Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Whoohoo! MRI results came back and the neurologist says all clear. Well, his exact words were “there’s nothing major” but I’ll take that as a good thing. Also my psych appointment for the ADHD assessment has been brought forward from November to next week. I hope they confirm it because it would explain a hell of a lot and I can get finally get treatment.
I cried when I got my ADHD diagnosis. And my psychiatrist was like “don’t cry!” And I’m like “happy tears!”. It’s such a great feeling! Though of course, you have to grapple with the idea that “oh my god this explains everything. I didn’t have to struggle through life!” And then you get sad again.
colander kitties
bonus cuteness
How do 2 cats fit in the one colander??? One of the mysteries of the universe. Or possibly cats have a portal to another dimension that they can tuck inconvenient limbs into on a temporary basis. I am also curious about the portholes on the fridge.
More like how did they stay in the colander? Cats are liquid
the wall between this dimension and the cat dimension is very thin on my land
magnetic spice jars on the fridge
Omg SO cute!! The ears! The tails! ALL OF THEM!!
if i fits i sits
Please continue posting pics of your beautiful cats 😻
SQUISH THAT CAT
But not through the colander …
- nice light with the doggo this afternoonEdit - some idiot has brought a cat to the dog park on a lead
Hehehe. It’s like he’s waiting for a lift or hitch hiking.
lovely photo
Bill and Ted report.
Ted is a very happy cat and when not running around exploring he’s chirping saying “Hi everyone, what’s up?” or “Is it dinner yet?” or sitting in a sunny spot being chill or sleeping in his little bed.
Bill is not so happy but will slowly settle down.
I’ll try to get some more pics today.
You’ll need to get or make a suitable hat for Ted - like Bill’s dinosaur hat.
Fuck it. The heaters going on. This is ridiculous.
I’ve even lit the fire. This mornings cold toes have frightened me into it.
Only reason mine wasn’t lit was I was feeling under the weather and crawled back into bed.
It’s set up and ready to go for tomorrow.
Same. It’s Friday night, the one night we most deserve to be warm and cozy.
I’m ahead of you there
Oodie is on.
Heater has been on half the day
Good news everyone the ageratum survived the night in the fridge.
The flowers for the wedding on Sun. is sorted hooray
cool, ageratum is a lovely flower, it has a very nice blue that goes well with pink and cream
( am I the only one who read Bottom in Farnsworth’s voice? …lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoNhqmEsnY )
They seem to look quite nice next to the cherry blossom.
The neighbour has kindly offered a bunch of stuff from her nice garden too so it’s all looking very doable :)
Just a shame the roses aren’t out yet. Would’ve flexed HARD with the just joey.
It sounds like I’m going to have to break lease and move.
Housemate is not dealing well with uni, and keeps ranting about wanting to fight someone. When I told them to turn the tv down from arsehole levels at 6am, he started punching up the clothes horse.
Any chance of evicting HIM? Sounds like he’s the problem, not you.
There are DV break lease options. Not sure if they apply here or not.
RUN!
Get to da choppa
Or literally anywhere else safe
PSA: Mernda & Hurstbridge lines part suspended due to fatality incident at Jolimont Station. Buses replacing trains to Clifton Hill, then delayed services on both lines. Best find another way to get home tonight. Was on the station at the time and saw the incident. Not nice at all.
Hopefully will be fixed by the end of the football match at MCG, but don’t bet on it.That’s awful, poor person. And poor you - are you ok?
No problem. Not my first rodeo. Will be doing self-care all the same. Thanks anyway, as I have to admit it was a bit of a shock to witness. But the cops were great - and they referred me to a trauma survival service which surprised me more than I thought it would, so to speak.
I wondered. That would normally be my way home
Strong recommend for choosing an alternative method of transport if possible.
I crash napped and went out late again only to catch another snail creeping towards my seedlings. He mysteriously became airborne.
Also the internet capitalism insanity continues and I’m in the mood to rant.
Long post with many links
Apparently you have to have a paid subscription to use Pantone colours in Adobe (ie Photoshop) and if you don’t pay, their colours in your finished artworks turn to black? Ruining them. I’m not aware of the fine points as I don’t use Photoshop but wtf. This is some Anish Kapoor shit. Ok it’s due to a dispute about licensing fees.
Stuart Semple has released his own versions of the colours in a palette for free, accessible through a plugin. And calling back to his dispute with Anish Kapoor, he’s included Pinkest Pink and Pantone don’t have permission to use his colours. Classic.
Also Unity is gearing up to charge game developers for customer downloads. They’re apparently apologising and somewhat? backing down now but yeah. They tried it. (They also sold a lot of stock before the announcement.)
It matters because Unity is the game engine that is taught to game developers in school, and has been used to make popular games like Rust, Fall Guys, Cuphead, Among Us and Pokémon Go. This affects devs with large projects in development and screws over smaller indie devs. Also *because it counts repeated downloads it’s vulnerable to griefing. If a demographic get pissed off at a game? What was once limited to review bombing could become actual real world debt.
It seems what happened with Reddit’s third party tools isn’t a one off. The world has changed so rapidly and it’s slipping into enshittification.
Unity is thinking about AI games.
AI art is also filling the various art references I look through, I see artists having to put anti-ai filters over their work because it gets stolen.
It’s affecting writers too. Bogus ai-written foraging guides are being sold on Amazon. Do not go mushroom picking with one of these babies OK? I think we all know how that ends up.
Famous authors are suing OpenAI as their work is getting scraped ( this is the second lawsuit apparently) and fake ai books are being sold under the names of established authors.
Last but not least there’s a bill called KOSA that will infringe on privacy (it wants ID) and target trans/queer content under the guise of protecting kids.The idea is platforms are responsible for the content each user posts so to avoid consequences anything adult in nature is at risk of being scrubbed.
I’m still getting my head around all the fine points of both bills but apparently it’s been changed to a different bill called the Online Safety Bill which also wants ID and to scan encrypted messages like WhatsApp. The UK has just passed it.
This stuff matters because Australians use sites or services hosted in America (and any other country that brings in these laws).
Edit: Oh yeah, the Pantone thing happened a year ago. It’s not new. I just found out about it
My parents bought me a delightfully funny present for the new fourby.
Edit - no idea why it flipped the image, also no idea why I can’t flip it back…
Love Glenn Robbins 🤣
Well my day has started out badly. Was rushing out and turned out of my car port too sharply and fast and ended up damaging my rear car door and scraping it along brick work.
Fml
Dug deep enough to peel off paint and even warp the end of the rear door and the chassis a little.
Car will function still and not sure if the damage will cause any ill effects.
God I hate my life and this hurts so bad
Dab some nail polish on any scratches deep enough to reach the metal to prevent rust.
I rang one of my friends to ask. Going to see if I can get one the closest shade to my paint
Just go the the supermarket and get a cheap clear coat
Nail polish? I don’t know anything about nail polish.
What do you suggest I get?
Any colour or clear. Go to the cheap end of line bin at Priceline or chemists warehouse or similar and get a bottle. Probably won’t cost more than a couple of bux. There might even be a colour there that’s close or use a colourless one (top coat). There’s a tiny brush inside the cap for applying it. Easily removed with acetone when the time comes to fix the car. Just tell the mechanic or spray painter or whoever that you used nail polish on the bare metal if any. One coat should be sufficient to protect against rust, but do maybe two if it’ll be a while before getting the damage fixed properly.
I just don’t have the money to fix it or anything so I have to do the cheapie option, thank you for the suggestion.
Kmart seems to have what I need and they’re only 2.80 a bottle.
Am I in trouble if I can’t get it fixed professionally in the foreseeable future?
Not a professional here, but I understand that any damage to the paint/coating can lead to water/rust damage. More of a problem where the car is out in the weather and there’s violent weather and/or extremes of temperature change. If you have a way to keep the car under cover most of the time that will help. Paint damage doesn’t help with resale value.
Ok thanks.
I’m not worried about reselling but the rust issue dies worry me. This might be the start of the end if my car :(
WD40 and a magic eraser block pad can get paint off from other cars and buildings and also marks. Just don’t rub too deeply or else you might rub the car paint off.
I think I might be scared of doing more damage to my car using that combination of its strong enough to strip paint.
Car touchup pen any use to you as a temporary option?
https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/paint-panel/colour-match-paint/touch-up-pens
But if it’s down to bare metal you might want to click to the entire paint section to get yourself a primer too
Edit: There are also more paint colours available in the spray cans. Some are $5 on clearance
I guess it’s too late. I put the nail polish on. At least for now it’s protect it a little.
I’m just stressed i guess and couldn’t afford much more than what I already had.
The colour is call purple blue I think it’s and a metallic paint. Not sure how easy that would have been to find.
Guess it couldn’t have been worse than me using an off colour nail polish like I just did.
Anyway I’m going to see if I can clean this off my hands and I guess sink into how much my life sucks and wishing i took it easy this morning pulling out of my car port.
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Arrrghhhhh. Car pain is the worst pain. 😞 my heart hurt for you just reading that. I hope the rear door damage won’t be too bad in the long run
Got some long nasty marks and dented a little.
Definitely hurts the heart. As long as the car still runs I suppose but still 😢
That little ventolin-adjacent pill last night successfully reset my lungs with no observable side effects.
I am coughing like a normal person again.I’m so glad you’re feeling better
Thank you!
going to the state library to smash out some assignments I’ve been woefully avoidant of all week… hurray
Good luck. Currently in assignment purgatory.
I am such a nong! Didn’t set up a reminder to chuck a cursory amount to grow my savings balance for two whole months and missed out on like $400 of the bonus interest which is why I signed up for this account in the first place 😭 I could’ve really used that! Talk about stupid tax…
…oh well, can’t turn back time, have put in a reminder now; I’ll get this month’s at least. After that, one time chunk coming out to buffer me for the rest of this year, and every month after I’ll be trying to get as much interest as I can out of the remainder.
Can you set automatic payments?
I don’t know why I didn’t before, because all my bills etc are automated, but I’ve put in a reminder atm instead of an auto payment because while bills need to come out on a set day and are stuck in a separate account, I kinda want to make use of the flexibility with the bonus interest transfer since sometimes I’ve juggled things around a bit and don’t want the transfer accidentally coming out of the wrong account… okay it isn’t a really good excuse. I’ll just chuck in an auto payment but ALSO a reminder a day before so that I don’t accidentally go into overdraft
Happy Friday. Cheers munchkins 🍺
cin-cin 🥂
Cheers luv 🍺
Cheers! 🍻
Cheers mate 🍺
Sent off the email I’ve been dreading sending all day! Cheers indeed. Time for that nice falafel bake thing I treat myself to sometimes. Bit cold out there.
Cheers. It is a bit cold tonight. What is a falafel bake? Pics if possible please.
It’s one of my favourite premade meals from fairfeed, I had excavated one from the freezer to defrost and it’s going in the oven soon. Imagine the most delicious crumbled felafel topping over a mouthwatering medley of perfectly roasted veg with the sexiest garlic sauce stirred through. It’s an orgasm in your mouth. I think I’ve shared it before. I might take a picture after it’s done and I cut through it.
This is how they’ve described it: "Enjoy delicious caramelised roast beetroot, pumpkin, cauliflower and pickled red onion in smoky, sweet eggplant Habibi sauce, all topped with crunchy Felafel crumbs. Our Habibi sauce is a smooth baba ganoush like sauce. Think sweet, smokey, garlicky with a hint of pomegranate molasses and a whole lot of flavour. " I did not even know there was eggplant in the sauce, that explains why it’s so amazing.
That does sound amazing. I think they have made up the name “habibi sauce” though. Please take a pic. Very interesting.
It doesn’t look great in the photo but tastes like heaven to me.
photos
Ooo wow. Tahini sauce drizzled on the top would go wicked with that.
Cheers!
Cheers buddy.🍺 What’s for midnight snacks? Spring rolls, party pies, chilled flowers?
I made loads of sausage rolls, should be enough left after dinner for Friday late night snacks.
Yuuummm. I frigging love homemade sausage rolls.
heh… well tonight is azalea.
Yum. They go alright deep fried in a light batter.
Beer o’clock, confirmed. 🍻
Sure is. 🍺
Cheers
Happy Friday 😢
I really need a drink to drown my sorrows but I lack bottles of anything.
Cheers buddy. I hope things get better for you next week.
Thanks. I just had a fight as well though it was it my fault for blaming all my problems on them.
🍷happy Friday!
Cheers chook 🍺
🖤🥃
Cheers mate 🍺
