5ivesos reporting for duty! Hadn't checked r*ddit for a while and just saw a couple messages from regulars letting me know about this place, thanks @baconmash@aussie.zone and @Sir_ListerOfSmeg@aussie.zone !

I received the grade for the final assignment of my uni subject. I did good 😁

After crying basically every day for the last week I realised I’m not coping and that my partner has been letting me down, I have finally asked for more help. Looking after a baby basically by yourself 24 hours a day and being sleep deprived is hard.

I was trying to be the perfect mum, partner, housewife… I had this idea that if I did all the chores and cooking etc, partner would have more time to take baby when he’s home. Guess what he did instead? Play Zelda all day. Lol.

Well I’ve asked him to step it up. We have a sleep consultant coming to help with baby’s sleep. I’m going to hold MIL to her promise to come help out more. I’m considering trying to get baby into daycare earlier than we thought for a day a week so I can reclaim some sanity… we shall see.

I'm staying. I like it here.

Just got in from work. It's freezing at home - and by that I mean ice on the inside of the toilet window. Come on, ducted heating! Do your stuff! NB: dumplings in soup for dinner. Might even sneak in some veg into the soup. I have decided that the Massel Pho stock cubes are the best thing since button up sandshoes.

Love 'urgent' emails at 3:30 with an 'action by COB' request.

Read through the chain of comms and it was sitting in someone's inbox for over a week.

I'm tempted to reply with 'Please see comments below' and have the only comments as 'It's not' next to their 'urgent' and 'not gonna happen' next to 'action by COB'

SO TEMPTED

Thank you @the_procrastinata@aussie.zone for making this thread 🙂

A new app for Lemmy has been announced by Sync dev. (Sync is a Reddit 3P app for Android)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405939

Strange melancholy mood today. Started off by me pondering much better life would be if instead of having to be awake at a certain time, you got up when you felt like. Now I’m pondering existence.

This morning I am sincerely grateful for the ducted heating outlet in the bathroom. Ambient temp in rest of house is 13, bathroom is 25!!!!! Loving it. Not loving the bill to come but being clean is worth it.

Whenever I see you good peeps recruiting on the OG dt I upvote you. ⬆️

Made it to indo we're in da area.

Bit wasted so was just having a durry and saying hello to every one who walked in out the front with my new security man fren.

was a big day. with some delay.

I'm in Emerald for a couple of days to finally decompress from the absolute bullshit of work of the last 12 months and ngl seeing the choo choo train go past will never get old. Makes it all feel like it's gonna be OK 🚂🚃🚃

Crawl into a nice warm bed, Mrs and baby asleep, just about to turn the light off when suddenly there’s a giant wet fart and the baby is screaming, cats are bolting off the bed and it’s on for young and old. This is why I’m getting grey hairs!

I follow a few art and craft type areas on various sites, and find it disturbing how much content now is basically just performance art. It's created to look like an interesting process for people to watch rather than because it actually creates something worthwhile, and it is way too simplistic to be instructional. Sometimes it feels like no one is actually living life any more, they are just watching it or creating content for other people to watch. I really like being able to share in things other people are making and doing, but real content is getting pushed out by this made-for-clicks stuff and its really disapointing.

My chicken katsu

I don't know if it worked properly.

hey, Seagoon here, it's been the devil to try to log in so I made a new account 👍

So apparently someone is impersonating epicpillowcase and made what I thought was a joke from them but was completely transphobic. Also apparently other fake dupes exist. reported and blocked, but they'll have another account so it's fucking useless . who ever you are don';t think you'll stop me posting about my amazing journey, and I'll start calling out the fucking terfs and incels again now as well. just when we thought were untouched by the hands of fuckwits

Meeting the future SIL's fam bam tonight eeee..

Apparently they're loose units and no topic is out of bounds.

We'll see!

Good to see the daily threads still going strong.

Have a look here to find more communities to add to your aussie.zone account. You can copy/paste the full html link into aussie.zone/search and it will find it within 10+ seconds.

Trivia ended up being a total blast and my team finally won!! How exciting!

Its been a while but i did a homeless drop off today yay. The place looks like its expanded staff and is busy af which is nice. The oddest thing ive hoarded to donate is actually the ramen seasoning packets: i dont like the dehydrated veges and chili sachets but i read an article that says homeless ppl do. It feels...strange to hoard such a random thing but the shelter confirmed today they absolutely eat that shit up so 🤷‍♀️

Urgh mum just called to ask if I can house/dog sit for them for 4 weeks in August/September while they go on another US holiday. Usually I'd go and do it if it's a week or two but now that I'm expected back in the office, I'd have to commute from friggin Melton and leave $2.2k worth of Docklands apartment empty.. the entire reason why I live here is to avoid the shit commute, so I've said no. Besides, I think I might want to go on my own holiday around then but I haven't planned anything.

Put together a brand new desk I ordered from Ikea, and I am enjoying it ever much so. I've been craving more space for quite a while and glad I made the purchase. The extra drawers are quite wonderful too, meaning I can put away and sort things in a more proper manner.

The NTSB investigation into the Billionaires Titanic Submersible is going to be interesting.

tldr, I wrote this at about 1130. thanks for reading if you can sit through it all.

So reddit seems to truncate comments before 2023. Anyone else have the same problem? Or is possible I was just deleting everything before this?

All g either way my post on Jan 5 was talking about first putting my house on the market so if that's where the journal stretches back it kinda makes sense to me anyway. Its possible that's when I started no deleting things, as I used to delete everything for reasons I can't remember.

Thanks to all of you for your understanding, there was a sense of loss and dissapointment then acceptance. Now it's on my hd and I'll stick it on drive too.

Had an amazing end to the day yesterday and while I didn't think I'd need to do any volunteer work I had to do some things which will have postentially great outcomes and showed me how much good will there is for my community despite all the bullshit we keep reading about in the news and from other countries. Then I have the chance to do more tomorrow Thursday and Saturday.

I finally went to the opshop with the last of my stuff to donate. They didn't take it all, but a big box of cables can just live in the boot till I find somewhere to take it. The place is almost completely set up. It's so easy to keep clean and find things. St Kilda is pretty cool to live in. I hardly need to drive and I'm only spending about ten bucks a week on petrol. There's a great cafe around the corner.

AA is helping me face myself a lot more much than I had to in dealing with being trans, which made completely re-avaluate every moment of my life. Journaling is a part of a part of it so that's pretty good, seeing as its already become a part of my life anyway. There's an online group which runs 24/7 and its been a godsend literally. There's a chapter on agnostics which summed up pretty much my whole spiritual view for the last 25 years. Then the end I'm a long way away from is all about service, which is already a part of life as well. It has a low success rate but I don't have much choice other than take it on with the same gusto as everything I've done in the last 12 months.

It be dark, yo. (happy mid winter everyone!)

Cool and frustrating trans stories for this pride month. So today I volunteered to help make care packages for older trans and gender diverse people, which was a good way to spend a morning. There's a job fair Transgender Victoria are facilitating tomorrow where I think 13 employers are directly seeking trans and gender diverse staff. It's not a huge number but it's a greatly heartwarming thing regardless.

I was going to wax lyrical about my bank and insurer being super trans positive until I got their email stating they could only reflect my gender as male or female. The super friendly person had mistakenly identified me as non-binary and therefore they couldn't change my gender in their system. I can't reply to that email either as it's unmonitored. Duh, I'm female, not non-binary, dumb dumb. I tried phoning them again now but after five minutes the line dropped. Seems like a simple clerical error but it leaves all non binary completely non-represented and that's not good enough, They've been trained but maybe not that well, still and all at least they use my preferred name and don't treat me any differently but when someone says they're transgender it usually means they're transgender, not non-binary necessarily. A lot of non binary people don't identify as being transgender and don't identify as either male or female. I should add they really went the extra mile to help up until now and are trying to be better. Just when the insurance lady and I had had a great conversation about inclusion I feel kind of deflated now. Two steps forward, one step back.

I also just read the elon musk has now stated cis and cisgender are slurs on twitter. I'll take all the good and feel good rather than dwelling on the bad of course, but its a reminder of how far we have to go. Cis is used as a slur by trans people sometimes for sure but not by everyone and not by cis people who are happy to be identified as such.

Is Lemmy short for lemmings? Like those little guys that follow each other. The walkers, the diggers and the ones that stopped the others from plunging off the cliff.

So update on the licence. Went to Warragul, the jobseeker person is really nice. Got my licence done and got a new photo so I am now ready to get drunk on my birthday!

ohhh bayswater hong kong cafe has hotpot

It’s currently 5C but feels like 2.6C sounds about right 🙃

It's so warm in the office that I'm getting sleepy. This is why I don't like coming here all that much. The heater going full blast + sun from all of the windows. Is there a "one temperature fits all" that can be set? I reckon it's pushing 25 degrees in here, that's way too warm for most people.

I’m looking forward to a holiday. Sadly I think the only holidays in my future are a cabin in a caravan park, but you know what I’ll take it!

Very tempted to go for a swim at the (seemingly nice) hotel pool but absolutely no has gone in there.

Don't want to be 'that tourist'.. but it's so hot..

Milk was a bad choice.

Ooo that wind be icy… How is everyone this PM?

The body is sore, the mind is unwilling but the coffee is strong.

Let's see how much fuckery I get to deal with at work today.

Dark thought for literally the darkest day of the year: if the Titanic submarine guests killed the CEO, they could extend oxygen for another day.

I voted open for the r/melb thing but it seems quite off now. Like you get your car back after it was stolen and even though you've got it back, it's just not quite the same..

In other news, throat is sooooore. Had about 100 lozenges. Hoping it goes away on its own, cbf going doctors :(

Damn house is so cold it's actually woken me up. Going to make a mad dash for my heated blanket on the couch and then return to bed for a little while longer I think.

I stayed up to watch the Ashes and it was going so slow and I couldn't hang on anymore so I went to bed thinking we are doomed anyway. Woke up and found we WON. We won the first test. Woohoo.

Weighted blanket is actually pretty good at keeping you warm.

Jesus Christ everyone on r/Melbourne is losing their fucking shit. It's like a gigantic mess of everyone going off at everyone else. It's horrible.

Air is warm and thick in JK. The toilet is very sophisticated, space age really.. it's got everything. Impressed but not convinced toilet needs a control panel.

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

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I'm Melbourne born and bred but I'm also a ride or die Queensland supporter in NRL State of Origin! Just wrapped up the 2023 series with an awesome win! I know I'm one of the few who pay attention to this stuff down here but still.. woooo!!

Feels like such a sin to have cake and ice cream on the same day but...

Car inspection was fine, had all the books and stuff but it's a no because he provided a fake name and was weird about providing contact details when I asked for them so I could have my mechanic set up an inspection with him.

The police helicopter is getting a bit of a workout at the moment over the Whitehorse area.

Going to look at another car this arvo, really really hoping this one is actually good. I've had absolutely no luck on my car hunt and it's really bumming me out, I was suppose to have bought one by now but it's just not happened.

Good lord. Even the tender process for Myki is a shitshow. Honestly though were any of those providers going to be good anyway? And who were we to think that we deserve a better PT ticketing system?

I think someone is doing drunken karaoke on a microphone somewhere. No judgement. Been there done that.

https://www.frontiertouring.com/...

Yay Yay Tay Tay

It's been a long day of being over tired and somewhat grumpy at work. Trying to rally myself for trivia tonight, but ready to just curl up and go to sleep. But I do love trivia...

Can someone tell me if they can see this comment...? Getting some weird errors from lemmy.world

Edit - thanks. Whatever I did, seems to have fixed it

Thanks for all the support lovely people. The community grows stronger with solidarity and I'll sleep well tonight. Transphobia is actually becoming less common but more nasty because so many of us call it out. The terf numbers are thinning and I feel safe in women's spaces just like all the women I interact with feel safe with me in them. They won't win and will find some other marginalised group to target as our marginalisation diminishes, which happens every day we show each other support like you all have tonight. Thanks, my cup runeth over!

Called off early from work which I never have done, this cold is slowly coming in waves 🤒

Saw &Juliet last night, what a fun show!! It was cute to see some die hard fans there, I imagine the singalong show they did last week would have been hilarious. Probably one of most interactive audiences I've seen at a Melbourne show.

Saw lots of birds on my walk this morning, mostly native birds in the native trees. This makes me happy, watching their busy little lives.

I don’t get the governments decision to block the tpg (Vodafone) and Telstra regional sharing deal. 3 used to roam onto Telstra, it worked great! The governments position was that it’s anti competition. But I mean, even when Vodafone were owned by Vodafone they had 0 interest in expanding the network regionally. It’s never gonna happen. This isn’t gonna inspire tpg to go spend hundreds of millions building out the network in the bush.

If anyone has read and enjoyed “The Three Body Problem” trilogy by Liu Cixin, Netflix will release a movie based on the first book.

https://youtu.be/5lj99Uz1d50

An outstanding sci-fi piece of work.

Still in bed, snuggled up w a cat on either side all curled up. Veeeerrrryy hard to get out of the warmth. They also double as weighted blankets which really makes me sleepy 😴😴😴

Quite a good write up, I thought

https://www.theguardian.com/...

I want to go camping/hiking, accessible by PT/walking, for 2-7 days, within the next week or two. I'm thinking maybe Great Ocean Walk, but would like some alternative ideas.

I'm kinda excited because my main PC monitor might be dying and that will force me to buy a new toy. I'd been thinking of buying a big, curved gaming-spec monitor for a while but couldn't justify replacing these 32" and 27" 4k 60Hz ones I bought before I started playing games but the 32" might be dyyyyyying!

I'm pretty frugal with spending money in that if I have something which works, I generally won't 'waste' money replacing it (why I still drive my perfectly functioning but aging 2009 sexy purple car when I'd love something new) but when I do buy something I'll throw a bunch of money at it to buy top tier stuff.

I'll have to do a bunch of troubleshooting before I go breaking out the cash, to figure out if the monitor is dying or if it's just a stupid cable or potentially even my fairly new graphics card but still.. potential new toy wooo!

Didn’t think much of secret invasion tbh.

Can someone please explain how to do a spoiler like I'm a toddler otherwise I'm going to spam your lovely website page with my chicken katsu?

365Lemmys with that guy from tism and tony whatshisface the comedian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEMzA_dVbsM&ab_channel=DAMIANCOWELL%27SDISCOMACHINE-Topic

My gawd pinot is very expensive here in indo.

They must tax wine by volume.

The Brad Battin my reflection on Sky News post is so memeable.

Sushi for lunch. Yummy yummy

Did anyone here have to coach their kid on how to swallow tablets?... Not something I thought I would need to do with kidcalhoon1, so far, no dice.

Car dropped off for replacement of suspension and mounts. Will the price be what was quoted, or will the find something else massively wrong...find out later on I Have No Money to Pay For This.

I've got complicated feelings about 6, it's one of my favorite RPGs ever, and since it's always seemingly in the shadow of FF7 in some ways a full 3D version would give it the attention it deserves.

However it's absolutely not a story that needs a "remake". Everything from the character designs (kefka is brilliant) to the scenes cough opera cough and subplots are near perfect, they would just benefit from getting a full glow up. (I do love ATB but using the recent battle systems from Remake would likely be very fun... I can just imagine fighting Atma Weapon would be awesome)

Do I trust current square to do this though? Nope. Not at all.

Freezing today.

Saw an article over on !australia@aussie.zone, which suggested the possibility of cash going extinct. I hope that we at least have some low cost/free method of dealing with it that doesn't have processing fees and surcharges if that's the case.

Related to the minor gripe of the day: went to a cafe in the city that didn't take cash, but also had a 5-10% card surcharge. Isn't that just a markup pretending to not be a markup at that point?}

For an interesting fact of the day, discovered a song on Spotify that seems to rehash Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl", but with a different lyrics, in a different language, claiming to be an original song, which is interesting.