Mark Asser
@markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
Idle. Sometimes bone-idle. Trying to write fiction, intermittently. Also (still) trying to find the right chap. Easily distracted. I'm in South Australia, by the way […]
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Jacinda Ardern has cancelled her Adelaide appearance - www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/12/j...
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Jacinda Ardern has cancelled her Adelaide appearance - www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/12/j...
I looked at some news and now I need to go and isolate for a while until the urge to punch things subsides.
January 12, 2026 at 4:43 AM
I looked at some news and now I need to go and isolate for a while until the urge to punch things subsides.
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I've always found Australia Day to be a bit pointless, a dag hanging from a Sheep's bum sort of day.
January 12, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I've always found Australia Day to be a bit pointless, a dag hanging from a Sheep's bum sort of day.
Apparently the Gilded Globules are being dolloped out today. That must be nice, if that's your thing.
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Apparently the Gilded Globules are being dolloped out today. That must be nice, if that's your thing.
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Excellent interview with Jo Dyer on ABC tv News Breakfast re the Adelaide Writers' Festival: very critical of Malinauskis' behind-the-scenes manoeuvring (an 'own goal'), and clearly opines that the festival is now dead in the water unless the remaining board members reinvite Abdel-Fattah. Good […]
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toot.community
January 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Excellent interview with Jo Dyer on ABC tv News Breakfast re the Adelaide Writers' Festival: very critical of Malinauskis' behind-the-scenes manoeuvring (an 'own goal'), and clearly opines that the festival is now dead in the water unless the remaining board members reinvite Abdel-Fattah. Good […]
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Fick en bild skickad till mig av en kompis som bor på Östermalm. En popcycle? En icycle?
January 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Fick en bild skickad till mig av en kompis som bor på Östermalm. En popcycle? En icycle?
Pakidge Watch! A thing I ordered from a Melbourne business, mysteriously sent to me from Sydney, has arrived at a depot down the road a bit. In fact, it's arrived twice within a two-minute period yesterday. Australia Post continues to baffle me.
January 11, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Pakidge Watch! A thing I ordered from a Melbourne business, mysteriously sent to me from Sydney, has arrived at a depot down the road a bit. In fact, it's arrived twice within a two-minute period yesterday. Australia Post continues to baffle me.
Walked to the shops and back again so I am now excused from moving around for the rest of the day. Bought a container for some stuff that needs containing. Half price. This is the correct price. The local colesworths is about to be renovated, which is good 'cos it's horrible in there. Maybe […]
Original post on beige.party
beige.party
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Walked to the shops and back again so I am now excused from moving around for the rest of the day. Bought a container for some stuff that needs containing. Half price. This is the correct price. The local colesworths is about to be renovated, which is good 'cos it's horrible in there. Maybe […]
So many corellas out there this morning. Not for the first time I'm reminded of The Goon Show 'cos so many of them have the same querelous quavery tonal aspects of Minnie Bannister.
January 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So many corellas out there this morning. Not for the first time I'm reminded of The Goon Show 'cos so many of them have the same querelous quavery tonal aspects of Minnie Bannister.
The agonies have left me, at least for now. As this means I can walk properly again without shouting obscenities, I can think about going somewhere tomorrow. Anywhere, really, it doesn't matter where.
January 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The agonies have left me, at least for now. As this means I can walk properly again without shouting obscenities, I can think about going somewhere tomorrow. Anywhere, really, it doesn't matter where.
Oh god, another day best spent offline I suspect. See you around 5pm or maybe a bit later.
January 10, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Oh god, another day best spent offline I suspect. See you around 5pm or maybe a bit later.
Maybe I'm in a bad mood but I've just blocked two people. One for being an irrational waste of pixels, the other for the greatest crime of all - whataboutism.
Seriously, if you want to talk about [big important issue] go ahead, somewhere appropriate. Don't shoehorn the issue into someone else's […]
Seriously, if you want to talk about [big important issue] go ahead, somewhere appropriate. Don't shoehorn the issue into someone else's […]
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beige.party
January 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Maybe I'm in a bad mood but I've just blocked two people. One for being an irrational waste of pixels, the other for the greatest crime of all - whataboutism.
Seriously, if you want to talk about [big important issue] go ahead, somewhere appropriate. Don't shoehorn the issue into someone else's […]
Seriously, if you want to talk about [big important issue] go ahead, somewhere appropriate. Don't shoehorn the issue into someone else's […]
So glad I went for a walk yesterday because it would be impossible today. True, the painkillers have worked. Not very much, but they have worked, and I must have slept for almost 90 minutes. Yay. And I can't have any more pills yet.
January 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
So glad I went for a walk yesterday because it would be impossible today. True, the painkillers have worked. Not very much, but they have worked, and I must have slept for almost 90 minutes. Yay. And I can't have any more pills yet.
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Let's make a deal, everyone. When someone asks for a good video about something, let's all promise not to recommend a book. And conversely, when someone asks for a book, let's never ever recommend a video. OK?
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Let's make a deal, everyone. When someone asks for a good video about something, let's all promise not to recommend a book. And conversely, when someone asks for a book, let's never ever recommend a video. OK?
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Hey everybody who knows about the history of mental illness. Someone I care about has ADD and is really badly disabled. I have a big ask of you.
Where can I read a history of societal attitudes to people with poor focus and weak executive functions ***BEFORE 1920***? That is, not a history of […]
Where can I read a history of societal attitudes to people with poor focus and weak executive functions ***BEFORE 1920***? That is, not a history of […]
Original post on archaeo.social
archaeo.social
January 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Hey everybody who knows about the history of mental illness. Someone I care about has ADD and is really badly disabled. I have a big ask of you.
Where can I read a history of societal attitudes to people with poor focus and weak executive functions ***BEFORE 1920***? That is, not a history of […]
Where can I read a history of societal attitudes to people with poor focus and weak executive functions ***BEFORE 1920***? That is, not a history of […]
Oh no, it's my agonies, appearing for the first time this year. Time for pills and self-pitying introspection until sleep becomes possible again.
January 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Oh no, it's my agonies, appearing for the first time this year. Time for pills and self-pitying introspection until sleep becomes possible again.
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As I invariably post every few months: I'm so tired of people going to the Baltics to write articles about the "persecuted" Russians there. You're not being persecuted if you refuse to learn the language of the country you live in. The language bar is so low […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
January 10, 2026 at 10:32 AM
As I invariably post every few months: I'm so tired of people going to the Baltics to write articles about the "persecuted" Russians there. You're not being persecuted if you refuse to learn the language of the country you live in. The language bar is so low […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
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#solar #coal #energy #australia
So while half the internet is screeching that renewables will leave us all sitting in the dark, Australia cops a 40c plus heat tsunami and guess what happens? Sweet FA. No grid collapse. No Mad Max blackout. No candles and baked beans. The system just… works.
And […]
So while half the internet is screeching that renewables will leave us all sitting in the dark, Australia cops a 40c plus heat tsunami and guess what happens? Sweet FA. No grid collapse. No Mad Max blackout. No candles and baked beans. The system just… works.
And […]
Original post on solarcene.community
solarcene.community
January 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM
#solar #coal #energy #australia
So while half the internet is screeching that renewables will leave us all sitting in the dark, Australia cops a 40c plus heat tsunami and guess what happens? Sweet FA. No grid collapse. No Mad Max blackout. No candles and baked beans. The system just… works.
And […]
So while half the internet is screeching that renewables will leave us all sitting in the dark, Australia cops a 40c plus heat tsunami and guess what happens? Sweet FA. No grid collapse. No Mad Max blackout. No candles and baked beans. The system just… works.
And […]
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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January 10, 2026 at 8:33 AM
A follow request from an account created today with no avatar, minimal bio, one image of a woman, following 53 accounts of which about 48 were the accounts of men called David. Can't quite put my finger on what's wrong here.
January 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
A follow request from an account created today with no avatar, minimal bio, one image of a woman, following 53 accounts of which about 48 were the accounts of men called David. Can't quite put my finger on what's wrong here.
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the guy at the gym told me i’m "using the treadmill wrong" just because i was trying to use it to sand down a piece of driftwood i found in a storm drain
January 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
the guy at the gym told me i’m "using the treadmill wrong" just because i was trying to use it to sand down a piece of driftwood i found in a storm drain
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*screams in historian*
Trump: "I'm a fan of Denmark too. They've been very nice to me. But the fact that they had a boat land there [Greenland] 500 years ago doesn't mean they own the land. I'm sure we had lots of boats go there also."
January 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
*screams in historian*
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"Bali’s water is disappearing.
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
"Bali’s water is disappearing.
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]
The island uses 2.4 billion liters a day. Tourism takes 65% of that. Villages up in the mountains have dry wells. Rice fields that fed the island for a thousand years are turning brown. Rivers look like someone dumped a bucket of cement in them.
But go ahead […]