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  I've known China is big, and modern, for a long time. But yesterday I really got a feel for just how big, the true scale of things, via the latest Saintcavish video on Youtube. Christopher visits Chongqing to look at its Hotpot Industrial Complex. It's something that just has to be seen to comprehend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_vDjouiCrk #SaintCavish #China #Chongqing #Hotpot

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  I have completed my finger strength exercises for today, by which I mean that I have squeezed as much Maesri green curry paste as I can from its 400g bag into the wee plastic tub it comes in. Another bag awaits, for the Maesri kaeng par curry paste. That can wait until tomorrow. #Maesri

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  TIL that a Turkish developer built 732 faux fairytale castles near hot springs in the Black Sea region of Türkiye, but the development sits uncompleted and abandoned. Weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Al_Babas #WeirdEstate

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  "I'm too special to use a content warning. Blah blah blah." OK. Fuck you. Blocked. /subtoot

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  @MarkAsser@beige.party Oh Lordy.

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  "Interest Rates Rise in Australia Because Some Fuckwit in America Wasn’t Hugged Enough as a Child" – @theshovel https://theshovel.com.au/2026/05/06/interest-rates-rise-in-australia-because-donald-trump/ #TheShovel #Trump #USPol #AusPol

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  I finally cracked and bought some soba (buckwheat noodles). I haven't had them in a couple of decades, but hadn't bought any because they don't come in small bundles (~40g) and DW is gluten free and soba are not* GF. But bugger it, I'm a big boy, I can split a 90g bundle. Used them in today's lunch noodle soup, very nice. Happy to have them in the mix again. * back in the noughties, New Yen Yen (Chinese grocer) in Chinatown, Sydney had some Korean buckwheat noodles that wer...

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  @wrmsr Flex-09 or OS-9? Nice!

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  Somebody on this place shared a link to an absolutely awesome Youtube about birders, and we've just finished watching it over the course of a few days. Highly recommended for anyone, birder or not. It's called Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching. It's hilarious. It's full of great bird shots across the USA. It's an epic story of two brothers and their journey. It's somewhere between a Christopher Guest mockumentary, Chris Langham&#3...

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  @nihilistnomya seal of approval!

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  Last week we finished watching Frauds on ABC. Hectic and very funny. A wicked nest of vipers working together, mostly, for a big heist. Fantastic talent in Suranne Jones and Jodie Whittaker, with great supporting actors. Strong recommend. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/frauds https://trakt.tv/shows/frauds https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35624850/ #iView #TV

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  Ridiculously cute wagon spotted in Newcastle AU today. It appears to have a Subaru logo on it. Short, compact, capable. #WeirdCars

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  I don't like where this seems to be going…

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  After lunch we had a walk around the ocean baths at Newcastle NSW. Here's a bunch of sooty oystercatchers settling in for the night on the rocks just past the baths. Just after this, with the sun dipping, we saw dolphins working the waters around the baths. At least four, likely five or more. Always a wee thrill! #NewcastleAU #NewcastleNSW #BirdsOfOz

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  @backupbear and now I am reminded of Andy the robot from Quark (1977). Andy: mank you. Mudd: thank you! Andy: you're melcome.

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  @dantheclamman thank you, good article. I first encountered mixotrophy in a Scientific American article a few years back, and had no idea given the simplistic split told to us in high school.

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  @caity @troberts totally agree. One of my favourites had two tracks (admittedly a short album). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Coast_Jazz

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  RE: https://lingo.lol/@stronglang/116311543899053274 This is marvellous, a forensic breakdown of some gendered strong language. "Slut was undergoing the same process of pejoration as bitch, a fate shared by many words for women, including ‘mistress’, ‘dame’, ‘wench’, ‘tart’ (originally an abbreviation of ‘sweetheart’) and ‘hussy’, which once simply meant ‘housewife’."

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  The Shovel: "Dickhead With Ute Taller Than Himself Not So Fucking Smug About It Now". https://theshovel.com.au/2026/03/18/dickhead-with-ute-taller-than-himself-not-so-smug-about-it-now/ #TheShovel