Discussion Thread 🪇 Wednesday 25th June

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨47⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

  Before Sunset thoughts: ahhhhhhhhhh

  That was a nice little distraction.

  4/5 Hobbits.

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• PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Goodnight everyone, I’m tired as. Gonna do my usual and fall asleep now and wake up in the early hours…

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  not too warm here, brr

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Started making dinner at 7pm, bad idea. Just sat down after getting through dish mountain and cleaning up around the place. I made chicken katsu curry for the first time, will be adding that to my stale dinner rotation.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m honestly exhausted. I think it’s bedtime

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve achieved my dream finally.

  Playing drums to my own guitar tracks.

  I can’t explain how fucking cool this is, even as a fairly shit drummer lol

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Hey good on you! You don’t have to be John Bonham to enjoy making music.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My advice is more cowbell. It’s not great advice though.

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Went into Aldi and forgot to buy apple strudel. The shame! The shame!

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I’m go8ng to try but I’ve run out of freezer space

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    💔

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    🍎🥧

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    JC. You had one job.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I decided to take a deep breath, steel myself and have a look through my supervisor’s revision - half the intro was basically rewritten but it does at least flow better and the points made aren’t substantially different. The discussion needs a big boost though. It’s doable. I am going to have a nice hot dinner of paratha and some super spicy prawn curry, have a hot shower, and then burrow in bed to do some nyt word puzzles with brown noise until I fall asleep.

  There’s some real gremlins in my brain playing the old classics on repeat from bad academic experiences of the past but I ain’t giving them a voice today. There’s work to be done once this is all over, for sure.

  Deadline is technically Monday but supervisor also thinks I can get this across the line before COB Friday so we’re gonna fucking do it and I can truly relax on the weekend

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sounds like your supervisor is on your side 😊

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I got 2 callbacks from applications I put in yesterday!

  Fuck yeah.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hell yeah! Simon is a wanted man! How did the CEO chat go?

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was OK. He’s a nice guy but he’s too far up to relate to what’s happening in middle management.

      We’ll see how these interviews pan out.

      I really didn’t want to start another goddamn probation but here we are.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yay 😊

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Go you!

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oohh that’s good news!

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice!

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can feel the freezing air coming through the window of my office. I think it’s more obvious today because of how cold it is and maybe the direction of the wind is perfect south as this is a south-facing room. Must counteract with heating ($$$).

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes I wish I wasn’t studying and could go home like the rest of my family and just relax. I just want to get this shit done and relax for two weeks.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are going to pass because you are intelligent , hard working and you want this.

    I remember when I was at uni studying chinese language and art at night , I loved it and was working hard and doing well . Then the fam started booking fam events on the nights when I had school and would tell me to drop classes. I said no and the only one backing me up was miss seagoon who was here on holiday. I went to classes.

    Why would they even do that?

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks Seagoon, I hope so.

      That would’ve been frustrating to deal with. I’m glad you went to those classes :)

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I watch and read a lot of essays and pods and stuff about movie and tv and one thing I notice is that writers like to effusively write about all the influences and all the references to other works, books and movies and art, in a movie or show.

  I would love to sit and discuss with an average real person who doesn’t make tv or movies and we can find all the artistic references they have spoken or written that day in the course of their everyday life.

  because art is every where and in everyone’s everyday lives, they just forgot

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The tissue box next to me has a printed marble pattern on it. Marble has been used to beautify objects and spaces for thousands of years. It’s expensive so it’s used by the wealthy and thus associated with luxury. The echos of that art have traversed thousands of years to be printed on a tissue box.

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• indisin@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Got my first offering from the local wild magpies today in the form of a finger lime.

  finger lime

  Looking for any tips on how to teach them what credit cards look like and why they’re a better offering. Should I pretend to eat a credit card next time they’re here or something?

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They might do better with diamonds. They’re meant to like shiny things, it’s just convincing them to share nicely.

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    • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Diamonds are worthless though when you try and resell, you only are offered the weight in gold of the ring they’re on. First hand experience.

      So I’d need to train them to pull off the worlds greatest diamond heist of all time to steal an actually rare one. Any tips on that?

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    teach them what $2 coin or bank notes look like 👍

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    • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even I don’t know what those look like anymore

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Finger lime😃 I love those things! Maybe I can teach corvids in my area to bring me some 🤔

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eat oyster

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Argh, supervisor has already done a very quick review of thesis. I’m way too brain dead to look at it today and take on the emotional damage - I’m going to go to bed early tonight and have another crack tomorrow morning before prepping for the preso in the afternoon. Apparently I still do need to add more references and beef up the discussion but I also kind of don’t wannaaaaaa. I’m so done with reading dense academic articles about stuff I don’t really care that much about…

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  weather took me by surprise, had the wrong coat on, no hat , no gloves, thankfully I had on a big wool scarf

  shopping went well, I got some boots that are pretty roomy so should be good for hiking in nz👍

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I own a bowler hat. I’ve never worn it but I have one.

    Glad outing was successful 🙂

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is cool. 😊

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Loads I could be doing at work but my brain Just. Doesn’t. Want. To.

  Felt so cranky that I even went and sat in my car in my lunchbreak so that no one could talk to me.

  Pretty sure it’s the weather’s fault! Might go for a swim tonight and see if that cheers me up at all.

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel that. Sometimes you feel like there’s so much you should be doing that you do nothing. Or you end up working on the least important thing. Or you’re getting things done but it doesn’t feel like you’re getting anything done.

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No one in my team was in the office today so I had a sneaky extended lunch break to pick up my Rock Pi. I might try Home Assistant on it if there’s a working image.

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pray for me this afternoon when I’m outside.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t want to cook. Venturing into the wet … in my Purple Wooly Cape!

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s warmed up to a barmy 8C here, beating the forecast high of 7C. Luckily I have a roaring fire and I am toasty.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That looks lovely, enjoy!

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Had ticket inspectors on the tram do our tickets, get off at Anzac station, then a new crew of em got on at the next stop 🤣 be careful on st Kilda Rd today guys!

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  just a heads up for those into That Sort of Thing: Bunnings are tossing out the TPlink p100 and P150 smart sockets for 16 each, and yes they are fully compatible with home assistant and can run offline once you’ve set them up.

  Just don’t try to find them at the moorabbins bunnings, someone already cleared them out.

  cough.

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just picked up a couple of these myself. The 4 pack is $60, so a little cheaper again if you know you’ll use them.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      59 to be megaprecise, and I nabbed one of tohse too. They’re only the 100s though, so no usage monitoring (I specifically got some 150s for stuff in the server rack)

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fire drill! Yay paid time off work

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    drill is sad :(

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My manager is giving me the silent treatment.

  Jesus christ lol

  I’ve got a meeting with the CEO this afternoon to have a casual chat. A meeting I requested. So let’s see how this plays out.

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s crazy your immediate manager would do that. I hope something comes around for you soon.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How did it go?

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I resigned from a job yonks ago and the whole senior leadership team of the not-particularly-big org gave me the silent treatment for my whole notice period. I was pretty junior and they’d been treating me like shit, it can’t have been surprising that I was leaving. Such strange people. It was very primary school.

    Good luck with the meeting! And with the job hunting!

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t understand people like that and how they even end up as managers. Such shitty behaviour. Hope your casual chat goes well!

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    omg, how old are these people?

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m gonna guess no older than 12

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hail! So much excitement today.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Between the weather and not nearly enough sleep I’m completely phoning it in today. Fuck me I don’t know why they insist on cracking the window open slightly while having the reverse cycle on in the office, I get that it’s stuffy but this is really defeating the purpose

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stops the windows from fogging up.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Alarm! Alarm! Nothing on Vic Emergency. No fucking clue, upsetting everybody

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it was Seagoon burning the onions again

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  off to Bogong to buy some hiking boots.

  stay warm guys😊

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What did you end up getting?

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• PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ah bugger, forgot my lunch in the hustle of getting the kids ready for school 😕 AND missed the bus 🙄

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lattouf v ABC judgment this morning at 10:15. Unfortunately while ABC has come out of this looking terrible, I suspect they are probably right to be feeling a little less nervous at the outcome than Antoinette Lattouf.

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