Stopping by after a very long absence to introduce you all to Mabel:
I am OBSESSED with her and I am just showing her off to every single person I’ve ever met.
Daily discussion thread: Sunday. Where did the time go? ⌚
Submitted 7 months ago by Force_majeure123@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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omoikiri@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Hi Mabel!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 7 months ago
cuuute
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 7 months ago
😍She is a real cutie!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I love her. 💖
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Awwww.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Oh my goodness, adorable 😍
bacon@aussie.zone 7 months ago
she’s adorable
_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Hello Melbourneians? Melbourneites? Person from almost the other side of the world here.
How come this community is so active on Lemmy? I haven’t seen any other city pop up on my feed as often as yours. You regularly get more than a hundred comments each day in these discussion threads.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Many of us are Reddit blackout immigrants.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Because we’re actually a cult and everyone’s welcome to join. Even you. Sign up with a picture of a pet. We’re open 24/7.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 7 months ago
You can checkout but you can never leave…
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 7 months ago
We were a pretty active community back on Reddit,. especially during COVID.
Many of us migrated here last year during the Reddit boycott/fuckery.
We share random mundane shit and talk shit with each other.
Most of my posts are me being annoyed with me neighbours mowing their lawn twice a week or watering the same lawn when it’s raining.
Feel free to join us. You don’t have to live here to talk shit 😊
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
And most of my posts are really long rants about minor, mostly inconsequential shit
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Cat photos and the job hunt from me.
Catfish@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Because ithe internet is made of cats & boobs, and we have cute cats 😝
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 months ago
My cat is indeed cute. My boobs however, not so much.
Nath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
It’s often 300+ on a Friday.
We’re coming at you from the future just now because daylight savings time ended overnight.It’s an active community because it’s an active community. Any community with 50+ daily commenters could be as active.
Marsupial@quokk.au 7 months ago
We’re just that cool!
Really tho? I’d guess because of the dynamics of Australia, whereas else where people are more spread out we all live largely in 2-5 cities.
Melbourne is over 5 million people and the largest city in Australia. We can all gather and talk about the same place and things.
We also speak English so others internationally can engage more easily with our community.
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
G’day! Melbournian is the most common term for us, although I’d usually drop the o to emphasise its Mel-burn and not mel-born (although it’s usually said Melb’n, but that’s a whole other story!)
My theory on why we’re so active: these daily threads were previously going on the melbourne subreddit for years, so when r/Melbourne went dark for the protests, there was a lot of oragnising to get people here. A few people came, and since everybody in the DT knows each other, they told everyone else and then everybody started moving over here. A few people refused to come, but enough people came, and enough others were forced to come when the sub vanished that we formed our own community.
If you want your mind blown even more - look at the thread from June 15th 2023. Over 600 comments on it! A few of those people went back to Reddit as soon as the subreddit reopened, but enough stayed that it didn’t just become a group of 3 people like a lot of other communities. Our other city communities like !Brisbane@aussie.zone sometimes have DTs too, but only get 5 or 10 comments, so that’s meant that our DT kind of ends up attracting people from all around australia since we’re so active and such awesome people (lol)
It’s actually a pretty even in terms of comments between us and r/Melbourne. Their thread is currently at 159 comments and ours is at 119 (this thread was actually posted 5 hours early)
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I bemoan chicken and vegetables, but holy fuck do I feel good today.
Like a different person.
Energetic, focused, motivated.
Crazy shit.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Bird cage cleaned and renovated to Sir’s liking. He appears to approve of pea sprouts.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Clearly a gentleman of refined tastes. A verray Beau Brummel of a bird.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 7 months ago
It’s so dark 😓
I almost want to turn the heater on for emotional support. But it’s 19 degrees inside so I will refrain. But it looks cold.
It really doesn’t help that I’ve just returned from 10 days in a tropical island resort. It’s like being plunged into winter all at once.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Sun is streaming in my window onto the couch so I have given up any thought of moving, have made a G&T, pulled out the diary and sitting here planning holidays and just chilling.
I imagine this is how normies (ie people whose brains are not filled with depression etc) get to live all the time. It’s nice. I approve.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 months ago
🤔
my brain is 95% work , 1% is walking in the park looking at trees and finding banksia pods, 2% is watching movies, 2% skiving here
I might be exaggerating but not much
Catfish@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Have made a report about last night’s yard screamer. The more I think about it the more it seems like a SA situation.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I feel like life is slowly grinding me down.
the_procrastinata@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I think a lot of us experience something similar every now and then. A feeling of hopelessness and heaviness and inertia. Hopefully you can walk through it and out the other side. Hugs.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Thanks
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 7 months ago
That and seems like it’s Groundhog Day. Definitely not just you feeling this way….
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Omg it’s 7pm not 7am
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Lol I used to have this am pm shift happening when I did rotating day/night shift. I’d wake up in a darkened room with an analogue clock and no idea whether it was say 2am or 2pm. Very disorientating!
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I was thinking: maybe I could be one of those people who goes around to schools and talks to the students about the realities of drug addiction.
Maybe.
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
TIL that little flappy bird thing that seems to be everywhere is called Pam
I’m not clicking because like, it’s the Harold scum, I’m not a boomer. But I’ve been wondering what the go is behind it
SituationCake@aussie.zone 7 months ago
No idea, I haven’t seen one (at least that I took notice of) BUT, does that man have a dog or a goat with him? I mean dog makes sense, but it really looks like a goat.
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Apparently the bird also has an instagram account. Yes its a goat. Don’t even ask
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
allthoseshapes.com/pam_graffiti/
I see it a lot around the city and inner west, usually along rail corridors. But apparently it’s on freeway signs and such too
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Cool. I love Pam. The little birds make me happy as I go into work on the train and I was looking at the long chain near southern cross on the weekend
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I don’t really mind the ones that are painted on blank surfaces like on the backside of the freeway signs and near socro, but I do mind the ones painted directly on the trains. There’s a few posts on his insta where he’s tagged up an entire train with massive birds covering the windows, which forces trains to be pulled out of service and cleaned. He’s even done a few directly onto the drivers cab windscreens, which forces the train to be taken out of service wherever it’s noticed
Kom@aussie.zone 7 months ago
The alarm to get ready for work went off and I woke to a text asking if I would like AL today. Hell yeah I do! Back to sleep for me.
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 7 months ago
7:30 and I’m ready for bed. Was awake at 6 tho.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I hear you.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 7 months ago
The dog is harassing me for food. He doesn’t understand daylight savings.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I’m a bit peckish myself. It’s steak night 🥩
bacon@aussie.zone 7 months ago
i too bought steak, and frozen cheese mash from aldi
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I’ve just had the most luxuriant breakfast
wscholermann@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Woke up at 6 today because my body still thinks it’s. 7 am. Laid about for two hours hoping I’ll fall back to sleep. Not happening.
Meanwhile I see the weather is the usual Melbourne perma-grey. Thank God I’m going to Vietnam for a couple of weeks soon to somewhat extend my summer.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Chook is awake. Time to get up.
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I love playing network engineer. Really all I did was unplug some cables then plug some different cables in, but it was still so much fun. I also made our internet not be as shit as I thought it was. Went from 200-500ms latency at 20mbps to 50-150 latency at 50-60mbps
I’m not sure how well the new router will handle multiple devices and concurrent transfers though. It’s pretty much just a test and a way to make the internet usable for now. The old router sucked, but it could handle 20 devices just fine. The new ones for all these features but it’s on the cheaper side, so I have my doubts
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 7 months ago
ISPs often choose not to obey TTL on dns records too, because they don’t want to waste the bandwidth refreshing the records. Can be problematic. I usually use 8.8.8.8 (Google)
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
That’d probably explain why it was always giving me issues. CloudFlare has a form that I can fill out to purge the record cache for certain websites if need be. I set Google’s DNS as secondary, but I like and trust CloudFlare more than I do google, so I’ve always just used them
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I’m pooped, did a lot on my list.
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Don’t be poop :(
bacon@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I pooped
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 months ago
TIL pooped and pooped are two different words entirely
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 months ago
tonight for dinner I am making tex chili
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I’m sure it makes me Officially Old but Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite tv shows. I would love to go on a gentle and beautiful holiday with Sandi.
Duenan@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Mmm vanilla latte packet coffee
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Walk walked. Groceries shopped. New pair of fingerless gloves bought (merino+possum for extra coziness). Bluey watched. I think it’s time for a cuppa and to dig out the oodie
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 7 months ago
It’s still not quite pumpkin soup season yet but the pumpkin can’t wait so I’m gonna have to make it today. Maybe. No promises.
bacon@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Awake at 6am on a Sunday. Why can’t I sleep in any more? The curse of getting older
Baku@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Oh force would you mind editing the date into the title please? Makes it easier to follow and keep track of
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I didn’t think DST was that big of a difference from real time
Catfish@aussie.zone 7 months ago
⏰🕰️🕥⏲️🕗⌚️🕗⏰
Catfish@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Pretty sure I’ve had my last friend step down to acquaintance.
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Hugs. I prefer animals to people, no bullshit games.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 7 months ago
ooh that one will hurt.
We are here for you.
Catfish@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Thank you, collectively
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 months ago
oh no , so many hugs
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Ouch, I’m so sorry ❤️
SituationCake@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Want to write something nice, but also I know the feeling so will just say hang in there.