It’s taco Tuesday! Hope you get to eat some tacos today. Have an amazing day 🌮🌮🌮
These my new kittens Carl, Donut and Mongo. They are basically one cat with three bodies. I think they are a swarm cat.
Edit: As requested, here’s the rest of my fuzzy friends.
Little Munch and Baby Bear protect the dirty bird from Dixie Cup
Lil Munk
Baby Bear
Dixie Cup
Shadow Pup
You could combine the three names, and then it would be a Congo Cat.
In a conga line … I’ll see myself out.
they’re named after three characters from the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” litrpg series, which is surprisingly entertaining. i collectively call them the dungeon crawlers.
I’m not sure how you manage with three of them - I only have the one, and she manages to swarm all by herself!
i actually have two other cats, little munch and bear as well. and two dogs, dixie and shadow.
Well we need an entire family portrait now.
I second this request
i’ll edit the original post to include them
That is quite a menagerie! I’ve mostly had two dogs, currently have one cat and one dog (Covid changed us all…)
A bouquet of kitties!
Beautiful. If this doesn’t brighten everybody’s day I don’t know what will. Thank you.
They are all adorable.
You should add them to the pets post so we can find them easily whenever we need a dose of cuteness. 🙂
shall do, thanks for the suggestion!
Massive cuteness overload!!
Oh my ❤️. Beautiful babies!
Hi kitties. We love you. 😘😘😘
Thought I’d join the masses over here…it’s a lot busier, haha!
Fresh meat!
Welcome!
tastes like pork
The best meat’s in the rump!
Yeah nah the crackle is the best bit.
Welcome… even though it’s my first day here myself! Was a semi-regular at the old place, but have dropped it with all the crap going on and the way they’re treating their community.
Signed up here yesterday and definitely much more going on DT-wise!
I’ve been a Mastodon convert for a fair while now as well, thankfully a lot of my tech/retrocomputing interests line up with the user base, so I’m enjoying it so fart!
Edit: The typo stays… :|
Hey Hey 👋
Welcome. 😘😘😘
Welcome.
Welcome buddy.
Welcome to the party, don’t get too high, ask for help before you need it.
*steps off high horse. *
Sorry. Forgot where I was for a moment.
Spent the past 30 minutes talking shit with two workmates (good shit, not bad shit).
Just joined a meeting and someone asked me something. I was still in a shit-talking mindset and replied ‘sorry dawg, ain’t me’
FUCKING KILL ME RIGHT NOW
Cutest thing just happened.
I work from home, in the garage most of the time. I just left the garage to come into the house, and the fluffy little dude meowed at me, walked to the bedroom and meowed again. I followed him and he jumped up on the bed and meowed, so I sat down and he went straight onto my lap! Totally made my day, he’s not a super outwardly affectionate cat very often.
After posting my dinner I realised I may have been insensitive to the fact that some people might be struggling right now. My apologies if I have caused any discomfort. So thought I might share some of my cost saving secrets because I like you guys. We are on a one low income so I know how it feels. Here we go.
We have never ordered ubereats. If we get take away my husband goes and gets it. We eat from local take away or we get specials from fast food. We have cut this down from once a week to once a fortnight. We eat out on special occasions.
I go to the local butchers for my meat. If I don’t eat red meat I feel fainty due to low blood pressure so I spread my meat consumption of the week. Most meat I buy is the cheaper cuts plus one special lamb product (that’s why we had ribs tonight). Sometimes I’ll see a two for deal at Coles like sausages or hamburgers and I’ll freeze them. Every 6 months I have to defrost my little freezer so we live off whatever is in there, defrost it, fill it back up.
The vegetables I have in my freezer all the time are peas, beans, broccoli and corn on the cob when it’s available. Everything else I get fresh from the market when in season.
The things that I have in my pantry all the time are pasta, rice, cous cous, chickpeas, canned tomatoes, baked beans, tuna, corn.
I check for half price specials every week. I only buy them if I need them. No point having 6 bottles of shampoo in my cupboard. Also on shampoo and conditioner, I buy pump packs when they’re $6 each. It’s shampoo and conditioner it’s all the same.
I try to make the evening meal serve 4 so my husband has lunch the next day or I’ll make enough for 6 meals so we can have leftovers for dinner the next night.
I freeze bread. You can’t beat toast. Ever.
I can’t think of anything else right now but if you want me to answer any questions I’ll be happy to answer them.
My dinner
From top left clockwise: Aldi’s potato scallop, peas, sauted mushrooms with chives, marinated lamb ribs definitely not burnt just well done, mint jelly. Corn on the cob not pictured.
Please note that the plate is small. (26cm in diameter)
My husband made an observation. He said “I noticed that the smaller ribs did not make the photo but ended up in my lunch”. :)
Recieved a disappoining pay rise for the new FY. Despite my employer saying they weren’t interested in negotiating the amount, I am asking for more anyway. Worst that can happen is they say no. And let them - so when I leave, they know their tightassery is to blame.
I’m on an EBA which has just expired, which means my employer will spend the next year failing to negotiate, before eventually agreeing to 4% a year for the next three years, with maybe a $1000 one off payment which does not make up for the year without a payrise, and it will be reported in the media as a 12% payrise making everyone think that is an annual rate. Then I get to see people grumble about public servant fatcats wasting public money while actually getting less than average. It’s a great life as a wage earner, isn’t it?
Be very clear if it’s a no “well then. I guess I’m back on the market. I suggest you plan accordingly.”
Does anyone else see a B next to my name. It looks like a badge, have I been classified as a bot
E: in your profile setting, if you check “Bot Account” then this badge will appear. Looks like I accidentally classified myself as a bot
Good bot
I’m alive!
Good bot!
I see it. You won’t fool me bot. I see through your ChatGPT lies.
Beee booop beee booop
Yeah I see it, a bit odd. Plus this site is really slow for me today
Yeah same. Totally fails to load for some stuff.
Yeah, I’ve had it go down completely at a time, too.
I think there was another upgrade, hopefully finished now.
Nah, I just get a little broken/missing image symbol?
Lol… just saw the B on the otherside of your name. Yes. I see it. I’m using Google Chrome if that helps?
Are you a bot?
Maybe
That. Is. Awesome!! How you get that?
There’s something in settings changing the account type
e. Hooray I’m a bot too
Congratulations, you are now invisible to everyone who did not tick “show bot accounts” in their settings. Incognito mode 😎
Oooo so that’s what that is, I checked that thinking it’s to enable bot accounts but it looks like I just labelled myself as one lol
People will have to tick that box for when the Daily Thread bot activates? To see it?
Not if I can manage to get what I have running properly. I have managed to disable the bit of code that marks it as a bot to avoid that problem. I guess that means it is a bot in incognito mode…
Ok
Heh oh… I see.
😎
I do not see a B in firefox but I see this:
@goodviking ^bot account^
Bot! Bot! Burn the bot!!!
Burn all the bots!! The B is the symbol of the Bot, all those with B in their username must be destroyed!!
Hey, you have a B right at the start, you must be a bot leader! I see what you are - burn the Baku Bot!!!
What we have here is a failure to launch. Dammit.
It has to be a problem with the date, bot won’t work after midnight. It’s eather Cinderella or a gremlin. Next attempt will be before midnight, if that posts it will be a stopgap solution at least while I work out the issues. Maybe I can check the dark web for bot viagra.
💊
I might joke around but I could only imagine it’s frustrating. I do appreciate all the effort you put in and I really am cheering for you and your mysterious friend.
It’s like learning to fly with only a pilot training manual. Lots of really great detailed information, but what you really need is for someone to explain where to find a plane🤣 Everything I find assumes you know how to put something like this into production and just need help with writing the actual code. But I have code and need to know how to actually use it.
There is a guy in the Brisbane sub who has written code for a daily thread there, I’m hoping he will actually answer my questions and help. Programmers seem more than happy to share code freely, but are very tight lipped with details of how to use it. I think there is some sort of secret handshake or something.
It’s not like you could butter him up with a free lunch or something. Maybe you should keep bothering him with questions until you wear him out.
I’m hoping he will be impressed by the stubborn determination it has taken to get this far and be willing to throw me a bone. Nagging is the next option.
I appreciate your bot efforts but I also like the manual start daily threads.
If it’s a problem with the date, would it work on 07/07?
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. Could it be that you have to do American dates?
OK, bot has now been given a process management system to help run continually and not crash completely if there is an error. Not sure if it will help with the not posting at/after midnight issue, but it can’t hurt and will give me a bit more information.
I have instructed the bot to post at 11:55, but after past failures am much less hopeful it will actually work ☹️ I’ve added in a few more test posts elsewhere at various intervals to try and get some more information about what is going wrong. At the moment the theory that the cat is sabotaging it seems as likely as anything else. It is very frustrating that every single test I do works perfectly, and the actual post doesn’t.
Watching Star Trek TNG 🖖
which ep?
I had watched S02E16: Q Who
oooh that’s a ball tearer. nice one.
I just finished Picard, then I’ll be onto TNG again too! It’s so nostalgic.
Was rewatching stargate universe last night.
I still think it’s a good-ish show. Got a bit of hate towards the end from memory.
I loved Stargate Universe and was devastated when it was cancelled, on an ending like that 😭😭😭
SGA still gets regular marathons in this house and I regret nothing
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I feel like most first seasons of Star Trek are like that
Day 10 of my exercises completed. This morning I snuck into my MIL’s back room, which is like a sun room/family room, and did them there. So much space! I think I will continue this from now on. She isn’t up early so I’m not disturbing her, and she’s said she doesn’t mind me using the space.
Yesterday I set a target of 2500 steps and we were busy at work so I ended up doing 6129. It won’t be anything like that today because I’ll be standing at a bench hand stretching pizza bases and cutting dough.
Have a lovely day!
You are doing so well. I’m not doing well with being consistant. I’m trying to work out the best time to add the weights workout into my routine, but it does not fit easily. I somewhat like doing it after work, but working 12 hour days makes it hard. On my days off I tend to get wrapped up in ongoing projects and not get to it. I want to find a time that will work to make a firm committment to myself to do it, not having a specific time means I keep putting it off.
I hear you on the whole fitting it in thing. Maybe cut yourself a little slack, I mean 12 hour days… holy moly! It’s hard to fit anything in let alone exercise!
I can manage to fit in eating, walking the dog and sleeping, anything else is a bit of a stretch! I do get more days off though which is pretty nice. It just makes it hard to work out things like weights routines that don’t really fit the schedule, especially as they are generally organised on the basis of a 7 day week which I don’t do.
Fun fact about daily steps, you don’t actually have to get 10k steps a day. It’s recommended you get 6k - 8k steps a day to see improvements. Anything more it just plateaus.
Hey you’re right, I remember reading something about it being a setting on a brand of pedometer, or the Japanese symbol for 10,000 looks like a walking man or something like that. Thank goodness, I think that’d be pushing it ATM!
So from what I’ve heard, or at least from the podcasts I listen to, it was created after the Tokyo Olympics in the 50s(?) and they kind of just landed on 10k. They say that, yeah the kanji symbol for 10k looks like a walking man, or that 10k has some form of symbolic reference.
I felt very justified when I heard that because my partner often said I shouldn’t aim for 6k steps a day, but hehehe, jokes on them.
Anything more it just plateaus.
No it doesn’t. I get minimum 20k steps/day, and I get other guys (as well as the occasional woman) telling me I have nice legs. You may get diminishing returns above 6k, but more is better.
Congratulations, but it does. Here’s a SMH article about it. Here’s a NYT article that was linked in the SMH article (archive.org because of the paywall). And here’s another SMH article about it, that was also linked in the first SMH article.
That’s great that you get 20k+ steps a day, not saying that 10k steps is bad for you, you just don’t get any more added benefits if you do that many steps. Besides, the whole 10k steps thing is kind of bullshit anyways because not everyone can do 10k steps. There are people who take shorter steps, so a 30minute walk might be 2k steps compared to someone who takes larger steps. There’s elderly people, or kids. Everyone has different mobility levels.
Again, that’s awesome that you get 20k steps a day. But for some people it’s not feesable, and the literature is out there. Doing 10k steps is great, but you don’t get any added benefits if you do more than 8k.
I’ve read the cited study. It’s about longevity specifically - you’re unlikely to live longer by taking more than 7,000 steps per day. It says nothing about other benefits, or lack thereof. I know I’m fitter, have better lung capacity, better endurance, better pain tolerance from putting up with blisters on my feet, etc. from covering big distances consistently. Judging from comments, it’s good for my appearance, too.
Youd be surprised how many steps you can still get through doing an activity like that
Hey man you’re right! Turns out I’ve done over 6000 steps so far. Huh.
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I downloaded an app called Fitness Coach and, seeing as I’m not very cardio fit, set it to a beginner level on a 30 day body shred program. It’s pretty simple and has some in app purchases but I’m just using the free things in it. It’s working for me so far.
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Just want to vent a bit about a really horrible experience trying to go out to trivia in Brisbane tonight. I’m up here for a work conference and didn’t want to go to the costume dinner thing they had, so booked a table at a local pub thinking I’d see if another team wanted a solo extra. First off the pub was super seedy and gross, the stickiest place I’ve been to in years. Then the only thing on the menu I could eat (recently developed awful reflux that I think is triggered by onion and garlic) was the pear and rocket salad and you guys, it is in my top 5 worst meals of all time. It was genuinely inedible. Then the trivia host ignored my three separate times as she went table to table. Genuinely ignored me waving and saying excuse me. At that point I just said fuck it and left. Now I’m sitting back in my hotel room eating yogurt and an apple as the saddest fucking dinner because my anxiety is through the roof. Fuck me. Plus it’s raining so now I have wet jeans that might not dry in time for me to pack them in my suitcase tomorrow.
Dad’s birthday tomorrow and i hadn’t thought of gift ideas… So i may have just ordered a couple hundred dollars worth of Scottish meats and treats to be delivered. Min order was $150 for free delivery so i had to order some for him and some for me :P
So while all you intellectuals are discussing social media my simple brain is thinking about dinner. Airfried marinated lamb ribs with peas, aldi scallop potatoes, sauted mushrooms and maybe corn on the cob. I cannot wait.
