where protest? Husband said at exhibition, it's not here, it's at the expo centre?
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Ooh I didn't realise you were going
I stayed home cause I'm still feeling crook and really don't have the energy, but I've been reading the ABC's coverage, and it seems like it's winding down now, but has split into 2 groups
From a bit over an hour ago:
Crowds outside the Land Forces expo have now shrunk to a few hundred from their initial thousands this morning.
ABC reporter Jess Longbottom is at the protest, and says demonstrators have mainly split into two groups โ one in front of Crown Casino, and one on the north side of the Spencer St bridge.
More recently:
ABC reporter Natalie Whiting is on the ground at the protest and says protestors on the Batman Park side of the bridge have largely pulled back.
"They have said they are assessing and recouping before deciding whether they will return this afternoon or wait until tomorrow," Whiting says.
"There is still a group of protestors gathered on the other side of the river, closer to the convention centre."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/live-blog-land-forces-protest-melbourne-israel-gaza/104333922
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I've been away for a couple of nights and now Miss Meow has decided I need her constant supervision.
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Tried those Oreo coke biscuits. Not sure I want to taste coke when I eat a biscuit; and the aftertaste lingers. 2/10 from me.
The rains have started here
I am still super tired, but laying in bed listening to the rain wrapped up on top of my electric blanket is actually really nice. Unfortunately I can't enjoy it much, because there's so many loud cars and motorbikes around these parts recently, and there's too many helicopters and planes flying about
Also the rains have stopped now
The hail is on you ๐
Hehe, TIL I can hear NFC through my headphone cable
I had my headphones plugged into the cable from my PC, but was also using my phone when I started hearing a series of clicks and then a short high pitched squeak. Played around with airplane mode and eventually narrowed it down to the NFC. That's pretty cool!
Now I'm tempted to go chuck some data on an NFC tag and see if I can hear the data ๐ค
Probably a bad idea, could end up being super loud or something. Who knows. Anyway I'm bad at resisting bad ideas, will be back later with a status update
I did it! It wasn't super loud, even on max volume. It's super cool. Also TIL my NFC tags have a size of ~500 bytes
I thought there was something wrong with my wired earbuds I plug in to my laptop, because I was hearing clicks in them at random times. Turns out I was because I was putting my phone back down on the cables. I always theorised it was my phone trying to charge itself wirelessly, but it definitely makes more sense if it's NFC related.