking about it in front of someone who doesn't know the concept, you should be able to break it down enough to explain your conversation

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  hard question for me: how much compsci/deep programming lore is too much for a talk at an SRE conference? some folks will love it. some folks will be overwhelmed by too many new concepts. the right amount is hard to judge. so far we're including: - turing completeness and the halting problem - event driven architecture software considerations (e.g. what is "good" in an event processing system?) - a little bit of distributed systems challenges - tree data structures - a...

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  tiny pugs do not approve of working on your talk outside of work hours

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@lemay/117311007832291386 this has unfailingly been my experience as well. per this thread, having a woman ask questions in a technical interview, does NOT weed out neurodiverse candidates mistakenly, because they _consistently_ apply any behaviours that might be read unfavourably

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  every day, i squash the urge to message my work friends to say "what if we all didn't do any work and just had a nap?" because i think i am just always more tired than they are but like... WHAT IF

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  apparently it's "peak only child behaviour" that i bought some art from the cute rural antique store while out on my husband's birthday outing yesterday because "only an only child would get themselves a present on my birthday" 🫠🫣

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  just overheard one of the volunteers at the miniature steam train railway i took my software engineer husband to for his birthday say "well, I'm a software engineer by trade..." and yeah that tracks

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  so exhausted that I'm kind of hoping none of my lovely friends who I'm very excited to see show up to the pub where i invited them to come see me, so i can sit by myself and read the third Shadow of the Leviathan book tbh (if you see this and intend to come PLEASE DO i will be so happy to see you. but will also be happy to read quietly next to you)

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  people who refuse to let me spoil them are very unreasonable. i like buying little gifts, why won't you let me???

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  daily squish #dailysquish #pugs #pugsofmastodon

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  beach pugs #dailysquish #pugs #pug #pugsofmastodon

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  i am trying to plan a relatively simple multistop journey in europe and look, we really fucked up when we took away travel agents

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  adhd life - looking at my keys and wondering what they all do. are they the ones i need for a trip to NZ? did someone lend me a house key that i never returned? where did they come from??

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  small cute colleague Aussie-isms: the whole lot of them use 🦘 to mean skip, e.g. "nothing on the agenda for this meeting, 🦘" means the meeting is cancelled

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  wrote the first full outline of the talk I'm giving in October and I'm so excited about it. took about 45 mins of chatting it over before we teased out all the interesting bits and pieces we'd forgotten since we actually did the work please remind me of this enthusiasm once i hit the pit of despair phase that's coming in a couple of weeks

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  baby alfie circa 2020 #dailysquish #dailypug #pug #pugsofmastodon

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  when Otto was a little squish #dailysquish #pug #pugsofmastodon

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  excuse me sir, who said you could be so round? #dailysquish #pug #pugsofmastodon

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  RE: https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/116983047611794843 this is what moving to Australia was like. except AFL teams are much like gender, you don't need to worry, one will be assigned to you

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  every time I try to research embroidery machines lots of what i read starts with dire warnings about how using them for custom designs, or even tailoring the designs, requires SOFTWARE LANGUAGES OMG and unfortunately that is the part i am least worried about like, i GET IT, but also ... it feels very weird

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  it's embarrassing having a friend to stay and realising they get to see me how i actually live - in the scruffiest clothes i own, covered in pug fur and chip crumbs, running on caffeine and gentle frustration, locked up in my tiny office