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Julia D
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Slightly secretive Sydneysider. 🎥 🎶 🍳 🐕

I know a tiny amount about many things so I guess that makes me a scatty fox rather than a deep-thinking hedgehog.
In my limited experience writing a 336 page complaint does not endear you to the presiding judge.
February 3, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 8:16 AM
It has some great moments (and Ben is really very good) but as a whole it’s less than the sum of its parts. Part of it has to do with the whole junkie element.

But it is definitely worth a view. Definitely.
February 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Is this the result of too much ketamine?
February 2, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Jerry Harrison is touring Australia with Belew in April. I have tickets.
February 2, 2026 at 4:15 AM
We do watch a lot. My better half watches even more. We both used to work in the trade. Good home theatre etc. We have about 14000 movies on disc or on our NAS - he’s a hoarder. Everything from absolute crap to the most obscure art house - we both have somewhat catholic tastes.
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot has not aged at all well.
The X-files movie still doesn’t make any sense, but Martin Landau is always good to see.
Dog Day Afternoon remains rewarding.
Daniel Day Lewis was gorgeous in his youth.
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Movies enjoyed:
Dog Day Afternoon - 4.5 stars (rewatch)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - 4 stars (rewatch)
Los Muertos - 3.5 stars
The Last of the Mohicans - 3.5 stars (rewatch)
Code 3 - 3 stars
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I lived there in the 70s, it was not really a basketball place then (I have not been back since, did not know of its heartland status).

We did have ice skating and bowling in Ringwood. I liked the ice skating. And playing Asteroids on the games machines at the bowling lanes.
February 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
“Developers who misunderstand these terms and assume prompt injection is the same as jailbreaking will frequently ignore this issue as irrelevant to them, because they don’t see it as their problem if an LLM embarrasses its vendor by spitting out a recipe for napalm.”
February 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Wait until you get to Croydon in Melbourne. Spent my teens there, left at 17 and that was none to soon.
February 1, 2026 at 1:52 AM
It’s not so much that as the flood risk. 12% of the area is going to flood regularly. And that’s on current data, assuming it doesn’t get worse. The insurers know.

Buy shares in Dutch engine companies - they know how to solve water problems.
February 1, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Selamat Pagi to you too.

V smoky today but it’s much nicer once you get out of the Sydney basin.

I’ve just arrived in Yass and it’s started to rain, so that’s going to clear any residual smoke I hope.
January 31, 2026 at 10:23 PM
If you think this is terrible (and it is) do Brisbane. 1 in every eight buildings should never have been approved. In the entire greater metro area.
January 31, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I gave a Californian friend a copy of Judith Brett’s excellent “From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage” and she loved it, but she told me, sadly, “We could never do that here. We’d rather suffer than do something that might smack of compulsion.”

www.textpublishing.com.au/books/from-s...
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting, book by Judith Brett
It’s compulsory to vote in Australia.We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote.Not o...
www.textpublishing.com.au
January 31, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Living the good life. ❤️
January 31, 2026 at 12:46 AM
But then they wouldn’t be “innovating”!
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 AM