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damon

@damonism@aus.social
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Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia).

Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Joined August 21, 2018
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Jul 27, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Replying to @damonism@aus.social
Everyone my age has a favourite Goodies episode. Mine was always the O. K. Tea Room. Though that one where they are getting renovations on the office and they discover the builders were just drinking cups of tea and the construction sounds were from a cassette tape comes back to me a lot, as I frequently intersect with the construction industry.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Jul 27, 2026
damon
@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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It seems like Bill Oddie (Bill Oddie‽ Bloddy?) was one of the few British comedians of my youth who hasn’t since been completely cancelled (I’m not googling to milkshake duck this). That said, some Goodies episodes are definitely not watchable these days.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Jul 11, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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The mileage of the beast.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Jun 15, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Replying to @futzle@old.mermaid.town
@futzle@old.mermaid.town something probably to do with that one company in the Netherlands that is the only place in the world that can make the UV lithography machines that the whole industry ultimately depends on, I imagine.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 22, 2026
damon
@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Today is dragging.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 22, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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I have now put two things in my calendar for 2027.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 20, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Had our last night out at Onzieme tonight, which is about to close. Portia’s Place, an institution since I first started working in Kingston 20 years ago, is also closing. Sad to witness Kingston’s culinary decline. #canberra

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Aus.Social

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 19, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Was doing some research that involved reading some journal articles and an essential step is now: was this published before AI slop became a thing? (This one is from 2008, so probably factual.)

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 19, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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The people in the queue in front of me at the coffee shop have ordered 13 coffees.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 18, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Small keyboards are such a small niche that I feel like every time a 40s/split custom keycap set comes out I should buy it just to support it, but this one really doesn’t grab me, sadly. https://www.keebzncables.com/products/dss-distortion

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 16, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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I took my old camera, a Panasonic LUMIX GF1 with a 20mm pancake prime, down to the beach the other week. I love the photos this thing produces. So much nicer than the iPhone.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 15, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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The illustrations in Australian Standards are almost universally awful, but the stick figures in AS/NZ 1891.4 (Personal equipment for work at height) are actually quite cute.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 14, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Discovered tonight while I was out on a training exercise that the enormous 5000mAh battery in my head torch does not, in fact, last forever.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 05, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Boosted by Dread Pirate (Tom) Roberts @troberts@theblower.au
This 90s nostalgia piece was fun. People are so young these days. Fun fact: I literally got a PhD in criminology because I was obsessed with The X-Files. https://midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-files-has-made-me-nostalgic
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damon @damonism@aus.social · May 02, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Replying to @joannaholman@aus.social
@joannaholman@aus.social The cockatoos are absolutely trying to kill you. They haven’t worked out how, yet, but they have all the time in the world.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Apr 28, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Replying to @stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net
@stilgherrian I assume it’s a polite way of saying “wanker”.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Apr 16, 2026
damon
@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Replying to @liamvhogan@aus.social
@liamvhogan@aus.social I feel you, but also welcome to the Internet.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Apr 16, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Replying to @liamvhogan@aus.social
@liamvhogan@aus.social Is this a subtoot about that article about backpacks, because the enthusiast backpack market has gone nuts over the last couple of years and honestly never has there been a better time to buy a backpack that scratches your very specific itch; it’s just that you won’t get one for $20 at K-Mart.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Apr 10, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Replying to @simonbs@mastodon.social
@simonbs I got one late last year. Love it. Great car if the size and range suit your lifestyle.
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damon @damonism@aus.social · Mar 07, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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If you have not seen Wargames, you absolutely should. Holds up well (as a movie; maybe not the technology so much), all these years later. Currently free on YouTube. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/950868

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 21, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Having read/followed MacStories since back when it was actually about Macs, and occasionally being a paying subscriber, I think it’s time to unfollow their accounts and feeds. They’re basically all AI all the time now, and it’s just tedious and boring.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 20, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Having spent most of the last couple of days out at the Canberra Show for work, I would recommend that if you want to see the show but don’t like crowds, go in the morning, or on Friday, and particularly Friday morning. The Friday thing isn’t useful this year, of course, but it might be useful next year. Just be aware if you’re going for the rides, a lot of them don’t seem to operate early on Friday (you could conceivably get a ride all to yourself if you time it right on the Friday).

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 18, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Kind of tempted to go and see HEALTH when they tour in September.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 16, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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We have a tree just outside our back door that produces “berries” that the sulphur-crested cockatoos seem to love, so all day this time of year the cockies sit in the tree clipping off branches and dropping shit all over our back deck.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 16, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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My car has a software update available which is basically “bug fixes and performance enhancements” but after iOS 26 and Liquid Glass I’m reluctant to just hit the update button these days.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 15, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Inventor of Balatro to inventor of crack cocain: pfft, amateur.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 15, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Caught the new Flix bus from Canberra to Sydney and back this weekend. It was fine. They advertise Wifi but it was pretty bad, IME. Seats were comfortable enough. The round trip was about $600 less than it would have been to fly, so I think it was reasonable for what I paid.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 14, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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A hotel room on the morning of your departure is a liminal space.

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damon @damonism@aus.social · Feb 14, 2026
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@damonism@aus.social

Located in Ngunnawal Country/Canberra (Australia). Into fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and other anachronisms, but mostly just post about my dog or whatever random thoughts happen to be flitting across by brain while I’m near a keyboard. Posts auto-delete after a month or so.

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Had a lovely evening doing dinner and a show with @virtualwolf@toot.virtualwolf.org tonight.

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