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Budget Night Thread (aussie.zone)
submitted 4 months ago by kerr@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Let’s party!

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submitted 6 months ago by kerr@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

1L juice for comparison. You guys got these at your local? First time getting them in Brisbane. I use the paper bags for collecting recycling so the new size sucks for this.

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Hottest 100 Chat Thread (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 8 months ago by kerr@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Let’s party!

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submitted 9 months ago by kerr@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Your good news story for today. 🐱⛵️

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submitted 9 months ago by kerr@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Whether you’re seeing family, staying home or working your arse off, hope you have a happy Christmas. Be good to each other. ❤️

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 13 points 9 months ago

No it’s a well-studied woman thing.

“… women tend to be underestimated more. They tend to be interrupted, more talked over more. They have to prove their competence more and we often feel uncomfortable when they're in positions of authority.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelleking/2021/10/26/the-authority-gap-why-women-are-still-taken-less-seriously-than-men/?sh=3ed8223e634d

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 32 points 10 months ago

TIL Australian Sushi is a thing! It never occurred to me that they don’t have the easy to hold rolls in other parts of the world. I think they make up like 10% of my diet haha.

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 14 points 10 months ago

Looks like it’s time to introvert again!

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 15 points 11 months ago

“Before going into beta” is HIGHLY optimistic lol

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 22 points 11 months ago

Microwave Watt?? Converts cooking instructions to whatever your actual microwave is (mine’s a shitty 700w beast so I have to add about 50% cooking time to most things). http://www.microwavewatt.com/

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 12 points 11 months ago

Mass produced Knick knacks. Those useless ornaments that just seem to accumulate on bookshelves, fireplaces and cabinets.

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago

I was wondering who else counted the words lol

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submitted 1 year ago by kerr@aussie.zone to c/books@lemmy.ml

This got me wondering - do you pair up books like this?

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Still a drop in the bucket of what’s needed and still not immediate enough. Lots of people gonna be doing a tough xmas this year.

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 269 points 1 year ago

110F = 43.33C if anyone else was wondering.

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submitted 1 year ago by kerr@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

Queensland Ambulance says his symptoms suggest it was a highly venomous brown snake

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Hopefully good sausage sizzle weather!

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 32 points 1 year ago

Would the Australian (NSW) laws apply here because that’s where it happened? They updated their sexual consent laws not long ago and their easy reader is pretty clear that a kiss is considered part of that. Not sure how it would be charged under the criminal code: https://dcj.nsw.gov.au/documents/children-and-families/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/domestic-and-sexual-violence-hotlines/dcj_easy_read_sexual_consent_digital_accessible.pdf

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kerr@aussie.zone to c/books@lemmy.ml

Book #6 was released earlier this week, with the final #7 due next year.

Those who have read, what did you think of it?

I’m 68% of the way through according to my Kindle, but I’m enjoying it a lot more than the last 2 books already!

Series description:

Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown, and the first book and eponym of a series. The novel, set in the future on Mars, follows lowborn miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite Golds.

[-] kerr@aussie.zone 25 points 1 year ago

The Name of the Wind is sublime. I think because it sounds so different to the usual grand, bombastic, bellicose fantasy kick off. It’s all silence. And a man working in a bar. And that last sentence. Oof.

It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed through the trees, set the inn’s sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves… The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Full text here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9410716-it-was-night-again-the-waystone-inn-lay-in-silence

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