Be excellent… ‘Nuff said. But seriously Raven, thanks for your work and of course to everyone else who got this kickstarted and rounded up the troops. It was heartwarming to see.
Clarifying the gif part are you saying no gif or to write a description before adding one? I don’t usually do gif unless it’s a pm to a friend, but just trying to understand that part when I read it, due to it can affect some people with its nature
I'm pretty happy with everything here. I think that, my major concerns are just trolls and such. Since what I remember of the DT was a lot of really welcoming folks (even now here while I stopped being active in the DT it feels like this place is safe... a safe space as one would say), but when it came to posts on the subreddit at large there were just some horrible and mean people, especially when it came to threads about the current climate/the American culture war they're trying to bring here.
Obviously, everyone has a right to their opinion, just as I do. But a lot of those would get ugly, luckily they'd be pretty downvoted quick. But other than that, it's a pretty simple rule list that makes sense. And I'm sure you folks on the admin team will edit the rules with enough warning if something comes up!
Instead of doing anything constructive I have been reading about the Aboriginal stories about Raven (AKA Crow). Known as Waa to the Wurundjeri People. Waa was originally a white bird, who stole coals/fire from seven sisters who were keeping it to themselves. He either dropped some or ended up throwing it at other animals who were wanting to have some too, which is how fire came to be used by mankind. In the process Waa started a bushfire in which he was burned, which is how he became black.
There are several stories about crows I've heard from different nations. They usually count them among the cleverest and most mischievious of animals. I love thier stories.
If anyone remembers all my long rants in the Reddit DT, I have some kinda good news about it.
Things at the hosue have been much more settled, it appears one of them (the main noisy one) will be moving out and back in with his family. He hasn't been here in about a month and a half, so things have been more chill. One of the others is just going about her life as usual. She tells and throws things once every day or two still, but not as bad as it was. And then the other one is still chill, he's never caused many problems
And on the lead tenant thing I mentioned a while ago, it seems things are going well. They lined up a house that sounds chill and I had my first meeting with the program coordinator on Tuesday. She gave me a rulebook I need to read, and then this coming Friday we meet with her again and I officially sign the papers. After that, it will be about 4-8 weeks until I move in.
It's still stressing me out a bit, mainly because I don't fit one of their requirements properly and I'm only about half fulfilling it. Allegedly they'll be pretty lenient on it, but lenient as in they'll accept me, but if I don't 100% meet it within a few months, I'll be locked back and sent back into Resi.
It's also kind of fucking with my head because I've been here for 4 years, and although I've never considered it to be, or felt that it is my home, that's the longest I've ever lived anywhere in my entire life. For about 3/4 of those years it's been pretty bleak living here and felt like a never ending nightmare, but now that it is ending and comparitively the end is so close I can basically touch it, it feels is backwards to what I'm used to
Had an interesting day, yesterday I watched a pretty cool YT of Danny Elfman, he's old and weird and awesome and so talented. But watching him gave me the confidence to be older and weird too. I'm just miserable if I wear beige and be "comfy" and be my "age". I like to have some style, I like to express myself, have fun, wear black even. So today I bought black and stylish stuff, including a cute jumper with embroidered stars and moons and a grey cashmere top . Felt good. :)
I've only just got here but Bright and the drive in is very pretty. Totally guessed the motel wifi password like a hardcore hacker because they didn't give it to me and there's nothing in the room about it.
Now that I'm settled it's time to go for a look around. I friggin love alpine regions/mountains.
I love my job but they cut my hours, so I went job hunting. First interview and they offered me the job which is 30k more than I am currently getting. They want me to start in 3 weeks but I’m so scared I’ll quit my current job and then hate my new one and never get to go back.
Has anyone has a situation where they got the job and ended up hating it
I know right. I actually started to put them on the line then chickened out and nicked to the laundromat instead. I don't want to have to go searching through all the neighbourhood
Wow physical meet up between a couple of DT mates was nice. Got a message of support also from another DTer. You peeps know who you are. Thanks a lot. I'm resigning myself to believe that I cast that shit into the ether and let it out rather than bottling it up and can always tell my story in another way anyway. Incredible to meet someone irl with similar shit going on and not pause for breath for an hour. Food and hot bevs were excellent. St kilda is iconic. I'm definitely getting in the north vs south war by now. Great day for a skate. Hopefully I'll not too wobbly.
Good day for laundry - wind and sun. It's also hard rubbish weekend in Darebin, so I'll be looking out for large plant pots and mesh to cover the fence in the courtyard. Let the curb crawling commence (after breakfast). Reduce, reuse, recycle!
Trees are definitely thrashing their branches around here. My consolation is that the laundry will dry very fast today. Hard rubbish day is lots of fun I reckon. It's remarkable the number of items that keep appearing only in front of different houses each year.
My blue clamshell I bought for the dogs (that they refused to use) got taken by someone down the road. I was happy to see it had quite a few years of use before I saw it outside their place again.
I threw out some old curtains a few months ago, which mysteriously reappeared in an abandoned trolley dumped at a vacant house acrosss the road. Not so good, and I have wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what on earth was going on there.
I really have no idea. But I just got back from a walk and there are another two dumped trolleys there as well, it seems to be some sort of trolley staging area. There is another up the road, which is potentially still making its way there. Perhaps the curtains are a robe to designate the Trolley Monarch?
All hail the Mighty Trolley Monarch! Definitely rules in High St Thornbury/Northcote. Mind you we do have 2 Aldis, a Woolies and 2 Coleses as well as a lot of other shops in a 1 k strip. And Preston Market not much further away.
Oh I came across the BEST pot in someone’s hard rubbish on my morning walk this week. It was too heavy to carry so I was gonna swing by in my car to grab it. But I walked past it again not 15 minutes later on my way back and it was gonna. 😞 Gotta act quickly if you see something good
I wish my council still did it that way (Merri Bek), but you now have to book a collection and you're allowed 2 per year of a certain size. If you go over that size you lose your second booking. I like it better when everyone puts their stuff out all at once, and then you can go around having a polite lift and sift of everyone else's stuff. Last time we booked a collection they forgot about it for weeks. When we rang and reminded them they came and got it and the nature strip was all dead! In the meantime people had been coming after nightfall to add paint cans and other stuff that you're not allowed to and the pile was huge.
I’ve got a hard rubbish collection coming up too, and I’m putting all the good stuff out today in case someone wants it. No large pots though, unfortunately. Hopefully the rain holds off
Went to the zoo, it was bloody windy! I feel like most of the animals were like yeah nah! All of the reptiles and snakes were out and about though, which is pretty rare!
in the market for a new job and article this morning about australian companies trialing and succeeding with 4 day work weeks here has me glimmer of hoping. difference in quality of life between 5 and 4 days is incredible.
I think I'll stick with my 2 day work week. Two 12 hour days, then two days off. Repeat. I'd rather less hours, but in the absence of that this works pretty well.
haven't heard of that before, sounds excellent. speaking only for office/knowledge jobs and maybe not 100% of jobs are like this but.. almost every one i have had has contained substantial filler, would happily trade for time off and more compressed/efficient work hours. we would easily spend half a day a week in meetings that don't need to happen.
The subscriber counts here are a bit dodgy. I think it is only showing the subscribers on the instance you are in, not overall. I accidentally went to my other group from this account and thought it had dropped from about 200 subscribers to 3! It makes me wonder how many subsribers we actually have here, if the 358 showing is just people subscribed from this instance we may actually have quite a few more. Although I think the users/posts/comments counts are really more meaningful anyway.
I have had junk food delivered and I have no regrets at all. I prefer fish n chip shop burgers generally, but McD's is what my half drunken arse is craving. What trashy foods do you guys crave when you've had a couple?
I don't really care, but I'll go Aus seeing as I'm here! I used to live at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, could watch the internationals from my kitchen window
So I know that the whole Rdt saga is a bit of a sore point. (Avery ye eyes if needed.) I’ve been following it loosely and someone posted their terms which made me think about how we loathe it when news outlets pilfer our posts. I thought it might be worth noting this:
When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.
If you can't tell what the product is, the product is you.
It has often been a problem with artwork, both on social media sites and when you do things like enter competitions or use your own work to be printed on an item you are often giving away the rights. Now that AI is involved our words have also become more valuable to companies, even random passing conversations.
Oh, I have no illusions about that. It was just a passing thought on the times I’ve seen people get mad about seeing content used in online news. If anyone thought they still owned anything they posted, they just might want to think again.
My guess is that's a large part of why they are making the changes - 3rd party apps are not really the target, it's just part of the process of how they plan to keep the material contained so they can sell it to media and large businesses.
Yeah and here I am bitching I can't publish the journal I lost with melbourne going private. I'd probably get a cease and desist letter. /s No one much if anyone would have actually read it lol.
If a service if free, we are the product, the advertisers their customers. So this here lemmy or aussie zone or whatever is the same and we'll face the same drama again sometime if it gets big and shareholders need an roi. woohoo late state capatalism! we provide the content for free and they sell us shit we don't need.
Actually, that can’t happen with this place. We can own and run the servers if we want and can choose to communicate or block whatever other servers we want.
It’s the big draw card of the “fediverse”
Off topic, hey just wanted to say thanks for talking about Atomic Heart on reddit a couple weeks back. I never would have known about it as I am super casual gamer. I’m about halfway through it now and it’s a KILLER game 10/10. It’s like if Half-Life and Bioshock had a baby.
<3 I 100% get you. Mental health sucks, my doctor gave me the wrong health care plan and no medicare is saying I can't get the care plan for some reason. So now I have to like wait for the doctors to get back to me but I feel like I might have to make an appointment to see them.
But yeah, I totally understand everything you're going through, and don't want to be like "chin up" because we know shit like that doesn't work. Cuddling cats and coffee are good ideas.
No worries dude. It's real tough out there. Especially (I'm assuming) as a jobseeker. It's both funny in a frustrating way and just plain frustrating to have places that are like "We're desperate for people!" and then people go "hey I'd like to apply for a job" and they're like "okay we're not that desperate".
You're a good egg, I send you all my love and well wishes like a middle age woman on Facebook (not in the passive aggressive kind but in a "send my love to the kids Cheryl!" kind).
Laundry accomplished. Shopping done. Have decided to ditch the jigsaw that came with a jumbled up picture on the box. Brand/logo is M?xtery. Stuff that for a game of soldiers. Will fall back on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by a proper jigsaw brand with a real picture on the box. Not in the mood for deciphering a jumbled up picture.
Sister has lent me a rather nice jigsaw called Diverse Women. No women in the picture just a lot of squiggles. Maybe that one after the Sistine Chapel.
Just went and looked at a car and old mate was determined not sell it apparently. Remember guys "my bro is a mechanic" and "I'm selling it because I'm moving overseas" are not phrases you utter when trying to sell a car.
So I had this problem where I couldn't open more than one page in my browser. I asked the man to have a look and he said everything is fine. Then the interrogation started.
Him: What browser do you use?
Me: I don't know. Chrome I guess.
Him: Show me.
I press the google bar. His eyes got very wide.
Him: That's not chrome. That's google. It only allows you to open one tab at a time.
Me: ooohhh
He shakes his head. Then proceeds to educate me on Google vs Google Chrome vs Samsung browser. Now you smart people probably already know this. I did not even though I've had 3 Samsung phones and 3 Samsung tablets over the last 10 years. I have learnt lots in the past few days. I will continue to learn. I at least showed him how to use the airfryer the other day.
One of the bonuses to relationships that I like. Especially when their expertise can help you further. I'm a writer, and one of my stories that I hope gets published one of these days, involves a character from WW2 Russia. So my partner helped me a lot when it came to guns from that time. Of course, what I bring to the table is just stupid Wikipedia knowledge because I need to know stuff that doesn't benefit me in life at all.
Once someone shows me something I can pick it up quite quickly. Plus he is a very good teacher. Very patient and he makes me demonstrate what I have been shown so I get it. We do compliment each other. There's been a lot of funny moments.
My hot water unit is finished, the gas pilot isn't staying on for more than 24 - 48 hours. The unit is from 1995. I've been told they don't usually last almost 30 years so this house did well with it. It's a fun game going into the shower on a cold winter's day and wondering if hot water is going to come out or if the pilot's gone off. Going to cost 2k to get replaced! Love these unexpected large expenses. Anyway, trying to not let it ruin my weekend. Things break, such is life.
Good morning everyone. I've arrived just in time for breakfast, perfect timing!
I've created a post https://aussie.zone/post/50477 to share pet photos in, currently starring RustyDog (AKA Mr Woof) and RavenCat (AKA Miss Meow). If we can link to photos there rather than posting them directly here it will help stop the thread getting pic overload, and as a bonus we get a zone of concentrated cuteness to go and chill in. Win Win. 😁
CEO's post about no coffee in the car made me think, I just don't eat or drink in cars, but then, I'm not a very busy person.
But I get it, there is no eating or drinking on the velvet sofa 🤨 at least not without a big tray
It's so cold this morning. Urgh. I think the insulation in my ceiling is fucked. Discussed it with my rental manager six months ago and they've done nothing since, the bastards.
Oh that’s right scary knowing they like both land and ocean 😱 keep your eyes peeled at all time. Enjoy your time. If you get the chance, can you take a pic of the gorgeous ocean and post it here? This site can upload pics I think
i also really enjoyed the new season of UK taskmaster. will have to give a watch to nz taskmaster i havent seen it yet. anyone seen the aus one? any good?
The new season of uk taskmaster was great! I have seen the Aussie, I thought it was great overall, the comedian mix was good. To watch the NZ one you need a VPN and a tvnz login. Lol.
I finally beat Yoshi's Crafted World after owning it for 3 years. Now I'm finally getting started on Breath of the Wild. Look, I'm a patient gamer okay?!
let's see, bought a ton of stuff online. delivery is going to be crazy the next couple of weeks. but finally a bedside table :) been here for almost 2 years and no bedside table.
btw what is DT, seen it mentioned too many times. maybe I dun lurk on r/mebourne as much as I think I did.
Has anyone renewed their learners before? I thought I could just renew it online, but nope looks like I have to go in and renew it... what's annoying is that they're only open when I'm at work!
Haha. One has gone to get me groceries and the other popped out to have her glasses cleaned, mumbled something about breakfast and went back to bed. The 4 legged one does a very poor job of it.
My kitten wakes me up to play at 2am and 3am. Then the cats run all over the bed and in behind the blind right beside my head and all over the flat at 730am without fail.
So I was curious about what's happening over on Reddit, and turns out some subs are opening up because they're worried of Reddit admins gutting the mod teams and putting new ones in. It's already happened with advice animals. Not like it hasn't happened before, the head mod of Kotaku in Action (basically that whole gamergate shit, that IMHO, the guy who started it lied), essentially privated the sub because he was over it and hated seeing how hateful people were, he was removed and Admins put in new modding team.
I used to have a CD of the Live for Tibet concert from sometime in the 90s. It had various live performances on it from big bands at the time, Beastie Boys, REM (I think), Pearl Jam etc. It had an incredible version of Yellow Ledbetter on it, by far the best version I've heard. Anyways, after Yellow Ledbetter finishes the crowd roars but it's for the next band, The Mighty Bosstones....I always now finish Yellow Ledbetter in my head with a big We ARE the Mighty Mighty Bosstones then launch into the first few bars of The Impression That I Get
Anyone else watch My Place as a kid? I just had the most intense memory of watching it while on holiday at my grandparents and being utterly obsessed with it.
What's the mobile app for this site? "Jerboa for Lemmy" and using aussie.zone for the server? I'm trying to hook up some old DT members. Is it the same on apple phones?
I was using Jerboa but have decided that using the site from my phone's browser is a better experience for the time being. The Dev needs to work on it, or someone does, but he said he doesn't have time.
I am now of this opinion too..I hadn't used the browser version on my phone, but now after your comment, I have and, yes, it's way better than Jerboa. Which is unfortunate, because I like using 3rd party apps for things.
Jerboa isn't too bad once you get used to it's quirks imo. But I wasn't able to figure out how to sign in with Aussie.zone so I ended up creating a sh.itjust.works account and I use that instead
I signed up at sh.itjust.works first and could not get the aussie.zone to show on it, so created another account here. I didn't realise I could re-use the same user name, so ended up with a new identity too.
Ah, so that's why you're a raven? And yeah, searching for communities on other instances is a little tricky. If you still want to know how, you need to type "![community]@[instance]". So This Melbourne community is "![email protected]", but it doesn't seem to work on jerboa so you have to subscribe in the browser
According to BoM it’s supposedly sunny in the day then high chance of rain at night ~ Melbourne
A new thread and a weather update. I'm loving this.
Went for something different. Happy to hear it’s well liked :D
I love it. Good job 👍
Thank Goddess
🙌
Thanks for starting the new thread.
Not a problem at all
I have completed some draft Community Guidelines for the group. https://aussie.zone/post/53977
Hopefully they are ok - it feels a lot like writing an assigment and waiting for it to be marked :-)
Be excellent… ‘Nuff said. But seriously Raven, thanks for your work and of course to everyone else who got this kickstarted and rounded up the troops. It was heartwarming to see.
I think that all sounds very reasonable. My only quibble is that it should be affects and affecting Melbourne.
There are excellent! Thanks for all your hard work
Clarifying the gif part are you saying no gif or to write a description before adding one? I don’t usually do gif unless it’s a pm to a friend, but just trying to understand that part when I read it, due to it can affect some people with its nature
Looks pretty straightforward thank you.
I'm pretty happy with everything here. I think that, my major concerns are just trolls and such. Since what I remember of the DT was a lot of really welcoming folks (even now here while I stopped being active in the DT it feels like this place is safe... a safe space as one would say), but when it came to posts on the subreddit at large there were just some horrible and mean people, especially when it came to threads about the current climate/the American culture war they're trying to bring here.
Obviously, everyone has a right to their opinion, just as I do. But a lot of those would get ugly, luckily they'd be pretty downvoted quick. But other than that, it's a pretty simple rule list that makes sense. And I'm sure you folks on the admin team will edit the rules with enough warning if something comes up!
Ahhh hello DT friends, a bit late to the party but I have lurked a little. Glad to see you all here in this friendly space :) (formerly jezb87)
I shat away a headache. Ask me anything.
Instead of doing anything constructive I have been reading about the Aboriginal stories about Raven (AKA Crow). Known as Waa to the Wurundjeri People. Waa was originally a white bird, who stole coals/fire from seven sisters who were keeping it to themselves. He either dropped some or ended up throwing it at other animals who were wanting to have some too, which is how fire came to be used by mankind. In the process Waa started a bushfire in which he was burned, which is how he became black.
good waa
Waa is an awesome thing to name a raven. A name I can hear!
I can hear it as well - but I think that's because there is one in the backyard right now!
There are several stories about crows I've heard from different nations. They usually count them among the cleverest and most mischievious of animals. I love thier stories.
If anyone remembers all my long rants in the Reddit DT, I have some kinda good news about it.
Things at the hosue have been much more settled, it appears one of them (the main noisy one) will be moving out and back in with his family. He hasn't been here in about a month and a half, so things have been more chill. One of the others is just going about her life as usual. She tells and throws things once every day or two still, but not as bad as it was. And then the other one is still chill, he's never caused many problems
And on the lead tenant thing I mentioned a while ago, it seems things are going well. They lined up a house that sounds chill and I had my first meeting with the program coordinator on Tuesday. She gave me a rulebook I need to read, and then this coming Friday we meet with her again and I officially sign the papers. After that, it will be about 4-8 weeks until I move in.
It's still stressing me out a bit, mainly because I don't fit one of their requirements properly and I'm only about half fulfilling it. Allegedly they'll be pretty lenient on it, but lenient as in they'll accept me, but if I don't 100% meet it within a few months, I'll be locked back and sent back into Resi.
It's also kind of fucking with my head because I've been here for 4 years, and although I've never considered it to be, or felt that it is my home, that's the longest I've ever lived anywhere in my entire life. For about 3/4 of those years it's been pretty bleak living here and felt like a never ending nightmare, but now that it is ending and comparitively the end is so close I can basically touch it, it feels is backwards to what I'm used to
This baby has gotta be shit out. 2 giant poops in under an hour. How can he fit so much poo in him?!
From what I hear, the poo capacity of babies defies the laws of physics.
kind of like making polystyrene, it expands
They are like mini human tardises
More like mini human turdises
I feel like my day would have improved if I hadn’t read this.
I don't mind. Life is pain.
Had an interesting day, yesterday I watched a pretty cool YT of Danny Elfman, he's old and weird and awesome and so talented. But watching him gave me the confidence to be older and weird too. I'm just miserable if I wear beige and be "comfy" and be my "age". I like to have some style, I like to express myself, have fun, wear black even. So today I bought black and stylish stuff, including a cute jumper with embroidered stars and moons and a grey cashmere top . Felt good. :)
The lies I tell myself. Went to the sourdough bakery in Bayswater to avoid Dröm but they were sold out.
Braved the queues at Dröm promising myself I would only buy sourdough 😆
What I actually bought:
Sounds like your soul knew what it wanted.
Counts as self care 😉
How were they?
Spreading it out but so far the cookies were amazing. The chocolate was kinda like a brownie. Would eat again
Bad thing about this is not getting notifications of replies and so hard to maintain a convo in a timely fashion..
I've only just got here but Bright and the drive in is very pretty. Totally guessed the motel wifi password like a hardcore hacker because they didn't give it to me and there's nothing in the room about it.
Now that I'm settled it's time to go for a look around. I friggin love alpine regions/mountains.
Yay a Marketplace item sold. No scammer this time, just a real person with cold hard cash.
I will always revere your commitment to second hand market
I just wish I hadn't wasted so much money on this stuff in the first place!
I love my job but they cut my hours, so I went job hunting. First interview and they offered me the job which is 30k more than I am currently getting. They want me to start in 3 weeks but I’m so scared I’ll quit my current job and then hate my new one and never get to go back.
Has anyone has a situation where they got the job and ended up hating it
I am excited to be putting clothes on the outdoor line today #thuglife
Gotta make sure they don’t fly away though with this wind we’re getting
I know right. I actually started to put them on the line then chickened out and nicked to the laundromat instead. I don't want to have to go searching through all the neighbourhood
Wow physical meet up between a couple of DT mates was nice. Got a message of support also from another DTer. You peeps know who you are. Thanks a lot. I'm resigning myself to believe that I cast that shit into the ether and let it out rather than bottling it up and can always tell my story in another way anyway. Incredible to meet someone irl with similar shit going on and not pause for breath for an hour. Food and hot bevs were excellent. St kilda is iconic. I'm definitely getting in the north vs south war by now. Great day for a skate. Hopefully I'll not too wobbly.
Good day for laundry - wind and sun. It's also hard rubbish weekend in Darebin, so I'll be looking out for large plant pots and mesh to cover the fence in the courtyard. Let the curb crawling commence (after breakfast). Reduce, reuse, recycle!
I'd be a bit worries about the laundry blowing away. With some of the gusts out there the hard rubbish might blow away too!
I do love a good hard rubbish crawl. We have on demand pickups here, so don't get the concentrated collections anymore.
Trees are definitely thrashing their branches around here. My consolation is that the laundry will dry very fast today. Hard rubbish day is lots of fun I reckon. It's remarkable the number of items that keep appearing only in front of different houses each year.
My blue clamshell I bought for the dogs (that they refused to use) got taken by someone down the road. I was happy to see it had quite a few years of use before I saw it outside their place again.
I threw out some old curtains a few months ago, which mysteriously reappeared in an abandoned trolley dumped at a vacant house acrosss the road. Not so good, and I have wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what on earth was going on there.
Mind is boggling. Maybe they didn't fit the windows?
I really have no idea. But I just got back from a walk and there are another two dumped trolleys there as well, it seems to be some sort of trolley staging area. There is another up the road, which is potentially still making its way there. Perhaps the curtains are a robe to designate the Trolley Monarch?
All hail the Mighty Trolley Monarch! Definitely rules in High St Thornbury/Northcote. Mind you we do have 2 Aldis, a Woolies and 2 Coleses as well as a lot of other shops in a 1 k strip. And Preston Market not much further away.
The closest stores with a trolley to me are 1.6km away, you have to cross a highway and then mostly push up hill to get here. Yet still they come.
Oh I came across the BEST pot in someone’s hard rubbish on my morning walk this week. It was too heavy to carry so I was gonna swing by in my car to grab it. But I walked past it again not 15 minutes later on my way back and it was gonna. 😞 Gotta act quickly if you see something good
I wish my council still did it that way (Merri Bek), but you now have to book a collection and you're allowed 2 per year of a certain size. If you go over that size you lose your second booking. I like it better when everyone puts their stuff out all at once, and then you can go around having a polite lift and sift of everyone else's stuff. Last time we booked a collection they forgot about it for weeks. When we rang and reminded them they came and got it and the nature strip was all dead! In the meantime people had been coming after nightfall to add paint cans and other stuff that you're not allowed to and the pile was huge.
I’ve got a hard rubbish collection coming up too, and I’m putting all the good stuff out today in case someone wants it. No large pots though, unfortunately. Hopefully the rain holds off
Went to the zoo, it was bloody windy! I feel like most of the animals were like yeah nah! All of the reptiles and snakes were out and about though, which is pretty rare!
They're at it again
I forgot to ponch ⏰🥊
Far out. 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Suddenly Saturday Edition.
Yep, slept from like 12:30am (or closer to 1am) till 10am. Though there were wakeups throughout the night... the cat again.
⏰🧃🥊
Made a spreadsheet for a list of names. No time to fill it out yet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMhrX4Pal2el0Km6l_1C_INnqUCpr_E-L0NPYyYb49o/edit#gid=0
Open for editing, no need to login.
It’s fucken wimdy. This wimd needs to calm down. Have some chamomile tea or something 😴💨🍃
Full of porridge with a purring cat on my lap. Saturday morning is going well so far.
I suppose I better get a move on and do some shopping
later guys 😘
Could I have a packet of timtams please :-)
of course
It’s noice, it’s different, it’s unusual!
Thanks! It’s nice to try something new
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
Can I please have a very dirty martini, and 6 oysters?
🧹🌋🍸🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪
Mmm... The texture in the martini is delightful
Can I grab a coffee while I peruse the menu thanks?
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Perfect. My thanks to the barrista.
my thanks to the mod
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Got any French toast?
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Thanks Bacon mash! I fell asleep though, do you reckon it'll still be nice cold?
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reheated
Thanks bacey
Not a frequent commenter but I reached out to u/Aphrodisia-x. Radio silence so far.
I have also DM’d u/Casper_Louisiana just now.
There was also a pole dancer . Can’t remember the username. Infrequent commenter as well. If anyone can think of it?
in the market for a new job and article this morning about australian companies trialing and succeeding with 4 day work weeks here has me glimmer of hoping. difference in quality of life between 5 and 4 days is incredible.
Just gotta make sure it's not Bunnings' idea of a 4 day work week which is really just a compressed work week (same ft hours over 4 days)
but MoRe HoUrS == mOrE pRoDuCtiVe
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I am going to be a pioneer of the 2 day work week (20 hours a day)
I think I'll stick with my 2 day work week. Two 12 hour days, then two days off. Repeat. I'd rather less hours, but in the absence of that this works pretty well.
For real. I prefer 5x8 over 4x10.
It really is nice. I did half day Fridays for years and the weekend felt extra.
We do a 3/4 day on Fridays and even that adds to quality of life dramatically
haven't heard of that before, sounds excellent. speaking only for office/knowledge jobs and maybe not 100% of jobs are like this but.. almost every one i have had has contained substantial filler, would happily trade for time off and more compressed/efficient work hours. we would easily spend half a day a week in meetings that don't need to happen.
I have no idea how I’m still upright. Riding back from Geelong was… Just. Brutal.
Still, dashed in, did some vacuuming, laundry, swept some leaves, (folding more laundry, ugh, now).
Might still keel over.
The subscriber counts here are a bit dodgy. I think it is only showing the subscribers on the instance you are in, not overall. I accidentally went to my other group from this account and thought it had dropped from about 200 subscribers to 3! It makes me wonder how many subsribers we actually have here, if the 358 showing is just people subscribed from this instance we may actually have quite a few more. Although I think the users/posts/comments counts are really more meaningful anyway.
Yeah, 68 looking from my instance.
I have 8 subscribers from Lemmy.one
wind's howling
I have had junk food delivered and I have no regrets at all. I prefer fish n chip shop burgers generally, but McD's is what my half drunken arse is craving. What trashy foods do you guys crave when you've had a couple?
:)
:D
😁
Who you going for in the cricket? It's OK I'll still like you know matter what.
I don't really care, but I'll go Aus seeing as I'm here! I used to live at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, could watch the internationals from my kitchen window
Wow. In my house growing up we all baracked for different footy teams so it made things interesting but all fun.
Morning DTers,
So I know that the whole Rdt saga is a bit of a sore point. (Avery ye eyes if needed.) I’ve been following it loosely and someone posted their terms which made me think about how we loathe it when news outlets pilfer our posts. I thought it might be worth noting this:
When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.
Just some thoughts.
If you can't tell what the product is, the product is you.
It has often been a problem with artwork, both on social media sites and when you do things like enter competitions or use your own work to be printed on an item you are often giving away the rights. Now that AI is involved our words have also become more valuable to companies, even random passing conversations.
Oh, I have no illusions about that. It was just a passing thought on the times I’ve seen people get mad about seeing content used in online news. If anyone thought they still owned anything they posted, they just might want to think again.
not sure if i should shitpost more or less…
Imagine the chatbots trained on trolls and shitposts.
main capability: innuendo jokes
more. but we could (not really) legit make a DT nft of breakfast emojis.
non-organic minted breakfast
That's very interesting
Reddit has the rights, not news,au
My guess is that's a large part of why they are making the changes - 3rd party apps are not really the target, it's just part of the process of how they plan to keep the material contained so they can sell it to media and large businesses.
Yeah and here I am bitching I can't publish the journal I lost with melbourne going private. I'd probably get a cease and desist letter. /s No one much if anyone would have actually read it lol.
If a service if free, we are the product, the advertisers their customers. So this here lemmy or aussie zone or whatever is the same and we'll face the same drama again sometime if it gets big and shareholders need an roi. woohoo late state capatalism! we provide the content for free and they sell us shit we don't need.
Actually, that can’t happen with this place. We can own and run the servers if we want and can choose to communicate or block whatever other servers we want. It’s the big draw card of the “fediverse”
so are we supposed to get a lemmy account as well or not? is aussie zone like a subsection of lemmy?
Nah, you’re good
You only have an instance account and in this case it's via aussie.zone, if you where to make your own instance it would need it's own domain.
You currently can't transfer accounts to other instances.
Thanks!
Off topic, hey just wanted to say thanks for talking about Atomic Heart on reddit a couple weeks back. I never would have known about it as I am super casual gamer. I’m about halfway through it now and it’s a KILLER game 10/10. It’s like if Half-Life and Bioshock had a baby.
<3 I 100% get you. Mental health sucks, my doctor gave me the wrong health care plan and no medicare is saying I can't get the care plan for some reason. So now I have to like wait for the doctors to get back to me but I feel like I might have to make an appointment to see them.
But yeah, I totally understand everything you're going through, and don't want to be like "chin up" because we know shit like that doesn't work. Cuddling cats and coffee are good ideas.
No worries dude. It's real tough out there. Especially (I'm assuming) as a jobseeker. It's both funny in a frustrating way and just plain frustrating to have places that are like "We're desperate for people!" and then people go "hey I'd like to apply for a job" and they're like "okay we're not that desperate".
You're a good egg, I send you all my love and well wishes like a middle age woman on Facebook (not in the passive aggressive kind but in a "send my love to the kids Cheryl!" kind).
Laundry accomplished. Shopping done. Have decided to ditch the jigsaw that came with a jumbled up picture on the box. Brand/logo is M?xtery. Stuff that for a game of soldiers. Will fall back on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by a proper jigsaw brand with a real picture on the box. Not in the mood for deciphering a jumbled up picture.
Sister has lent me a rather nice jigsaw called Diverse Women. No women in the picture just a lot of squiggles. Maybe that one after the Sistine Chapel.
Just went and looked at a car and old mate was determined not sell it apparently. Remember guys "my bro is a mechanic" and "I'm selling it because I'm moving overseas" are not phrases you utter when trying to sell a car.
So I had this problem where I couldn't open more than one page in my browser. I asked the man to have a look and he said everything is fine. Then the interrogation started.
Him: What browser do you use?
Me: I don't know. Chrome I guess.
Him: Show me.
I press the google bar. His eyes got very wide.
Him: That's not chrome. That's google. It only allows you to open one tab at a time.
Me: ooohhh
He shakes his head. Then proceeds to educate me on Google vs Google Chrome vs Samsung browser. Now you smart people probably already know this. I did not even though I've had 3 Samsung phones and 3 Samsung tablets over the last 10 years. I have learnt lots in the past few days. I will continue to learn. I at least showed him how to use the airfryer the other day.
One of the bonuses to relationships that I like. Especially when their expertise can help you further. I'm a writer, and one of my stories that I hope gets published one of these days, involves a character from WW2 Russia. So my partner helped me a lot when it came to guns from that time. Of course, what I bring to the table is just stupid Wikipedia knowledge because I need to know stuff that doesn't benefit me in life at all.
Once someone shows me something I can pick it up quite quickly. Plus he is a very good teacher. Very patient and he makes me demonstrate what I have been shown so I get it. We do compliment each other. There's been a lot of funny moments.
Watching Jurassic Park in bed like a boss
My hot water unit is finished, the gas pilot isn't staying on for more than 24 - 48 hours. The unit is from 1995. I've been told they don't usually last almost 30 years so this house did well with it. It's a fun game going into the shower on a cold winter's day and wondering if hot water is going to come out or if the pilot's gone off. Going to cost 2k to get replaced! Love these unexpected large expenses. Anyway, trying to not let it ruin my weekend. Things break, such is life.
ahhh WOO HOO i gave my subreddit the two-weeks-notice that i'm quitting today. fuck that feels better, knowing that the endless toil is ending.
i'm gonna have a celebration and get baked
and now it's 5am and i am THOROUGHLY stoned. rest well, everyone! see you when the sky's a different colour
I was watching this video on fare evasion in Vienna by tapakapa, and this stuck out to me:
Sums up Melbourne's buses pretty well 😂
Good morning everyone. I've arrived just in time for breakfast, perfect timing!
I've created a post https://aussie.zone/post/50477 to share pet photos in, currently starring RustyDog (AKA Mr Woof) and RavenCat (AKA Miss Meow). If we can link to photos there rather than posting them directly here it will help stop the thread getting pic overload, and as a bonus we get a zone of concentrated cuteness to go and chill in. Win Win. 😁
😻
The pic of Miss Meow against the window looks like you've gone into MS Paint and just cut around her silhouette and filled it all with black
It is one of the hazards of having a black cat. Plus not being good at pet photography to start with 🙂
I have been to the gym.
It was a mistake going without a jumper 🥶
Did you get blown away in the wind?
CEO's post about no coffee in the car made me think, I just don't eat or drink in cars, but then, I'm not a very busy person. But I get it, there is no eating or drinking on the velvet sofa 🤨 at least not without a big tray
I have that rule because I don't want ants in my car.
good rule, I know someone whose sister was bitten by ants while she was driving and had an accident 😟
It's so cold this morning. Urgh. I think the insulation in my ceiling is fucked. Discussed it with my rental manager six months ago and they've done nothing since, the bastards.
'tis the wimd
which games, though?
very good pics by the sound of it! Devolver's stuff is almost always good.
I have that game in my backlog. How is it?
Being on a small tropical island right now is great, besides the sea snakes…
Which tropical island? Fiji?
Fiji. It’s nice but I saw one a few meters away from my hut. Apparently sea snakes like land too.
Oh that’s right scary knowing they like both land and ocean 😱 keep your eyes peeled at all time. Enjoy your time. If you get the chance, can you take a pic of the gorgeous ocean and post it here? This site can upload pics I think
Best I can do now is a photo of the land sea snake I saw: https://ibb.co/LQsrswc
Yikes! That’s really close!
I was sat in that chair in the photo and my partner yelled out to me from the hut to run as she saw it headed that way. Way too close.
They’re keeping you on your toes!
Look at that long boi! I love snakes. Spiders? They can fuck off. Which is kind of funny when you think about it.
Off to the markets I go 😊
Great, could you grab me some cheese and a croissant?
🧀🥐
Thanks!
No worries! What kinda cheese? I'm really into truffle cheese atm
Yum, that sounds delish!
Been watching Taskmaster NZ, it is too funny and my crush on Madeleine Sami has only grown.
Her hammed up performance in Deadloch is hilarious!
It's so good! Haha
i also really enjoyed the new season of UK taskmaster. will have to give a watch to nz taskmaster i havent seen it yet. anyone seen the aus one? any good?
The new season of uk taskmaster was great! I have seen the Aussie, I thought it was great overall, the comedian mix was good. To watch the NZ one you need a VPN and a tvnz login. Lol.
I finally beat Yoshi's Crafted World after owning it for 3 years. Now I'm finally getting started on Breath of the Wild. Look, I'm a patient gamer okay?!
If you’re patient then BotW will suit you just fine. I got it at launch and still found new things in the week leading up to Tears of the Kingdom
let's see, bought a ton of stuff online. delivery is going to be crazy the next couple of weeks. but finally a bedside table :) been here for almost 2 years and no bedside table. btw what is DT, seen it mentioned too many times. maybe I dun lurk on r/mebourne as much as I think I did.
God that Aldi mushroom triangle pasta is nice! But of a tomato/Italian sauce on it and it’s heavenly!
Has anyone renewed their learners before? I thought I could just renew it online, but nope looks like I have to go in and renew it... what's annoying is that they're only open when I'm at work!
My curiosity got the better of me and i ordered an avocado smoothie
And what did you think? Did it taste like liquid guacamole?
It was surprisingly nice! Not weird. Not like liquid guac. Just...avocado smoothie, actually works
I LOVE avocado smoothies 🤤🤤🤤
I was pleasantly surprised 😁
Ok but what were your thoughts?
Seriously. Can't just leave hs hanging like that!!!
Id recommend! I thought it was a weird idea but its genuinely nice
Aye nice nice. I’m glad it tasted good!
r/pics, after a poll, has decided to allow only images of john oliver
whoa that's a lot of marge
Good morning all, hope you have a good weekend
I hope YOU have a good weekend
Ssshhh inside voices please.
^AHHHHHHH^
Hahahaha, just watched Fast 9. Can it get anymore ridiculous? I mean, it’s half the fun, but outer space?
I need Head & Shoulders.
I need Head & Shoulders massage.
you're the ceo, get one of the upper management to do it 👍
Haha. One has gone to get me groceries and the other popped out to have her glasses cleaned, mumbled something about breakfast and went back to bed. The 4 legged one does a very poor job of it.
My 4 legged one gives good massages, but he usually targets my bladder.
Haha. Pets have no boundaries. My dog likes to sleep on my chest. Next minute his trying to stick his paw in my mouth.
My kitten wakes me up to play at 2am and 3am. Then the cats run all over the bed and in behind the blind right beside my head and all over the flat at 730am without fail.
massages Head & Shoulders into CEO's hair
knees and toes, knees and toes 🎶
Blah blah blah we all clap hands together. 🎶
we're all in this together 🙌
Just because the sub is gone doesn't mean I won't bring this up again
what the hell was that and who were they? ( I assume they are pollies just by the amount of cringe they were capable of inducing )
law firm in perth during covid
they should enter politics 😂
Oh sure they looked like they really cared. They probably all gathered at the pub after their little sing-along.
👩💼
Spreadable butter has its place but just doesn't have the flavour of real butter.
Lurpak spreads and tastes like real butter.
lurpak butter since 1901 like comment subscribe.
Ooh, I might get some of that. Western Star does not.
I use Western star for cooking. Lurpak for spreading.
It’s still better than margarine though.
Yep, margarine is an abomination.
A cafe near my work once asked me if I wanted butter on my bacon and egg roll, I said yes. They then proceeded to smear margarine all over it 🤮
when it's cold i microwave the butter for a few seconds
That's what I did for my second round of toast! The first had a faint taste of regret.
I saw an instagram post of someone using a mini sieve to kind of grate the butter block, and it looked as though it would work well.
Can I get someone else to start Sunday’s thread after midnight. I’m sure I’m not the only one awake
Got on my PC at midnight after sleeping post-work. PC was stuck in a bootloop.
Finally narrowed it down to the RAM and took out two dud sticks at 3:30am... ugh.
Lessss goooooo düd!
So fucken hype to find Melbourne content from kbin. Late comer to the fediverse, absolutely loving the Reddit rebellion this evening.
Same here hey. It's a little janky, but Reddit is as jank with fewer excuses imo.
We need a mod to pin this to the top of the sub.
My guess is all 3 are 😴
Good thing I'm a couple of hours behind ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you for pinning. I thought maybe all the mods were as some people sleep early
No worries. I'm in Perth, just gone 10:30pm for me.
I think we need to visit your aus post once we've settled in here because you've been great.
Ah still a decent hour
Holy crap this community is active!
So I was curious about what's happening over on Reddit, and turns out some subs are opening up because they're worried of Reddit admins gutting the mod teams and putting new ones in. It's already happened with advice animals. Not like it hasn't happened before, the head mod of Kotaku in Action (basically that whole gamergate shit, that IMHO, the guy who started it lied), essentially privated the sub because he was over it and hated seeing how hateful people were, he was removed and Admins put in new modding team.
There’s a lot of malicious compliance going on now. I think r/shitposting made a bot that automatically deletes comments to maintain free API limits.
I’m actually proud of r/Melbourne mods for shuttering shop.
r/pics voted to reopen but only display sexy pics John Oliver, so there's that.
I just saw that, I love it!
I read about this. So, it’s already happened.
The unpaid mods thing just blows my mind.
Flu shot done! Also my friend just said the Clear it outlet in Fitzroy has now reopened?!
Righto. I suppose I should stop procrastinating
Maybe later.
Jesus Christ I just can’t shake this conjunctivitis
warm compresses, eye drops , and hugs
Thanks. 😞 every time I think I’ve finally nipped it in the bud it comes back in about 2 or 3 days.
Best part about every weekend for me in Saturday morning swimming lessons with my 1 year old son. Kid’s a fish, been doing for 6 months and loves it.
RemindMe!
That kinda sounds like a job lol
You gotta play Not for Broadcast
Finally got the sheets out. What's the chances of them drying, we wonders?
Saturday song: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - the impression that I get
I used to have a CD of the Live for Tibet concert from sometime in the 90s. It had various live performances on it from big bands at the time, Beastie Boys, REM (I think), Pearl Jam etc. It had an incredible version of Yellow Ledbetter on it, by far the best version I've heard. Anyways, after Yellow Ledbetter finishes the crowd roars but it's for the next band, The Mighty Bosstones....I always now finish Yellow Ledbetter in my head with a big We ARE the Mighty Mighty Bosstones then launch into the first few bars of The Impression That I Get
Tuuunnneee!
Anyone else watch My Place as a kid? I just had the most intense memory of watching it while on holiday at my grandparents and being utterly obsessed with it.
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What's the mobile app for this site? "Jerboa for Lemmy" and using aussie.zone for the server? I'm trying to hook up some old DT members. Is it the same on apple phones?
I was using Jerboa but have decided that using the site from my phone's browser is a better experience for the time being. The Dev needs to work on it, or someone does, but he said he doesn't have time.
I am now of this opinion too..I hadn't used the browser version on my phone, but now after your comment, I have and, yes, it's way better than Jerboa. Which is unfortunate, because I like using 3rd party apps for things.
Lemmy as a whole is still very much a work in progress.
I'm surprised that there's a functional app in the first place, considering.
Jerboa isn't too bad once you get used to it's quirks imo. But I wasn't able to figure out how to sign in with Aussie.zone so I ended up creating a sh.itjust.works account and I use that instead
I signed up at sh.itjust.works first and could not get the aussie.zone to show on it, so created another account here. I didn't realise I could re-use the same user name, so ended up with a new identity too.
I did the same, I've got 4 usernames and identities 🤦🏼♀️
Ah, so that's why you're a raven? And yeah, searching for communities on other instances is a little tricky. If you still want to know how, you need to type "![community]@[instance]". So This Melbourne community is "![email protected]", but it doesn't seem to work on jerboa so you have to subscribe in the browser
Mlem for iOS( gotta download TestFlight first)
I believe Apple phones have a different app (it might be called mlem?).
Jerboa is Android only for the time being.
For android you're correct, but I'm with @bull in that I prefer the browser version (for use on my phone) as it currently is
Didn't get a lot of sleep, hopefully I'll catch up tonight and wake up in time for the first ep of AEW Collision.
Doesn't look like it's on Foxtel ESPN like the other AEW shows, I don't really want to fork out $11 for the whole month.
Goodness me Marnus.
Who has seen the latest Black Mirror season? Which are the best episodes - or should I watch it in order?
Who else is going to do parkrun this morning?
What's the story morning glory?
Coffee!
Welllllll, need a little time to wake up wake up
Although predicting weather is one thing that is consistently crap, feels like 7.1 in Lorne is spot on.
I really need to try to videoing life more, it's way more aesthetic. I'm constantly impressed by people who video things and make it look so nice.
except it's still Friday... ;)
This is the Melbourne sub of Australia and it’s 1:40am 😛 not sure where abouts your from?