I visited the new Rosanna library today. The balustrade pictured here is 10mm thick steel. Obviously it wouldn’t be a single piece but it looks like one. It’s quite astonishing. I’m puzzled by the fact that it’s painted though. If you use a material like that in a way that’s a bit unusual and clearly meant to be a design feature, don’t hide it with paint 🤷
Discussion Thread 😃 Thursday 12 March 2026
Submitted 3 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Also impressed by the handrail work!
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I dream of having a house with a statement curved staircase like this, that I descend to my guests watching my grand entrance below.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Ooh this is cool!!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
We’ll need to go check it out soon. The old library was underwhelming to say the least
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
The other day my building’s fire alarm went off, and it wasn’t a test lol I spent 5 minutes chasing Mickey with a towel to get him in the carrier and then hustled downstairs to hang with all the other resident cats in their carriers.
Took about half an hour, but it turns out the cafe they’re putting in downstairs on the street, they’re doing renos, tripped it accidentally. No actual fire.
We got back upstairs and Mickey promptly nipped my ankles and calves, until I plied him up with a tube treat mixed with some dry treats.
This is him afterwards
Eagle@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I have 3 cats and a hyperactive jack russell… I’d be fucked getting them all out in a hurry.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
My dog would push me out the way to get out first.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I don’t think Mr Woof would go well in an appartment, but in a house he’s great - he self-evacuates to the back yard every time there is a noise he doesn’t like. Which includes smoke alarms, blenders, crockery clinking… He evacuates multiple times a day when I’m home!
Miss Meow would be a problem if she gets scared and goes into hide mode. She’s black and can melt into shadows, there is a good chance I wouldn’t be able to find her in an emergency.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I went to a burger place next to a building doing am evacuation one time. All these people came oit together with their pets and then there was this one guy with his golf clubs
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’d have Gibson in one hand and my favourite guitar in the other lol
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That guy had his priorities straight! His place burned down, can’t a man golf? 😂
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
He spent a lot of money on those golf clubs.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Every night I wake up into this awful sickening void. Melbcatless. I loved her. Unsure if I’m giving myself a break to heal or self isolating.
The trigger of the spray cleaner bottle wasn’t springing back after being depressed so I got in the habit of pushing it forward with my ring finger to keep on spraying… doing that scraped some skin off my finger and it’s now trying to get infected. I’ve attended to it and it’s starting to look better but I’m watching.
Haven’t seen the shadow around. It’s a mix of relief and guilt.
I’ve sent a get well package to someone, I forgot if they’re a tea person 😵💫
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
so many hugs
you’re such a good person to care for others even while you are still bereft yourself
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
🖤
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
The surgery was a success. I was able to move my Majora’s Mask save across computers, across OSes, onto the Bazztop.
That was the last thing stopping me from wiping the other laptop and getting jiggy with it
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Tachycardia sucks ass
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I hope you’re doing OK ❤️
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Dude WTF?! Be well!
(My MarioKart skills aren’t that scary)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
take care
sending healing vibes
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Water company taking the piss yet again. No, we will not be paying the bill for the entire set of units. Just like last quarter. Get your arse into gear for a ream from the ombudsperson.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
My new fitness watch
is arriving todayarrived as I was writing this message, so I’ll be able to start actually tracking my steps. My initial goal for steps should be quite achievable: wear the watch for a week and figure out what I’m actually doing now.Some weights are expected to arrive today or tomorrow, most likely they will arrive tomorrow with a whole bunch of stuff that will be piled up at my door for me to struggle to move inside after getting home late from Melbourne. Any time you only have one day you’re not home that’s when the parcels are most likely to be delivered!
As well as the treadmill I’m also waiting on some new scales, as mine died last week after I finally got around to putting new batteries in. It managed one last weight measure, then got stuck trying to connect to wifi and passed away peacefully overnight. Plus some little miscellaneous things like a little whiteboard to write down my plans and some new shoes.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Hell yeah!!!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Yay exciting!!!
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
This all sounds awesome, can’t wait to hear about your progress!
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I mean, how could you?! He belongs there.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
aw
he looks tired out 🖤
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s a spoonbill at the beach, they swish their bills in the water to feed. I don’t see many of them as seagulls hate them and will drive them away.
I also saw fairy wrens, some big ducks, pelicans, seagulls, terns, stilts, moor hens, red cap plovers, topknot doves, sparrows, willy wag tails,
and lots and lots of star fish .
It really was good to see all the wild life even if it was so cold and windy today
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just had a visit from the local JWs. Definitely one of the less annoying types of proselytiser.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I had them not long ago. They started debating me on something but as soon as I said “look, you’re trespassing” they up and left. They younger lass tried to continue but the older guy was all nah we really gotta go.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Nice people, terrible organisation.
StudChud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
When I was in Perth last October, my partner and I were waiting in the car, in the carpark, and we saw and were approached by American Mormons on a mission lol. They tried to convert us, we politely declined and they left. They were two young women, maybe barely 18-21?, and there was an older man close by keeping an eye on them, I assume like a chaperone.
It was very strange. I didn’t think they came to Australia, I thought their missions usually involved going to the global south, not the actual south lol
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s so funny. Reminds me of the Book of Mormon musical. I still have to go see that
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Woo! Free reusable coffee cup at the conference. I didn’t even know it was part of the deal. I’ve seen these ones around too, they’re the expensive ones
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Organising win for the day: the box my fit watch came in is the perfect fit to go in my bathroom organiser and tidy up my unruly packets of dental floss picks.
I’ve tidied up the bathroom cabinet a bit, and a section of the pantry that was a chaotic mix of vitamin pills, pet supplies and a few random things that were far better off elsewhere.
I’m continuing to work on the area of the study that became a dumping ground for all the miscellaneous stuff I wasn’t sure where to put when I moved. The plan is to clear out all the excess clutter and tidy everything up and create space for the new fitness stuff.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Got antibiotics and just as well because my finger is swelling up.
spoiler
Saw some pet things I’d been looking for in pink. I only find those items now. And fully expected to see her when I got home 💔
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
hugs
I used to expect to hear Allie’s meow and would sometimes see her out the corner of my eye. But it was just habit and wishing.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
mumble ranting about transport companies Bad juju today.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Looks like it’s a day of reading reddit again.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
We all have those days. Hope you’re doing okay
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Coming home from the city today there were all these cops milling around at the gates to the station. Seeing all the cops just milling around with the vigil for the guy behind them made me want to say to them, “bit late now you useless cunts.”
There are posters and shit around demanding the police station be open 24/7 as a result. It makes me ask, where the fuck were the cops the night all this happened? They’ve shown they can increase their presence at the station whenever they want, and our wannabe liberal member got a hold of my email address and was harping on about the crime at the station months ago.
So if this was a known issue, how was a kid able to be mugged in the first place? And why was a regular passer-by the person to intervene. The demand is going to be for increased police presence, but I feel this whole incident and the police response shows how useless and ineffective they are.
Like really, do they expect kids to try mug anyone at the train station so soon? What do they think hanging around at the station will achieve aside from justifying their own existence?
The only time I’ve seen the police at the station before this was at 6pm on a week day to catch fare evaders. Who do they think they’re stopping at 2pm on a Thursday? Bunch of useless cunts, the lot of them.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I made fajitas for tomorrow nights dinner and now my house smells of fajitas but I can’t eat them yet 🙁
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
so very itchy
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m going to be wearing a coat today 😐
bacon@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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bacon@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Good night everyone
take care, sending healing vibes to all who need them
sweet dreams 😘
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
beach, I will take photos 🙂
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
more PHM and physics
I had an image of the universe being like hills and troughs , a non euclidean spacescape
and another image I had is of countless overlapping spheres with geodesics
both these are products of the way time time space is depicted in books
but once I remembered that each illustration is meant to describe only one instance, one body, then those constructs are obviously wrong
space is just space, there are no hills and troughs or spheres
all that is happening is one object behaving like it’s on a hill or trough or sphere , there are billions of objects out there each going on their own specific paths
I’m still not good with gravity and time dilation, I will study more 🙂
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Still at the hospital.
Stuff is back to normal but they did a thyroid blood test and they think it’s over-active which might have led to the heart stuff.
Feel bad, the strays will be waiting and I ain’t getting home anytime soon
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Oh no. Take care and yep hyper thyroid will do it!
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Sending good vibes!!!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
🫂
SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Glad you’re ok and they found some answers.
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Glad you’re back to normal, hope you’re out of the hospital soon.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Damn, sorry to hear that and hope you’re doing alright
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Shit :( I hope everything gets sorted soon
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
so many hugs
it can be frightening but it’s very treatable, you’ll be fine 😘
the fluffy guys will be ok for a day or two