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Simon T Wolf

@simontwolf.bsky.social

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Cis: he/him/his, gay, HIV+, Out, Loud & Proud, living on Wadda warrung country in Naarm; Gondwana. This is an autobiography of sorts...

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Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · Dec 15

(bio ext.) Dad taught Science, built Deakin University while Mum was a nurse. I learned everything I needed to know to have a successful experience before Secondary School and went on to be a successful practitioner of my trade as a Barman, Waiter and eventually Chef as I worked my way up my own tbc

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Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

correction: lost one main processor, the AMD Zen4 APU 5XXXX, so stripped for bits and being happy they were cheap.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

It's at moments like this I look back upon the 1930s and think...well was it really worth it after all? A cursory glance over who's who and where they is, reveals the same over-arching direction of capital and money flows have been at play for now the last century, still in the hands of financiers.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

this is deep doo-doo...I'm really trying to be less sweary

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

those Pirates hogging my line...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

...living room and a curved gaming monitor: 144 MhZ, less than 1 microsecond response, 1.5K at 38" with upscaling to UQHD 2.5K...OLED as well...wasn't cheap.

That's why I'm impressed by the speed. I downloaded an episode of Have I Got News For You in 5 seconds - 2160p 4k UHD 4.2Gb file size...damn

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

home; all up I pay $105.00/mth.

I had a massive CD Collection and when DVD Movies were the thing I bought thousands, so I have digital HD/UHD for 1080p up to 2160p full 4K movie library approaching 10 TB of Ultraviolet digital twins for computer nerds like me who use a 4K TV as a monitor in the ...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

but we used messenger and ICQ to get around that. Primitive video calling but it was worth it.

So in 18 years the changes are the above down and up speeds for unlimited data plus my mobile is on a 5G plan for very little because I rarely use it to make mobile calls...I use it to use over #WiFi at

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 1h

#Exetel I've been with them for exactly 18 years today.
When I started, I had a 25/5 Mbps ADSL and 500Gb for $34.95 (I think...it was cheap then and you wouldn't get through that much data unless you were serving a pirate library) and my mobile which was $25/mth for unlimited txts, $50 call value

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

Knowledge.

Add experience, some time and a few bruises and you pick up some wisdom apparently.

If I come across any, maybe I'll share it...

Yeah... I'll probably share it.

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

for her family.

If I showed you the wedding photo you'd see the most beautiful woman ever - my mum made Liz Taylor as Cleopatra look ugly - and my very handsome father being just a bit "how did I do this?" dorkish - he was an electrical engineer after all and he sparked my voracious appetite for

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

my dad but that didn't happen.

Saw him every fortnight for the weekend and all of the school holidays.

I love my dad. He's my hero. Before little brother came along he got me away from her every cricket match he played. Anything to do with the outdoors was "feral". Roughing it was a 5 Star hotel

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

wouldn't be out of place around Musée d'Orsay or Montmartre - even la Défense...all of it studied and fake which is why I turned my back on the whole circus the second I turned 18.

I can cook, but the pretensions of my mother and her sisters was incroyable!

At 12 my parents split. I wanted to go

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

other"...

Anyways, yes I'm fluent in perfect french. Never lived there, never been, spoke both at home learned all the roles in high school French class, which was an easy A grade each year. I have a general Tyrrhenian accent - Marseille, Monaco or Corsica. But I've got pure Parisian elan that

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

negation: rien = nothing, jamais = never, pas= not.

There are others but those three do the heavy lifting.

In conversational speech is sufficient to say "Rien..." oû jamais, or one of my favourite conjunctions - "ni l'un, ni l'aûtre" - the Australian would be "six of I've, half a dozen of the

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

antitheist. Atheism is philosophy, this is non-practise.

Meh... rien..

That's french for "it means nothing" a contraction of "Ça ne faît rien", literally: that (of it) makes nothing. Correct french négatives are two-part beginning with the conjugation ne- coupled with a verb and closed the last

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

when it became time - his choice - I couldn't stop him, that wasn't ours to be and for all the right reasons.

He needed to see this world and I had no right to hold him back. I still get a Xmas card each year from Norway where he is now. He knows not to expect one in return. I'm fervently

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

don't want to be the one that puts the flaw in the diamond that is you D... " - there were 15 years between us and I was 33 and very much the older man a younger one goes he would encounter sooo that when he did, it would be... Exactly what it was, fucking incredible! The honour I had been given;

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

cry much anymore, unless it's a soppy old boy meets boy love story like "Call Me by Your Name" which does it more for me than "4 Weddings and A Funeral"... it was still buried in frustrated anger in 4W1F.

In CMBYN, I'm both lead male roles at different stages on my own journey... Down to the "I

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

can't argue with.

I use this portrait to have a conversation with my younger self... the "you're never too young to have a happy childhood" perspective adjustment that must be made if you're not going to wind up doing something seriously stoopid. I've lost so many friends to that ending I can't

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

...expression of studied elan or ennuie with my restrained smile.

I've heard that discussion more times...

Sorry, when the memory floods back in, it's in Atmos at the Sphere as a recall event - it's the same for everyone I'll wager; that moment when recall throws you back in time with clarity you

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

sister Connie had 3 of her own daughters but I won the oldest male leg of the race between her and Stella by 24 hrs.

I can't tell if the irony or the sardonyx of the whole situation is more hilarious.

You can see it in my eyes in that portrait and the ever so enigmatic upturned corners of my...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

Little Lord Fauntleroy.

It's how I was rigged out in the latest fashions, taught piano and guitar... I prefer to sing, I'm so much better a singer than either of the other two.

I was adopted. Her older sister Stella had just adopted Michael, after Jennifer a few years earlier, so... Her oldest

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

were the circles my mother moved in. Her family was the last of the Griffith ap Gwynydd and a minor French Noble house marriage of convenience from centuries past You won't have heard of them. My mother's family weren't anything at all... except in her head.

Allow me to introduce myself...

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

...they came to life from the tips of Nonika's brushes, in the gentle water colours she was renowned for - an Australian PM and (then HRH Prince) King Charles when at Timbertop in the Victorian Alps as part of Geelong Grammar.

The answer to your questions is no...but the extended answer is those

Simon T Wolf @simontwolf.bsky.social · 4h

This is a tweaked photo of a portrait my mother was given as a present, 1 of 3 portraits: her, me and my newly arrived younger brother, by her friend Nonika Hoovenaas (not totally sure of the spelling).

I had turned 7 just before we started to sit for the portraits and over the next few months...