I'm a middle-aged single dad living on the Atherton Tablelands, Australia. I work in Aged Care. Hobbies include tabletop roleplaying games, casual computer gaming, and short hikes. Take it as read that I believe in all the usual left-wing, egalitarian stuff, but I rarely post about any of it.
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Or sometimes it was just farmers who didn't care what they destroyed to set up their operations, and didn't bother to record what was there before. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller They literally used bulldozing. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller I've often thought it must be reassuring, having all that history beneath your feet. We have plenty of prehistory, but that doesn't belong to me, and anyway it was mostly deliberately erased. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller My house is on land taken from the Muluridji Aboriginal people last century, close by a former ceremonial ground where they had formal sport-battles. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller "Pierce Brown" is a pornstar name, surely. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Are they moving the graves too? npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Adventure! npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Damn, the takahē really is like a globe of the world on legs. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller I recall a story about Second Life, a platform where people could be anything they wanted. And some folks did pole dancing for in-game credits. 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At any given point, rainbow lorikeets can easily and successfully breed with their neighbours. BUT! Take a rainbow lorikeet from Cairns and put it with a sexy lorikeet from Sydney, and they will not produce viable offspring. I can't remember what it's called, genetic drift or something. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller On a similar theme, is there a way to say "leg bone" in Swedish that makes sense? npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller I had a copy of Kipling's Just So Stories like that. I might still have the book somewhere, all torn and brown. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Oh no, I think you were right the first time, that's where Harrison would have gotten it. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Oh is that where it comes from? I thought George Harrison invented it! npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Today on #Valheim ... well I don't know exactly what happened here. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Decent music, and what must be the horniest album cover of that decade. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller I could never really get into Gaiman's writing. But I was shocked by the news. I honestly thought he was one of the good ones. It makes me wonder if there in fact are any good ones. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Emergency services must be terrified of the place. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Skating on a lake must be fun, but I'd have to overcome my fear of falling through. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller I can't remember following you to be honest so I can't say why. Must have been a good toot that I saw. I live in tropical northern Australia. I manage in-home care for older and disabled people. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller I'm intrigued by the boardgame. I'm probably way too innocent to get most of the references though. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller The whole world of Valheim is a kind of purgatory made by Odin before souls get to Valhalla. 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If only the weather would let up. #Valheim npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Sure, I just hope, probably vainly, that it was their choice. If so, good on them. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller But then again, if they choose such a life, it would be easy living. Wete these ladies from any social class? npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Gross. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller Makes perfect sense to me (My father's English). Prepare = To make ready. You're making a meal ready to eat. npub1mx507z6rpxen4gdnvm53guuzcww5hl2txvk4v8pjxcclym92lmxqvjxxnw Si Fuller In modern Australia, the done thing is to shuttle the child from one after-school activity to another, leaving them no time to be kids. Do they even have friends?
