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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.
Morning. This is becoming more of an Australia-wide daily thread now.
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. 🙂
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.
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 ) 😂
To a completely uneducated eye, that is so beautiful. I love the energy in each character.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Edit: don’t really appreciate that the website rotated the picture, but whatever
The only thing better than hearing kookaburras is actually seeing them fly between trees I reckon, they're so cool
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 😊
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?
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...
Looks like everyone's getting their tasty foodz in.
I'll just be in the corner with a bowl of soup and some toast.
Guess I’ll jump on the fooodz posts bandwagon
with some blueberry cheesecake
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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?
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.
Breakfast toastie today was a bit yummy. Egg, mushroom, cheese and onion. Included a mix of cheddar and halloumi. 10/10 would toast again.
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
Looks like this thread might close out the day with 2x the comments of the r/Melbourne one.
It’s been pretty chatty since it was created 🤷♀️ it’s nice here 🙂
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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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..
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.
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