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Discussion Thread ☕ Tuesday 16 December 2025

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨YarraByte@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨melbourne@aussie.zone⁩

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The new relationship continues. We spent the night discussing what we were bringing to a party this weekend.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So what are you collectively bringing to the party?

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      • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Martinis and honey joys.

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Julie Andrews, Pride and Prejudice and delicious ravioli

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      sounds like a nice night

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The triplets eating lunch with the big bad wolf (not pictured) circling their flimsy wire house. Just kidding. He’s busy chasing birds.

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    Ps. Guinea pig sex is not something I wanted to watch on my coffee break.

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    • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Did you do a David Attenborough style commentary to accompany the sight?

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        More a Steve Irwin. “C’mon boys. Not on me smoko please”.

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Guinea pig sex

      lol, told ya.

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You did indeed! I’ve lived a sheltered life up until now.

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    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re very cute though!! Especially the one on the left! I thought you mentioned they were all boys? Or do guinea pigs just hump any other guinea pig?

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      • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Guinea pigs will hump. Humping can be sexual, but it can also be a dominance thing too

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The one on the left is the root rat.

        Everything Spud said.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They look like rockstars

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      it’s hilarious. The gyrating. The rowling. It’s like something out of an 80’s porno.

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When I grow up I am gonna be the sort of person that replaces the soda stream bottle before the backup also runs out.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have found the worlds greatest website designer

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    The website is full of absolute gold lol

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen these everywhere and it kind of reminds me of the single guy from Adelaide ads

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen these too and have been somewhat tempted to check out the website. I’ve always wondered how this sort of advertising in the physical world for a digital product might go

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      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is one of the best marketing campaigns I’ve ever seen lol. It’s definitely targeted at a particular market segment.

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    • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hate that sticker advertising so fucking much. It makes tags look like fine art.

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      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m ambivalent. Better that than the nazi shit I see around.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that person has experience with people who do not pay

      I do not blame them one bit

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m still shaken by the Bondi massacre. Some humans such pieces of sh1t. Not only the ones that did the attacking, but some of the rhetoric flying about is also revolting.

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    • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Same, I’ve had to limit my exposure to the news and online commentary because it was really affecting me yesterday.

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      • duncan_bayne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I did this some time ago - I have a very heavily filtered Mastodon feed, and a carefully curated RSS feed - both mostly around tech news, and as little to do with LLMs as possible.

        Don’t regret this for a minute from a mental health perspective, especially when something happens like this.

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      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        same and hugs,

        I can’t think about it too much or I get triggered/flashbacks to incident earlier this year

        it must be like this for so many people

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      • Baku@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
        bondi

        Yeah it was for me too. I ended up deleting the ABC app because I was compulsively checking it every 20 or so minutes for most of yesterday. They showed photos of the victims (taken before it happened) and that broke me. I just couldn’t deal with it and broke down. I’ve still checked the website too many times today, but I’m slightly more composed than yesterday.

        I just wanted to drop in and make sure everybody was holding up okay, or i guess better than I was. Hugs, not that that feels very helpful at the moment, at least not to me :/

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Child support rant:

    It has been determined that I have to pay my ex child support even though we live together, I’m on record with Centrelink as paying for all household expenses and the children spend 7 nights a week in my part of the house🤦🏼‍♀️. We technically classify as Separated Under One Roof, so we are co-parenting whilst separated but still living together. It’s increasingly common where both parties to a separation lack the financial means to move out of the family home or want to minimise any negative impact on the children (in our case, both). There’s no formal custody agreement because we just sort stuff out based on which parent is available to do it. I haven’t even been officially informed yet, he got his letter first. I’ll be disputing it. Even he thinks it is a dumb decision. He knows he’s got a good deal as it is… I pay for everything because I’m working and he’s not, including his car insurance, registration and phone bill because you need that stuff in order when you’re running errands with kids. It’s in my interests for him to be able to pick up the kids from school, for example, or I’d have to take time off from work to do it, so there’d be less money coming into the household which would negatively impact everyone. As I said I’ll be disputing it, when they decide to inform me that is! It just feels like a kick in the guts before Christmas, and I feel emotionally winded.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s fucked.

      Hey, if you earn under the threshold you might be entitled to a health care card. It gives you discounts on some of your bills. I’d check that out.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      including his car insurance, registration and phone bill

      that’s the child support etc

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      At least he agrees with you and seems to be willing to accept the change. It would be so much harder if he tried to fight as well and make you pay him

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I assume you have to tell the gummit about the split and child support due to C-link payments? Otherwise I’d advise to just come to an agreement yourselves (twas what my mum and dad did when they split, but tbf neither were on C-link at the time).

      Definitely raise a dispute, it might help if you both raise one as well? I’m sorry you’re going through this peeler 💜💜

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is weird.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh that is bs. How are you going to pay for everything and then some

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s vindicating to sit in on a meeting with people telling the team to pretty much do the thing I’ve been saying.

    A supplier has had a whirlwind of a time selling a product we’ve been struggling to sell, and they’ve been doing it in a way I’ve said we should approach things. This place can be a little backwards in some respects, so it’s great to hear from outsiders they’re having success in the ways I’ve been saying we should move for a while.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Melbcat was denied the outside all morning while I got sleep, then was granted a short time before coming back in for bathroom and visitor.

    I’ve also resoaked the big window with vinegar and done an initial scrub and wipe. The mould reached the curtains too… I don’t want to get spores in my machine by washing them, and new ones are expensive.

    Wondering if I also need to wipe down the back of the blinds.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    good night everyone

    sweet dreams 😽

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have a psych session today and I don’t know what to talk about. I feel like I’m wasting my money. But I’m not super satisfied with my life right now, so something must be going on still. We shall see.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe it isn’t you.

      Maybe other people are making your life harder than it could be.

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      • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s what my psych thinks. Also my neurotype. We ended up doing a formulation today and we talked about how common strategies to help mental health problems might not work for me because of my environment.

        And my environment isn’t even bad.

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    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve had the same thing before but have found pretty quickly that my psych is quickly able to pick up something that might be bothering me or is able to lead a discussion into something I didn’t realise I wanted to talk about that day.

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      • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Wow I wish I was that good at asking questions!!

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was planning to mow the grass today, but one of my darling pets threw up on the bedroom carpet so I ended up steam cleaning the bedroom instead (I could have just done a spot clean, but figured the whole room was due anyway). I even took the rugs outside to shake as much dog hair out of them as possible. Now I just need to clean the windows.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    For everyone still awake, have a pic of Mickey in the blanket fort I made him (with help from a resident chair)

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      aw, sleepy boy 😽

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    EPIC - 15 days of free games for xmas with today’s being Hogwarts Legacy. Fuck Rowling but free is free, bitch aint getting my coin.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Free’s free. I remember one of the first ones I got on was Axiom Verge and that was pretty good. There tends to be a lot of games that feel like ‘epic slop’ to me but you might as well get them.

      But then I never play anything because it still ain’t steam

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      • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re giving away RdR2 on NYD.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image I need this book lol

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was already booked in but time to go donate some O+ to the cause. Need a shower first, I hated treating manky bodies as a therapist and I’m currently manky.

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Morning has broken. I may have dropped it

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Superglue?

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    gees today I feel and look tired and old 🫠

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    time for some xmas shopping, will do it while the weather is mild

    then back home to do my UnKAOS, dinner is already cooked, green curry,

    and have some sewing and will water tomato plants

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Coffee’s not doing the trick this morning. My new alarm clock is the power company setting up roadworks signs right in front of my place, they’re replacing power lines around the corner. Who knew setting up those signs required extensive banging. Yesterday it was the council ripping up some of the footpath at 7am. There’s some kind of construction blitz going on right now, I just want to sleeeeep.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read a book about the Australian artist Sidney Nolan.

    The Ned Kelly and the Burke and Wills is good, otherwise I don’t like it much.

    One reason I don’t like it is that it plays into the myth that the Australian spirit is in the bush and outback.

    ( Counihan was a prolific contemporary of Nolan and pictured Australians where they lived, in the cities, yet barely anyone knows of him )

    Would I have some Nolan hanging up, no.

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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Drunk raccoon update

    Gotta wait for the end - but I WANT THAT T SHIRT!

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Beep Beep 🚚
    🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Caffeine IV please chef, and a choc chip bikkie

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      • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        ☕️💉🍪

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tuesday mornings are extra hard to get going. I need some coffee. Or chocolate. Or both.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Mocha?

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    taking the night watch

    spoiler

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    awake crew

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