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  A series of polls about line drawings of countries' maps. Reply if you'd like a poll for your country. Mute #DisjointMap if you don't care.

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  Oh, one more now. Consider a line drawing of a map of The Philippines, no internal borders. To draw this you might have to pick up your pen and draw another segment that doesn't touch the first one. What is the simplest line drawing map of The Philippines that you consider acceptable? #DisjointMap

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  Consider a line drawing of a map of The Netherlands, no internal borders. To draw this you might have to pick up your pen and draw another segment that doesn't touch the first one. What is the simplest line drawing map of The Netherlands that you consider acceptable? #DisjointMap

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  Throwback to when the brain cell was young. #cats #dogs

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  Oscar is among the catnip (not a euphemism). #cats #garden

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  Australians who have hybrid office/WFH arrangements: How do you do telephony? Work-issued mobile? Work-issued computer with soft phone app? BYOD with a work app? BYOD with your personal number? Don’t do voice telephony? Boosts OK.

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  Futzle: The Songbook — Big Boat Stuck (2025) #music #SheetMusic #ukulele

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  Old Mermaid Town is four today. 🎂

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  Do you have the jingle from the TV ad for The Swagman Restaurant in Ferntree Gully in your head now?

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  Another Melbourne advertisement earworm

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  Pick a Part, still going strong! https://youtu.be/PsJovp3X5VQ

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  I would love Fedivens in other cities and towns in Australia to please share their local TV ads from decades past; things I would never have seen in Melbourne.

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  If LLMs had come for the semicolon instead of the dash, no one would be complaining.

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  I know we’ve got a shitton of corporations naming themselves after the dystopian things in Lord of the Rings, but has anyone cut right to the chase and called their product “Omelas” yet?

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  Sheet Music Fedi, what’s a good compact, unambiguous, standard way of notating a song with a structure like this? Three verses, three choruses, but the pre-chorus is skipped between verse 2 and chorus 2. My measure of “good compact” is the least amount of duplication. My measure of “standard” is that it uses notation that a music reader will have encountered. Please assume I know about D.S. al Coda and so on.

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  Australian time zones as an alignment chart. Lawful good: Western Australia, UTC+8:00 Neutral good: Northern Territory, UTC+9:30 Chaotic good: Norfolk Island, UTC+11:00/UTC+12:00 Lawful neutral: Queensland, UTC+10:00 True neutral: Southeast states, UTC+10:00/UTC+11:00 Chaotic neutral: South Australia, UTC+9:30/UTC+10:30 Lawful evil: Davis Base, UTC+7:00 Neutral evil: Eucla, UTC+8:45 Chaotic evil: Lord Howe Island, UTC+10:30/UTC+11:00

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  Daylight saving time works by shaming your work ethic into getting up because the clock says 6:something instead of 5:something, thereby making you start your day sooner. A couple of years of always-on DST will blunt that pretty quickly and nullify any benefit.

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  Oh that’s not good.

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  Preposterous

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  I don't remember participating in the original survey exploring the familiarity of Jewish English terms among Australian and American Jewish and non-Jewish people, but I was informed that the paper based on the survey has been published, and it's highly illuminating for a linguistics nut like me. Generally, Australian non-Jews are less likely to be familiar with Jewish English terms (chutzpah, shlep, kvetch, menorah) than their American counterparts, with the exception of a small set o...

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  Falsehoods ADHDers believe about tasks • I’ll remember to do the task today • I’ll remember to do the task • I’ll remember that the task exists

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  What’s the most pages of a book you’ve disliked but continued to read, slogging through, before you either finished the book or stopped reading it?

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  Always a joy* to see which important foreign keys the creator of this database figured didn't need to be indexed. Query that should take seconds is timing out after ten minutes because I had the temerity to join two tables.

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  New rule: A machine shall not refer to itself in the first person. shit.

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  You are at pedestrian crossing lights away from an intersection with sporadic clumpy traffic.

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  LET IT BE KNOWN THIS SIGN HAS SHOWN: NO PARKING ZOWN CARS WILL BE TOWN

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  Sometimes I feel like my generation is the last to correctly know how to alphabetize a list of names.

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  All you people suddenly advocating for the abolition of copyright because it’s being inconsistently enforced, without offering an alternative for creatives to not be ripped off, have evidently never created anything.

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  If you missed my musical concert last week at #NHAMfest26, or if you’d like to catch it again, you can stream it on my spanking new hyper8 site: https://video.futzle.com/concerts/live-in-absentia/ #SingerSongwriter #IndieMusic #piano #guitar #ukulele #clank #TextsWithVoid #BigBoatStuckSong

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  I didn’t have “find a password manager that isn’t funding fascism” on my plate today, fucking thanks for the unnecessary extra labour, @1password@1password.social