Daily discussion thread: 🐈‍⬛🤢⚽ Wednesday, June 12, 2024

It's my birthday, and I'm going to the dentist. Boo. On the plus side, I'm taking today off so will go op shopping afterwards.
EDIT: Thank you all so much! I have my eye on a few things at the local Sacred Heart ...

Happy birfday! Hope you snag some nice items.
Happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Many fun plants and scarves to you
Happy birthday!! Hope you find some excellent pieces!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthing Day witch 🧁
Happy Birthday! 🥳
Happy Birthday! 🎂🍭🍬🍫🍰🍨🍯🍪🥤🍷
Happy b'day!
spoil yo' self. :)
Happy birthday 🎂
Happy birthday! Hope you find some treasure.
Happy birthday witchy-poo! 🪄🌀🍩
xox, sacred heart are the best op shops, IMO.
Happy expedition!
Happy birthday! 🎂
Happy birthday TW! I hope the dentist wasn't too painful

Happy Lemmy Daily Thread Anniversary: https://aussie.zone/post/13234, for real this time.

I miss bright faded dog!
🥳 Happy anniversary (for reals)
Yay!
Happy anniversary dt 🎉
Happy anniversary everyone 🎂
Happy threadiversary, and also happy cake day to you!
- I hope you're home and feeling better.

Hi everyone - thank you again for all your good wishes. This means a lot to me.
Home again after a marathon opshoppery - haul includes: two (two!) gucci sweaters in my size, one black one blue. Some tailored winter wool trousers in black. All in good nick. Am sorted this winter and probably next. A rather beautiful carnival glass ashtray which I will use as a housekeys dumpspot. Some nice costume jewellery - a brass chain necklace of thin ceramic plaques hand painted with autumn leaves, a brooch made from a small turtle shell (sans turtle) with I think gold fittings and a couple of rock crystal necklaces that I am going to repurpose at some point in the future. I do like Reservoir for opshoppery, and Essendon is stupendous - I had no idea the opshops were so good there. Definitely worth a trip out to that part of town. Fitzroy & Collingwood and Thornbury were all a bit disappointing.

Niiicely done!! So glad you found some winners!
hugs That is an awesome haul. 😊
Nice find! Very jelly of the sweaters and trousers.
Fitzroy through to even Preston these days has gentrified to the point that the op shops aren't worth it. Essendon is much more of a hidden gem that way, hipsters never think of it! Reservoir is still scungey enough but I think it's basically the next Preston
- All too true. The hipster-proof fence that used to run along Bell St has well and truly vanished now.

I am feeling quite lost and down with recent work developments. This is my first "real" job and it's quite hurtful how little senior management values me (and everyone else). Have been unable to sleep well recently with ruminations re: future prospects, the whole negotiating new role, and now... leaving this employer. They literally don't give a fuck and are dispensing with good staff just to maintain this power of "no we won't give anyone a raise, doesn't matter what". We're paid significantly below average for our roles and it fucking sucks. Our brand means there is a horde of new applicants just waiting, and everyone is viewed as dispensable. Idk I just want to rant about it. First time looking to leave a long term role too 😞 now I'm going to bed because I had three hours sleep last night, and the last week my sleep has been fucked in general just overthinking

- So true
I am bummed out on your behalf too. That sounds like such a disappointing turn of events. Sadly, companies like that will always exist, even in the fabled Nordic countries, to churn people through.
I hope you are able to quell any feelings of "is this the best I could get for my first real job" and instead see it as a stepping stone you can look back on as some kind of formative experience... I appreciate that it's hard to secure permanent jobs in some sectors but from everything you've mentioned it sounds like if you're not concerned about needing a perm job for mortgages/family, then it might be best to cut your losses and go somewhere you're more appreciated.
Is there a mentor or anyone in the industry you could speak to for advice?
Having been through something similar recently- get out soon, for your own sake. It won't get better, and if they write you off as 'difficult' for not playing along it may get worse. Start looking around while you try to care a bit less.
Also, exercise is great for clearing your head, reducing stress levels, and making it easier to sleep.
Take care. There are better places out there.
I know exactly how you feel. It's like being completely blindsided by what they really think about you as a person.
Corporate is full of people who are there to enrich themselves at any cost, and will fuck you over at the drop of a hat.
I'm sorry you're hurt, but try to see it as a learning experience. Give them what they pay you for and not a minute more.
And if you feel like you don't want to be there, start looking elsewhere. Just don't quit until you have something lined up.

I feel so sorry for the girls that are victims of the ai generated images at the bacchus marsh school. How horrific. I suspect fake sexual images are gonna be the new normal of harassment and abuse in the ai era. Schools and the law need to catch up fast.

Just another way for boys and men to demote women down to just their orifices and their "fuckable-ness"
I'd feel relief tbh. If anyone starts circulating real photos of you in the buff you can just claim it's those zany AI prompters at it again and wave it off as bollocks.
I dunno how you police this shit. Back in my day (jesus I'm old) I had a... I dont wanna say "mate" but acquaintance sharing videos of him screwing an ex via Bluetooth off his old Nokia. I never saw it, never wanted to, both other horny 17 year olds did. This shits been around since the dawn of tech. Does make it right, and of course I feel horrible for the victims! And the bloke who did it should be shot into the sun... but I dont know how you stop this.
Photoshopped exploitative images, cutting and pasting heads onto magazines before that, AI is just the latest in a long chain of turds
It's a pretty fucked up situation, but unfortunately I think this is just the beginning. We (the collective we) never consider the implications of some of the uses of the technology we create.
This entire "AI" situation is concerning as a whole.
The good thing is more and more of this shit is getting called out. Takes the shame from the victims to the little perverts who create it.

fairy lights, lights, and a whole lot more lights
- I love fairy lights, I have them out the front and on the terrace, they brighten up the grey city
- I use a few 5m rolls of 12v 5050 warm led tape. They're about $5 a roll on aliexpress. Really add a lot of diffused light to a room. I originally got them for bush doof lighting, but I think doofs have had their time and/or are too expensive.
Sunset in northern Europe (London etc) during their winter solstice is like 4pm. Now that's depressing for living in a major city, don't think I could handle that.
- I winter the European cities are all decorated for Christmas which is really nice.
Have you considered high dose Vit D and a blue light lamp used at times the sun would be shining? Could be a spot of SAD
Miss Seagoon spent some time living on the Arctic Circle. She kept to a clock timetable, kept busy and enjoyed the auroras.

Another lean fortnight. Going to have to be creative with the food I have.

Thank gos for frozen mince though. Means I can have pasta for a week at least.

Also no zombie movies before going to bed tonight.

If you grab some dry red lentils you can add them into the mince (they take 15-20mins to cook so you can pre cook or mix with a stock cube water and mince into savoury mince style business). Will help the mince go further while keeping the protein up.
- I’ll have a look.
  I’ve never eaten lentils before so no idea in its texture or taste or if I’ll even like it.

It's party time today. 🎉 I'll bring chocolate crackles. What are you bringing?

Can someone please bring jelly slice.

Baclava!
Fairy bread!!!!
I'm making millionaire bars. and anzac biscuits. I suppose I could bring some :P
- Ooooo. Yes please!
mini sausage rolls and sauce, home made
Little cheese cake squares and a giant bag of cheezles
I will make a gluten free lemon slice. I made a small batch a few years ago specifically for someone who didn't eat gluten, but everybody else loved it, so that's my niche now

Uh oh. I have a feeling the Bad Sads are coming up, the kind where everything looks miserable and the smallest thing not going the way I want makes me feel hopeless and sad and like a failure. It's 12 days before my period should be starting so I don't think it's that... It's this damn weather, I swear. I bought yet more fennel yesterday. I'm going to roast a whole bulb and scarf it down ;_;

so many hugs
Sending some good vibes your way. For full effect, find a nice gum leaf that speaks to your soul and contemplate it for a while. Like of a focus for sorta kinda meditation, but without all the baggage.

The day I don't spill a bit of my coffee on the floor is the day I have died.

I am the Supreme Ruler and Queen of Unco and Mysterious Bruises.

I would be Princess Royal in this family
- That would make me the Crown Princess?
I too would be in this family. Perhaps Grand Empress of Doorknobs
Mysterious Bruises
hehe that reminds of my early raver days.
wake up inspecting the damage... "hey I didn't do that wot happened there".

So much snot! Coughing up chunks of it. so over this!

Without fail, everytime I've got an appointment for a haircut, it's cold and raining. Sorry everyone 💈

The fact that you have appointments for haircuts tells me you patronise a higher class of barber than I. I just walk in.
- laughs in self trims
- It's the one thing I splurge. Fade and a beard trim. I'm too embarrassed to say the price but it does look awesome.
- Last time I tried to do that, they had a sign that said "back in 5 minutes", so I shrugged and said whatever and came back after doing some shopping. Then there was a different "back in 5 minutes" sign up in a different spot. I waited 10 minutes. They did not come back.

Tried the PB&J, kinda slaps. Would consume again!

Right?!?! I'm kind of addicted now lol
If you like your mouth more than your heart, sprinkle a lil salt inbetween.
Now add banana

I'm phenomenally sleepy today. Normally I'm not on my phone at work but I simply cannot summon any enthusiasm or concentration whatsoever. Holiday mode hit me too hard.

I'm trying to find things to enjoy and am getting so excited about trying new things in life, like new foods, going to a different uni next year, travelling, working full-time more or less permanently. But at the same time, nothing excites me? It's strange.

I have a trial drums lesson organised, doing a fitness challenge, planning a social thing once a week, and going to start therapy in a couple of days. All this effort to work on myself just feels a bit futile. I know these things are going to be good for me, yet part of me is not convinced.

Maybe I just have to get through things and then they will become enjoyable. What a weird state to be in.

The beauty of trying new things, is that you'll never know where they may lead you. For example, in a few months you could be playing in your first band!
Good on you for keeping your life moving forwards.
so many hugs, this is normal, you're ahead of yourself, planning and getting ready for when you will be able to enjoy life more

Was nice wandering around South Yarra after my haircut. I used to live around that area a while ago and I feel really nostalgic.

Everything is so alive compared to the outer suburbs. Might have to trade the house to myself for an apartment in the future.

Cat has taken up residence in front of the heater

Get her a heated pet bed, she will love it
- Great idea!

Finally starting to feel a bit better - still coughing up a lung, but my sinuses feel clearer. Some energy today, but I notice it runs out - got to be careful to not overdo it.

Nope, still don't want to get out of bed despite falling asleep on time.

Winters suuuuuck. I'm so glad I only need to get up early twice a week

Sleep bad. Day bad. Can today be delayed?

WTF https://aussie.zone/post/10468468/9551347

Are we getting spambots on Lemmy now? I pasted that comment into Google Translate and it's some ad for ghostwriting

I'll get rid of it.
- Thanks, much appreciated. I haven't seen a spambot since the days of forums o_O

Time to swim to work I guesss

Finished the day early. Too tired 😴 could stay and click buttons but I'd be so slow and make mistakes better to go home and rest.

Edit. I did manage to sneak in my lunch break before calling it though. Had Vietnamese boat noodles for the first time. Omg I was blown away. The broth is thick and so flavourful - it has pork blood in in it. Lots of delicious meaty goodies and some rice noodles. I am a big fan of all things noodle-soup, and this might be my new favourite honestly. Yes I'm including ramen and pho in that list

Where are these magic sounding noodles from? I feel like I've been meaning to try boat noodles for so long, but never really spot them on a menu. I've even been to Soi38 and managed to miss them!
- https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&sca_esv=aa52302f45f8cf1b&sca_upv=1&cs=0&output=search&q=Mamao%20Melbourne%20%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2&ludocid=1195412638003209186&ibp=gwp%3B0%2C7&lsig=AB86z5XvZNn_b-LXVwL815x4AJ58&kgs=b264d68327934c3f&shndl=-1&shem=lsp%2Cssic%2Cxga1pc&source=sh%2Fx%2Floc%2Fact%2Fm1%2F2
  $16/17 for "large bowl" at lunch (it's normal size but definitely enough for lunch)

Love it when the fix for a PC issue is "go to the BIOS", when the issue is the PC won't even load to the point that BIOS is an option. Partner's 10 year old PC is basically dead (thinks it needs to load from a USB, when it doesn't and never has), so mine is now The Family Computer.

Which is fine for now, I'm addicted to Slice'n'Dice on my phone anyway lol

You can usually find a good deal on Ozbargin for some second hand business gear. My laptop cost me 300 bucks and honestly its a gem of a machine to use. Something like thiswould be a huge upgrade over a 10 year old machine.
- Even first-hand! My current laptop is a beast that I guess got rejected from a big tech company (still had their name on the shipping label underneath). Brand new and more than 50% off RRP. Only downside is it's polycarbonate and I'm use to fancy metal but I had to snap it up.
You could roll with that and load it from a Linux usb? That might at least let you grab any files off it
Someone here probably knows the process better
- I always had issues booting off of an Ubuntu USB with persistent storage. The USBs kept getting so hot they died. At least I assume they died, within a couple of weeks I'd start encountering random errors nobody else ever seems to have had that nobody could help fix. But I have only tried Ubuntu and it works for long enough I've been able to do whatever I need to do
I installed a new HD about 18 months ago, and am using the old one as storage. On the weekend, the boot sequence changed somehow from my new SDD to my old one and my PC wouldn't boot. I changed the boot sequence in BIOS to start with the new HD, and still nothing. I gave up and was ready to boot from a windows disk. Problem was, I only have two power cables, and both were being used by the hard drives. So I unplugged the old one to plug into the CD drive.
Reboot and the PC booted using thew HD. I have no idea why the boot protocol changed and why it wouldn't let me prioritise the new HD.
Ain't touching it again.
Ugh I'm having computer issues too. Although it's more GPU drama for me

Has anyone here had experience bringing a bunch of Facebook pages under the one Business Account? I'm working with a business that's trying to sort out all the pages for their sub-brands, but some just aren't moving across. If I can get this sorted for them I might be able to pick up some extra work with them further down the line.

I'd ask somewhere else but I can't find the right place on Lemmy to ask

Pretty sure I haven't fallen back to sleep since 1.30 🙃

grateful for frozen leftovers , tonight it's chicken red curry with rice

Next time you roast a chook can you make it look like this please
- That is genuinely disturbing
- omg, 🤣
- I will never look at chicken the same ever again.

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

Blergghhehr
- 🪣

I know it's cold, I know there are germs out there but I am stir crazy and need a walk. Will wear a coat and mask.

time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c56t7upa8Bk

Love this!

Cold grey morning, clouds like lead,
\ Rolling, rolling overhead.
\ The rain has washed me clean and dead,
\ Rolling, rolling overhead.

Cold air seeps through my hair and head,
\ Warmth leaks out of my pillows and bed,
\ Cold grey morning, clouds like lead,
\ Rolling, rolling overhead.

Thank goodness for incompetent pickpockets. Grrr!

Story time
- Not much to tell. Bloke tried to go my handbag near Savers, fumbled it, then bolted too quick for me to thump him.

night nurofen has been taken, now for maybe some pain free sleep

found a few interesting old LPs at the opshop today.

one had a tune that I hadn't heard since the 1960s, it was a Cold War radio hit, I loved it then and still remember it well

midnight in moscow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGgfg8XP-5k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Nights