Omg that is an amazing photo!! The one male house sparrow being eyed off by the lorikeet 😂
I love pigeons, legit my favourite bird. I just love their shape, their cute coos, and how funny they look when the males try to dance for the females.
How are you doing now? I hope the day managed to be a bit kinder to you after this morning. Please feel free to vent in here if you think it might help.
Thanks. It's tough because I know that I really just need to get a new job. I'm not cut out for this one and that's okay, but I keep fighting it which is just detrimental to myself.
I planned on a nice relaxing day today but the man is here and it's hard to relax with the energizer bunny hopping around asking if there's anything I'd like him to do. Yes, go outside and don't come back for a really long time. I know that's mean and I know I'm lucky but he's been bopping around since 8 am and I'm tired watching him now.
Yessss! That's pretty much what happens. I say to him "I love you and I love having you here but I'm gonna pretend you're not here because you're messing up my system". 😂
send him over here, we got lawns that need mowin' and our resident ADHD is off taking his referral diagnosis to a gp to refer him a psychologist who can approve his referral and refer him back to a GP to prescribe meds
This one will be dedicated to potat and only potat. Should be twice as big hopefully by the end.
Was also about to start the chillo patch on the left there (which looks awful for now). Not stressed have a month to sort that. Disconnected the water but apparently I left it on and it went off just as my head was right near the drip line was aimed at my face. I sounded like this
Hang in there mate. I've had a shit time recently too. Day at a time is the way to go. As banal as it sounds, recognising the doom spiralling and catastrophising is an important step towards trending back to a stable state. You got this
I'm trying to update my bank account details on my work's payroll software and it's not letting me do it. So I sent an email to payroll, and almost signed it off with "Retards" instead of "Regards". Just one of those days.
I did the thing....the rm -rf * thing in the wrong directory
😱
Did not take out the server but did take out one of those legacy Cron jobs that's been running for years but no-one quite remembers how it works and it turns out it was not being backed up (that was a fun additional realisation) and kinda sorta really important.
Eek.
Just spent the last few hours surgically reinstating the code from and out of date backup.
When Mickey is dozing on my chair he is always in the mood for kisses. He starts purring like a tractor when I kiss his belly, and he starts rolling over more to make sure I kiss it all. It's the only time I can touch his tummy without losing an appendage; hands and arms are absolutely no go, only face!
Pic of him rolled over after I kissed his whoooole tummy, I stop when he stops purring 👀 I'm not gonna push him with my eyes so close to his claws lol
Seeing artists blow up is my jam, I prefer catching them when they're playing local dive bars though or just dropped their first track online; it makes seeing them at a festival all that more awesome. It's just a shame they stop remembering you.
Second big thing done for the week, finishing up at one job. While I know it was the best choice for everyone there is certainly a feeling of sadness/loss. I'm going to try walk some of it off and let it flow through.
After uni tomorrow my next biggest things for the week are (a) ramping up the rental search, (b) massive cleaning on weekend
E: walk done, sweat exuded, shower and OMITB and dinner and early sleep tonight I think. Uni library first thing tomorra
With private insurance, I get a ~$200/yr annual allowance. Curiously, some optometrists have sales of glasses for ~$200. Pure coincidence, I'm certain.
Anyway, I effectively get glasses for free (I don't, private health insurance is expensive) and was browsing on the weekend for something I don't actually desperately need because that allowance expires in 8 weeks.
gotta order new sunnies. i think it was 1k last time just for the lenses! Guarantee you when I finally order the sunnies my damn prescription will change again as well!
the SECOND my prescription stabilizes i am getting it done. I look good in glasses (if I do say so myself) but having them force fed to me every so often by tinyest aint a ton of fun!
Little bit exorbitant innit? I like the tucked away privacy parts of it but imagine trying to clean it. Or get from one side to the other, not to mention stairs.
Also I could never afford that and don’t think anything should cost that much. If I could afford it I’d probably take somewhere more modest and help others out with the remainder
Oh that reminds me. The pigeon babies left the nest. both seemed to survive ok. But before I could trim the damn hedges another pigeon moved in and laid some eggs. Damn things are like tribbles.
Ok I’m tracking now. It’s like the minutes of last meeting in the title. The mystery pizza.
There must be at least couple common ingredients that they always have leftover, but then it depends on the pizza joint as well and the longevity of the ingredients. Hmm tricky.
Although anchovies probably aren’t regularly requested, they do keep well so I’m guessing they won’t be a topping.
I can’t think of any pizza I would turn my nose up at though.
I’ve been thinking about it and only god knows what they’ll throw into it. It could be totally vegetarian as well and all those leftovers for all I know.
I only hope it doesn’t end up with chillies or eggplants and I’ll be ok I reckon.
I will report back when I pick it up later tonight.
The Darebin ballot paper had quite a lot of blank space on it. Was thinking of writing a poem on it. Then remembered back to when I did data entry for the AEC back in 2004, and realised that papers with ahem 'additions' all get entered manually. Not going to do that to some poor sod manning the keypad.
One mystery pizza please, whatever you do, no banana. No banana anywhere near this mystery pizza or it's surroundings. If the pizza you are about to serve me has been in the same room as a banana at any point in it's life, I don't want it
not sure if anxious or excited, I've been getting dirt roaded for so long I've lost the ability to tell the difference. So I'm distracting myself designing suction cup hangers for our shampoop scalp massagers, I'm sick of seeing His Lordship's migrate across the bathroom. Very schmick if I say so myself.
My Council has changed to have many individual local wards, I have three candidates, last year there were two. It used to have a system where you voted for all the candidates in the entire Council area, and the top group got in.
Share market seems to be up today - although when the value of your shares has hit rock bottom up is pretty much all that's left! Although my worst performer is just sitting there with it's 87% loss, it's not even worth the cost of selling at this point. I might be able to recoup enough for a sandwich, as long as it's a cheap one from the lunch truck and nothing fancy.
I decided to dip the toes into ETFs last December, using the Superhero app. Mix of Aussie and US, i just add money to my account any month i have any left over to do so, ill put some in savings and some into the ETF account. Probably looking at about 10% increase across the board when i hit the 1 year mark which has been nice. Your worst performer reminds me of much of my crypto, not worth the hassle of trading or withdrawing out!!
I had some fun with penny stocks that dissolved. Legit no idea what happened. Only a few hundred, but I could have used it for plenty of other more enjoyable things.
I think if the company winds up you just lose the money. I also had one company that did a buy-back of small parcels of shares which you had to opt out of if you wanted to keep the shares. Another was bought out by an overseas company - which was actually nice, I made a 50% profit in just over 12 months. I wish I'd bought more than $200 worth of that one!
I've been learning a lot about how the market works, but I definitely prefer funds than individual stocks. But buying a few stocks for $200 has taught me a lot about how everything works. I lost a lot of the value almost straight away, but I have gained most of the losses back over the last couple of years - if things continue as they are I look like I might actually start to make a profit longer term, so things are not as bad as they looked initially.
Seems like I was on a similar trajectory. Penny stocks seemed like a bit of fun, but it definitely an all-consuming learning curve and bit of a circle jerk in some of forums I was reading. I lacked a bit of patience when I was first interested in it. I’m not much of a gambler, so EFTs have been a pretty safe bet.
"bag" is feminine in gender in Deutsch - granted they are talking about 'die Tasche' not 'spammenbag' as above. My personal opinion is 'die spammenbag' would be correct as it encompasses the likely effect as well as the noun. Who says you can't pun in German.
Likely the lag between lemmy.world and Aussie zone.
I can see your comments no worries, but there was a post months ago saying it takes up to 7 days for Aussie and world instances to sync.
Everytime 😭
Yup 😒
Little peace accords between species this morning. Someone hangs out a seed mix that's the neighbourhood buffet breakfast
Multicultural Melbourne ♥
I heard what I can only assume was an ibis warbling, sort of like a magpie, coming out of the cemetery lake colony this morning.
Omg that is an amazing photo!! The one male house sparrow being eyed off by the lorikeet 😂
I love pigeons, legit my favourite bird. I just love their shape, their cute coos, and how funny they look when the males try to dance for the females.
😂
I’m back with pizza!
Looks like pineapple and some green capsicum and something leafy.
Breaking News
The Surprise Pizza, formerly known as The Mystery Pizza, has landed. The most anticipated pizza all day. Enjoy lucky Winner. Enjoy.
burp
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
The banana is hiding underneath.
Yuck! Banana should never be within 5km of a pizza!
🤮
Well, the crust looks pretty nice. And the cheese
All in all it was pretty nice.
I was happy with it all things considered.
Goodnight everyone ❤️
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Night night!
Night.
Staying up laaaaate because fuck it, why not? I'm and adult, I'm allowed to relax with no commitments tomorrow!
In fact... I'm going to have chocolate ice cream.
🍿🥤
👀👀👀
Earlier I was going to go out to buy some coffee on half price.
Walked out the door dressed up and gave up and went back in.
Having of those days today.
Nearly called it a mental health day from the shower this morning. It’s deffo going around!
Cried for like the first 1.5 hours of my work day. Awesome.
Oh no. 😔
😞 is calling it a day and going home sick viable?
Sadly would have made the situation worse. Gah.
😞😞😞
Sending you a nice warm hug 🫂
Thank you <3
so many gentle hugs
Thank you <3
How are you doing now? I hope the day managed to be a bit kinder to you after this morning. Please feel free to vent in here if you think it might help.
Thanks. It's tough because I know that I really just need to get a new job. I'm not cut out for this one and that's okay, but I keep fighting it which is just detrimental to myself.
I planned on a nice relaxing day today but the man is here and it's hard to relax with the energizer bunny hopping around asking if there's anything I'd like him to do. Yes, go outside and don't come back for a really long time. I know that's mean and I know I'm lucky but he's been bopping around since 8 am and I'm tired watching him now.
I completely understand. 'What can I do to help?'..... sit there and pretend you're not here because I've got stuff to do.
Yessss! That's pretty much what happens. I say to him "I love you and I love having you here but I'm gonna pretend you're not here because you're messing up my system". 😂
Tell him the dog needs a walk. That's what I did last night!
He already has.
send him over here, we got lawns that need mowin' and our resident ADHD is off taking his referral diagnosis to a gp to refer him a psychologist who can approve his referral and refer him back to a GP to prescribe meds
Teach him to use the vacuum cleaner ... he'll find something to do real quick.
He already went to do that and I said no. He's currently outside cleaning the fan.
Make him do the cooking and clean up.
I dug (another) hole!
This one will be dedicated to potat and only potat. Should be twice as big hopefully by the end.
Was also about to start the chillo patch on the left there (which looks awful for now). Not stressed have a month to sort that. Disconnected the water but apparently I left it on and it went off just as my head was right near the drip line was aimed at my face.
I sounded like this
What kind potat?
So I'm reading up on varieties atm..
Desiree will be in there.
Guess I'm hoping for 3 types. 1. Good for mash 2. good for salad and 3. good deep frying. hrmm.
Kipflers. Ridic expensive, easy to grow. Can fling you some seed potat if ya want (i also have purple ones!)
It's my birthday in a month.
It's rare that I'm excited for it, but for the moment, Im looking forward to it.
Also, tuna pasta sauce doesn't last as long as I thought, as I found out today...
Hang in there mate. I've had a shit time recently too. Day at a time is the way to go. As banal as it sounds, recognising the doom spiralling and catastrophising is an important step towards trending back to a stable state. You got this
I’m sorry bro. Right there with you
I'm trying to update my bank account details on my work's payroll software and it's not letting me do it. So I sent an email to payroll, and almost signed it off with "Retards" instead of "Regards". Just one of those days.
::: spoiler Linux sysadmin horror story
I did the thing....the
rm -rf *thing in the wrong directory😱
Did not take out the server but did take out one of those legacy Cron jobs that's been running for years but no-one quite remembers how it works and it turns out it was not being backed up (that was a fun additional realisation) and kinda sorta really important.
Eek.
Just spent the last few hours surgically reinstating the code from and out of date backup.
Fingers crossed. :::
beautiful birds but soooo fucking obnoxious
When Mickey is dozing on my chair he is always in the mood for kisses. He starts purring like a tractor when I kiss his belly, and he starts rolling over more to make sure I kiss it all. It's the only time I can touch his tummy without losing an appendage; hands and arms are absolutely no go, only face!
Pic of him rolled over after I kissed his whoooole tummy, I stop when he stops purring 👀 I'm not gonna push him with my eyes so close to his claws lol
::: spoiler fluffy belly boi :::
The best stress relief is found by burying your face in cat belly and breathing in deep.
If that is not an option, I find cat flank to be reasonably effective as well. Especially if said cat is purring
They must've sold a fuckton of tickets in that presale, there were 13k people in front of me in the queue when I joined at 10am when it opened.
Hope you all enjoy your festival!
That 35k is going to avg more than 1 ticket per person in the queue which is madness for the first presale.
Yeah got ours, we were on the fence as we have no interest in the lineup, but we go every year and love festival vibes so yah know.
I do miss it being held at Footscray Community Arts Centre though :'(
Yeah I was there in 2017 :D
Seeing artists blow up is my jam, I prefer catching them when they're playing local dive bars though or just dropped their first track online; it makes seeing them at a festival all that more awesome. It's just a shame they stop remembering you.
Train issues. Catch an uber. Driver gets out at every traffic light to stretch.
Interesting.
Car seat doesn't fit/badly adjusted. Back issues consequent on that.
Before Uber we used to have real taxi drivers that had those roller bead things hanging on their seats
People are strange.
Second big thing done for the week, finishing up at one job. While I know it was the best choice for everyone there is certainly a feeling of sadness/loss. I'm going to try walk some of it off and let it flow through.
After uni tomorrow my next biggest things for the week are (a) ramping up the rental search, (b) massive cleaning on weekend
E: walk done, sweat exuded, shower and OMITB and dinner and early sleep tonight I think. Uni library first thing tomorra
A dude just got on the train with a 6 pack of beer and a huge pizza. Tempted to offer a trade for an iPhone 13, the smell is incredible!!
But, 0% chance of passing on any disorders to a cat. And fluffy friends definitely make the world better.
I'm counting down until we find out what the mystery pizza is
patience is a virtue 🍕❔
I'm excited too. I'm hoping for "the lot".
no anchovies, those things are evil
Disagree. It's not a proper pizza without anchovies.
even a Hawaiin or margherita?
I wouldn't say no but if we're talking about "the lot" then it's a must.
Picking it up at close to 9pm so I won’t find out till then.
It’s an initiative to prevent wasted food so I pay a discounted price but I don’t know what I’m getting.
New glasses ordered and paid for. Fuck they weren't cheap :(
With private insurance, I get a ~$200/yr annual allowance. Curiously, some optometrists have sales of glasses for ~$200. Pure coincidence, I'm certain.
Anyway, I effectively get glasses for free (I don't, private health insurance is expensive) and was browsing on the weekend for something I don't actually desperately need because that allowance expires in 8 weeks.
gotta order new sunnies. i think it was 1k last time just for the lenses! Guarantee you when I finally order the sunnies my damn prescription will change again as well!
The need to carry prescription sunnies is almost all the motivation I need to get laser. Such a PITA.
the SECOND my prescription stabilizes i am getting it done. I look good in glasses (if I do say so myself) but having them force fed to me every so often by tinyest aint a ton of fun!
That's close to what my normal glasses cost. I am somewhat blind lol
😲
Wanted to import the discussion about this address from the other place.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-toorak-146320444
It's super nice but no way it's worth $50M+ right? It's not even in the part of the Yarra where you could go for a swim.
In the description...
"a wonderful sense of understated opulence". Err that's not understated.
Whilst I like to see what crazy houses bigly huge money can get you.. you'd need an army of people for the upkeep with something like that.
The entry is so grey and dull. The terrace though with the pool, wow. And all those windows.
Just Googled most expensive house sale in Melbourne, $52m. This is a nice house overall but most expensive ever in Melbourne? I dunno.
I think they went too "safe" with the colour scheme since this was renovated for sale. The grey is a bad choice.
ugh, it's awful.
hardly any bedrooms or bathrooms.
also, for that money you could get something really nice in Manhattan, and guess what, it's in Manhattan and not Melbourne
Little bit exorbitant innit? I like the tucked away privacy parts of it but imagine trying to clean it. Or get from one side to the other, not to mention stairs.
Also I could never afford that and don’t think anything should cost that much. If I could afford it I’d probably take somewhere more modest and help others out with the remainder
Or rent rooms out cheap to friends
Oh that reminds me. The pigeon babies left the nest. both seemed to survive ok. But before I could trim the damn hedges another pigeon moved in and laid some eggs. Damn things are like tribbles.
Ok I’m tracking now. It’s like the minutes of last meeting in the title. The mystery pizza.
There must be at least couple common ingredients that they always have leftover, but then it depends on the pizza joint as well and the longevity of the ingredients. Hmm tricky.
Although anchovies probably aren’t regularly requested, they do keep well so I’m guessing they won’t be a topping.
I can’t think of any pizza I would turn my nose up at though.
What about a pick up order that was never picked up?
At first I was like, “What crazy person does that?!” and then I realised yeah, people have heart attacks and die before the pizza is ready.
So yeah kinda sad now.
I’ll be the one picking up the mystery pizza.
I’ve been thinking about it and only god knows what they’ll throw into it. It could be totally vegetarian as well and all those leftovers for all I know.
I only hope it doesn’t end up with chillies or eggplants and I’ll be ok I reckon.
I will report back when I pick it up later tonight.
My money's on onion
Ooh I don’t mind onions. I hope they do chicken too and maybe mushrooms?
Yess good choice. I’ll back the onion as well.
I'll chuck a few coins on chicken too.
No, you may not draw a dick on your council ballot paper…
yes you can, and as long as its filled out correctly it will still count.
the only concern is if you want to send some poor ballot counter a medieval unsolicited dick pic
What about a post-modern phallic member instead?
little penis avatars of each of the candidates
The other to consider is how much of the ballot paper you want to use.
Tiny corner or the whole length of the page?
The Darebin ballot paper had quite a lot of blank space on it. Was thinking of writing a poem on it. Then remembered back to when I did data entry for the AEC back in 2004, and realised that papers with ahem 'additions' all get entered manually. Not going to do that to some poor sod manning the keypad.
No men on my ballot this year so I feel the joke would be a bit wasted.
I can't wait to move back to the inner city. It's so isolating here. Like, I'm the only person here in a weird way.
I don't see anyone often except for the train in the morning. Or the supermarket.
So lifeless.
I have to wait if/until I pass probation.
Make sure you've had a look at the rental prices in the inner city while you're at it...
It's actually only slightly more expensive than what I pay here. I'm in a house, and happy to move to an apartment.
Miss Seagoon also found Melton quite isolating, she couldn't wait to get back to Carlton even if our apartment was cramped.
Busy busy day tomorrow 🙂🙂🙂 , will have to make a list
Someone is eating corn on the cob above Thornbury - Marge style rain falling.
Nothing out here south of you so far, but the humidity is definitely building up.
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One mystery pizza please, whatever you do, no banana. No banana anywhere near this mystery pizza or it's surroundings. If the pizza you are about to serve me has been in the same room as a banana at any point in it's life, I don't want it
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Cheeee & bacon butty please.
🧀🥓🥪
Hasenpfeffer
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Hmm cheese and ham toastie for me today please.
🧀🍖🥪
Possums scrambling at top speed along the fence… they sound like a herd of elephants
not sure if anxious or excited, I've been getting dirt roaded for so long I've lost the ability to tell the difference. So I'm distracting myself designing suction cup hangers for our shampoop scalp massagers, I'm sick of seeing His Lordship's migrate across the bathroom. Very schmick if I say so myself.
Some western vic rain headed out way, probably a while but if your laundry is dry get it in.
It seems to be gingerly avoiding Ballarat and arcing towards Colac instead...
Looks big too. I wonder if Woolies insurance will let me know after the big dump or not at all.
irrationally angry I cannot get goodies soundtrack on anything but shitty LP qual. It had some absolute bangers.
Love some goodies
they seem to be a bit inspired by the rutles 🤔
Troggs more than anything on that track
I bow to your superior knowledge of 60s music
hahaha no way in hell. It's just that crawling guitar is ripped straight outta wild thing
yum yum! The very best of The Goodies flac on limetorrents.cc low/no seeds so it'd probably take a week.
There's copies of the actual LP on discogs for not unreasonable prices.
Also, what the with the weather forecast?
Such a lovely day, I think I'll spend much of it working in the little garden. 🙂🌹🌲
I really need to change my address to DDT fam, hehe.
Well, fam, has anyone stored their Oodie or similar in a vac bag? Was it okay?
yup.
don't forget, you can pause the vac process at any stage you want, you don't have to pancake it.
mine wore out so I chucked it
husband's oodie is folded up and in the cupboard
Oh, wow. How often were you wearing it?
pretty much 6 months of the year
Seems I think my council boundaries have changed or something.
I have a whole 2 candidates on my ballot paper.
Well this should be easy.
My Council has changed to have many individual local wards, I have three candidates, last year there were two. It used to have a system where you voted for all the candidates in the entire Council area, and the top group got in.
To be honest I don’t remember much about council elections.
I don’t even remember how many were up for election the last time we had them.
Share market seems to be up today - although when the value of your shares has hit rock bottom up is pretty much all that's left! Although my worst performer is just sitting there with it's 87% loss, it's not even worth the cost of selling at this point. I might be able to recoup enough for a sandwich, as long as it's a cheap one from the lunch truck and nothing fancy.
I decided to dip the toes into ETFs last December, using the Superhero app. Mix of Aussie and US, i just add money to my account any month i have any left over to do so, ill put some in savings and some into the ETF account. Probably looking at about 10% increase across the board when i hit the 1 year mark which has been nice. Your worst performer reminds me of much of my crypto, not worth the hassle of trading or withdrawing out!!
I had some fun with penny stocks that dissolved. Legit no idea what happened. Only a few hundred, but I could have used it for plenty of other more enjoyable things.
I think if the company winds up you just lose the money. I also had one company that did a buy-back of small parcels of shares which you had to opt out of if you wanted to keep the shares. Another was bought out by an overseas company - which was actually nice, I made a 50% profit in just over 12 months. I wish I'd bought more than $200 worth of that one!
I've been learning a lot about how the market works, but I definitely prefer funds than individual stocks. But buying a few stocks for $200 has taught me a lot about how everything works. I lost a lot of the value almost straight away, but I have gained most of the losses back over the last couple of years - if things continue as they are I look like I might actually start to make a profit longer term, so things are not as bad as they looked initially.
Seems like I was on a similar trajectory. Penny stocks seemed like a bit of fun, but it definitely an all-consuming learning curve and bit of a circle jerk in some of forums I was reading. I lacked a bit of patience when I was first interested in it. I’m not much of a gambler, so EFTs have been a pretty safe bet.
question: We have a ziplock bag we put spam tins in in the fridge as we eat them, is it die spammenbäg, der spammenbäg or das spammenbäg?
Eine spammenbäggen, zwei spammenbäggen, spammenbäggen für alle.
"bag" is feminine in gender in Deutsch - granted they are talking about 'die Tasche' not 'spammenbag' as above. My personal opinion is 'die spammenbag' would be correct as it encompasses the likely effect as well as the noun. Who says you can't pun in German.
Can anyone see me?
Likely the lag between lemmy.world and Aussie zone. I can see your comments no worries, but there was a post months ago saying it takes up to 7 days for Aussie and world instances to sync.
thank you ,
Hello?
If I can't post yet then I can't start the next daily thread
Hi everybody. I have a new id. Just trying to shake off a virus.