Heater is on ❄️
Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025
Submitted 3 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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tone212_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
same
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I am resisting the urge.
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
So the cattery messaged me and said I’ll find out if I got the job by the end of the day Wednesday, because another applicant had to delay their trial shift.
Now me arriving 10 minutes early to mine looks real good methinks 🙏
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
🤞🤞🤞
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
omg, Ted loves watching the new Frankenstein movie 😻🧟 I’ll get a pic
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
yes, he is floofy,
and it’s late spring and I’m chasing him everywhere trying to brush his knots out, you would think I was killing him the way he carries on
I may have to get him sedated again to do the defluffing/deknotting
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Submit to the brush Ted! Otherwise you’ll need a lion shave and you’ll have a mullet again
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
it’s late spring
*allegedly
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Buy that churu stuff and as he’s licking you brush.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Floof alert!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
What a beautiful floofball
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
He’s purrfect!
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
It is December. The tree is going up
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
2 more weeks for me
but I will put up some solar lights outside and then they can stay up all year
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Sometimes I get so bored at work that I do actual work.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I feel lucky that getting bored at work means I can get on those backburner projects you always wanted to get around to but never could
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I get most, if not all, of my work done by 11 am each day. Afternoon is dedicated to catching up on tv shows etc.
Anything comes up work related, it gets done straight away.
It’s a good way to avoid boredom :)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I love this
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Can I have your job?
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Shame on you!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Currently I’m making to my own work.
12 months worth of marketing newsletters is almost done. It took 2 days.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
This hot dry weather coming is just the thing I need so I can clean the wool rugs and hang them out.
Am missing the beach but too tired and it’s a bit wild out there still
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Pakidge!
I decided I wasn’t happy with how well the food processor kneads bread dough and decided to get a bread maker. It also gives me another option for making yoghurt which is a good thing, I usually make it in the rice cooker and some times I want to make both rice and yoghurt and things get awkward.
Myers had the model I got on special, so I price matched it with Appliances Online and bought it through them. It’s funny to think when I was growing up Myers was considered a top store with great service and now I’d prefer not to buy from them if I can avoid it and don’t really trust their customer service to be up to scratch. How the world has changed.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Same here re Myer. Last time I went I stood in the store for a good 10 minutes and was not approached once by a staff member. This would’ve been unheard of with the Myer of my youth.
Also let me know how you go with the breadmaker. I’ve been a little tempted but I’m sticking with my stretching-and-folding sourdough thing for now.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I have had a few breadmakers before. They are really good at kneading dough (and providing a warm place for it to rise) but are not as good at the actual baking. I intend to just use it for the kneading and then bake the loaf in the oven. Which is how my mother has been using hers for years too, with very good results.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Husband. I might use the big vacuum cleaner in my office. Me. It’s good to use the big one sometimes as the robot doesn’t get the edges well. Husband. The robot doesn’t clean in here. Me. Do you bring it in, do you switch it on Husband. No. Me. Then how can it can clean.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Nothing like some sneaky 15c hail 1st day of summer.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Welcome back YarraByte, hope you’r feeling ok.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Plot twist: YarraByte is not a bot and Briongold is posting the threads himself each night
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Is he aware he’s not a bot, or is it a Multiple Personality Disorder situation?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I hope not, if it is maybe we can take turns.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Iboughttheoilpaintsdon’tlookatme
scuttles into a corner
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
🙂 👋
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
🫥🫣😳
And not even the water soluble ones as they were so costly and would probably require the risky stuff anyway… I found a very cheap tiny starter pack of the real dealio.
Safety rambles
Probably poor quality and not thick enough for my purpose and there probably isn’t enough white to make Magic White without finishing the tube. There are two little brushes included but they’ll have to serve, to not mix the ones for oil and acrylic. Added a tiny bottle of the linseed oil (refined is safer and I plan to soak the used paper towels in water then discard sealed in a ziploc or some container - I’ll ask the council). I really got stung badly on the large bottle of odourless spirits though because there were no small bottles in stock. Ouch. I’m thinking to clear off a plastic table near one screen door to keep everything away from curious little beans and lickable fur. And set a fan blowing through it to force the fumes outside (with the opposite door cracked for air flow and added pressure).
…Now to just ignore all my art supplies forever like a lazy useless p.o.s because of fear of failure 😔
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s coming down hard out there and there’s sunshine.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Peak rainbow weather. Look to the east, there may be pretty colours there.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Nice thread YarraByte, spin me a yarn
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Spin us a yarn you’re Yarrabyte, spin us a yarn tonight
For we’re all in the mood for a narrative and you’ve got us feeling alright
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I read a “theory” that the Piano Man is actually performing in a gay bar and it cracks me up whenever I hear the song. I love it.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Be careful, he might balls it up 🧶🧶👆⤴️
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
The last coat of paint has gone on the lawnmower. I failed to keep the paint off my hands this time, so I’m now sprorting yellow spots. We should have a couple of mostly dry days coming up so I’ll be able to get out and cut the grass and see how much difference to new sharp blades make.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Always wanted to sharpen my mower blades.
Also you’d mow more quickly had you painted it red.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
My last lawnmower was basically a glorifies whipper snipper and had a plastic ‘blade’. Having to worry about things like sharpening a blade is a new thing for me.
I don’t really want the lawnmower to go too fast, I generally keep the speed control closer to tortoise than hare, so red could have been a problem. The yellow is all underneath so is mostly invisible anyway & I’m pretty sure the red thing only works if you can see it.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
A few more yellow poppies are out and the vermilion nasturtiums are rioting. They don’t seem to need any help so I’ll leave them be. Boring.
I want to buy some water soluble oils but don’t know how to dispose safely of the wash water, don’t know what to do if cleaning or thinning does require linseed oil, and honestly I don’t think I can shift myself to actually use them.
Depressed as fuck and art blocked to the point I don’t even want to practice 😔 Can’t even pick up a pencil and practice.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Put the manky paints stuff on some kitty litter then bag and bin it?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s actually a really good idea. Maybe I can wait till I’ve binned the used litter and tip the dirty paint water in the bin on top of it.
Just a bit worried because it may contaminate quite a lot of water during the cleaning, too much to absorb without wasting expensive clean litter, as a review said that soap and water cleaning was very inefficient and they ended up eventually resorting to solvent or linseed oil anyway. And the ‘soluble’ paints didn’t thin well with water.
Safety ramble
I could use a few drops of linseed oil for thinning only and wash brushes with odour free solvent with all the fans going full blast, but that’s like doing traditional oil paints anyway and really does seem like it needs a studio and safety measures I don’t have. If not for me, for my cat. She likes to be right in the thick of things. And the cost of the materials… Evaporation and disposal of the solids is possible but not practical in a small space and if there’s a lot of liquid. Acrylics are a lot more practical in every way but I just really don’t enjoy working with them. They’re so thin and smeary, low quality and streaky.
Ah well… I do have to learn to draw worth a damn before I begin painting anyway.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
take some photos of your flowers
pick some flowers and put them in a vase
You have created something beautiful. That is art. 😘😘😘
and for practice, get some colouring books , it’s easy, relaxing and kinda practice
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I have adult colouring books but don’t really get anything out of them.
I’ll have to remember to donate them somewhere for Christmas gifts. I have a stack that I don’t use.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Operation UnKAOS is going really well.
I have learnt to not let mission creep eat up my time.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Sorting through jewellery I have bought, repaired and jewellery findings for bad parts that might be made with toxic metals.
a lot of things I buy are not cheap and they are just fake , they even fake safety certs
throwing out some new things, 😠remaking some and substituting with safe old parts
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
How is it December already?
Not sure if the tree is going up in this house because I have a dog that pees on almost any corner he is capable of lifting his leg on
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I have a cat who would make it his personal mission to attack attack attack.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
If I put a tree up I’d be sacrificing my clothes horse space so that ain’t happening. Then you gotta tear it down a month later. I can’t be bothered with that shit.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I put it up early to terrorise the husband who has not yet even thought about presents
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Ditching the polyfil doona for 100% natural is the best sleep thing I’ve done in forever! It’s not totally hormonal bullshit, it’s not cooking yourself in a plastic bag every night
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
My girlfriend tried to use her laptop to look at some Black Friday stuff last night and she’s just getting sick of how slow it is. It ‘upgraded’ itself to W11 a while ago and that’s part of her problem. The other one is probably that it’s only running on 8gb RAM.
I think she wants to run a debloater finally but I may get her to covert over to Linux completely. If I did she would actually be more all in on Linux than me, I still have Windows on one of the drives of my main computer.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
So what is everyone doing on this very rainy day? 🌧️☔🙂
bacon@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
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Last night I washed a couple of soft toys that had been hanging out in the laundry basket for ages in a bucket. Hung them in the shower to drip dry but they’re still really wet where water has collected at the bottom. I squeezed some of it out but I might have to rough up the stuffing further by wrapping them in a towel and squeezing or weighting.
I probably did it wrong but am just trying to get things around the house cleaned and sorted as straightforward as possible.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
overwhelm
i am still doing an assignment that was due a week ago. family is giving me a lot of shit for it and making me feel ashamed. lots of the whole “get a job” and “what have you contributed to this family?” talk and that i’m a loser. i am focusing on finishing this assignment tonight and going to apply for jobs so i’m not underemployed. i don’t know if i want to do this course anymore, or if i could take it on if i was actually treated for adhd. the dr said no stimulants, and i’m scared to try anymore meds. i’ve tried three different meds and none of them ‘worked’. this plus the itching that’s lasted for months. i wonder if it’s stress related. going to give it a couple more days of moisturising and see if it works. google says it’s a sign of cancer. of course it does.
Force_majeure112@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Today is fucking rough. Personal reasons but yeah.
Defs down in the dumps.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Sending lots of gentle love and hugs! Let me know if you’d prefer a silly joke or a cat photo or both!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Thank you :) cat photos are always welcome
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
more hugs
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
hugs
Eagle@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
A bad day does not equate to a bad life. Sending hugs, chocolate and compassion.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Thats great advice ❤️
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Hugs 🫂❤️
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I hope your day turned out better than it started 🫂
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Hang in there bro.