Happy international Hot Chocolate Day 🔥🍫
jfc there is not a single fucking braincell left at M$.
Fire up laptop for work, start of the work day IMMEDIATELY greeted with an UPGRADE TO WIN 11!! screen.
Can’t alt tab out of it, can’t even bring up goddamn taskmgr to kill it, the only way to get rid of it so I can start my fucking work day is either “UPGRADE NOW!” or “DECLINE UPGRADE”
shit like this is why I’m cutting the workplace over to mint.
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Finished watching Station Eleven.
no spoilers but chunky text anyway
It was patchy at times - The Prophet was a very unconvincing character for the most part. And it felt like they handwaved too many contrived situations just to make us feel something. Makes sense that the show runner did The Leftovers, I don’t remember most of it now except that I felt it also veered on sentimental. But those odd-numbered episodes, particularly 5, 7 and 9, were really quite something… and even if the show ending was a little too neat/pat, by that point it was emotionally well earned and I kinda didn’t care about some of the character issues as much. I think I would’ve been a total blubbering mess if I really did watch this in 2021.
7/10 on average, 9/10 for the odd numbered episodes.
I liked it. It was an interesting take . No dystopia.
It was refreshingly hopeful and I definitely would like to see more fiction about the positive aspects of real human relationships post-apocalypse. Finding art, love, trust and community (while the nutsos kill each other off or learn to leave peaceful people alone for their own survival).
Though i think both the book and the TV show do make a point that the first period of adjustment is going to be unsafe and violent for most.
Yes. All those positive aspects of humanity are a drive just as much as the negative. :)
I’m currently watching The Magicians (2015).
How is it? The premise sounds interesting
not OP but it’s spectacular. Finished its run a year or two ago
Looks like I’ll have something queued up for these interminably long evenings while I’m footloose and fancy free
Looks like Sunday forecast has already been adjusted downwards to 35 degrees. By Saturday wouldn’t be surprised if it went down to 30.
Ted Cat woke me up. I must have been making ouch noises in my sleep.
I spent way too long playing around with Melbourne prompts on Stable Diffusion for a WhatsApp group image. Of course face masks came up relatively often.
People are so disproportionately angry at the little shit responsible for the milk incident. They’re baying for blood.
I wonder why this has hit such a nerve.
yeah, the papers are pushing the private school/elite/capitalist angle for clicks
Theres a certain sense of entertainment now at watching him suffer. I have very little empathy for the little shit, but also it does feel like a Two Minutes Hate. All the pent up frustration from recent stressors, resentment towards the entitled and wealthy
Because it’s all fun and dandy to prank your friends or act the clown and record it but don’t involve innocent people in your stupidity.
I’m in the he’s a little shit camp. The cherry on top was when he whinged that people had identified him to his school, and therefore there might be consequences for him. He complaint was ‘how could you do this to a minor’. What a turd. And I bet his parents are entitled turds too.
I think it’s the intersection of obnoxious teenager, elite private school, and TikTok prankster. It’s a uniquely irritating combo where any one factor makes people want the person to be punished, but all three together incite particular rage.
Ok, so inflation’s too high and then interest rates go up to curb spending, and now spending slows and the economists are complaining we are not spending enough. I believe the translation is: the rich people wanted to keep wages low because more profit, but also please keep buying stuff from us because more profit. Is that it?
Life Pro Tip: if you’re on a visa and have OSHC/OVHC, get Allianz base and Bupa extras (if needed).
imed Radiology and Melbourne Pathology both forward the receipts to Allianz and even though the cover says that they’ll pay up to 85% of MBS, somehow the entire receipt is paid (goes for all scans - MRI, CT, X-ray etc).
Bupa is good for extras, I use a Bupa Members First provider and they have discounted rates for Bupa members which is great. My physio charges me $37 for a 1hour sesh but a max of $450 per year ($90 something after that). But still good value.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Pasta salad with sundried tomato, olive and avocado please
Ooh and feta
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Still awake and it’s starting to get light outside. Already told work that today isn’t going to work out. It’s not them, it’s me.
Surreal moment today: me, a blondeish woman of a certain age in a Volvo V70 wagon, blasting Counting Bodies Like Sheep through its (excellent) stereo. 😁
Just woke up to the excellent news that my downstairs plumbing issue is actually a street wide issue. Looks like Great Western will be sending people out today to clear the streets sewage pipes.
Oh my god. I thought it was Tuesday today.
Ever since I got home and came back from work I was trying to work out why my petrol was so low and what I was going to do.
Suddenly got confused at seeing the dates of tucker time and this thread and only clicked that it’s Wednesday.
I’m so out of it!
I made a turtle from imitation Lego.
My back is sore, my eyes are blurry and I have no thumb nails left but I have a cute little turtle 🐢
defo cute 😸
You need to invest into one of those Lego tools that helps you pull apart pieces.
Nearly tore my own nails without that little tool to help when I was doing it at work.
