• bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’ve brought work’s iPad away with me to try and get used to it. I kinda wish the OS they run on it wasn’t so basic but it has a nice screen and good speakers!

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Happy birthday DT. Love youse…

    because I am complaining about spending money and that's kinda privileged....

    I am usually frugal but I when I have to buy things I just put my head down and do it all at once…so this week I have purchased new prescription sunnies, new backpack (good bellroy one that will last forever), bulk foods (cleaning things and flours etc) and then a couple of pretty and good work tops from my fav little shop. And a nice combo card holder and pencil case so I can keep my things together and not forget them (geeky but I ADORE IT).

    Feeling a nice dopamine rush and slight panic (I had money aside but still). I am having a beer at hopheads and might buy dinner tonight to cap off a day of running around shopping. I am not going away for long weekend so this so this is kinda my holiday…yeah?

    I am very good with money and on top of bills and fortunate in my current job and but I still struggle with buy good stuff that will last forever (or worse buying something new because the forever thing I own actually doesn’t do the job anymore) versus make do with nothing. Oh to have a brain that could be happy.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Ventured out to Footscray for some vape supplies. It’s so nice here.

    Can’t wait to move once I have a new contract. Makes where I live seem like the middle of fucking nowhere.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      3 months ago

      Out west? Miss Seagoon spent about 4 months there, she couldn’t wait to get back to Carlton.

      • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        I don’t blame her. It’s fucking dead out here. Peaceful, nice to have a music studio in my house. But it’s no longer worth it. I need to be around people.

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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          3 months ago

          We talked a lot about it. The young Seagoons loved all the birds, the trees, the proximity to national parks, the night sky. She said no homeless in the streets but lots of suburban poverty and misery.

  • Electronic_Owl@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    We’ve got tickets for Stephen K Amos tonight, he’s at the Kingston Arts Centre in Moorabbin. Should be good. Food and drinks somewhere before, maybe the new American BBQ and burger joint Third Wave Cafe if we can get in.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      The Third Wave in Albert Park is a great feed. They did get in on the NFT trend a couple of years ago though, if that colours your perception of them at all

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Very nice and amazing. I love Stephen K Amos. I find him so funny.

      I hope you have an amazing time tonight.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • fullkitwanker@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I have a lot of free time currently and have gotten so addicted to this silly mobile game called Lumber Inc (it’s essentially a lumber factory simulator). Somebody save me!

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Good morning magpies…how I love your gentle warb-- SHRREEEEECCHHH —

    Yes lorikeets I love you too…

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Which birds are the ones that sound like car alarms? The Maggie’s that live in the trees around my house are actually really friendly. We used to have people here who’d feed them a lot, so they seem to have just marked us as friendly. I don’t feed them, generally, but I did throw them a small amount of unsweetened muesli at the start of last spring to try and bribe them into not swooping me since they built their little hole right above the letterbox.

      They liked that and have me remembered as a friendly. While they’re in the yard catching brekky, they’re generally relaxed if I’m outside gardening or whatever and don’t pay much attention to me

        • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Yep ^^ this

          And magpies are crazy smart. I will say “hello Maggie” to the ones in my street when I see them. At my last place I got to the point they would warble back. As long as they see you as a friend they won’t swoop.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Whomever said you shouldn’t worry about zits because you grow out of them was a filthy liar. You end up with zits, and wrinkles, and grey hair. 😝

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    It may be winter, a state of affairs I don’t really approve of, but I stewed some rhubarb yesterday and I’m now having it for breakfast with muesli and yoghurt. And tea. And the sun’s out.

    I might just make it through another few months of this bleakness.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Happy 1st anniversary month dt. 🥂🎉🎂

    Let’s spare a moment to appreciate those who stayed and made this thread great and remember those who have left and are dead to us now.

    In My Life - The Beatles

    Feel free to post your own appropriate song.

    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Has it really been a year?? Good heavens. At some point I should probably work out how to use Lemmy beyond the DT.

      Thanks all for being fab!

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        To be honest, since Lemmy World (the biggest instance) is borked, there’s not very much we can see on Lemmy at the moment. A lot of Lemmy communities are hosted on LW, and with federation delays of a week, you can’t really see any of the discussion until after it’s fizzled out. But browsing local and the large communities hosted on other instances is nice

          • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            3 months ago

            The Lemmy Devs said they’ll fix it in the next milestone release (0.20) I think. In the meantime, someone else on another instance wrote a tool that can be deployed to an instance closer to LW which sends the activities in bulk to the main instance, but I think we’re just going to wait until the patch gets pushed

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I do miss Reddit sometimes, especially the DT community during lockdown. I regret that some members disappeared or didn’t follow. But apparently everyone with a big site wants to be Elon Musk now so yeah :(

      This DT is good though, I’m also finding Lemmy a bit calmer.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        I still browse reddit.

        The other dt still talk about us like we’re the poorer cousins who lost their way and hope to make it back some day because apparently it’s slow over here. 😂

          • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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            3 months ago

            Eh, they definitely have a wider range of commenters and much more activity in the main sub. There’s no doubt that Reddit still has a lot more momentum and it’s mostly the same people here in the DT. I don’t mind that of course, but I don’t think their opinion is that weird…

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Oh, ok. I don’t have any kind of beef with anyone who stayed. I wasn’t aware there was any competition or tension.

          I just saw the owner openly say that he wanted to emulate Musk then engage in strongarm tactics, and went ‘yikes’ over where that behaviour might lead. What the site might turn into. Also the whole selling user data to AI thing is not something I agree with. Would potentially consider frequenting both places casually if the owner stopped being a raging jackarse or sold the site. If it was like it used to be.

          The mix of people in the DT seems to have changed though. I don’t recognise many usernames anymore so if I did ever return that would be another adjustment.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Sad, I miss some old faces but the community that was I think is dead and fractured. And out of the ashes this one grew. And that’s fine, honestly! I’m just concerned as to how we grow this one so it doesn’t become an echo chamber.

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      When I go on Reddit these days, I feel myself getting aggrevated really easily.

      I wonder if it’s always been like that and I hadn’t noticed.

      Here’s to a great space 🍸

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    finally coming down from the adrenaline of the past weeks and i’m WIPED

    i’ll just eat, nap, walk a bit to buy food, eat, nap, and eat some more