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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117353732287809877 Another responsible halloween thing a lot of people don’t realise is that artificial spiderwebs shouldn’t be used outdoors. Animals can get tangled up in them and birds may try to use them as nesting material. It’s especially an issue in the southern hemisphere where Halloween falls at the peak of nesting season for many bird species

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  Aussies: need motivation to go outside and want to do something useful? In 3 weeks time the Aussie Bird Count is happening. You just go outside anywhere you like, count the number of each type of bird you see and log the counts on the easy to use app or website. You don’t have to be a bird nerd, the app has good tools to help you identify what you’re seeing. The data helps scientists identify changes in bird populations and locations, something that’s even more important with bird flu on the loo...

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  I do not need any more stuffed animals but IKEA is will soon be stocking toy Pallas's cats and I think I really need that

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  Our society would be better if we assumed that celebrities probably have takes and ethics in the poor to average range. There’s no good reason to think someone who is good at kicking footballs or writing songs about breakups or acting out characters would be good at thinking clearly about social issues, especially if they spent their formative years obsessing over developing at what they’re famous for

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  The smartest piece of office behaviour I’ve ever seen was a coworker who used a picture of his home office as his background for teams meetings when in office so that people would assume he was WFH and not come find him in person to solve problems or chat

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  King parrots are very unusual in the northern suburbs of #melbourne so this was a nice surprise on my walk today. I think these should be the mascot of Christmas in Australia #birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife

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  The most important day on the sports calendar is here! Later today the European Tram Driver Championships kicks off, pitting the best precision tram drivers from across Europe (and #melbourne) against each other https://www.youtube.com/live/R1PeT9Zeiow

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  Today in truly cursed new AI concepts: upload your child doing things and it will generate why that activity meets homeschooling standards

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  So not content to plagiarise individual products Kmart Australia is plagiarising the entire IKEA concept with their new homewares stores. They’ve called them “K Home” which feels to me like the street name for an illicit substance

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  Had a look at the #Melbourne Royal Show showbag selection for the year. Planning to do a longer mockery at some point if people would enjoy that once I get past the initial overwhelm of how badly they’ve enshittified what used to be a fun tradition (Cultural translation: showbags are themed bags of snacks, toys or product samples sold at our equivalent of a state fair)

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  One day you’re young and cool, the next you’re arriving at events early because the lake next to the event might have interesting ducks

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  a few name your price electronica albums fundraising for various charitable causes you may wish to add to your #bandcampfriday cart Colombia earthquake relief https://illegalalienrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-colombia Ukraine humanitarian efforts: https://sidelinemag.bandcamp.com/album/united-1-the-freya-files Electronic Frontier Foundation https://defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/album/def-con-34-the-official-soundtrack #music #bandcamp

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  For your #bandcampfriday consideration, Memphis LK from #melbourne who creates euphoric vocal driven dance music https://memphislk.bandcamp.com/ #bandcamp #music

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  A slightly annoying thing about travelling in #singapore and #malaysia is how often I was warned about interesting animals and phenomena I did not witness. Of these I only saw monkeys

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  In a little coastal town in the north of Penang, Malaysia the local cat sanctuary is on a super pretty beach. Cats who have been neutered, vaccinated and health checked are free to spend their days lazing on the sand or in shelters built for them while being fed and looked after by volunteers. #cats #catsofmastodon #penang #malaysia

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  Someone on this plane is watching videos without headphones. Can we throw them out the door? (And no it’s not a teenager, person is at least in their 50s)

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  My feline nephew Winston has to do physiotherapy including hydro treadmill as part of his leg surgery rehab. I had a day off today so I invited myself to his appointment. He’s such a good boy about it that he sometimes helps train new pet physios. #cats #catsofmastodon #cat #britishshorthair

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  For your #bandcampfriday consideration, Voyager's album is brilliant electro influenced prog-metal. I'm not normally into metal but I love this. They've had to limit their touring due to their frontman having very serious health issues so they could use the support https://voyager.bandcamp.com/album/fearless-in-love #bandcamp

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  Great initiative from the excellent Helping Hands Opshop (thrift store) in Airport West, #Melbourne. Many opshops throw out goods that aren’t quite saleable quality or bulk sell them to exporters who create problems in disadvantaged countries. Instead Helping Hands is encouraging people to take the stuff for free and upcycle it

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  This week's Tom Scott video on a secret monorail under a bridge is extra mastodon coded https://youtu.be/SzM1hpnXux4

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  I think we need a broader cultural conversation that goes beyond just GenAI on whether it is mentally and spiritually healthy to talk to tech like it’s a person

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  Found some vintage internet culture in a box I hadn’t looked at in a while: an I Can Haz Cheeseburger cat and a Lolrus. Those were simpler days in the interwebs

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  I can only assume officeworks has decided those of us inclined to wear carabiners are bad at maths. Rude!

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  Sometimes i miss the tech optimism of the early 2010s, when our gadgets were getting better and many startups looked like they were creating interesting innovations that would improve our lives rather than finding new ways to track us and enshitify things. Flicking through business books from back then feels like dispatches from an alternative reality

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nicolasgouny/116990317415903883 Pleased to learn how to say “rainbow lorikeet” in French

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  Venn diagram of Australians who’ve kept their phone on silent for the last 14 years but are weirdly excited for it to make noise today #ausalert

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  RE: https://aus.social/@alexkidman/116988104696338255 I’ve mostly avoided Kogan after years ago hearing the founder speak at a conference about how the business got started. He talked like it was admirable about how he used credit cards (some in the name of friends) to get early business capital in a way that if not technically fraudulent was certainly spectacularly unwise and likely to create disaster for others who tried it.

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  With all the feedback surveys we’re doing the world should be much better than it is

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  RE: https://theblower.au/@anne_twain/116971746312160102 It really is kinda fascinating how conspiracy theorist/cooker psychology has them latching on to small implausible ways someone could be doing something bad while missing the obvious ways much bigger badder things are definitely happening

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Artemis201/116964626042294857 I present the best thing you’ll see on the internet this week