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Australian Parents, if you have under-16yo children, teach them to run their own Fedi-instance (mastodon, goto social, etc).
Then they'll be the admin verifying their own eligibility.
;-)
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David de Groot
@david__dup_2040@theblower.au
mastodon 4.6.8IT geek of many trades, hobby Blacksmith, cook and photographer hailing from the southern end of Queensland (Australia)
Beware, I am a fully qualified Dad Joke practitioner.
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RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/116113872341593966
I got as far as the end of 1300. Any further back was pretty much indecipherable. (the first 400 years were a doddle though).
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For the awkward among us, How to Open a Door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38
(use the subtitles, unless of course you are fluent in Finnish)
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@troberts@theblower.au I have a female swamp wallaby in my backyard right now, nibbling the lawn.
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@troberts@theblower.au much to my horror, I saw Bunnings has a kintsugi page.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/diy-advice/diy-skills/repairing/how-to-repair-broken-ceramic-with-kintsugi
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@troberts@theblower.au But also means that when the spotting is done, I can sit here eating my toast, and not be sweaty doing it.
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@troberts@theblower.au bastard.
BoM *claims* we'll get down to 19º tonight (still 25º at the moment)
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@troberts@theblower.au There's a couple of tracks that are now in the realm of classics and quite good, for Dylan. Some were covered by others better. But overall, I'd agree.
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@troberts@theblower.au I couldn't bring myself to actually read past "gold paint", but I'm not at all surprised.
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@troberts@theblower.au Maybe... it's the cult leader dropped in to check how the Canberra branch is doing. Conducting new training while there...
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@troberts@theblower.au This is clearly a call for help.
Seek your nearest support agency.
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@troberts@theblower.au I thought, "I recognise that name" but then a quick check online and yeah, I don't know any of her tracks.
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@troberts@theblower.au I only played three 2025 releases.
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - reasonable story, good gameplay, bit sluggish on my system
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Snipe Elite: Resistance - Very much a continuation of the series. Good, fairly mindless nazi shooter.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - definitely the cream of the crop. A worthy successor of the original, improved gameplay, excellent story. Decent DLCs.
Everything else I played was pre-2025 release.
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@troberts@theblower.au Ah, I'm a PC gamer, and my PC, while grunty a few years ago, isn't in that kind of league (Lenovo P900 with dual Xeon E5-2697's, 64Gb DDR4, AMD Radeon RX6600XT (hobbled by the PCIE3 bus on the motherboard)).
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@troberts@theblower.au Seems to have died down now and no feelings were hurt, so I count that as a win.
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@troberts@theblower.au It's pretty easy. Just need some time.
I slice mine (when it cools) put in a large clip-seal bag, and freeze it. The loaf does me a week of breakfasts (toast).
My regular recipe is:
450g plain bread flour (or 00 if you can get it)
305g water (or water/milk mix)
6g yeast (dried, active)
10g salt
40g malt extract (or you can use syrup or leave it out entirely).
Mix well, knead (5 mins in a Kenwood with the dough hook or 10-15min by hand)
Let it rise for an hour or so.
Grease a bread tin with butter.
I divide my dough in thirds and roll out and up each then put those in the bread pan. You don't need to.
Proof (2nd rise) for about 1 - 1.5 hours (or until it gets to the top of the tin).
Bake at 185ºC (fan-forced, middle rack) for 21 mins, rotate and bake for 19 more. When done, the centre should be approx 90ºC.
Cool completely before cutting.
Variations: add fruit, spices, nuts, chocolate spread, whatever before putting in the bread pan.
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@troberts@theblower.au It is quite useful for things like electrical connectors, but that's not what most people use it for.
But yeah, I presume, people put money in to gold when they other stocks seem too volatile and they feel they need to put the money somewhere (and the price of gold does increase over time).
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@troberts@theblower.au I wish the weather here knew that... it's been summer for months.
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@troberts@theblower.au Speaking of storms, looks like the bulk of this one is going to go north of me too.
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@troberts@theblower.au wanders off to listen to said track.
The only boom I'm getting is the awesome bass on these Røde cans. ;-)
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@troberts@theblower.au I was going to make some quip about your nearest body of water being completely land locked, but no! Lake Burley Griffin eventually flows in to the Murrumbidgee River, which eventually flows in to the Murray, which eventually flows in to the sea, so you could in fact get in a boat and set out to discover the unknown.
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@troberts@theblower.au They'll get screwed over (again). The question is, will he brick the vehicles if they close up?
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@troberts@theblower.au theoretically, the youngest child (and thus the only one still living at home) does it, some time before the bins get collected (usually)
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@troberts@theblower.au been running it since public beta 2. It's fine. Most of the really annoying transparent bits were rolled back before release. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same.