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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Careful with the idea that you’re a young country with limited history. Your indigenous peoples may view the matter (rightfully) quite differently.

    In Australia we actually changed the lyrics to our national anthem a few years back. It did say “…we are young and free”. Which is a bit of a ‘fuck you’ to the people who have lived on and cared for the land for upwards of 50,000 years. So it’s now “we are one and free”.

    I’m not chastising you, just prompting you to think about things differently.






  • So see your last reference.

    Over 20 years I’ve worked in the federal and local governments, for academia adjacent organisations, NGOs and commercial companies, retail and hospitality, health services - as both a hopeful candidate and a hiring manager.

    Different industries require different things and the distinction between the 2 is relevant. It’s the white collar roles that expect CVs or will actually make that distinction in the job advertisement. In retail etc they might ask for your cv but they mean a resume. More commercial companies I’ve worked with just want a resume and they mean a resume. If I submitted a resume for one of my most recent gigs, they’d say that’s not enough and ask me for my long form cv.

    There is a distinction, it just depends on the industry.







  • It’s not the same thing but the comparative lameness of it is kinda the point. I have a home office, carpeted. I bought a desk that can be used to stand because I sit way too much and it gives me back problems.

    My feet started to really hurt because I was standing so much. In comfortable shoes (corrective ones that I need), on carpet.

    I bought a ‘fatigue mat’ and now I stand all day without noticing any pain. Just about an inch of rubbery foam stuff has made a huge difference.

    So I can imagine that someone working far longer shifts than I do, on likely cement floors would massively benefit from matting.



  • I remember when the ability to make AI images based on prompts first became available to the masses. I had tonnes of fun making cool images. Now it feels like those sidewalk vendors with the spray paint galaxy images they do.

    They’ve lost whatever it was that made them look special. And now the more absurd and glowing an image is, I don’t marvel at its other worldly nature or the imagination behind its creator. The ‘prettier’ the image is, the more likely it is AI. They all look the same.

    It’s so refreshing to see real drawings and photography and paintings, done by hand.







  • I’m torn between curating what I subscribe to here to eliminate overly negative things, with wanting to stay in the know specific industry topics and about important world events.

    Unfortunately most of the important world events are negative. And my industry is a disgusting race to the bottom of the consumer exploitation barrel.

    So on some days I just try to not open specific types of posts if I know it’s just going to get me down. I stick to memes and comics on those days