If you say it as a word, it’s kinda of like the equivalent vroom vroom sound that they make.

Watched a good BBC doco on present dark times in the land of Putin - ‘Our Man in Russia’. By the end I needed a cleanser so I found Caolan’s latest Ukrainian update. It’s probably borderline propaganda but he is so dreamy and it is so positive despite the jarring content.

They still have the massive cheap Panamax, you just have to ask it seems.

I looked up the dam level…over 61%. Yeah better htfu and turn on the tap.

At the Italia festa, loving the spaghetti eating comp. Kids with dolmio grins everywhere.

As a general rule: if they’re advertising on billboards around Canberra airport they’re probably (definitely) evil.

I’d forgotten what a croc health insurance is. Husband needs an adult tonsillectomy. Pleasant surprise, the hospital is covered ($500 excess) but that’s it. As for the surgeon that’s $1700 to cough up, anaesthesia a little less.

Always refreshing to have a home grown Australian story of horror and dread with top billing, makes a nice change from whatever stupidity colonel mustard did overnight.

Butter wouldn’t melt in this sausage dog’s mouth.

Ok well no puddles this morning from the dog affectionately known (as you go to get out the mop) as the Little Pisser.

Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media wars With AI-generated comedy videos and lego animations of Trump, Iranian content creators are using humour in propaganda battle against US

Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media wars

The youngest hound has issues with making it through the night without needing to pee on the floor. We now go outside at bed time and usually finally convince him to go. Great success tonight, except then he thought it was a good time to drink a heap of water on the way back in 🫠

Postcard from Berlin

Postcard from @nhikael.bsky.social (sent 28/3).

I prefer eBay now over Amazon, wish, temu etc. Price usually better and incl postage, sent from within Australia mostly too.

Fast Forward comedy show. In Moscow Tonight sketch

Oh Viktor, you are a very unattractive and also very unpopular man

Wake drinks and then more wine at home with family last night got me good today.

Teaching mother modern geography, yes, dumbfuckistan is a real concept

The funeral for my most unpleasant granny had a beautiful poem. Mum just declared she found it by googling ‘funeral poem for grumpy 97 year old’.

BYO restaurants are great. They don’t stuff around with flogging drinks and just concentrate on providing great food and achieve a much better value proposition.

When the stepdad died in 2017 we had some bill shock that the funeral/cremation wasn’t much at all, change from $5,000. Similarly simple deal for grandma has come in at $12,000 this week.

I remember dad read you could roast chicken in the microwave and tried it sometime in the 90s. Not good. Save the lobster and turkey for conventional cooking methods.

I got 0.01usd the other day. Of course it was somehow related to a scam but I couldn’t reverse engineer it. Changed my password anyway.

It was refreshing that last night’s 7pm news didn’t lead with ‘dumb shit colonel mustard did today’ but instead we had some local content. Timely that the story was Ben Roberts Smith being arrested for war crimes.

Does Israel Have a ‘Right to Exist’? Mehdi Debunks This ‘Bullsh*t’ Argument YouTube video by Zeteo

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social breaks down the ‘right to exist’ argument about Israel and why the discourse is clear Israeli propaganda plus he shares three ways you can counter-argument if you find yourself stuck in the same bullsh*t debate.

Watch now: youtu.be/JEoIUoH6kZY

I was around the corner in Tangen the last week of March 2010; the whole place was blanketed in snow and the lake was still mostly frozen over. It looks fairly warm there today.

Jealous

I’ll chance the flu and give it a go at this rate. The joy of organising things in a way that doesn’t pin anyone anywhere so you can leave and disappear if need be.

Grandma’s funeral is Friday - most of the family haven’t spoken in years after various sleights*, now we all get to meet for it and a wake. Fun! I’m only slightly concerned but let’s see how this goes.
*I’m Switzerland but my tether is only so long.

There’s always a certain post-election view ‘oh of course he was poison to his cause, he would have always lost’ despite the media pretending it was always in play. How does she deal with the bloodbath outcome leading up to it?

For all the dumb pop ups you get on an iPhone, how great would it be if the phone said ‘your timezone has changed and I’ve automatically updated the time’.

I’m told by my 7yo friend Annie (8 tomorrow) that there’s a kid named Bruce in her class and I think I have faith in the future.