I saw this. Thought youse might like it.

Spent a good chunk of the day applying for roles in different departments. There's 3 I am super keen on, wish me luck.

In non America/Baku news I'm drunk and have just completed day two in a row of after-work outings. This one was beers and burger, no complaints. Also my probation review went great, was told unless I majorly fuck up/change behaviours I'll pass no worries. One more after-work outting to go tomorrow, actually looking forward to it.

good deed done for the day. Someone on reddit wanted a postcard from aus so just got that done. Jesus my writing is appalling.

Ahh, companies. All 'fuck you, peasant, eat my arse' until you cancel your account and post on product review then it's all 'we're sorrryyy how can we fix this??'

Pity PR won't let me actually reply with 'eat my arse'

Perfect night to cuddle up with fluffy and a book.

Nice view out there as well

Goodnight all ❤️

How good is this weather? I'll be school shoe shopping today with the kid where she'll complain that they're all ugly and it's hard to choose between ugly and ugly.

I’m going to the museum in a bit. I could do with a nice chill day

Was the previous daily deleted by accident?

Edit: Baku's account isn't showing up.

The server returned this error: couldnt_find_person.

Following some research into yesterday's thread, which I still have access to minus Baku's comments which were deleted by their account at around midnight, it appears this is American election related.

I have no issue with free discussion and civil disagreements, I have no intention of over controlling discussion on this forum.

My main concern here is how the history of this groups previous dailies may have been impacted as a result of a user who had been posting the daily and I will need to start considering more appropriate means of posting dailies to avoid this kind of issue going forward.

As some of you may have noticed, I'm not too talkative most days and I mostly just check in at midnight if I am awake to make sure the previous daily ends and the new one begins. I don't have any reports to action, but I will need to have a look at the threads I personally have access to some more. But most importantly I am going to have to consider how to ensure a more consistent daily thread that is less likely to disappear, whether I can return it myself or not, etc.

Additionally, it's about time I start investigating Lemmy's bot mechanics, I was waiting to complete my current personal server migration to a complete hypervisor solution rather than utilising one of my already overworked Raspberry Pi's, I'll have to get on to this matter more quickly.

Edit2: It's starting to look like I will be unable to return the posts that where deleted as a result of Baku's account nuking, I do have personal access to all of them without their comments as it was actioned by me in featuring them, but the posts themselves where of the account that is now no longer available.

This makes it clear that I need to make some changes going forward in how the daily functions.

There is a blender full of underpants on my kitchen table

Just realised I'm crushing hard on a regular hookup guy at the moment. It'll sting when things inevitably change and we can't meet anymore. But accepting the happy chemicals and swooning a little in the meantime. 🫠🥲

It's OK to discuss difficult issues, even if it gets a little ugly sometimes.

Because that means we are talking which is far better than not talking at all. If we don't talk about difficult issues then how can we learn about each other and the issues.

I feel like I owe the DT regs an explanation

I didn't delete my account because of the argument. I was in the wrong, regardless of whether or not I used anything that could be considered a personal attack. I was being an arsehole to Seagoon, and StudChud responded in kind to me

However, I have recently been feeling like a couple of people within the DT have been consistently hostile to me. StudChud in particular has gone off on me numerous times. Sometimes I deserved it, other times I don't think I did. Then 2 other people over the last couple of weeks have really really irritated me. There was one particular interaction I had with somebody that really rubbed me the wrong way, honestly probably irrationally so. I feel like I can usually do okay with shrugging off both outright aggression, and hostility in subtext/random downvotes. But I really just reached the end of my tether and it was beginning to remind me of when I was in resi and was the physical and verbal punching bag for 3 other people. I can't stand that

Regarding purging all of my content, I genuinely am sorry to every single person who has contributed to DTs. I wanted to just delete my comments, but Lemmy only has two options when you want to delete your account: delete your account and every single post, comment, and image you've ever uploaded, or don't delete anything (which I did last time). Lemmy also has a function which really irks me, where if a post is deleted, every single comment becomes inaccessible to non moderators and administrators. I think that's ridiculous and tbh think it provides too much power to people that delete their accounts. I would much rather they became inaccessible without a direct link or going through your comment history, like how it works on reddit

Deleting everything wasn't an attack on the community or a way to try and get attention. Genuinely. I also realize in hindsight sight that I made up a pretty substantial amount of posts on aussie.zone, and with all of those gone, it seems like half the instance is gone

And regarding coming back, I don't think I ever can. Deleting one's account, and particularly purging all the content on it, is probably the most extreme action you can possibly take as a user. If I just delete everything then reappear a week later, it doesn't mean shit and really just seems like a bid for attention. I'm not going to do that. I'll lurk around from another instance, and occasionally if I think I can be uniquely helpful to anybody, I'll drop in and try to help if I can. But my days as a regular are numbered. Kind of a self exile, if you will. Even now I feel like I'm being even shittier by writing this, but I feel like I need to clarify what happened and actively apologize to everybody. I'm deleting my account as soon as this is posted

I also feel the need to say - I probably deserve moderator action, too. I don't think a ban is appropriate since I'm not going to be around so it doesn't really do much, but my comments towards Seagoon in particular were not acceptable, and I deserved to be called out. After I wrote our my long-winded 2c on recent events, I was already about 70% sure I wanted to delete my account. The magpie post was kind of an attempt to reconcile without accepting I was wrong or my opinion was invalid, not implying that anybody else's was. After i got "bruh"d by StudChud, I made my decision I didn't want to stay around, but at the same time, by creating yesterday's DT, I feel like I more or less signed and agreement that I would ensure the DT remain accessible for at least the entire day. So that's why I waited until midnight to delete my account. The last few comments I made were basically a case of "I'm done with the lot of you, anybody who talks to me can go to hell" type lash out. Again, unfounded and not fair

If anybody wants to access the DTs, you have a little while to view them from certain other instances. I believe how it works is posts and comments are purged from the server immediately, but the "notification" if you will, to other servers (who also host copies of all comments/posts) is rate limited and sent one by one. I don't know that for fact though. You can access them through another instance (ie sh.itjust.works, as Brion linked) until the deletions eventually do federate over. I won't be doing anything to speed up the process. I also was previously working on archiving all DTs on to web.archive.org, so have a look there. I didnt do the most recent ones before I left though

And I want to say that I really truly am sorry for all of the chaos, hurt, and drama that I caused. I should have handled things better. @Seagoon_@aussie.zone I don't know if you received my DM or not, and I don't know if DMs disappear on account deletions, but I am really sorry to you especially. I was being an arsehole and extremely inconsiderate. I do truly hope your family and friends in the state are doing okay, and make it through the term safe and aren't denied healthcare or help if they need it

Tonights' wave:

That almost got my phone heh

Good news is I'm back from the shops with everything we need until next week. Bad news is it took 2 hours. Good news is the dog didn't shit on my carpet while we were gone.

update: Oh look, suddenly they have some new reviews lavishing adoration on their customer service after I explicitly mentioned how crap it was.

geralt hmm

(I wasn't dwelling, they replied to me with a simpering wank and I wasn't having it so I blasted them again)

Do you ever come across an object and think "I wonder what that's from"? So you keep it thus occupying both physical space and brain space because you know if you do toss it you'll work out what it's for a week later once the big bins have been emptied. Yeah I hate that.

I'm going to wait 2 weeks before approaching my manager again about the outcome of the raise discussions.

Have kept applying and have a couple more interviews next week.

Will have to be working outside office hours anyway, and the raise would make it worthwhile, but we'll see.

Fingers crossed.

Can't sleep, don't care. It's cool and the wind sounds cheerful.

I think know what I'm going to use those virtual desktops, or remote spaces for. I've got a couple of projects at work on the go already now, so instead of having a bunch of tabs open across two screens I can separate them out to their own desktops and have everything I need for them there.

That way I won't get lost amongst all the tabs and I can keep focused on one specific task at a time. Let's see if it works

I'm feeling a bit better today so I've decided to go in. If that turns out to be a mistake I can always go home again

little wins

Diet is slowly working. habits are changing. I have to take in some pants that are just too big now.

Getting rid of some "old lady" clothes too and soon will be buying some better more tailored and younger stuff. yay 😊

Today was an odd day. I got anxious yesterday which continued to this morning, but I just couldn’t put a finger on it.

At least it wore off as the day went on. (Probably the whole IKEA debacle helped. Funny that.)

Group hug for DDT. 🖤

how is it 7.30, I thought it was nearly 9

so tired, woke up at 1.30 with stabbing migraine

Shit sleep gang yaaaaay

No cheesemares to report, but evidently, I need to stop playing Slime Legion on my phone because I was definitely sliding little monsters in my dreams.

Now to just the nightmare of my work day.

Wow. I joke and act chill but lately both my anxiety and sleep have been absolutely unmanageable. -_-

Plus I have to get this grumpy tooth checked out again.

I think it might be time to take a quarter of an otc sleeping pill between midnight and 2 to try and get at least a few hours of sleep at an appropriate time. (Taking any more than that is a roulette of it either completely not working or making me so groggy I sleep right through the next day.)

So PSA. If you want to use an IKEA gift card purchased online immediately, you can’t.

What a joke. 48h.

Edit: And ones bought in-store are 24h (as told to me by a staff member).

Could've done a bit longer today but solid day out in fantastic weather. Definitely feeling the happy chemicals along with the mild soreness. Now time to salvage this shitty leftover gluggy jasmine rice and make fried rice with it. NEVER again am I falling for that nonsense with 1:1.5 ratios on the packet...

yay, the small indie supermarket had eggs

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dives in

Edit: Something has been destroying my seedlings past the size the snails usually go for them.

All the marigolds and some of the sunflowers in the dust bowl got stripped to sticks or straight up eaten. I traitorously wondered if the bird bros did it.

Then very early yesterday morning something got one of the pumpkin seedlings. I wondered, possum or cat? I put a protective milk crate over the spare I replanted in its place.

But then I found the moment on the camera and while I can’t see what the animal was I saw the seedling bend and dip as if something pulled it down. It could have bent under the weight of a very big snail crawling up the stem but it doesn’t look like snail damage. It was stripped too thoroughly and quickly, yanked down too fast.

Honestly I’m thinking rats.

Boring work thing:

Found a great Web app to organise all my work. Will make life so much easier!

Anyone got a recommendation for a knife sharpening method that's not a wet stone? Seems I'm terrible at the sharpening steel method. Will be mainly for global knives.