Retired teacher and bookseller. Born 1952. Living solo.
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Last Notes npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #BadAISongExplanations npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1wkl…tg80 You'd think that would be pretty inoffensive. A very different reaction to the Balabo Five in the 70s. It was okay to express grief and outrage for them. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1dp8…smpr Taking to court a woman who has already been kicked too many times while she's down is a low act. I think you're right. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1spl…yc9a Yep. That's how it works. Thanks for posting. ( She also has her left hand in her pocket.) npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub177y…djr5 I can see them. They're wood ducks. Is that in the Botanical Gardens? Looks like a drain! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot ME: "Help them get into EVs instead." npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub18vd…tyht Kudos to the "human shield" people, exposing themselves to violence out of compassion for the people under attack. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Not-a-rose. It's a geranium! Surprise bloom from a piece that was given to me about a year ago. I don't know what the name is. #gardening #bloomscrolling npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Very odd. A demolition company just dropped a bin the size of a shipping container on the street out the front of my house. I just had time to think "wrong address?" and they came and took it away again. What a relief! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub177y…djr5 Welcome to real life. You don't always get what you want or plan or work towards, or set goals for. So make sure you're enjoying the activity, because it may lead nowhere. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #SongsAboutTVCrimeDramas #Vera npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1kc8…j65c Yep. I'm familiar with Hydrangeas, they're quite common where I live. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1gj9…27jn Coz it's too flippin cold to leave the house? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Kudos to #Australian firefighters travelling to #Canada to help. These are ferocious fires and you are amazingly brave. Proud of you. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1kef…jkqy Australians so appreciate the help we received in our Black Summer of 1919. Hope the blaze is contained soon. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1yp3…9syc Heads buried firmly in sand. Or possibly up arseholes. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #ClimateDiary #Australia npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1fsz…cvat Where does this person live? Not posh where I live. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1dq0…glnl I don't care if they see "call ended". npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Sorry, but I'm laughing out loud at statements like "It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country." (Trump) and "this is not how we resolve differences." npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot If you watch #AuntyABC in #Australia you've probably seen the clip where Will Smith says "There are Australian people here". npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1ye6…dxzs Only once and it was pretty tame. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1j67…7smm Listen to Pamela! Old ladies are smart! We know stuff! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub193h…rlpv Interesting if true, but this could just be someone "stirring the pot". npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1zaa…5tvh Nice. Might be a kind of crassula? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #RantAboutTrivialThings #Australia #SouthAustralia #OzCulture npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub163d…j6ra I had whooping cough as a 12 month old. I've also got an upwardly rotated collarbone and I suspect the two things are related. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot At Brighton beach, #SouthAustralia today. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Not sure if I want to update my phone. You never know what sinister stuff they might plant on it these days. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1ujt…gn52 In the BOM app you enter your general location and they purport to show alerts for your district. It's a good app in every other way. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Well, I'm confused. Two alerts from the BOM app today for my area. One is a road weather alert for the Adelaide Hills and the other is a marine wind alert. I don't live in the Hills, nor am I at sea. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1vv9…f7zq Probably one of the few places they can go where there won't be many people. If it's anything like Adelaide beaches, there'll be just a few overjoyed dogs being taken for a run off the leash. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1hsy…7vk2 21st Century translation: He lacked self-awareness. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub15ax…lqq5 I don't answer the phone unless my phone pops up the name of the caller and its someone I want to talk to. Everyone else can leave a message, and mostly they don't. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot The BOM says it's 10°C " feels like 2°C". npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #Australia #Assange npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Hope so. 🤞🏻 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Warm apple cake with cream is okay for a first course, isn't it? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub15k8…d496 They function better in the water, I hear. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1hsy…7vk2 21st Century translation: Her fault for starting it. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1hh7…q50u 28 what? I guess it depends what you're used to, but 28°C is a nice day where I live. Hard to imagine it could be harmful. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub12f4…c89f Is this why, when I order a coffee, they look at me like they're expecting me to say more? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub172y…fycg Powerful storytelling, complex characters, outstanding acting. Deserves an award or six. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1866…c9yh That photo! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1l40…nm43 So now we need complex software to detect failures in LLMs, and so on, until the end of the universe, or we run out of water, whichever comes first. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub18lj…80hq It is quite fascinating, isn't it? I suspect they get most of their material from the Old Testament. Plenty of vengeance and punishment in there. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub15ap…capa How can you live with that much disdain? 😂😂😂 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot So no-one's heard of birds called boobies? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub14c2…umaq My guess is the author or publisher sent it and it's a review copy. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1uy5…p04e Thank you for putting it so well. Spot on. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1gfk…uhvn Golly, don't let my girls hear about that. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #IdealizeFowlInASongOrPoem npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1cq3…wjzn Not forgetting it's winter solstice for the other half of the planet. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #IdealizeFowlInASongOrPoem npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1hsy…7vk2 21st century translation: What a bitch! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #auspol #NoNukes #Australia npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot #auspol #NoNukes npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1dts…6798 The second example is how you write a novel. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1g0l…nx4v It's a Dutch Iris. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1zaa…5tvh #NoNukes in SA either. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1l5y…xcs2 Can we please all stop burning oil?! War is a huge contributor to CO2 emissions. You're not just killing your "enemy", you're killing life on earth. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1kg3…uxt5 Of course, America never does anything like that. 🙄 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub132q…ua6v Go for it 👍🏻. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub132h…f594 Congratulations! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub198d…zjqj Agree. I'm pro #EVs but we need more small models, not these bloat-mobiles. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Even better, join your local Buy Nothing Group where no money changes hands at all. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Will the public please note: npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1ffa…hpa9 Thank you for the joy you spread, dancing in the snow. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub18lj…80hq About 13. My mum had died when I was just turned 9, so that has a lot to do with it. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1h2t…rmjr Before the 70s we learned folk dances at school. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1f0f…j7ea Good grief! How can people survive in that?! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub13w0…egmz Just no. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1mdf…ucrt Where's critical thinking? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot The over-cooked lime marmalade has become a spicy lime and date chutney with minced fresh ginger and garlic, chilli, mustard seeds, lovely fat raisins, dates and red wine vinegar, done in the slow cooker. 😋 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot I haven't got the heart to disturb him. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot At the supermarket carpark, bloatmobile ahead of me hit the overhead rail with the height max on it on the way in, ignored that, did a 5 point turn to reverse into a narrow space, realised not enough space to open the doors, came out and did another 5 point turn to reverse into a space next to me, leaving their front bumper sticking out at least 60cm further than any other car. 🤬 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1dmn…9jjj Yes it looks very clickbatey. I was looking for a decent list of logical fallacies and that's just one that came up. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1scr…teus They've analysed the situation using their knowledge of high school physics and found that it can't be real. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Seems to me the issue of protecting young people on social media is about content moderation. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1tfp…hm34 Where tf is Cunderin? ( Asking as an Australian.) npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1c0m…5s7y Why are we replacing human drivers with machines that drive about as well as human drivers? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1nrc…estv So we could win the fight against carbon emissions just to be done over a short time later by aluminium? npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot And if we weren't told fairy stories as children, we wouldn't want to marry them at all! 😂 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot Not sure if those advocating an age limit for social media use understand that it will mean *everyone* having to prove their age. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1g8f…wnt2 Wish he would go to Mars sooner rather than later. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot If anyone in the house - me or the cats - has a comfortable, warm spot, Finn purloins it. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1wa0…6pm7 Speaking of sweeteners, one of my favourite ways to eat peanut paste on bread is with a layer of honey on top! 😋 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1vv9…f7zq That is so true! 👍🏻 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub14p5…hakl If you're a woman you can overcome this by suddenly becoming a devout muslim. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot I'm glad we're having these discussions about important aspects of Australian culture, like peanut paste vs peanut butter and the origins of clag, on Mastodon. I kind of missed that from the birdsite. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1rav…sjam True, but we have treaties etc that link our fate to America's so we're not disinterested either. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1wa0…6pm7 In that case, the stuff we ate in South Australia mid last century was peanut paste. The oil definitely rose to the top over time. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1xr8…3q0g Be glad. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1wa0…6pm7 Oh yes. I was a kindergarten teacher and we made gallons of starch paste with a dash of eucalyptus oil as a preservative ( also smelled good). npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1rav…sjam Oustanding. I don't think the Australian government has anything like this. I wish they did. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub13jp…45dk 😂😂😂 npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1jp8…5jwz Of course. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot If you think you know anything about the beheading of this statue - no, you don't. npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1hd0…cmnq I'm a champion! 🏆 I play no golf at all! npub1sfz088f4a3cm8c4kn2vdq75v7awne049jsc3ntc0g6qpaf76ns3q8kyt06 Chookbot @npub1zdp…vqv8 😃 I love it !
