Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Trying to go to sleep but this lump of fur keeps stealing my spot 😔
Oh no. You must make all the space for this handsome gentlecat.
After some 4am zoomies he flops half onto my face haha he just loves to steal my warmed up patch every time I go to pee
It’s got a black jacket over a white shirt.
I’ve spent 2 nights here so far and I really like it. The first night was naturally a bit hard, but it already feels like a home. Yesterday I unpacked my computer and got it all setup, so that helps a lot too. Room is freezing, so yesterday I ventured out to buy a heater. Kmart is apparently all out of stock of every single heater in the entire state, and Kmart man said he hadn’t seen any come in in about a month. What kind of shop doesn’t sell heaters past the first month of winter?! We ended up going to Big W and they had a very similar heater, with the buttons in a slightly different place of course, which naturally they were selling for 5x the price as Kmart… Because of course they were, but it works fine so I guess it’s still a win
Did you find the toaster?
Yes! Well, I didn’t actually find it, I sent a message in a group chat we have saying I couldn’t find it and then one of the mentors appeared out of nowhere (I didn’t even think anyone else was home), found it in seconds and left it on the bench for me
He magiced a toaster! Brilliant.
My local mini Coles had heaters for reasonable prices.
Glad you found a heater. I noticed Bunning had a pretty huge range when I was there recently, if it doesn’t work out.
Wooooo another day another frosty/paggro response from the boss for something reasonable. But, in good news, he’s agreed to have this now totally unnecessary meeting in two weeks time, after I’ve had my next psychiatrist consult and a coffee catchup with someone in the broader industry who I’m hoping to get some leads from in terms of moving on (I will never forget how she once quite directly told me on the phone that I’m being severely underutilised at where I am right now 😭).
I promise to myself I’ll be out of here by xmas, goddammit.
Fingers crossed something good comes out of the networking meeting. Always nice when someone recognises that you’ve been underutilised at work.
I really hope so too. Thinking I’ll try and take that day off if I can to be in a positive mindset the whole day
Sounds like a good idea 👌
I have booked in the aircon installation. From Tuesday I will be warm! Plus as a bonus both I and the neighbours will not have to listen the the excessively noisy old box airconditioning units this summer.
I went out. Found a parking spot. Did what I had to do. Come out. Looked around. Random old man: It’s here somewhere
Me:(no one wants a 2006 manual Corolla surely)
Me to the old man and the world: I FOUND IT! I WAS IN THE WRONG AISLE!ME: relieved. I need a coffee.
My watch: 2 minutes of Intensity.deleted by creator
Maybe organise for them to trip over and then strangle themselves on their own powercords?
deleted by creator
Poor Mr Woof is having a hard day.
Image: worried looking small white fluffy dog
…
First I invited a strange man inside the house, and he ended up locked in a bedroom where he could not protect me. Then I took him on a walk to the post box, and it made terrible scary clanging noises when the lever was pulled. Then not once but twice strange men walked behind us on the same footpath, and he was convinced they were up to no good. It’s been a tough and stressful day and I think I’ll have to given him some extra pork rind with dinner.
What’s the time Mr Woof?
It’s always dinner time. Stupid question.
It’s hard work being a woof. 🤗🤗🤗
What a big day for Mr Woof!! He definitely deserves a little extra, what a sweet face!
Day 31 of exercise… I still don’t know what! I decided to restart the 30 day beginner level exercise program I’d been doing, and maaaan so much has changed! It was a real eye opener as to how much I’ve grown and gained, which I hadn’t really been aware of. So while the exercise wasn’t challenging it was still a learning experience for me. Maybe I am ready for the next level!
I’m interested in a few different things at the moment. I’ve always liked what the hybrid calisthenics guy does, and basically any kind of bodyweight exercises. I liked the look of the prison workouts someone linked for me here. Anything low impact really. I found a set of low impact cardio exercises you can do if you’re tired, injured, unfit or whatever, which I’m going to give a go tonight.
Edit: still off the alcohol, drinking tea like it’s an Olympic event.
deleted by creator
KUDOS, HAPPY DANCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTF4gN6XhF0
I know the decline of Twitter has been coming, but with Elon rebranding it as X, and reddits collapse, I bet many people (including me) are just waiting for a viable other option to come along.
Threads I only had like one look at and doesn’t appeal.
Lemmy is OK but the layout IS confusing. Without the DT I’d be checking Lemmy less …
I know it is probably a bit delusional, but I am hoping it will prompt a lot of people to question why they are actually using these services and whether they really want carbon copies or something different. All of these services are designed to pull our attention and consume our time, and when you are used to spending hours a day scrolling content it can feel like a loss not having it, but I don’t think it is actually what we want or need.
Services like Twitter and Reddit have trained people to be mostly passive consumers of fairly shallow content. We are constantly looking for fast moving and new content, even though that is not where the valule is. A large portion of users “lurk” instead of participating, and I believe that has largely been trained into us by using platforms where priority is given to “new” content (most of which is actually reposts and repeats of what has been said before) and where big is seen as better.
My belief is that the real value is in deeper discussions that can occur over time, and in smaller groups with engaged users who know each other. I’m not on Lemmy because I hope it will eventually become more like Reddit, I’m here because I hope it won’t.
I’d like threads if it wasn’t a Facebook product.
Funniest thing for me so far has been the excited tweet about branding and copyrighting “X Japan!” as part of their regional i don’t even fucking know why am i trying to ascribe logic here. Look, they got excited and started screaming about owning the brand name x japan.
They’re also mass banning people with foul language in their names, and since “shita” is commonly found in Japanese names…
Mastodon or kbin? Both use the ActivityPub protocol like Threads.
Wow, I just saw the weather forecast for the weekend - 17/18 and mostly sunny! That bodes well for my trip in to town on Sunday.
It looks like it will be a nice day today and I might go for a walk in the park. 😊🌞
Camembert, Brie, Feta,
Gorgonzola, and Burrata,
Gouda for you, Sir!
Cheddar for me, dear!
Pecorino, Parmesano,
Manchego, Grana Padano,
Give me Chevre, baby!
Give you Gruyere, oh yeah!
Roquefort will rock ya!
Mascarpone, Provolone
With a piece of Bologna
Lovemaking cheese
Cheesemaking love
Summer is coming, oooo lord aboveSummer cheese is like no other cheese …
Hand-cheese, crotch-cheese, titties,
These are just a few of my favourite thingsEdit: i do have to put here that while writing that I was cackling 😂
Brown paper packages tied up with strings 🤭 These are a few of my favourite things
deleted by creator
Should add NSFW warning, erotic content
There’s a nice bit in the film A Fish Called Wanda where Jamie Lee-Curtis gets all excited when John Cleese makes love to her shouting out names of italian cheeses, cos hearing italian really turns her on. On second thoughts, might be french - can’t really remember the details it was so long ago that I saw the film.
deleted by creator
I love that film so much
I am erotic content haha
Why are so many women my age mean dried up old bitches. 🤬 ( older gen x /boomer)
Young woman came onto the bus but when she noticed she didn’t have her phone asked the driver to let her off again. Yeah, she looked harried. She said she must have dropped it and had to look for it.
So she gets off and then two harpies near me start making mean comments.
I got angry. I stare at them, interrupt their passive aggressive insults, “I’d be upset if I lost my phone too , they are really expensive and we need it”
And I don’t know why they think they are superior. They’re riding the frigging bus too!!!
I just assume they need to spend all their time coming up with ways everyone else is inferior so they don’t have enough thinking time to realise that their own lives are nothing but great big voids of nothingness, that they create nothing and do nothing in their own lives but consume the creations of others with the mindless voracity of a plague of locusts.
Or maybe they are just mean 🤷♂️
or both
( I didn’t write what they said or about the young woman and her guy , it was too shameful to not say anything 😔 )
deleted by creator
Look at the ooze. You lucky duck. I’m very jealous.
Now if only this was an Aldi Saturday Special. Ugh looks so good
omg, that looks delicious . Tell your mum she’s awesome.
Good bot!
Edit: I just wanted to be able to say good bot too.
And you’re a good @landsharkkidd!
😊😊😊 aww shucks!
Good landsharkk!
😊😊😊 hahaha thank you!
Can’t stop thinking about the poor housemates cat, I called off work to be with her but since I’m on nights I’ve still got to stay up which has left me to think about it all. I really hope for her sake they can do enough that he can come home and at least have a bit of comfort in his final moments, and I really really hope she doesn’t have to make “the call” cause that’ll really hurt her.
