Today's my 4th Twitter anniversary. I've spent almost a quarter of my life wasting it on that trashfire of a website

My friend has four exams in the first two days of the exam period :D

Having to get a decent wage for a decent days work shouldn't be so bloody hard. Swear the bosses at the top of anywhere lose sight of what it's like to be grafting.

the current issue of the economist is all about employment data in OECD countries. england, japan, germany, the u.s., all seeing similar trends... [and politicians du jour falsely taking credit for it]

super-interesting, and im in the middle of it today.

again offering some copypasta of some texts. but they offer some free articles.

lmao i should become a door to door salesman for this shit haaahaahaaa. i just really enjoy this magazine (“newspaper,” they call themselves).

anyway... tldr; things are currently looking up and it’s time to make yourself indispensable/secure some gains/up your skills before the next recession hits.

I love the city.

I lucked out - my Specialist Maths teacher wasn't here this morning so I was able to avoid a test.

Unfortunately I now have an English Language test...

Ya girl's getting herself a guitar! Hopefully it's worth the $200 I'll be spending on it (it's secondhand)

cool! Be nice to your parents and give them some earplugs :D
I don't know guitars at all, isn't $200 still expensive for a second hand? What is it?

current eur/aud rate is 1.609
~124 euros?
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I'm probably going to try and learn with headphones - we've got an adaptor plug somewhere.

This is the photo from the guy who's selling it on Gumtree (Aussie eBay). According to my mate who's a musician, it's a pretty versatile rig so it'll be able to work (amp included). It's the same type as the school music rooms, which suggests something.


And a few of the others were getting into the 3-4 hundred range - this and another one were the cheapest there, and black is cooler than red. :D

My first guitar was cherry red.

Times have changed, old man. :D

cherry red is still better now and forever :p :D

Classics don’t change.

!@#$%! is always posting NYT articles for me to read; it's time I repay the favour.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/m...nonbinary.html

thanks! read about half of it (some nyt articles are new yorker long these days), will catch up with the rest later. and wow.... so much i didnt know.

Yeah. The bit that really affected me was hearing about how Salem used to just make fun of non-binary identities, because I did the same thing when I was fourteen or so.

Don't go getting too used to those earphones though. You gonna want some wicked amp vibrations to kick that yummy yummy feedback into high gear. And if you are talking about playing guitar on a Sonic Youth forum, and NOT talking feedback, then what the hell is wrong with you!?!? :)

And I agree. Black guitars are the king of the crop.

Haha, I'm waiting until I have some form of technique down before I can get some really nasty stuff going on. Can't wait to perform, and horrify my friends and relatives.

Just turn them knobs to MAX! Without headphones of course.