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Mark Asser

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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 […] 🌉 bridged from https://beige.party/@MarkAsser on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · Jun 23

In the interest of full disclosure - on this account, unsolicited medical advice is a blocking offence. Minor transgressions might or might not generate a warning first.

Yeah, it's a blunt instrument, but so what?

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1h

@MelissaBearTrix Not willingly.

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1h

This has turned out to be a nine-bus day after all.

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Sod it. Going for a walk, or another bus ride, or something. I need to be moving tabout, not just sitting here.

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Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 @linguistgoneforeign.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

When the machine translator turns your wakame soup plans into a thriller movie.

#japanese
#日本語
#language

A screenshot from Google Lens showing the same package of miso soup ingredients, with English translations overlaid. The translation humorously reads “Lots of strange things” next to “miso soup ingredients.” Other translated text includes “For miso soup. Just put it in,” and “Economy size Miso soup.” The image highlights a mistranslation of the Japanese phrase meaning “lots of wakame.”

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

What could go wrong?
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Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/pub-opening-hours-in-england-and-wales-could-be-extended

#ukpol

Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

I'm writing a profile of a European railway station today and one of the set categories details the shopping opportunities there. I'm not allowed to write "Who gives a shit?", unfortunately. ;)

#amwriting #travelwriting #travelwriter

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Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Email from a friend, with troubling news about a mutual friend. I need to tread carefully when I contact the mutual 'cos of course I know none of this. But I'm glad to be forewarned.

Modern life continues to be rubbish.

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 3h

@feather1952 Now I just have to finish clearing the space. Oh no what have I done...

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 4h

On a bus (sixth and last of the day) with a lime tree (purchased between the fourth and fifth buses from the big independent nursery). The medium-sized nursery had loads of citrus but no limes.

It's nice, not shopping at Hammerbarn, though sometimes that's all there is.

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Dr. Lech-Tay 🫘🍷 @tayfonay.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 6h

1990 orhodontist: put this big tray of goop in your mouth and try not to gag for 5 minutes so we can make a white plaster mold and yes you will have to do this more than once.

2025 orthodontist: here’s a 3D digital model of your face with before and after comparisons of your teeth.

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Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Sod this. Bored. Might go to the medium-sized not-Bunnings plant place before I go to the big one. It's slightly easier to get to.

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public universal mutual @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 9h

I always parse this like "reader, I married him"

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Radio says my local State MP will retire at the election. I'm not entirely surprised, but she has been a super-effective local member and her replacement will have metaphorically large (actually tiny with massive heels) shoes to fill.

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Nej hörni, "Vi kommer i fred" är inte en bra översättning av "We come in peace". Det betyder "Vi får orgasm ostörda".

https://www.tv4play.se/program/71cf0a9343d66e72ff9a/vi-kommer-i-fred

Vi kommer i fred

Streama Vi kommer i fred direkt på webben och i våra appar. Se hela programmet och mycket mer på TV4 Play!

www.tv4play.se

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/logitech-will-brick-its-100-pop-smart-home-buttons-on-october-15

if you're gonna do the smart home thing or get into home automation, dont use anything cloud based.

home assistant has an entire community surrounding de-clouding stuff and using brands […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Looking at the reigns of murderous dictators, I find that almost none of them survive long enough for prehistoric archaeology's methods to be able to tell the time before them apart from the time after them. Hitler's twelve years, Stalin's twenty-eight -- those are blips in our chronology. We […]

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The Far Side @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2025/10/06/1

“Good heavens! Pablo got an ‘F’ in art! ... Well, I’m just going to go down to that school myself and meet this teacher face to face!”

“Good heavens! Pablo got an ‘F’ in art! ... Well, I’m just going to go down to that school myself and meet this teacher face to face!”

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public universal mutual @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Ever get this stoned

"In any event," said Alpha, "I am hungry." He looked around for suitable food. He seized an insect which stung him. He dropped it. “My hunger remains.”

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Melissa BearTrix @melissabeartrix.gives.hugz.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I love watching people not park ... And then get the shits and drive off in a huff

I wonder if it's got to do with me and my giggling

Hugz & xXx

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I spent nothing at Bunnings today. Nothing. Unprecedented.

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@feather1952 I might try a big independent nursery tomorrow. They'll have something I want, even if not citrus.

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Well, bugger it. No citrus at all at Bunnings, apart from an espaliered mandarine (no). Bloke says there's a very delayed shipment expected in a month, and nobody else will have any either.

Bunnings website turns out to be a heap of shit. Who knew?

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Second bus. I can probably stretch this to six buses in the next couple of hours.

Mark Asser @markasser.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Screw this, I'm off to waste some time by going to Bunnings via the most indirect route I can contrive.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

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