Bad bot fell asleep on shift.
Just finished the last of this calligraphy practice. Only two mistakes!! I’m quite happy with it. I love the red water colour. :) ( oh dear, the closer I look the worse it looks ) 😂
PSA to remind people to not let their mind imagine crazy scenarios.
Friend had been distant all week and not replying to texts so I thought they’d had enough of me or I’d said something wrong.
Sent them a text saying “Hey. If you’ve got a few free minutes today can you call for a quick chat?” Less than half an hour later they called me and I got to hear about all the crap going on in their life and it cheered both of us up.
Sometimes people just retreat into themselves when life gets hard or hectic and need a friend to draw them out.
Be that friend.
I feel like retreating and I guess I have been hiding away from all my friends and family though last night I reached out to my dad because I felt like I had to finally.
This place is my last bastion of contact with people because I’m finding it real hard of late and want to hide away and disappear quite honestly.
Sending you good vibes and the energy to keep going.💜
Thank you so much for your well wishes.
Trying my best but I never feel it’s enough.
stop stealing my lack of self-esteem 👀
I know what you mean. It might not seem it right now, but things will get better - you are always welcome to share here when you struggle 💜
Just I wished I had listened more to my partner.
She told me to stop paying for her medical stuff incase I had an emergency or something happened and now I’m in that spot where my basic needs are suffering. (Washing machine)
But what sort of a partner would I be if I didn’t try my best to help her?
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Yeah. I think about what I had done and keep replaying it and cursing myself for choosing or making a decision.
If I didn’t try and wash my oodie I wouldn’t have broken my washing machine.
To think about what’s ahead as well, I know it might not seem like a big problem but it’s one of the few comforts I didn’t want to go without.
I guess maybe what I might do is I wash and taking my stuff to a dryer and pay for the use of a dryer.
Yeah reaching out can be hard when struggling.
Good that you could find it in you to reach out. It takes strength. Many won’t reach out at all and just suffer in silence for an eternity.
My friend tries so hard to be the strong and reliable father, husband, and son, and just soldiers on.
He forgets to reach out for someone to help him cause he’s too busy helping everyone else.
My washing machine broke halfway yesterday which is why I reach out to my dad, I was anxious and needed to talk because I’m financially at rock bottom having had to support my partner with her medical bills for the past 3 and a half years.
Mind you I haven’t come up with a solution other than to see how I can handle drip drying wet clothes first or finding cheap or free replacement.
I’ll have to see what happens when i do the next wash and see what happens.
Ever with reaching out it doesn’t help with the problems other than airing them out.
Airing things out with loved ones them fixes more than you realise at the time.
It’s just not tangible
I hope so.
With my dad he sometimes tries to overcompensate because he wasn’t around when I was growing up and feels like it was a missed chance so his input can come to be a little heavy sometimes.
What scenario should I not be imagining for a friend who stopped responding to texts for minimum a week each time and cancelled two catch ups, after not being able to catch up for almost 2 months because they were so busy? I’m reading signals to stop contacting them.
YMMV
My pasta
A photo of my shell pasta, mushrooms, chorizo, zucchini, onion, garlic, chives and chilli flakes. I forgot the tomatoes. I called it “everything that was in fridge went into my dish”. It tasted way better than it looks.
An early dinner because I was hungry.
Have you already made yourself a bowl or is that all for me?
Edit. That sentence doesn’t make sense I think but I don’t care. Give pastaI had to divy it up with the roomies. The man got lunch tomorrow. He’s a very happy man.
. Yum. years ago I lived on the same for a month or so but made with couscous and a pack of frozen Mediterranean vegies
one meal a day and I lost a ton of weight
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You are too kind.
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Bloody hell that looks tasty
Thank you.
That looks so yummy 🤤
Oh, it does! drool
Shell pasta is the best pasta. Now I want some too.
I second that.
Yum. I’ve got pasta too but very basic.
Yours look very nice and tasty!
I’ve finally succumbed to the reddit API changes.
Lemmy is still a bit strange to me, but I think I’m finally getting it to the point of being similar to what I was seeing on Reddit (albeit with much fewer users and therefore less content).
I’m glad to see the Melbourne daily thread be active here.
Seeing how few users there are on Lemmy also makes me feel like I want to be more active?! I was much more of a lurker on Reddit.
Morning. This is becoming more of an Australia-wide daily thread now.
I love that!
Welcome!
I think once any group gets too big a lot of people end up just stepping back and watching. On Reddit I always felt that it wasn’t worth contributing, if you didn’t get a popular reply on quickly it would end up sinking and no one would see it. The fast and loud people had lots of entertaining conversations, but there was not much space for the slow and thoughtful. You are not the first person to say you lurked on Reddit but felt you could contribute here. 🙂
I was also more of a lurker, but it is a lot less intimidating to make a comment or post here. Too many trolls, automatic downvoters and “akshually” types on Reddit. Welcome aboard!
Akshually true
Welcome friend. Feel free to add to a conversation. No one’s going to beat you down. Pet pics are most welcome.
Good morning! There is breakfast down the comments as per usual. ThankBacon.
Totally! I always hated that the conversation for something is already in full swing, so your comment wouldn’t be seen by a lot of people. It’s also why I like to contribute more in the DT because on the Reddit one it always felt like reading every comment was so daunting. But being able to have not many people here (with most of the comments being in replies) I can at least catch up when I get home from work or during my lunch break.
Including the early thread with 30 comments, we are still at over double the activity compared to the old r/Melbourne subreddit.
I hope those who don’t go to the old sub frequently can find there way here.
Are you suggesting a psyops mission?
I’m not sure how to let them know without seeming like we are desperate, so just casually mentioning something like “wow, I can’t believe how much less activity there is on the old subreddit compared to the Lemmy community”.
Ok sure. I might leave that to others. I like the development side here rather than the marketing.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Reports from a couple of mates who use it say they find this one buddy and slow to load. I assume they’re on a phone. Any ideas or can I inform them of improvements.
Still, this place kicks it’s butt for content also. The old daily thread seems to be a lot of the same questions people posted as posts before the great reddit blunder of 2023 which would pretty much be instantly downvoted to the bottom. Loud bangs, tailgating drivers, choppers over reservoir etc.
I feel like we flhave a natural filter that keeps the ruder Facebook users there. I would just suggest giving Jerboa a try, put the time into setting it up and subscribing to C/Melbourne+ a few major communities.
You can give them a list of easy links like;
Thanks! I’ll get onto it, they’re good people and most of us know them already.
I’m using Mlem on iPhone and it has a few bugs still but I’m enjoying feeling like it’s the start of something bigger and better.
I’m using Chrome too. There’s the odd glitch but works fine 99% of the time.
I mean, its not as slick as the Reddit app but just a chrome tab on my phone works just fine for me
Ah, yeah I’m using some third party browser. It won’t log me in using that, but read only isn’t terrible. Maybe I’ll use chrome just for this.
Look into wefwef through your browser. I made another comment with a bit more detail.
I originally made an account with lemmy.world. everything was fine until there was a big influx of users on that instance, then it all slowed down. I then made an account with aussie.zone which is clearly a much smaller instance. Much much quicker now.
If they are iPhone users point them towards the wefwef PWA - https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all . It’s basically Apollo through a web app.
If Android, Connect or Jerboa are the best apps currently, with RIF and Sync to release Lemmy versions within a month or so.
This morning I met this friendly handsome guy on my walk. He was very happy to make my acquaintance. I think I’m in love.
Photo description: a chunky and fluffy cat RUNNING up the footpath to headbutt me and get pats.
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Edit: don’t really appreciate that the website rotated the picture, but whatever
He is super cute, but ProcastifunPolice is here to remind people to keep cats indoors. They are relentless, ruthless killers of native wildlife and are at much higher risk of injury or death outdoors.
I completely agree and every one of my cats have been indoor cats, much to their chagrin.
However, who am I to deny pats to such a handsome boy when he asks for them so aggressively?
I grew up with 4 cats (mum is actually a crazy cat lady, the stereotype is real people) and they were all outside (the 90s sigh). Never again. Too many dead natives have been the bottom on my unsocked foot bleh
Mr Dribbles is inside only, helps our only ‘outside’ is 6 storeys up and involves a balcony. He eats the flies, we are content hah
Don’t be fooled he’s/she’s just robbed a place. You’re their albi. If you take the pic in landscape it’ll be the right up.
I will gladly go to prison for them
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I give the best pats
He’s gorgeous, and what a fine tail!
I’d go as far as to call it majestic.
What a gorgeous floof! He looks very purposeful.
His purpose was pats
Anyone got breadmaker recs? His Lordship hath discovered if one decomissions an old appliance, one should do so after buying a motherfucking replacement honestly dipshit why did you do that???
Ahem.
We do a lot of pizza dough, some of it quite dense, so looking for one with the kind of paddle you uusually only see at Pride. Or with YAOI branded on it.
I would love a bread machine with a container that’s actually shaped like a bread loaf! All the ones I’ve seen have this weird tall thing so the bread loaf is not shaped right.
In a pinch you just breadmake to the second rise, then shape and plonk in a pan of your own delight and finish off in the oven. Bonus: you don’t get paddle holes
Yeah true, I just always hoped for a bread maker that would do it start to finish!
There are ones with tins shaped like a loaf, but they’re all very elongated and hard to store.
Recently bought the Breville Bakers Dozen model. Haven’t used it or the various options enough to give it a full rec, but so far so good. Although I agree with @the_procrastinata@aussie.zone that I was expecting the tin to be more loaf-shaped than it is.
We’re looking at brevilles since they seem to have avoided the Cheap Chinese Manufacturing of Suck that most reputation brands have long descended into, but there seems to be issues with the collapsible paddles. Bad idea all around
i have a kitchenaid but i just mix pizza dough by hand (1-2KG flour at a time) in a large cambro tub, just using the ken forkish’s “flour water salt yeast” methods. if you autolyse the dough and use 70%+ hydration its pretty easy to do by hand.
I have a Panasonic YR2550and its been working great. Use it every week for quick and easy bread in the mornings.
If its just for dough, a mixer might be a better option.
pondering that as well, but I like the option of “MAKE ME BREAD FOR MORNING, PEASANT MACHINE”
I was gonna say you can still do that, but I forgot that I’m the peasant machine getting the slowed proofed dough out of the fridge in the middle of the night so it doesn’t walk all over the bench, and chucking it in the preheated oven at some ungodly hour to get back out of bed 45 minutes later to beautiful fresh sourdough. That’s me. I’m the peasant machine. But it’s sooo gooood. I do have an old bread machine that I now use to make jam in.
The only thing better than hearing kookaburras is actually seeing them fly between trees I reckon, they’re so cool
Guess I’ll jump on the fooodz posts bandwagon
with some blueberry cheesecake
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Spending my Sunday morning doing a job application because it won’t happen during the working week. It’s rare for good roles to come up in my field and this one sounds perfect, so going for it. I HATE writing cover letters, never been good at it. I open with why the role has appealed to me and anything I write sounds hella corny.
Lean into it. A cover letter is basically a fucking fanfic about you and the company being besties
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As someone who works in HR, I approve of this comment.
If I can use ChatGPT to write my recruitment content, you can sure as shit use it in your application
I really need to integrate ChatGPT more into my life. Here I am struggling when AI can help.
Huge turnout for the #Yes23 launch at Trades Hall today, despite the dull weather.
Momentum is gathering and it is wonderful to see!
Vote Yes in the referendum! It’s a great step in the direction of implementing the Uluru Statement. My dream is for state and federal governments to have treaties with the First Nations. We could be so much more as a country!
Good to know, my old neighbours are first nations from out back of Alice and told me to vote yes, so that’s enough for me! Yes it is.
Fantastic. I’ve been looking at the goddamn reddit side and it’s such a racist shitshow (why, oh why did we not deal with Murdoch before this), so I’d started to lose hope. Honestly really excited to see the Yes campaign take shape!
I’m a chunky monkey lady with thunder thighs and am sick of shredding the thighs of my jeans. Does anyone have suggestions for good jeans that don’t fall apart too quickly?
I am now officially stuffed full of curry.
In other good news, bot #001 seems to be doing better after training - has been running for a few hours without crashing & successfuly conducted a test posting. I’ve promised it a new wi-fi dongle tomorrow if it can manage to stay awake all night and post succesfully, hopefully that will help too 🤣
curry
Image: Curry. So much curry it’s crazy one person ate the whole bowl. Chicken and potato massaman curry, with green beans, capsicum & tomato. Served with rice & cucumber raita.
Picked up a 7kg ham from cheaper buy miles for $25, will portion and freeze.
Also a ton of non alcoholic “booze” cos I’m doing dry July
Was it just me who missed the memo about the rain? I mean my app is still saying no rain.
I apparently missed it too.
Was trying to see if drip drying works in the winter so I hung up a towel on the railing outside.
The place has gotten more wet since I went out this morning and it’s raining so lightly you can barely see it. It’s like a fine mist out there.
Yeah it started out very fine but then got heavier - still misty though. Of course as soon as I got home it looks like it stopped.
