Lemmy is still a bit strange to me, but I think I'm finally getting it to the point of being similar to what I was seeing on Reddit (albeit with much fewer users and therefore less content).
I'm glad to see the Melbourne daily thread be active here.
Seeing how few users there are on Lemmy also makes me feel like I want to be more active?! I was much more of a lurker on Reddit.
I think once any group gets too big a lot of people end up just stepping back and watching. On Reddit I always felt that it wasn't worth contributing, if you didn't get a popular reply on quickly it would end up sinking and no one would see it. The fast and loud people had lots of entertaining conversations, but there was not much space for the slow and thoughtful. You are not the first person to say you lurked on Reddit but felt you could contribute here. 🙂
I was also more of a lurker, but it is a lot less intimidating to make a comment or post here. Too many trolls, automatic downvoters and "akshually" types on Reddit. Welcome aboard!
Totally! I always hated that the conversation for something is already in full swing, so your comment wouldn't be seen by a lot of people. It's also why I like to contribute more in the DT because on the Reddit one it always felt like reading every comment was so daunting. But being able to have not many people here (with most of the comments being in replies) I can at least catch up when I get home from work or during my lunch break.
Just finished the last of this calligraphy practice. Only two mistakes!! I'm quite happy with it. I love the red water colour. :) ( oh dear, the closer I look the worse it looks ) 😂
PSA to remind people to not let their mind imagine crazy scenarios.
Friend had been distant all week and not replying to texts so I thought they'd had enough of me or I'd said something wrong.
Sent them a text saying "Hey.
If you've got a few free minutes today can you call for a quick chat?" Less than half an hour later they called me and I got to hear about all the crap going on in their life and it cheered both of us up.
Sometimes people just retreat into themselves when life gets hard or hectic and need a friend to draw them out.
I feel like retreating and I guess I have been hiding away from all my friends and family though last night I reached out to my dad because I felt like I had to finally.
This place is my last bastion of contact with people because I’m finding it real hard of late and want to hide away and disappear quite honestly.
She told me to stop paying for her medical stuff incase I had an emergency or something happened and now I’m in that spot where my basic needs are suffering. (Washing machine)
But what sort of a partner would I be if I didn’t try my best to help her?
My washing machine broke halfway yesterday which is why I reach out to my dad, I was anxious and needed to talk because I’m financially at rock bottom having had to support my partner with her medical bills for the past 3 and a half years.
Mind you I haven’t come up with a solution other than to see how I can handle drip drying wet clothes first or finding cheap or free replacement.
I’ll have to see what happens when i do the next wash and see what happens.
Ever with reaching out it doesn’t help with the problems other than airing them out.
With my dad he sometimes tries to overcompensate because he wasn’t around when I was growing up and feels like it was a missed chance so his input can come to be a little heavy sometimes.
What scenario should I not be imagining for a friend who stopped responding to texts for minimum a week each time and cancelled two catch ups, after not being able to catch up for almost 2 months because they were so busy? I’m reading signals to stop contacting them.
A photo of my shell pasta, mushrooms, chorizo, zucchini, onion, garlic, chives and chilli flakes. I forgot the tomatoes. I called it "everything that was in fridge went into my dish". It tasted way better than it looks.
Reports from a couple of mates who use it say they find this one buddy and slow to load. I assume they're on a phone. Any ideas or can I inform them of improvements.
Still, this place kicks it's butt for content also. The old daily thread seems to be a lot of the same questions people posted as posts before the great reddit blunder of 2023 which would pretty much be instantly downvoted to the bottom. Loud bangs, tailgating drivers, choppers over reservoir etc. I might be exagurating a little, but it's lost its soul nonetheless.
I feel like we flhave a natural filter that keeps the ruder Facebook users there. I would just suggest giving Jerboa a try, put the time into setting it up and subscribing to C/Melbourne+ a few major communities.
I originally made an account with lemmy.world. everything was fine until there was a big influx of users on that instance, then it all slowed down. I then made an account with aussie.zone which is clearly a much smaller instance. Much much quicker now.
I'm not sure how to let them know without seeming like we are desperate, so just casually mentioning something like "wow, I can't believe how much less activity there is on the old subreddit compared to the Lemmy community".
He is super cute, but ProcastifunPolice is here to remind people to keep cats indoors. They are relentless, ruthless killers of native wildlife and are at much higher risk of injury or death outdoors.
Vote Yes in the referendum! It's a great step in the direction of implementing the Uluru Statement. My dream is for state and federal governments to have treaties with the First Nations. We could be so much more as a country!
Fantastic. I've been looking at the goddamn reddit side and it's such a racist shitshow (why, oh why did we not deal with Murdoch before this), so I'd started to lose hope. Honestly really excited to see the Yes campaign take shape!
Workout was an absolute ripper - cycle class and I walked out feeling on cloud nine. Cool down stretches with the bf, then coffee and a shared brownie. Sunday is going awesome!
What else is on for your self care day?! Loving this thread, btw!
Think I might try and make self care Sunday a recurring thread.
It's an increasingly important part of my week as I continue in my new job.
We practice holistic HR, and a big part of that is our open door policy and being available for everyone who has something going on in their life or at work that they need someone to talk to.
It's equal parts rewarding and emotionally taxing while I get used to it.
Today will be the Clock Tower Tour at the city hall, then the state art gallery/museum/library and a second market in the afternoon. Taking it relatively relaxed but would like to get some culture in me today. Maybe a stroll in some gardens depending on weather and time.
A walk, a mindfullness movement workshop for trans and gender diverse people later. Minecraft for chilling out and skin care. Eating the mega healthy vege stew I made the other day. AA at some stage. Also playing and chilling with my cats seems like self care too.
I think that's the best way of visualising. Because changing a couple of minor settings and doing another test post with a longer timeframe to see what happens really just sounds dull.🤣
I'm gonna tidy up the house, and make up a batch of florentines. Now I have BF hanging around I can make treats more regularly since its not just me eating them!
In other good news, bot #001 seems to be doing better after training - has been running for a few hours without crashing & successfuly conducted a test posting. I've promised it a new wi-fi dongle tomorrow if it can manage to stay awake all night and post succesfully, hopefully that will help too 🤣
Edit: might have spoken too soon, just after I posted this it crashed again. I think it might be related to the code that is supposed to pin the posts which doesn't work (it needs to be updated for the new server edition) so I have gone through and stripped out all the code relating to that process. Finger's crossed that does it.
::: spoiler curry
Image: Curry. So much curry it's crazy one person ate the whole bowl. Chicken and potato massaman curry, with green beans, capsicum & tomato. Served with rice & cucumber raita.
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Spending my Sunday morning doing a job application because it won't happen during the working week. It's rare for good roles to come up in my field and this one sounds perfect, so going for it. I HATE writing cover letters, never been good at it. I open with why the role has appealed to me and anything I write sounds hella corny.
I want to apologise to everyone here about having to put up and read about my side of things.
I know there are probably many others in tough positions and I’ve probably had too much a winge and complain today.
I should probably just focus on solving the problem and taking it in stride or waiting to solve the problem instead of being so down about all the worst aspects of it all and what it might mean.
Well Jetstar cancelled my flight for no actual reason they could give me. Also, apparently they sent an SMS and email yesterday informing me...I did not receive either, and only checked my flight on account of a comment by @the_procrastinata earlier.
My partner, who could have been an old school travel agent in another life, somehow managed to get me a better flight which the staff said was unavailable. Currently spending my $24 dollars of Jetstar food vouchers...
hashing out LED diffuse lighting for the house. Trying to convince His Lordship of the merits of an "Intruder Alert" macro that when triggered turns all the lights blood red and starts playing the imperial march.
Damn it. Sad to hear this. My recommendation would be is to get someone out to have a look at it. Someone local and someone who doesn't charge to come out.
I'm a chunky monkey lady with thunder thighs and am sick of shredding the thighs of my jeans. Does anyone have suggestions for good jeans that don't fall apart too quickly?
I finished my Lego lambo yesterday and discovered I put one of the diffs backwards. Now the front and rear wheels spin in different directions when you try to push it. Ah well, it's a display model and no one else will ever know.
I bought the Fast and the Furious Lego sets and they're just display models tbh. So in one way it's good that you don't actually have to use them for play. But like Calhoon said, it would be annoying just knowing that it's not perfect.
::: spoiler nicotine craving poem
Rolled out of bed, got no plans today
Pain in the head, ground my teeth away
Drink my coffee first, now I'm fairly caffeinated
Thinking of the worst, my thoughts R-rated
My meat-vessel
Is not a temple
My heart's a nightclub,
Full of cigarette butts
I quit smoking months ago, no nicotine
But the craving lives on, so addicting
I think that tailors are worse than rollies
Both are gross, neither are great or healthy
I'll still feel sad but the smoke makes it fun
I want the feeling of it in my lungs
I'll still feel bad and the smokes make it true
I want the feeling of one or a few
My meat-vessel
Is not a temple
My heart's a nightclub,
Full of cigarette butts
:::
That's the way to do it I reckon. i cold turkeyed once many years ago, was a sweaty, irritable mess for 2-3 days, cravings for longer, but really not too bad in my experience. Now I've just traded one addiction for another 🤷♂️
I'll wean myself off or catch a cold and break it that way. They're so addictive though and the no nic ones apparently still have it in them anyway. Trust the black market to be shady as fuck.
I can't believe Twitter is also imploding, now where am I supposed to unapologetically fan girl and talk about reality tv without the prying eyes of people I know IRL???
They've limited the amount of tweets you can view, it's 600 for those that don't pay and 6000 for those that do. You also can't send a tweet if you've reached your limit. They also stopped tweets from being able to be shared on outside sources. It's like they're trying to kill twitter.
Yeah I think so, the other theory is that Elon bought it for too much and decided to kill it but overestimated people's level of care in terms of leaving and now they're really just applying themselves in killing it.
@MisssDarylC@Hanhula lol. I am literally reading this post, and replying, from Mastodon. The Fediverse and Threadiverse are united by a common protocol called #ActivityPub, so it's like you can post to Reddit from your Twitter account. Except it's better, because nothing is owned exclusively by rich people trying to get richer, or in Space Karen's case, trying to destroy "the left" 🙄
i didn't even bother trying the official app again. tried it ages ago and it was awful. i can imagine the current version is even more optimised to jam its ad-riddled revenue cock in my butthole.
I have a few issues occasionally with jerboa but it's in its infancy and I can be understanding about its teething problems. With the official Reddit app however there are no excuses for having such a subpar performance for so long.
Anyone got breadmaker recs? His Lordship hath discovered if one decomissions an old appliance, one should do so after buying a motherfucking replacement honestly dipshit why did you do that???
Ahem.
We do a lot of pizza dough, some of it quite dense, so looking for one with the kind of paddle you uusually only see at Pride. Or with YAOI branded on it.
I would love a bread machine with a container that’s actually shaped like a bread loaf! All the ones I’ve seen have this weird tall thing so the bread loaf is not shaped right.
In a pinch you just breadmake to the second rise, then shape and plonk in a pan of your own delight and finish off in the oven. Bonus: you don't get paddle holes
Recently bought the Breville Bakers Dozen model. Haven't used it or the various options enough to give it a full rec, but so far so good. Although I agree with @[email protected] that I was expecting the tin to be more loaf-shaped than it is.
We're looking at brevilles since they seem to have avoided the Cheap Chinese Manufacturing of Suck that most reputation brands have long descended into, but there seems to be issues with the collapsible paddles. Bad idea all around
i have a kitchenaid but i just mix pizza dough by hand (1-2KG flour at a time) in a large cambro tub, just using the ken forkish's "flour water salt yeast" methods. if you autolyse the dough and use 70%+ hydration its pretty easy to do by hand.
I was gonna say you can still do that, but I forgot that I'm the peasant machine getting the slowed proofed dough out of the fridge in the middle of the night so it doesn't walk all over the bench, and chucking it in the preheated oven at some ungodly hour to get back out of bed 45 minutes later to beautiful fresh sourdough. That's me. I'm the peasant machine. But it's sooo gooood. I do have an old bread machine that I now use to make jam in.
Flying back to Melbourne today. Heard a lot of flights have been being cancelled out of Brisbane the last few days. I wouldn't mind that, but I've got to get back to my doggo.
Good luck. It was chaos at Melbourne yesterday trying to fly up to Brisbane (took me 1.5 hours just to drop my bag off), so hopefully that isn’t your experience flying home today.
Maybe Mr Smeg needs to drive me somewhere with tasty food. We had loaded potato gems last Sunday at Hey Sister.
Not sure what I want today. For now just listening to Blue Juice Radio on PBS. Easily one of the best shows of the week after Stardust, Afterglow, and Riddim Yard.
I’d love some gado gado too, please chef. And I’d better pick up something with prawns for the OH while I’m here, so I’ll have whatever you recommend, thanks
I've heard it a lot in the coming years. But when I was in highschool me and my mates called them lads. Eshay feels like a Sydney name. But, to be fair, the friend who kind of spearheaded the whole "lads" thing was born in England (though he's live in Australia for like his entire life).
Well we managed about 1.5 hours at the party last night until baby became so hysterical with the grandparents that we had to leave. But honestly I’m okay with that, not that the party was bad but I certainly remembered why we decided we were happy to have a baby and give up the nights out. I really prefer doing stuff like lunches now. Also barely drank and still woke up with a ripper headache. Truly think I’m in the era of dinner parties and picnics now.
All this cold made me start reminiscing about the last roadtrip to Mildura, and out of curiosity I checked the weather there - how is it 2° colder there?????
Desert. Drier air. No cloud blankie to keep us all warm(er). Also an unusual burst of cold air & rain in progress across the entire middle of this continent rn.
If I know someone who is hoarding lots of plastic bottles in the belief they will make money when the container deposit scheme comes in, am I a bad person if I don't tell them containers will need to have a specially printed barcode on them to be eligible?
That's a tough one. Not really. Don't step on someone's hobby. Plead ignorance. In fact help them out by dumping I mean donating some of yours. (If they're sharing their bed with the plastic then maybe it's time to step in).
Yeah, that won’t work. Even cans now isn’t worth the effort. We kept about 6 months worth, had the yard looking like hell, and were told not to bother conning back without triple the amount.
It will be worthwhile for personal quantities if you have a reverse vending machine or return point somewhere you regularly go, but it would not be worth the logistics of collecting and transporting large amounts of other people's discards. And without the label showing the 10c deposit was paid (which won't be there until the scheme is actually introduced) you can't get it refunded, so the old bottles are worth nothing.
I've been trying random fauxmeat options when I see them on special and I have to say, way to many go for texture and presentation over taste. I got some faux chicken tenders and while they look, smell, and sort feel the part, they absolutely don't taste it.
Fish & chips for me. Usually Miller St is jumping at this hour with people getting pizza or f&c. Tonight was dead. Zillions of empty car parks and the f&c shop people were filing their nails and scrolling on their phones. The cost of living is starting to bite down hard I think. Mind you, $18 for 1 piece of fish, 1 scallop, 1 prawn, 1 fishcake and a handful of chips is getting a bit steep for regular purchase.
Urgh, you know that feeling when you wake up at a "normal" time, scroll on your phone and then doze off only to bolt awake and it's 11:15... now I'm sitting here with my coffee and I almost regret how cold it is out here. Thankfully my lunch appt has been postponed by half an hour as well. I should at least do one Useful thing today. Mainly clean the kitchen which looks like a disaster zone. I would be bereft without my dishwasher.
Had a great day today. Went go kart racing with my partner as she had a gift card. It was drizzling so it made the racing way more fun and I did manage to beat her (9th vs 11th). Then we tried out a pile of recliner couches and decided on this one and ordered it:
::: spoiler leftover-pita-pizza poem
Tired of leftovers? Tired of the bore?
No more bland grub, not any more!
Pita bread is cheap and I'm so poor
Ima drop pasta on pita, pizza amateur
Spread that cheese on yesterday's dinner
No new food, am I getting thinner?
No matter! Fire it up, cook it nice and even
For a toasty thirteen minutes plus seven
Blast the gas, spark the light,
A fan-forced two-hundy
Slap that pita on that pan,
I'm so hungry!
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I miss sitcoms. The kind that are full of corny jokes and have 20 episodes a season. Seems that era of tv is dead, and it’s sad. Shows like Frasier, Seinfeld, Freinds, Big Bang theory etc. I guess with streaming being the main form of tv now it’s a different market.
A little bit of daggy excite for the evening. Going off to see Indiana Jones. Hehe.
This weekend has been interesting with the weather to say the least. I did check out the small but fun Fantastic Beasts exhibit. Was hoping also to squeeze a REB tour, but that is booked out till almost mid-August at this stage. Got some goodies from Uniqlo and was lucky to discover the bottom of the bag was torn walking back. Managed not to lose anything.
Again, you know your Llab ain't a Monday person... It has once again come far too quickly!
Venting/whinging post warning: Mr Peeler ruined my favourite shot glasses. They were Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec inspired moulin rouge glasses I bought at the monet and friends exhibition at The Lume. I said repeatedly Don't put them in the dishwasher. I even rescued them a few times when he was about to start a cycle and told him again. And what does he do.. the design is all melted and ruined. Aargh! Dammit! End of rant.
The soup I made for diner was very yum. Small dices of onion, carrot, celery, zucchini and corn kernels, fry with generous amount of middle eastern spice mix, bottle of passatta, can of beans and stock. Cook until veg are perfect tenderness and consume with garlic bread. It’s the small dices that make it nice to eat.
I finally got enough FlyBuys points to get another Bunnings gift card. That last 27c seemed to take an awfully long time. Once it arrives I can get more manure and mulch for the garden.
Housemate and I are on season 8 of our Game of Thrones rewatch, and so far every ep has just been an hour of us slinging jokes back and forth about the quality. Have to say on this rewatch I've definitely noticed the quality got worse around season 6/7, maybe I'll pull out the books for a reread.
Oh dear, a mate in total crisis who lives in Europe is not nice to see. I'm glad they made it through the night is all I'm willing to share. I've become one of those people saying no matter how shit something seems, drinking will only make it seem worse tomorrow.
Still it's been a good day. My skin is nice and soft. I didn't quite get the walk in. The cats got a good workout chasing toys though and I can still do some bodyweight stuff tonight. The mindfullness movement workshop was great, I got complete mental silence a few times as we did the movements which uplifted me no end. I left feeling pretty euphoric, the gender kind. Any trans and gender diverse people here, if you haven't gone to any of Transgender Victoria's free workshops and such, do think about gettting along. It's freaking beautiful to be among a tribe who are strangers, but instantly see you. They promote them on their insta.
I had two satisfying naps today. I'm legit turning into a cat lady. The crazy part is sure to come along again at some point but not today.
ASHES UPDATE: (because I know you're all closeted lovers of the ol' bat n' ball): Second test at Lord's (the home of cricket) Second innings. Australia has already batted. England to chase 371. Currently England 4/114.
We've had a few injuries. Pat Cummins copped a shiner to the eye. Nathan Lyon strained a calf doing some sort of gymnastics on the field. It's OK, we're Aussies we get back up and keep fighting.
It's going to be an exciting match tonight folks. I will be watching and anticipating Midnight (blue) bot's second coming. Oh oh oh oh.
Thinking about the movie I watched yesterday, The Field. ok. It's about the tragic consequences incurred by a person who values possessions and their rights more than they value people .
Mmm warm bed. Pretty nails. But it's cold out there. Pretty nails. I can't be bothered getting dressed. Pretty nails. Maybe I can get a coffee while I'm out. Pretty nails. My nails would look really good wrapped around a coffee. Pretty nails. Ok I've got this. Pretty nails.
Bot fell asleep. The new thread overnight somehow managed to get created labled as indonesian, so was invisible for most people. The bot was woken up and instructed to create a new post manually, and has further training scheduled today.
As a positive, breakfast has been including some lovely indonesian options this morning.
Working perfectly, and not at all involving anyone logging in under that account to manually create a post. Don't pay any attention to the Raven behind the curtain....
Tried a new type of noodle for lunch today - basically 2 minute noodles, but protein enriched (ie they added pea flour). I was uncertain about them because I'm not a fan of most pea/legume products, but they were pretty decent. It turns them in to 5 minute noodles though.
::: spoiler Noodley goodness
Image: a delicious bowl of protein-enriched noodles, served in an Asian-styled chicken broth and enhanced with roast chicken shreds, mixed colour capsicum dice, green onion rings and sliced button mushrooms
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No beef to go with my daikon tonight so had to change plans. This time I used the mini chopper to scramble the tofu for my garlic chilli noodles which was a lot easier. Looking forward to it. Might chuck some mini spring rolls in the airfryer for an entree.
A couple of weeks ago I added someone from a dating app on Instagram (at their suggestion) and the chat has been on and off, I'm considering biting the bullet just suggesting we go for coffee this week. Thoughts?
I've finally succumbed to the reddit API changes.
Lemmy is still a bit strange to me, but I think I'm finally getting it to the point of being similar to what I was seeing on Reddit (albeit with much fewer users and therefore less content).
I'm glad to see the Melbourne daily thread be active here.
Seeing how few users there are on Lemmy also makes me feel like I want to be more active?! I was much more of a lurker on Reddit.
Welcome!
I think once any group gets too big a lot of people end up just stepping back and watching. On Reddit I always felt that it wasn't worth contributing, if you didn't get a popular reply on quickly it would end up sinking and no one would see it. The fast and loud people had lots of entertaining conversations, but there was not much space for the slow and thoughtful. You are not the first person to say you lurked on Reddit but felt you could contribute here. 🙂
Morning. This is becoming more of an Australia-wide daily thread now.
I love that!
Welcome friend. Feel free to add to a conversation. No one's going to beat you down. Pet pics are most welcome.
Good morning! There is breakfast down the comments as per usual. ThankBacon.
I was also more of a lurker, but it is a lot less intimidating to make a comment or post here. Too many trolls, automatic downvoters and "akshually" types on Reddit. Welcome aboard!
Akshually true
Totally! I always hated that the conversation for something is already in full swing, so your comment wouldn't be seen by a lot of people. It's also why I like to contribute more in the DT because on the Reddit one it always felt like reading every comment was so daunting. But being able to have not many people here (with most of the comments being in replies) I can at least catch up when I get home from work or during my lunch break.
Just finished the last of this calligraphy practice. Only two mistakes!! I'm quite happy with it. I love the red water colour. :) ( oh dear, the closer I look the worse it looks ) 😂
PSA to remind people to not let their mind imagine crazy scenarios.
Friend had been distant all week and not replying to texts so I thought they'd had enough of me or I'd said something wrong.
Sent them a text saying "Hey. If you've got a few free minutes today can you call for a quick chat?" Less than half an hour later they called me and I got to hear about all the crap going on in their life and it cheered both of us up.
Sometimes people just retreat into themselves when life gets hard or hectic and need a friend to draw them out.
Be that friend.
I feel like retreating and I guess I have been hiding away from all my friends and family though last night I reached out to my dad because I felt like I had to finally.
This place is my last bastion of contact with people because I’m finding it real hard of late and want to hide away and disappear quite honestly.
Sending you good vibes and the energy to keep going.💜
Thank you so much for your well wishes.
Trying my best but I never feel it’s enough.
Just I wished I had listened more to my partner.
She told me to stop paying for her medical stuff incase I had an emergency or something happened and now I’m in that spot where my basic needs are suffering. (Washing machine)
But what sort of a partner would I be if I didn’t try my best to help her?
Yeah. I think about what I had done and keep replaying it and cursing myself for choosing or making a decision.
If I didn’t try and wash my oodie I wouldn’t have broken my washing machine.
To think about what’s ahead as well, I know it might not seem like a big problem but it’s one of the few comforts I didn’t want to go without.
I guess maybe what I might do is I wash and taking my stuff to a dryer and pay for the use of a dryer.
Yeah reaching out can be hard when struggling.
Good that you could find it in you to reach out. It takes strength. Many won't reach out at all and just suffer in silence for an eternity.
My friend tries so hard to be the strong and reliable father, husband, and son, and just soldiers on.
He forgets to reach out for someone to help him cause he's too busy helping everyone else.
My washing machine broke halfway yesterday which is why I reach out to my dad, I was anxious and needed to talk because I’m financially at rock bottom having had to support my partner with her medical bills for the past 3 and a half years.
Mind you I haven’t come up with a solution other than to see how I can handle drip drying wet clothes first or finding cheap or free replacement.
I’ll have to see what happens when i do the next wash and see what happens.
Ever with reaching out it doesn’t help with the problems other than airing them out.
Airing things out with loved ones them fixes more than you realise at the time.
It's just not tangible
I hope so.
With my dad he sometimes tries to overcompensate because he wasn’t around when I was growing up and feels like it was a missed chance so his input can come to be a little heavy sometimes.
What scenario should I not be imagining for a friend who stopped responding to texts for minimum a week each time and cancelled two catch ups, after not being able to catch up for almost 2 months because they were so busy? I’m reading signals to stop contacting them.
YMMV
My pasta
A photo of my shell pasta, mushrooms, chorizo, zucchini, onion, garlic, chives and chilli flakes. I forgot the tomatoes. I called it "everything that was in fridge went into my dish". It tasted way better than it looks.
An early dinner because I was hungry.
. Yum. years ago I lived on the same for a month or so but made with couscous and a pack of frozen Mediterranean vegies
one meal a day and I lost a ton of weight
Have you already made yourself a bowl or is that all for me?
Edit. That sentence doesn't make sense I think but I don't care. Give pasta
I had to divy it up with the roomies. The man got lunch tomorrow. He's a very happy man.
Yum. I’ve got pasta too but very basic.
Yours look very nice and tasty!
You are too kind.
Bloody hell that looks tasty
Thank you.
Shell pasta is the best pasta. Now I want some too.
I second that.
That looks so yummy 🤤
Oh, it does! drool
Including the early thread with 30 comments, we are still at over double the activity compared to the old r/Melbourne subreddit.
I hope those who don't go to the old sub frequently can find there way here.
Reports from a couple of mates who use it say they find this one buddy and slow to load. I assume they're on a phone. Any ideas or can I inform them of improvements.
Still, this place kicks it's butt for content also. The old daily thread seems to be a lot of the same questions people posted as posts before the great reddit blunder of 2023 which would pretty much be instantly downvoted to the bottom. Loud bangs, tailgating drivers, choppers over reservoir etc. I might be exagurating a little, but it's lost its soul nonetheless.
I’m using Mlem on iPhone and it has a few bugs still but I’m enjoying feeling like it’s the start of something bigger and better.
I feel like we flhave a natural filter that keeps the ruder Facebook users there. I would just suggest giving Jerboa a try, put the time into setting it up and subscribing to C/Melbourne+ a few major communities.
You can give them a list of easy links like;
![email protected]
Thanks! I'll get onto it, they're good people and most of us know them already.
I mean, its not as slick as the Reddit app but just a chrome tab on my phone works just fine for me
Ah, yeah I'm using some third party browser. It won't log me in using that, but read only isn't terrible. Maybe I'll use chrome just for this.
Look into wefwef through your browser. I made another comment with a bit more detail.
I'm using Chrome too. There's the odd glitch but works fine 99% of the time.
I originally made an account with lemmy.world. everything was fine until there was a big influx of users on that instance, then it all slowed down. I then made an account with aussie.zone which is clearly a much smaller instance. Much much quicker now.
If they are iPhone users point them towards the wefwef PWA - https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all . It's basically Apollo through a web app.
If Android, Connect or Jerboa are the best apps currently, with RIF and Sync to release Lemmy versions within a month or so.
Are you suggesting a psyops mission?
I'm not sure how to let them know without seeming like we are desperate, so just casually mentioning something like "wow, I can't believe how much less activity there is on the old subreddit compared to the Lemmy community".
Ok sure. I might leave that to others. I like the development side here rather than the marketing.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
This morning I met this friendly handsome guy on my walk. He was very happy to make my acquaintance. I think I’m in love.
Photo description: a chunky and fluffy cat RUNNING up the footpath to headbutt me and get pats. ::: spoiler spoiler :::
Edit: don’t really appreciate that the website rotated the picture, but whatever
Don't be fooled he's/she's just robbed a place. You're their alibi. If you take the pic in landscape it'll be the right way up.
I will gladly go to prison for them
He is super cute, but ProcastifunPolice is here to remind people to keep cats indoors. They are relentless, ruthless killers of native wildlife and are at much higher risk of injury or death outdoors.
I completely agree and every one of my cats have been indoor cats, much to their chagrin.
However, who am I to deny pats to such a handsome boy when he asks for them so aggressively?
What a gorgeous floof! He looks very purposeful.
His purpose was pats
I give the best pats
He’s gorgeous, and what a fine tail!
I’d go as far as to call it majestic.
The only thing better than hearing kookaburras is actually seeing them fly between trees I reckon, they're so cool
Good luck to anyone flying tonight, or tomorrow. Got home in the end, but shit's fucked.
Doggo went nuts when I walked in the door. Was cool.
Picked up a 7kg ham from cheaper buy miles for $25, will portion and freeze.
Also a ton of non alcoholic "booze" cos I'm doing dry July
Huge turnout for the #Yes23 launch at Trades Hall today, despite the dull weather.
Momentum is gathering and it is wonderful to see!
Vote Yes in the referendum! It's a great step in the direction of implementing the Uluru Statement. My dream is for state and federal governments to have treaties with the First Nations. We could be so much more as a country!
Good to know, my old neighbours are first nations from out back of Alice and told me to vote yes, so that's enough for me! Yes it is.
Fantastic. I've been looking at the goddamn reddit side and it's such a racist shitshow (why, oh why did we not deal with Murdoch before this), so I'd started to lose hope. Honestly really excited to see the Yes campaign take shape!
Self-care Sunday has kicked in early with a 7am dry sauna session.
Local gym has an 80 degree dry sauna that is absolute magic. Even more so when it's empty this early and I don't have to listen to people talk shit.
What has everyone else got scheduled in for self-care today?
Hitting up a market, and then lunch with an old friend. And I'm going to wear a nice dress and my favourite shoes 😊
Which market?
Yarra Glen! I haven't been in years, I'm pumped.
Get a workout in, then who knows. Face mask and chill out tonight!
Good combo.
Clean skin. Clear mind from the workout.
Definitely got your shit together
Workout was an absolute ripper - cycle class and I walked out feeling on cloud nine. Cool down stretches with the bf, then coffee and a shared brownie. Sunday is going awesome!
What else is on for your self care day?! Loving this thread, btw!
Sharing a brownie? Yeah not sure about that one 😂
Think I might try and make self care Sunday a recurring thread.
It's an increasingly important part of my week as I continue in my new job.
We practice holistic HR, and a big part of that is our open door policy and being available for everyone who has something going on in their life or at work that they need someone to talk to.
It's equal parts rewarding and emotionally taxing while I get used to it.
I’m in Brisbane for a work conference, so I’ll do some sightseeing today before the conference starts tomorrow.
We'll that's a bit of nice.
Any idea what you want to see while you're up there?
Today will be the Clock Tower Tour at the city hall, then the state art gallery/museum/library and a second market in the afternoon. Taking it relatively relaxed but would like to get some culture in me today. Maybe a stroll in some gardens depending on weather and time.
A walk, a mindfullness movement workshop for trans and gender diverse people later. Minecraft for chilling out and skin care. Eating the mega healthy vege stew I made the other day. AA at some stage. Also playing and chilling with my cats seems like self care too.
Love skin care on a Sunday.
Sounds like you're well and truly ticking all the self care boxes today
Baking, lots of baking.
Oooh nice one.
What are we baking today?
Trying my hand at sourdough and a lemon cake.
Both sound like sexy options
Love a good syrupy lemon cake
The recipe I got is more of a dry lemon shortcake.
Six hours of overtime - does being able to pay the bills count as self care?
Then some bot training, so I can offload future work. Plus some general good food, a nice long walk with the dog, and some more weights training.
Definitely counts as self care if it's helps you sleep at night knowing you can pay your bills
Bot training sounds more badass than what it is, so I'm just gonna pretend you're training Baymax from Big Hero 6
I think that's the best way of visualising. Because changing a couple of minor settings and doing another test post with a longer timeframe to see what happens really just sounds dull.🤣
Fighting Baymax.
Got it 👍
It's a rest day from my exercises today so I'll probably try and balance being lazy with an assault on Mount Washmore.
Resting between loads still counts
True. Especially if I sneak back to bed and nobody notices! 🤫
Love that name. So very descriptive.
Toast and a cup of coffee and zone out for the day I reckon?
Sounds good. Bonus points it there's butter
Going to spend it by doing some last minute cleaning before the inspection on Tuesday, also will bake some biscuits and prep for tomorrow's lunch.
I'm not into cleaning but definitely into biscuits
Post pics when they're made
Here ya go! I ate one after this but they're good! (Also sorry if it double posts. I thought I posted this earlier!)
::: spoiler image of 14 biscuits, salted caramel flavour sitting on a ban with baking paper underneath. :::
Awww nice.
I would eat every last one of them and share nothing
Sounds lovely Smeg!
I'm gonna tidy up the house, and make up a batch of florentines. Now I have BF hanging around I can make treats more regularly since its not just me eating them!
Florentines sound amazing.
I too can't be trusted to be alone with biscuits
I am now officially stuffed full of curry.
In other good news, bot #001 seems to be doing better after training - has been running for a few hours without crashing & successfuly conducted a test posting. I've promised it a new wi-fi dongle tomorrow if it can manage to stay awake all night and post succesfully, hopefully that will help too 🤣
Edit: might have spoken too soon, just after I posted this it crashed again. I think it might be related to the code that is supposed to pin the posts which doesn't work (it needs to be updated for the new server edition) so I have gone through and stripped out all the code relating to that process. Finger's crossed that does it.
::: spoiler curry
Image: Curry. So much curry it's crazy one person ate the whole bowl. Chicken and potato massaman curry, with green beans, capsicum & tomato. Served with rice & cucumber raita.
:::
Spending my Sunday morning doing a job application because it won't happen during the working week. It's rare for good roles to come up in my field and this one sounds perfect, so going for it. I HATE writing cover letters, never been good at it. I open with why the role has appealed to me and anything I write sounds hella corny.
Lean into it. A cover letter is basically a fucking fanfic about you and the company being besties
As someone who works in HR, I approve of this comment.
If I can use ChatGPT to write my recruitment content, you can sure as shit use it in your application
I really need to integrate ChatGPT more into my life. Here I am struggling when AI can help.
I want to apologise to everyone here about having to put up and read about my side of things.
I know there are probably many others in tough positions and I’ve probably had too much a winge and complain today.
I should probably just focus on solving the problem and taking it in stride or waiting to solve the problem instead of being so down about all the worst aspects of it all and what it might mean.
Apologies to everyone for the doomposting.
Well Jetstar cancelled my flight for no actual reason they could give me. Also, apparently they sent an SMS and email yesterday informing me...I did not receive either, and only checked my flight on account of a comment by @the_procrastinata earlier. My partner, who could have been an old school travel agent in another life, somehow managed to get me a better flight which the staff said was unavailable. Currently spending my $24 dollars of Jetstar food vouchers...
What a bummer, mate! Hope you can get home safely and without further disruption.
We all need to know your partner's tricks.
Like, seriously I wouldn't know how to push for a flight that staff say is unavailable
hashing out LED diffuse lighting for the house. Trying to convince His Lordship of the merits of an "Intruder Alert" macro that when triggered turns all the lights blood red and starts playing the imperial march.
You broke into the wrooooong house, boyo.
This requires night cameras to capture the reaction
livestream at the very least. Possibly the addition of knives strapped to the roomba
Stabbity!
Genius.
Looks like everyone's getting their tasty foodz in.
I'll just be in the corner with a bowl of soup and some toast.
sigh
Well washing machine is only half working. Checked again this morning.
I’ll try just doing drip drying but I don’t know how that’s going to go with weather this cold.
Last option would be to use a laundromat. Just another burden I have to shoulder.
Damn it. Sad to hear this. My recommendation would be is to get someone out to have a look at it. Someone local and someone who doesn't charge to come out.
Thanks. I won’t be able to afford for someone to come out to take a look at the moment for the foreseeable future.
You get a free quote. They'll tell you if it's time to retire it or if it can be fixed. No obligations.
Could do. I was looking for one on marketplace as well.
Someone was giving one away but I wasn’t confident in picking it up myself or getting help to do it so I had to pass it up.
it sounds like the drum went so far out of balance it came off the "hinges"
keep looking up fixes on the internet, I'll have a look too
first thing, do a diagnosis for what's wrong
That’s what I think so too but it’s only a guess based on what had happened.
I’m too tired. I need to give it a rest. I spent all day yesterday and lost half my day and I slept only 5 hours.
The first thread was accidentally posted as Indonesian Language which can cause it to be filtered out of some people's feeds. The initial post is here
And this thread has indeterminate language. Fun times!
Undefined is the basic default. That's why there is a warning about not deselecting it in your settings.
I'm a chunky monkey lady with thunder thighs and am sick of shredding the thighs of my jeans. Does anyone have suggestions for good jeans that don't fall apart too quickly?
Breakfast toastie today was a bit yummy. Egg, mushroom, cheese and onion. Included a mix of cheddar and halloumi. 10/10 would toast again.
I finished my Lego lambo yesterday and discovered I put one of the diffs backwards. Now the front and rear wheels spin in different directions when you try to push it. Ah well, it's a display model and no one else will ever know.
You will know though... I would find that annoying.
One day when my fingers aren't crying in pain, I'll find the 3 hours doto tear it down and fix it. One day.
I bought the Fast and the Furious Lego sets and they're just display models tbh. So in one way it's good that you don't actually have to use them for play. But like Calhoon said, it would be annoying just knowing that it's not perfect.
Bloody heated throw blanket died after only 6 months :( I made sure I got a "good" one too. Just checked online and luckily it has a 3 year warranty..
Looks like this thread might close out the day with 2x the comments of the r/Melbourne one.
::: spoiler nicotine craving poem Rolled out of bed, got no plans today
Pain in the head, ground my teeth away
Drink my coffee first, now I'm fairly caffeinated
Thinking of the worst, my thoughts R-rated
My meat-vessel
Is not a temple
My heart's a nightclub,
Full of cigarette butts
I quit smoking months ago, no nicotine
But the craving lives on, so addicting
I think that tailors are worse than rollies
Both are gross, neither are great or healthy
I'll still feel sad but the smoke makes it fun
I want the feeling of it in my lungs
I'll still feel bad and the smokes make it true
I want the feeling of one or a few
My meat-vessel
Is not a temple
My heart's a nightclub,
Full of cigarette butts :::
😑
I quit smoking (except rarely while out drinking) about 2 years ago. Was vaping for quite a while. Now I'm hooked on nicotine lozenges 😢
That's the way to do it I reckon. i cold turkeyed once many years ago, was a sweaty, irritable mess for 2-3 days, cravings for longer, but really not too bad in my experience. Now I've just traded one addiction for another 🤷♂️
I gave up smoking about 6 years ago but I still use the spray. It's like a nerve pill or something. Still better than smoking.
I vaped so much on the last booze bender I'm now addicted it. Hmmmm. Will get me some mints soon, this is crazy.
I'll wean myself off or catch a cold and break it that way. They're so addictive though and the no nic ones apparently still have it in them anyway. Trust the black market to be shady as fuck.
I can't believe Twitter is also imploding, now where am I supposed to unapologetically fan girl and talk about reality tv without the prying eyes of people I know IRL???
Not surprised it’s imploding. Things turn shittier once Musk took over
It’s like everything is sort of imploding at the moment. First Reddit then Twitter, not that I used it much mind you.
Basically culling out it’s primary purpose and it’s existence.
Mastodon. That's the fediverse version Twitter. It's fun!
What happened with Twitter?
They've limited the amount of tweets you can view, it's 600 for those that don't pay and 6000 for those that do. You also can't send a tweet if you've reached your limit. They also stopped tweets from being able to be shared on outside sources. It's like they're trying to kill twitter.
Wtf, is this to get more people to pay for Twitter or something?
Yeah I think so, the other theory is that Elon bought it for too much and decided to kill it but overestimated people's level of care in terms of leaving and now they're really just applying themselves in killing it.
Bluesky or Mastodon? Both are federated, one's just a lot harder to get onto.
I'll probably try Bluesky eventually, I haven't heard good things about Mastodon.
@MisssDarylC @Hanhula lol. I am literally reading this post, and replying, from Mastodon. The Fediverse and Threadiverse are united by a common protocol called #ActivityPub, so it's like you can post to Reddit from your Twitter account. Except it's better, because nothing is owned exclusively by rich people trying to get richer, or in Space Karen's case, trying to destroy "the left" 🙄
Lasted one day using the official reddit app. Glad to see Lemmy appears to be legitimately up and coming and an easy format to read posts/comments.
Its either Lemmy or wasting my time with tiktok and instagram reels only now.
The readability of the official reddit app sadly isnt worth putting up with it.
Hey!👋
i didn't even bother trying the official app again. tried it ages ago and it was awful. i can imagine the current version is even more optimised to jam its ad-riddled revenue cock in my butthole.
To be honest I’m still trying to get my head around how this all works.
It’s fine enough since I managed to make here to Melbourne but I’m not sure how the main servers work or anything.
I have a few issues occasionally with jerboa but it's in its infancy and I can be understanding about its teething problems. With the official Reddit app however there are no excuses for having such a subpar performance for so long.
Anyone got breadmaker recs? His Lordship hath discovered if one decomissions an old appliance, one should do so after buying a motherfucking replacement honestly dipshit why did you do that???
Ahem.
We do a lot of pizza dough, some of it quite dense, so looking for one with the kind of paddle you uusually only see at Pride. Or with YAOI branded on it.
I would love a bread machine with a container that’s actually shaped like a bread loaf! All the ones I’ve seen have this weird tall thing so the bread loaf is not shaped right.
In a pinch you just breadmake to the second rise, then shape and plonk in a pan of your own delight and finish off in the oven. Bonus: you don't get paddle holes
Yeah true, I just always hoped for a bread maker that would do it start to finish!
There are ones with tins shaped like a loaf, but they're all very elongated and hard to store.
Recently bought the Breville Bakers Dozen model. Haven't used it or the various options enough to give it a full rec, but so far so good. Although I agree with @[email protected] that I was expecting the tin to be more loaf-shaped than it is.
We're looking at brevilles since they seem to have avoided the Cheap Chinese Manufacturing of Suck that most reputation brands have long descended into, but there seems to be issues with the collapsible paddles. Bad idea all around
The unit we have has a (surprisingly small) solid metal paddle that works fine. Removable for cleaning.
i have a kitchenaid but i just mix pizza dough by hand (1-2KG flour at a time) in a large cambro tub, just using the ken forkish's "flour water salt yeast" methods. if you autolyse the dough and use 70%+ hydration its pretty easy to do by hand.
I have a Panasonic YR2550and its been working great. Use it every week for quick and easy bread in the mornings.
If its just for dough, a mixer might be a better option.
pondering that as well, but I like the option of "MAKE ME BREAD FOR MORNING, PEASANT MACHINE"
I was gonna say you can still do that, but I forgot that I'm the peasant machine getting the slowed proofed dough out of the fridge in the middle of the night so it doesn't walk all over the bench, and chucking it in the preheated oven at some ungodly hour to get back out of bed 45 minutes later to beautiful fresh sourdough. That's me. I'm the peasant machine. But it's sooo gooood. I do have an old bread machine that I now use to make jam in.
Flying back to Melbourne today. Heard a lot of flights have been being cancelled out of Brisbane the last few days. I wouldn't mind that, but I've got to get back to my doggo.
Good luck. It was chaos at Melbourne yesterday trying to fly up to Brisbane (took me 1.5 hours just to drop my bag off), so hopefully that isn’t your experience flying home today.
Oh. That doesn't bode well.
Maybe give yourself a little extra time? And check that your flight is still scheduled.
... aaaaand it's been cancelled. Fuck
Oh no!
Guess I’ll jump on the fooodz posts bandwagon
with some blueberry cheesecake
::: spoiler spoiler :::
RIPPA HARIAN: SHIFT HARI
⏰🥊🥊
EDISI ROBOT BURUK🤖
⏰🤖🥊
🥊⏰🇮🇩🤖
Got some money from babysitting, so I'm gonna treat myself to a manicure and possibly a pedicure.
Is there a way to collapse comments on this? I get overwhelmed by the walls of text :(
Was it just me who missed the memo about the rain? I mean my app is still saying no rain.
I apparently missed it too.
Was trying to see if drip drying works in the winter so I hung up a towel on the railing outside.
The place has gotten more wet since I went out this morning and it’s raining so lightly you can barely see it. It’s like a fine mist out there.
Yeah it started out very fine but then got heavier - still misty though. Of course as soon as I got home it looks like it stopped.
Very cloudy and sleepy from the codeine today.
Maybe Mr Smeg needs to drive me somewhere with tasty food. We had loaded potato gems last Sunday at Hey Sister.
Not sure what I want today. For now just listening to Blue Juice Radio on PBS. Easily one of the best shows of the week after Stardust, Afterglow, and Riddim Yard.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
Nasi goreng and gado-gado please chef
🍚 🍳 🌶️ 🥒🥚 🥗
Uh oh... Were there peanuts in that?!
Would you like any?
I am deathly allergic.
you're still alive
💉
Too late 🧟♂️
I would go down on a lawman for a cuppa coffee
👨💼
☕️
Thanks shuga
Loaded Bloody Mary please
💰🩸🤰💰Bwahaha! Chef has quite the sense of humour
For some reason I have a hankering for jackfruit stewed in coconut milk.... Anything like that avaiable this morning, chef?
🍍🥥🥛
Lovely thanks. A slightly unusual hint of pineapple.
It's not exactly Indonesian but I'd love some nasi kerabu with ikan pls. Terima kasih.
🍚☘️🌿🥗🐟
I'll take more of that codeine you were serving me yesterday
💊 it was not codeine…
😵💫
I’d love some gado gado too, please chef. And I’d better pick up something with prawns for the OH while I’m here, so I’ll have whatever you recommend, thanks
🥒🥚 🥗 🦐 🍤 🦞
Ooh, is that a bonus lobster?! He will be happy!
Yes
Local pool tonight: spa, sauna, steam room are packed. Oh the flip side I’m very relaxed.
Good morning Shy Bot. It's good to see you.
Tickets for Barbie advance screenings are available (and regular screenings)
Tickets for Oppenheimer are now available. Plenty of IMAX seats as well by the look of it.
Does nobody in Melbourne say”eshay” because I’ve definitely heard it on some occasions. 🤔
🤔
I haven't said it in a while actually, but mainly because I just haven't encountered one for a bit
Never heard the word out loud. It’s an internet only thing
I do. I've heard it's more a Sydney word but I don't know what the Melbourne equivalent would be.
no. its very much a sydney and internet thing.
I've heard it a lot in the coming years. But when I was in highschool me and my mates called them lads. Eshay feels like a Sydney name. But, to be fair, the friend who kind of spearheaded the whole "lads" thing was born in England (though he's live in Australia for like his entire life).
I've used it to describe my BIL.
he's like a walking advertisement for Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, and Adidas.
Well we managed about 1.5 hours at the party last night until baby became so hysterical with the grandparents that we had to leave. But honestly I’m okay with that, not that the party was bad but I certainly remembered why we decided we were happy to have a baby and give up the nights out. I really prefer doing stuff like lunches now. Also barely drank and still woke up with a ripper headache. Truly think I’m in the era of dinner parties and picnics now.
All this cold made me start reminiscing about the last roadtrip to Mildura, and out of curiosity I checked the weather there - how is it 2° colder there?????
Desert. Drier air. No cloud blankie to keep us all warm(er). Also an unusual burst of cold air & rain in progress across the entire middle of this continent rn.
My comment the Indonesian thread:
If I know someone who is hoarding lots of plastic bottles in the belief they will make money when the container deposit scheme comes in, am I a bad person if I don't tell them containers will need to have a specially printed barcode on them to be eligible?
That's a tough one. Not really. Don't step on someone's hobby. Plead ignorance. In fact help them out by dumping I mean donating some of yours. (If they're sharing their bed with the plastic then maybe it's time to step in).
Yeah, that won’t work. Even cans now isn’t worth the effort. We kept about 6 months worth, had the yard looking like hell, and were told not to bother conning back without triple the amount.
It will be worthwhile for personal quantities if you have a reverse vending machine or return point somewhere you regularly go, but it would not be worth the logistics of collecting and transporting large amounts of other people's discards. And without the label showing the 10c deposit was paid (which won't be there until the scheme is actually introduced) you can't get it refunded, so the old bottles are worth nothing.
Damn, where did you go??? We took up a couple those cardboard green waste bags of tinnies to our local scrap metal and made $200
Some joint up behind sunshine. It sounds like a similar quantity to what you had, but they couldn’t be bothered with it.
I've been trying random fauxmeat options when I see them on special and I have to say, way to many go for texture and presentation over taste. I got some faux chicken tenders and while they look, smell, and sort feel the part, they absolutely don't taste it.
Fish & chips for me. Usually Miller St is jumping at this hour with people getting pizza or f&c. Tonight was dead. Zillions of empty car parks and the f&c shop people were filing their nails and scrolling on their phones. The cost of living is starting to bite down hard I think. Mind you, $18 for 1 piece of fish, 1 scallop, 1 prawn, 1 fishcake and a handful of chips is getting a bit steep for regular purchase.
Urgh, you know that feeling when you wake up at a "normal" time, scroll on your phone and then doze off only to bolt awake and it's 11:15... now I'm sitting here with my coffee and I almost regret how cold it is out here. Thankfully my lunch appt has been postponed by half an hour as well. I should at least do one Useful thing today. Mainly clean the kitchen which looks like a disaster zone. I would be bereft without my dishwasher.
Had a great day today. Went go kart racing with my partner as she had a gift card. It was drizzling so it made the racing way more fun and I did manage to beat her (9th vs 11th). Then we tried out a pile of recliner couches and decided on this one and ordered it:
https://www.nickscali.com.au/brighton-leather-3-seat-recliners
We're about to try gozleme from the local kebab shop that opened a few months back.
Hoping it's not shit
Pita bread breakfast foods are taking over
::: spoiler leftover-pita-pizza poem Tired of leftovers? Tired of the bore?
No more bland grub, not any more!
Pita bread is cheap and I'm so poor
Ima drop pasta on pita, pizza amateur
Spread that cheese on yesterday's dinner
No new food, am I getting thinner?
No matter! Fire it up, cook it nice and even
For a toasty thirteen minutes plus seven
Blast the gas, spark the light,
A fan-forced two-hundy
Slap that pita on that pan,
I'm so hungry! :::
🤩
I miss sitcoms. The kind that are full of corny jokes and have 20 episodes a season. Seems that era of tv is dead, and it’s sad. Shows like Frasier, Seinfeld, Freinds, Big Bang theory etc. I guess with streaming being the main form of tv now it’s a different market.
A little bit of daggy excite for the evening. Going off to see Indiana Jones. Hehe.
This weekend has been interesting with the weather to say the least. I did check out the small but fun Fantastic Beasts exhibit. Was hoping also to squeeze a REB tour, but that is booked out till almost mid-August at this stage. Got some goodies from Uniqlo and was lucky to discover the bottom of the bag was torn walking back. Managed not to lose anything.
Again, you know your Llab ain't a Monday person... It has once again come far too quickly!
What have you all been up to?
Venting/whinging post warning: Mr Peeler ruined my favourite shot glasses. They were Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec inspired moulin rouge glasses I bought at the monet and friends exhibition at The Lume. I said repeatedly Don't put them in the dishwasher. I even rescued them a few times when he was about to start a cycle and told him again. And what does he do.. the design is all melted and ruined. Aargh! Dammit! End of rant.
The soup I made for diner was very yum. Small dices of onion, carrot, celery, zucchini and corn kernels, fry with generous amount of middle eastern spice mix, bottle of passatta, can of beans and stock. Cook until veg are perfect tenderness and consume with garlic bread. It’s the small dices that make it nice to eat.
I finally got enough FlyBuys points to get another Bunnings gift card. That last 27c seemed to take an awfully long time. Once it arrives I can get more manure and mulch for the garden.
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Jebus christ, there'a dude happily selling vitamin c powder $15 a 50g pop.
You can get a 5kg bucket for $139.
I kinda wanna get in on the rort and undercut him by $5. Still be making nearly a grand profit.
Finally turning the corner with this head cold.
Half awake fever dreams are fucked I do not like them.
Housemate and I are on season 8 of our Game of Thrones rewatch, and so far every ep has just been an hour of us slinging jokes back and forth about the quality. Have to say on this rewatch I've definitely noticed the quality got worse around season 6/7, maybe I'll pull out the books for a reread.
Oh dear, a mate in total crisis who lives in Europe is not nice to see. I'm glad they made it through the night is all I'm willing to share. I've become one of those people saying no matter how shit something seems, drinking will only make it seem worse tomorrow.
Still it's been a good day. My skin is nice and soft. I didn't quite get the walk in. The cats got a good workout chasing toys though and I can still do some bodyweight stuff tonight. The mindfullness movement workshop was great, I got complete mental silence a few times as we did the movements which uplifted me no end. I left feeling pretty euphoric, the gender kind. Any trans and gender diverse people here, if you haven't gone to any of Transgender Victoria's free workshops and such, do think about gettting along. It's freaking beautiful to be among a tribe who are strangers, but instantly see you. They promote them on their insta.
I had two satisfying naps today. I'm legit turning into a cat lady. The crazy part is sure to come along again at some point but not today.
ASHES UPDATE: (because I know you're all closeted lovers of the ol' bat n' ball): Second test at Lord's (the home of cricket) Second innings. Australia has already batted. England to chase 371. Currently England 4/114.
We've had a few injuries. Pat Cummins copped a shiner to the eye. Nathan Lyon strained a calf doing some sort of gymnastics on the field. It's OK, we're Aussies we get back up and keep fighting.
It's going to be an exciting match tonight folks. I will be watching and anticipating Midnight (blue) bot's second coming. Oh oh oh oh.
I watched Lyon bat last night. It was crazy that he went out and made a run in his state which could have made it worse for him.
I was so happy he got a boundary though. The crowd went wild when it happened.
I lasted until Starc took the 2nd wicket.
Did you watch the entire thing?
Nah I went to bed after the Aussies finished batting. It was very painful to watch Lyon bat and particularly when he had to run.
Yeah, you could see the pain and grimace on his face after each action.
It hurt a little to see the crowd boo when they weren’t going for runs.
I wonder how long he’ll be out for now? Will he even come back?
It's hard to say. Maybe that's why he went out there. He is 35 years old.
Midnight Blue
Thinking about the movie I watched yesterday, The Field. ok. It's about the tragic consequences incurred by a person who values possessions and their rights more than they value people .
I saw that years (decades?) ago, but don’t remember all that much apart from the beautiful green field. Will have to go back for a rewatch
Someone motivate me to get up and go get my nails done, because bed is warm and I am tired. But I do want my nails done.
Mmm warm bed. Pretty nails. But it's cold out there. Pretty nails. I can't be bothered getting dressed. Pretty nails. Maybe I can get a coffee while I'm out. Pretty nails. My nails would look really good wrapped around a coffee. Pretty nails. Ok I've got this. Pretty nails.
You got this sister! It's not that cold and you can wear gloves to the salon.
@RustyRaven, the bot worked?
Happy Sunday DTers!
No ☹️
Bot fell asleep. The new thread overnight somehow managed to get created labled as indonesian, so was invisible for most people. The bot was woken up and instructed to create a new post manually, and has further training scheduled today.
As a positive, breakfast has been including some lovely indonesian options this morning.
⚡️The bot must be hungry too
It’s Bot’s 1st day on the job, and we all make mistakes. I’m sure it’ll do better tomorrow. Thanks for all your New Bot mentoring, Raven!
Aww, well we'll see how it goes. I, for one are excited. Once you get one going, it should prove super helpful!
Sounds like if it did the right thing except with a wrong language, that is pretty close to it working correctly! Fingers crossed for tonight!
Oooh bot working
Working perfectly, and not at all involving anyone logging in under that account to manually create a post. Don't pay any attention to the Raven behind the curtain....
Anyone got a suggestion for a drive to do, even on a dreary day like this? Most of my drives are to hiking spots or wineries, lol.
Hear me out
Cook the first half the pizza in the oven
Eat it while cooking the other half
Yea or nay?
Tried a new type of noodle for lunch today - basically 2 minute noodles, but protein enriched (ie they added pea flour). I was uncertain about them because I'm not a fan of most pea/legume products, but they were pretty decent. It turns them in to 5 minute noodles though.
::: spoiler Noodley goodness
Image: a delicious bowl of protein-enriched noodles, served in an Asian-styled chicken broth and enhanced with roast chicken shreds, mixed colour capsicum dice, green onion rings and sliced button mushrooms :::
::: spoiler Looks yum This post didn’t work :::
That looks yummy. I tried to find basic packs yesterday but they were all sold out all Woolies.
Fries and 2 minute noodles (cheap) are in short supply again :(
What flavour is that? Looks maybe spicy?
I didn't use the flavour sachet. I used a tub of chicken stock concentrated, and added some soy sauce, sesame oil and some chilli paste.
Very tasty looking!
A no show from Midnight Bot again. O-oh.
Finally caught up on Deadloch and shit is wild and all my theories are well and truly dead.
Edit- removed spoiler cause it just wouldn't format for me.
I haven't seen it, but just letting you know the spoiler didn't work. Need to use these:
::: spoiler text:::Except it doesn't currently work on Jerboa
That's annoying. It's why I just use the webversion.
Whoops, it's not working for me apparently when I use the formatting function.
Test cricket got fiery.
@CEOofmyhouse56
Edit: forgot how to tag on Lemmy
No beef to go with my daikon tonight so had to change plans. This time I used the mini chopper to scramble the tofu for my garlic chilli noodles which was a lot easier. Looking forward to it. Might chuck some mini spring rolls in the airfryer for an entree.
A couple of weeks ago I added someone from a dating app on Instagram (at their suggestion) and the chat has been on and off, I'm considering biting the bullet just suggesting we go for coffee this week. Thoughts?