Sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh.

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    My neighbours have a fig tree. In the morning, lorikeets come for breakfast. During the day, noisy miners, who seem to eat both the fruit and maybe pick off bugs? Then at night it’s possum and bat shift. I’ve also seen a butcher bird sitting in it with a skink in its beak. This tree is feeding a whole neighbourhood of wildlife. It’s lovely to see.

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      I have several fig trees behind my house. Apart from animals, it attracts local old wogs who bring bags and ladders to get free fruit.

      I usually stare at them from my kitchen window and make them uncomfortable.

      Trees are on council land, but the oldies think they’re mine.

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    woooo mate’s workplace was decommissioning a site and junking everything in a “everything must go” rip down and he earmarked me a friggin’ 50" hisense. Went over there to help him nab (and the whole rack cabinet he marked for himself)and discovered a box of Pine64 builds that were being tossed as ewaste. Builds, parts (like a dozen screens, motherboards, you name it) and a whole fuckin’ box of about a thousand USB-mounted chips I also grabbed for another mutual friend big in building home automation.

    Just googled the usb chips and they’re fucking digispark attiny85 boards.

    I have about a thousand of them. Not hyperbolic. He’s creaming his fucking pants rn.

    (I also nabbed some routers for conversion to openWRT for the mesh I want to build, got enough terabyte drives to finish off my proxmox at zero cost…and also the TV turned out to be 55 inches. oh nooooooooo)

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        It’s nerd speak. Collected a lot of good shit from a mate.

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        You’re doing better than me. I only recognized the little joining words.

        • Taleya
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          Scored a lot of technical nerd parts that not only mean I get to finish off a lot of projects without spending a penny, but so do several of my mates. Also I got a free gigantic television

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    How desperate do you have to be for coffee to rock up to the servo in your pjs and dirty 1970s dressing gown?

    And no it wasn’t me.

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      And here I was 3 days ago watching a 60+yo enthusiastic beer drinker in budgie smugglers buying sausages and bread at the local IGA and no one blinked an eye.

      Beach town though so free pass to him.

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        enthusiastic and budgie smuggler shouldn’t be in the same sentence

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        But you noticed. Had he been wearing appropriate attire you wouldn’t be telling this story.

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          appropriate attire

          This is where it becomes confusing for me.

          For the setting it is appropriate, this IGA is next to a beach and people walk in wearing their beach stuff, both / all sexes, all ages.

          In Melbs I’d be scratching my head if I saw it heh

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            Yeah I guess.

            I once saw a man in a chemist talking to the staff dressed as Hugh Hefner. That’s probably the weirdest I’ve seen.

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            I’ve seen fluffy slippers and gown in a supermarket before. Does that count?

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        Did you see the guy on the news recently complaining about too many people (women, I think) wearing g-string bathers, and he didn’t want to see all the bums? It was on a beach in QLD, and somewhat off the beach too

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          Heh I did see that and thought it was ridiculous.

          It’s 2024 c’mon.

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      People could rock up in their undies and I wouldn’t judge them. The servo is a safe space for any and all sartorial choices.

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        Anything goes at the servo;
        Old PJs with fluffy slippers,
        Hair in rollers, buy that zippo!
        Buy those overpriced lollies,
        Classic, absolute ripper!
        Rock up in a cosplay from 1970,
        No judgement, you need that coffee.
        Whether one is C-Suite or suitless,
        Whether blue collar or white,
        The servo is a safe place,
        It’ll sort you out, set you right!

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        I don’t know. I think the minimum you can do is pop a jumper and a pair of pants on while mingling in society. I know my standards are high.

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      Comments below notwithstanding, I think it depends on context. My niece lived for a while in a flat near a servo, but there was a halfway house for mentally challenged people not far away. My niece rocked up to the servo in a dressing gown to get emergency milk late one night, and the staff at the servo locked the doors and kept her there chatting until the supervisor of the halfway house could get there and verify that she wasn’t one of their clients.

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        That’s honestly really good of them. If a real client showed up and wasn’t okay, they’d have done everything they could to keep them safe until the cavalry arrived

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          Indeed. Once my niece realised what was happening, she couldn’t stop laughing or telling the story more widely. Which is why I feel OK about sharing this here.

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        Maybe I am judgy but I can only think of one reason why you would leave your house in jarmies. Fire.

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          I would have thought chenille in pale pink or blue or yellow. Off white with trim sounds a bit 90s to me, but I could be wrong.

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            I have a new light blue chenille one from peter alexander. very very daggy, very comfy

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              Comfy is the whole point of a dressing gown I reckon. Mine is faux fur leopard print. I love it. Too daggy for words though.

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    NSW Police have so far been unable to locate the bodies of Luke and Jesse.

    Clearly, the alleged murder is either staying silent or denying either his involvement or knowledge of their location.

    It is a depraved enough act to commit murder, but to prolong the suffering of friends and family really makes it that much worse.

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      It does seem that the accused murderer is a very self-absorbed person - at least from the report on the abc. There’s a nasty whiff of trial by media about this whole business.

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        That being said, Police won’t arrest one of their own until they absolutely have to. Also I read he handed himself in?

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      So sad. They had so much life ahead of them. The murderer is probably unlikely to say anything in the hope he can get away with it. I will never understand the brains of domestic violence perpetrators. If I can’t have then, then I’ll kill them? It’s fucked up.

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        I have busted my brain trying to understand.

        They have a different value system, they have different things going on in their brain.

        What would make us sad makes them feel , not happy, but in control, safe and good.

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    I got fish & chips for me & the cat. The cat refused to eat the fish, usually his favourite thing. What could be going on:

    1. The cat is sick and needs to be rushed to a vet
    2. The fish was bad and I’m going to be sick soon
    3. The cat is a contrary little goose.

    I’m leaning towards option 3, but let’s see where the night takes us.

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    I have marketed,I have thrown out my old balcony table (which was crumbling into non existence), I have watered my plants, I have put my washing on…

    Productivity! Now I can chill for the afternoon!

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    Among the many other things I did today, I bought new pyjamas.

    I’m as cozy as it’s possible to be

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    Good news is little dog seems to love his new food. The big test is will this be good for his gut.

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    So, White Mojo cafe in Eastland is lovely, but their coffee mugs are too small lol

    Otherwise, a lovely lunch with Dad. Talked about the past and the future. I forget sometimes how alike we are.

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    I’ve been thinking about something a lot lately:

    When I see a Reddit post that has high engagement, 8/10 times it’s a topic that’s creating division in the comment section.

    The more engagement, the more ad revenue for the site. Societal discourse is changed by the need for ad revenue. Advertising dollars shape society a lot more than I realised.

    /Half asleep rant

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      Yet, it doesn’t need to. These daily threads are easily the most active on aussie.zone, often among even the most active threads on all of Lemmy. And clearly they are not a place of division.

      Engagement doesn’t need to be about conflict and division. Nor does it have to be monetised.

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        That’s a very good point, and it’s why I love this place. An oasis from the eternal screaming match of the social internet space.

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      If it bleeds, it leads - the mantra of commercial television and quite a lot of the interwebs. And we’ve all been thoroughly brainwashed into accepting this as normal. One of the many reasons I don’t have a television and won’t be getting one.

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    I’ve woken up with a fuzzy head today. I don’t know what to do right now.

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        I’ll have a think, just been doing the laundry. a nap does see good but then I’d feel guilty that I didn’t do anything.

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            Wish I could have taken one. Had a stressful day and fighting with someone all afternoon so no nap fit me.