Notices by Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)

Today is Penguin Awareness Day. I think it would do us all good to be more aware of penguins

#PenguinAwarenessDay

@susankayequinn @vwdasher gross. At least they’re not paying money to one of those book summary apps whose obnoxious ads claim to make you the most interesting person in the room

Found that post about fruit New Year’s resolutions

Saw someone post elsewhere about how last year they set a goal to try as many varieties of fruit as possible. That seems like the kind of goal worth setting

Gloria in excel sheet deo

Putting up the Christmas tree, #melbourne style

@skinnylatte or that assume that people reject shelter where available for frivolous reasons. Something that’s stuck with me from years ago was an interview I read with a homeless woman living on the streets who was intending to stay that way until she could get a private unit. She felt safer on the streets than in most shelter options as on the streets she could be around trusted people for protection in places she understood but in a shelter environment she got shoved in close quarters with unsafe people

About the only teen friendly place that a lot of towns have that doesn't cost money is a (likely badly maintained) skatepark that may or may not be easy to get to by public transport and likely isn't safe after dark. That's wildly inaccessible for disabled teens and is not enjoyable for even all teens who physically could skate. All for getting people of all ages off their screens and into the real world but people have to have places to go that don't require spending substantial money.

Yet to see the announcement of massive Australian government funding for places for teens to hang out AND improved public transport to get them there now that they won't be allowed on social media. Weird.

More historical markers like this please

#melbourne

#Melbourne northern suburbs folk: if you’re a Merri-bek council resident you can now borrow an e-bike or cargo bike for free for two weeks from the e-bike library https://sussexnh.org.au/borrow-an-e-bike-for-free-at-the-merri-bek-e-bike-library/

It’s someone’s job to walk specially trained dogs around the Sydney Opera House to stop seagulls harassing diners. Now questioning my career choices

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100674522

Highly recommend splitting your screen in zoom/teams meetings with an animal livestream. Having several perturbed looking falcons on screen helped with today’s meetings

First Ozempic, now IV fluids. The phenomenon of influencers creating shortages of things others really need by needlessly using medical products as part of their “wellness” fads needs to stop.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/gps-ration-care-as-they-fight-wellness-companies-for-iv-fluid/104596652

Just saw a digital billboard for Buzzfeed. Not sure if I’m more surprised it still exists or that it needs advertising

@mekkaokereke marketplace of ideas is such a silly metaphor that bears no resemblance to any market I’ve ever been to. I have never been to a market where I have wanted or had the ability to buy everything. Any market with more than a couple of stalls that required every visitor to examine the contents of every stall would be essentially unusable. Market stall holders yelling at people to look at what they have drive a lot of customers away

@kcarruthers @KathyReid I often think about what a wonder the international post system is. That I can take a stuffed animal to the post office in my neighbourhood and two weeks later a friends kid in a suburb of a small city on another continent can be playing with the toy that arrived on their doorstep thanks to a complex chain of people who made that happen for $25 is mind blowing.

@seachanger Well done on making it this long without having the misfortune of learning this

Ducked out for a quick lunchtime walk and spotted these cuties! Haven’t noticed them in my part of #melbourne before

#birds #birding #birdsofmastodon

The local goth bird was being suitably moody today

#birds #birding #birdsofmastodon