I've finally succumbed to the reddit API changes.

Lemmy is still a bit strange to me, but I think I'm finally getting it to the point of being similar to what I was seeing on Reddit (albeit with much fewer users and therefore less content).

I'm glad to see the Melbourne daily thread be active here.

Seeing how few users there are on Lemmy also makes me feel like I want to be more active?! I was much more of a lurker on Reddit.

Just finished the last of this calligraphy practice. Only two mistakes!! I'm quite happy with it. I love the red water colour. :) ( oh dear, the closer I look the worse it looks ) 😂

PSA to remind people to not let their mind imagine crazy scenarios.

Friend had been distant all week and not replying to texts so I thought they'd had enough of me or I'd said something wrong.

Sent them a text saying "Hey. If you've got a few free minutes today can you call for a quick chat?" Less than half an hour later they called me and I got to hear about all the crap going on in their life and it cheered both of us up.

Sometimes people just retreat into themselves when life gets hard or hectic and need a friend to draw them out.

Be that friend.

My pasta

A photo of my shell pasta, mushrooms, chorizo, zucchini, onion, garlic, chives and chilli flakes. I forgot the tomatoes. I called it "everything that was in fridge went into my dish". It tasted way better than it looks.

An early dinner because I was hungry.

Including the early thread with 30 comments, we are still at over double the activity compared to the old r/Melbourne subreddit.

I hope those who don't go to the old sub frequently can find there way here.

The only thing better than hearing kookaburras is actually seeing them fly between trees I reckon, they're so cool

This morning I met this friendly handsome guy on my walk. He was very happy to make my acquaintance. I think I’m in love.

Photo description: a chunky and fluffy cat RUNNING up the footpath to headbutt me and get pats. ::: spoiler spoiler :::

Edit: don’t really appreciate that the website rotated the picture, but whatever

Good luck to anyone flying tonight, or tomorrow. Got home in the end, but shit's fucked.

Doggo went nuts when I walked in the door. Was cool.

I am now officially stuffed full of curry.

In other good news, bot #001 seems to be doing better after training - has been running for a few hours without crashing & successfuly conducted a test posting. I've promised it a new wi-fi dongle tomorrow if it can manage to stay awake all night and post succesfully, hopefully that will help too 🤣

Edit: might have spoken too soon, just after I posted this it crashed again. I think it might be related to the code that is supposed to pin the posts which doesn't work (it needs to be updated for the new server edition) so I have gone through and stripped out all the code relating to that process. Finger's crossed that does it.

Picked up a 7kg ham from cheaper buy miles for $25, will portion and freeze.

Also a ton of non alcoholic "booze" cos I'm doing dry July

Self-care Sunday has kicked in early with a 7am dry sauna session.

Local gym has an 80 degree dry sauna that is absolute magic. Even more so when it's empty this early and I don't have to listen to people talk shit.

What has everyone else got scheduled in for self-care today?

Huge turnout for the #Yes23 launch at Trades Hall today, despite the dull weather.

Momentum is gathering and it is wonderful to see!

Well Jetstar cancelled my flight for no actual reason they could give me. Also, apparently they sent an SMS and email yesterday informing me...I did not receive either, and only checked my flight on account of a comment by @the_procrastinata earlier. My partner, who could have been an old school travel agent in another life, somehow managed to get me a better flight which the staff said was unavailable. Currently spending my $24 dollars of Jetstar food vouchers...

Looks like everyone's getting their tasty foodz in.

I'll just be in the corner with a bowl of soup and some toast.

I want to apologise to everyone here about having to put up and read about my side of things.

I know there are probably many others in tough positions and I’ve probably had too much a winge and complain today.

I should probably just focus on solving the problem and taking it in stride or waiting to solve the problem instead of being so down about all the worst aspects of it all and what it might mean.

Apologies to everyone for the doomposting.

hashing out LED diffuse lighting for the house. Trying to convince His Lordship of the merits of an "Intruder Alert" macro that when triggered turns all the lights blood red and starts playing the imperial march.

You broke into the wrooooong house, boyo.

Spending my Sunday morning doing a job application because it won't happen during the working week. It's rare for good roles to come up in my field and this one sounds perfect, so going for it. I HATE writing cover letters, never been good at it. I open with why the role has appealed to me and anything I write sounds hella corny.

Breakfast toastie today was a bit yummy. Egg, mushroom, cheese and onion. Included a mix of cheddar and halloumi. 10/10 would toast again.

sigh

Well washing machine is only half working. Checked again this morning.

I’ll try just doing drip drying but I don’t know how that’s going to go with weather this cold.

Last option would be to use a laundromat. Just another burden I have to shoulder.

The first thread was accidentally posted as Indonesian Language which can cause it to be filtered out of some people's feeds. The initial post is here

I'm a chunky monkey lady with thunder thighs and am sick of shredding the thighs of my jeans. Does anyone have suggestions for good jeans that don't fall apart too quickly?

Looks like this thread might close out the day with 2x the comments of the r/Melbourne one.

Anyone got breadmaker recs? His Lordship hath discovered if one decomissions an old appliance, one should do so after buying a motherfucking replacement honestly dipshit why did you do that???

Ahem.

We do a lot of pizza dough, some of it quite dense, so looking for one with the kind of paddle you uusually only see at Pride. Or with YAOI branded on it.

Flying back to Melbourne today. Heard a lot of flights have been being cancelled out of Brisbane the last few days. I wouldn't mind that, but I've got to get back to my doggo.

I can't believe Twitter is also imploding, now where am I supposed to unapologetically fan girl and talk about reality tv without the prying eyes of people I know IRL???

I finished my Lego lambo yesterday and discovered I put one of the diffs backwards. Now the front and rear wheels spin in different directions when you try to push it. Ah well, it's a display model and no one else will ever know.

Guess I’ll jump on the fooodz posts bandwagon

with some blueberry cheesecake

Lasted one day using the official reddit app. Glad to see Lemmy appears to be legitimately up and coming and an easy format to read posts/comments.

Its either Lemmy or wasting my time with tiktok and instagram reels only now.

The readability of the official reddit app sadly isnt worth putting up with it.

Bloody heated throw blanket died after only 6 months :( I made sure I got a "good" one too. Just checked online and luckily it has a 3 year warranty..

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Very cloudy and sleepy from the codeine today.

Maybe Mr Smeg needs to drive me somewhere with tasty food. We had loaded potato gems last Sunday at Hey Sister.

Not sure what I want today. For now just listening to Blue Juice Radio on PBS. Easily one of the best shows of the week after Stardust, Afterglow, and Riddim Yard.

Is there a way to collapse comments on this? I get overwhelmed by the walls of text :(

RIPPA HARIAN: SHIFT HARI

⏰🥊🥊

EDISI ROBOT BURUK🤖

Got some money from babysitting, so I'm gonna treat myself to a manicure and possibly a pedicure.

Was it just me who missed the memo about the rain? I mean my app is still saying no rain.

Does nobody in Melbourne say”eshay” because I’ve definitely heard it on some occasions. 🤔

Had a great day today. Went go kart racing with my partner as she had a gift card. It was drizzling so it made the racing way more fun and I did manage to beat her (9th vs 11th). Then we tried out a pile of recliner couches and decided on this one and ordered it:

https://www.nickscali.com.au/...

If I know someone who is hoarding lots of plastic bottles in the belief they will make money when the container deposit scheme comes in, am I a bad person if I don't tell them containers will need to have a specially printed barcode on them to be eligible?

Fish & chips for me. Usually Miller St is jumping at this hour with people getting pizza or f&c. Tonight was dead. Zillions of empty car parks and the f&c shop people were filing their nails and scrolling on their phones. The cost of living is starting to bite down hard I think. Mind you, $18 for 1 piece of fish, 1 scallop, 1 prawn, 1 fishcake and a handful of chips is getting a bit steep for regular purchase.

I've been trying random fauxmeat options when I see them on special and I have to say, way to many go for texture and presentation over taste. I got some faux chicken tenders and while they look, smell, and sort feel the part, they absolutely don't taste it.

My comment the Indonesian thread:

Video of Steve Irwin handling a snake, still miss the guy.

Good morning Shy Bot. It's good to see you.

Urgh, you know that feeling when you wake up at a "normal" time, scroll on your phone and then doze off only to bolt awake and it's 11:15... now I'm sitting here with my coffee and I almost regret how cold it is out here. Thankfully my lunch appt has been postponed by half an hour as well. I should at least do one Useful thing today. Mainly clean the kitchen which looks like a disaster zone. I would be bereft without my dishwasher.

Tickets for Barbie advance screenings are available (and regular screenings)

Tickets for Oppenheimer are now available. Plenty of IMAX seats as well by the look of it.

Well we managed about 1.5 hours at the party last night until baby became so hysterical with the grandparents that we had to leave. But honestly I’m okay with that, not that the party was bad but I certainly remembered why we decided we were happy to have a baby and give up the nights out. I really prefer doing stuff like lunches now. Also barely drank and still woke up with a ripper headache. Truly think I’m in the era of dinner parties and picnics now.

Local pool tonight: spa, sauna, steam room are packed. Oh the flip side I’m very relaxed.

All this cold made me start reminiscing about the last roadtrip to Mildura, and out of curiosity I checked the weather there - how is it 2° colder there?????

ASHES UPDATE: (because I know you're all closeted lovers of the ol' bat n' ball): Second test at Lord's (the home of cricket) Second innings. Australia has already batted. England to chase 371. Currently England 4/114.

We've had a few injuries. Pat Cummins copped a shiner to the eye. Nathan Lyon strained a calf doing some sort of gymnastics on the field. It's OK, we're Aussies we get back up and keep fighting.

It's going to be an exciting match tonight folks. I will be watching and anticipating Midnight (blue) bot's second coming. Oh oh oh oh.

A little bit of daggy excite for the evening. Going off to see Indiana Jones. Hehe.

This weekend has been interesting with the weather to say the least. I did check out the small but fun Fantastic Beasts exhibit. Was hoping also to squeeze a REB tour, but that is booked out till almost mid-August at this stage. Got some goodies from Uniqlo and was lucky to discover the bottom of the bag was torn walking back. Managed not to lose anything.

Again, you know your Llab ain't a Monday person... It has once again come far too quickly!

What have you all been up to?

I miss sitcoms. The kind that are full of corny jokes and have 20 episodes a season. Seems that era of tv is dead, and it’s sad. Shows like Frasier, Seinfeld, Freinds, Big Bang theory etc. I guess with streaming being the main form of tv now it’s a different market.

Venting/whinging post warning: Mr Peeler ruined my favourite shot glasses. They were Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec inspired moulin rouge glasses I bought at the monet and friends exhibition at The Lume. I said repeatedly Don't put them in the dishwasher. I even rescued them a few times when he was about to start a cycle and told him again. And what does he do.. the design is all melted and ruined. Aargh! Dammit! End of rant.

The soup I made for diner was very yum. Small dices of onion, carrot, celery, zucchini and corn kernels, fry with generous amount of middle eastern spice mix, bottle of passatta, can of beans and stock. Cook until veg are perfect tenderness and consume with garlic bread. It’s the small dices that make it nice to eat.

Finally turning the corner with this head cold.

Half awake fever dreams are fucked I do not like them.

I finally got enough FlyBuys points to get another Bunnings gift card. That last 27c seemed to take an awfully long time. Once it arrives I can get more manure and mulch for the garden.

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Jebus christ, there'a dude happily selling vitamin c powder $15 a 50g pop.

You can get a 5kg bucket for $139.

I kinda wanna get in on the rort and undercut him by $5. Still be making nearly a grand profit.

Housemate and I are on season 8 of our Game of Thrones rewatch, and so far every ep has just been an hour of us slinging jokes back and forth about the quality. Have to say on this rewatch I've definitely noticed the quality got worse around season 6/7, maybe I'll pull out the books for a reread.

Oh dear, a mate in total crisis who lives in Europe is not nice to see. I'm glad they made it through the night is all I'm willing to share. I've become one of those people saying no matter how shit something seems, drinking will only make it seem worse tomorrow.

Still it's been a good day. My skin is nice and soft. I didn't quite get the walk in. The cats got a good workout chasing toys though and I can still do some bodyweight stuff tonight. The mindfullness movement workshop was great, I got complete mental silence a few times as we did the movements which uplifted me no end. I left feeling pretty euphoric, the gender kind. Any trans and gender diverse people here, if you haven't gone to any of Transgender Victoria's free workshops and such, do think about gettting along. It's freaking beautiful to be among a tribe who are strangers, but instantly see you. They promote them on their insta.

I had two satisfying naps today. I'm legit turning into a cat lady. The crazy part is sure to come along again at some point but not today.

Thinking about the movie I watched yesterday, The Field. ok. It's about the tragic consequences incurred by a person who values possessions and their rights more than they value people .

@RustyRaven, the bot worked?

Happy Sunday DTers!

Oooh bot working

Anyone got a suggestion for a drive to do, even on a dreary day like this? Most of my drives are to hiking spots or wineries, lol.

Hear me out

Cook the first half the pizza in the oven
Eat it while cooking the other half

Yea or nay?

Someone motivate me to get up and go get my nails done, because bed is warm and I am tired. But I do want my nails done.

Tried a new type of noodle for lunch today - basically 2 minute noodles, but protein enriched (ie they added pea flour). I was uncertain about them because I'm not a fan of most pea/legume products, but they were pretty decent. It turns them in to 5 minute noodles though.

No beef to go with my daikon tonight so had to change plans. This time I used the mini chopper to scramble the tofu for my garlic chilli noodles which was a lot easier. Looking forward to it. Might chuck some mini spring rolls in the airfryer for an entree.

Finally caught up on Deadloch and shit is wild and all my theories are well and truly dead.

Edit- removed spoiler cause it just wouldn't format for me.

Test cricket got fiery.

@CEOofmyhouse56

Edit: forgot how to tag on Lemmy

A couple of weeks ago I added someone from a dating app on Instagram (at their suggestion) and the chat has been on and off, I'm considering biting the bullet just suggesting we go for coffee this week. Thoughts?

A no show from Midnight Bot again. O-oh.