i’m convinced car dependency and suburban sprawl promoting anti-social attitudes like “being in a public place with strangers is scary and bad” majorly contributes to why so many people are extremely regressive, tribalist, and paranoid these days
i can almost bear it when it’s music or film but i was not sufficiently braced to be working with legal adults who were not around for seminal moments of internet virality
this is like when one of the weans at my prvs workplace skipped past me going ‘a magical liopleuridon, charlie!’ and i chortled knowingly before i froze, scrambled to check the release date, and realised she was born the year before the youtube video dropped
18yo intern played a lola young song and i said it reminds me of foundations by kate nash and she laughed and said she probably wasn’t even born when that came out and i was like you are so rude then i looked it up and foundations was released the year before she was born
ABC Melbourne is providing emergency rations. Late Night Live is debating which expired fruit delivers the best mouthfeel. Costa is going door-to-door telling people roadside plants are edible
i haven’t witnessed the sheer rowdiness that seems to be commonplace in the usa but i did once ask a fella next to @HughGriffin2 and me – who had his phone out scrolling reels – “do you mind?” to which he responded “mind what?” and that still haunts me
The Google ai push is proof that billionaires truly are cartoonishly greedy, they had a beloved product that worked properly and was printing billions of dollars for them and intentionally broke it in the hopes that breaking it could make them a few extra bucks right now
Sarina Russo suspended my payments while I was awaiting a medical review from Centrelink. I ratioed her a few times on Twitter and she blocked me. AtWork Australia asked me for pay information a year after I got a job on my own. Abolish them all.