melbaboutown @ melbaboutown @aussie.zone

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Nooo :(

Chicken soup and paracetamol

Swinging between depletion and burnout, yay

Agreed. It wouldn’t be 0 screen time, it would involve moderated screen time and yes guiding and teaching the kid.

They’re still going to get into things they shouldn’t but this way would handle it better than these sweeping changes (which they’ll get around as well or go to more dangerous sites).

Unfortunately outside interests are involved so I think this isn’t completely about protecting the children :/

Agreed, there used to be a tawny frogmouth around I’m a bit worried for. It was attracted by mice in the long grass but I know a neighbour uses rat poison.

Ps: I see you come from a solarpunk instance. If you haven’t come across it yet you might love the Aussie Enviro instance as well 🙂 Birds are a hot topic there

Wanting to art so bad but I’ve built it up with bad associations in my head to the point it causes anxiety and also I can’t focus through learning the fundamentals that would make things much easier.

I’m just constantly so tired, managing anxiety attacks and in a fair bit of pain.

New bin has arrived but it is noticeably smaller than the one I had. Which could make things more difficult for me especially with cat litter. And if I ever missed a collection for whatever reason there would be a problem.

Considering a walk around the block on bin night to see if there’s the chance to steal the old one back.

This is gross and sketchy as hell.

At the same time though I feel like more of these resources could go towards helping actual real victims.

You can also go back to having a family computer in a common room, install parental controls, give kids a dumb phone if they absolutely need one, and teach them to use phone boxes in an emergency.

But this is too good a chance to suck up more sensitive data and engage in more surveillance.

I’d say this is also like waiting to shut the gate until after the horses have bolted. None of it helps those compromised after the fact or contains the consequences.

Discord already got hacked and age verification IDs stolen.

Yeah… at least you know you’re not behaving like him.

Him thinking of her money at this point in time is really cold. He should be thinking about her.

And the grappa (grappa hey)

Unraveled the unfinished string bag because it felt like the yarn would do more good as a crocheted blanket. Fighting with dang twisting stitches. Why are hobbies not fun 😑

Heard a little sneeze outside and it’s the black cat in my yard hooking into Melbcat’s potted cat grass! (I rotate multiple pots between indoor and outdoor to allow sun and rain while regrowing from being eaten.)

Thankfully she hasn’t seen him to get distressed about him being in her territory. She’s tucked under the blanket. But I’m a little bit worried about traces of his saliva on her grass.

She gets vaccinated but at her age her immune system is vulnerable and the antibiotics she’s on have the risk to make her further immunocompromised. He runs around day and night with no collar on so I’m going to assume no shots. He also hunts.

He got home to us like this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bc0sJvtKrRM

This might be opinionated but… I don’t know if he deserves it. At all.

I don’t hear about him coming over cooking, making meal plans, liasing with doctors and dietitians, nudging her to eat… or even really being there.

It’s okay, you weren’t to know.

I’ve actively been doing that and trying to get out of here for almost 10 years now.

Steal all the valor you want, the support is appreciated

I saw stuff about renting your car out when not using it but I don’t know if I’d trust it

Wear and tear would increase, cleaning costs, plus the risk of theft or a crash (and needing to have third party insurance would probably push that cost up) so probably not worth it

I have no idea about this as I don’t own a car.

But maybe look into what the membership costs are for a tool library (if you have one close enough to access) and compare it to the cost of buying tools. I forget what the fee was but it might still come out lower.

Also if you have any good neighbours that might trust you to borrow theirs and even lend a hand? Though not everyone has this.

Also I know for some supermarkets you can get fuel discounts on the paper receipts? You could ask non-driving friends to save theirs if it helps enough

Edit: Yeah, like you said you can do the points digitally through Fly Buys too