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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<blockquote><p>Qantas apologises for firing workers after fine | Evening News Bulletin 18 August 2025 <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episod" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episod</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p></blockquote><p>Ahhhh, i think you'll find in fact that they fired them <em>before</em> the fine, hence... <em>the fine</em>. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<blockquote><p>Motorcyclist was just 5 minutes from home when tragedy struck <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-18/crash-leaves-drouin-motorcyclist-corey-christoph-unable-to-work/105644630" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-08-18/cra</span><span class="invisible">sh-leaves-drouin-motorcyclist-corey-christoph-unable-to-work/105644630</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RoadAccidentsandIncidents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoadAccidentsandIncidents</span></a></p></blockquote><p>Ah yes, yet more of this ridiculous comparative journalism. </p><p>Had they been 30' from home, would it have been "unfortunate", rather than "tragic"?</p><p>75' -- "inconvenient"?</p><p>117' -- "mildly irritating"?</p><p>4 hours -- "hilarious"?</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<blockquote><p>Hurricane Erin explodes to category five strength near Caribbean <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-17/caribbean-hurricane-erin-upgraded-to-category-five/105663742" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-08-17/car</span><span class="invisible">ibbean-hurricane-erin-upgraded-to-category-five/105663742</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storms</span></a></p></blockquote><p>"Explodes", eh? </p><p><em>"Explodes"</em>. </p><p>🙄🤦‍♀️</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><a href="https://m.einverne.info/@HackerNewsBot/115027830565073482" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.einverne.info/@HackerNewsBot</span><span class="invisible">/115027830565073482</span></a> </p><blockquote><p>"None of These Books Are Obscene"</p></blockquote><p>no, but that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> certainly is. 😞</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@CaringKinderSociety" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CaringKinderSociety</span></a></span> Oh! 😮</p><blockquote><p>who hit the pavement </p></blockquote><p>Hitherto i'd not realised that we held the Sydney City to Surf run in Pommyland, or Merka. </p><p>😡</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p>Sigh; <code>myriad</code> is <em>not</em> a collective noun. Tis an adjective. A synonym is <code>innumerable</code>, another is <code>multiple</code>... there's even the old dependable <code>many</code>. Ergo, this is nonsensical:</p><blockquote><p>they were defeated for a myriad of reasons</p></blockquote><p>Why, PK, did you not simply write</p><blockquote><p>they were defeated for myriad reasons</p></blockquote><p>Hmmmm?</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/negative-gearing-reform-is-back/105607188" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/neg</span><span class="invisible">ative-gearing-reform-is-back/105607188</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ABC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OldWomanShrieksAtClouds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldWomanShrieksAtClouds</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/sport/swimming/sorry-australia-short-floored-by-food-poisoning-set-to-miss-800m-final-20250730-p5mj2y.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/sport/swimming/sorr</span><span class="invisible">y-australia-short-floored-by-food-poisoning-set-to-miss-800m-final-20250730-p5mj2y.html</span></a></p><blockquote><p><strong>Marchand stuns world with ‘crazy’ world record</strong></p></blockquote><p>This is true!</p><p>There is not a scintilla of hyperbole here whatsoever!</p><p>Overnight, as i placidly slept, suddenly i felt the urge to sit bolt upright in bed, abruptly wide awake, due to this inexplicable feeling of "astunment" that washed over me. </p><p>"Oh golly", said me to self, "what an amazeballs sense of astunment i am now feeling! I wonder what has caused it?".</p><p>Upon further reflection, &amp; minute analysis of all the stunning sensations, i came to realise there could only be one possible explanation. </p><p>"Someone, somewhere, has broken some world record, in dogpaddling or sumfink". </p><p>"I truly hope nobody in the world was operating heavy machinery at the time, coz their parallel overwhelming sense of spontaneous astunment might have lead to serious accidents".</p><p>Fucken idiot journos, ffs. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a> !!!</p>
Droppie<p></p><blockquote>The 18 islands which make up the Faroes are connected by 23 tunnels, four of which run below the sea</blockquote><span>Look, i'm not a rocket scientist nor brain surgeon, so i'm struggling a bit here. Pls help, someone. <br><br>What's an island? Ain't it </span><i>kinda sorta</i> like a bit of land surrounded by, not to put too fine a point on it, a body of water, which in non-lake &amp; non-riverine contexts, some might consider a bit, well... <i>sea</i><span>-ish?<br><br>So, if one were to have, say, 18 islands, so defined, &amp; if they were all interconnected via tunnels, then... &amp; this seems to be the tricky bit... doesn't it </span><i>kinda sorta ipso facto</i> mean that <i>all</i> said tunnels <blockquote>run below the sea</blockquote>I mean, if vehicular transport infrastructure were to connect some islands together but not be "below the sea", mightn't some vulgar cynics tend to opine these would be called, well... <i>bridges</i><span> ?<br><br>What vital concepts &amp; facts am i missing here, pls? </span>🤔🤷🤯<span><br><br></span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7jw27w1do" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7jw27w1do</a><span><br><br></span><a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/WhatDoWordsMean" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhatDoWordsMean</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/WriteGooder" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WriteGooder</a><p></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/114815553103745432" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.chinwag.org/@guardian_b</span><span class="invisible">ot/114815553103745432</span></a> Tch tch</p><blockquote><p>loses arm</p></blockquote><p>So terribly careless of her. I wonder where she last saw it? Has she checked under the sofa, or in the back of the cupboard? </p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p>Whilst it doesn't irritate me quite as much as the rhetorical cowardice of <em>"pass"</em> in lieu of <em>"die"</em>, another instance of silly linguistic sophistry is <em>"lose"</em> instead of <em>"her arm was ripped off by an apex predator feline treating arrogant humans as they deserve"</em>. Or sumfink. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vocabulary</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TalkGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TalkGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p>Still routinely gobsmacked that so many Merkans have no idea how to <em>correctly</em> use "of". 🙄🤦‍♀️</p><ul><li>not that big of a problem 🤣</li><li>a couple dozen wotsits 🤣</li></ul><p>Deny science ✅, deny women ✅, deny non-whites ✅, deny LGBTQI ✅, deny compassion &amp; decency ✅... deny grammar ✅. <em>Actual</em> Merkan Exceptionalism in practice is so different to how they chest-puffingly self-delude. 🙄🤦‍♀️</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TalkGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TalkGooder</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><strong><em>"Performant" is not a real word</em></strong>. I cringe each &amp; every time other Linux users in posts, articles &amp; videos use it. </p><p>It's almost as wankery as "home lab". </p><p>🙄🤦‍♀️</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vocabulary</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TalkGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TalkGooder</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sarcasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sarcasm</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p>I still reckon this is incorrect</p><blockquote><p>us gays are tired.</p></blockquote><p>For me tis always &amp; only</p><blockquote><p>we gays are tired.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/pride-wife-twin-sister-similar" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jun/11/pride-wife-twin-sister-similar</span></a></p><p>This is possibly not the primary takeaway Arwa might have hoped for her article 🤷‍♀️ 🤭 </p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syntax</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WriteGooder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteGooder</span></a></p>