mycatsays

@mycatsays@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All together now... (food recall)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MCCAIN FOODS (AUST) PTY LTD - McCain Cheese & Bacon Pizza Pockets 400g Published 12 December 2025 Red box with yellow McCain Logo

  McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd are conducting a recall of the above product. The product has been available for sale in Woolworths, Coles and independent retailers including IGA nationally and online.

  Date Markings: BEST BEFORE OCT 2026 A (289, 290, 291)

  Problem: The presence of foreign matter (plastic, metal).

  Food safety hazard: Food products containing plastic and/or metal may cause illness/injury if consumed.

  What to do: Consumers should not eat this product. Consumers should return the product(s) to the place of purchase for a full refund. Any consumers concerned about their health should seek medical advice.

  For further information please contact: McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd 1800 000 422 customerservice@mccain.com.au mccain.com.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This morning I have opened: Lemmy (aussie.zone), Discord, WhatsApp, Bluesky, Messenger, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube.

  None of them have asked me to verify my age, neither the ones that said they would nor the ones explicitly exempt nor the ones about which we know nothing.

  My Facebook and Google accounts are probably old enough that they don’t need to verify. All the other accounts are too young for that to work.

  Bluesky asked me to enter my date of birth, but did not require anything to substantiate the date I entered.

  I’m a Millennial, so my age isn’t an issue. But I don’t want to give anything identifying to any platform. (I like the approach aussie.zone is taking.) So I am relieved that thus far my accounts are unaffected.

  But I’m also feeling a healthy dose of “where’s the boogeyman we were promised?” and wondering when the shoe is going to drop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outage Sunday Oct 26⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the update.

  I really should get back on Mastodon…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cats aren’t pack animals, but they do socialise with humans, other cats, and other animals. They don’t all have the same personality and some will tend to be more social than others.

  In general, I would say that if a cat normally has human company most of the day (e.g. a human who doesn’t work or works from home), human company can be enough (circumstances vary). But in general, if the human(s) are gone a lot of the time then it can be lonely for a single cat. In that case it’s worth getting them a four-footed companion.

  We had a cat who preferred having us to herself rather than sharing us with another cat. But we could see that she got lonely when we had to leave her by herself, so it seemed better that she had a companion cat even if she didn’t want a friend.

  At our current house, the yard is open and various neighbourhood cats will come into the space. Our boy accepts two of them. I don’t know if they are “friends”, but they come to visit and he’s chill with them. Any other cat coming into the yard, he tries to fight off. Some fascinating cat politics going on.