• Tofu@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

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

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    6 months ago

    There is a random black cat wandering around my back yard and is currently sitting on top of my shed. I had a brief moment of fear until I confirmed Miss Meow is still safely curled up in her basket snoozing.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      There’s a black cat that lives on my street that walks me home when I come back late. My local bus round the corner finishes at 9pm, but there’s another bus at the end of my street a 10 minute walk away that runs til midnight. 9/10 times I’m walking home, the kitty runs up behind me and walks alongside me for a few blocks then sits on the corner and watches me go home

      Best photo of the kitty I’ve been able to get so far:

  • fullkitwanker@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I haven’t told anyone in my life (outside of work) that I have a small medical procedure today. I haven’t told my parents because I don’t want them to unnecessarily stress out and they’re enjoying a holiday in Spain. It’s an annoying cyst that needs draining. Hope it goes well.

    I now need to fast until surgery 😩 ate 2 ✨kwossants ✨ and a protein shake. Might get some orange juice later as I can have clear liquids until 2 hours before.

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Taped to the front door of my workplace this morning - wtf?

    spoiler

    My workplace does not have a dog of any sort.

  • Nath@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Very productive day today. Feeling chuffed at how much I squeezed in. Homemade pizza for dinner.

    Makes up for the surprise start of suddenly finding out that school actually goes back tomorrow. Oops.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
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    6 months ago

    On Saturday morning we woke up to the news my FIL had a mini stroke the night before. My husband got a pretty nasty text from his sister which he was about to retaliate to until I reminded him that she just buried her FIL three days ago. Then we have stabbings and shit going on overseas, protests here and I still had to hem pants for my daughter for school tomorrow. Although nothing really directly affected me I’m like “enough already”. Hence the reason Comfortably Numb popped into my head last night.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
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    6 months ago

    I just wanted to remind people if anyone is struggling due to the craziness of the last couple of days speak up.

    Anyone working from home today because of the protests?

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      I wanted to but had to head in. I think we are a bit away from it so hopefully will be fine and all over before evening trains … Hope they can protest and it’s peaceful enough. Its all been a bit crap out there lately.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I changed my Seek settings, so now I can get an email whenever someone opens my resume, and I’ll get one if my application is unlikely to proceed.

    Makes life easier

    Also:

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    So random question time

    When it comes to freedom of information requests, can I still lodge one if I only know what information I want, without knowing if a document containing that specific information exists?

    For reasons, I’d like to get a list of the current Ambulance Victoria branches. I’m not entirely sure they’d have one document that neatly outlines each branch they have, so I don’t really know if I can go to the ombudsman to request that, if it would involve them digging through other files and collating my requested information into one single file

    Ordinarily I’d just ask their FOI office, but unfortunately their FOI office isn’t very nice. They’ve been asked publicly at least twice, and completely ignored both FOIs, and when I emailed to ask for guidance they told me such information can not be released to the public and that’s just the way it is, that’s why I’ll probably go to the big buddy

    Yes I know it's weird but..

    I don’t see why an FOI request wouldn’t cover this. The CFA and VicPol both have public pages listing all active stations. And you can pull all the ambo stations from VicEmergency (there’s little station icons on there), that’s just inconvenient and time consuming, and they’re a public agency and FOIs exist for a reason and I’m stubborn

    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      Yep. It’s about the information, not the document. Go for it.

      And I am shocked that that info isn’t readily available on their website.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Thanks mag. It is a bit bizarre. It’s on a map, some of them are on Google, but when it comes to an actual list that’s not allowed, for some reason. Oh, and, the ones that have been recently upgraded are listed here

        Here’s the public requests they ignored, if anybody was curious: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/av_branchstation_locations

        https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/locations

        Granted, those guys seem to have given up, at least in their public pursuit. I, however, am stubborn and have experience in fighting government agencies tooth and nail over minor things. If they ignore my request, I’ll just go one level higher until somebody doesn’t ignore me, or I run out of levels lol

        Edit: also this should be public knowledge imo, so when I get it, I’ll publish it everywhere I can

        • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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          6 months ago

          The only thing that occurs to me is protecting privacy of ambo staff ( i.e. you need to know where the cop station is but you don’t want randos going to the ambo depot for treatment or because of some perceived slight against one of the staff).

          The other realistic reason would be that there’s restricted drugs stored at some (most?) of these depots and so, while you need some level of openness about where the depots are, making all those addresses available publicly would probably be perceived as a major risk. Although you can get it now, there’s at least a barrier.

          Likely there’s a bunch of politics wrapped up in this and the lack of comms about why its restricted info is shite but I can see why it might be refused.

          • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I’d say it’s probably because of concerns about drugs, which is a fair point and the only reason I’m slightly hesitant about pushing the matter - I most definitely don’t want to endanger AV staff or risk yet more ambulances needing to be pulled out of service to be resupplied and sterilised. But at the end of the day, you can still find the locations if you wish, it just takes some searching

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Curry Laksa is cooking, I didn’t have bean sprouts so I just added some mixed vegies. It will be ok.

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      Pakige 😁 though it means I have to dash into the office when I was having a nice cosy WFH day. I am wearing trackies in protest

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Inspection on Thursday, so I have many chores to do before then.

    My apartment is the physical manifestation of depression and untreated ADHD. I’ve written a list for each room and general cleaning, and will start from the back and move to the front.

    Pray for me.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      🙏

      If you can’t extend its life with duct tape or get hold of a new vacuum in time it is possible to sweep carpet with a broom. It’s not perfect but works surprisingly well and is better than nothing.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Thank you! Will try that for sure!

        I cannot believe how many fucking carpet moths there are. Serves me right for leaving my beanbags on the floor.

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