Daily Discussion Thread: 👨‍🦯 Sunday, 12 January, 2025

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maggie not complaining. Was out there when the thunder hit. All the other birds freaked out but not her. She’s a professional.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Had a super deep but also at times heavy conversation with a family friend here about a family member we mutually know who has had a lot of troubles and is going through a really tough time readjusting to life after being institutionalised. As opposed to being sad and draining, it was a really invigorating and honest conversation despite the really intense emotions that came up at times… I feel alive because this is what life is about, it feels real.

  really grateful for these conversations and being at a stage of my life where I can freely engage in them above the veneer of pleasantries that much of life consists of.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This humidity can get FARKED

  Melbourne being storm-cucked ffs

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tropical Meat rejoices.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This potato is damp and sprouting roots in the dark. 🥔💦

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey if it wants to edge let it edge. Just means the storm will blow that much harder when it finally arrives.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      😂😂😂😂

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  • Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m currently considering a trip up to Darwin to visit my family, and days like this make me reconsider

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I want to go to Darwin, just to tick it off my capital city list - but I also don’t due to the tropical climate up there.

      I have Darwin and Sydney left, been to the other ones. Liked Hobart the most due to it being super cold (barring the heatwave they have atm).

      I hope you can see your fam soon! Regardless of the humidity! 💜

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m going to do so little work tomorrow lol

  It was nice having a holiday. My probation is up in 10 days.

  Yeeha.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🍻

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh man, just noticed another neighbour’s SUV is sitting their driveway with the sunroof open.

  They’re away for the weekend too. I threw some large plastic bags over it and taped it to the windows. Hope it holds.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hope it was an old low tech one!

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Less than 12 months old 😁

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Had a wonderful night catching up with friends ❤️

  Also I have this that I got from hard rubbish and had framed

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love that so damn much

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s from a series by NASA! They made these travel posters for real planets! It was so damn cool!!!

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tonight’s beach

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sea pretty

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• PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have spent most of the afternoon getting all the Lego we own in the house for inventory. We have 3 sets which have never been opened, several almost completed sets (they were completed but bits fell off), most of the assembly books for the sets we have, and two additional 35L tubs choc full of Lego. There’s a place that’ll buy unsorted, preowned Lego by the kg. The kids have been sorting Lego from non-Lego and playing with it all afternoon. There’s some we’ll keep, but the rest has got to go. So many memories! I’ve been buying Lego for the kids for 10 years! It’s basically 2 giant suitcases full and we need the money and lack the room.

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Almost all in. Only thing left are the poppies.

  Hoping it’s overgrown af eventually (without weeds).

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jelly. There’s a lot of room there for mulch

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everything is making me angry and sad, I’ve been trying to work out why as I recognise it’s irrational.

  Turns out, it’s just my stupid uterus making itself the centre of attention again 🙄 such an attention seeker, it would fit right in with a mean girl clique lol

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just ate 3 of those cadbury popping candy elf things. I don’t even like popping candy, so I guess I’ll be joining you at the mean girl club tomorrow.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oooo we can be fat and sassy together

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    damn I hated the hormone roller coaster of emotions, don’t miss the tears for absolutely no reason

    but I miss the extra bit of fire hormones gave me

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just teared up before because I’m so over these carpet moths. I think I got them, and then I find more 🙄

      My home smells like vinegar lol

      And I cannot wait til I get menopause and after, this shit is so damn annoying 😂

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bucketed on me and my friends head as soon as we set up chess pieces in the park. Then had to help her calm down to drive for the first time in rain, and it was severe with flooding streets etc. escalated quite quickly! I’m home safe now but the streets were fucked. Friend confident getting herself home after a pep talk

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Marge, babe, you couldn’t have waited five minutes?

  It’s coming down in sheets and I’m soaked from head to foot, and I was only caught in it for two minutes

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dutton also said the Coalition would increase the number of Medicare-subsidised psychological sessions from 10 to 20 “on a permanent basis”.

  This should be Labor policy, though people should not be forced to stop seeing a psychologist after any length of time, if they still need it.

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This should be just Medicare policy, period. Same with dental, and same with everything medicine related really.

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a logistical problem with that, unfortunately. There are only so many psychs in this country, and each psych can only see so many patients at a time

    If we end up in a situation where demand outstrips supply (as it often does) and there’s no clear end point for moving into a less intensive phase of management we’re still going to have the same problem of “people, including quite acutely ill people, needing care and not getting it.”

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    • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then in my opinion we need to hugely incentivise there to be more psychologists in our country, to have an over supply even.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m patiently waiting for my neighbour to start watering his garden.

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It finally happened. Had to pull a floater out of the bath last night. Can’t believe it took nearly 2 years to happen.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How big we talking?

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      little kids can do surprisingly big poops …lol

      I am so grateful Miss Seagoon never did anything like that. she was such an easy kid

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Decent!

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    tenor.com/bPvvg.gif

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly cat shit is far far worse than anything a small child can produce.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  24 hours ago, I was lounging on a beach. This city is something else, eh?

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  IT’S HERE!!!

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ted zoomed home from the neighbour’s …lol

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bin night tomorrow, thankfully. After this hot week you can smell it when I open the front door. So gross.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine it being full of shitty nappies.

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    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That sounds delightful. Mine’s mostly partially-eaten cat food.

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d rather not thanks, the kitty litter is bad enough

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Foghorns popping off left right and centre down here with boats going through the heads. Always an eerie noise. Makes you wonder how it would’ve felt going through pre-gps. Made me wonder how many perished. Turns out 50

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why does art take me so long

  Why is it so scary

  And why tf can’t I concentrate to learn the proper way of doing things

  I have learned how to divide the canvas into thirds/a grid and do a wire skeleton. But otherwise I basically just lock in and copy really closely by eye (and do everything out of order)

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Art is hard, I can imagine how many drafts famous artists made and tossed before making their masterpieces. It takes practice, sure, but patience with yourself is key I think. No one is born talented at painting, not really, just a lot of canvas/paper drafts that will never see the light of day.

    They’ve done X-rays of Mona Lisa and found that Mr Da Vinci had a crack at it a few times, painting over it and doing it again, until he got it “right”.

    Warhol just liked contrast I think, that pop-art style. I’m not a fan, but he wouldn’t have made those on the first go and displayed it.

    Dali did his own damn thing and I want whatever he was taking - he’s my favourite artist.

    Kahlo was a legend - realistic yet surreal. But she would have had a bunch of canvas drafts and pieces that she didn’t feel were good enough.

    My point is, is that art is a basic human trait, and we all have the ability to create it, in one form or another. But rarely does anyone but the artist see the time and effort and the canvasses that weren’t “good enough”. I don’t post my first draft of poems I write, I sit on them for weeks, sometimes months, until I feel it’s “right”. And besides, it may also be a case of just finding an art style that you click with - you may not think your Renaissance studies are good, but you might find you like surrealism, or realism, post-modern, maybe impressionism. Experiment and get messy with it - art is a reflection of our human-ness, and humans are messy.

    Sorry for the text wall - I’m just really passionate about art in all it’s forms (painting, cartoons, games, music, prose and poetry, even body modifications like what catfish posted, tattoos, piercings - all I consider art). I hope you don’t give up - I think you can create something you’ll be so proud of, and I’m already proud of you for what you have created and shared with us already. 💜

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks. I’m sticking to digital art at the moment because it’s more forgiving but it’s still hard.

      I have books and it would be easier if I just studied but my brain is just weirdly broken right now. It’s so hard to make myself do it

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  • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you trying to replicate a style or just want to do your own style of art?

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not really a specific goal, I just like fine art in general

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  • Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel this so hard. I’ve tried so many ways of making art, and got okay at several, but could never commit.

    I want to make art, but making art is scary!

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just remembered the manager who had access to check my device and see what I’m doing resigned at the end of last year

  Oh fuck yeah!

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Free device! Fuck yeah!

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And zero surveillance!

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m gonna have an early night. No DT from me tonight. Night people

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sky pretty

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We went to the Diamond Valley miniature railway today for a birthday party. It’s huge compared to Box Hill.

  Fortunately we got the last ride out of the way before the rain came down and just had to do the rain under the gazebo whilst it really bucketed down. A memorable end to a great party

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to go there as I kid, I love that it’s still going strong. I think they’re all amazing volunteers who run it.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A local bakery here makes the best tiger rolls I’ve ever had and now when I have a different roll it seems mediocre.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tiger rolls?

    Also are you watching the derby?

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tiger rolls

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      And yes I am.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holey moley. Renegades are cooking with gas.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Having a good local bakery is the best thing. 🙂

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same same here. The bakery up on the corner of my street does a brilliant tiger roll. Coffee and other baked goods are meh, but the rolls and their banh mi are top of the range. I miss them at lot when they’re on holiday (like, at present).

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shoulder is fine - still twangy but I overreacted. Taleya was right, I don’t think it’s my rotator cuff; I most likely just slept on it and didn’t move for hours. I guess I am a bit of a hypochondriac, thanks mum 🙄🙄🙄

  The exercises have helped so much though, anyway. Another wake-up call from the Universe to quit smoking and actually look after my health - mental and physical.

  In other news, Myer Briggs and Enneagram tests are so fucking bogus. People basing their worldviews on psycho-babble like that need a different kind of help. The only thing they’re good for is self-relection, but only if one is self-aware enough to interrogate their own thought patterns objectively and fairly. Otherwise, they’re just excuses for people to never grow or change. Hate that shit so damn much.

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just woke up from a nap and was excited for a second that Myers offers personality test.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I failed my personality test :(

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just a slow housework and gardening kind of day.

  And I have another bag of stuff to take to the op shop, good stuff so I will take to the small shop, the one that does not extort buyers.

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  • kudra@aus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @Seagoon_ @Baku which op shop is this? I like promoting good small op shops over the majors.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The don bosco in Sydney rd Brunswick

      they are the cheapest around, I would say most customers are students

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Op shop prices are an interesting topic. I was talking to a friend the other day who volunteers at one (inner city), and she said they got so many people buying things to resell at a big margin, that they put the prices up so at least they got the $ for their charity and people who needed it. If anyone who comes in is really struggling, they will give them clothes etc for free.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good morning. I feel much more human today. I think I’ll go out

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• Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good morning world, today I must kick my own arse into cleaning and not being a massive slob.

  Tried yesterday and failed so we’ll see how that goes

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  hey guys, back from a nice bbq out in the suburbs. The air there smells of trees. 🙂

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I went out west and it smelled like poo until I got to my destination 😂

    But it’s so quiet and full of nature and wildlife - utterly entrancing!

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      here in the inner city it mostly smells like dust

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