Daily Thread - The Long Warm Tuesday of our Souls - 27/06/2023
Welcome to today's thread, brought to you by warm heaters, cuddly pets, and green energy!
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Welcome to today's thread, brought to you by warm heaters, cuddly pets, and green energy!
I know this thread is from /c/Melbourne but, hello from Hobart.
Good morning! We have the best cafe in the world here, you should give it a go
Edit: Although today my order left a little to be desired, that's an anomaly
What’s the password?
Parmie.
Access denied
Sir, this is a Melbourne. I need to see your site induction card.
It’s sure as shit on Aldi special buys 😂
Halloooooooooo.
We have friends from everywhere! Welcome!
👋🏼
Hello. You're welcome to swim over anytime.
Please stop by King Island and pick up some cheese on your way
Ooooo yeah. Good idea.
I was in Hobart last week for the end of dark mofo and some work. Did you do the solstice nudie swim?
Despite having lived here for most of my life, I still only swim in heated pools.
👋 from Melbourne
Hellooooo 🙋🏻♀️
Your witty, sweet and personal poems bring so much joy and fun to the board, it seems we have the better deal. hugs 🤗
Ill accept $50 from each of your first four paychecks in return for my support
Damn bruh, you pricey lol
That's why I'm open to instalments
The vunerability shown here is completely raw at times and I really love it. Vent away my friend.
🤗🤗
🫂
I haven't replied to you much, mainly because I usually don't feel like I can help much, and replying with "sorry to hear that" or "good luck" or whatever is a waste of a reply, but I always see your comments and I always give you an upvote
Look at you kicking goals baby.
Sounds like it’s all going well! 🤞🏻
Congrats. That is so cool. (snoopy happy dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTF4gN6XhF0&ab_channel=GingerAnderson )
Hooray for you Stud!
Wishing you the best of luck!
Sending you so many positive vibes, virtual high fives and a good luck tickle under your chin.
Good luck my friend! I totally get you, having a job while tiring has already made me so bloody happy. It just takes that one person to finally say "yes, I want you to work for me" to get that foot in the door.
Coming soon to instagram cafes near you. Microwaved potato, cheese, salt and pepper, hot sauce, and fried eggs with runny yolk
Replace the word "cheese" with "fried in butter" and you've got my version. e: I didn't realise this was becoming a porn forum.
Mmmm that would be awesome too but I think cheese adds something special
Yuuuummmm
I declare you Supreme Commander of the Potato High Council
That looks soooo good. Shit yeah! Put a flower on it and charge $$$
Whoa. That’s something serious.
It looks so yum! Do you have a name for this creation?
The three-eyed potato volcano surprise
I wrote a huge thing about period pain and PCOS but having second thoughts because I'm not too sure if it's appropriate? I did spoiler it and warn for those who don't want to see it. But yeah. I've got no where else to talk about it and it's just like a lot of ??? and ughhhh pain.
If it's cool then I'll reply to this, if not well, I won't... I guess?
Endo here, periods seem like a design flaw we should've fixed by now. They massively suck. So much pain. Hugs.
If it helps you feel better, chuck it out and defs use the spoiler tag so people can avoid if they need! But if you need to vent, goooo!!
I have major body dismorphia due to not having female reproductive organs, but I can deal or scroll past. You should be able to talk about what you are going through.
You're amazing stud.
I think it's cool. I don't experience them (wrong type of plumbing) but see my and wife and daughter go through this regularly and never know what help to offer.
Everyone is being super nice so I shall post it. Spoiler omg for obvious reasons. So if that periods and PCOS is gross or triggering, you've been warned.
::: spoiler gross stuff here! So I've been diagnosed with PCOS since I was 12 but only officially when I was 21 due to the procedure being pretty invasive for a 12 y/o. I didn't have a lot of periods growing up and only had one pretty regularly when I got on the pill at 18 and I got off it at 23 due to my past GP's concern with blood clots. Thus since then I've had the rod.
Anyways, since being on the rod my periods were non-existent except for that I would bleed old blood. That's been pretty consistent, I would never get a period in the typical sense. It'd be maybe once every 2 months or so and it's just old blood.
Now it's a mixture of old blood and new blood and I am in so much pain (well like on a scale it's like a 4 to 5. Hurts but I try to focus on work). And I'm just like ??? so many question marks. Like wtf body, I thought we had a deal, you didn't give me periods and I would be okay with that.
There's not much to this really. I just like I'm so confused and in pain and I want to die. Ugh... Ugh. Sorry that this is very TMI, as I said, I don't know who else to talk to about this. It's not triggering the gender dysphoria, but it's still not great. Thank you to whoever listens. :::
Fuck, you're strong to work through that! Have seen a health pro?
I'm just so glad its not pushing your dysphoria as well. I'm trans femme so I understand dysphoria and know it comes out of nowhere sometimes and can last for hours. For what it's worth I obviously read your post without being triggered and this is pretty good for me honestly.
I'm going to need to see a GP to get the rod replaced soon anyway. But yeah, like it's just, ugh. I never had any sort of dysphoria around my period because I don't get it often. Compared to a trans man/masc person who might get dysphoria due to having it often. But when I would get it it's never been the downfall of society as I know it.
Also I'm super happy you felt comfortable enough to read it <3 I tried to not make it so... weird but yeah. I understands periods are a thing some people just don't want to hear. That's valid.
Most of my close people are cis women and now I have a noticable cycle I seem to be coming to terms with being able to talk about it all a bit more. My worst dysphoria was post egg crack, pre-hrt and in the early stages when i had no t and not enough e. That time has passed. To be really female and connect as deeply as I want to with afab women I have to be open the knowledge and not be too selfish and or squeamish to back away from certain topics.
Edit, enough about me, I hope you feel better soon.
Not too sure what went wrong in the drawing board when it came to human periods... haha.
Yeah I think I might do what I need to do around the house and then heat up the wheat bag and continue reading the comic I was reading at work (look, it was super slow and I wasn't getting emails).
Shit, afab people's health has been pushed to the back for far too fucking long hasn't it? For christ's sake people know what they want for their bodies.
That's pretty creepy. I'm sorry you've had to put your health on the back burner. I'm pretty sure the centre clinic in st kilda has a female gp and they're a specialist queer clinic.
My GP there is male, but I've always felt completely safe and understood by him. He only works wednesdays though. I think he's the only one there who has the training and capacity to understand hormone treatment but I could be wrong.
was in the office at 7 this morning, on the way home now and posting here because I just caught myself dozing on the train. must. stay. awake.
RIP our espresso machine; 16 years of great service, but the water tank thingy is manky as fuck and it can't be cleaned beyond what we've already tried. It's like the lining has melted, and that can't be good for consuming, but the replacement tanks have been discontinued. New machine arrives tomorrow and it's got a built-in grinder, so we need give away the old grinder which works perfectly. Sunbeam Cafe Series, if anyone's interested.
Noo, RIP! Always sucks to lose Ol Faithful.
Whatcha get as a replacement? Partner's got a vendetta against the pod coffee machine my parents got me way back, so I think I'll need to get a proper one soon.
We’ve just had the baby sleep consultant come by. I didn’t have high hopes, in my mind it was just a starting point as it’s the free council service and the advice we got from our maternal child health nurse did not work for us at all.
But I have been pleasantly surprised! She was really nice and the approach she has suggested sounds a lot more suitable for us. It’s going to be a hard 3+ week journey to change baby’s sleep habits. Really hoping at the end of it we will see some better sleep!! I am so tired!!
Getting close to needing something like this ourselves. He ONLY wants to sleep on mum, and whilst he usually stays down once he finally goes down at 11-12ish its a long time to get him there. What were some things they suggested out of curiosity?
Mine was just like that too! He got a tiny bit more independent as he got older but nowhere near enough. How old is yours now? If it’s not much better by 4-5 months I’d definitely recommend it. It will be a bit harder for us as he’s older and the sleep habits are more set in stone. So the earlier the better!
We are transitioning to cot in his own room so it was suggested we basically work in 15 min increments. Put him down when he first starts showing tired signs (before he’s melting down and grumpy) and give him a chance to fall asleep on his own. If he fusses can try adding one thing at a time, like shushing or song, then patting the mattress, then patting him etc. If that doesn’t work, all good, just go back to what works and try again at the next sleep.
Also having a rock solid routine before sleep and keeping the sleep conditions exactly the same: so always have white noise, always do bed time routine in the same order etc. And consistency. So even if it doesn’t seem like it’s working, sticking with it for every single sleep. “Success” at the beginning may just be laying there without crying for a few mins.
Ours is only 2.5 months. I was told not to even bother trying a routine till 4 months ish.
@TinyBreak @stardustingss agree, it's way too early for routine.
Have you tried swaddling? My daughter was great in a swaddle up until about 4 months when she started rolling and had to change everything. I found a great swaddling technique on YouTube that was inescapable and she settled down real well with that (she was a bit of a Houdini even quite early).
He HATES a swaddle. Loves to throw his arms around in his sleep. Remove his ability to do so and he cracks it. But good tip.
@TinyBreak bugger! good luck, I hope you find a solution.
Yeah that young I think you basically have to roll with it. Their bed times do eventually shift earlier! Basically you want to get on the other side of the 4 month regression then see what you’re dealing with.
thank god. Apparently he should be sleeping like 13-15 hours or something, I reckon we'd be lucky to get 8 or 9.
Mine had a phase of not going to sleep until 1am for a while then randomly just switched to 9-10pm. Then gradually kept moving back and now he goes to bed at 7.30!
The sleep hour numbers can drive you crazy. Like a few months ago we were told he wasn’t getting enough day sleep so I worked super hard to increase it. Now he sleeps too much 🙃
Good luck.
It wasn’t until I had kids that I understood just how effective sleep deprivation is as a method of torture.
I hope you have a support network you can rely on to help.
Heck yes Aussie Zone is now accessible on work PC! I think we must be blocking new domains or something.
Aw hell yeah!
Apparently I'm already at 100 posts, 445 comments.
Your chattier than me, I'm at 24/345. I should find some more photos to post in the pictures community and bump my post count up a couple.
Quick stroll around the block to get some sunshine and holy hell did that feel good. Even managed to dodge the annoying neighbour, was fully prepared to fake a phone call upon approach, but she had someone else snagged. She's a lonely woman with good intentions, but she drives me nuts.
For those who remember the saga from last week, the Flybuys points were put on.
But as an attempt to lure me back to shopping at Coles, it's pretty much had the opposite effect.
"By joining our client's team, you will enjoy the following benefits:
Monday to Friday job: Embrace a consistent schedule that allows you to enjoy your weekends free of work commitments."
really scraping the bottom of the barrel here peeps. ps: this is item 2 of a 2 item list.
Hey guess what you also get actual money for this which you can exchange for goods and services
Because really, who needs a weekend?
how is that a benefit.....
Good news for those who aren't using Reddit anymore: this DT has almost twice as many comments as the one on Reddit. Thats good for us, since I and a few others were expecting a lot of people to zoom on back to Reddit the moment the sub reopened
One interesting thing I noted from a quick flick through, there seems to be a lot less replies to comments, but a similar amount or maybe even more upvotes than usual. Makes sense since the sub has about 600k members, and like 95% lurk (what's that effect called again? The 90-9-1 rule I think?)
It probably won't last though, I don't think we'll lose many people just put of losing interest at this point, but since Reddit is by far the larger platform and r/Melbourne the larger community, it's just kinda basic maths that eventually more people will go to the larger community on the larger platform and start engaging there. But at least we have cemented ourselves as a solid alternative Melbourne community off Reddit!
I think if I don't feed the cat now she is going to eat me. Or at least annoy me to death.
Finally cleaned my dusty desk
Counsellor was sick so had to reschedule
EOFY is upon us! Happy tax returns
Happy EOFY!
I was a bit excited for the new financial year, as I have been working hard to get all my finances sorted out. I have my budget working well (with a pretty colourful spreadsheet, including lots of automatic calculations), have no more debts to pay off, future spending goals (including getting another dog or two and further study) are fully costed and achievable.
This financial year change is pretty much ruling off the past messes I have had to clean up, and marks the turning point into a much healthier financial future. A very happy EOFY!🎉
Much weirdness in the way Lemmy displays posts. I have just worked out that I am seeing deleted comments, and there is just a tiny little symbol at the end of the post to show me it has been deleted (I am guessing it is a mod thing). So apologies to anyone if I have extra-deleted or replied to anything that you have actually removed!
I’ve missed the DT for a few days.
Been trying to deal with this ear infection (ongoing since Thursday). GP is switching me to anti-fungal treatment (gross to think about). I’m so frustrated over the ongoing pain, lack of sleep & blocked hearing.
This was also meant to be my first week off work in 8 months (and I’d planned to be job searching to escape my toxic workplace). Thinking of returning to work likely still dealing with this ear BS makes me cry.
I sometimes feel when we’re about to get some time off or you’re about to go on leave that your body lets you down and you end up sick.
Hope you’ll get better soon!
Not your imagination! https://yourwellspace.com/why-do-i-always-get-sick-when-im-off-work/
it's the stress response. Basically: Your body knows it has breathing space and stops pretending it's ok
Absolutely believe this was the case. As did my manager who laughed about me likely being sick for my whole time off. 😒
Thank you. 🖤
I’ve just managed to book an ear clean for tomorrow. I’m hoping that will relieve pressure and pain at least.
hugs
Get a doctor's note. If you're sick on your leave you can have it switched to sick leave as opposed to annual and get those days back in your bank.
I tried. The GP I saw (my regular one being away) was not sympathetic to my leave issue. Bah-humbug.
This day is fuck
“Ya gotta hear him sing. Olaf, sing Berserker!
would you like to suck my cock? berserker!
did he say making fuck?
'nah he speaks some English but he cannot speak good like we do'
Skrelnik.
Fuck you Yankee blue Jeans
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
Potato bacon mug soup for me
🥔🥓☕️
Nom!
Morning Chef 😃 can I please get some over-easy sunny-side up fried eggs on gluten free toast (somewhere between medium and medium-well), but make sure the yolk is hard please
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🍞
Ugh. No one ever gets my order right. I'll just get a black coffee 😒
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😢
Lots of carrots, and anything else that will help my eyesight please.
🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕👁️🗨️👁️🗨️
One salmon please.
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Vege stew, with onion, tinned tomatoes, pumpkin, broccoli, cauliflower and a lot of fried chilli thanks chef!
🧅🥫🎃🥦☁️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Nicely done!
Can I get a large fluffy cloud and more zzz
☁️
💤
Thank you 💛
I woke up about 445am. Cats somehow know as soon as I wake up and I have to get up because they fuss about, start playing and the little kitten gets up in my face and sits on the laptop i have next to the bed I play youtubes on to lull me back to sleep. Little angels. Going to take my anti-anxiety/sleeping meds early tonight so I can get my circadian rhythm in line with their 5am wake time and not have to try and live everyday on 5 hours sleep.
I start every day now with an AA meeting. I found an amazing 24/7 online group and a wonderful sponsor from the US outta there. I thought I'd have trouble with the higher power stuff but I was obviously ready to begin a spiritual path to become a better person in the world and more helpful.
More volunteer work for trans people today. I'm embroiled in it again this week as a couple of people couldn't work. Have tomorrow off, but back into it on Thursday. I'm on my way to a b cup now!!! Omg they feel so special and sacred. I'm in tears and euphoric. The extra oestrogen I'm taking now has also brought a bit of libido on but of course female desire is so much different to male testosterone arousal. I'm a fuckin girl for real!! Woohoo
Thanks for reading everyone!
I love hearing about your journey! Sounds like today was really special, and I love that for you!
Finding spirituality was so helpful to me. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel like I can surrender, I don’t have to control everything or have all the answers… I just have to have intention and faith and move forward with honesty.
Absolutely this. I need to stop thinking for myself and surrender. Seemed impossible to me a few weeks ago, but I've just allowed it to wash over me and check the results which have been pretty much instantaneous. Its pretty wild and I'm loving this freedom.
It weirds me out every time I go get a haircut and try to explain what I want. I sound so…vague and painterly. I need a language scalpel or a sniper bullet chambered in the correct dialect.
Guess I’ll just keep using that photo from 10 years ago…
This is why I take in a Pinterest board with like 20 pictures 🥲
The trick is to write down what you say when it works and recite that back the next time you go.
That is unless you have been saying the same thing and they don’t understand.
Then as you say the photo is the next best thing!
Maybe get your hair person to explain what they did, so you can use those terms the next time?
THE DAILY RIPPA: DAY SHIFT
⏰🥊🐋🌊🐟🐠🐳
MAD MILLINERS OF THE HIGH SEAS EDITION
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There's a nice bit at the beginning of Toy Story 1 where the shark wears Woody's hat. Just when they're getting out of the toy chest.
Is this the origin of the Orcas wearing hats mythology?
No. Google up Orca Salmon Hat for some serious irl weird. The Toy Story bit is an homage to Gary Larson (praise to his life and career) which is rare for Pixar. Not sure which @seagoon is referencing, or something else altogether.
That's insane! Orcas are scary smart
Yep. And they are predators of animals about the size of us. That is, seals.
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⏰ 🐙 👊
Edit to add: 🐋
See, I reckon an octopus would be a perfect orca hat - the suction cups would hold it on
…the day of the week makes you orgasm?
Not to kinkshame or anything, but…er…
petit mort means "little death" and while it is commonly used to mean orgasm, it can be used in other ways (which I presume is the intent here). A fancy way of saying I thought I did something embarrassing and I just died.
If you were going to have a kink for one day of the week why would it be Tuesday? Tuesdays are sort of insipid and uninspiring as days go.
Aye thank you for doing another thread!
I could put all the info in and then there was a create button and that was doing nothing and there was no post button and then I started to swear :(
It is actually the 27th of June
Yes. Goddamit. EOFY crazies at work are in full bloom. Can't wait for the weekend.
😱😂😂 fixed! 🤦♀️
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Started new trashy post-apocalyptic audiobook last night. It started off like it was going to be a standard EMP/worldwide power outage type deal... but now it looks like there are also werewolves! 🍿
Well, at least it's not the standard zombies, they are just so overdone for apocalypses.
Agreed. Though I do enjoy some zombie fiction
A bonus! Love a good werewolf.
Dammit, I didn't get to do my mini workout this morning owing to an early start so I walked briskly to and from the bus stop. Will have to make time for it when I get home.
It's gluten free pizza base day at work, so I'll be flat out hand making pizza bases and unable to check in on you lovely people. Have a lovely day and I hope things go your way 🙏
Sounds like you have an active job which will play well with the exercise regime. You got this mate, looking forward to reading about your progress and struggles, they matter cos you matter!
Holidays, and I have some time for some doodling - https://i.imgur.com/RvMW020.jpg
I've seen this post in like 4 places on lemmy, lemmy.uk, lemmy.world, another community I didn't note, and now here. Is lemmy really this small at the moment?!
Well maybe, but that was me posting it. I'm trying to add content to a few drawing type communities. Not meaning to spam your feed, sorry.
Heading back to melbs today.
Going to miss the JK. Is a great place.
Pakige is scheduled for delivery today. A real physical book. I don't use them very often these days.
My birthday presents from Mum should be arriving soon. I'm getting the last three Mass Effect books I don't have. Still need to read the huge omnibus comics that I got for Christmas... last year? The year before? Oh well. What book did you get?
busts down door I heard someone say Mass Effect
Which ones did you get?
Eyy Mass Effects buddy!
I got Retribution and Deception (I know they're marked as pretty bad but I love a train wreck!) and Annihilation for Andromeda.
I haven't read any of the Andromeda ones yet! I should get onto that.
I didn't have much of an issue with any of the books tbh, I thought they were fine! Or maybe I'm just biased because I love the game so much 😄
I think there was just lore inconsistencies with... Deception I think? The one not with Kai Leng. There was a huge Google Doc about the issues.
Book deliveries are a joy. The new book smell!
What'd you get?
well, it's a library book so no new book smell included. A rather heavy tome on Soil Conditions and Plant Growth.
That's even better: old book smell. ♥
I see you're in druid training!
Sigh. Got the real inferior feels today. My co-worker somehow managed to interview and land a new job within two weeks whereas meanwhile I've been applying and interviewing for roles in the same areas over the last few months with no success and feedback ranging from 'we hired internally', 'too much experience' and 'not enough experience'...ugh maybe I just suck at my job.
Linkedin and networking my dude, work hard at the current place but analyse the grass on the other side of the fence. I get a LinkedIn message from recruiters/head hunters at least once a month, and try to reply as often as possible. Any interactions within your company or with outside vendors, ensure they know you're competent and approachable, and add contacts you get along with to LinkedIn to build a professional network. It does get disheartening going for roles outside of your range of expertise and being told you're not aligned for the role, but emphasise soft skills and transferrable attributes. EDIT: tldr; approach professional roles like you're a priviledged white man that deserves to be there
Thanks for the tip! I will try and brush up my Linkedin, added a few things over the weekend but probably need to highlight those transferable skills in my career history. Also will use the 'privileged white man' mindset next time :D
The privileged white man mindset, as much as I hate to admit it, really does work
This shit happens a lot. I was looking for a lot of admin positions, and while I don't have the experience I figure applying at a tonne of places I'd get something! My sister was looking for admin positions in a shorter time span than myself and got a job a few months ago. It felt so disheartening, like I was super happy for her but also like why is my job provider person not looking for me? Though I finally got a job in admin/writing so it's not so bad. But yeah, I totally get how you feel. I don't have any advice to offer but I offer my condolences and am a place to vent to.
Thanks! hearing other similar stories validates my experience as being normal so it's still helpful.
If it’s any consolation, we are going through this here as well. It happens at ALL levels of expertise and experience and sometimes doesn’t even matter how big your network is. Think of it as a missed opportunity for the company that didn’t hire YOU. They are the ones missing out. You’ll get there.
I honestly believe interviews are more for me than for the company hiring me. It sounds cocky, but it means you ask better questions and can gauge if you'll be happy with the role to avoid headaches down the track.
Aw thanks for the support! Yeah it's frustrating...prior to job hunting I felt I was actually good at my job and worthwhile to other employers, but now this whole ordeal has really demoralised me. Just got to keep looking!
at the end of the day it is their loss.
Bill Cat is meowing and meowing. Poor boy. ( he's demanding that I give him tasty treats while I'm cooking )
Struggle street already today.
have oodie on, am warm but unable to move and do chores
Is it you who also has the blue and pink unicorn oodie? I have mine on now.
yes, it is I with unicorn oodie 😂
I have an oodie on too with a warm heat pack, a beanie and light throw blanket on top with socks and ugg boots.
Even going to the bathroom is a chore right now.
Lovely day today, G&T in a plastic cup on the beach to finish it off - https://i.imgur.com/ffDoAT1.jpg
Urgh. I’m feeling the sicks coming on
vit c right now
Noooo but also, a matter of time with this weather. All the warm drinks and blankets for you right away!!
Noooooo! Hot toddy and bed rest to fight that off!
Omg so adorable, I was watching a video of a mother cat and her kiten and my mumma cat came into the room and started sniffing all around the speakers because she could hear the little kitten's tiny mews . What a beautiful lady she is.
Warm heaters are good! I hope mine continues to last. It has its moments where it won’t work and then it does. It’s started getting too cold for me not to have a heater on at some point throughout the day/night.
Speaking of cuddly pets I miss my dog 😔
Naww ❤
I just realised that when I comment here through the browser there is an emoji button that works better than the one built into my tablet's keyboard - it has a search function, I don't have to scroll through and find them!
Your tablets’ OS would have a search function for emoji surely?
Actually you are right - I have been looking at it and there is one, it just isn't that obvious. The one through Lemmy is a much nicer interface.
I'm not gaming a whole lot at the moment, but I did put a few hours into D4 on Sunday/Monday, around household chores, partner time, appointments, whatevs, yet my brain decided to give me a dream where my partner broke up with me via D4. Thanks, brain.
It's really weird going from no work so playing video games like all the time, to now I only play video games for a few hours. Luckily I can play during my lunch break.
At the height of my WoW days, I was playing enough for it to be a second full time job, after my actual job and on weekends. I'm not sure I could do that anymore, I get antsy about an hour or so playing anything.
WFH today, so might have to nab a bit of D4 time on my break...
What are you playing at the moment?
I remember the raiding days in MMOs. The amount of time I devoted to FFXI and WoW was next level, it really did feel like a 2nd job with attendance and stuff.
At least with FFXI I was just burning time leveling and wasn’t good enough to raid due to time zone differences.
What changed my mindset was when WoW released an expansion with a level cap boost and it invalidated all my raid equipment almost instantly. It made me feel as if all the raiding I done had been for nothing.
So I gave up after that.
Right, that's such a shit feeling! New expansions have felt hard to get into because of that invalidation, however after a break, I keep feeling the urge to get back... Never done any multiplayer stuff in the FF world, interesting!
What exactly is google implying here...?
This isn't Everything Everywhere All At Once, is it?
Nah, it's no hard feelings
I got up way too early today. I think I'll take Mr Woof for an early walk, we can watch the sunrise on the way home. 🐕 🌅
Update: the walk was lovely, but the sunrise was a bit incipid. Now I am back home listening to the lovely crashing sounds of the house over the road being demolished. The soundtrack of urban renewal.
Just finished booking all of the hotels for the US trip. Thanks to my parents' history of being degenerate gamblers, mum has talked the hotels in Vegas and Laughlin into comping my rooms so it looks like my total accommodation cost for this trip will be about $1500. Not too bad 🙃
Where would I start a LOTR marathon from if I wanted to skip forward to a more action packed point and skip some of the world building
mods can we delete this blasphemous post please
and ban the user for offensive content
As the poster is a major contributor of potato-based content I believe that would not be in the best interests of the community.
We will require the user to provide potato world-building information in each post as a condition.
You don't think that could get a bit overwhelming? The intricacies of potato consumption would be better spread out and shared at appropriate intervals and not forced, IMO
with the abundance of potato facts I am sure they won't feel forced.
You can force a potato just as much as you can force a babe's first words
Checks rulebook. Nope, nothing there forbidding blasphemy. 🤷♂️
God damn it.
you put the po ta to part on loop
Good idea for a starting point. Idk I kinda want to just watch all the fight/battle scenes again tbh 😂
I don't think it still counts as a marathon if you skip the long boring bits. Sounds like a LOTR sprint to me.
then you want the last hour of The Two Towers and the first hour of Return of the King
Good to know, thank you!
The warg scene is at 1:26 of The Two Towers theatrical version but that depends on where you are watching it from. Netflix speeds it up by about 4%.
Wait no or was it Binge. Anyway the movie should be 2:59:53 long. Adjust accordingly.
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just watch the entire thing cos u will miss something if u skip.
Yeah just skip all the crying Frodo and elf people parts lol.
in the forest when they are first hunted by the black rider
GET OFF THE ROAD!
Watching my powerpal read 0 grid use since 9am. Ya gotta love it
Back in melbs after much driving yesterday and today. I've grown to really like long country drives. After a very long resistance to listening to podcasts in the car I think I'm converted. Just starting with Radio National for now.
I also inexplicably have developed angular cheilitis (corners of mouth are cracked and sore) over the last few days and now I've got a pair of mouth ulcers on the top and bottom lip near them as well. Not fun.
But overall, a fantastic few days off.
What a day! Hand stretched around 200+ pizza bases and hand peeled 60kg of potatoes. Bought avocado on the way home because guacamole is Miss Peeler's latest food obsession. She and I made said guacamole when I got home. Took some time to admire my young Mr Peeler's new avatar on WWE 2K22 and observe his wrestling game. Did a load of washing (just remembered I haven't hung it up yet. D'oh!) Cooked dinner, did my exercises (day 3) cleaned the bathroom a bit and helped Mr Peeler (Luddite) with phone tech issues. Now I am laying in bed just blobbing out. But I must hang the damn washing. Bugger!
Gonna get in pjs go to bed early and watch a movie. Have selected Triangle of Sadness.
Made up for sleeping badly for a couple nights by sleeping a whopping 13hrs last night. Feel much better.
PAKIDGE! TIME TO PICK UP PAKIDGE
New movie everyday. Today was Network, 1976. It's just a movie about a guy killed on camera by two people . It's a best of times worst of times, good people bad people story. In that it's a very old story, like a story line from I Claudius.
Oh I recently looked that up because Peter Finch is in it, and he was also in Sunday Bloody Sunday. Both movies look really interesting!
I've always wanted to watch every Best Picture from the get go in 1927. I've seen a fair few of them, but would really like to watch the progression.
I feel like everyone doing media studies should be made to watch that
MissGod is reviewing Kubricks entire catalogue over school holidays.
What's on tonight then?
Yesterday: Clockwork Orange & The Shining
Today she has watched: Eyes Wide Shut & Full Metal Jacket
Now playing: Barry Lyndon
Eyes Wide is the current favourite
Had a recruiter call. I hate recruiters. Especially when one dangles something promising then ghosts you as soon as you send the updated resume.
My snake plant is suicidal. The leaves are literally crawling out of the pot.
Can someone with Jerboa confirm for me that the size of the scrollbar changes size as you scroll down the thread? I'm thinking this has something to do with the sticky/jittery scrolling I mentioned a little ways back...
I use iOS safari on Aussie zone and get that juttering issue as well. It’s been since I signed up and joined
Dang it... I like my things to be smooth
Yeah I hear you. Not sure what the fix is. And wondering if it’s because it’s still new. Kinda don’t enjoy seeing the juttering, makes my eyes go bad when it happens. 😐
Yep. I thought it had to do with size of comments or whether they are collapsed or not. But apparently not. It just seems randomly janky.
On a related note, I'm posting this from Liftoff and it seems a lot smoother so far.
OK cool. I don't know why it would do that, but if it is changing the page size for whatever reason (loading/unloading comments that are closer/further away??) then maybe the janky scrolling has to do with constantly readjusting scroll speeds up and down the page. Visually irritating. Next question, how to file a bug report.
Also thanks for the tip. I'm also trying out a thrid app called Connect.
I've tried connect, Jerboa, liftoff, wefwef.... To be honest, I'm hanging out for sync
holy CRAP anyone else just had google sheets completely shit itself? Cross-sheet importrange queries have just bottomed out, checked and no other mofo has touched them (not that they can anyway) and restoring to yesterday briefly worked, then shat out again.
EDIT: For anyone so inclined, the issue is with the Col references. Replace them with the lettering (Eg: Col1 becomes A, Col5 becomes E) resolves the issue. But if you're not so inclined, fuck'em
so gray's didn't deliver, off to vcat I go. making payment on the car tomorrow, collecting on Thursday. today was spent in the kitchen and watching my hubby play ff16. off to clean the mice after dinner. yea stay warm everyone.
Gurgling coughs are the worst
Mrs thinks the TV is dying. It keeps playing sound even if its off, sometimes when you turn it on it doesnt wake the soundbar, lots of weird little shit like that. We got it just as covid got serious so its what, 3 years old? and whilst I've never loved the "smart" side of things (Hisense proprietary OS, not android or WebOS) its an OLED so the picture is second to none. We have a real strange love/hate thing going on.
TV's haunted.
I’ve got the “moons haunted” meme in my head now.
Ehehe. Precisely what I was going for!
You should be able to get it looked at and fixed/replaced for nothing, 3 years is not long under consumer law, i got my Samsung panel replaced after a longer period than that
I sort of suspect parts would be the issue. It was an end of life product when we brought it. Suspect I know what Hisense would say.
tbh sounds more like the soundbar is acting up.
It still plays audio even if the soundbar is disconnected. The soundbar almost always wakes if you boot it to tv, but if your boot it to YouTube or HDMI there’s a 50/50 chance the tv will just not wake the soundbar.
ooof yeah, that's some subprocessor drama.
Question: Have you tried a cold boot? A lot of those subs don't actually reboot on a power up/down event, you need to power down, unplug from mains and let the capacitors drain (about 10-20 seconds) to restart them
Yep. We have to turn the PowerPoint off every so often.
A culinary travesty for dinner tonight. One pack of "Mexican" salad (mostly lettuce, with a dressing containing spices reminiscent of Old El Pasto taco seasoning) mixed with some of the chicken fajita filling I made a while ago that didn't taste quite right. It worked surprisingly well.
Thanks mate
Waiting for dins. Watching National Geographics doco on the Titanic.
Decided to suss the smoking room here at JK airport (when in rome etc) and it is a solid compression session.
A staff member with tags walked in holding 2 beers opening the two heavy doors with her feet with an unlit ciggy in her mouth ready to go. Absolute pro compression session-er.
Everyday is a winding roadddd~🎶
Edit: sorry about to head down a windy road and I thought of this
I was today years old when I discovered that there was a comestible in the world called Deep Fried Spam Musubi. To be served with teriyaki sauce. Does anyone know of any place in Melbourne that sells them?
I'm hoping I won't get accused of returning too much under the ACL.
In 2020, returned a laptop after 5 months after the RAM went bad. Then got the new one replaced a month later for a similar issue. The replacement has been going strong since then.
In 2021, returned a Samsung watch after 3 weeks when the o2 sensor burnt my wrist. JB Hifi also raised a personal injury report.
In 2022 bought a gaming mouse. Scroll wheel stopped working properly nearly a year later. Got it replaced... Now 5 months later the power switch is not working properly so it keeps turning off at the worst possible times during fights.
Two years ago, got a refund for my son's gaming headphones (9 months old). One speaker just died.
Last year I returned two Nintendo switch controllers due to drifting issues. Got new ones.
This year I've replaced a PS5 controller, due to drifting issues (it was 10 months old). About to replace another PS5 controller due to drifting issues (this one is 8 months old).
Shit happens and as customers we are entitled to replacements when reasonable.
Thanks:)
I tell you I swear they don’t build anything to last anymore. 1 year life span on stuff like this is appalling :(
one item a year really isn't much
😅 you're right as well
On the last point, I swear these so called gaming noises are literally just the cheapest shittiest components they can find... But WITH LIGHTING!11!1!!111!1! I was gifted what seemed like a fairly nice alienware mouse, was like 80 bucks, thought it was pretty cool. It has this weird button below the scroll wheel which I think changes the sensitivity or something. Pull it up a few times, mouse go slow, push it down a few times and I'm zooming around like nobody's business
6 months in, it kinda died. I can still adjust it, but it randomly sends me into max speed mode and I'm trying to click a button and all of a sudden my mouse is in another continent
Yeah the button below the scrollerwheel is a DPI setting. I had a cougar mouse and like less than a year later the scroller wheel craps out. PC Case Gear sent out a new one (they couldn't fix it), new one works fine but a few months ago it's crapped out again, scroller wheel again. So I bought a Logitech one. Only had it for maybe two or three months, but so far works pretty good. I don't have any major complaints about Logitech, they've really stepped up their game recently.
I mean, I don't think that seems like too much by far, but I do wonder about your tech choices! What mouse did you get that's being jank?
Before all this, had some logitech wired gaming mouse for 4 years. Still works good, but the cord is too hard lol.
First one was Corsair Darkcore RGB. Scroll wheel malfunctioned so I can't swap out the healing staff for the pistol quickly, and it was hard to scroll documents at work.
Second/current one is Steelseries Aerox 3 wireless.
Logitech's my go-to with mice so I'm relieved yours was fine hahaha. That's a bit yikes for both other brands, though. Corsair are great in my experience for keyboards (logitech are NOT), but mice.. yeah.
Have you considered one of the wireless logitech mice? I just upgraded from a.. I think it was a G403 to the very similar in appearance but better in specs Logitech G Pro after I decided the side of the old one was getting too worn out. I know there's a few others people rec, but I have tiny hands, so I like small mice.
Okay fam, got a q…
Does anyone know of a site that can populate Google Maps addresses into nice format to print out? Like if I was looking at cafes in a particular suburb and wanted the list and map with the pins showing.
Trying to print from GM itself is a bit of a hot mess.
I’ve usually just copied text to word and re-formatted . But I’m very particular with those sorts of things.
I really want a heatmap/pin drop of my accounts in my CRM so I can visit a whole suburb of customers at once and not miss people. Sounds like SalesForce should have this plugin, but I haven't done enough research.
Tell me about it, Stud ;0) (only Grease fans will get that reference)
Thanks for sorting the DT thread
That's cool baby, you know how it is, rockin' and rollin' and what not.
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Decided to take a break from Netflix so spending the last couple of days of it watching some trashy reality offerings.
I swear Sammi is giving me a disapproving look.
I remember reading unsure if it was here or elsewhere, someone saying they didn’t think Lewis Capaldi would be making it to Australian shores and having a concert here. Turns out that person was correct, as he has cancelled his Australia/NZ trip
Had a crack at the bogan pop tarts. Not bad!
::: spoiler so dumb See rolling over the folds of my brain,
A heavy fog that covers the pain.
Debt repayments made to Hypnos,
Plus interest paid in cryptic symbols;
Dreams shift and morph with heartbeats,
Each moment a lifetime lived, a feat.
Seek refuge under the starry nightsky
Some dreams are meant to slip on by :::
Anyone know what all the alarms in Foots are about? Nothing on Vic Emergency yet.
Anyone watching MasterChef?
What’s a good client for iOS for this website? I used Apollo for iOS and that’s the reason I’m cutting back on Reddit.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Are we doing Wednesday?