Addy Teoh (张美鍊)

I just found this in our work style guide: "Government ministries (but not ministers) take caps. So: Department of Immigration but immigration minister Voldemort Potato Face."

It's so funny that you can guess when it was written.

Mardi Gras Film Festival! 'A Good Child' (好孩子), a Singaporean film about a drag queen who starts to care for her estranged mother with dementia, was such a beautifully balanced film: funny, heartfelt, queer culture, Singaporean culture, code-switching languages – the lot.

Good god, are they aiming to activate an army of millennials...?

I went op shopping in Woy Woy at the weekend and I found an album I didn't have by a band I like just sitting there openly on the CD table for $1, so yes I'm back on my bullshit (hoarding CDs).

I saw Lilja at Sydney Festival 2024 and bought a couple of her CDs (how quaint!) at the gig and only today have ripped them to my computer to listen to.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

painting, in a karaoke room, dogs, cats, frogs, and monkeys singing a song in karaoke while eating pizza, but then there's a demon on the screen and the song's subtitles say “meow meow.”

A group of friends started singing a song in a language they didn’t understand and unintentionally opened an interdimensional portal.

I missed doing my Monday NYT games as I was travelling so I lost my streaks in five different games and I'm unreasonably annoyed about it, more so than if I'd lost the streaks from lack of skill.

The Olympics lost all value when they stopped competitive poetry. They have been on a downwards slide for a long time. They know how to fix it.

But why is it just so much funnier that Elordi and Robbie are from Queensland?

Last three that were good:
'Eros' by Zoe Terakes
'The Gentleman and His Vowsmith' by Rebecca Ide
'The Shepherd's Crown' by Terry Pratchett

Turned out I overcatered so it's sushi and cucumber sammiches for dinner tonight. And cake. So much cake.

Hahahaha, we had four different kinds of tea, four teapots

Hosting a tea party tomorrow. Simultaneously feel I've overthought it and underprepared. Pray for me.

Nightmare week for the residents of the Internet.

The funny thing is, I remember finding the part on my drying rack but not knowing where it came from. I don't throw that kind of stuff out so I must have 'kept it in a safe place' but now have no idea where that is.

Customer service isn't dead. I have an Oasis insulated bottle that started leaking and figured out the seal in the lid had fallen out. Went to the parent company website (Donaldson) where they sell spare parts but they didn't list this part, so emailed them and they mailed it to me for free.

This was the calendar picking it up from the ticket receipt email, btw.

How funny that Google calendar assumes the coach trip is a train because it ends at Sydney Central.

I'm going to visit my sis in Canberra next month and am thinking of coming back on a Monday morning instead of a Sunday night, but the buses from her place to the city take – and I'm not joking here – TWICE as long a commute if I leave outside of a 6.40-7.40am window.

painting of an octopus being abducted by an alien ship, a shark and an orca look on in shock

octopus being abducted

Luddite shouldn't be used as a insult anymore. They were right about more than most of us are willing to admit.

In any case I checked the Save preferences and my system doesn't save them by default.

Could it be that the latest version just has a particularly nasty track changes bloat?

Dropdown menu for Microsoft Word > File in which the "Options" selection is conspicuous by its absence

Most of the answers I've seen suggest embedded fonts and to check by going to File > Options > Advanced

Tell me, reader, do YOU see "Options" under this File menu? I'm on Microsoft 365 and there's nought to be found. Fucking thwarted by enshittification once again.

I use Microsoft Word for work and in the last few months the files have been bloating to 100x their original size after I save it (e.g. a 28kb docx becomes more than 2.5mb). Some of this is track changes, though that never used to add that much more.

Any clues?

This. But also I think a lot of us thought:

"Ha! Once the smart people ("engineers") are in charge things will be better."

Turned out in all instances either:

a) the Musks of this world, who THINK they're smart, will be in charge
b) the engineers are no better.

Ooh, I love Daniel Nour. Didn't know he had a book out.

This is a great way to support those who should have been enjoying their AWW experience.

My brother and his family are away for the school hols so my mum is looking after their house for them. My mum is quite a good gardener so it was funny to read the group chat and see her just give up in real time: "Some of d plants r dead".

It was wonderful to receive not one but two follow-up emails from ASOS asking me to review my customer care interaction when the issue took 33 minutes to remain unresolved.

Dear ASOS, just build a "delete account" button into your user account settings.