Notices by Daniel Reeders (onekind@beige.party)

My job application is submitted! Please cross your digits for me, I would love to make a career move right about now. 😩

@skinnylatte I'm the same in reverse. My tummy needs that dull boring square of fibre or sourdough toast for first breakfast. Second breakfast, something hot on the street or in a kopitiam!

@skinnylatte I'm curious about the health aspects of this.

Ice water for the kidlets who are most likely to die from untreated water.

Boiling water for the elders who have broad immunity to food and water-borne toxins and are more likely to develop oesophageal cancer.

I guess it's another example of 'culture eats health for breakfast' (my field is full of them!).

@skinnylatte I am also obsessed with this one specific video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cILZ_cB3_so

You know me, I'm all about food, so I donate to the UN World Food Programme and World Central Kitchen. WFP are active in Nepal, where 25% of kids under 5 have physical stunting from nutrient and calorie deficiencies in their everyday diet.

If you want to donate to emergency food distribution, World Central Kitchen have spun up agreements with local restaurants and food producers, and essential meals are being provided right now to people displaced from their homes and their communities.

Something to keep in mind: there is ongoing famine in Sudan and Gaza and elsewhere, and these crises will only intensify if WFP and WCK have to reallocate limited resources. Please give generously.

WFP
https://donate.wfp.org/

World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/donate/

These 'four ingredient broccoli cheddar DUNKERS' look like dog turds on a plate and they are presented as a healthy option for eating your vegetables. America WTF?

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@skinnylatte I'm like 'racism is appalling and it's always the fucking Dutch and Swiss who are the worst offenders.'

Aussie friends: I need the dumbest smart doorbell available.

I live smack bang in between about eight breweries and every so often some drunk arsehole pushes my doorbell for funsies.

The other night I was expecting an overnight delivery and someone was pushing the doorbell repeatedly so I woke up, got dressed, went downstairs, and there was this malevolent drunk outside the door.

Who are you looking for?'

'Looking for [street number]' he said, sounding all pleased with himself.

My facial expression didn't change. 'Good on ya' I said, sounding perfectly friendly as I slammed the door in his face.

Took the batteries out of my doorbell and went back to bed.

In the morning I reflected on this mildly unsettling experience and in particular on the sadness of the guy and the smallness of his sadism.

I want to ask him: 'Really? You're a grown man pushing doorbells to wake people up? And that's your fun?'

Anyway, I need a dumb smart doorbell. Needs to have a camera, needs to be programmable not to ring past 10PM, needs a phone app, preferably doesn't connect to the Internet.

@skinnylatte Mastodon is a lovely place that is absolutely cursed with reply guys (of all genders)

@skinnylatte Not a Londoner but do you follow Vittles?

https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-restaurants-threes-a-crowd

I read it from Australia just for the pleasure of the writing.

I'm obsessed with this Indonesian siamese catto with the creaky voice. Another Indo user asked, very politely, 'ur cat get syndrom?'

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YOOOO my conference is DONE. It was good!! Participants were happy, funder was happy, Board president happy, bosses happy.

I'm excited to present this free webinar from the NAPWHA Learning initiative at the National Association of People with HIV Australia.

It's a digital strategy masterclass for non-profits and public health agencies, focused on cultural safety and AI and featuring adversarial testing specialist Adrianna Tan (@skinnylatte).

When: Thurs 30 July 2026 10AM AEST (Syd/Melb time)

Who: Adrianna Tan (https://futureethics.ai)

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jfrkpoX2QcenTX0sCGEE1Q

Enquiries: daniel [at] napwha.org.au

@skinnylatte IS POZOLE YUCATAN?? Okay that explains why I tell Mexicans about my obsession with pozole and 9/10 times they're like 'what is that?'

@skinnylatte I fell out of love with the AeroPress real hard because of the way it drips every time I use it. Thank you for sharing this! Is it sturdy enough to chuck it into carry on?

@skinnylatte What! I thought Cambridge was a franchised brand of assessment. You're saying they actually run the program in and from Cambridge itself? That's so quaint.

@kims Where did you find this? It's wrong in about three ways I can spot.

@skinnylatte it's not just a can't digest, it's an allergy, that's how the illness comes on immediately. I've got friends who get neuro symptoms from the allergy, relieved by avoiding milk or only drinking the A2 variety.

@skinnylatte Australia benefits SO MUCH from the exodus of those Singaporeans who do smile a lot and talk easily with strangers.

@skinnylatte Yep, got it. Without disagreeing with your overall take, I note that as recently as my mother's early career, her Irish Catholicism was seen as a marker of being not quite white. 'Micks' couldn't get jobs at the tax office, for example, because of the stereotype they are not good with money. I actually suspect it was racism towards non-white skilled migrants that finally consolidated the Micks and the Prods into one single 'white' category in the eyes of the employment market.