melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕️ Saturday 25 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
No, I don’t overreact or overclean. And I’m not dramatic.
It may be a fungus but is not a simple easy thing to get rid of if you have a google. My immune system also isn’t good (I’ve had it for 2 months and it spread). Plus other people’s laziness means I’ve had to deal with something shitty that’s not my responsibility. And now have to nag them about it.
I am so tired of other people’s bullshit.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕️ Saturday 25 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
I’ve done the caring for him as an outside cat and it was incredibly stressful for me. A lot of labour and encourages him away from home. I just can’t do it anymore.
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I had to routinely don long clothes and gloves whenever I saw him then wash hands and shower fully with antifungal products and reapply treatment on my own lesions after. So much laundry on hot with sanitizer, and carpet shampooing. I can’t take constantly having to prevent reinfection. It was also hurting my mental health. He refused the ringworm tablet hidden in food, I got two doses down the hatch by wrestling him but then he started hiding from me and I had to go looking for him. At that point I realised “this is crazy”, dumped all the cat stuff on the owners doorstep and emailed asking them to take him to the vet. I don’t think they have. I’ve handed over all the treatments I have which will be expensive and an hassle to get more of. (The tablets are prescription and came from the rescue lady. The lime sulfur dip alone was $50 and I don’t know if he’d let me bathe him.) And I’m not legally able to confine someone else’s pet for treatment or take him to the vet myself. They will have to do it. And he’s still hanging around my door waiting to rub up me or door dash in. So unless I want to be on an endless ringworm reinfection treadmill (I really don’t) I am going to have to be a Karen, make a report to RSPCA or the council. And I’m worried about the backlash when I do. This is actually kind of a nightmare. I can’t begin to tell you how much I didn’t and don’t want to deal with this.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕️ Saturday 25 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
I agree. My own stuff is enough to deal with for now.
Problem is I’m trying to avoid and ignore him, but he sometimes blocks me into my house because I’m trying to avoid physical contact and he’s waiting near the door to actively pursue it. It’s stressing me out. As is the idea of continuing to nag or confront neighbours (I don’t know these people and have had some dangerous experiences/sustained harassment in the past).
I’m very much not trying to adopt or take in the cat. I’m trying to make his owners take him to the vet and treat him so he stops reinfecting me.
I’ve just tried to submit a report to the RSPCA with photos and a video from my phone but it’s hanging on send. I’ll try again later on the computer.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕️ Saturday 25 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Oh no. The black kitty has heard some noise and come to sit on my doorstep wanting to be let in.
Not a big deal except I’m kind of trapped inside due to trying to avoid him and prevent him from dashing inside. It feels terrible but I’m pretty sure he’s not been treated for the ringworm (and could still be contagious if he had), also I’m trying not to encourage him away from his owners.
I don’t have a plan honestly. I just don’t know. For now I’m just trying to stay inside as much as possible to rest and sort my own life out. But if he doesn’t get vet treatment and it continues becoming my problem I may have to start reporting to RSPCA or the council. Which I don’t want to and don’t think will improve matters but may eventually be forced to.
Because I am still treating the first round of infection I caught. It’s so hard to get rid of. 😑 FFS people, take your cat to the vet or even just use the expensive medicines I left on your doorstep which you received. Why are you making this poor animal my problem
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕️ Saturday 25 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
I have a young pic of my grandpa but due to resemblance it’s a bit doxable to post. He was an Anzac. I’m not sure of the exact historical details or whether there has been any stretching of the truth but I’m told he was sent in as ground troops after Hiroshima, and the radiation is why he was bald for the rest of his life.
- Comment on Google age verification 2 weeks ago:
Guess when I return to android I’m not going to be able to use apps :(
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Or I wade into the waters of Linux based phones with the higher stakes of it being my main device, so I’ll be forced to adapt and deal with any tricky problems under time pressure or I won’t be able to use it.
I don’t really use apps except my banking app but am increasingly being pressured to for things like maps, and may eventually be forced to.
This is really dumb by the way. Or just a naked data grab. You can verify for OS or apps all you want but at such a general level without even having a profile or requiring impersonation there’s nothing to stop someone else from simply using the phone. Parents do actually keep their child occupied by handing them their own phone… Passkeys may help but can be given for that purpose or guessed. All of this would be better handled by using parental controls.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Complaining
It really sucks how my health/disability prevents me going back to work even casually. Plus I’ve been ill for so long there’s a massive resume gap that means nobody would hire me. And the disability job agencies only offer manual labour jobs like hotel cleaning (not able to do that). And no doubt there’d be some major disruption from a crazy neighbour as soon as I got a job. It’s a shame I can’t sell art to bring a little more money in. But demand would be low, I’m not that good, and PayPal gives your government name out. I guess all I can do is try to work on the non-permanent aspects of my health and see how far that gets me. This might be a long road.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Borrow Butters?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
I’m playing catchup
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Future Melba better appreciate this
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Even I am avoiding me…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
If there are 5 of me why aren’t they taking their share of chores 🤔
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Ate something earlier. Scrubbed down and rinsed the shower while I was in it, then stepped out and misted it with spray bleach. Put a load of cups and utensils on in the countertop dishwasher (the uneasy alliance continues).
If I fold the dried load of towels that will be four things. The last might be a few minutes with the kettlebell or trying to find the calcium pills I’m meant to be taking.
Life just seems to be sleepwalking through chores and trying to get back on track
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Doppelgänger
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Ick :( I’ve always wished you could block people in real life
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
If you have any eucalyptus oil (liquid or spray) you can put some on the shower floor or in a sinkful of hot water to breathe in the steam
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
I am so incredibly tired.
Little old kitty man was outside before but I stayed in bed. Trying to make this place boring and focus on looking after myself.
Kind of hard when I don’t want to move
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 24 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
There’s so much in my life I need to get together and I don’t know where to start. 😑
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Thursday 23 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
I forgot the extra garlic and onions 🧄🧅
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Thursday 23 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
What are you watching?
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Thursday 23 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
🍗🥣🤲
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Thursday 23 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t been to Dangerfield in forever… or clothes shopping in forever. I’ll see if they have anything on clearance
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Thursday 23 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s worrying.
I don’t use a lot but it’s getting so hard to find something that just does the job
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Thursday 23 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Sunscreen rant
At this point I have two known ‘tolerable’ sunscreen options at the supermarket and that brand was half price on special today, but I don’t love either. So I didn’t get them. But because every other affordable option was packed with unnecessary bullshit that would make my skin react and they even put niacinimide in all the ‘gentle/basic’ options I previously would have gone to, I decided to try some cheaper Kmart options instead. (OXX face sunscreen, spf face lotion, and pump lotion.) …Within seconds/minutes of patch testing the sunscreens I think I’ve wasted my money. They have a very strong sunscreen smell, kind of faintly stung on application and now the spot where I put the spf moisturiser is sensitised and itching. Sometimes cheap things can be perfectly serviceable and become a mainstay but not here. I’m glad I didn’t go straight to applying these on my face. I’m also dubious about their knockoff of Cerave lotion which doesn’t feel great on the other inner elbow.
For fucks sake. I just want affordable basics that don’t sting.
Usually I respond to this sort of crap by ceasing to use the product at all but sunscreen is necessary for me.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☎️ Thursday 23 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
He’s so beautiful. Always smiling
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐸 Wednesday 22 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity what do you think the mouth burning culprit of the cookie is?
Because if it’s just dairy I read you can make cookies with vegan spread/margarine, you just have to chill the dough before baking.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐸 Wednesday 22 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Right there with you. Though my range is a bit more limited. Be careful what you wish for huh :(
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐸 Wednesday 22 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Victorians transitioning from gas exacerbates growing problem of undervoltage 2 weeks ago:
Cheers
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐸 Wednesday 22 April 2026 2 weeks ago:
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Walk a blockie for mental health and bone density… detour to avoid crazy neighbour… spy a familiar voidish form in the alley. Should not have walked there. Sure enough when I get home and shut the door he saunters past and hangs out a bit. Tough love is hard. I’ve stopped feeding or interacting with the cat and try to avoid him now I know he has owners. Trying to encourage him to stay at home and get cared for by his people. But I am keeping an eye on his condition.