Bad bot fell asleep on shift.
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.
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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?
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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.
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 pastaI had to divy it up with the roomies. The man got lunch tomorrow. He’s a very happy man.
. 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
Yum. I’ve got pasta too but very basic.
Yours look very nice and tasty!
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You are too kind.
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That looks so yummy 🤤
Oh, it does! drool
Shell pasta is the best pasta. Now I want some too.
I second that.
Bloody hell that looks tasty
Thank you.
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;
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
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?
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What a gorgeous floof! He looks very purposeful.
His purpose was pats
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I give the best pats
He’s gorgeous, and what a fine tail!
I’d go as far as to call it majestic.
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.
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 😊
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.
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
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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!
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
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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
