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@intransitivelie@beige.party
Oh, wow!
Your software seems Really Powerful!
Can I invest lots of money with you ? 🤪
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IMHO, getting a colour-matched chain isn't really worth it 🤷
Too subtle.
I don't regret it, but I don't think I'd ever bother again (unless, as in this case, AliExpress lines up multiple offers and discounts so that it's cheaper to buy a colourful chain than a boring chain🤪)
#BikeTooter
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@Unixbigot@aus.social
"too hot to comfortably touch" 🤔
Luckily all humans have fingertips and nervous systems which are regularly tested and recalibrated, so THTCT is a universally agreed temperature standard, and doesn't rely at all on whether one is in a foundry, or at an Arctic research station.
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@bastardsheep@aus.social
Check if there are 4 empty disabled parking spaces, so I can park my ute and jetski right near the door.
(Yes, YouTube thinks I might need a higher level of rage 😡)
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@pete@masto.hypertelia.com
But then you would have had to spend ages cutting the Space Invaders shapes out of the strips of mat 🤪
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@dropbear@aus.social
That "welcome" could be interpreted as discriminatory against folk who have auditory difficulties.🤔
Maybe
"Welcome to the <$topic> hearing"?
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@clhenrick@indieweb.social @grammasaurus@mastodon.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social
If I can, I'll let the patch cure overnight, but I let it cure, fully inflated, installed in a tyre.
My thinking is:
1: the patch and glue will be curing in the curved, expanded shape where they'll be in use, so if there is any flexibility issues, they'll be preemptively addressed.
2: the inflation presses the patch to the tube nice and evenly
3: if there's a problem with the patch, or glue, or another puncture you didn't notice, you know because the tube didn't hold pressure overnight. Better to find this out before putting the patch to the test on a real ride.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
The perspective of the photo makes them look like the Colossus of Rhodes
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online
Sorry, America is using forced labour ? 😱
But, but, but … Trump is tariffing Australia because he thinks forced labour is used in some imports. 🤔
How does this make sense?
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
We had a woodburning stove when I was growing up. The treatment for my asthma was early morning swimming every day until I could swim a mile. 🥶
The Dr also said that people grow out of asthma at 7 year intervals; 7, 14, 21 etc.
So, when I left home to share a flat with a mate, and lived on microwaved pizza, being 21 was *obviously* what cured my asthma 😂
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@ascentale@sfba.social @BongoTwisty@social.vivaldi.net @bikenite@fedigroups.social
Cycling on flat ground, gravity helps you push straight down, and keeps you on the saddle.
As you climb, the bike is tilted back, so you're trying to push "into" the hill, so you pull yourself forward in order to still push down on the pedals.
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@cathywilcox@theblower.au
"Also, sprinkling your speeches with references to your mother will help make you seem relatable to average Australians."
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@ggmartin@mastodon.social @Ronnie@mastodon.social
I hope you're not talking about Tasmania's Neil the Seal - he's back, and doesn't seem to be broken at all.
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@dropbear@aus.social
On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this census to your family and friends?
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@joannaholman@aus.social
I'm a bit miffed that my neighbours, who carry on extremely loud phone conversations with their phone connected to their very loud car sound systems, weren't sitting in the driveway at 2:00pm.
😢
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
I would donate to create Don't Reflect Orbital, which puts slightly larger shading satellites into orbit slightly above/below the stupid reflectors, blocking their access to sunlight.
Are there laws yet about huge satellites having the right to whatever sunlight they want? Can the operators sue anyone whose space item occludes the sunlight falling on their panels?
Can we launch an experiment to see what happens if a load of VantaBlack is dispersed near a Reflect Orbital shiny thing?🤔
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@ascentale@sfba.social @rasterweb@mastodon.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social
Sandpaper on the PADS can be an interim measure if the pads are badly glazed, but rotor problems are wear (sandpaper would make it worse), bent (sandpaper would make it worse), contaminated with oil etc. (sandpaper would make it worse by spreading the contaminant around), loose (sandpaper would do nothing), or not aligned with caliper (sandpaper can't help here).
Which sorta negatively suggests:
Replace worn parts
Clean rotor and pads
Align components
Torque correctly
Bed new pads in correctly
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@dcz@fosstodon.org
I have 2 waxed (9 sp) chains that I swap between. I'm just coming up to 10,000 km on the bike computer, but there were some more km before it.
The chain checker is currently not showing any noticeable wear.
Prior to learning about waxing, I was eating through the chains on my old 7-speed, because of the salty water and sandy soil of the lakes I ride around.
Wearing out chains, and cassettes, and wheel bearings, and socks (from the oily chain mess stains) and oil, and rags.
Now with wax, it's just check wheel bearings and decrease if needed.
Waxed chain stays clean and lasts.
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@EFA@aus.social
The GetUp petition re: Kmart glasses is heading towards 35,000 in 3(?) days
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
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@Unixbigot@aus.social
Oh, please tell me that the Very Small Screwdriver That Could was launched at a significant fraction of lightspeed to loop the collider a few times before doing its thing.🪛
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@Unixbigot@aus.social
There's nothing under "Applications" which says
"POSTING #MICROFICTION TOOTS TO MASTODON"
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social
OMG!🤮
Now I'm wondering if this could have contributed to the horrific murder which recently happened near me.😱
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@timrichards@aus.social
"Book loans were restricted to one volume per person"
😱
One? ONE?
Those savages!
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
Only the waterproof seals, I presume?
I was thinking of the wax seals to stop people opening envelopes, but a large pinniped laying on the envelope would probably work too. 🤔
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@dr_fotograf@sueden.social @dbattistella@mstdn.ca
Cut & Paste involved a razor blade and sticky tape, and a special aligning block jig if you were fancy.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink
Thinking back to when I first got a (diode) laser, and wondered about things like this …🤪
I think it was: IR lasers did well browning food, blue lasers could cook through some packagings, CO2 wasn't really the best at anything, but could cook as well as any laser type when they did 3d printed foods and laser cooked each layer as they went.
Any laser could do decorative pattern cooking on the outside.😂
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@AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social
Until … electricity providers work out how to game the system - free electricity, but increase the pricing on all other hours if you try to take up the offer. 😡
Sydney Morning Herald article:
https://archive.md/J5yV5
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@EFA@aus.social
In the manual:
1) the AI features only work for 6 months, then the purchaser has to pay an extra subscription to maintain functionality.
2) the Bluetooth name is
"Anko43700141"
so that might be something to scan for if you think someone is misusing these glasses nearby.
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@lizzard@social.tchncs.de
Non-serious suggestion: deploy a chicken-catching robot to patrol the veggie beds.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
$5,000 discount? Fouff!!
In my best Aussie accent:
"That's not a discount, *this* is a discount!"
From 2024 news stories about the Australian team's Olympic TT bike from Factor:
"For $97,979 you can buy a nice Mercedes, 30 ounces of gold … or the new super-bike Australia hopes will deliver medals of the same colour in Paris.
If you want to buy one it’s all yours for $97,979 but we suggest you wait until the Paris Games finish because the price is expected to drop all the way to $10,000 - a discount of almost $90,000!"
Another one for my collection of people parking across my driveway:
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@franksting@theblower.au @bastardsheep@aus.social
The Z3 was a pretty swish looking machine. 🤪
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
There's at least one rebuttal:
https://x.com/GFCNofficial/status/2080215098157662484
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@luciedigitalni@aus.social
If there are no gambling ads, what will people look at on those big screens in their EVs, while they're not towing their trailers or boats, or not getting to their favourite camping spots? 🤔
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@joannaholman@aus.social
The transition from "sample bags" (free, and containing actual products of value) to "showbags" (not free, and containing dubious items of questionable "value") was a major enshitiffication. 😢
(NSW Royal Easter Show is the context for my bewailing)
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@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online
I'd rather see an ambulance outside, than a Hyrox Deep Clean and Sanitation truck.
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to
Decorate the rim by breaking an Olympic cyclist across it, or some innocent bystanders, depending on the occasion.
At the lakeside, reading. I overhear:
1: "Oh, he's friendly!😀"
2: "Mine, too!😀"
1: "Stop, Handbag Yapster1"
2: "Stop, Handbag Yapster2"
1: "STOP! STOP!"
2: "STOP! STOP!"
Psycho pretend dogs 1 & 2 continue to loudly and frantically disembowel each other, while simultaneously forcing their owners into an impromptu public Shibari session, courtesy of those stupid extending leashes.
1: "They're NEVER like this!"
2: "Well, MINE have NEVER done that before!"
I appreciate that AliExpress wants to save me $2, but I'm not sure if I have to buy an extra 0 items, or 1,070,003 extra items 🤔
#AliExpress