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@mcnado you mean, if Congress approved, its okay to assassinate foreign leaders? That’s your idea of a complex discussion?
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mastodon 4.7.2PhD in thinking (yes), researcher, artist, hooked on nature, cycling, bread-baking, Richter and Pärt, ancient artifacts, Celtic culture & other such things lost in the mists of time.
Header: Sunset, Shoal Bay, NSW.
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I can't believe the number of 'How to avoid heatstroke' articles popping up on European sites that don't list /wearing a broad brimmed hat' on their lists!
#AltText golden light illumined the fading blue sky after sunset behind the dark silhouette of trees.
Forget art therapy, this is home baking as therapy: Made a rustic pizza and an even more rustic quince tart for dinner, with quince from the garden glut. The glass of Grenache helps me swallow my ‘ medicine’.
Early morning walk past this giant in someone's front yard.
#CouchPeloton Really lovely video of Ritchie Carapaz's great day yesterday with his team, EF Education
#TDF #TDF2026https://youtu.be/Ao-vfu7WWvs?si=icT7J-KJ3i8GvCDA
RICHIE WINS STAGE 18 - Tour de France | Richard Carapaz | RaceTV from EF Pro Cycling
And now for something completely different: Boromir does birding videos.
Jfc, Penny Wong!
Regimes that murder their own people, she says, can never be seen as legitimate.
So murdering other regimes' people is just fine, is it Penny?
And murdering your own people if you are a white western nation, is also fine?
It's just when those brown people do it, its heinous. #DoubleStandards
I don’t see what’s so unbelievable about Jay Vine being hit by a kangaroo #TDU I mean, haven’t we all been hit by a moving kangaroo at some point? #CouchPeloton #giro2026
A huntsman spider that’s been living in the house for about 2 weeks literally just dropped onto my pillow next to my cheek 5 minutes after I got into bed.
Why, I don’t know, but he consequently got a faceful of lavender spray - and then passed out. Now lying under a bowl in the loungeroom.
I scored 12/12 (100%) on the Common Birds of Costa Rica (12) quiz at BirdBrainer! https://birdbrainer.app/
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@LifeTimeCooking@mastodon.au You've inspired me now to buy some besan flour tomorrow and try an Indian "version' of Muhallebi, with saffron and cardamon. On the rare occasion I have access to Indian sweets made from besan flour, I love them. So more-ish! But so sweet. I think they are usually made with condensed milk, that's why. When I was a child, we loved to buy tubes of sweetened condensed milk, and suck them! But adult me does not care for sugar so much.
Maybe the thickened besan flour pudding will recreate something of that experience, without being too sweet?
Note: I should just add, that when I make the Muhallebi, I don't add sugar in the cooking. I only drizzle honey on top once I have put it in a dish to cool and set.
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@ralph @AssalRad ‘elected democracy’ and ‘ terrorist regime’ are not mutually exclusive descriptions. Both these elected democracies (and neither are true democracies) can be described as terrorist regimes. They create terrorists through their actions, they use terrorists as political means, and both act outside of international law.
What is it with #Millennials and having loud conversations on their mobiles outside so the whole neighbourhood can hear?
Last week it was the dad holding a business meeting on his phone outside my window while waiting for his kid to have her cello lesson, literally leaning against my bedroom wall.
Today its the dad with 4 home-schooled kids up the back, talking loudly about the Frenchies on his building site today and how they were (missed the next bit) with dirt everywhere.
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Just made Hot Cross Buns. It's a bit early for Easter, but since I will be spending Easter with my gluten-free, diabetic brother, (🙄 ), I decided to allow myself an early start.
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@mybirdpins@mstdn.business probably not fair I did this one ☺️
I scored 12/12 (100%) on the Common Birds of Australia (12) quiz at Bird Brainer! https://birdbrainer.app/
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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 596
I got 8/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2026/04/18?rival=1111110101
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us it’s similar in Australia. Labor sees the Greens as more of a threat, it seems, than the divisive and ill-named One Nation.
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@yogthos @PabloveSky in my youth I studied and could speak Early West Saxon, the language of Alfred the Great, but I also struggled greatly when
I reached 1200, even with my old philology training.
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The Saturday Paper Quiz
I got 8/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2026/05/28
‘George Orwell couldn’t make this up’.
Iran War Exposes How US Allies Are Not Sovereign Countries https://youtube.com/shorts/O8E47Ib_RoU?si=aXKOt2zuXT8YRGIe
@jonlawrence@social.chinwag.org when I lived in Canberra, I was regularly almost hit by a roo on the way to work.
I scored 6/6 (100%) on the Common Birds of Namibia (6) quiz at BirdBrainer! https://birdbrainer.app/
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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 592
I got 6/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2026/03/21?rival=1100110110
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@LifeTimeCooking I sometimes lose my glasses and wander round everywhere looking for them. Only to discover them on top of my head.
‘Khamenei is dead’: Trump
'Trump is dead': Khamenei
Who knows which is which and who is true?
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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 593
I got 7/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2026/03/28?rival=0011111110
Now this one was tricky. I don't know my Westerns from my Greats
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@earthmothering9 i was reading an article n him only the other week. On mushrooms, of course.
This Bird is a Water Ninja https://youtube.com/watch?v=73IOqc4IXyg&si=cYQ8Nf8hGS1Zyijz
#TrollTips Apparently Jonas has said he wants this stage, so I’ll go for Jai, just because. @markrprior@ohai.social
#TrollTips Narvaez please @markrprior@ohai.social Ive given up on Ciccone - which means hell probably win now!
#TrollTips Milan in Milan please @markrprior@ohai.social
#TrollTips Narvaez again please @markrprior@ohai.social tho who knows? Im off the bed now, anyway.
#TrollTips I’ll try Hindley please @markrprior@ohai.social
#TrollTips WVA please @markrprior@ohai.social
#TrollTips Merlier is the favourite but I’d still like to Milan or Groenewegen win. So I’ll go for Dylan,@markrprior@ohai.social
#TrollTips ciccone once more please @markrprior@ohai.social
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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 589
I got 7/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2026/02/28?rival=0011111101
