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Wait, why are YOU on the roof? I feel like the birds have an excuse… what’s yours? 🤨

Which Jesus event was meant to happen today?

I can’t remember what we have the public holiday for, but I know we’re supposed to eat fish so we had beer and prawns for lunch.

Guess who’s getting to go to heaven now? 😎

I want more fuel pain so we actually implement proper long term solutions.

Improve public transport - gets cars off the road 5ever,
Force more cargo on to more efficient rail transport and use electric trucks for last mile delivery - reduce road freight permanently,
More EV subisidies - transition more people to cars that dont burn oil.

A temporary reduction in Government income just kicks the can down the road and doesnt solve anything.

Pretty sure they just preauth your card for the amount you put in to make sure you’re good for it, but then only charge the amount you owe once the transaction is complete.

Some cards are just crap at dropping preauths quickly.

Yo De Los Mentos, the tree is a Tuckeroo, aka Cupaniopsis anacardioides

It’s one of those trees that grows like 3 or 4 “trunks” from one base… and one of those “trunks” snapped off in the storm so its already got a little bit of root action (more than some of us, amiright lads? 🥲). Fingers crossed it springs to life!

I’d tell you what sort of tree it is but I don’t know. My memory thought it was an Ivory Curl we planted there, but the leaves are way too wavy.

That drizzle kinda just turned up in the middle of a decently sunny morning, and then… never left?

Stuck a broken off tree branch in an outdoor pot yesterday so a bit of water is a great thing.

How do you figure I don’t understand that?

Also, needed some fuel on the weekend for the mower so took up our 2 x 20L fuel containers we keep in the shed for the mower / whipper snipper to fill them up… Could feel the eyes as we dared fill up a couple of jerry cans. Obviously hoarding. After turning up in our EV…

Really surprised at the lack of anger at old Trumpy over this whole thing. Everyones so quick to blame “Albo” or “Labor” (“labour” usually) rather than… the bloke who is literally the one who initiated the conflict??

Anyway. Will certainly be delicious irony if this is the turning point for electric adoption.

Will certainly take the wind out of the sails of the usual conservative bogan types who have been making a big song and dance about how the gubberment needs to save them from our own over-reliance on oil.

Time to get yourself one of those EVs I reckon!

A little Nissan Leaf for the island will be perfect

Give it another week or so and it’ll be a billion dollars worth.

Today was a delicious temperature, and a lovely breeze all day to keep it fresh.

Currently assembling another file server using old hard drives I’ve pulled out of various builds over the years.

Dunno why, just a fun way to spend the evening.

How good is Linux? 11 x HDDs connected, boot from USB live CD, and voila - a working desktop to copy all my data over.

Is anyone a member of RED and willing to invite?

Can swap for an assortment of others.

Been on OPS since day dot, but had a minor mishap with Lidarr which resulted in it downloading my entire library again… which burnt up all my freeleech tokens + download credit. Getting back out of the hole sucks.

Usenet still not real flash for music, and skd is full of lies and deceipt.

Yeah, we are pretty great 😎

Not sure if Lemmy playing up or not, but that photo comes through super blurry?

Looks like plenty of native stuff though which is neat.

We’re replanting our yard slowly. Currently there’s 40-odd trees in the ground. Lilly Pilli of various types, melaleucas, bottle brush, native hibiscus, peanut tree, hakeas, a few figs that I’ll never live long enough to see in full glory.

Birds love it.

I kinda believe and sincerely hope somebody DOES do something about it ( him )

That’s the problem though, everyone is waiting for someone else to do something about it.

And he just keeps doing stuff you shouldn’t do.

And anyone in any position to stop him is just rolling over and assuming someone else will stand up.

All this could have been avoided if more people along the way told him to stuff his demands up his jumper.

I sincerely don’t think a nuke will be used. It’s far too over the top

Everything they’ve done has been “too over the top”, but no one has had the balls to tell him to fuck right off.

I do not believe there is a single yank with sufficient spine standing between orange man and launch button to stop him.

His name is actually Stonky because when he was a pup he was quite the chonker and would stonk around the pen like nobodies business. Well his ACTUAL name is Soli (Soliloquy) because he was a single pup litter… But I think the only place that name is used is on his registration.

The wife has been watching a bit of Bridgerton of late so I’ve started calling the puppies by Bridgerton suitable names. Lord Stonkington had the pleasure of escorting Madame Von Schnitzel to the Summers End beach walk last weekend. They were chaperoned by Madame Le Poppe (Hairy Poppins) so it was all very proper, even if Lad du Sausage (Boris) was quite vocal about his disagreement with their being seen out together. It caused quite the scandal at the time.