Notices by Birdhouse in Your [Redacted] (coolandnormal@aus.social)

I keep hearing "mastodon isn't good for [type of celebrity], they have to go to [other platform] for engagement"

It's not the celebrity type [scicom personality, journalist, author] it's the attempt to run a celebrity account at all that doesn't work on the fedi.

There are heaps of well known people on the fedi. Either it's not obvious that's their day job or they're just quietly being that in among posts about walking their dog. Coming to the fedi trying to sell your day job and hoping people will 'engage' is odd. Like going to the playground or the museum and being mad that bystanders didn't engage your about your day job despite the sandwich board you're wearing and your refusal to talk about any other topic.

Going into a social environment broadcasting [📢this is my content, engage with it📢] is an obvious recipe for disappointment. No one cares about the things you're broadcasting. Show us your dog. Did they have a nice walk?

What I don't understand is why we don't have bike powered ebikes.

You can have a bike powered washing machine. You can have a crank powered torch. Why can't I get on my bike when I'm bored at home and charge it up, then use that stored energy to power the same machine where I generated and stored it?

@Dangerous_beans is it impossible to achieve somehow?

@Dangerous_beans I didn't know there was an answer

@ai6yr
My driving instructor: do you know how people change their driving in rain?
Me: well... They probably... Change in different ways it's hard to...
Instructor: they don't. In average, statistically, they don't. So keep that in mind.

"A billionaire carries, on average, an investment portfolio in companies that will produce 1.9m tonnes of CO2 a year – roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of 400,000 petrol cars."

Extremely normal planet.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/world-richest-used-fair-share-emissions-2026-oxfam

@vmbrasseur @hannah Caresse Crosby, publisher, ghost writer of erotica, first patent holder for a modern bra. Photographed in 1914 with her whippet, Clytoris.

Be my plumber
Take out the bung to drain the tank, put it in your pocket for safe keeping
Set up the entire roof plumbing system directed into the tank
Go home

@ai6yr "do not call 911 to report drilling noise"

... What?? Ya'll call a man with a gun to tell them there's a noise in a public place??

Amazing what you find wandering around rural cemeteries. Grandson of General Shrapnel, inventor of the weapon.

#graves

And they were roommates (in a weirdly hetro way)

Other interesting finds: a Black Friday* victim

*not that one

CEO: I have SMS notifications turned off for everyone but my kids so I can concentrate on the essential nature of my work, it increases my productivity and focus.
Workers: great insight boss, give me two minutes to change email notification settings for the whole company
CEOs: wait

Mind the... australia

The air pressure change overnight has been impressive

@Iwillyeah @RamenCatholic @misty @tef you can just go for the vibes, but you can also be a Quaker who doesn't believe in god but believes in being a Quaker. It's a whole thing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers

CEOs: I want the highest productivity
Productivity experts: you should hire fat disabled trans people who work from home
CEOs: what I meant is I want the highest productivity I can get from twinks at a hotdesk

Today I experienced my favourite AI fail so far.

Inaturalist keeps insisting mosses and lichens are skinks, based on "visually similar, found nearby". Then it shows pictures of skinks taken nearby on the exact same type of rock that the moss is on.

The pictures ARE visually similar. Because they're both Grampians sandstone.

I have potentially just discovered the Most Rural Thing.

Friend mentioned buying a second hand window. I asked where. She said a name. I didn't know they had a shop or a junkyard...?

She explained that he owns one of the old train station sheds, it's full of reclaimed building materials. There are no opening hours or appointments. It's always unlocked. You can go in, look around, give them a call if you want anything. But be careful, both the roof and floor are falling away.

#JustRuralThings

I have accidently coined the term "tourist-care system". It's hotels, restaurants, safely maintained tourist spaces, groomed trails, park rangers, etc.

Essentially a childcare system but for white office workers going to places where they would die almost immediately if left to their own devices.