jillfav

@jillfavero@aus.social
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Traveller, mother, grandmother, book lover, optimist, atheist. Dog and cat slave. Melbourne (Aus) based, world focus. Sad that the bird site which I’ve enjoyed for years is increasingly fouling its nest.
Last night on Dancing With The Tsars, Peter and Catherine were great but Ivan was terrible
A painter, a poet, a novelist: the artists being killed in Gaza

The territory’s vibrant arts community was testament to Palestinian resilience, but now it is losing voices central to its spirit

The Guardian

My latest in the @GuardianAus illustrates an inconvenient truth about the Optus outage, #auspol: this country has privatised itself into DEEP SHIT.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/09/the-optus-outage-was-like-an-old-south-park-episode-only-the-serious-and-costly-disruption-unleashed-was-lols-free

The Optus outage was like an old South Park episode – only the serious and costly disruption unleashed was LOLs-free

The consequence of governments selling off critical infrastructure to private companies has just been witnessed by all

The Guardian
When I was a kid I always wondered why nobody made a bigger deal out of the obvious loophole where you could mail letters for free by failing to put a proper stamp or a legible address on the envelope, meaning AusPost would deliver it to the provided return address (your actual intended recipient).
I have learned:
1) I was clearly destined to work in infosec
2) My aspirations were nowhere near lofty enough: https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/09/scott-morrison-weed-parliament/
Which one of you drongos tried to send Scott Morrison a bag of weed?

Someone tried to find out if there had been any drug offences reported in Parliament House and made an intriguing discovery.

Crikey
The Joy of being a young blackbird in Spring! #Melbourne #birdsofmastodon
Halloween dog!
Good night, all. The cat stayed up late (for her) last night to watch the #Matildas win.
Wet, but feisty game #fifawwc Fingers crossed for #matildas tomorrow night.

Reminded of the “Kurt Vonnegut goes to buy an envelope” quote. One of the best expressions of the joys of careful and deliberate inefficiency I’ve read.

Posted as image because the alt text has a higher character limit than a toot so I can paste the whole text as actual text there. Weird huh.