Iโm so grateful the DT lives on. I donโt have a large social circle and it really helps seeing friendly faces/ usernames with lil chats & updates. ๐ค
Once upon a time there was a pretty cool nightclub. It was quite a swanky place. It had its regulars, drop ins and lurkers. It was open to everyone 24 hours 7 days a week. But one day the owners decided that the management wasn't that important so management organised a mutiny. They closed the main dance floor and kept the VIP area open but still that wasn't enough. So they closed the place baracading themselves in. Some patrons were confused as to why they weren't allowed access anymore. Where's everybody gone? Where do I go now?
Then some bright spark said "I know a place. Follow me". Now this new place wasn't as flash as the last (I think it was an old factory in the back streets of the industrial area in Footscray) but it was free and it was safe. At first a few trickled in to have a look around. Then word got around and more and more turned up. The old lurkers turned up to cause a stir but generally everyone's been happy to have a regular place to meet again.
P.s.There's always that dodgy looking guy in the corner with a leather jacket on chewing his gum and selling shit.
Hello DT, happy housewarming for the new residence. This platform is going to take me a bit of getting used to. But nice to see so many familiar names. Thankyou very much to @RustyRaven@aussie.zone and anyone else who did the work to make this happen. I appreciate your tech skills and initiative!
Edit: I have no idea how to tag people properly, hope that was it.
Had to make a decision to fire someone today. Haven't actioned it yet, but got approved by one of the big dogs.
Tried so hard to give them a chance with written warning and performance improvement plan, but they think everyone else is the problem, they're carrying their department, and that everyone around them is too sensitive.
Hard decision to make in this climate but I've got a whole team to look after that don't deserve being bullied.
Feel more confident than ever in this job when my tough calls are backed like this.
My husband has come home with a lemon meringue pie slice just to cheer me up and because he's been using my car. I don't mind receiving payments in the form of dessert.
just as a PSA, if you're thinking 'a smoothie with a not quite ripe banana will still be ok', you need to go to the nearest mirror and say to yourself 'no, no it will not be ok'
I really hate past me right now. Stupid cow decided to volunteer to do overtime tomorrow, so now I'm sitting here contemplating the fact I have to get up stupidly early tomorrow morning.โน๏ธ
Got final practice tonight for my dance troupe performance next Wednesday night, things are feeling pretty good and im looking forward to performing :)
I can't help myself but go and check out Hot posts in /r/all occasionally. Quality and variety has dropped off massively since shutdown, pretty interesting to see.
You know when you fantasise of saying it like it is to your employer? Well, I did that today (within reason). Nothing insulting or anything, but some very stern feedback given. Communicating various issues with my role and management decisions that another person would have probably just resigned over. It felt SO GOOD. Adrenaline was flowing. Let's see if things improve from this, if not I'm done. I am trying to salvage the situation.
I should stop working. It's been hours and nobody has asked me to do anything so I've just started to decipher code that's written by a colleague. What is wrong with me.
I just ordered stuff from Coles to be delivered because I'm not feeling so great, and I reckon even with the elevated prices/fee I'm still going to save money because I'm not wandering the supermarket picking up things I didn't go in to get/things I don't need/things I absolutely should not be buying.
Hard to walk out of a supermarket these days without spending near $100 with my wheelie nanna bag but I got away with this for $40 delivered.
Update: the packer couldn't find 3 of my items, 2 of which were the most important components of what I wanted for dinner. Welp.
Dammit, so the Melbourne sub going private thing smashed my last 6 months of journaling on the DT. Had I known I could have copied it.
Anyone an old melbourne mod here?
Any ideas where it might be webarchived?
I messaged the old mods today to try and see if they'll grant me access for a little while to copy it. I should have doing it all along, but I obvioulsy didn't foresee this and I had no warning all our old comments would disappear. eck.
EDIT in other news I went to the st kilda town hall for the pop up drag storytime run by rainbow community angels in the wake of another drag storytime event being cancelled due to the disgustiing behaviour of a few. It was cold and wet but our hearts were warmed. happy pride. again.
Think I'm finally getting the hang of keeping the fire going so I don't have to sit over it and feed it. Mind you I have had to dash over and madly stoke it with paper a couple of times.
I've seen some recent posts here about deleting Reddit accounts. If you do decide to, please consider archiving your user page and any posts you particularly enjoyed onto the Wayback Machine. I've deleted many accounts in my time, and trust me, you'll likely feel nostalgic one day and want to go reminiscing. Or, you'll want to link to that one really well-thought-out argument you made one time in a future conversation. A lot easier to do when there's an easily accessible archive you can just access whenever you want.
Iโm sure this is purely anecdotal, but has anyone else observed higher rates of cars backing into parking spots? I feel like it didnโt used to be a thing, and now I see it like twice a day.
Trying to do the weekly shop for Coles online and it is just shitting the bed. It's both super slow and keeps locking us out or telling us item can't be added or just not showing us the list. I am going to scream. Anyone else having issues?
Edit: Yeah... still having issues, I'm over it. I wanted to add more shit but I'm tired, I want to go to bed.
Does the web app occasionally just judder for anyone else? Like the text randomly vibrates up and down slightly. Itโs only happened a few times. But very disconcerting like Iโm having a stroke or something. Iโm on iOS using safari.
Walked past the Australian Red Cross opshop in Bridge road during lunchtime - They're doing a sale of jeans for "from $5". Which is a huge discount on their regular prices. Their stock is good but comparatively exxy imo.
Okay here's hoping this works - federation from kbin wasn't great yesterday but I can see the new DT today so I should be able to keep up with the regulars again now.
Why do no delivery companies seem to respect "signature required" and "no authority to leave"? What's the point of asking if they're just going to leave my shit in front of the door anyway?
It's officially been a week since I decided to learn Dutch, and my ability to introduce myself now rivals that of a toddler. I will say I am having so much fun with it! Also, I've found focusing on direct translation has really helped me with recognising word order and the patterns that come with that. Although I sometimes still get "en" and "een" mixed up, especially when I'm practising writing.
Any statisticians out there keen to comment on the correlation between time that lunch was eaten and how busy work is? Iโm eating lunch at 4:30 and itโs hectic today.
If I did Click and Collect at Chemist Warehouse and they didn't have stock at the place I pick up at, will they try and get stock to that location, ask if I want to pick up at another location, or just be jerks and refund?
Have to say with how abrupt the DT went it reminds me of a naughty audio software torrent site called audiofarm I was a member over a decade ago. Was the biggest audio private tracker. One morning wake up and it gone without a trace. The freakout was real. All that knowledge, the ratio..
A few days later and a new tracker started and all was well.
In other news - still absolutely buzzing from the BABYMETAL gig on the weekend. There's something to be said about three Jyoshi's singing about unification and becoming one with a single source, while the words WALL OF DEATH flash up on the screens behind them. The crowd parted like the Red Sea before Moses before complete chaos ensued. 10/10 - easily top five gigs of all time for me.
Now I'm at the emails part of the new job, and let me tell you, this is stressful... But I'd rather this than getting rejection emails from job so I guess a wins a win?
I have officially liked enough songs on Spotify for my liked songs list to be filterable to "classy" music
Does that mean I can have a "dinner party", and bring out the "fine china", and lay down the "table cloth" and say "ah-pree-see-ate" and go to "ballrooms"?
Morning all! I've been up too late tinkering with this new experience and my eyes feel like they're hanging out on stalks, so I'd better lay off the revenge bedtime procrastination and hit the hay. G'night all!
The whole blackout things feels like a kid trying to hold their breath until they get their own way. Reddit corp doesn't care and I expect the moderation of major subs to get handed over to people willing to work with their system.
Fuck. me. Mrs car has had its error code cleared and surprise surprise itโs driving fine again. This is the 3rd random incident in 6 months. And we only had it 6 months! I think itโs time to piss it off. #
Heard back from jaybberwocky and dressedlike. They might pop their heads in when they have time. Pinged lemon as well. I think thatโs almost everyone yeah? We should established migration buddies haha
Today's challenge: trying to figure out how to make a bot. I can find some great examples of what coding to use, but I am still trying to find anything to tell me where to actually put that code. Hopefully I can work it out and get an automated Daily Thread set up in the near future. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it!