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melinmelbourne.bsky.social
I'm actually in Seattle. Formerly suoerhot. No more jockeys, public transport, general frustrations. The only war is a class war
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Can we get rid of AUKUS but keep me being eligible for global entry at some point this year please and thanks.

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It really feels like “DOGE” is doing robodebt but for jobs and man that turned out so well didn’t it

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

American ads, especially during the Super Bowl, are so goddamn cheesy

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Travesty that I can’t get sausage rolls (“pastry pups” are vastly inferior) party pies or Kiev balls in the US

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Garlic butter halloumi schnitzel

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting side effect of the way that American cities are governed is that something like the Seattle comp plan is absolutely detached from suburban sprawl because it’s not that jurisdiction. So these “pro tree” people can waffle on without ever having to deal with the tree removal of sprawl

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Listened to Benson Boone for the first time after never hearing of him. He’s just a less interesting Lewis Capaldi

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It’s tax time in the US. I received two paper forms (1095-c & 1099R) and am still waiting on my W2. Which will also be paper (it’s like a group certificate). This is the stuff that could be modernised in the US system. This and the application systems for like USCIS. But this is not the focus.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

King County Metro need to do some serious public messaging (with demos! And some level of gentle prodding!) on how to ride a peak hour bus now there’s an uptick of riding post RTO. Never rode with such a clueless group of PT riders as I do daily in this city.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I know there’s other things happening right now but there are two huge blow ups in the online knitting space and I’m enjoying it immensely. One is a classic “ripping off a design” one, but with added huge ego of the person who absolutely stole/leaked the designs.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

My current approach to TikTok is I scroll until the Australian pelvic floor physio makes me do my exercises and then we’re done for the day.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Studying for the equivalent of my L’s test (they don’t just transfer my full Aus licence over) and I keep getting practice questions wrong because I think the punishments should be harsher.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Rebranding office to copilot 365 is so dumb. Its like setting the brand recognition of their most well known brand on fire

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll be slightly disappointed if America gets TikTok back quickly, it would have been a nice experiment to see what would happen an established service without Americans

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Podcasts are for the ears not the eyes. I don’t want your video podcast

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Drives me up the wall how many little things you just can’t do in the office programs now and the solution is, after trying to find it in the program, is “oh you have to use the web version”. We could create inbox categories in the app but renaming had to be in the browser? Office hours? Browser

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Slightly unrelated but one thing that baffles me a bit about US real estate listings is how rare it is that a (non apartment rental) includes a floor plan. I won’t even consider a listing on an Australian site that doesn’t have a floor plan.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Watching the Traitors and this girl is like “oh I’m keeping it a secret I have a degree in psychology” and I was like why? They can’t know you’re good at SPSS and chi-squares?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Wordle bot sometimes goes “cool you only had one remaining choice and you got it” and then the stats show that like 1% of people put the exact same word in again?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

What’s the deal with adding music to Instagram pics posts? Is it to juice the algo? It’s super annoying when I accidentally click it

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

This wiki paragraph tickles me because it reads like normal football machinations before you realise they’re talking about an 11 year old “taking time off”

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

This republican/tech infighting about immigration in the US would be VERY amusing if I wasn’t a, checks passport, working visa holder in the US.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

I think my favourite take I’ve seen in the last couple of days is that America has an opioid/fentanyl crisis because of the H1Bs. lol.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Ringo’s Christmas album slaps.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Introducing a small American child to bon-bons/crackers was a true delight

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Me today

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Christmas Miracle new No More Jockeys 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

So my TikTok account is Australian. I set it up there, it’s still my country on TikTok. If they ban it here, will mine still work? Or is it like a country wide connection ban that a VPN will solve?

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

The millennial address book: searching “address” in your messages and scrolling til you find what you’re looking for

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments