Can’t sleep gang checking in. Has anyone seen Yarrabyte?

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    15 days ago

    Someone is coming over to help me figure out the strays situation. She has a small rescue.

    Please cat jesus, let me find a home for your quite fluffy followers 🙏🐱 \

    EDIT!!!

    THERE IS NOW A PLAN!!!

    This lady from a small shelter is going to help me catch them and get them spayed for a discount. It’s a start!!!

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    9·
    15 days ago

    New 10" subwoofer is working well.

    Was a bit confused why the air purifier down the hall was like 40 μg/m³ (normally it’s 5). Turns out the sub is so loud it’s kicking up dust half a house away lol. Can’t really annoy the neighbours as there aren’t any atm and won’t be until Mar. next year.

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    8·
    15 days ago

    City Beat

    Tram rattle bluespringing Afternoon on Collins In the sunlight of a winter that’s fast being chased away

  • notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    15 days ago

    Took my niece for a walk in Murundaka parklands today. We saw an echidna, a platypus, a pair of kookaburras, a mob of kangaroos and heaps of cockatoos. Such a perfect morning

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    7·
    15 days ago

    Finally listening to the new Mastodon album and it sounds on par with anything they’ve put out in the past 15 years, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. You don’t want these guys to flop after what happened with Brent, but I don’t know if I’ll be checking this out much later, much like Hushed & Grim.

    Their best recent effort was the Cold Dark Place EP. It sounded like their recent work but was good, and it had Brent’s fingerprints all over it.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    6·
    15 days ago

    Pakidge at work. I’ve got to experience a rare brand new Shure SM58. Usually these things are all dinged up, covered in tape, and the grille is dented to shit. Just goes to show how hardy these things are.

    They’re cheap but brand new they feel nice, and they’re dense MFs as well. A good presence in the hand

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    6·
    15 days ago

    Yarra has wandered off again after yesterday’s brief appearance. Perhaps an AirTag or a leash is in order.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      5·
      15 days ago

      they have to be better than store bought because these are made with real wholesome ingredients

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          5·
          15 days ago

          it’s not real, it’s not real marshmallow, not real jam, cheap biscuits and fake chocolate, so disappointing

          50 years ago they were bloody awesome delicious, they tasted real

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    5·
    15 days ago

    One of the reasons I’m studying Latin is to learn grammar and thereby be better at English.

    It’s interesting that my English usage is very good, I know the rules very well, I just can’t name them!!

    Yesterday I started studying direct objects, I had never even heard of that before, and I don’t know what transitive is either.

    ( also godamn aphasia making me drop words 🤬 )

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      Transitive verbs signal that the verb needs something (a direct object) to complete it before it makes sense. Funnily, in English most transitive verbs have spellings in the past tense that are sometimes the same as the regular past tense and it’s easy to confuse them - ate for the verb eat, bought for the verb buy etc. eg I ate an apple, I bought an apple - both verbs are transitive. Just writing ‘I ate.’ is not transitive - it’s the past tense of the verb ‘to eat’ just spelled the same as when the verb is transitive. Bit of a trap that.

      Another better example - I catch a ??? or I caught a ??? - both transitive whether you are talking about trains or rabbits or the common cold.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        3·
        15 days ago

        Thank you. I kinda get what you mean. I will read it a few a times as it takes me a few goes to really get things.🙂

        Because learning Latin is basically learning to translate I am getting better at parsing sentences 👍I will get there.

        So in my latest lesson the direct objects are bread and wine and the transitive verbs are want, like, and buy ??? question

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          Latin’s a bit different from English. So not directly relatable. In Latin, you look at what case the direct object is in - if that is accusative, then all is well and good and the verb is transitive. HOWEVER if the direct object is in the nominative case, the transitive verb just became passive and the direct object suddenly became the new subject. It’s complicated.

          From your comment - straightforward transitive verbs in present and past tense.

          I want bread.
          I like wine.
          I buy bread and wine.
          I wanted bread.
          I used to like wine.
          I bought bread & wine.

          All the bread & wine are in the accusative case. The subject is “I”. You can see how the verbs change a bit according to tense in English.

          Wine was bought by me - same subject (me), but a passive verb, and the wine takes the nominative case and becomes the subject of the sentence. In English there’s no difference in spelling - but Latin there is.

          Don’t get me started on intransitive verbs or I will run screaming into the night. Next week.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
    4·
    15 days ago

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