Discussion Thread Thursday 9 April 2026
Submitted 3 days ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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StudChud@aussie.zone 2 days ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
🥐
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Merp
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Boyo can has new job. It may or may not include giant concrete frogs 🖤
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
yay 🐸🐸🐸
_miss_cellophane_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
First interview in my new job search and it was soooo bad. Too many red flags to accept of an offer was made. Bit sad, but also hopeful it pushes me in the right direction!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I am so impressed that you know red flags in employers and employment offers and are confident enough to reject. 👍😊
Husband got sucked in a few times , hopefully he’s better at that now. 😐
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Thanks everyone for the kind words :)
Today has been great! 3 final interviews next week which is good, but otherwise I enjoyed doing the simple things.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
spoiler
I’ve made the choice to give up the black cat to ensure that he has someone reliable to care for him. He deserves every bit of the same love and effort Melbcat got but it’s such a big commitment to foster or adopt right now and I don’t have it left in my tank. It breaks my heart. I was picking out names for him, trying to think how I’d make it through the long repetitive work of ringworm treatment and planning to buy him a funny mushroom themed scratcher to celebrate when it was over. But I really can’t take a new pet on right now and need to make sure he goes to someone who is reliably able to care for him. I hung out with him under cover feeding him and patting him during the storm, and he was asking to come in the house… Poor little man :( I hope he finds somewhere absolutely perfect for him and experiences all the joys of inside there. I love him too. I’m just not ready for him (or anyone) to take Melbcat’s place. I’m definitely going to second guess this and fret about how he’s doing, whether he’s going to be adopted, wishing things had been different. I’m scared because shelters and rescues are so full and he has a few things going against him for adoptability. But there’s a chance that this way he’ll end up getting a much better life than living on scraps of food and affection outside or living with someone who is so completely overwhelmed and not coping. I’m just trying to remember that the rescuers love cats to the point of going the extra mile like I do, and trust that his future owner sees how sweet and friendly he is the way I did. Rescuers are coming either tonight or tomorrow to get him. I just hope he’s around.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
so many hugs, you did great, are doing great 😘
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I hate this. But colder weather is coming and I don’t want him out there for another winter with his bad chest. Either I take him in or allow someone else to 💔
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Currently ready to chew bricks. Council web portal broken, phone hold messages include whistles and crowing roosters! Fuck the hell off with your sensory bullshit 🤯
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
phone hold messages include whistles and crowing roosters!
seriously?
who thought that was a good idea?
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Combine those with ‘be respectful to our staff’ messages and there’s a vast level of not having a clue going on.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I felt unusually tired today. Man came home with the sniffles. It’s a matter of time for me.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
yes, colds are doing the rounds, all the seagoons have had it and tiredness is the main symptom
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Oh no.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
No mouse in the trap but worked out a few things. It’s not peanut butter but bread. left a trail of it going up the ramp and it got to the end, only 2 bits shy (like 4cm shy) of the spinny bottle of DOOM.
So I know 3 things.
-it will go up the ramp
-bread
-I know where it lives… in the fireplace… (I’m not doing that).
Heading back to melbs today so will leave it set.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
no beach and it just might be too stormy to go out
I have stuff to do at home of course but I feel the need to walk
also, has anyone seen Melba, is she ok?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Hey, I’m ok, just had a busy day getting my flu and covid shots.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 days ago
So windy.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 days ago
The plan for today did involve a ladder. How about nope.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Laundry drying very quickly though.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
rain on the way
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
the air is fresh and clean and the skies have been beautiful 😊
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
This is an interesting watch and relevant to now. All about ancient collapse in 1200BC and the things surrounding it. He’s very clever at drawing parallels w/o being political.
Dudes first book was good and definitely going to read the second.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
what do youse guys when cats get under your feet and you’re carrying something really hot , like a kettle or fry pan or are walking up/down stairs?
i firmly tell the guys to move and I feel guilty doing it
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Firmly/loudly tell off and foot shove. Never had an actual accident with hot things, but one with a can of beetroot demonstrated just how nasty that might be.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I don’t think I have ever carried hot items on stairs…BUT if that happened, the cat would get pushed away with my foot (not a kick).
Love cats, but love not having burns even more.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I try to do the pushing with foot, sometimes they do not move. I just think it’s dangerous and I try to train them not to.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 days ago
“Movie it, furball”.
Punkin and Cerys started playing chicken with me when they were kittens. I stopped looking where I was stepping and started swinging my feet. They learned.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I have my feet flat on the ground and shuffle to put it down, or stop in place until they move (I also tell them to move)
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I was lucky with my old cat. If in the kitchen she’d be on the kitchen bench just watching. She always wanted higher ground (as abbys do). Stairs she’d race to the top / bottom. Only issue were the ambushes around corners. Got a few accidental kicks there but she kept ambushing so obviously didn’t mind.
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Holy crap just had a loud BANG out of nowhere after it had been raining and storming in the distance for 30 mins, flash warning only seconds before, my entire house vibrated. I jumped like I was watching a horror movie.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Same!!! I’m in Taylors Lakes and it looked like it was coming from the High School area or so…
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 days ago
oh I am clever o so clever. Centralised kodi symlinks w00t w00t
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Context?
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I’m converting some machines to kubuntu. However, dolphin is a bit of a bitch with winserver shares and auth, and it fucks me off having goddamn cifs hardcoded mounts to shares in fstab.
NERD
So i’ve spun up a tiny alpine vm called malcolm that basically just mirrors the winshares as nic shares. Then His Lordship wanted a mini media player for the brewery. I have a pc300 that’s perfect for that, so slapping libre/kodi on it. Of course, as detailed previously, i refuse to name MY tv shows on MY file server to please the machine. I use human names. Previously i’d written a script to symlink the movies / anime / tv shows on a winbox so i could rename the symlinks and have kodi (with a netflix skin) do its thing, but of course i don’t want to do that for every farking machine and you can’t share symlinks on a winbox as they’re kernel-specific. So more scripting - linux this time - and i have a centralised Kodi share on Malcolm that is named for Kodi. The script - which i’m Working out how to run when the source directory changes - creates two copies of the dir in symlink form. One is parity (if contents of server/show matches this, ignore), the other is Recently_Added (new stuff) that i then rename with filebot and move to kodi/tv_shows. So the wxrupt runs through, checks if there’s anything new in /server/tv, if yes, then create a symlink copy in parity, and one in recent_added that i then manually name for Kodi to parse. It also hunts and kills dead symlinks on the /mnt/kodi dir :)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
is the rain coming or not
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Yes. It’s hit steady here.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 days ago
o lawd it comin
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 days ago
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Skies darkening rapidly where I am
bacon@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Today is 1 year off suboxone, and a few weeks ago, marked 11 years sober.
There’s a couple of things I wanted to say to both get them off my chest, and maybe offer a window into what life is like with a past like mine.
tldr:
It’s been fascinating feeling things properly for the first time as an adult.
Sorry for the novella.
spoiler
So, suboxone is marketed as something that can supress cravings. The part they don’t tell you, is that it numbs your emotions significantly. So for 10 years, I thought that how I felt was normal. But as soon as I stopped taking suboxone, I realised what had been going on. It’s sneaky in a way. It happens so gradually so you don’t notice the slow erosion of the highs and lows of life. The first 3 months were incredible. Making music felt unreal. Really anything to do with music was unreal. Waves and waves of the happy head tingles (I don’t know the proper term). Everything felt amazing, because you know, I could actually feel things again. Socialising, gym, pretty much everything positive was amplified by 10. But that wasn’t going to last forever because the highs have to come with lows. All the things I’d been ignoring, all the things I thought I was ok with hit real hard. Imagine a decade of life experiences condensed into the space of say, 6 months.
It’s overwhelming. I realised that I’d effectively isolated myself from the world, thinking that it was fine and it didn’t bother me because I was content in my little numb bubble. Then came the regrets of the wasted time. Not just about my old life, but the 10 years of the half life I’d been living that were in the rearview mirror. In the last 12 months, I’ve had a couple of significant health scares, work issues, problems with maintaining friendships etc. No cravings even at my lowest. And I know for a fact that if certain things had happened back in my old life, I would have snapped and gone on an insane bender. I’m glad I stopped taking the stuff, don’t get me wrong, I just wish the doctor that was prescribing it had been a lot more upfront about the impact it would have long term. But like I said yesterday, the stats for people who stop taking it are fucking grim, so I’m guessing the medical literature indicates that it’s better that people never stop taking it. I think the reason I’ve succeeded at this whole thing in general, is that I don’t have a safety net, so I have to be my own. In the back of my mind at all times, I know that if I fail, there’s no rescue. ___
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Kitty hugs are better than drugs.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
hugs
also, not failure, not wasted time, maybe you were learning the skills to cope with all the highs and lows and getting yourself in a better environment
hugs again , you did great 🥹
also hugs to Gibson, who has been a terrific support 😸
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Thank you :) I guess in the end it did help me build a better life, so it’s not all a loss. And yes, Ms Gibson has been crucial for this entire adventure!
SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 days ago
You’re doing amazing. Sounds like the suboxone was the right choice at the time, things could have kept spiralling had you not made that choice. Be proud that you looked after yourself, no regrets. The medication has now done its job, you’ve moved forward, congrats on the one year! It’s a huge achievement especially in the context of those stats. Wow. Well done.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
yes, that’s how I see it
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I really appreciate the support :)
I agree with you, it did act as a kind of scaffolding, giving me enough foundation to build on. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I feel honoured that you are willing to share a situation so personal with us. It’s fucking admirable, and I am in considerable awe. Remember, we are here for you if things wobble a bit going forward. Safe space to vent and all that.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Well this place is incredibly unique and everyone here is supportive of one another, so I figured it couldn’t hurt to give a bit of a sneak peek into what’s been happening.
You guys have helped heaps :)
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Such a journey that you made it out from on top!
Nicely done dude!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Thanks bro! In my mind, there was no other choice really to be honest.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Sometimes it’s hard to step outside the circle to find out what’s wrong and how to fix it. You’re amazing and an inspiration. Much love ❤️
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
That’s really kind of you, I really appreciate it :) And hey, the worst part is over.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 days ago
You’re incredible!! Go you 💪💪
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Thank you :) you guys have been a great support.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
You’re doing so well man