RE: https://aus.social/@drunkenmadman/117070494262404022

Still fucking furious about this btw. But being home is a nice distraction

The fuck??
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/harry-potter-fans-force-relocation-of-430m-undersea-cable-to-avoid-dobbys-grave?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Reading between the lines I’d guess the owner is offshore and not legally reachable?

I’d suggest a minor reform if that’s the case.

You should not be able to buy property in Australia unless your country of residence has an appropriate legal treaty or extradition arrangements that can be employed.

Speaking as someone who owns property in the UK and Australia… I am absolutely fine with this. Seize my property if I hide from legal consequences.

Ok so the gardener has got a beating from the legal system.

What about the owner that organised this?

Were I in charge, there’d be a potential jail term here. Environmental destruction for the sake of some rich arsehole’s “water view” is abhorrent.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/09/trees-vandalism-lane-cove-council-sydney-gardener-fined-court-longueville-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ugh. Think I’m coming down with something. Not great timing given I’m in Melbourne at my old place without proper heating or anything.

Finally I get to mark the fucking thing as sold.

Guaranteed someone will message me about it at like 9pm though.

Jesus fucking H tittyfucking Christ

Fully cracked the shits

Have I mentioned how much I hate Facebook Marketplace?

Everything human relies on other humans though. Zero trust is a myth.

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@arclight/117054975143001537

I mean… I can’t argue with this. But by extension using apt/brew/choco is also a disaster in waiting…

This last year or two has been supply chain attacks all over.

Hunger: more hung

#uxbridgeenglishdictionary

To add depth… what IS home?

I still consider myself a Londoner. So many discussions I had while there affirmed “once you’ve lived in London, you’re a Londoner forever”.

But after leaving Sydney for the first time in 2017 I stopped being a Sydneysider. That might have contributed to my late 2019 “fuck it I’m going back to Victoria” thing.

I’m always going to be Welsh, always going to be a Londoner. Will I always be a Melburnian and a Sydneysider? I’m not sure.

Home is where your NBN router is.

Therefore I am a Sydneysider again.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/117025104544254982

Apparently I have 35 repos in this fucking dataset.

None of them are groundbreaking or special but tbh I’d prefer it if some capitalist behemoth hadn’t just gone and cloned them all.

When I first started the process of moving back to Sydney, I was genuinely worried my apartment would be too small. I'd never actually lived here full time so I didn't have a feel for it in my bones

Now I'm sitting here at the kitchen counter full of confidence that it'll be fine.

Also, no gas fumes.

Super ADHD friendly thing about moving back to my Sydney apartment? Induction cooktop.

Stupidly easy to keep clean. Can’t leave it on with no pan there (it just shuts off or bleeps). Doesn’t need a spark to light so I don’t have to go hunting a lighter because the sparker is fucked.

I’ve seen people whinge about them being too weak but with a good pan they are monsters. I did brekkie this morning and it was better than the gas stove in my Melbourne place, by far.

Considering Melbourne’s reputation for public transport, that’s quite damning.

But the suburb I landed in just happens to be horribly carbrained and right at the far end of the tram network.

My Sydney place is much better set up.

Heading to Marrickville for (potentially) an open mic night or maybe just a beer and a snack.

I am instantly more comfortable being back in Sydney. In Melbourne I’d have considered this a whole fucking expedition, rather than just casually hopping on transport with basically no set plan…