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.
A special mention to @Seagoon_@aussie.zone who has started many many late night threads. Thank you. 🍺
All hail the mighty seagoon!
You're welcome. 🥹
luv youse guys
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!
Pour one out for the homies we lost along the way 🍺
Nellie? No wonder your kind are endangered. You look delicious 😋
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.
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.
Given we routinely outcomment them, that seems a pretty weird opinion.
I’m going to celebrate with a nude homemade coffee! ☕️
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 🍸
Whomever said you shouldn’t worry about zits because you grow out of them was a filthy liar. You end up with zits, and wrinkles, and grey hair. 😝
Outgrowing eczema and allergies. What a load of crock.
Still suffering to this very day.
And dry skin on your feet that you have to slog off with a pumice stone.
I just go outside and grind it off on the concreted backyard. Apparently this is disgusting.
I call that innovative
sand them at the beach
Beach?!?! I’m a Goth, please do not mention that sun filled abomination.
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.
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
I keep a hand written journal. You never know, it might be just the thing. It keeps me balanced.
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
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.
Can I have dinner and just go to bed? I think that's my plan. The later I wake up, the more tired I am.
Sleepy cat makes me sleepy too. Damnit fluffy butt.
How dare I have the lamp on the lowest setting so I can read...
Goodnight everyone and have a great day ❤️
I've made the commitment this week. Before I can think my way out of it, I've booked and paid for a room up in Echuca/Moama. This means I get to stop in at my favourite bakery in Kyneton on the way for lunch and continue listening to the audiobook I'm getting into (11/22/63). Should be a lovely weekend.
Oooh and I get to try out my new weekend adventure travel cooler bag! I've got 4 bottles of water and 5 cans of bourbon is this bad boy.
Good morning magpies...how I love your gentle warb-- SHRREEEEECCHHH
Yes lorikeets I love you too....
It's been a sluggish day after a poor sleep last night thanks to too much sake and no food. But I managed to squeeze in some glorious time at one of the best Japanese gardens around and laid down on the turf in a secluded area near closing time with my shoes off and eyes closed. Got a wonderful 30 minutes in. Honestly, lying on grass barefoot does wonders for the body and soul...
Having a lovely treat of vegan Japanese style food for dinner (mainly so I can get some vegetables) at a wonderful, quiet little oasis amongst the concrete, decked out in wood and plants and gentle music. Calming vibes all around.
Tomorrow, I might try to squeeze in a bit more garden time and get some things posted before I schlep it for 5 hours on various trains to get myself to Tokyo. No idea what I'll be doing there for 4 days aside from going to two specific shops. Maybe just wander around with my notebook. Check out a teamLab exhibit maybe, they do some banging shows.
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.
I've tentatively booked Miss Meow in for the vet on Monday. I'm not sure if I can get a lift and am a bit stressed because of the automatic prompt shit with the taxi booking system... I need to speak to a human operator to make double sure they know a cat will be riding as that's caused issues in the past, but the last time I did that it kicked me in circles with the bot 🙄 Normal Uber has consistently refused to take pets.
I've downloaded the taxi app and seen that you can add notes for the driver so if I can't sort a lift I can do that. And the last resort is Pet Uber. (Being as surge pricing can unexpectedly get exorbitant.) If I'm truly fucked we can submit to the ordeal of the bus.
Fuck I wish I had an electric quadbike or something just for things like this.
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
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.
I have a lot of free time currently and have gotten so addicted to this silly mobile game called Lumber Inc (it's essentially a lumber factory simulator). Somebody save me!
So conclusion to yesterday’s mystery. At least shit, I HOPE it is! And again, I’ll throw this behind a nsfw
Alright. I think I’ve shared enough about my bedroom to last us all a life time.
But the reason I stayed up was to share this:
babymetal x electric call boy - ratatata
I only knew one electric callboy song (pump it) and I’ve only vaguely heard of babymetal. And I’m really not into metal, but this song is freaking incredible!!! Do yourself a favour and give it a go even if it doesn’t sound like your thing.spoiler
So I couldn’t figure out a polite way to say “hey, I’m sure my brains fucked with anxiety, but you weren’t trying to get me to finish inside the other night, right?”
I feel like German might have the words for that, but English entirely fails. So I came up with a better idea: propose we go again and offer to wear one and see if there are any objections. Genius right? There were no objections. Also no ones yelled in like 48 hours so we might be onto something here.
You're over thinking.
Good night and sleep well. 😘
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.
I was not feeling well yesterday so spent the day binge watching a couple of seasons of a French series, UFOs. It was ejoyable, but a bit odd. A giant mount of super-powered extraterrestial fairy floss is not a plot device you see every day.
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