Posts by weezmgk@mastodon.au
(DIR) Post #AUbmWA5jjgWuELO9XE by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-04-12T22:53:59Z
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Chillies are flowering and fruiting like mad. First habanero is nearly ready to pick, although fruits which have begun to colour up can be picked and allowed to ripen indoors. Loads of habaneros- big ones. Chilli plants are EXTREMELY fragile. Gently moving stems around invites breakage, particularly on red savinas. #gardeningAu
(DIR) Post #AUbmWC8I99lIYqbDnM by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-04-12T23:00:05Z
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First sign of any disease issue in tge chillies. This looks like blossom-end rot, seen in many fruiting herbaceous plants when there is a calcium deficiency. We put heaps of eggshells in our compost, so much in fact that it drives up the pH of our garden soils a bit too much, so this is rather unexpected. 1 habanero fruit out of many hundreds, not a big problem at this moment but will keep an eye out for more of this.
(DIR) Post #AUj4m4m65dsxh5NfpA by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-04-17T00:15:38Z
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Attempted murder of a cyclist in Melbourne. Police seeking driver who dragged the bike more than 100m down the road after lining up and running over 59yo cyclist https://www.smh.com.au/national/cyclist-injured-in-alleged-hit-and-run-20230417-p5d0xl.html
(DIR) Post #AV5o4x53gv88kQk8IK by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-04-27T23:32:28Z
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@lowqualityfacts Thank you for destroying democracy. It's well past due time that someone got around to it. In fact, I would like you to investigate levelling western civilisation, once we identify what that is. It's not got a good reputation.
(DIR) Post #AVipZoeTNoU0aaQt96 by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-05-15T23:24:55Z
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Nervous lady walking the fire trail out back asked if my tower was 5G. Told her no, it is 9G, you can count the 9 Gs on the big antenna. She asked if I was afraid of the radiation. With the straightest of deadpan faces, I said it's completely safe unless you put your elbow in your ear because it forms a resonance loop and you will get frequencies. She side eyed me and resumed walking. 😂
(DIR) Post #AWEVmpqFkdWnplpWHg by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-06-01T02:11:59Z
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@lowqualityfacts this is a high quality factI worked at Compaq/Digital at the time, mainly validating equipment- ALL OF IT- for Y2K compliance. Pretty much 12h/day often 5 days/week through 1998-9 in preparation. metal brackets for mounting HDDs had to be validated. CMOS backup batteries had to be validated. Power switches had to be validated. I regularly tear strips off people who think Y2K was a hoax because nothing apparent happened to users. Nothing happened because we damn near killed ourselves making sure nothing would happen.
(DIR) Post #AWnf5tLHpCBJBB6e48 by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-06-18T01:11:10Z
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@lowqualityfacts it's the suds, which is why all soap comes from Sudan
(DIR) Post #AXbCJhcIAJo4Xazd0i by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-11T22:44:19Z
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@lowqualityfacts In 2016, it became possible to draft men FROM the circus
(DIR) Post #AXdxnuSs2sanEnPbJA by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-13T06:45:52Z
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@freemo welcome to tropospheric ducting. It is never minor when VHF goes beyond your radio horizon.It is fargin magic.
(DIR) Post #AXfTuxXsNgmYVj7PI8 by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-14T00:20:26Z
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@lowqualityfacts one hell of a SARS petri dish
(DIR) Post #AXhNBG2r3a4t9mLwTQ by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-14T07:04:51Z
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@leonardwongly Making Elon cry isn't actually that hard, but I'm glad TayTay did it nonetheless https://twitter.com/weezmgk/status/1618352706766385153 @taylorlorenz
(DIR) Post #AXpnWusVWIwi3FoXlQ by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-18T23:47:18Z
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@freemo Wonder how it compares to the legendary Cycle 21 in the late 1970s when I was a new ham. 11m CBers were making contacts with VK & ZL when 27MHz CB was still illegal in both. Not unusual for 4 watt AM mobiles using loaded short verticals in the middle of the US to be working base stations with verticals in ZL & VK.
(DIR) Post #AXrv1TUuSTxk6XDNmS by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-20T00:20:35Z
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@stux one of my favourite sayings ðŸ¤
(DIR) Post #AXvsA6PAABRtrMmyR6 by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-21T22:07:23Z
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@lowqualityfacts true!
(DIR) Post #AXy0ndw4cO4P64T4PA by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-22T22:49:58Z
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Wandering around the gardens. #garlic2023 goes sproing!
(DIR) Post #AXy0nep1K61RqUAx3A by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-22T22:52:04Z
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Tall cacti and succulents in the narrow space between houses. They don't mind the indirect winter light at all.
(DIR) Post #AXy0nfY2ci2E67EuDw by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-07-22T22:53:20Z
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Schlumbergera does its winter flowering thing.
(DIR) Post #AYK1reCjTl9mwNj7RI by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-08-02T11:15:18Z
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David Rowe
(DIR) Post #AYbiybuWmNhKM6Sn44 by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-08-10T23:10:33Z
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@kkarhan The way to 'forcibly retire' a SCOTUS justice is via impeachment. There are insufficient votes in Congress at the moment to successfully impeach Thomas. After all, he's one of the Republicans' ringers. @georgetakei
(DIR) Post #AYbj1Al8BVel10I1zc by weezmgk@mastodon.au
2023-08-10T23:21:10Z
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@kkarhan Quite a lot of the US system relies on legislators working in good faith for the people. There are checks available from each branch on the other two. I don't think the founders anticipated control of any one of them to fall to fascists. Electoral College is anachronistic and was created to shield control of the Presidency from uneducated or illiterate voters. Very elitist. However, POTUS is not an elected monarch, despite Trump trying to treat the position as such. @georgetakei