Notices by Joshua Byrd (phocks@bne.social)

The Shovel continuing to be top tier.

"All of these hand-outs for families, and students and renters. Well what about the people who don't have a HECS debt? What about the people who don't have a mortgage? Who don't have to pay rent? Where's the handout for them?

"You wouldn't believe how hard it is right now. Try getting a builder to renovate a holiday house in Portsea - they're booked up until 2026! That's two years minimum without a second entertaining area over the summer months."

'did not seek to determine whether the prices or margins of Coles, Woolworths, Aldi or Metcash were "excessive"'

"very difficult to get to the bottom of that"

"part of the reason is the complexity"

Literally what is even the point of having the ACCC when they just come back with this weak ass report putting the very thing they were supposed to investigate in the "too hard" basket?

Oh it's "very difficult" to say whether they're price gouging is it? Oh is that too hard for you mate?

Here let me help out. Yes, they're price gouging. Plain as day. Not hard at all.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/accc-supermarkets-inquiry-key-takeaways-coles-woolworths-aldi/105079916

Some nice light rain

Waiting it out. Taking some time with the last truly great music format. 💽

It's good to be back online here! Power is still out at our house in Everton Park but the server is back at Ash's and will hopefully hold out for now. In case of any future outages I'm elsewhere in the federated universe on @phocks@mastodon.social @phocks@threads.net @phocks.bsky.social etc if you wanna follow. Stay safe out there mates ✨

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3 times in a row they've been playing Wonderwall at the shops when I've come down to get groceries. Is it a sign? I said maybe...

45 minute commute down from 55 mins. Not bad

I think we might actually possibly finish the flooring today!!!! (upstairs at least 😅)

One thing I've come to realise over the past few weeks is that "it's hard to lay straight flooring when all the walls are crooked" and that might be a useful metaphor for various other situations in life too

Ate too much mashed potato and now I'm feelin starchy

There's a Tesla parked in our townhouse complex visitor parking but all the Tesla logos have been taken off haha wishful thinking no one will realise you're driving a nazi car there mate lol

News orgs you know you don't necessary need to repeat and amplify every stupid thing that he says right?

OK we are flooring again. Lord help us.

I just wanna know ... who is buying their luggage ... at the airport???

Buying a belt sander

One feature Mastodon does better than virtually every other platform is the edit button. It's free, has unlimited edits, is not time limited, has edit history, edit notifications, real-time updates, and is generally just awesome. As someone who does a LOT of typos, and constantly forgets alt text etc, I am eternally grateful to the Mastodon Devs for such a flawless implementation.

I need to read this again. An absolute classic.

Regardless of what happens in 2025 I still think it's pretty darn cool that we can do social media free from corporate control if we want to. It feels like this is the way the web was meant to be this whole time. Who's with me?

It doesn't happen so much since being off Twitter but occasionally someone on here will still ask me for tips, advice, or information about going vegan, for the animals, or their health, or the environmnt, and it actually really makes my day every time. Anyway if you've ever thought about the possibility of trying to reduce your animal product intake, then right now is actually the perfect time to sign up for Veganuary, to challenge yourself for a month, and stay motivated with a new year's resolution. Otherwise, if this year's not the year for you, why not tell a friend. Thanks 🙏 https://veganuary.com