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mastodon 4.7.3Cared for my wife from 2017-23. Alzheimer's is terminal, progressive, and devastating for all concerned. J now lives in 24/7 care. 😭
While dying, dad told us his dad & gran were Aboriginal, calling his grandparents a combo - an illegal mixed couple. Who knew? Not me. True? No idea. Yet. I toot as a white man, & benefit from the privilege that brings in Australia. I live on Darug land.
I follow people, but get a little confused when people follow me.🤷♂️
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Joined February 16, 2023
Feeing glum this dampish winter afternoon?
Here, have a pair of rainbow lorikeets to brighten your day 😁
#BirdsOfMastodon
#BlueMountains
#Australia
More positively, it was a great ride, apart from the stupid crash & blood. Lots of water bars for jumping—one jump was 7.81m with a hangtime of 0.74s! One of my biggest, for sure! You better believed I whooped & hollered! Possibly providing an *idiot coming* alert to the riders grinding slowly up just around the next corner🙄😂
23km 1hr10
Ascent 843m
1/2
#eMTB#eBike#BlueMountains
Another glorious day. I rode Linden Ridge (no. 2) firetrail, & explored some singletrack. The firetrail is up & down, out & back, lots of water bars for jumping.
The singletrack was very slow, overgrown, & occasionally blocked by fallen trees, disappearing after 2.5km in a rocky clearing. I've ridden this track years ago, but recall it ended much earlier.
I left it a bit late to also do the Mt Twiss singletrack.
Total 34.5km, 1hr50
Ascent 760m
#eMTB
#eBike
#BlueMountains
It occurs to me I've been procrastinating about termite damage for 15y+. It was discovered well before I was made redundant^^early retired 11y ago.
I had reasons, good ones, but I always do, don't I?🤷🙄
So far:
✅: the house isn't falling down. Sagging, but who isn't?
❌: the house isn't falling down. I was on a run, I could have procrastinated for Australia!
❌: now I have to keep going. I can't live with wall linings off.
✅: now I have to keep going.
#MentalHealth
#TermiteRepairs
The first flowers are appearing on the frangipani! I took it from my mother-in-law's before it was sold—back in 2020. As she'd instructed years before, I snapped a piece off, stuck it in dirt to "seal", then a pot.
Nothing at all for 3y. The tip was dead. Then suddenly leaves! Only little ones, but each year it got a little bigger. Still nothing much.
6mths after potting into a huge pot, it's grown 60+cm, has big leaves, branches, & flowers are coming. Thanks L. 🙂
I'm watching Adventures of the Super Monkey—Journey to the West, on Netflix. It's a Japanese show based on the famous Chinese story, & naturally, supposedly set in China. Just before the end credits in S1:E3 roll up...& hang on a minute... [rewinds] surely not... [rewinds] Are they gums? Is that Blueys sandstone? [rewinds] I know that view! That's...that's the now closed Lincoln Rock in Wentworth Falls, just up the road. WTF?
Not again? Yes, but different. Today I rode Snaitches, (St H, St Helena firetrail) to Lost World & Bunyan lookouts. St H runs off the Oaks & is an out and back ride. A thru hike a bike is possible, but NPWS asked us not to ride that section, so I don't. Besides, it's a bastard climb out carrying a light bike, let alone a heavy eMTB.
Mostly little used, narrow firetrail, it changes to dual track towards the end, then very overgrown singletrack to the lookouts. 1/2
#eMTB
#eBike
#BlueMountains
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@dgar@aus.social
Shit. I froze, but took the poll, so my answer's wrong.
Shit, shit. Now I've taken the poll, and left a response, so even my last answer was wrong. Stop doing this to me! 😂
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@SeaFury@aus.social
It's amazing how something so ordinary is also incredibly delightful.
First shoots always induce a squee 😄
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@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
12? Wow. I couldn't even cut paper in straight lines at 12, let alone turn an apple into art.
Your nephew has talent & skills that need nurturing and encouraging.
Tell him how you feel. 😁
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@ColesStreetPothole
I was going to post something similar, about ending up like Van Gogh.
You have taken that same sick idea, and twisted it into something even sicker and darker.
Chapeau! 😂
@Elleaster @amiserabilist @Kierkegaanks
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
Straight back at you. Sounds like you could use a touch yourself.
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@lizzard
"I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned." 🤔
"The category isn't German or autistic — it's people for whom the gap between how things are and how they ought to be is not an abstraction but a constant, low-grade irritation."
Haha—a mate & I were recently moaning that nothing works as it should, & how constantly irritating that was.
🤷♂️
@walsonde @StarkRG @jonm
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to
Boo! They should have surrendered that escalator to the cats & built a new one.
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
Almost, except you really don't want to eat her cooking...
@Nickiquote@mstdn.social
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@Nickiquote
Unsure - rest of world
I remember some kids at school eating them, if I ever did, I clearly wasn't impressed enough to do it again. 🤷♂️
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@lowqualityfacts
Orange. It has to orange they said, orange everything. Then they sat me down, I'm pose *beautifully*, & they bloody asked ask me to hold a lamp with a stupid yellow post-it stuck on top. WTH?
Yes, pedants, I'm well aware it's not a post-it. Ta.
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@dragonfrog
Nah. In the early 70s, the hits of the 50s were oldies. Hell, American Graffiti was a 1973 movie set in 1962, repopularising 50s rock n roll oldies.
Humans only have to blink & *our* music has become oldies. 🤷♂️
@jaredwhite @bryanredeagle @crazyeddie @theowashere @stx @AndrewRadev
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@clive@saturation.social
I'm in that clip. That's me waving from well down the east coast of Australia. I'm the one wearing a hoodie.
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
A new kind of yellow? 🤯 Surely worth a million pounds. Maybe even more.
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@georgepenney@sunny.garden
Being mother was a little joy in days past. Both a great responsibility and pleasure 😊
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
I had a new NRS! It was light ✅ & expensive ❌. It wasn't strong enough for my aggressive use. Light, cheap, strong, choose any two 🤷♂️
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@SeaFury@aus.social
I think so, anyway. Sour sucks my cheeks in & bitter is unpleasant on the tongue.
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@screambiogenesis@mastodon.social
Pfft. We had a little plastic box with a lock. Security matters.
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
I like to think I would complete a Bachelor of Arse quite easily, possibly Honours.
I'd have to knuckle down for a Masters of Arse, but suspect I wouldn't have the dedication for a PhD (Arse).
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@sister_ratched
Last year, I wrote to my Federal *no longer marginal, now pretty safe* MP regarding proposed cuts to the NDIS. I may have mentioned AUKUS waste. She promised to get right back to me.
She did not. One less vote doesn't bother her anymore.
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@KiwiEV
I had to look—not at you, that would be stalkerish & weird—at a map. NZ gets does get narrow in a few spots around Auckland. I've visited Auckland twice, & had no idea.
Next time, I'll have to walk across the whole country myself! 😉😁
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@amiserabilist
Thanks.
I watched all of that. Fascinating to watch & hear a hurdy gurdy—*nothing* like I'd always imagined!
I had thought it was something like a barrel organ, but no monkeys. 🤦 Oh dear...
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@joannaholman
My cynical first thought, too, but perhaps there's video or other evidence of it starting. Or maybe it is suspicious, but they're not saying? 🤷
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@dragonfrog
Sorry man, I'm still traumatised by living it... 😉
@jaredwhite @bryanredeagle @crazyeddie @theowashere @stx @AndrewRadev
Unharm advise (not yet on website) the NSW MC driving reform has cleared Parliament & will *become* law.
A flawed improvement. All details TBC. IANAL. Don't drive impaired.
Con: must register 😒
Presence tests continue
There's no advice (yet) on what intake level will end in test failure, as we have with alcohol.
Cautions?
Pro: *if* unimpaired & below 50ng/ml, *exempt* from the presence test. I have read current testing detects to 5ng/ml, if so, a significant change.
#MedicalCannabisNSW
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@ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de
Attention humans, I would like to draw your attention to subsection III, paragraph XI of the house rules. Where is my food?
Well, that's what I see 🤷
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@wohali
You can't post this without telling us the location! Strictly for research purposes, obviously 🙄
RE: https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/117288563071933422
What size ute? I'm guessing not a twin cab.
Yes, this is a shitpost about utes, but it's potentially a good idea. I live in a flame zone, & often consider getting a fire*proof* bunker (not resistant) for storage & last resort refuge, but let's face it, I'll be evacuating & relying on insurance. OTOH, tiny houses would allow me to easily continue living here while rebuilding if a fire destroys the house. Of course, the fire risk will be minimal for a few years if everything burns.
#shitpost
Quoting
Bushfire survivor builds fire-resistant tiny home that fits in ute tray https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/fire-resistant-tiny-home-casa-manyana/107157308 #DisasterPreparedness #Architecture
Open quoted postA nice day at Barangaroo today with sons and a gf. Good food, but the restaurant was oppressively loud. Conversations, not dickheads. I took my hearing aids out, because I could only hear other conversations, not ours. We moved outside, & I genuinely felt the weight of all those conversations leaving my shoulders. Inside, ugh, weighed down, not coping, outside, weight gone, enjoyed lunch, could hear the others.
I was staggered by how much happier I felt outside, away from the noise. Shocked.
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@bradr
Yeah, they look cool, maybe 3rd time lucky? Low scale production allegedly to start in 2027. Err... Subject to funding. Again.
I wish them well, but won't hold my breath. It must be a real struggle to raise funding for a small solar car in a country famed for ridiculously oversized ICE vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_Motors
Ooh... @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org, this comparison between a modern downhill mountain bike, an eMTB, & a Cannondale almost as old as yours just popped up in my YouTube feed. Not long after I was musing on the same idea. 😁
Sam Pilgrim, legendary mtb racer & nutcase takes them all on a timed run downhill. Can the old bike win? It certainly looks *exciting!*
https://youtu.be/RUpwRYH_3jc
#mtb
#eMTB#VintageMTB
1998 DH BIKE vs 2026 WORLD CUP DOWNHILL BIKE - Is new actually better?
Disappointingly, I couldn't find any trace of e-skateboards, & needed my own helmet to test a moto (FTN & scooters).
However I tried electric legs. 🤔 They feel odd, but make walking much easier. So much so, as I walked away, my legs were lead, unable to be lifted at all. I can never walk again! 😂 Stairs like Federal Pass at Katoomba would be so easy! Lots of old blokes *very* happily *running* in them...
Their fancy model might even help dicky knees & hips (not tested).
#EverythingElectric
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@backupbear
Analogue may well be purer, but my ears think digital formats sound better. I can only judge by my own ears. 🤷
Albums. 40mins of the same musicians, an artistic theme, cover notes. A slower listen. More time to get into it. Today, my *better sounding* music playlist randomly jumps genres, generations, & styles. Fast—next!
Which is better depends on my mood. TBH,I usually choose random, but occasionally, for a good relax, albums.