• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    Through to an interview with second preference job, Friday lunchtime. I’ve already done online testing with great results and submitted a five minute video. I’m hoping this is more of a formality at this point. I am a great candidate

      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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        1 month ago

        Hey Baku! Was up early - I am going to a virtual conference in USA time later this week and trying to get myself to wake up at 3am for a few days as training. Hope you have a mre settled week this week 🤞🏻

          • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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            1 month ago

            It’s an ecological conference in the states ( I do quite a bit of environmental work as part of my job). Am looking forward to lots of ideas but not the 3am starts

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

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  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I could wear make-up and curl my hair,
    Commence my glow-up and start to care,
    I’d colour myself amongst the rainbow,
    But what for and why? I don’t know.

    I want to be pretty like the girls on the net,
    But I feel quite petty when my eyes set
    Upon my face and the way it exists.
    But what for and why? It just is.

    Is it the web that makes me feel so bad?
    All the cute girls on the street, I feel so sad.
    I’m sure if I tried, I’d look like a queen,
    But what for and why, so I could be seen?

    I don’t crave attention, I’ll promise you that,
    I like staying home with my coffee and cat,
    Should I do it for me, and try to be pretty?
    But what for and why? Now I sound petty.

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    I have some terrible news … BreadTop at Melbourne Central is CLOSED. I don’t know if it’s permanent. This means my mornings are much less joyful… And my life has extended by a few years.

  • Mittens_meow@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    Work all week. Spend weekend recovering from exhaustion. Repeat. Life not very satisfying ☹️. At least my cat naps on the bed with me.

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    There is an impeccably appointed Mercedes with a large decal of Psyduck on the side doing a circuit of Melbourne.

    Behold the Psyduckmobile

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    woke up at one point last night on my side, knees at a 90 degree angle with a pillow in between, feet resting on the spaces between the ball and heels and fingers interlocked. Ontop of this rain was pelting the brick wall behind my head and I have to say it was the most comfortable I’ve been in a LONG time.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    I’m gonna go find some lamb shanks and if I don’t find them Ima gonna chuck a mini tantrum in the meat department of Coles.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        1 month ago

        But I’m pondering getting weird with it. Like, I have purple peruvian potatoes growing out the back I could base a mash on…

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          1 month ago

          If its spuds, then isn’t it vodka??? I could well be wrong here, but I thought poitin was a mix of 3 barley to 1 wheat?

          • Taleya@aussie.zone
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            1 month ago

            poitin is a traditional moonshine, meaning it’s whatever you can get to ferment. Lot of starchy stuff used thanks to the brits turning Ireland into the worlds largest potato farm, so taters are perfectly acceptable to base mash

            ^all spirits start as vodka, you just add different toppings^

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      when ever there is a big political event that draws all attention evil people like poitin will use the opportunity to do some more evil with out newspapers taking much notice

      watch for poitin enemies disappearing and attacks on other nations , maybe some extra fraud

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    My daily rant as an old person.

    Using the words Processing and Unpacking when speaking or writing of thoughts.

    I truly dislike these words because it turns people into machines, into objects. It’s how a psychopath wants you to think about yourself and events. They want to define how you think and feel.

    People reflect on events and feel emotions, they don’t process. When you use the wrong word/idea you distance yourself from who you are.

    People think about their lives and events, they may or may not think in an analytical way, they don’t unpack. I unpack my groceries and when I do I’m not analysing what they are, how and why I bought them, the origin of the groceries, I’m not trying to make a narrative that makes sense, I’m not relating my groceries to other groceries. I’m just picking them up and putting them away.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Agreed! So much more is involved in reflection than just “unpack/process”. I’m not “putting away” my thoughts, nor am I “processing” them like a warehouse. Sure, one can make a metaphor for how the brain stores memories (short and long-term, and how that can be disrupted, the effects of such disruption, etc) to how a warehouse stores stock or moves it. But as with all metaphors, they are lacking in a fundamental way: they discount the humanness of thinking and memories. The process of remembering and mindfulness is less a straight line of “A follows B follows C follows D…”, and more akin to “A reminds me of F, and I feel X about that, but maybe I should think about D and how it relates to L and I can use that if I encounter G…”.

      Thinking of us as machines, well, dehumanises us lol.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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        1 month ago

        I might do a little rummaging around to find out when that terminology first arose and who is responsible and why.

        I admit manipulation of language and beliefs bother me.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      The only time I use process is when someone tells me some really big news and immediately wants an answer. I’ll reply with “um give me some time to process that”.

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      When unpacking I usually circle back, touch base and re-process, re-pack then if the synergistic ducks are in a row it’ll be all blue skies.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      I unfortunately use these kinds of words as a result of working at a community organisation that was run by an interlinking system of committees. There used to be a lot of meetings, and people padded out their conshy sounding contributions with the sort of language that adds absolutely no meaning. Honestly the joint was a bit like a cult and it took me a long time to deprogram myself.

    • Elias@social.librem.one
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      1 month ago

      @Seagoon_ @briongloid

      > Using the words Processing and
      > Unpacking when speaking or
      > writing of thoughts
      >
      > I truly dislike these words
      > because it turns people into
      > machines

      I feel the same. Same thing also with the word “content”. If I write something, like an article or whatever, I did not “produce” anything, and certainly not “content”. Even this little mastodon comment here, silly as it may be, is not “content”. It’s something I’ve written where I (a human!) expressed some thoughts.