RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Saturday 11 July 2026 1 day ago:
Currently 5.5^o^ with a feels like of -1.1^o^ The wind keeps blowing open the dog door, I had to block it off. I don’t think Mr Woof wants to be out there anyway. 🥶
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Saturday 11 July 2026 1 day ago:
Just make sure you pay appropriate wages. Plus penalty rates for weekends and night shift. We are unionised, you don’t want to get on the wrong side of the flock.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 9 July 2026 3 days ago:
bbq sauce.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Wednesday 8 July 2026 3 days ago:
I was expecting a cloudy day today, but it is all beautiful sunshine yet again. Tomorrow is expected to be the same - I’m pretty happy I have the day off, then I’m back to work on Saturday when rain is expected again.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Wednesday 8 July 2026 3 days ago:
The LLM rubbish is just so tedious, it all sounds the same. Even if the content is useful the delivery just becomes mind-numbing when you encounter the same tone and pacing everywhere.
It frustrates me that it’s also individual people putting their own writing through AI to rewrite it in the same bland tone. It’s getting to the point I’m getting disgust/anger reactions just to seeing the phrase “I’m curious”. It’s the sort of loathing previously reserved for tv laugh tracks, but you can’t avoid it by just turning off the tv because it is everywhere.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍎 Wednesday 8 July 2026 4 days ago:
Lovely walking weather. Nice and sunny but not hot. I did have to divert at one point because the footpath that was still in shade had a layer of ice over it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪗 Tuesday 7 July 2026 5 days ago:
I finally got the email confirming the payment of my Rego rebate. I was starting to wonder if I was ever going to see it!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪗 Tuesday 7 July 2026 5 days ago:
I’d just ignore him. He’ll get hungry and come down eventually. They know who he is, they can just go and arrest him later. It seems like a waste of resources to hang around waiting for him.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😺 Saturday 4 July 2026 1 week ago:
I did a ‘rough draft’ of my tax return and was a bit alarmed that it extimated I owed money instead of being owed a return. Apparently, forgetting to include a really big work expense makes a difference, even with my $1 in franking credits.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😺 Saturday 4 July 2026 1 week ago:
This passive income lark is great. $2.97 in dividends plus franking credits, I’m definitely on the gravy train now!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌧 Friday 3 July 2026 1 week ago:
My credit card balance and my own calculations are not agreeing with each other. Looks like line by line analysis will be required. I think that can wait until tomorrow though, I’m far too busy digesting lunch for that sort of nonsense now.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌧 Friday 3 July 2026 1 week ago:
The traffic gods were with me today. Ballarat to Burwood, 2 hours door to door. At work 45 mins early!
- Submitted 1 week ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 53 comments
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Thursday 2 July 2026 1 week ago:
$5k is way higher than $1k, that’s like $4k profit. And the motor cost $4k which is less than what you can sell the car for afterwards so that means it is worth doing. And the wrecker is just a scammer, they are trying to give her $1k for a car she’s going to be able to sell for $5k. Obvious rip off, they just want to put a motor in and get all that profit for themselves.
Your MIL knows what’s what. She’s not going to be fooled by your fancy-pants ‘profit=5000-4000-150’. That’s just ivory tower university maths, it’s not how the real world works.
Sorry, apparently I can explain the thought process, but nothing can make it actually make sense…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Thursday 2 July 2026 1 week ago:
I don’t wanna go to work today 😭
But I guess I don’t want to go to work any day. But I do like having all the fancy things, like food. and shelter. Dammit, I guess I’m going to work.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Wednesday 1 July 2026 1 week ago:
I have wondered how much it would cost them if people started just chatting to their AI bot. Last week I engaged the Bunnings bot in a lengthy discussion on the merits of mulching the shelves in the lounge room (it wasn’t a fan of the idea initially, but I think I won it over).
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦭 Monday 29 June 2026 1 week ago:
Mine has been dozing a bit, I really needed to mow it weeks ago and kept putting it off. I should have a few months to ignore it again, which will be nice. It will give me a chance to do the weeding and tidying in the garden beds before spring.
I need to start thinking about planting some early seeds for tomatoes and things indoors soon too - I have a tendency to leave it a bit late, I’d like to try and get the timing right for once this year! If all goes to plan I’ll probably end up with a thriving garden just in time for me to move out and the next tenant to get most of the harvest!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦭 Monday 29 June 2026 1 week ago:
Cold, wet and windy weather has resumed. I got the mowing finished just in time.
The lawn is looking very green and vibrant now which is nice, but there are still a few empty gaps that need filling in. I seem to have managed to keep most of the weeds out, but Spring is going to be the big test of that. The font yard is not quite as good, I think they planted the wrong type of grass for that location. It really struggled with summer, as it is in full sun and has window reflections and a lot of surrounding concrete to deal with.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to melbourne@aussie.zone | 42 comments
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 28 June 2026 2 weeks ago:
Frozen
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 28 June 2026 2 weeks ago:
Feels like minus 3.5 outside. Looks like today will be the first iced over car of the season.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛸 Saturday 27 June 2026 2 weeks ago:
It’s another lovely day outside. I have done as much mowing as I could before the batteries died, I’ll need to do the other half of the back yard tomorrow before the predicted rain moves in. At least the grass doesn’t grow much at this time of year so I won’t have to do it again for a while.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐥 Thursday 25 June 2026 2 weeks ago:
Things have improved now that caffeine has been acquired. I even managed to work out the 9c discrepancy between the bank’s records and my own for the credit card balance.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐥 Thursday 25 June 2026 2 weeks ago:
Morning.
I just tried to make coffee by tipping a spoonful of coffee powder onto the bench next to my mug. This seems like a bad omen for today.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 2 weeks ago:
Miss Meow didn’t wake up this morning.
I think I’m a bit in shock and not sure how to feel, this is very unexpected.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Friday 19 June 2026 3 weeks ago:
It could be worse. I joined a facebook group which required you to type the word ‘cat’ as the answer to two questions. I messed that up. Twice.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 18 June 2026 3 weeks ago:
My app is telling me I have an average of 81 days, with a variation of 103 days. I get the old PMS symptoms that used to be a warning almost constantly, so I really have absolutely no idea. Mostly not heavy, but with a couple of ‘am I bleeding out?’ level thrown in just to keep me guessing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 18 June 2026 3 weeks ago:
TMI period talk...
What is it that makes my body want to always have a period at the most inconvenient time/place possible?
On a remote camping holiday with no toilets or running water? Perfect timing for a girl to have her first ever period, right? That set the pattern for my entire life.
More recently it’s been unpredictable peri-menopause periods deciding that a trip to Melbourne with limited access to my normal supplies is a perfect time to absolutely flood. The sooner this bitch of a uterus dries up for good the better.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 3 weeks ago:
I’m envious, mine is looking quite tatty at the moment. It’s hard at this time of year to get a patch of weather that is dry enough to mow - although at least once I do the next cut it should not need another for ages because it’s not growing much now.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 3 weeks ago:
If you ever want cringe lyrics the stuff Tim Rice wrote for Andrew Lloyd Webber are amazingly awful. And look how popular they were!
Lyrics are an interesting thing, when blended with the music they can often convey emotions and ideas in a way that transcend what the actual words themselves do. Language is an amazingly intricate and complex communication method that can sometimes convey more through imperfection than when you get everything right.
