No joke. It’s April already!

AussieDJ said:

No joke. It’s April already!

Ya don’t fool me!! 😁

thirst

Woodie said:

AussieDJ said:

No joke. It’s April already!

Ya don’t fool me!! 😁

Keep an eye out for various media stunts today.

Evenin’ all. It’s been a big day.

Just got a chance to pop online and found spider eggs on Mars.

The rock? Is called “St Paul’s Bay”.

I have no explanation.

Kingy said:

Evenin’ all. It’s been a big day.

Just got a chance to pop online and found spider eggs on Mars.

The rock? Is called “St Paul’s Bay”.

I have no explanation.

Does look like oolite

dv said:

Kingy said:

Evenin’ all. It’s been a big day.

Just got a chance to pop online and found spider eggs on Mars.

The rock? Is called “St Paul’s Bay”.

I have no explanation.

Does look like oolite

lacewing decided our car was a good place to lay eggs the other day

I just saw an ad for Depends. Where do they get their ideas from?
LOLOL

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast a mostly sunny 23 today.

Bakery Breakfast with Hamilton archery friend. Nothing else decided yet. The Great Aussie Fungi Hunt 2025 begins today.

Link

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast a mostly sunny 23 today.

Bakery Breakfast with Hamilton archery friend. Nothing else decided yet. The Great Aussie Fungi Hunt 2025 begins today.

Link

Did you see Richard Chamberlain died Buffy? I reckon his performance in ‘The Last Wave’ was one of his best portrayals.

Witty Rejoinder said:

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door, dark and still. We are forecast a mostly sunny 23 today.

Bakery Breakfast with Hamilton archery friend. Nothing else decided yet. The Great Aussie Fungi Hunt 2025 begins today.

Link

Did you see Richard Chamberlain died Buffy? I reckon his performance in ‘The Last Wave’ was one of his best portrayals.

I saw that headline yesterday, yes. The Last Wave is likely the only thing I’d seen him in, and yes, good work there. (Oh, I have seen Towering Inferno, but…)

Better go and get up and have a shower to keep SCIENCE happy.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Better go and get up and have a shower to keep SCIENCE happy.

I suppose I’ll have to read the article.

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Better go and get up and have a shower to keep SCIENCE happy.

I suppose I’ll have to read the article.

Yeah. Right at the end she mentions the various soapy things .

Ningns to the more or less foolish

We had 490 mm rain for March.. more to come tomorrow.

I’m going to go out and finish off the marrring and then clean the mud off the marrr.

On morning walk.

You do have to wonder how they can completely get away with these murderous prices.

dv said:

You do have to wonder how they can completely get away with these murderous prices.

So near enough Aus$1000/year.

Let’s hope all sensible people move to an alternative system to do their chatting on.

How come you are reading Kyle Rittenhouse posts on Shitter?

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

You do have to wonder how they can completely get away with these murderous prices.

So near enough Aus$1000/year.

Let’s hope all sensible people move to an alternative system to do their chatting on.

How come you are reading Kyle Rittenhouse posts on Shitter?

He doesn’t post on Threads

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

You do have to wonder how they can completely get away with these murderous prices.

So near enough Aus$1000/year.

Let’s hope all sensible people move to an alternative system to do their chatting on.

How come you are reading Kyle Rittenhouse posts on Shitter?

He doesn’t post on Threads

Why do you care what he decides to share online? What other RWNJs do you follow?

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So near enough Aus$1000/year.

Let’s hope all sensible people move to an alternative system to do their chatting on.

How come you are reading Kyle Rittenhouse posts on Shitter?

He doesn’t post on Threads

Why do you care what he decides to share online? What other RWNJs do you follow?

Look I’m not saying you’re stupid but you should be able to work out that sometimes people share around interesting or funny Xweets such that they are seen by people who do not even use X or following the source Xer, and you are now one of the people who have seen this Xweet in that way.

Morning pilgrims.
A bit overcast in the Pearl.
Over.

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

He doesn’t post on Threads

Why do you care what he decides to share online? What other RWNJs do you follow?

Look I’m not saying you’re stupid but you should be able to work out that sometimes people share around interesting or funny Xweets such that they are seen by people who do not even use X or following the source Xer, and you are now one of the people who have seen this Xweet in that way.

Righto.

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Why do you care what he decides to share online? What other RWNJs do you follow?

Look I’m not saying you’re stupid but you should be able to work out that sometimes people share around interesting or funny Xweets such that they are seen by people who do not even use X or following the source Xer, and you are now one of the people who have seen this Xweet in that way.

Righto.

I took it to mean that since he’s not on threads you personally witnessed this post because you do actually follow him on Twitter. Sorry for the insinuation.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

Look I’m not saying you’re stupid but you should be able to work out that sometimes people share around interesting or funny Xweets such that they are seen by people who do not even use X or following the source Xer, and you are now one of the people who have seen this Xweet in that way.

Righto.

I took it to mean that since he’s not on threads you personally witnessed this post because you do actually follow him on Twitter. Sorry for the insinuation.

The Threads thing was a joke.

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning pilgrims.
A bit overcast in the Pearl.
Over.

I’m getting more moolies tomorrow, Mr Man.

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning pilgrims.
A bit overcast in the Pearl.
Over.

I’m getting more moolies tomorrow, Mr Man.

472 moolies for the month. 191 moolies since TBO. (The Big One).

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning pilgrims.
A bit overcast in the Pearl.
Over.

I’m getting more moolies tomorrow, Mr Man.

Yeah, similarwise Mr Woo.

BTW did that snek find its way outside are you two comfortably cohabituating?

Ian said:

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning pilgrims.
A bit overcast in the Pearl.
Over.

I’m getting more moolies tomorrow, Mr Man.

Yeah, similarwise Mr Woo.

BTW did that snek find its way outside are you two comfortably cohabituating?

Haven’t seen (or heard) it since it scampered under the fridge. That was what….. a week or so ago? So it must have slithered out.

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning pilgrims.
A bit overcast in the Pearl.
Over.

I’m getting more moolies tomorrow, Mr Man.

BTW, those moolies for tomorrow have been steadily increasing over the last few days.

Woodie said:

Ian said:

Woodie said:

I’m getting more moolies tomorrow, Mr Man.

Yeah, similarwise Mr Woo.

BTW did that snek find its way outside are you two comfortably cohabituating?

Haven’t seen (or heard) it since it scampered under the fridge. That was what….. a week or so ago? So it must have slithered out.

Probly getting used to your routine :)

Ian said:

Woodie said:

Ian said:

Yeah, similarwise Mr Woo.

BTW did that snek find its way outside are you two comfortably cohabituating?

Haven’t seen (or heard) it since it scampered under the fridge. That was what….. a week or so ago? So it must have slithered out.

Probly getting used to your routine :)

Yes, it looks like it’s settled in nicely.

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Righto.

I took it to mean that since he’s not on threads you personally witnessed this post because you do actually follow him on Twitter. Sorry for the insinuation.

The Threads thing was a joke.

As was the original enquiry :)

Ian said:

Woodie said:

Ian said:

Yeah, similarwise Mr Woo.

BTW did that snek find its way outside are you two comfortably cohabituating?

Haven’t seen (or heard) it since it scampered under the fridge. That was what….. a week or so ago? So it must have slithered out.

Probly getting used to your routine :)

Heh!

:)

Michael V said:

Ian said:

Woodie said:

Haven’t seen (or heard) it since it scampered under the fridge. That was what….. a week or so ago? So it must have slithered out.

Probly getting used to your routine :)

Heh!

:)

They do too. It is the how many times you don’t see them that you must learn to appreciate. They will usually stay out of yoour way if you make vibrations so they can tell how big you are. ie: not food.

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Righto.

I took it to mean that since he’s not on threads you personally witnessed this post because you do actually follow him on Twitter. Sorry for the insinuation.

The Threads thing was a joke.

LOL but does the price of the fascism channel really have anything to do with that Kyle fella

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

I took it to mean that since he’s not on threads you personally witnessed this post because you do actually follow him on Twitter. Sorry for the insinuation.

The Threads thing was a joke.

As was the original enquiry :)

LOL but does the price of the fascism channel really have anything to do with that Rittenhouse dude

Hello

Cymek said:

Hello

Greetings

I put the kettle on for a cup of tea but had my mind on other things. The teacup with a teabag in it were waiting, but when the kettle boiled I just poured all the water down the sink.

Madness.

It’s the cats birthday and he’s celebrating by carrying around his baby and meowing for me to come look at his baby.

The baby is a green pompom.

Divine Angel said:

It’s the cats birthday and he’s celebrating by carrying around his baby and meowing for me to come look at his baby.

The baby is a green pompom.

At least it’s not a dead gecko.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

It’s the cats birthday and he’s celebrating by carrying around his baby and meowing for me to come look at his baby.

The baby is a green pompom.

At least it’s not a dead gecko.

He normally flicks those in the air and catches it, then when he’s finished he puts it in my shoe. Same deal with cockroaches. He’s trying to buy my love with presents in my shoes.

As World Liberty Financial raised more than half a billion dollars, President Donald Trump’s family took control of the crypto venture and grabbed the lion’s share of those funds, aided by governance terms that industry experts say favor insiders.
Launched last fall, World Liberty’s goal is to allow people to access financial services using cryptocurrencies and without intermediaries like banks in what is called decentralized finance, or DeFi. But it has yet to launch a public platform and has reported only a small staff, a review of the project shows.

As its fundraising got traction, World Liberty disclosed in January that the Trump family had taken control of the business, a review of changes in the fine print on World Liberty’s website shows. Two of its co-founders, crypto entrepreneurs Zak Folkman and Chase Herro, were replaced as the controlling parties of World Liberty by an entity in which the Trump family holds a 60% stake.

The changes have not been previously reported.
Overall, the Trump family now has a claim on 75% of net revenues from token sales and 60% from World Liberty operations once the core business gets going. The arrangement means the Trump family is currently entitled to about $400 million in fees. After World Liberty’s co-founders take their cut, the crypto venture will be left with 5% of the $550 million raised to date to build the platform, according to Reuters calculations.
The arrangements, including the Trump family’s large share of the project’s revenues and the non-tradeable nature of the governance tokens, make World Liberty unusually centralized for the industry, according to a survey of the practices of the five largest DeFi lending platforms and interviews with four U.S. academics who study the crypto industry.

“It’s hard for me to see any economic benefit to the owner of these tokens,” said Jim Angel, an associate professor at Georgetown University who has written about DeFi regulation.
David Krause, a longtime finance professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee who recently published a study of World Liberty, said that the structure of the project “pretty much excludes public investors or token holders from any meaningful financial participation.”
A White House spokesperson referred questions about World Liberty to the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer and the president’s two older sons, who are executives at the company, did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-trump-family-took-over-crypto-firm-it-raised-hundreds-millions-2025-03-31/

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

fsm said:

As World Liberty Financial raised more than half a billion dollars, President Donald Trump’s family took control of the crypto venture and grabbed the lion’s share of those funds, aided by governance terms that industry experts say favor insiders.
Launched last fall, World Liberty’s goal is to allow people to access financial services using cryptocurrencies and without intermediaries like banks in what is called decentralized finance, or DeFi. But it has yet to launch a public platform and has reported only a small staff, a review of the project shows.

As its fundraising got traction, World Liberty disclosed in January that the Trump family had taken control of the business, a review of changes in the fine print on World Liberty’s website shows. Two of its co-founders, crypto entrepreneurs Zak Folkman and Chase Herro, were replaced as the controlling parties of World Liberty by an entity in which the Trump family holds a 60% stake.

The changes have not been previously reported.
Overall, the Trump family now has a claim on 75% of net revenues from token sales and 60% from World Liberty operations once the core business gets going. The arrangement means the Trump family is currently entitled to about $400 million in fees. After World Liberty’s co-founders take their cut, the crypto venture will be left with 5% of the $550 million raised to date to build the platform, according to Reuters calculations.
The arrangements, including the Trump family’s large share of the project’s revenues and the non-tradeable nature of the governance tokens, make World Liberty unusually centralized for the industry, according to a survey of the practices of the five largest DeFi lending platforms and interviews with four U.S. academics who study the crypto industry.

“It’s hard for me to see any economic benefit to the owner of these tokens,” said Jim Angel, an associate professor at Georgetown University who has written about DeFi regulation.
David Krause, a longtime finance professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee who recently published a study of World Liberty, said that the structure of the project “pretty much excludes public investors or token holders from any meaningful financial participation.”
A White House spokesperson referred questions about World Liberty to the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer and the president’s two older sons, who are executives at the company, did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-trump-family-took-over-crypto-firm-it-raised-hundreds-millions-2025-03-31/

Checks date.

Damn, yesterday.

diddly-squat said:

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

Get three.

diddly-squat said:

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

good

dv said:

diddly-squat said:

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

good

rescue dog would be gooder.

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

diddly-squat said:

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

good

rescue dog would be gooder.

The Barely-Domesticated Wolf is a ‘rescue’ dog.

We went in, and asked for the worst canine nutcase they had, the biggest schnook in the place, mad as a two-bob watch.

Well, we didn’t, but we might as well have.

diddly-squat said:

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

Adopt a rescue dog. It’s the only way.

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

diddly-squat said:

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

good

rescue dog would be gooder.

+1

Rescues for the win.

Jells is a rescue.

I just happened upon the story of a young man who was born HIV+ and with cerebral palsy. His twin brother died from HIV at 15mths.

https://www.thebody.com/article/joseph-kibler-tiktok-hiv

Made me think of all those babies who were caught up in this.

kii said:

I just happened upon the story of a young man who was born HIV+ and with cerebral palsy. His twin brother died from HIV at 15mths.

https://www.thebody.com/article/joseph-kibler-tiktok-hiv

Made me think of all those babies who were caught up in this.

For me the one I remember most is Troy Lovegrove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Lovegrove

captain_spalding said:

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

good

rescue dog would be gooder.

The Barely-Domesticated Wolf is a ‘rescue’ dog.

We went in, and asked for the worst canine nutcase they had, the biggest schnook in the place, mad as a two-bob watch.

Well, we didn’t, but we might as well have.

Daisy Mae was a rescue and the Best Girl ever. Starved and mistreated by her owners on the nearby military base. She had the most beautiful manner and the most beautiful ears.
Gracie Blue was a rescue dog and was the worst canine nutcase and the biggest schnook, mad as a two-bob watch. She was also the most beautiful dog I have ever seen.

Divine Angel said:

kii said:

I just happened upon the story of a young man who was born HIV+ and with cerebral palsy. His twin brother died from HIV at 15mths.

https://www.thebody.com/article/joseph-kibler-tiktok-hiv

Made me think of all those babies who were caught up in this.

For me the one I remember most is Troy Lovegrove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Lovegrove

That was heart-breaking. He was around the same age as my sons.

For duddles:

https://scrufferlovers.org/

https://www.pawsandclawsadoptions.com.au/dogs-for-adoption/dogs-for-adoption/

https://www.rspcasa.org.au/adopt-a-pet/?search=1&type%5B%5D=98&type%5B%5D=107

Fram2 launching in about three minutes

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

diddly-squat said:

Started looking at potentially getting a new dog… still a bit unsure but thinking about a blue roan cocker spaniel.

good

rescue dog would be gooder.

negative.. don’t want a bitsa

diddly-squat said:

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

good

rescue dog would be gooder.

negative.. don’t want a bitsa

Why? Only pure-bloods for you?

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

Divine Angel said:

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

What’s wrong with diseased inbred mutants that’d make the Habsburgs blush?

Bubblecar said:

I put the kettle on for a cup of tea but had my mind on other things. The teacup with a teabag in it were waiting, but when the kettle boiled I just poured all the water down the sink.

Madness.

At least you didn’t pour it in the container of tea bags.

I’m all for the rescue dog – have one myself and have had in the past; however, they are not for everyone. Since they come with unknown behavioural factors, tending to their unique needs can be outside a persons time availability, or available effort – they are not the option for everyone.

Each family / person should approach dog ownership that fits them and their lifestyle. If you are working full time and a rescue dog that has separation anxiety is left alone all day at home… that is not going to end well for anyone…

yes, puppies have extra care needs, everyone is aware of that, but rescue pups have extra care needs and extra needs on top of that…

I love my dog, but if I knew about her background before I got her – I would have thought twice, because those first few years were exhausting and expensive, and she still has residual negative behaviours that wont be shaken… (I still don’t know her background but the way she behaves towards men with beards – and the way that behaviour escalates when they have a walking stick, or any stick like object is telling.) We still cannot get her to calm when an unknown male approaches our home.. and men with beards is impossible to deal with…

Witty Rejoinder said:

Divine Angel said:

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

What’s wrong with diseased inbred mutants that’d make the Habsburgs blush?

We’re talking about dogs, not the Royal family.

Neophyte said:

Fram2 launching in about three minutes

Thanks for the heads-up, watched it.

my red cloud was a ‘rescue”. mate gave her to me because he was moving and I was also moving but to the country. she was much better off in the bush and going on long walks.

Lady next door went through three greyhound rescue dogs. When each one died she’d get another.
My farmer mate has a black dog that looks like part blue heeler but stockier dog rescued from a bad owner. Be carrying something that looks like a stick in your hand and he cowers away. He’s a real pussy cat for love and attention.

Want to feel a bit more scifi? Wallmount your Home Assistant console.

Divine Angel said:

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

A few years ago I was at a cafe and a rescue dog attacked another dog – had it by the back and the neck and was just shaking it like a rag doll. It took myself and another guy to wrestle the things apart. I think it could have easily been a kid.

I understand you position but I’ll not have a pet in my house that I don’t know their background – not with kids around.

Divine Angel said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Divine Angel said:

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

What’s wrong with diseased inbred mutants that’d make the Habsburgs blush?

We’re talking about dogs, not the Royal family.

Unless it’s a King Charles

Neophyte said:

Divine Angel said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

What’s wrong with diseased inbred mutants that’d make the Habsburgs blush?

We’re talking about dogs, not the Royal family.

Unless it’s a King Charles

that’s a bit cavalier of you

If Alex were here, she’d get it

diddly-squat said:

Neophyte said:

Divine Angel said:

We’re talking about dogs, not the Royal family.

Unless it’s a King Charles

that’s a bit cavalier of you

Beat me to it like a pulp

Neophyte said:

Divine Angel said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

What’s wrong with diseased inbred mutants that’d make the Habsburgs blush?

We’re talking about dogs, not the Royal family.

Unless it’s a King Charles

LOL

diddly-squat said:

Divine Angel said:

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

A few years ago I was at a cafe and a rescue dog attacked another dog – had it by the back and the neck and was just shaking it like a rag doll. It took myself and another guy to wrestle the things apart. I think it could have easily been a kid.

I understand you position but I’ll not have a pet in my house that I don’t know their background – not with kids around.

I had a rescue dog with my young sons…red cattle dog cross bull terrier. Best guardian and she rounded them up every morning before leaving the house.
Any dog will attack given the right circumstances, they all need to be trained. Even one raised from a puppy.

fsm said:

As World Liberty Financial raised more than half a billion dollars, President Donald Trump’s family took control of the crypto venture and grabbed the lion’s share of those funds, aided by governance terms that industry experts say favor insiders.
Launched last fall, World Liberty’s goal is to allow people to access financial services using cryptocurrencies and without intermediaries like banks in what is called decentralized finance, or DeFi. But it has yet to launch a public platform and has reported only a small staff, a review of the project shows.

As its fundraising got traction, World Liberty disclosed in January that the Trump family had taken control of the business, a review of changes in the fine print on World Liberty’s website shows. Two of its co-founders, crypto entrepreneurs Zak Folkman and Chase Herro, were replaced as the controlling parties of World Liberty by an entity in which the Trump family holds a 60% stake.

The changes have not been previously reported.
Overall, the Trump family now has a claim on 75% of net revenues from token sales and 60% from World Liberty operations once the core business gets going. The arrangement means the Trump family is currently entitled to about $400 million in fees. After World Liberty’s co-founders take their cut, the crypto venture will be left with 5% of the $550 million raised to date to build the platform, according to Reuters calculations.
The arrangements, including the Trump family’s large share of the project’s revenues and the non-tradeable nature of the governance tokens, make World Liberty unusually centralized for the industry, according to a survey of the practices of the five largest DeFi lending platforms and interviews with four U.S. academics who study the crypto industry.

“It’s hard for me to see any economic benefit to the owner of these tokens,” said Jim Angel, an associate professor at Georgetown University who has written about DeFi regulation.
David Krause, a longtime finance professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee who recently published a study of World Liberty, said that the structure of the project “pretty much excludes public investors or token holders from any meaningful financial participation.”
A White House spokesperson referred questions about World Liberty to the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer and the president’s two older sons, who are executives at the company, did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-trump-family-took-over-crypto-firm-it-raised-hundreds-millions-2025-03-31/

FMFD

Peak Warming Man said:

Neophyte said:

Fram2 launching in about three minutes

Thanks for the heads-up, watched it.

It’s a polar orbit.
Elon, boldly going where no man has gone before.

The Rev Dodgson said:

fsm said:

As World Liberty Financial raised more than half a billion dollars, President Donald Trump’s family took control of the crypto venture and grabbed the lion’s share of those funds, aided by governance terms that industry experts say favor insiders.
Launched last fall, World Liberty’s goal is to allow people to access financial services using cryptocurrencies and without intermediaries like banks in what is called decentralized finance, or DeFi. But it has yet to launch a public platform and has reported only a small staff, a review of the project shows.

As its fundraising got traction, World Liberty disclosed in January that the Trump family had taken control of the business, a review of changes in the fine print on World Liberty’s website shows. Two of its co-founders, crypto entrepreneurs Zak Folkman and Chase Herro, were replaced as the controlling parties of World Liberty by an entity in which the Trump family holds a 60% stake.

The changes have not been previously reported.
Overall, the Trump family now has a claim on 75% of net revenues from token sales and 60% from World Liberty operations once the core business gets going. The arrangement means the Trump family is currently entitled to about $400 million in fees. After World Liberty’s co-founders take their cut, the crypto venture will be left with 5% of the $550 million raised to date to build the platform, according to Reuters calculations.
The arrangements, including the Trump family’s large share of the project’s revenues and the non-tradeable nature of the governance tokens, make World Liberty unusually centralized for the industry, according to a survey of the practices of the five largest DeFi lending platforms and interviews with four U.S. academics who study the crypto industry.

“It’s hard for me to see any economic benefit to the owner of these tokens,” said Jim Angel, an associate professor at Georgetown University who has written about DeFi regulation.
David Krause, a longtime finance professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee who recently published a study of World Liberty, said that the structure of the project “pretty much excludes public investors or token holders from any meaningful financial participation.”
A White House spokesperson referred questions about World Liberty to the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer and the president’s two older sons, who are executives at the company, did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-trump-family-took-over-crypto-firm-it-raised-hundreds-millions-2025-03-31/

Checks date.

Damn, yesterday.

It’s like that for all news stories today. Except the American ones have been difficult to differentiate for a couple of months now.

diddly-squat said:

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

good

rescue dog would be gooder.

negative.. don’t want a bitsa

There are rescue branches of many purebred clubs. I know for sure there is Boxer Rescue and Pug Rescue. Maybe check with the breed club of your choice if you want purebred.

diddly-squat said:

Divine Angel said:

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

A few years ago I was at a cafe and a rescue dog attacked another dog – had it by the back and the neck and was just shaking it like a rag doll. It took myself and another guy to wrestle the things apart. I think it could have easily been a kid.

I understand you position but I’ll not have a pet in my house that I don’t know their background – not with kids around.

Any rescue org worth their salt will do a thorough screening process before matching a pet with a family. Oh the hoops I jumped through to get Jellybean with a child in the house! Many organisations won’t even look at your application if you’ve got children under a certain age. Even

Jellybean, her sisters, and her mum were surrendered bc they had parvo and the owners couldn’t afford vet bills. One sister died. The others came good, miraculously.

But rescues aren’t always bitzers. Labrador Rescue Qld only takes purebred Labs to rehome. They won’t consider families with kids under 12.

Seems to me then that the issues are largely decoupled. If you don’t want a dog that’s been raised wrong or treated badly, then I suppose it makes sense to go for a pup, but that’s separate from the idea of purebred versus mixed breed.

Divine Angel said:

diddly-squat said:

Divine Angel said:

Bitzers are the best and this is the hill I will die on.

A few years ago I was at a cafe and a rescue dog attacked another dog – had it by the back and the neck and was just shaking it like a rag doll. It took myself and another guy to wrestle the things apart. I think it could have easily been a kid.

I understand you position but I’ll not have a pet in my house that I don’t know their background – not with kids around.

Any rescue org worth their salt will do a thorough screening process before matching a pet with a family. Oh the hoops I jumped through to get Jellybean with a child in the house! Many organisations won’t even look at your application if you’ve got children under a certain age. Even

Jellybean, her sisters, and her mum were surrendered bc they had parvo and the owners couldn’t afford vet bills. One sister died. The others came good, miraculously.

But rescues aren’t always bitzers. Labrador Rescue Qld only takes purebred Labs to rehome. They won’t consider families with kids under 12.

Yes I get it, but like I said, I just want to have a bit more clarity around the back ground than is possible from a rescue dog; that and we really want a puppy and we really want a cocker. Our last dog was a golden cocker and she was beautiful.

in any case, it won’t be happen until later in the year (at the earliest).

Hey Bubblecar, are you around? I’ve got a question I reckon you’d know the answer to.

Divine Angel said:

Hey Bubblecar, are you around? I’ve got a question I reckon you’d know the answer to.

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

There is a Cocker Spaniel rescue Australia.

Their Facebook

And the SA part (although they don’t have anyone available at the moment). But you could probably contact them and go on a list if you were interested.

Link

dv said:

Seems to me then that the issues are largely decoupled. If you don’t want a dog that’s been raised wrong or treated badly, then I suppose it makes sense to go for a pup, but that’s separate from the idea of purebred versus mixed breed.

There are also some behavioral and health issues that are endemic with certain breeds so knowing what you are getting yourself into that makes understating the heritage of the dog important – well, important to me at least.

diddly-squat said:

Neophyte said:

Divine Angel said:

We’re talking about dogs, not the Royal family.

Unless it’s a King Charles

that’s a bit cavalier of you

CKC spaniels are born crazy.

dv said:

Seems to me then that the issues are largely decoupled. If you don’t want a dog that’s been raised wrong or treated badly, then I suppose it makes sense to go for a pup, but that’s separate from the idea of purebred versus mixed breed.

Sensible.
Just never adopt a chihuahua. They just bark and never stfu.

Well I hope you call it Chapelle

kii said:

dv said:

Seems to me then that the issues are largely decoupled. If you don’t want a dog that’s been raised wrong or treated badly, then I suppose it makes sense to go for a pup, but that’s separate from the idea of purebred versus mixed breed.

Sensible.
Just never adopt a chihuahua. They just bark and never stfu.

Diddly says they want a dog, not a rat that’s learnt to bark.

dv said:

Well I hope you call it Chapelle

maybe just Dave

captain_spalding said:

diddly-squat said:

Neophyte said:

Unless it’s a King Charles

that’s a bit cavalier of you

CKC spaniels are born crazy.

Spaniels are 2nd on my list of idiot dogs.

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

diddly-squat said:

that’s a bit cavalier of you

CKC spaniels are born crazy.

Spaniels are 2nd on my list of idiot dogs.

They can be cute and fun, but most of them are as dumb as rocks.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Hey Bubblecar, are you around? I’ve got a question I reckon you’d know the answer to.

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Hey Bubblecar, are you around? I’ve got a question I reckon you’d know the answer to.

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

What, it’s just an axle between two wheels? Sort of a two-wheeled unicycle?

captain_spalding said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

What, it’s just an axle between two wheels? Sort of a two-wheeled unicycle?

Pretty much. Tall, like a Penny farthing.

diddly-squat said:

dv said:

Well I hope you call it Chapelle

maybe just Dave

That would be a bit meta

dv said:

diddly-squat said:

dv said:

Well I hope you call it Chapelle

maybe just Dave

That would be a bit meta

Maybe Donald or Elon then, Marjorie if it’s a girl

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Hey Bubblecar, are you around? I’ve got a question I reckon you’d know the answer to.

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Hey Bubblecar, are you around? I’ve got a question I reckon you’d know the answer to.

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

That sounds odd. There various penny-farthing adaptations with two large wheels, usually to enable a passenger to be carried, but they usually had little balancing wheels as well.

some of the PhD students want to get a goldfish for their office … I told them that they could only if they named it Albert…

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

Wow, don’t let any hipsters see that, the roads will be choked with them.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

That sounds odd. There various penny-farthing adaptations with two large wheels, usually to enable a passenger to be carried, but they usually had little balancing wheels as well.

I didn’t see any balancing wheels but the scene was set at night, and the film quality isn’t hi def, of course.

Arts said:

some of the PhD students want to get a goldfish for their office … I told them that they could only if they named it Albert…

last year the girls wanted a cat. I said that if we got a cat I would get naming rights… Catty, McCat-Face is the name I said it would get.

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

That sounds odd. There various penny-farthing adaptations with two large wheels, usually to enable a passenger to be carried, but they usually had little balancing wheels as well.

I didn’t see any balancing wheels but the scene was set at night, and the film quality isn’t hi def, of course.

look up dicycles.

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Just about to go in the shower but I’ll wait a minute :)

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

It’s a Fig 172.

They’re running off together on his cycle. I can see it’s got a balancing wheel. I don’t recall seeing one of these cycles before.

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

That sounds odd. There various penny-farthing adaptations with two large wheels, usually to enable a passenger to be carried, but they usually had little balancing wheels as well.

I didn’t see any balancing wheels but the scene was set at night, and the film quality isn’t hi def, of course.

Right. As for the name, I think the ones like I illustrated were just called tandems. Ones like Boris posted would be some class of early safety bicycle.

But probably not very safe, and very short-lived in the scheme of things.

diddly-squat said:

dv said:

diddly-squat said:

maybe just Dave

That would be a bit meta

Maybe Donald or Elon then, Marjorie if it’s a girl

You’re losin’ me. I was playing off the roan thing.

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

That sounds odd. There various penny-farthing adaptations with two large wheels, usually to enable a passenger to be carried, but they usually had little balancing wheels as well.

I didn’t see any balancing wheels but the scene was set at night, and the film quality isn’t hi def, of course.

look up dicycles.

Ta da! Thanks Boris

Divine Angel said:

They’re running off together on his cycle. I can see it’s got a balancing wheel. I don’t recall seeing one of these cycles before.

Yes it is one of the high-wheel tandems similar to the one I posted. Technically a tricycle with the rear wheel :)

Trump gonna be still President at 90 years old, getting wheeled out like the Macra.

Divine Angel said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

I didn’t see any balancing wheels but the scene was set at night, and the film quality isn’t hi def, of course.

look up dicycles.

Ta da! Thanks Boris

There you are then.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

CKC spaniels are born crazy.

Spaniels are 2nd on my list of idiot dogs.

They can be cute and fun, but most of them are as dumb as rocks.

That’s what I’ve been told. Really dumb.

Divine Angel said:

They’re running off together on his cycle. I can see it’s got a balancing wheel. I don’t recall seeing one of these cycles before.

Secrets?

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

diddly-squat said:

that’s a bit cavalier of you

CKC spaniels are born crazy.

Spaniels are 2nd on my list of idiot dogs.

After the redheads? (Afghan hounds…)

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Spaniels are 2nd on my list of idiot dogs.

They can be cute and fun, but most of them are as dumb as rocks.

That’s what I’ve been told. Really dumb.

Bassets are almost brainless or pretend to be if their name is Fred..

captain_spalding said:

diddly-squat said:

Neophyte said:

Unless it’s a King Charles

that’s a bit cavalier of you

CKC spaniels are born crazy.

fixing tags like there’s no tomorrow.

btm said:

Divine Angel said:

They’re running off together on his cycle. I can see it’s got a balancing wheel. I don’t recall seeing one of these cycles before.

Secrets?

Aye
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024539/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

dv said:

Trump gonna be still President at 90 years old, getting wheeled out like the Macra.

Davros.

roughbarked said:

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

They can be cute and fun, but most of them are as dumb as rocks.

That’s what I’ve been told. Really dumb.

Bassets are almost brainless or pretend to be if their name is Fred..

still, you don’t want a dog that is too smart.

Peak Warming Man said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

Am watching a movie starring Mary Pickford and Leslie Howard. He’s riding what I’m going to call a bicycle because it’s got two wheels, but they’re next to each other. I thought it was a Penny farthing but there’s nothing at the back. Google isn’t giving me anything. Do you know what it’s called?

It’s a Fig 172.

Similar to a Morton Bay Fig, but missing the aerial roots.

Anyway, I’m going to go and read my latest Skeptic magazine and a bit more of “Pyramids” (Pratchett). I’ve made my first contribution to the Great Australian Fungi Hunt. There were some yellow stainer mushrooms in the Botanic Gardens when we walked this morning. I’ve not seen them with the amber dewdrops on them before.

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

Divine Angel said:

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

What kind

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

What kind

The kind what look like they’ve got nipples on top.

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

What kind

the common kind. they’re everywhere.

ChrispenEvan said:

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

What kind

the common kind. they’re everywhere.

Oh, yeast

I have to say, this movie doesn’t make much sense.

Mary Pickford elopes with Leslie Howard, they settle in the Wild West so he can make his fortune. There’s a gun fight, the baby dies, then suddenly he’s governor with four adult children. Twenty minutes from the end and there’s no secrets revealed yet.

…spoke too soon, there’s a mistress. Interesting time to introduce this complication.

Even SBS got in on April Fools Day

Divine Angel said:

I have to say, this movie doesn’t make much sense.

Mary Pickford elopes with Leslie Howard, they settle in the Wild West so he can make his fortune. There’s a gun fight, the baby dies, then suddenly he’s governor with four adult children. Twenty minutes from the end and there’s no secrets revealed yet.

Not even the secret of his affair with Mona Maris?

oh yeah, it’s April fools day.. I forgot about that.

I am marking some minor assessments and trying to use the new uni supplied tool that is supposed to detect AI involvement…

nothing,
not a scrap of ‘evidence’ that any one of the students have used Ai software to write any part of this assessment… I mean, I dont want to be cynical about this, but I’m kind of finding this hard to believe.

(Although I am impressed if they have used AI and then paraphrased it enough for the system to not detect it.. that’s a useful future skill)

“Pope approves canonisation of Peter To Rot, who will be PNG’s first saint”

Praise the Lord

Arts said:

oh yeah, it’s April fools day.. I forgot about that.

I am marking some minor assessments and trying to use the new uni supplied tool that is supposed to detect AI involvement…

nothing,
not a scrap of ‘evidence’ that any one of the students have used Ai software to write any part of this assessment… I mean, I dont want to be cynical about this, but I’m kind of finding this hard to believe.

(Although I am impressed if they have used AI and then paraphrased it enough for the system to not detect it.. that’s a useful future skill)

crazy thought most of these are 爱 stupidity so it won’t detect them

Arts said:

oh yeah, it’s April fools day.. I forgot about that.

I am marking some minor assessments and trying to use the new uni supplied tool that is supposed to detect AI involvement…

nothing,
not a scrap of ‘evidence’ that any one of the students have used Ai software to write any part of this assessment… I mean, I dont want to be cynical about this, but I’m kind of finding this hard to believe.

(Although I am impressed if they have used AI and then paraphrased it enough for the system to not detect it.. that’s a useful future skill)

As is picking locks.

Divine Angel said:

Even SBS got in on April Fools Day

aren’t these millennials surely this is entirely likely

Arts said:

oh yeah, it’s April fools day.. I forgot about that.

I am marking some minor assessments and trying to use the new uni supplied tool that is supposed to detect AI involvement…

nothing,
not a scrap of ‘evidence’ that any one of the students have used Ai software to write any part of this assessment… I mean, I dont want to be cynical about this, but I’m kind of finding this hard to believe.

(Although I am impressed if they have used AI and then paraphrased it enough for the system to not detect it.. that’s a useful future skill)

I used AI once in an assessment last year. It got sent back for a resubmit because I hadn’t answered the question fully. The question was something about why establishing rapport was a good thing.

I’d paraphrased the entire paragraph from the textbook, the only paragraph in the whole book where rapport was mentioned. Google wasn’t bringing up anything useful. Out of ideas, I turned to ChatGPT who spat out something useful. Paraphrased that, and passed.

Get ready for lots of moptop in a short period of time. Sam Mendes is making four Beatles movies — and all four will be released theatrically in April 2028.

The filmmaker, who announced the news at CinemaCon, also confirmed the much-speculated casting. Paul Mescal is playing Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan will star as Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson will put his spin on John Lennon. The four stars came out on stage and bowed in the style that the band popularized in their heyday.

Mendes promised that the multi-part biopic, officially titled ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event,’ will be the “first binge-able theatrical experience.”

***
Thought a miniseries would be too limiting, so creates four movies about the same thing.

Divine Angel said:

Get ready for lots of moptop in a short period of time. Sam Mendes is making four Beatles movies — and all four will be released theatrically in April 2028.

The filmmaker, who announced the news at CinemaCon, also confirmed the much-speculated casting. Paul Mescal is playing Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan will star as Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson will put his spin on John Lennon. The four stars came out on stage and bowed in the style that the band popularized in their heyday.

Mendes promised that the multi-part biopic, officially titled ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event,’ will be the “first binge-able theatrical experience.”

***
Thought a miniseries would be too limiting, so creates four movies about the same thing.

If it was adapting Mark Lewisohn’s book ,four movies would barely be enough…

Peak Warming Man said:

Arts said:

oh yeah, it’s April fools day.. I forgot about that.

I am marking some minor assessments and trying to use the new uni supplied tool that is supposed to detect AI involvement…

nothing,
not a scrap of ‘evidence’ that any one of the students have used Ai software to write any part of this assessment… I mean, I dont want to be cynical about this, but I’m kind of finding this hard to believe.

(Although I am impressed if they have used AI and then paraphrased it enough for the system to not detect it.. that’s a useful future skill)

As is picking locks.

even lock picking is becoming a redundant skill, since many locks these days are electronic, finger printed, eye detection bullshirt… gone are the days of the skilled an talented lock pickers, bring on the auto jammers that render electronic locks useless and are available to any young thief with an internet connection and a Temu account.

Didn’t really hear Trump go after India until his speech today.

Divine Angel said:

Get ready for lots of moptop in a short period of time. Sam Mendes is making four Beatles movies — and all four will be released theatrically in April 2028.

The filmmaker, who announced the news at CinemaCon, also confirmed the much-speculated casting. Paul Mescal is playing Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn will portray George Harrison, Barry Keoghan will star as Ringo Starr and Harris Dickinson will put his spin on John Lennon. The four stars came out on stage and bowed in the style that the band popularized in their heyday.

Mendes promised that the multi-part biopic, officially titled ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event,’ will be the “first binge-able theatrical experience.”

***
Thought a miniseries would be too limiting, so creates four movies about the same thing.

oh yeah, that’s what we need.. yet another movie (or four) about the beatles…

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

Arts said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Arts said:

oh yeah, it’s April fools day.. I forgot about that.

I am marking some minor assessments and trying to use the new uni supplied tool that is supposed to detect AI involvement…

nothing,
not a scrap of ‘evidence’ that any one of the students have used Ai software to write any part of this assessment… I mean, I dont want to be cynical about this, but I’m kind of finding this hard to believe.

(Although I am impressed if they have used AI and then paraphrased it enough for the system to not detect it.. that’s a useful future skill)

As is picking locks.

even lock picking is becoming a redundant skill, since many locks these days are electronic, finger printed, eye detection bullshirt… gone are the days of the skilled an talented lock pickers, bring on the auto jammers that render electronic locks useless and are available to any young thief with an internet connection and a Temu account.

that’s all right dirty CHINA, friendly Israel and totally not fascist overlord Musk can override it for yous

dv said:

Didn’t really hear Trump go after India until his speech today.

now what

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

What kind

The kind what look like they’ve got nipples on top.

mammamycota

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

What is the plant?

Morning Glory?

SCIENCE said:

dv said:

Didn’t really hear Trump go after India until his speech today.

now what

He listed India’s agricultural protection as one of the targets of a new tranch of tariffs to be announced on 2 April which he has dubbed Liberation Day.

Arts said:

oh yeah, it’s April fools day.. I forgot about that.

I am marking some minor assessments and trying to use the new uni supplied tool that is supposed to detect AI involvement…

nothing,
not a scrap of ‘evidence’ that any one of the students have used Ai software to write any part of this assessment… I mean, I dont want to be cynical about this, but I’m kind of finding this hard to believe.

(Although I am impressed if they have used AI and then paraphrased it enough for the system to not detect it.. that’s a useful future skill)

I saw a thing on how to get the best out of your AI engine and what they said was to interact with it as if you were a director of a movie and the chatbot is the character, so there is a world were you can ask AI to respond like a uni student.

For 37 years I have hated April Fool’s day.
My father died on April 1st, it was also Good Friday and my former mother-in-law’s birthday. She died suddenly 3 weeks later.
Dad didn’t rise from the dead on Easter Sunday.
When mr kii was dying I asked him to avoid dying on the 1st of April. He waited a few days. His oncologist liked that we had that easy black humour. His 1st daughter was due to be born that weekend. We had a chat about stuff like that in the elevator one day.

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

Morning Glory. Give up now. Americans love it.3

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

get yourself some glysophate, undiluted, cut the stems and paint them with the liquid. don’t wait too long before applying it.

speaking of dogs, I have a visitor. some neighbours kelpie is here.

fsm said:

Ooh ooh I’ve seen this one! I know the answer 🤭

Divine Angel said:

fsm said:

Ooh ooh I’ve seen this one! I know the answer 🤭

WTF, I assume

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

Roundup is your friend.

Woodie said:

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

Roundup is your friend.

Me, I’d keep the hedge.

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

ChrispenEvan said:

kii said:

Michael V said:

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

What is the plant?

Morning Glory?

Morning Glory. Give up now. Americans love it.3

get yourself some glysophate, undiluted, cut the stems and paint them with the liquid. don’t wait too long before applying it.

Roundup is your friend.

Me, I’d keep the hedge.

yeah we presumed morning glory but not our property so reckon we can come past with a small shear but probably not Russian assassination

Divine Angel said:

fsm said:

Ooh ooh I’ve seen this one! I know the answer 🤭

wig?

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dv said:

Divine Angel said:

fsm said:

Ooh ooh I’ve seen this one! I know the answer 🤭

wig?

Wed

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

Ooh ooh I’ve seen this one! I know the answer 🤭

wig?

Wed

I think they should rethink using abstractions for this kind of thing. Not everything can be drawn.

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

wig?

Wed

I think they should rethink using abstractions for this kind of thing. Not everything can be drawn.

though a picture can paint a thousand words.

old jungle saying.

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

wig?

Wed

I think they should rethink using abstractions for this kind of thing. Not everything can be drawn.

I thought it was some kind of nun.

My friend works in high school admin. Today she got stuck with attendance records. A kid was absent and the parents gave the excuse that the kid couldn’t come to school because their uniform was wet.

ChrispenEvan said:

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Nice one, Joyce.

Woodie said:

ChrispenEvan said:

INTRODUCING STIHL WRK M8
Introducing another STIHL game changer – your first-ever on-the-job artificial intelligence assistant, STIHL WRK M8. Need advice on your trimming technique?

Could you be more efficient with fuel output? Have questions about equipment maintenance?
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Using 360-degree dynamic camera detection technology, WRK M8 feeds you real-time advice through your noise-cancelling earmuffs, keeping your ears safe and your gardens in tip-top shape. You will never work alone again.

STIHL WRK M8 is a must-have for everyone – from professionals looking to upskill their crew to home gardeners new to the tools! Stay ahead with STIHL.

Nice one, Joyce.

Poisson d’avril, je suppose.

Divine Angel said:

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

You’ve had rain. We are well under our long term average for the last 18 months. You can join in on the fungi hunt if you like. Look at Fungimap.

buffy said:

Divine Angel said:

I saw plenty of fungi while walking this morning. Didn’t take photos, right now they’re ubiquitous.

You’ve had rain. We are well under our long term average for the last 18 months. You can join in on the fungi hunt if you like. Look at Fungimap.

Getting a butt load more rain from exTC Dianne tomorrow.

I bet Dr Sloof Lirpa only appears once a year.

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

Ooh ooh I’ve seen this one! I know the answer 🤭

wig?

Wed

It looks like religious attire, so my guess is “Woo”.

Divine Angel said:

I bet Dr Sloof Lirpa only appears once a year.

Posted to the SSSF FB page.

😎

Kingy said:

Divine Angel said:

dv said:

wig?

Wed

It looks like religious attire, so my guess is “Woo”.

Ha

Damn. Inexplicable power failure here, just after I started cooking.

And I was just remarking to myself what a calm and peaceful afternoon it is.

Now posting on my phone and waiting….

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

I bet Dr Sloof Lirpa only appears once a year.

Posted to the SSSF FB page.

😎

Glad to be of service 🫡

Bubblecar said:

Damn. Inexplicable power failure here, just after I started cooking.

And I was just remarking to myself what a calm and peaceful afternoon it is.

Now posting on my phone and waiting….

SMS from Tas Networks. They are now investigating a power outage on this very street….

Bubblecar said:

Damn. Inexplicable power failure here, just after I started cooking.

And I was just remarking to myself what a calm and peaceful afternoon it is.

Now posting on my phone and waiting….

Oh that’s fun.

….AND the power is back.

Wonder what that was all about…

ChrispenEvan said:

LOL

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

Brush cutter and a coating of glyphosate on all cut sufaces.

ChrispenEvan said:

SCIENCE said:

Hey so if the fences are covered in shit like this

will snapping all the stems we can reach actually work to suppress them or do we have to dig the bastards out to have any significant impact¿

get yourself some glysophate, undiluted, cut the stems and paint them with the liquid. don’t wait too long before applying it.

30 seconds max.

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

As steam locomotives became more and more advanced through the first half of the twentieth century, they began to travel faster. It became necessary for trains to be able to safely brake from ever higher speeds. In the USA, the Westinghouse Company had proven that air braking was by far the most effective solution. Victorian Railways was an early adopter of Westinghouse air brake technology, but the parachute, deployed from the guard’s van, was laborious to reel in and repack after each brake application.

The solution came from Germany, the industrial powerhouse that gave the world such incredible innovations as the the cruise missile, the piano accordion, and pfeffernusse. The German State Railways developed the deflector shields, which could halve the speed of the famous Vorsprung Durch Technik express from 80 miles per hour (15 litres per 100 km) in under 100 yards (27 Newton-metres). The deflectors were deployed from the locomotive itself, and the idea was quickly adopted by Victorian Railways, rapidly being fitted to both new and existing locomotives.
At the museum we have both freight and passenger locomotives on display, and you can clearly tell them apart by their deflector design. Freight locomotives, which were called on to haul very heavy trains, needed particularly large deflector shields to slow their long, heavy trains. An example of this type can be seen in locomotive X36. Passenger locomotives, on the other hand, used a smaller deflector, such as the type seen on R704.

After the deflectors were put into use, it was particularly important for passengers to stand behind the white line at station platforms as trains approached, which was painted a full three feet back from the platform edge. The Victorian Railways publicity department released a catchy jingle, “Stay behind the line Mr Black, or you’ll get a quite a smack!” to help spread awareness.

Westinghouse was not about to give up on the train braking market. It fought back with the innovative use of an automatic braking system in which every single wheel on a train could be braked from the driver’s cab by the application of brake shoes to the wheel. After much research on different types of shoes (including loafers, brogues, clogs and espadrilles) it eventually perfected a system that rendered the German deflector shields obsolete.

Newport Railway Museum is dedicated to educating the public about our railways and the technology they employ. If you found this article interesting, feel free to read our previous article explaining the reason for the unusual crescent-shaped of buffers Victorian locomotives.

ChrispenEvan said:

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

As steam locomotives became more and more advanced through the first half of the twentieth century, they began to travel faster. It became necessary for trains to be able to safely brake from ever higher speeds. In the USA, the Westinghouse Company had proven that air braking was by far the most effective solution. Victorian Railways was an early adopter of Westinghouse air brake technology, but the parachute, deployed from the guard’s van, was laborious to reel in and repack after each brake application.

The solution came from Germany, the industrial powerhouse that gave the world such incredible innovations as the the cruise missile, the piano accordion, and pfeffernusse. The German State Railways developed the deflector shields, which could halve the speed of the famous Vorsprung Durch Technik express from 80 miles per hour (15 litres per 100 km) in under 100 yards (27 Newton-metres). The deflectors were deployed from the locomotive itself, and the idea was quickly adopted by Victorian Railways, rapidly being fitted to both new and existing locomotives.
At the museum we have both freight and passenger locomotives on display, and you can clearly tell them apart by their deflector design. Freight locomotives, which were called on to haul very heavy trains, needed particularly large deflector shields to slow their long, heavy trains. An example of this type can be seen in locomotive X36. Passenger locomotives, on the other hand, used a smaller deflector, such as the type seen on R704.

After the deflectors were put into use, it was particularly important for passengers to stand behind the white line at station platforms as trains approached, which was painted a full three feet back from the platform edge. The Victorian Railways publicity department released a catchy jingle, “Stay behind the line Mr Black, or you’ll get a quite a smack!” to help spread awareness.

Westinghouse was not about to give up on the train braking market. It fought back with the innovative use of an automatic braking system in which every single wheel on a train could be braked from the driver’s cab by the application of brake shoes to the wheel. After much research on different types of shoes (including loafers, brogues, clogs and espadrilles) it eventually perfected a system that rendered the German deflector shields obsolete.

Newport Railway Museum is dedicated to educating the public about our railways and the technology they employ. If you found this article interesting, feel free to read our previous article explaining the reason for the unusual crescent-shaped of buffers Victorian locomotives.

Jesus.

ChrispenEvan said:

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

As steam locomotives became more and more advanced through the first half of the twentieth century, they began to travel faster. It became necessary for trains to be able to safely brake from ever higher speeds. In the USA, the Westinghouse Company had proven that air braking was by far the most effective solution. Victorian Railways was an early adopter of Westinghouse air brake technology, but the parachute, deployed from the guard’s van, was laborious to reel in and repack after each brake application.

The solution came from Germany, the industrial powerhouse that gave the world such incredible innovations as the the cruise missile, the piano accordion, and pfeffernusse. The German State Railways developed the deflector shields, which could halve the speed of the famous Vorsprung Durch Technik express from 80 miles per hour (15 litres per 100 km) in under 100 yards (27 Newton-metres). The deflectors were deployed from the locomotive itself, and the idea was quickly adopted by Victorian Railways, rapidly being fitted to both new and existing locomotives.
At the museum we have both freight and passenger locomotives on display, and you can clearly tell them apart by their deflector design. Freight locomotives, which were called on to haul very heavy trains, needed particularly large deflector shields to slow their long, heavy trains. An example of this type can be seen in locomotive X36. Passenger locomotives, on the other hand, used a smaller deflector, such as the type seen on R704.

After the deflectors were put into use, it was particularly important for passengers to stand behind the white line at station platforms as trains approached, which was painted a full three feet back from the platform edge. The Victorian Railways publicity department released a catchy jingle, “Stay behind the line Mr Black, or you’ll get a quite a smack!” to help spread awareness.

Westinghouse was not about to give up on the train braking market. It fought back with the innovative use of an automatic braking system in which every single wheel on a train could be braked from the driver’s cab by the application of brake shoes to the wheel. After much research on different types of shoes (including loafers, brogues, clogs and espadrilles) it eventually perfected a system that rendered the German deflector shields obsolete.

Newport Railway Museum is dedicated to educating the public about our railways and the technology they employ. If you found this article interesting, feel free to read our previous article explaining the reason for the unusual crescent-shaped of buffers Victorian locomotives.

WTAF?

1 April?

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

…

WTAF?

1 April?

In action

ChrispenEvan said:

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

As steam locomotives became more and more advanced through the first half of the twentieth century, they began to travel faster. It became necessary for trains to be able to safely brake from ever higher speeds. In the USA, the Westinghouse Company had proven that air braking was by far the most effective solution. Victorian Railways was an early adopter of Westinghouse air brake technology, but the parachute, deployed from the guard’s van, was laborious to reel in and repack after each brake application.

The solution came from Germany, the industrial powerhouse that gave the world such incredible innovations as the the cruise missile, the piano accordion, and pfeffernusse. The German State Railways developed the deflector shields, which could halve the speed of the famous Vorsprung Durch Technik express from 80 miles per hour (15 litres per 100 km) in under 100 yards (27 Newton-metres). The deflectors were deployed from the locomotive itself, and the idea was quickly adopted by Victorian Railways, rapidly being fitted to both new and existing locomotives.
At the museum we have both freight and passenger locomotives on display, and you can clearly tell them apart by their deflector design. Freight locomotives, which were called on to haul very heavy trains, needed particularly large deflector shields to slow their long, heavy trains. An example of this type can be seen in locomotive X36. Passenger locomotives, on the other hand, used a smaller deflector, such as the type seen on R704.

After the deflectors were put into use, it was particularly important for passengers to stand behind the white line at station platforms as trains approached, which was painted a full three feet back from the platform edge. The Victorian Railways publicity department released a catchy jingle, “Stay behind the line Mr Black, or you’ll get a quite a smack!” to help spread awareness.

Westinghouse was not about to give up on the train braking market. It fought back with the innovative use of an automatic braking system in which every single wheel on a train could be braked from the driver’s cab by the application of brake shoes to the wheel. After much research on different types of shoes (including loafers, brogues, clogs and espadrilles) it eventually perfected a system that rendered the German deflector shields obsolete.

Newport Railway Museum is dedicated to educating the public about our railways and the technology they employ. If you found this article interesting, feel free to read our previous article explaining the reason for the unusual crescent-shaped of buffers Victorian locomotives.

Note:

Much of the above article is arrant nonsense. Too much for me to pull apart.

I know Terri Schiavo’s story; it is heartbreaking. The wording on her grave even more so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

I know Terri Schiavo’s story; it is heartbreaking. The wording on her grave even more so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

coffee, might’ve made ya one but just not that fond of you

toast too in a moment, promite on, i’ll dunk it, yeah i’m a dunker

not much else to report

checked all farm water did, none leaks and all that, drinkable water in the troughs, tanks full

yes I visited to magic faraway farm, the Land of Happy Sheep

could we have a new US politics thread DV? this one is pretty weighty.

Divine Angel said:

I know Terri Schiavo’s story; it is heartbreaking. The wording on her grave even more so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

‘Ken legal delays…

Divine Angel said:

I know Terri Schiavo’s story; it is heartbreaking. The wording on her grave even more so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

I remember that too. Although I didn’t know all the detail.

I seem to be supplying supper for a tiny little mouse in the kitchen tonight. I’ve seen it running along the bench. It’s body can’t be much more than an inch long. I’ve re filled the peanut butter on the trap twice now in a couple of hours. It seems to be able to lick it off without springing the spring. I’ve now tied on a piece of salami with a bit of string. Caught a medium size mouse last night. A couple of days ago a fairly large one. I suspect I’m now trying to catch the young ones of the family.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/influenza-cases-rise-flu-season-coming-earlier-this-2025/105121052

ChrispenEvan said:

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

As steam locomotives became more and more advanced through the first half of the twentieth century, they began to travel faster. It became necessary for trains to be able to safely brake from ever higher speeds. In the USA, the Westinghouse Company had proven that air braking was by far the most effective solution. Victorian Railways was an early adopter of Westinghouse air brake technology, but the parachute, deployed from the guard’s van, was laborious to reel in and repack after each brake application.

The solution came from Germany, the industrial powerhouse that gave the world such incredible innovations as the the cruise missile, the piano accordion, and pfeffernusse. The German State Railways developed the deflector shields, which could halve the speed of the famous Vorsprung Durch Technik express from 80 miles per hour (15 litres per 100 km) in under 100 yards (27 Newton-metres). The deflectors were deployed from the locomotive itself, and the idea was quickly adopted by Victorian Railways, rapidly being fitted to both new and existing locomotives.
At the museum we have both freight and passenger locomotives on display, and you can clearly tell them apart by their deflector design. Freight locomotives, which were called on to haul very heavy trains, needed particularly large deflector shields to slow their long, heavy trains. An example of this type can be seen in locomotive X36. Passenger locomotives, on the other hand, used a smaller deflector, such as the type seen on R704.

After the deflectors were put into use, it was particularly important for passengers to stand behind the white line at station platforms as trains approached, which was painted a full three feet back from the platform edge. The Victorian Railways publicity department released a catchy jingle, “Stay behind the line Mr Black, or you’ll get a quite a smack!” to help spread awareness.

Westinghouse was not about to give up on the train braking market. It fought back with the innovative use of an automatic braking system in which every single wheel on a train could be braked from the driver’s cab by the application of brake shoes to the wheel. After much research on different types of shoes (including loafers, brogues, clogs and espadrilles) it eventually perfected a system that rendered the German deflector shields obsolete.

Newport Railway Museum is dedicated to educating the public about our railways and the technology they employ. If you found this article interesting, feel free to read our previous article explaining the reason for the unusual crescent-shaped of buffers Victorian locomotives.

I think I’ll read this tomorrow.

ChrispenEvan said:

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

As steam locomotives became more and more advanced through the first half of the twentieth century, they began to travel faster. It became necessary for trains to be able to safely brake from ever higher speeds. In the USA, the Westinghouse Company had proven that air braking was by far the most effective solution. Victorian Railways was an early adopter of Westinghouse air brake technology, but the parachute, deployed from the guard’s van, was laborious to reel in and repack after each brake application.

The solution came from Germany, the industrial powerhouse that gave the world such incredible innovations as the the cruise missile, the piano accordion, and pfeffernusse. The German State Railways developed the deflector shields, which could halve the speed of the famous Vorsprung Durch Technik express from 80 miles per hour (15 litres per 100 km) in under 100 yards (27 Newton-metres). The deflectors were deployed from the locomotive itself, and the idea was quickly adopted by Victorian Railways, rapidly being fitted to both new and existing locomotives.
At the museum we have both freight and passenger locomotives on display, and you can clearly tell them apart by their deflector design. Freight locomotives, which were called on to haul very heavy trains, needed particularly large deflector shields to slow their long, heavy trains. An example of this type can be seen in locomotive X36. Passenger locomotives, on the other hand, used a smaller deflector, such as the type seen on R704.

After the deflectors were put into use, it was particularly important for passengers to stand behind the white line at station platforms as trains approached, which was painted a full three feet back from the platform edge. The Victorian Railways publicity department released a catchy jingle, “Stay behind the line Mr Black, or you’ll get a quite a smack!” to help spread awareness.

Westinghouse was not about to give up on the train braking market. It fought back with the innovative use of an automatic braking system in which every single wheel on a train could be braked from the driver’s cab by the application of brake shoes to the wheel. After much research on different types of shoes (including loafers, brogues, clogs and espadrilles) it eventually perfected a system that rendered the German deflector shields obsolete.

Newport Railway Museum is dedicated to educating the public about our railways and the technology they employ. If you found this article interesting, feel free to read our previous article explaining the reason for the unusual crescent-shaped of buffers Victorian locomotives.

I think I’ll read this tomorrow.

Evenin’ all.

Got home early tonight. Making progress through my list of jobs. Still a week behind though.

Having to decide which jobs get delayed and apologised for, but no shortage of work coming up.

Otherwise, all good here.

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 9 degrees at the back door. Very dark. Sunup today is around 7.50am. I’ll be glad to be rid of daylight saving on Sunday. No good light until after 8.00am is annoying.

Going supermarketing this morning. Nothing else particularly planned yet.

i’ll make my own breakfast, kitchen staff all passed out laying around the place, drunken orgy last night by all appearances, had to step over one walking down the corridor, drink bottles everywhere, overflowing ashtrays, chooks on the kitchen table, they’re a no good bunch, morally depraved

The Rev Dodgson said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Newport Railway Museum

Our museum guides are often asked by visitors to explain the purpose of the large wing-like panels either side
of the front of the locomotive. Is it purely decorative? Some form of streamlining?

It is indeed an aerodynamic aid, but not for the purpose of making the locomotive faster! These plates, called deflectors, are in fact used to slow the locomotive down.

As steam locomotives became more and more advanced through the first half of the twentieth century, they began to travel faster. It became necessary for trains to be able to safely brake from ever higher speeds. In the USA, the Westinghouse Company had proven that air braking was by far the most effective solution. Victorian Railways was an early adopter of Westinghouse air brake technology, but the parachute, deployed from the guard’s van, was laborious to reel in and repack after each brake application.

The solution came from Germany, the industrial powerhouse that gave the world such incredible innovations as the the cruise missile, the piano accordion, and pfeffernusse. The German State Railways developed the deflector shields, which could halve the speed of the famous Vorsprung Durch Technik express from 80 miles per hour (15 litres per 100 km) in under 100 yards (27 Newton-metres). The deflectors were deployed from the locomotive itself, and the idea was quickly adopted by Victorian Railways, rapidly being fitted to both new and existing locomotives.
At the museum we have both freight and passenger locomotives on display, and you can clearly tell them apart by their deflector design. Freight locomotives, which were called on to haul very heavy trains, needed particularly large deflector shields to slow their long, heavy trains. An example of this type can be seen in locomotive X36. Passenger locomotives, on the other hand, used a smaller deflector, such as the type seen on R704.

After the deflectors were put into use, it was particularly important for passengers to stand behind the white line at station platforms as trains approached, which was painted a full three feet back from the platform edge. The Victorian Railways publicity department released a catchy jingle, “Stay behind the line Mr Black, or you’ll get a quite a smack!” to help spread awareness.

Westinghouse was not about to give up on the train braking market. It fought back with the innovative use of an automatic braking system in which every single wheel on a train could be braked from the driver’s cab by the application of brake shoes to the wheel. After much research on different types of shoes (including loafers, brogues, clogs and espadrilles) it eventually perfected a system that rendered the German deflector shields obsolete.

Newport Railway Museum is dedicated to educating the public about our railways and the technology they employ. If you found this article interesting, feel free to read our previous article explaining the reason for the unusual crescent-shaped of buffers Victorian locomotives.

I think I’ll read this tomorrow.

I thought they were so the dimwit apprentice could safely climb the side of the boiler to open the plug at the top to see if there was any steam in the boiler, safety first ya know

And that’s me away then. Off to the supermarket I go. What my mother used to call food gathering.

Heavy rain thanks to exTC Dianne forecast today with a top in the mid 20s. Dianne was my late aunt’s name so we’ve been having a giggle about that. It’s also bin day, recycling this week.

A warm and calm autumn day expected here: 21, partly cloudy, light winds.

Bubblecar said:

A warm and calm autumn day expected here: 21, partly cloudy, light winds.

When the temps drop below 25 here, people start dressing like it’s about to snow. Native Qlders are a strange lot.

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

A warm and calm autumn day expected here: 21, partly cloudy, light winds.

When the temps drop below 25 here, people start dressing like it’s about to snow. Native Qlders are a strange lot.

Heh. I haven’t started wearing jumpers yet this season, but I have run the heater in this room on low for a while at night (we’ve been having minimums of 6 at night lately, so I really should have been wearing warmer clothes after sunset).

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

A warm and calm autumn day expected here: 21, partly cloudy, light winds.

When the temps drop below 25 here, people start dressing like it’s about to snow. Native Qlders are a strange lot.

I’m a bit more tolerant of the cold, despite being a Queenslander – I can usually get down to around 15° before I need to ditch the shorts & t-shirt for warmer gear.

Amazing discovery! New Hittite tablet shows striking correspondences with the narrative of Homer’s Iliad and testifies to second-millennium Luwian songs about the fall of Troy!

A groundbreaking discovery of a newly deciphered Hittite tablet from Boğazköy (Hattusa) provides compelling evidence of a Bronze Age Anatolian tradition surrounding the fall of Troy. Published by Michele Bianconi, the tablet details a royal correspondence referencing the city of Taruiša (Troy) under attack by the sons of Attaršiya of Ahhiyawa (Mycenaean Greece). It also mentions military support from Lukka (Lycia), mirroring accounts in Homer’s Iliad.

The most striking element is a fragment of a Luwian poetic lament describing the destruction of Wiluša (Troy), with a rhythm and invocation reminiscent of Homeric verse—possibly the earliest known reference to a native Anatolian epic tradition. This finding bridges the gap between Hittite historical records and Greek literary memory, suggesting that oral traditions about Troy may have circulated in Anatolia long before Homer composed the Iliad. The tablet thus reshapes our understanding of the cultural and literary environment of the Late Bronze Age, highlighting a deeper, shared narrative heritage between East and West.

…

The academic mentioned is at Oxford so I presume this isn’t AI Facebook history schlock.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

A warm and calm autumn day expected here: 21, partly cloudy, light winds.

When the temps drop below 25 here, people start dressing like it’s about to snow. Native Qlders are a strange lot.

Heh. I haven’t started wearing jumpers yet this season, but I have run the heater in this room on low for a while at night (we’ve been having minimums of 6 at night lately, so I really should have been wearing warmer clothes after sunset).

Still in shorts tshirt and bare feet.

Ian said:

Not a lot different from yesterday then?

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

Not a lot different from yesterday then?

Twas fine yesterday.

Ian said:

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

Not a lot different from yesterday then?

Twas fine yesterday.

Ah paradise one day,…

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

roughbarked said:

Not a lot different from yesterday then?

Twas fine yesterday.

Ah paradise one day,…

Where is this Nirvana?

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

Ian said:

Twas fine yesterday.

Ah paradise one day,…

Where is this Nirvana?

Atherton tablelands?

roughbarked said:

Tamb said:

roughbarked said:

Ah paradise one day,…

Where is this Nirvana?

Atherton tablelands?

Possibly. Buy I’m in Cairns so the weather is quite different.

Ian said:

Supertramp – It’s raining again 4 mins 30 sec

Woodie said:

Ian said:

Supertramp – It’s raining again 4 mins 30 sec

We’ll all be rooned.

Despite the fine, misty rain, I managed a full walk but I was a bit breathless even with Ventolin. Eh, it’s fine. Gotta stretch those lungs!

I missed the theme for today’s Classic Nine at 9 but the first two songs were Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel, and All Come Together by Diesel.

Currently experiencing a dust storm.

Spiny Norman said:

Divine Angel said:

Bubblecar said:

A warm and calm autumn day expected here: 21, partly cloudy, light winds.

When the temps drop below 25 here, people start dressing like it’s about to snow. Native Qlders are a strange lot.

I’m a bit more tolerant of the cold, despite being a Queenslander – I can usually get down to around 15° before I need to ditch the shorts & t-shirt for warmer gear.

I knew a guy back in the Blue Mts who still wore shorts and Tshirts in single degree weather. He grew up poor with no jumpers in merry old England, so was used tot he cold in short sleeves and pants.

My brain is a strange place. A friend is going for surgery today, and I knew she was going in on the 2nd of April, but it didn’t occur to me that the 2nd of April was today.

Then again my brain is full of preparation for the holiday next week.

kii said:

Currently experiencing a dust storm.

Grit.

Ugh.

I feel for you.

waves to Ms Angel,

I think it was yesterday that you pasted about a bicycle/tricycle thing with big wheels on both side that you saw in a movie. You’d never seen one before.

I knew I’d seen one before in a movie, and it took some thinkin’/rememberin’ as to where, and even longer to find a clip.

Twas in Hello Dolly (with Babs Streisand). In the song “Elegance”.

Clip here 2 mins

Woodie said:

waves to Ms Angel,

I think it was yesterday that you pasted about a bicycle/tricycle thing with big wheels on both side that you saw in a movie. You’d never seen one before.

I knew I’d seen one before in a movie, and it took some thinkin’/rememberin’ as to where, and even longer to find a clip.

Twas in Hello Dolly (with Babs Streisand). In the song “Elegance”.

Clip here 2 mins

You know, Hello Dolly is on my watchlist, I’ve not got around to it yet. The only Barbra movie I’ve seen is A Star is Born. It’s my favourite version of that film, although I quite liked Judy Garland’s one as well.

Divine Angel said:

Woodie said:

waves to Ms Angel,

I think it was yesterday that you pasted about a bicycle/tricycle thing with big wheels on both side that you saw in a movie. You’d never seen one before.

I knew I’d seen one before in a movie, and it took some thinkin’/rememberin’ as to where, and even longer to find a clip.

Twas in Hello Dolly (with Babs Streisand). In the song “Elegance”.

Clip here 2 mins

You know, Hello Dolly is on my watchlist, I’ve not got around to it yet. The only Barbra movie I’ve seen is A Star is Born. It’s my favourite version of that film, although I quite liked Judy Garland’s one as well.

Don’t think that link works. Seem to pick a different tiktok each time.

Try (drag and right clocik, go to” with https://www.tiktok.com/@musicalmememoments/video/7422611104611814686

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/01/woke-criticism-of-doctor-who-proves-show-on-right-track-says-its-newest-star

Link

Hello

Cymek said:

Hello

Greetings

Cymek said:

Hello

Hi, long time no see.

I am only here for a short while before I have to head off to work.

Had to do a sleep study last night, need to had the kit back at 9am, so I’m sitting around having coffee. Worst night’s sleep I’ve had a while. Hard to sleep with wires and sensors all over your face and a tube stuck up your nose.

Cymek said:

Hello

Yo

party_pants said:

Cymek said:

Hello

Hi, long time no see.

I am only here for a short while before I have to head off to work.

Had to do a sleep study last night, need to had the kit back at 9am, so I’m sitting around having coffee. Worst night’s sleep I’ve had a while. Hard to sleep with wires and sensors all over your face and a tube stuck up your nose.

I remember mine and hoping no leads came off

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

The announcement came off the back of concerns voiced by a group of parents from a Christian community who said the service did not align with their religious beliefs.

Since the message was made public, the school has been copping fierce backlash with many veterans slamming the decision.

However, it is understood the announcement was targeted to less than a dozen children who belong to the Christian community and all other students were expected to participate in the assembly.

The school had received requests from a small number of parents this year and last year for their children not to attend the Anzac Day commemoration assembly in line with their faith and personal beliefs.

Instead, those students will undertake supervised learning-related activities during the assembly.

It is understood the school has since acknowledged its message could have gone to specific families only.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

The announcement came off the back of concerns voiced by a group of parents from a Christian community who said the service did not align with their religious beliefs.

Since the message was made public, the school has been copping fierce backlash with many veterans slamming the decision.

However, it is understood the announcement was targeted to less than a dozen children who belong to the Christian community and all other students were expected to participate in the assembly.

The school had received requests from a small number of parents this year and last year for their children not to attend the Anzac Day commemoration assembly in line with their faith and personal beliefs.

Instead, those students will undertake supervised learning-related activities during the assembly.

It is understood the school has since acknowledged its message could have gone to specific families only.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Killing ?

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

The announcement came off the back of concerns voiced by a group of parents from a Christian community who said the service did not align with their religious beliefs.

Since the message was made public, the school has been copping fierce backlash with many veterans slamming the decision.

However, it is understood the announcement was targeted to less than a dozen children who belong to the Christian community and all other students were expected to participate in the assembly.

The school had received requests from a small number of parents this year and last year for their children not to attend the Anzac Day commemoration assembly in line with their faith and personal beliefs.

Instead, those students will undertake supervised learning-related activities during the assembly.

It is understood the school has since acknowledged its message could have gone to specific families only.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Sounds like it is how oddball Christian Beliefs conflict with Anzac Day.

Plenty of killing in the Bible.

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Killing ?

wait is it compulsory to take part in an ANZAC day service

Divine Angel said:

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

quakers?

Divine Angel said:

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Killing ?

Sounds like it is how oddball Christian Beliefs conflict with Anzac Day.

Plenty of killing in the Bible.

plenty of altruism type stuff as well but that doesn’t seem to convince Americans that it’s a good thing to do so shrug

Divine Angel said:

Plenty of killing in the Bible.

SCIENCE said:

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Killing ?

wait is it compulsory to take part in an ANZAC day service

Schools perhaps

Divine Angel said:

Plenty of killing in the Bible.

Yes, Samson killed a thousand Philistines with the arse bone of a Jew, I think.

I have zero connection to ANZAC day, in fact if you want to dig and be a dick about it, one could say that my heritage (half of it at least) is on the exact opposing side of everything ANZAC day stands for. So sitting through countless services in school is offensive to (at least) half of me.

however, I do reap the benefits for the effort the diggers put in.. so the other half of me didn’t mind sitting through a service that at least got me out of sitting in a classroom being bored to tears.

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

quakers?

They wouldn’t say anything.

Arts said:

I have zero connection to ANZAC day, in fact if you want to dig and be a dick about it, one could say that my heritage (half of it at least) is on the exact opposing side of everything ANZAC day stands for. So sitting through countless services in school is offensive to (at least) half of me.

however, I do reap the benefits for the effort the diggers put in.. so the other half of me didn’t mind sitting through a service that at least got me out of sitting in a classroom being bored to tears.

aha so we’re going to be offensive to diggers now too

wait

Arts said:

I have zero connection to ANZAC day, in fact if you want to dig and be a dick about it, one could say that my heritage (half of it at least) is on the exact opposing side of everything ANZAC day stands for. So sitting through countless services in school is offensive to (at least) half of me.

however, I do reap the benefits for the effort the diggers put in.. so the other half of me didn’t mind sitting through a service that at least got me out of sitting in a classroom being bored to tears.

Was for a lot of us.

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

quakers?

Hmm yeah, that could be it.

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

SCIENCE said:

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Killing ?

wait is it compulsory to take part in an ANZAC day service

There are curriculum links, like history etc. I’ve never thought about it being compulsory, it’s just something that happens and you attend.

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

how un fucking australian of them

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

We had assemblies, even in high school.

Mini Me’s school has an assembly, and kids who want to March in the local parade on Anzac morning do so. The marching part is not compulsory but kids get a voucher for a zooper dooper ice block from the tuck shop for attending.

SCIENCE said:

Arts said:

I have zero connection to ANZAC day, in fact if you want to dig and be a dick about it, one could say that my heritage (half of it at least) is on the exact opposing side of everything ANZAC day stands for. So sitting through countless services in school is offensive to (at least) half of me.

however, I do reap the benefits for the effort the diggers put in.. so the other half of me didn’t mind sitting through a service that at least got me out of sitting in a classroom being bored to tears.

aha so we’re going to be offensive to diggers now too

wait

when I was a first aid volunteer, i used to sit on the truck that held the last of the rats of tobruk as we paraded down st georges tce… those tough old bastards would not give a shit what 7 yr old me thought.

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

how un fucking australian of them

I don’t think anzac day was the big commercial show of patriotism in those olden days to what it is now.

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

The announcement came off the back of concerns voiced by a group of parents from a Christian community who said the service did not align with their religious beliefs.

Since the message was made public, the school has been copping fierce backlash with many veterans slamming the decision.

However, it is understood the announcement was targeted to less than a dozen children who belong to the Christian community and all other students were expected to participate in the assembly.

The school had received requests from a small number of parents this year and last year for their children not to attend the Anzac Day commemoration assembly in line with their faith and personal beliefs.

Instead, those students will undertake supervised learning-related activities during the assembly.

It is understood the school has since acknowledged its message could have gone to specific families only.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Some Christians with strongly pacifist beliefs see Anzac Day as a celebration of war.

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

how un fucking australian of them

I don’t think anzac day was the big commercial show of patriotism in those olden days to what it is now.

That’s what i don’t like about ANZAC Day. The ‘wrap-myself-in-the-flag’ shit, whether it’s to a great or a small extent.

Arts said:

SCIENCE said:

Arts said:

I have zero connection to ANZAC day, in fact if you want to dig and be a dick about it, one could say that my heritage (half of it at least) is on the exact opposing side of everything ANZAC day stands for. So sitting through countless services in school is offensive to (at least) half of me.

however, I do reap the benefits for the effort the diggers put in.. so the other half of me didn’t mind sitting through a service that at least got me out of sitting in a classroom being bored to tears.

aha so we’re going to be offensive to diggers now too

wait

when I was a first aid volunteer, i used to sit on the truck that held the last of the rats of tobruk as we paraded down st georges tce… those tough old bastards would not give a shit what 7 yr old me thought.

disclaimer we’ve never ourselves fought for Australia on the Mediterranean but yeah we do feel like this is a bit of culture war gaming yet again and suspect that if we were one of those soldiers we would have more important matters to consider

Anyway, I must off. Have a great day everyone.

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

We did Simpson and his donkey.

Arts said:

SCIENCE said:

Arts said:

I have zero connection to ANZAC day, in fact if you want to dig and be a dick about it, one could say that my heritage (half of it at least) is on the exact opposing side of everything ANZAC day stands for. So sitting through countless services in school is offensive to (at least) half of me.

however, I do reap the benefits for the effort the diggers put in.. so the other half of me didn’t mind sitting through a service that at least got me out of sitting in a classroom being bored to tears.

aha so we’re going to be offensive to diggers now too

wait

when I was a first aid volunteer, i used to sit on the truck that held the last of the rats of tobruk as we paraded down st georges tce… those tough old bastards would not give a shit what 7 yr old me thought.

oh and memory unlocked… the last year I participated in the ANZAC day ceremony and parade as a volunteer there was plenty of room for the women of the Land Army (I think that’s what they called themselves) they were also heroes and probably more responsible for the state of the country by then end.

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

how un fucking australian of them

I don’t think anzac day was the big commercial show of patriotism in those olden days to what it is now.

Yep, anzac day and school never mixed.

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

how un fucking australian of them

I don’t think anzac day was the big commercial show of patriotism in those olden days to what it is now.

oh yeah, I forgot how old you were… it’s tough to remember something that hasn’t happened yet

Woodie said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

We did Simpson and his donkey.

what episode was that?

captain_spalding said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

how un fucking australian of them

I don’t think anzac day was the big commercial show of patriotism in those olden days to what it is now.

That’s what i don’t like about ANZAC Day. The ‘wrap-myself-in-the-flag’ shit, whether it’s to a great or a small extent.

well we can still reclaim the name

maybe they could legislate that it’s a day for “commemoration not celebration and certainly not commercialisation” or is that unacceptable as well since wars are fought in the name of capitalism

ChrispenEvan said:

Woodie said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

We did Simpson and his donkey.

what episode was that?

FMD

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

how un fucking australian of them

I don’t think anzac day was the big commercial show of patriotism in those olden days to what it is now.

oh yeah, I forgot how old you were… it’s tough to remember something that hasn’t happened yet

I’m like an old wine, corked and like vinegar.

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

The announcement came off the back of concerns voiced by a group of parents from a Christian community who said the service did not align with their religious beliefs.

Since the message was made public, the school has been copping fierce backlash with many veterans slamming the decision.

However, it is understood the announcement was targeted to less than a dozen children who belong to the Christian community and all other students were expected to participate in the assembly.

The school had received requests from a small number of parents this year and last year for their children not to attend the Anzac Day commemoration assembly in line with their faith and personal beliefs.

Instead, those students will undertake supervised learning-related activities during the assembly.

It is understood the school has since acknowledged its message could have gone to specific families only.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Some Christians with strongly pacifist beliefs see Anzac Day as a celebration of war.

So they’re not off to the pub for some two-up then.

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

The NSW education department has spoken out after a school in Sydney’s northwest came under fire for its stance on student participation in Anzac Day services.

It was initially reported Sherwood Ridge Public School principal Jody Sullivan communicated to parents via a school community app last week that children who did not want to take part in the Anzac Day service would not have to.

The announcement came off the back of concerns voiced by a group of parents from a Christian community who said the service did not align with their religious beliefs.

Since the message was made public, the school has been copping fierce backlash with many veterans slamming the decision.

However, it is understood the announcement was targeted to less than a dozen children who belong to the Christian community and all other students were expected to participate in the assembly.

The school had received requests from a small number of parents this year and last year for their children not to attend the Anzac Day commemoration assembly in line with their faith and personal beliefs.

Instead, those students will undertake supervised learning-related activities during the assembly.

It is understood the school has since acknowledged its message could have gone to specific families only.

NSW Department of Education Secretary Murat Dizdar said he expected all schools to commemorate Anzac Day each year.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw-education-department-responds-to-backlash-over-sherwood-ridge-public-school-anzac-day-stance—c-18236066

***

I want to know more about how Anzac Day conflicts with Christian beliefs.

Some Christians with strongly pacifist beliefs see Anzac Day as a celebration of war.

So they’re not off to the pub for some two-up then.

is it maybe a question of religious denomination?

OK pay that pun

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

kii said:

Currently experiencing a dust storm.

I need to mow down some bracken at our covenanted bush block, but that would involve producing a dust storm. So I’ll wait for the rain gods to remember we exist…they’ve been very slack for 18 months now.

Arts said:

SCIENCE said:

Arts said:

I have zero connection to ANZAC day, in fact if you want to dig and be a dick about it, one could say that my heritage (half of it at least) is on the exact opposing side of everything ANZAC day stands for. So sitting through countless services in school is offensive to (at least) half of me.

however, I do reap the benefits for the effort the diggers put in.. so the other half of me didn’t mind sitting through a service that at least got me out of sitting in a classroom being bored to tears.

aha so we’re going to be offensive to diggers now too

wait

when I was a first aid volunteer, i used to sit on the truck that held the last of the rats of tobruk as we paraded down st georges tce… those tough old bastards would not give a shit what 7 yr old me thought.

Just the fact that you attended was all that mattered to them. My father was at Tobruk those 10 months.

Cymek said:

party_pants said:

Cymek said:

Hello

Hi, long time no see.

I am only here for a short while before I have to head off to work.

Had to do a sleep study last night, need to had the kit back at 9am, so I’m sitting around having coffee. Worst night’s sleep I’ve had a while. Hard to sleep with wires and sensors all over your face and a tube stuck up your nose.

I remember mine and hoping no leads came off

So it’s not really representative of your normal sleeping pattern then, is it.

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

Looks to me like it may be a Chlorophyllum species.

CSIRO classify it as toxic.

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

Turn them over. See what colour they are underneath. Turn an older one over and check what colour it ages to. These look like shaggy parasols. They may not be but shaggy parasols kill more north Americans than any other mushroom.

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

I’m not buffy, but they look an awful lot like Agaricus campestris, the (edible — although it could be argued that any mushroom is edible, some just once) field mushroom. They look relatively young, so the gills would be pink to reddish-brown.

btm said:

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

I’m not buffy, but they look an awful lot like Agaricus campestris, the (edible — although it could be argued that any mushroom is edible, some just once) field mushroom. They look relatively young, so the gills would be pink to reddish-brown.

I see mushrooms in lawns myself
I did wonder if they grew from spores in mushroom compost put on lawns

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

Looks to me like it may be a Chlorophyllum species.

CSIRO classify it as toxic.

That is exactly what I was talking about.

ChrispenEvan said:

Arts said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had any anzac day stuff at any school i went to in australia.

how un fucking australian of them

I don’t think anzac day was the big commercial show of patriotism in those olden days to what it is now.

I think I remember having an hour of radio broadcast into the classroom in primary school. At high school I don’t think there was a service because Anzac Day is not a school day.

Cymek said:

btm said:

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

I’m not buffy, but they look an awful lot like Agaricus campestris, the (edible — although it could be argued that any mushroom is edible, some just once) field mushroom. They look relatively young, so the gills would be pink to reddish-brown.

I see mushrooms in lawns myself
I did wonder if they grew from spores in mushroom compost put on lawns

They growfrom spores yes but the mushrooms are usually picked before they drop spores in the spent mushroom compost.

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

btm said:

I’m not buffy, but they look an awful lot like Agaricus campestris, the (edible — although it could be argued that any mushroom is edible, some just once) field mushroom. They look relatively young, so the gills would be pink to reddish-brown.

I see mushrooms in lawns myself
I did wonder if they grew from spores in mushroom compost put on lawns

They grow from spores yes but the mushrooms are usually picked before they drop spores in the spent mushroom compost.

However, spent mushroom compost still has some live bits of mycelium in it which may regrow if fed properly.

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

Possibly Lepiota helveola group (don’t eat them), because it’s growing in grass in an urban area. If it was in the bush probably Macrolepiota clelandii. For fungus ID you really need top, underneath (gills or pores or spines and colour) and a side photo to see if there is a ring on the stem.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

I see mushrooms in lawns myself
I did wonder if they grew from spores in mushroom compost put on lawns

They grow from spores yes but the mushrooms are usually picked before they drop spores in the spent mushroom compost.

However, spent mushroom compost still has some live bits of mycelium in it which may regrow if fed properly.

Yep.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

I see mushrooms in lawns myself
I did wonder if they grew from spores in mushroom compost put on lawns

They grow from spores yes but the mushrooms are usually picked before they drop spores in the spent mushroom compost.

However, spent mushroom compost still has some live bits of mycelium in it which may regrow if fed properly.

That was what I was wondering.
You wouldn’t eat them unless quite sure they weren’t poisonous

Cymek said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

They grow from spores yes but the mushrooms are usually picked before they drop spores in the spent mushroom compost.

However, spent mushroom compost still has some live bits of mycelium in it which may regrow if fed properly.

That was what I was wondering.
You wouldn’t eat them unless quite sure they weren’t poisonous

You can eat them once. Which is why you should know what it is before eating it.

Furthermore, young shaggy parasols look identical to the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites (the mushroom that causes the most poisonings in North America yearly). Checking the spore print is essential as C. molybdites’ print is green (older specimens have slightly green gills). As a result, this mushroom is not recommended for inexperienced hunters.

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

Michael V said:

However, spent mushroom compost still has some live bits of mycelium in it which may regrow if fed properly.

That was what I was wondering.
You wouldn’t eat them unless quite sure they weren’t poisonous

You can eat them once. Which is why you should know what it is before eating it.

Furthermore, young shaggy parasols look identical to the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites (the mushroom that causes the most poisonings in North America yearly). Checking the spore print is essential as C. molybdites’ print is green (older specimens have slightly green gills). As a result, this mushroom is not recommended for inexperienced hunters.

Whereas Chlorophyllum brunneum is known as shaggy parasol;
The shaggy parasol is popularly praised as a choice edible mushroom. However it contains toxins which can cause gastric upsets when eaten raw or undercooked, and some individuals show a strong allergic response even after cooking.

buffy said:

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

Possibly Lepiota helveola group (don’t eat them), because it’s growing in grass in an urban area. If it was in the bush probably Macrolepiota clelandii. For fungus ID you really need top, underneath (gills or pores or spines and colour) and a side photo to see if there is a ring on the stem.

Chlorophyllum tend to look more shaggy than DA’s ones. Here is an observation at research grade from a well informed fungus person.

Link

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

That was what I was wondering.
You wouldn’t eat them unless quite sure they weren’t poisonous

You can eat them once. Which is why you should know what it is before eating it.

Furthermore, young shaggy parasols look identical to the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites (the mushroom that causes the most poisonings in North America yearly). Checking the spore print is essential as C. molybdites’ print is green (older specimens have slightly green gills). As a result, this mushroom is not recommended for inexperienced hunters.

Whereas Chlorophyllum brunneum is known as shaggy parasol;
The shaggy parasol is popularly praised as a choice edible mushroom. However it contains toxins which can cause gastric upsets when eaten raw or undercooked, and some individuals show a strong allergic response even after cooking.

and has brownish gills as it ages and a white spore print

buffy said:

buffy said:

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

Possibly Lepiota helveola group (don’t eat them), because it’s growing in grass in an urban area. If it was in the bush probably Macrolepiota clelandii. For fungus ID you really need top, underneath (gills or pores or spines and colour) and a side photo to see if there is a ring on the stem.

Chlorophyllum tend to look more shaggy than DA’s ones. Here is an observation at research grade from a well informed fungus person.

Link

I’m happy to be corrected. thanks.

There’s hundreds of them around after rain.

Divine Angel said:

There’s hundreds of them around after rain.

Yes. Which is the best time to look and photograph and research. Because they aren’t there when it doesn’t rain.

Watching another early Val Kilmer film, Real Genius. Currently streaming on SBS.

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

captain_spalding said:

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

what if your daughter in law cooked a nice beef wellington just for you

captain_spalding said:

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

SCIENCE said:

captain_spalding said:

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

what if your daughter in law cooked a nice beef wellington just for you

Then, after she went to all that effort, she surely deserves to have a generous first serving of it.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

well we need a good strong leader to send them right back to where they didn’t come from but has a nice cosy work camp ready for them

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

‘…a lot of those…’

I note that you did not say ‘…none of those can be found on our island…’.

So, i consider the wisdom of ‘ don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places’ to be validated.

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

well we need a good strong leader to send them right back to where they didn’t come from but has a nice cosy work camp ready for them

Ha. I’d love to see how he plans to rake them up off the forest floor.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

So, as i understand it, most mushrooms that you find in the wild will not harm you.

But, those that will harm you will mess your shit right up, big-time, horribly, and permanently.

The take-away from this is: don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places.

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

‘…a lot of those…’

I note that you did not say ‘…none of those can be found on our island…’.

So, i consider the wisdom of ‘ don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places’ to be validated.

But but, it doesn’t match with what you said about in the wild.

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

well we need a good strong leader to send them right back to where they didn’t come from but has a nice cosy work camp ready for them

Ha. I’d love to see how he plans to rake them up off the forest floor.

Pass some laws to permit small children to be conscripted for the work.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

‘…a lot of those…’

I note that you did not say ‘…none of those can be found on our island…’.

So, i consider the wisdom of ‘ don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places’ to be validated.

But but, it doesn’t match with what you said about in the wild.

;)

The simple answer is nly eat the mushrooms you know. There are quite a few mushrooms that we do know are edible of the Australian natives and indeed of the imports.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

well we need a good strong leader to send them right back to where they didn’t come from but has a nice cosy work camp ready for them

Ha. I’d love to see how he plans to rake them up off the forest floor.

Pass some laws to permit small children to be conscripted for the work.

That’d be easy enough after you’ve tossed out all the Fifo workers.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Not quite sure what you mean by all of that.
Many mushrooms may not be harmful but we simply don’t know.
There are quite a few that we do know are harmful and a lot of those are not actually native to our island.

‘…a lot of those…’

I note that you did not say ‘…none of those can be found on our island…’.

So, i consider the wisdom of ‘ don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places’ to be validated.

But but, it doesn’t match with what you said about in the wild.

See, my level of understanding of the subject (indeed, of what i’m saying about it!) is clearly insufficient.

Note to self: avoid fungi, say nothing about it.

If anyone is interested, there is a very good book called “Wild Mushrooming. A Guide for Foragers”. Written by a couple of the top fungi people in Australia. Easy to read, but quite scientific in places. Up to date. Which means it says, quite often, “we just don’t know” or words to that effect. Recommend highly.

https://shop.fungimap.org.au/product/wild-mushrooming/

Now, I’m going to go and read some more of the Skeptic magazine, watch the first Amy Pond episode of Dr Who and then go to archery.

buffy said:

Now, I’m going to go and read some more of the Skeptic magazine, watch the first Amy Pond episode of Dr Who and then go to archery.

What’s it like, actually having a life?

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

‘…a lot of those…’

I note that you did not say ‘…none of those can be found on our island…’.

So, i consider the wisdom of ‘ don’t eat fungus you find growing in random places’ to be validated.

But but, it doesn’t match with what you said about in the wild.

See, my level of understanding of the subject (indeed, of what i’m saying about it!) is clearly insufficient.

Note to self: avoid fungi, say nothing about it.

Unless you are offering your daughter in law the first serve? ;)

tbh just like we aren’t about to wrestle a feral cattle for our juicy delicious steak tonight, we’re quite happy to leave our fungus supply to the expert farmers

SCIENCE said:

tbh just like we aren’t about to wrestle a feral cattle for our juicy delicious steak tonight, we’re quite happy to leave our fungus supply to the expert farmers

or you can grow them yourself.

buffy said:

buffy said:

Divine Angel said:

Anyway I took a pic of the mushrooms on my walk this morning, for buffy’s perusal. These were right outside the school.

Possibly Lepiota helveola group (don’t eat them), because it’s growing in grass in an urban area. If it was in the bush probably Macrolepiota clelandii. For fungus ID you really need top, underneath (gills or pores or spines and colour) and a side photo to see if there is a ring on the stem.

Chlorophyllum tend to look more shaggy than DA’s ones. Here is an observation at research grade from a well informed fungus person.

Link

Thank you.

There’s a fairy ring come up diagonally across the road last night. I should go have a look.