Daily Discussion Thread: 🐔🐣🐤 🏚️ 💀 🦦 Sunday, July 07, 2024

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s my birthday today.

  My friend offered to get me a gift. Not sure what I want, maybe a Kmart milk frother?

  Chilling on the couch with my radio show on then I guess some footy watching and playing Hogwarts.

  Low key day today but a little concerned I haven’t heard from my dad yet. He sends me a birthday message every year without fail but he has been sick lately.

  Anyway I sent him a message just to let me know he’s ok because it’s so unusual for him to not contact me today.

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hippy birdies!

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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday! 😊

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  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Birthday!!! :)

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Birthday! 🎈🎈🎈

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy B’day!

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Birthday!

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday Duenan. Hope all your wishes come true. 🎉🎂

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday 🎈🎂 hope your dad’s ok 🙏

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday! 🥳🎂

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday! Hope you’ve heard from your dad by now.

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing yet :(

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy Birfday. 🎂

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday! Did you have cake? Woolies mud cake? If not then I suggest you have another birthday tomorrow, with woolies mud cake

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sadly no cake. Only a large packet of chips and a bottle of soft drink was all I had today for snacks.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Happy birthday!! I’m glad you get to treat yourself a bit today after all you’ve been through. I hope you have a really relaxing day where even for a bit you can feel recharged and secure.

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you.

      Hopefully in a few days time I’ll be able to test out milk frother, even if it’s the Kmart brand, just hope it works ok.

      I’m trying to relax as best I can and stay warm but I am worried about my dad and him not answering phone calls or texts but I just have to wait and be patient. He has been pretty unwell of late.

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gratitude thread!

  I’m grateful for giving myself grace for royally fucking up at work that will cause a headache tomorrow (fuck the shape of 50 cent pieces for jamming the cash machine). It’s not the end of the world.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m grateful for the roof over my family’s heads and for generally being a calm person. Elder said the other day that he misses me being around during the day “because you’ve got this aura of calm around you.” 🥹This is one of the nicest things he’s ever said to me, to anyone.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m grateful for finding an unused Brother colour laser printer for $100 on Gumtree, and lunch in the sun with a friend at friends of the earth on Smith st.

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Woah, that is a very good find indeed.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am grateful for savlon antisceptic cream.

    Over the last few weeks have been so uncoordinated in the gardn, kitchen, moving stuff and sharpening knifes that 100yrs ago would probably need some sort of amputation.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love savlon so much. I use it to calm my rosacea, I use it on my hands when they are getting a bit worn from house work. On every cut.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m grateful for gyoza!!! And for tram drivers that dgaf if you fare evade for a couple of stops. And for the tax return I did yesterday… and this little pack of Victorian grown hojicha that a colleague gave me.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m grateful for being able to catch up with a friend yesterday to celebrate my birthday.

    Was nice to get out and be social but it was still deathly cold.

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those orchids are beautiful! I’m grateful for the abundance of movies, tv and books available so easily without leaving home. It’s nice to chill out at home on a Sunday afternoon and pick entertainment on a whim.

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Since it just happened so is fresh in my memory, I guess I’m grateful that my building is on fire and the firies cleared it in about 10 minutes. But that feels like cheating, so I’m grateful for the views up on the rooftop, and having a Barbie and a chat with the old LT up there

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I too am grateful for firemen, but perhaps not for the same reasons as you 😉

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am grateful for off the rack premade clothes. Sure beats processing hides, spinning wool and making clothes myself.

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m grateful to have got some decluttering done and cleared quite a few boxes from storage. I have a hard time parting with stuff for a number of reasons, so this was a big deal for me. Still heaps to go but it’s good progress.

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I bought some jonquils yesterday and they’re like little patches of sunshine throughout the house, brightening my mood. I’m also grateful for lazy Sundays, crosswords, tea, and blankets.

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  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grateful that my headache is gone for the moment

    For fluffybutt

    And for the 4 interviews I have this week. With any luck, on Tuesday I’ll be grateful to have a job

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am definitely getting tired and ready to call it a day. I just thanked someone because I opened the door for them.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Waiter: “Enjoy your meal!”

    Me: “You too!”

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s better enjoy your meal

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    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do this all the time

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All lemons I brought gone :)

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Er…. Lemon Party!

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    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤣

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If this stage in life is not conducive to a relationship, or is pleasant enough without one, then you’re under no obligation to have one, regardless of the opinions of family and friends. I have a lot of regrets over how little time of my younger life I’ve really lived for me.

    Otherwise, I think the important thing is to find someone who wants the same as you, no matter what that is. If you’re a “meet in the middle,” compromising person then it’s important that the person you’re with also has those qualities, or you’ll find you’re always the one having to be flexible, and may end up feeling taken advantage of. If you’re an individualist who wants to have a lot of independence and “room to move” within a relationship, and can’t bear the thought of “living in someone else’s pockets” then it’s vital to live true to that while that’s how your life is. A couple of friends of mine are very career forward people, spend a lot of time separate from each other due to the demands of their careers, but undeniably love and respect each other and aren’t clingy. How do you know how it’s going to be with someone? You don’t always, or you think you know people but then they change, or you find out things you didn’t know. The arrival of children can complicate things that before seemed much simpler and more straightforward.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I sacrificed a lot for someone who hurt me for over 8 years, in varying ways. I grew up abused and it set me up for abuse later on because I had no idea what was normal. I almost had a kid with the cunt (thank fuck I made my own money and bought a plan b pill).

    But I would never let myself do that again. I know so much more now, about people, the world, and right and wrong. I got extremely lucky my one-night-stand turned out to be my person. We’re better together than we are separately. But if I hadn’t of met my current partner, I think I’d still be single after leaving my ex. Dating seems so dangerous now for vagina-owners (what with the tater-tots and “alpha” male shite).

    I’d never change myself ever again for another person. I’d compromise (like quitting smoking), but not on the big things (buying a house, having kids, etc).

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      what with the tater-tots and “alpha” male shite)

      I don’t know, but it scares and confuses me too

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    • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The difficulty level of dating increases with the gay overlay as well, but for different reasons.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Love makes you compromise. Love makes you sacrifice. If you have love for one another those things are easier.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A person who loves you would never ask for compromises on important things like belief, children, vocation. etc

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    • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here’s an example. One person I know has a husband that smokes and has no intention of quitting, and now their children also smoke.

      I wouldn’t even get into a relationship with a smoker to begin with because for me that’s a deal breaker. Same with any other substance abuse problem.

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    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      100% agree. Life is full of compromise.

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  • stepchook@mastodon.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @wscholermann @Seagoon_ Fatherhood means - after a while you prefer the crust. All relationships involve some form of compromise. It takes a lifetime to find a good one and maintain it. My marriage and family life is worth it. I see more material on throuples and other arrangements, but that stuff is for my kids gen to work out - looks like a lot more work

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  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m on the other side of the fence.

    Heartbreak and wasted time is a small price to pay for finding someone to share your life and love with.

    Our society values individualism to such a degree, that the idea of sacrificing something for someone you love seems unfair or that you’re “losing” something.

    Sounds very transactional. And to me that doesn’t sit well.

    Admittedly my culture is different, so that’s probably why I don’t mind compromise. I’m a way, it’s an expected part of life. And so we work with that instead of fighting it.

    /mild rant

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• PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mr P has finished remaking his bed out of bits of the broken/destroyed bed plus other timbers, and there was much swearing and insults while trying to get it into the house. Hey, don’t get shitty at me, I’m not the one who constructed a thing too big to fit through the damn door! We ended up putting it through the living room window and it just fit through. He hasn’t done too bad a job, but I’m not praising it on principle because he shouldn’t have smashed it up to start with.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  bloody hell. Good days work there, considering how hard I went yesterday.

  Concrete pile moved, future food garden area cleared to the point where I can take out the last of those bloody stupid brick and concrete dividers, both green bins filled and a spillover barrel. 10K steps well and truly in, so I’mma gonna eat a giant bag of chips and watch a shitload of WWDITS w00t w00t

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck me. I heard evacuation alarms coming that I thought were from the shops so I went out to film the response and then alarms started going off in my building. Fucking RIP the people on the 22nd floor. I got confused going down the fire escape from the 2nd

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anti-gratitude thread.

  My headlight died. I just changed the bulb a couple of weeks ago.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The day of darkness begins much earlier than wanted. Power goes out shortly. Boo! Overusing heater in the hope warm will hold for a bit, then decamping for mini golf and boiling a ham hock.

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Butt frozen

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• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sky full of ice crystals - sunset should be fabulous tonight.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t make it to Fairfield, but I did go to Hawthorn and probably spent a bit more than I expected to - picked up frozen tempeh from Grand Laguna because few places have the proper stuff, splurged on some mapo tofu flavour packets (I don’t use doubanjiang enough to have it in my fridge), got some tofu to use and some to freeze (I hear it has a good texture when frozen and defrosted), bought a bougie Flinders lime, and… most excitingly of all…

  …dropped $13.50 on a 30-pack of frozen Osaka Ohsho veggie gyoza from Japan. I cooked up 10 just now, but I have leftover oil in the pan and dipping sauce, so the only right thing to do here is make some more. What a travesty 😩

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• Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The worst part of a migraine, is when it subsides, you’re in a state of hypervigilance in case it returns.

  Bed, cat, iPad games and feeling sorry myself for today I think lol

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  cold

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google made another one if their little annoying and breaking changes (as they do). They’ve basically killed maps timelines, at least as they used to be. They tricked me into signing up for it. I know a lot of people don’t like timeline, but I really do. Firstly it’s the only tool I have to make sense of some of the moves I’ve made over time and is the only real record I keep of the places I visit, secondly I export the timeline data onto a heatmap that shows me where I still haven’t been yet.

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  They have this “encrypted backup” thing now, but even submitting a takeout request doesn’t give me the actual timeline. And of course this “local” timeline is hidden amongst all the system files I can’t even access, and is probably in some proprietary garbage encrypted format.

  I’m guessing they probably did this to comply with some legal requirement, but that doesn’t make me feel any better. I just want to generate my place heatmaps FFS. They’re still using my timeline history for advertising and “personalisation”, the only thing that’s changed is instead of it being stored somewhere else I can access conveniently, it’s stored locally but fucking impossible to reach

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whoopsy fingers slipped and I bought some more art, this time two canvas prints of the following:

  etsy.com/…/sage-green-bauhaus-exhibition-poster

  I’ll calm down after this and stop buying art for a while.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish I could sing like La Roux. But I just sound like a hippo in heat when I sing.

  Still gonna do it though lol

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Been forcing some daffodil bulbs in water to hopefully get some indoor winter blooms. They seem to be growing well, looking forward to flowers in a couple weeks. It’s way easier than I thought and would recommend it as a project if you’ve got a sunny spot for them. Might try tulips next.

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bit cold today but sunny so I think I’ll take the boys for a bit more of an off road ride and check out a picnic ground and such nearby

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everybody’s doin’ a brand new dance now
  C’mon baby do the loco-motivation
  I know you’ll get to like it if you get off the couch now
  C’mon lazy bones do the loco-motivation 🎶

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• oztrin@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That was funny. Grabbed a takeaway breakfast from a local cafe and went down to the beach to eat it, and was promptly bailed up by the local gull population and an opportunistic cattle dog.
  Owner was very apologetic, meanwhile I was laughing too hard to get out a complete sentence. 😂

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Goodnight everyone and be careful of rampant platypuses.

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are your favourite soups to make? I need a bit of variety.

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your reminder that Spicks and Specks is on tv tonight. The one show a week that justifies the tv antennas continued existence.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I told myself after yesteday that I wasn’t going to lie around in bed all morning today, but what did I do - stay in bed until 12 on my phone despite how UTTERLY BEAUTIFUL it is outside.

  Well alright. Can’t change the past; getting a load of laundry in while having a late cuppa and cake; once it’s out to dry I am going to walk to Fairfield (3.8km away) and back to get bulk wool wash and the tortillas I had been planning to make jackfruit tacos with.

  Then home to do a whole bunch of cooking and an online catchup with an overseas friend.

  I wonder if my lazing around so much on weekend mornings is due to the sheer amount of caffeine I have during the week. Brain needs to recover from all the adenosine receptors being flooded.

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• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sunday! It’s quiz time!

  45/50 - best ever score due to some lucky guesses.

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• Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is anyone here into modern spirituality stuff? Was supposed to go to this cool thing in Brunswick today, like an expo, but I can’t because of the migraine.

  Been really trying to find that community and I’m pretty heartbroken that I can’t go to this expo 😔😔😔

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sky pretty

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I inadvertently listened to most of MSO’s performance Carmina Burrara yesterday live on ABC Classical while doing my taxes and was all “oh it’s THAT doomsday song!” And then all of yesterday arvo and today it’s been bugging me, where did I hear an English language parody of it, was it misheard lyrics, no it was simpler, was it an ad, what ad was it, what ad, was it the UK, was it here…

  … and then it finally came to me out of nowhere this evening. I only knew it from Gruen as it aired before I moved to Australia, but the wave of nostalgia over LOTR and the excitement of videos on the internet came flooding back once I watched it and it sent me into a bit of a YouTube rabbit hole. Many of you probably know this one.

  It’s a big ad, ve-ry big ad…

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