Today I learned competitive stinging nettle eating is a thing https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/world-nettle-eating-championships
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 12:40:55 JST Joanna Holman
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 07:26:57 JST Joanna Holman
So weird hearing people still using the phrase “avoid it like the plague” when we’ve conclusively established most people aren’t that committed to avoiding plagues
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 12:46:16 JST Joanna Holman
@adhdeanasl @liztai I very much agree, although unfortunately the same attitude seems to have taken over most social platforms
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 22:11:32 JST Joanna Holman
All the problems with and drama around AI content are extra rediculous when you consider how little most people need more content. My house contains enough books to last a decade or two and I’m not even managing to keep up with all the episodes of podcasts made just by people I know offline. Why would we toy with things that drown us in even more content?
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 07:25:11 JST Joanna Holman
@liztai And also Mastodon is not the haven for everyone people often act like it is. The culture here around discussion of things like religion can be weird and a bit hostile at times so I'm not surprised people who want to talk about those things have stayed on Twitter or gone to other commercial alternatives.
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 19:31:33 JST Joanna Holman
Today I learned the largest technically possible PDF file is 381 km × 381 km which is this big
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:29:21 JST Joanna Holman
At a wildlife park that has cassowary encounters as an upgrade option. This seems inadvisable. I’ll pass, I do not wish to encounter the last survivor of the dinosaurs
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:29:20 JST Joanna Holman
There is a story behind every warning sign
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:29:19 JST Joanna Holman
Today I learned humans may have domesticated cassowaries thousands of years before domesticating chickens which is the ultimate in starting on hard mode https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/27/world/early-humans-raised-cassowary-chicks-scn/index.html
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:01:19 JST Joanna Holman
Today I learned hydrogen fires are invisible and that sometimes people investigate where one is suspected to be by walking around with a flammable broom in front of them https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff1997/ps1.html
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 11:02:53 JST Joanna Holman
Wish I could have been in the meeting where this concept was signed off on
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 22:57:10 JST Joanna Holman
Getting ads for a startup that's "invented" reusable tissues, charging $35 for 6. Handkerchiefs, they've reinvented handkerchiefs
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 18:12:51 JST Joanna Holman
@lookitmychicken typo & CottonOn has it occasionally, looks like Elizabeth st Typo store has this mug https://cottonon.com/AU/kermit-boxed-daily-mug/1684869-63.html?dwvar_1684869-63_color=1684869-63
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 23:17:11 JST Joanna Holman
@attacus It's a shame there isn't really something like Geocities anymore that's popular you can throw a half baked HTML page attempt up on. I had so much fun with that as a teen
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 07:57:24 JST Joanna Holman
Ideally public restroom mirrors shouldn’t run windows
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Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 19:44:45 JST Joanna Holman
@goatsarah indeed. They should feel free to toss aside convention when designing skateboards, but certainly not submarines
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