Notices by Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social), page 2

Since it wasn’t played in public until after September 1 2024 if someone adds some lyrics the new Mozart jam is eligible for entry in Eurovision 2025…

https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113197654950541972

It should be a legal requirement for train companies to have and use on board screens to deliver announcements in addition to the often dubiously audible audio announcements. Anyone hearing impaired would have just missed finding out that the train I’m on is skipping multiple stations it was meant to go to. Metro Melbourne is so bad at this, along with a bunch of other accessibility fails, like stair only access at multiple city station entrances

@liztai not sure if this is better or worse than the tiktokers videoing themselves committing cheque fraud

It’s weird that Cassowaries don’t figure more promenantly in Australia’s pop culture and international reputation. We just kinda ignore the fact that we have surviving dinosaurs wandering around some parts of the country

Rearranged my day around “helping” my sister give my nephew Winston a bath. Worth it even though he may now be contemplating my murder

#cat #caturday #catsofmastodon

Just saw a great hack for anyone else who gets marketing fridge magnets from real estate agents and plumbers: stick those stickers you’ve been meaning to use on them, cut off the extra magnet. Now you have a cool fridge magnet you like

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-Eh355S3GH/?igsh=cG9jNjRhZXFxZnN2

Getting the essential info on the train today

#melbourne

@liztai I found out via a text message from my Australian mother who isn’t even that interested in politics anywhere

Today I learned competitive stinging nettle eating is a thing https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/world-nettle-eating-championships

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

@adhdeanasl @liztai I very much agree, although unfortunately the same attitude seems to have taken over most social platforms

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?

@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.

Today I learned the largest technically possible PDF file is 381 km × 381 km which is this big

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

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

There is a story behind every warning sign

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

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

Wish I could have been in the meeting where this concept was signed off on

Getting ads for a startup that's "invented" reusable tissues, charging $35 for 6. Handkerchiefs, they've reinvented handkerchiefs