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  Do you have the jingle from the TV ad for The Swagman Restaurant in Ferntree Gully in your head now?

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  Another Melbourne advertisement earworm

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  Pick a Part, still going strong! https://youtu.be/PsJovp3X5VQ

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  I would love Fedivens in other cities and towns in Australia to please share their local TV ads from decades past; things I would never have seen in Melbourne.

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  If LLMs had come for the semicolon instead of the dash, no one would be complaining.

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  I know we’ve got a shitton of corporations naming themselves after the dystopian things in Lord of the Rings, but has anyone cut right to the chase and called their product “Omelas” yet?

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  Sheet Music Fedi, what’s a good compact, unambiguous, standard way of notating a song with a structure like this? Three verses, three choruses, but the pre-chorus is skipped between verse 2 and chorus 2. My measure of “good compact” is the least amount of duplication. My measure of “standard” is that it uses notation that a music reader will have encountered. Please assume I know about D.S. al Coda and so on.

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  Australian time zones as an alignment chart. Lawful good: Western Australia, UTC+8:00 Neutral good: Northern Territory, UTC+9:30 Chaotic good: Norfolk Island, UTC+11:00/UTC+12:00 Lawful neutral: Queensland, UTC+10:00 True neutral: Southeast states, UTC+10:00/UTC+11:00 Chaotic neutral: South Australia, UTC+9:30/UTC+10:30 Lawful evil: Davis Base, UTC+7:00 Neutral evil: Eucla, UTC+8:45 Chaotic evil: Lord Howe Island, UTC+10:30/UTC+11:00

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  Daylight saving time works by shaming your work ethic into getting up because the clock says 6:something instead of 5:something, thereby making you start your day sooner. A couple of years of always-on DST will blunt that pretty quickly and nullify any benefit.

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  Oh that’s not good.

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  Preposterous

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  I don't remember participating in the original survey exploring the familiarity of Jewish English terms among Australian and American Jewish and non-Jewish people, but I was informed that the paper based on the survey has been published, and it's highly illuminating for a linguistics nut like me. Generally, Australian non-Jews are less likely to be familiar with Jewish English terms (chutzpah, shlep, kvetch, menorah) than their American counterparts, with the exception of a small set o...

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  Falsehoods ADHDers believe about tasks • I’ll remember to do the task today • I’ll remember to do the task • I’ll remember that the task exists

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  What’s the most pages of a book you’ve disliked but continued to read, slogging through, before you either finished the book or stopped reading it?

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  Always a joy* to see which important foreign keys the creator of this database figured didn't need to be indexed. Query that should take seconds is timing out after ten minutes because I had the temerity to join two tables.

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  New rule: A machine shall not refer to itself in the first person. shit.

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  You are at pedestrian crossing lights away from an intersection with sporadic clumpy traffic.

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  LET IT BE KNOWN THIS SIGN HAS SHOWN: NO PARKING ZOWN CARS WILL BE TOWN

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  Sometimes I feel like my generation is the last to correctly know how to alphabetize a list of names.

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  All you people suddenly advocating for the abolition of copyright because it’s being inconsistently enforced, without offering an alternative for creatives to not be ripped off, have evidently never created anything.

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  If you missed my musical concert last week at #NHAMfest26, or if you’d like to catch it again, you can stream it on my spanking new hyper8 site: https://video.futzle.com/concerts/live-in-absentia/ #SingerSongwriter #IndieMusic #piano #guitar #ukulele #clank #TextsWithVoid #BigBoatStuckSong

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  I didn’t have “find a password manager that isn’t funding fascism” on my plate today, fucking thanks for the unnecessary extra labour, @1password@1password.social

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  Happy Meteorological I Don’t Even Know What Seasons Are Any More to those who celebrate.

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  This concludes my #PyconAU livetooting. Any further mentions will be CW’d as a courtesy to your timelines.

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  I suppose the cat's out of the bag. I'll be at #NHAMfest #NHAMfest26, with "Live in Absentia", a prerecorded* concert of original music, performed and recorded lovingly and amateurishly over the last four days and inexpertly mixed and edited by a complete novice (me). Streams Thursday 27 August 2026 at 10.00 UTC (20.00 AEST, 18.00 AWST, 12.00 CEST, 06.00 EDT) at https://fest.nham.co.uk/ (no registration required, just drop in at the appointed time). My show's an hour long...

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  Esteemed live performers: I run Mac OS, and I wonder if you can recommend me software that can turn my Mac into an effects box, using the VST plugins that are already on it. Switching effects in and out, live, is essential. Routing audio inputs, live, would be great. I don’t think my DAW (Cubase Pro) would do this easily. Edit: this is what a”VST host” is, isn’t it? What’s a VST Host that you like on the Mac?

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  Songs that are about other, now-lost, songs: - Crocodile Rock [Elton John] - The Monster Mash* [Bobby Pickett] - Tennessee Waltz* [Patti Page] - Best Song Ever [One Direction] - Killing Me Softly With His Song [Roberta Flack] - Jailhouse Rock [Elvis Presley] - Play That Song [Train] - Tribute [Tenacious D] - Sing it Back [Moloko] - Eagle Rock [Daddy Cool] - National Anthem of Nowhere [Apostle of Hustle] - The Late Greats [Wilco] - I Heard Your Song On The Radio [Peccadillo] - The Black Hit Of S...

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  The fact that the melody of“Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music uses accidentals not enumerated by the song bothers me a lot.

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  Have you ever turned back the system clock on a piece of hardware so that the software on it will keep running?

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  Speaking of trackers, it would have been 1988 and I came across a “music editor” for my Amiga through the usual channels (my big brother brought home a disk from school, I ask no questions). It came with some example tracks which I reverse-engineered. I painstakingly transcribed my own songs onto the software. This was long before I knew what a “sequencer” was, and before I had a four-track tape recorder. Eventually I upgraded to a proper, purchased, MIDI sequencer (Music-X). Reader, it was not...