I’ve made a coffee. Did my laundry last night, listening to my ritual radio programs at the moment and have a very nice coffee prepared.
I wonder what I should do with today.
I was tossing up between playing Super Mario RPG or thousand year door or something else. Not sure what sort of a mood I’m in at the moment.
Coffee sounds amazing!
Oh it was. Used one of my favourite single origins.
Flavour profile of it is Orange, moscato and sherbet.
One of my favourites.
When coffee presses were all the rage in the 90s you could get all these awesome flavoured ground coffees. Mint choc coffee is good, almond, vanilla, my fave is caramel.
KINGSLAYERRRR
It may be winter, a state of affairs I don’t really approve of, but I stewed some rhubarb yesterday and I’m now having it for breakfast with muesli and yoghurt. And tea. And the sun’s out.
I might just make it through another few months of this bleakness.
Good morning magpies…how I love your gentle warb-- SHRREEEEECCHHH —
Yes lorikeets I love you too…
Which birds are the ones that sound like car alarms? The Maggie’s that live in the trees around my house are actually really friendly. We used to have people here who’d feed them a lot, so they seem to have just marked us as friendly. I don’t feed them, generally, but I did throw them a small amount of unsweetened muesli at the start of last spring to try and bribe them into not swooping me since they built their little hole right above the letterbox.
They liked that and have me remembered as a friendly. While they’re in the yard catching brekky, they’re generally relaxed if I’m outside gardening or whatever and don’t pay much attention to me
cuckoo shrikes
Yep ^^ this
And magpies are crazy smart. I will say “hello Maggie” to the ones in my street when I see them. At my last place I got to the point they would warble back. As long as they see you as a friend they won’t swoop.
Facing that tough decision of in equally invested in another drink, but also just going to bloody bed.
Happy 1st anniversary month dt. 🥂🎉🎂
Let’s spare a moment to appreciate those who stayed and made this thread great and remember those who have left and are dead to us now.
Feel free to post your own appropriate song.
Sad, I miss some old faces but the community that was I think is dead and fractured. And out of the ashes this one grew. And that’s fine, honestly! I’m just concerned as to how we grow this one so it doesn’t become an echo chamber.
Pour one out for the homies we lost along the way 🍺
Has it really been a year?? Good heavens. At some point I should probably work out how to use Lemmy beyond the DT.
Thanks all for being fab!
To be honest, since Lemmy World (the biggest instance) is borked, there’s not very much we can see on Lemmy at the moment. A lot of Lemmy communities are hosted on LW, and with federation delays of a week, you can’t really see any of the discussion until after it’s fizzled out. But browsing local and the large communities hosted on other instances is nice
Is someone like… working on that?
The Lemmy Devs said they’ll fix it in the next milestone release (0.20) I think. In the meantime, someone else on another instance wrote a tool that can be deployed to an instance closer to LW which sends the activities in bulk to the main instance, but I think we’re just going to wait until the patch gets pushed
That is a work of pure art! Love the coconut sprinkles!
Not mine.
Take the credit anyway!
Nellie? No wonder your kind are endangered. You look delicious 😋
A special mention to @Seagoon_@aussie.zone who has started many many late night threads. Thank you. 🍺
Your welcome. 🥹
luv youse guys
All hail the mighty seagoon!
I’m not very good with words , that’s why i don’t post much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-tQcvuorHQ
Blows raspberries! You ARE good with words.
What I feel about Reddit Not sorry to have come here - much more fun and a lot less toxic.
I’m going to celebrate with a nude homemade coffee! ☕️
I do miss Reddit sometimes, especially the DT community during lockdown. I regret that some members disappeared or didn’t follow. But apparently everyone with a big site wants to be Elon Musk now so yeah :(
This DT is good though, I’m also finding Lemmy a bit calmer.
I still browse reddit.
The other dt still talk about us like we’re the poorer cousins who lost their way and hope to make it back some day because apparently it’s slow over here. 😂
Oh, ok. I don’t have any kind of beef with anyone who stayed. I wasn’t aware there was any competition or tension.
I just saw the owner openly say that he wanted to emulate Musk then engage in strongarm tactics, and went ‘yikes’ over where that behaviour might lead. What the site might turn into. Also the whole selling user data to AI thing is not something I agree with. Would potentially consider frequenting both places casually if the owner stopped being a raging jackarse or sold the site. If it was like it used to be.
The mix of people in the DT seems to have changed though. I don’t recognise many usernames anymore so if I did ever return that would be another adjustment.
imagining AI serving breakfast daily
No. Don’t even think it. We’d all end up all eating weetbix with honey and bananas. A fate worse than death.
🌾🥣🍯🍌🍌
I check in once in a while and the only people I generally recognise are MajorBear and HurstbridgeLineFTW. I feel like a remember Bear being over here during rexxit for a while, but HLFTW was anti Lemmy I think
I kinda miss epicpillowcase’s devotion to intellectual and social honesty. If the emperor has no clothes, we could depend on them to prevent that emperor from booking a seat on an airline for the foreseeable future.
I miss jayyberwocky lemon and… shit I forgot his username, the bloke who was gonna have a kid shortly after mine.
TaxiSonoQui?
I don’t think so, I think it was a 1 or 2 word username. Pretty sure he and his Mrs have had their kid since.
Two sites both alike in dignity, in fair Interbutts we lay our scene
The fault is in the interwebs
Given we routinely outcomment them, that seems a pretty weird opinion.
Eh, they definitely have a wider range of commenters and much more activity in the main sub. There’s no doubt that Reddit still has a lot more momentum and it’s mostly the same people here in the DT. I don’t mind that of course, but I don’t think their opinion is that weird…
Fair enough.
When I go on Reddit these days, I feel myself getting aggrevated really easily.
I wonder if it’s always been like that and I hadn’t noticed.
Here’s to a great space 🍸
finally coming down from the adrenaline of the past weeks and i’m WIPED
i’ll just eat, nap, walk a bit to buy food, eat, nap, and eat some more
U earned a lazy day/week, enjoy!
First time since I moved in I don’t have to go tearing off anywhere and can really dig into sorting out the bags and boxes, and hopefully start unpacking the books and putting them on the shelves.
Naturally, I have bugger-all motivation.Second batch of crumpets have been made . I think the recipe needs adjusting. Edible, even delicious but a bit heavy.
Don’t suppose you’d indulge us with a photo of said crumpets?
here’s a pic of a previous batch
spoiler
I’m not why but I can’t see the image :(
I’ve never made crumpets before but I’ve had atayef pancakes (middle eastern pancakes) lots of times and they always remind me of a lighter crumpet so maybe have a look at those recipes to get some ideas on how to adjust yours.
I need to add more milk and maybe a little baking powder. The batter needs to be a bit thinner.
Sleepy cat makes me sleepy too. Damnit fluffy butt.
Ventured out to Footscray for some vape supplies. It’s so nice here.
Can’t wait to move once I have a new contract. Makes where I live seem like the middle of fucking nowhere.
You need to visit CBM!
Out west? Miss Seagoon spent about 4 months there, she couldn’t wait to get back to Carlton.
I don’t blame her. It’s fucking dead out here. Peaceful, nice to have a music studio in my house. But it’s no longer worth it. I need to be around people.
We talked a lot about it. The young Seagoons loved all the birds, the trees, the proximity to national parks, the night sky. She said no homeless in the streets but lots of suburban poverty and misery.
Has anyone been with Bank of Melb for a fixed term before? I want to open one, and out of the banks that offer fixed terms to under 18s, BoM seem to have the highest interest rates. But I’ve never opened a fixed term account before, so opinions appreciated
I’ve got a regular savings acc with Aus Unity for 5.1%. BoM looked to be 4.8% but I didn’t check their youth options.
Thanks. Aus Unity has a min deposit that’s a little bit high for me at the moment. BoM is 4.8%, but 4.9 if you join and manage online. Honestly I’m not really in it for the interest as I won’t deposit enough for it to really be worth anything. I’m mostly after a TD as a sort of forced savings program I guess. Having to give 31 days notice to withdraw anything is more than long enough to curb any impulse purchases
No min deposit that I can see. Looks like 5.2% on 0-$50k.
https://www.australianunity.com.au/banking/savings-accounts/freedom-saverBut yeah, if you want the help with impulse control that’s a different issue and ~0.2% is well worth it.
Ah. I was looking at their term deposits, they do have a 5k min. I’d rather not be able to touch it. But thanks again for the suggestion!
I’d sooner chop my balls off than go with BoM for ANY product ever again. Ask me how they fucked up so bad we almost missed settlement then sent comms speaking about us as customer as if we pure fucking garbage.
Happy birthday DT. Love youse…
because I am complaining about spending money and that's kinda privileged....
I am usually frugal but I when I have to buy things I just put my head down and do it all at once…so this week I have purchased new prescription sunnies, new backpack (good bellroy one that will last forever), bulk foods (cleaning things and flours etc) and then a couple of pretty and good work tops from my fav little shop. And a nice combo card holder and pencil case so I can keep my things together and not forget them (geeky but I ADORE IT).
Feeling a nice dopamine rush and slight panic (I had money aside but still). I am having a beer at hopheads and might buy dinner tonight to cap off a day of running around shopping. I am not going away for long weekend so this so this is kinda my holiday…yeah?
I am very good with money and on top of bills and fortunate in my current job and but I still struggle with buy good stuff that will last forever (or worse buying something new because the forever thing I own actually doesn’t do the job anymore) versus make do with nothing. Oh to have a brain that could be happy.
I can send you my Amazon wish list, let’s keep the momentum going! 🙏
Haha. When I win that Powerball LET’S GO
How much did you pay for prescription sunnies? I need a replacement asa0
They were 500 bucks because I need multifocals. Could have got the for 450 but I figured 50 buck to make them polarised was worth it. Specsavers has a deal on some of those extras at the moment.
I’m feeling so ugh. The new kid moving in and the mentor moving out is all weighing on my mind. So many conflicting feelings. Anger + sadness + disappointment + resentment + guilt + pity + somehow partial apathy +feeling bad for all of the above + whatever the negative version of nostalgia is is a potent combo. I typed out my feelings before ultimately deleting because it was too long, but it didn’t help. Also went for a walk and tried to distract myself with YouTube and other things but that didn’t work either
Make room for it all. I like to imagine all these “ghosts” competing for space inside me. If you fight to keep ‘em out you lose anyway, may as well let the emotions have their day.
may as well let the emotions have their day.
Hopefully that’s all they want. But I like that metaphor
They can’t hurt you. It might feel like it, but it won’t actually leave a scar. Least that’s been my experience.
That sucks so much that they didn’t wait for the new mentor to be there. Can you be super busy and away from the house to limit the amount of time alone with him until there’s someone there to mediate if needed? Obviously with your stuff locked away in your room.
I’ll be going away for 6 days or so the day after he moves in and have enough on my Myki that I can escape if needed. I also took out a little bit of money in case I need to bail for a whole day
I keep a hand written journal. You never know, it might be just the thing. It keeps me balanced.
Maybe. I’m not really into handwriting though
Neither. But it works differently to typing I reckon. Feels different.
We’ve got tickets for Stephen K Amos tonight, he’s at the Kingston Arts Centre in Moorabbin. Should be good. Food and drinks somewhere before, maybe the new American BBQ and burger joint Third Wave Cafe if we can get in.
The Third Wave in Albert Park is a great feed. They did get in on the NFT trend a couple of years ago though, if that colours your perception of them at all
Very nice and amazing. I love Stephen K Amos. I find him so funny.
I hope you have an amazing time tonight.
Pretty sure he rooted a mate of a mates teen brother once. Super creepy dude.
