First time since I moved in I don’t have to go tearing off anywhere and can really dig into sorting out the bags and boxes, and hopefully start unpacking the books and putting them on the shelves.
Naturally, I have bugger-all motivation.Praline Day at La Sirens brewery in Reservoir today. My plans are to go day drink some stout
Well that sounds amazing.
They do great beer all round. A strong recommend if you ever get your hands on some
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.
I’ve made the commitment this week. Before I can think my way out of it, I’ve booked and paid for a room up in Echuca/Moama. This means I get to stop in at my favourite bakery in Kyneton on the way for lunch and continue listening to the audiobook I’m getting into (11/22/63). Should be a lovely weekend.
Oooh and I get to try out my new weekend adventure travel cooler bag! I’ve got 4 bottles of water and 5 cans of bourbon is this bad boy.
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.
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
Pretty sure he rooted a mate of a mates teen brother once. Super creepy dude.
Very nice and amazing. I love Stephen K Amos. I find him so funny.
I hope you have an amazing time tonight.
Good morning magpies…how I love your gentle warb-- SHRREEEEECCHHH —
Yes lorikeets I love you too…
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
cuckoo shrikes
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.
I’ve tentatively booked Miss Meow in for the vet on Monday. I’m not sure if I can get a lift and am a bit stressed because of the automatic prompt shit with the taxi booking system… I need to speak to a human operator to make double sure they know a cat will be riding as that’s caused issues in the past, but the last time I did that it kicked me in circles with the bot 🙄 Normal Uber has consistently refused to take pets.
I’ve downloaded the taxi app and seen that you can add notes for the driver so if I can’t sort a lift I can do that. And the last resort is Pet Uber. (Being as surge pricing can unexpectedly get exorbitant.) If I’m truly fucked we can submit to the ordeal of the bus.
Fuck I wish I had an electric quadbike or something just for things like this.
It’s been a sluggish day after a poor sleep last night thanks to too much sake and no food. But I managed to squeeze in some glorious time at one of the best Japanese gardens around and laid down on the turf in a secluded area near closing time with my shoes off and eyes closed. Got a wonderful 30 minutes in. Honestly, lying on grass barefoot does wonders for the body and soul…
Having a lovely treat of vegan Japanese style food for dinner (mainly so I can get some vegetables) at a wonderful, quiet little oasis amongst the concrete, decked out in wood and plants and gentle music. Calming vibes all around.
Tomorrow, I might try to squeeze in a bit more garden time and get some things posted before I schlep it for 5 hours on various trains to get myself to Tokyo. No idea what I’ll be doing there for 4 days aside from going to two specific shops. Maybe just wander around with my notebook. Check out a teamLab exhibit maybe, they do some banging shows.
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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. 😝
And dry skin on your feet that you have to slog off with a pumice stone.
I just go outside and grind it off on the concreted backyard. Apparently this is disgusting.
I call that innovative
sand them at the beach
Beach?!?! I’m a Goth, please do not mention that sun filled abomination.
sand them at the beach on a stormy midnight
Outgrowing eczema and allergies. What a load of crock.
Still suffering to this very day.
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Facing that tough decision of in equally invested in another drink, but also just going to bloody bed.
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.
Feel free to post your own appropriate song.
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.
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!
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
Is someone like… working on that?
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
I’m not very good with words , that’s why i don’t post much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-tQcvuorHQ
Blows raspberries! You ARE good with words.
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Nellie? No wonder your kind are endangered. You look delicious 😋
That is a work of pure art! Love the coconut sprinkles!
Not mine.
Take the credit anyway!
Pour one out for the homies we lost along the way 🍺
I’m going to celebrate with a nude homemade coffee! ☕️
A special mention to @[email protected] who has started many many late night threads. Thank you. 🍺
You’re welcome. 🥹
luv youse guys
All hail the mighty seagoon!
What I feel about Reddit Not sorry to have come here - much more fun and a lot less toxic.
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.
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. 😂
Given we routinely outcomment them, that seems a pretty weird opinion.
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…
Fair enough.
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.
I check in once in a while and the only people I generally recognise are MajorBear and HurstbridgeLineFTW. I feel like a remember Bear being over here during rexxit for a while, but HLFTW was anti Lemmy I think
I kinda miss epicpillowcase’s devotion to intellectual and social honesty. If the emperor has no clothes, we could depend on them to prevent that emperor from booking a seat on an airline for the foreseeable future.
Two sites both alike in dignity, in fair Interbutts we lay our scene
The fault is in the interwebs
I miss jayyberwocky lemon and… shit I forgot his username, the bloke who was gonna have a kid shortly after mine.
TaxiSonoQui?
I don’t think so, I think it was a 1 or 2 word username. Pretty sure he and his Mrs have had their kid since.
imagining AI serving breakfast daily
No. Don’t even think it. We’d all end up all eating weetbix with honey and bananas. A fate worse than death.
🌾🥣🍯🍌🍌
No, it would be an inedible slop of incompatible foods mashed together.
Or glue pizza Edit: Or deadly mushrooms.
KINGSLAYERRRR
I’m feeling so ugh. The new kid moving in and the mentor moving out is all weighing on my mind. So many conflicting feelings. Anger + sadness + disappointment + resentment + guilt + pity + somehow partial apathy +feeling bad for all of the above + whatever the negative version of nostalgia is is a potent combo. I typed out my feelings before ultimately deleting because it was too long, but it didn’t help. Also went for a walk and tried to distract myself with YouTube and other things but that didn’t work either
That sucks so much that they didn’t wait for the new mentor to be there. Can you be super busy and away from the house to limit the amount of time alone with him until there’s someone there to mediate if needed? Obviously with your stuff locked away in your room.
I’ll be going away for 6 days or so the day after he moves in and have enough on my Myki that I can escape if needed. I also took out a little bit of money in case I need to bail for a whole day
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Maybe. I’m not really into handwriting though
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Make room for it all. I like to imagine all these “ghosts” competing for space inside me. If you fight to keep ‘em out you lose anyway, may as well let the emotions have their day.
may as well let the emotions have their day.
Hopefully that’s all they want. But I like that metaphor
They can’t hurt you. It might feel like it, but it won’t actually leave a scar. Least that’s been my experience.
