Matthew Lang

Yep that's Melbourne half the year

Me: I'm going to walk to the Asian grocer and get some herbs.
Melbourne: Promptly buckets down
Me: Guess I'm driving
Melbourne: Sunny now

So I'm in line at Aldi and there's a man in a hi vis coles vest at the till in front of me.

Says it all really

Choc chip. Mostly dark chocolate

Forgot the salt, but very nommable. I think next batch will be near perfect

Cookies. New experimental recipe. Let's see how good these are

#confest vibes because if I post it here this helps me remember that I'm moving some social network building over to this platform 😊

YouTube video by Benn Jordan You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism

Why AI assistants exist - TLDR, they're not there to help you
youtu.be/gqtrNXdlraM?...

Graph showing that trying to save for a deposit in Sydney is impossible even if you have a good job - saving 15% of a FT average earning job since 2015 would see you still $155,000 from a deposit (back in 2015 you were $154,000 away from it… So yeah. Fucked.

Fair bit of swearing round the office when I shared this graph yesterday

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can't remember why i made this

Shower thoughts: the USA has turned itself into a meme now.
You know. An easily communicated throwaway joke.
That people will laugh and groan at.
And you share 'ironically' half the time because you know it's cringe.

New desk ornament

Aquarium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 😊

I'm happy you're getting them but I don't have that excuse, lol 😂

Today at work I learned how to use video editing to hide a zit on my face.
Apparently I'm not to old to get bad ones still

arosenfield2016 15h Boycotts. I've worked corporate retail for twenty years. It's literally my job to know how and why consumers spend. ONE DAY WON'T MEAN SHIT. Stop buying EVERYTHING except essentials. Until further notice. If you're serious about making companies pay attention, long term action is the only way. 1/4 524 arosenfield2016 15h Delete all of your retail apps. Unsubscribe from all emails. Go to the actual site and leave site reviews telling them exactly what you're doing and why. Every company tracks NPS scores, consumer sentiment, to direct future plans. Email customer service. Daily. 2/ 7 arosenfield2016 15h Fill your carts and abandon them. But don't fill with crazy high ticket ones. Fill with what you would normally purchase. High ticket items they'll ignore as flukes/bots. People whose shopping data they already have, who fill and abandon, they'll pay more attention to. 3/ 7 arosenfield2016 15h Not everyone can boycott places like Walmart, I know, I grew up in a super rural area. Research brands they carry that are the lesser of all evils if nothing else and buy those. The big brands will lose market share. They HATE to lose market share. They'll scramble to figure out why and where it's going. 4/ 3 arosenfield2016 15h Seeing the impact will take time. Its earnings call season for most retailers who ended their fiscal years on 1/31. We won't see their Q1 2025 results until May. HOLD THE LINE.

I know this is tiny so check the alt text. Y’all gotta leave me alone about a one day boycott—it’s got to start with one day and hold.
Retailers won’t notice one day. They have several bad days a month.

The other website is pretty much done

I was able to get off at the next stop and get the right train but I was lucky

Me: oh wow this train is emptier than usual. I wonder why?
Me 5 secs after the doors close: Oh this is the wrong line...

As in legally and can be held accountable for, or just in the everyday cause-and-effect way?

In case you needed to see something nice today, here's a horseshoe crab

I'm sorry you've had to deal with transphobia and panic attacks suck Jaye. I hope you get a reprieve from both at some point *hugs*

Departure lounge announcement in Malay - bunch of people move to gates.
Repeats in English 'we haven't received clearance to let you all board. Pls wait 15 mins' - flood of people walk back to their seats. 😂

BREAKING: Elon Musk is reportedly furious people keep calling Tesla vehicles “swasticars.”

So don't do that.

#swasticars

Look chat GPT is great at synthesising write only marketing speak that's a mediocre copy of what everyone on the Internet was using several years ago.

It doesn't work for the intended purpose, but if no one cares then it saves you a Google search and reading 5 listacles at the cost of the planet

If Dunkin donuts can't make a decent Teh Tarek in KL from a remix, how awful is their actual 'coffee'?
Note to everyone: don't find out.

Surprising number of European tourists in Malaysia right now. Didn't anyone tell them about CNY and the city is going to shut down for like 3 days soon?

I just realised I'm at the airport without a toy dinosaur to take pictures with. Life is over, lol