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.
Glad you found a heater. I noticed Bunning had a pretty huge range when I was there recently, if it doesn’t work out.
My local mini Coles had heaters for reasonable prices.
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 👌
Dear Universe, after near no sleep I must face the physical existence of Idiot Manager. Grant me the ability to not strangle them. Or at least make it look accidental.
Maybe organise for them to trip over and then strangle themselves on their own powercords?
We have the beginnings of a plan…
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.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. 😊🌞
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.
KUDOS, HAPPY DANCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTF4gN6XhF0
Congratulations! I finally investigated the app you mentioned: was it just called ‘Fitness Coach’ or 'Fitness Coach: Weight Loss '?
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!
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.
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.
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 😔 )
Just noticed I’ve had my front door unlocked on quite a number of occasions because the handle is loose and haven’t been latching even though I thought I was locking it. I’m now convinced someone had got in, living in my closet, and eating my food.🤡
Don’t be like me. I didn’t realise I left my garage door open all day. Thankfully no humans entered or stole anything but a neighbourhood cat got in and didn’t leave until 2 days later.
didn’t leave until 2 days later
That’s lucky
It wasn’t a very friendly cat. Kept hissing and somehow evaded my searches (my place isn’t super big) and then emerged out of nowhere.
Lol damn the hissing would’ve frightened me.
3:52am is definitely a good time to send an email after working all night to make a point. deep exhale
I’m getting there, I’m getting there…!
Or, and hear me out on this one: don’t do that.
