Evening, Toots. Well, where have I been? Deep in overwhelmed land, that’s where. Today I managed to play some #WordFeud (scrabble online), which was lovely; got some washing through, & mostly dry on the line. I’ve been to 5 & a half hours of very much needed Art Therapy this week; had an hour with my mental health coach; & forgot it was the monthly community BBQ day at the mental health place, so got caught in spending too much energy socialising & promoting how wonderful the programs there are to other organisations.

Also had a half hour online meeting with my new mental health nurse, which did not go well, (technical difficulties and not really feeling the connection, but we’ll see).

And finally replaced my 20 year old doona, & following the recommendation of @LifeTimeCooking, I bought an all season, zip together, wool quilt set - (on sale!), new quilt cover set, & new pillow - which all came to less than the original price of the quilt. Just in time for the freezing weather!

The dilemma is I wanna ride my new bike but I also have this rental cargo electric bike for another few weeks so I feel like I should use that one while I'm paying for it and keep my new one fresh with less wear and tear lol

weekend time! this week was brutal and gave me plenty of reasons to ijbol

Yet another example of unaccountability from #Meta locking people out of their accounts https://archive.is/TVjgZ (paywall removed).

Massive security fail if you ask me. Security is C-I-A (confidentiality, integrity and access) and Meta consistently fails on the third point.

#facebook #instagram

@debritz You linked to a story about David Jones’s reward program today: I can’t help but think that the research on this is a little lacking.

Tonight landmarks around the city will be lit maroon for Queensland Day

I asked readers which wordular-grammaticalisms they would ban … people literally lost their minds! | First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jun/06/i-asked-readers-which-wordular-grammaticalisms-they-would-ban-people-literally-lost-their-minds

@cubicgarden Interesting bit on Techgrumps regarding "self-hosting". While you were talking about your own hardware, @wendyg was talking about self-hosting her own stuff with a provider. Both equally valid, of course.

My blog is "self-hosted" but also it isn't: it is self-hosted because I'm not using Medium or Blogger or whoever; but it's not self-hosted because it's using flat-file Amazon S3 with a CDN in front of it. My Bitcoin node is actually self-hosted (using Umbrel on a Pi in my house), which offers much the same apps as @yunohost which you mentioned.

I don't know what the words are for "self-hosted but not on my metal" vs "self-hosted on my own hardware"; I'm nervous about self-hosting on my own metal for things that require constant security updates; and I think there are interesting reasons to do both.

(I'd also question your assertion that "it is getting more popular now". Citation needed!)

not a whole $10!!!!!
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Gold Coast residents slugged one-off $10 payment in rates for cyclone clean-up - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/gold-coast-council-hands-down-budget-rates-disaster-recovery/105383820

Mangrove Honeyeater, Poverty Point, Cooloola

Worried about the tax on $3m plus super balances? Here’s how you’ll survive | Tax | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/06/worried-about-the-tax-on-3m-plus-super-balances-heres-how-youll-survive

Getting ready to trade in our car and realised the media system is probably not a selling point. What happened to these services?

this very large Forest Red Gum (E. tereticornis) in the #SevenHillsBushlandReserve toppled over in wild and wet weather last year. a council arborist cut the trunk (it was horizontal) and then skilfully levered the stock back into its cavity. now, months later, it has sprouted new growth. our bushcare group thought we'd lost this magnificent tree but were gratified to see it live on.
#Brisbane #Australia #BushRehabilitation

One of the boys here for breakfast.
Mum was off in the distance but didn’t appear for pellets.

#MacropodsOfMastodon
#Mammals
#Marsupials

Trying to find a nice email client for Mac OS. So far, chanced upon Edison Mail, which looked nice until, digging about, I realise the company harvests email and sells it ("anonymously", of course). Yikes.

Just found Mailspring, which looks half decent. I'd use Apple Mail, but it has an odd bug in it that won't always let me delete emails...

Well at least we're not talking about mushrooms any more.

I knew there was a reason why I hated these damn things :(
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Trauma surgeon describes daily e-scooter toll as crash victim's friend says death avoidable - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/e-scooter-injury-toll-enormous-perth-hospital-trauma-chief-says/105383108

this is not good :(
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Māori Party MPs receive record bans from NZ parliament over haka protest - ABC News

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-06/nz-parliament-haka-suspensions-maori-party-treaty-bill/105383804

Tuned into "The New 4BC" after a gap of about six months to see if I was missing anything. The whiny old Ray-Hadley-wannabe on the air (Bill Macdonald, apparently) was telling us that "of course" electricity from renewables needs all the transmission lines replacing. In his head, presumably he thinks it works differently than his precious electricity generated by coal. He then twice told us how brilliant the new LNP government was, and whined how Labor should just "cool their jets" and stop criticising it until the new government has sorted out their plans to fix all the issues Labor left them (as a reminder, the election was October last year). Anyway, that's that distasteful job done for another six months. Utter clowns.

#auspol #radio

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp92pr5pr48o