It kinda feels like the old DT of reddit sans reddit. Kinda feels like home away from home and it’s you guys who are helping. I’m glad I decided to join this place after all. Feeling happy and slightly teary? You all are good eggs in my book
The firing of the employee went down earlier today.
They decided to turn it into a resignation to save face.
Had to step in to prevent it turning into an argument with their manager, but handled it well.
The employee thanked me for my professionalism when I walked them to their car, and they hugged me goodbye.
So glad I held a debriefing with their team afterward. It honestly helps me as much as it helps them.
Still feeling a bit from it. So my self care starts now with a curried cauliflower pie from Country Cob
being poor poem
Rent has been paid, and now it's quite tight
I'll spoil the puss because he's my light.
Not enough for my meds so it'll be hard tonight,
Too many night-terrors, but I should be alright!
Things will get better, this is just a tough spot,
I will get better, I will improve my lot.
Ok I’m just gonna say it. Ok I’ll just whisper… I miss reddit, this doesn’t feel the same. Strangely, I also feel ghosted? Melbourne reddit gone without a trace. The other city subs are back, but Melbourne still in lockdown (and there wasn’t even a press conference.) It is a good space here, but I don’t know I am nostalgic I guess.
The DT is a like grassroots digital community that shows respect and kindness to each other that other subreddits could only dream about. With a new moderator that is known and quite frankly kicking arse so far. and we don’t need to provide reddits CEO with more money through advertising dollars when we are literally on the ground floor of something new and exciting here.
We can build this place however we want.
What a beautiful day today ❤ also i ordered 4 spatulas and they gave me 6 yay 😄
So has there been any updates on the Reddit saga? I’m low key loving that I get to live through a part of internet history for once. I hardly used Twitter. I wasn’t on iPhone for the privacy breaches. I think this is the first big scandal I get to witness first hand. Well, except maybe the blaster worm back in ‘03.
Theverge.com has some updates on the reddit saga. Basically, reddit says get stuffed. So if the r/Melbourne mods are gonna stick to their guns get comfortable gang. We ain’t going anywhere any time soon.
I've crept back to Reddit a couple of times over the last few days but honestly... there's some weird communities that people are clinging on to that are now appearing on r/all that I'm just like "if this is what Reddit is to become, maybe it's a good thing that I just walk away."
I'm happy enough in here, provided we retain a good percentage of the old DT gang. We might need to recruit or hope that we gain enough traction to increase our numbers of great people eventually, but for now, this will have to do :)
Looks like there’s 341 subscribers in this group! Heck yeah!
.. still feel like there are missing peeps though
In a story that’s 100% my own fault for not learning, I’m battling Amazon. So that vacuum I complained about the other week? The one I brought for 495ish then dropped to 400ish 2 days later? Amazon wouldn’t price match. They said to just return the order and reorder it again. I didn’t. I brought from JB for 400 and sent the more expensive one back to Amazon who proceeded to charge me a “change of mind return fee” of 7 bucks after previously claiming I wouldn’t be charged. Now it’s just 7 bucks, I’ve wasted far more on things before, but because of how shit they’ve been I decided to fight it.
They are claiming they can’t offer me the 7 dollar refund as anything other than credit, but I keep telling them that I’m not gonna buy anything from them anyway so refund me the money as I’m legally I’m entitled too and for them to either get their shit sorted or I’m gonna charge back the full amount on the credit card.
Far out people don’t buy from Amazon cause if someone goes wrong it’s a fucking nightmare!
Just saw a resume with "Sex Toys" listed as one of their hobbies.....
Errands completed. Now time to find food. I hungy. Haven’t eaten since late breakfast and hopefully 10 mins walk then home before it’s gets cold
Lord give me the STRENGTH to get through my work today.
I need to get an entire draft of my thesis to my supervisors by the end of the day and I gotta pull a couple of thousand words outta my arse to meet my target. It’s not gonna be a fun one.
I had such a nice evening until my cat rolled off my lap by mistake and tried to save himself with his claws 😿
Dinner was pita bread spread with cream cheese, smoked salmon and pickles, rolled and sliced into pinwheels. With a glass (or three) of vino. Dessert was peppermint aero. Will do nutrition tomorrow, I promise.
My brain won't brain right now, which is not ideal because I'm supposed to be writing a very intense work email. Please send brain cells!!
Got homemade burger night down to a tee... The key you see, it's lots of pickles, mayonnaise, bbq sauce and chilli sauce.
Ya Llab here, rolled out of bed with enthusiasm to find we have no water… 🤬 Got notice for when they were supposed to fix whatever it is the other day then they didn’t bother to inform everyone they couldn’t fix it.
I have officially sponged in a bottle of soda water. 😂
Also I have the grumps because it’s completely thrown out my day…
Ah well, might just have to go for a ride. 😈
What a clusterfuck of a week. Desperate times call for desperate measures so I'm finishing off this already-opened bottle of wine that's been sitting in my kitchen since last weekend. In the words of Bernard Black - "the older the wine is...the gooder it is..."
I try my best to be "fuck Nestlé" but they've brought out an orange Aero and it's pretty good 😭
Mr. Omoikiri’s turn to pick the movie tonight. We’re watching 13 Lives, the movie about the rescue of the Thai boys in the cave.
Honestly the most fucked up thing. It’s such a feat of humanity and whatever other higher power there is that they all made it out alive and there was only one casualty in the whole operation.
Also no mention of Musk’s submarine, which is a plus. 👍
I had a handsome doordasher bring me my Friday consolation maccas. Dayummm
I went into an Asian store in Airport West yesterday and spent way too much money on shit I can't even read. I have come to the conclusion I think I really like Fanta, I think? I got like 5 Fanta products I've never seen before
Also, this green Thai "mixed fruit" Fanta actually tastes pretty decent. Pic for the curious:
Mr Smeg thinks we should have a bite to eat before grocery shopping at Knox.
Can't decide on Studfield Dumplings or something at Ozone.
A new retail section opened at Knox last weekend so will be good to have a proper squiz at the new JB and Rebel.
I know he's on his way and I should get dressed, but sitting in my Oodie listening to PBS is my happy place
I have procured coffee
I tried to yoink my avatar off reddit, but it didn't really work...
It looks like someone bonked me on the head then took a knife to half my antenna thing :(
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
On my way home from work today I stocked up on potato, sweet potato, baked beans and hot-sauce. Weekend: sorted, Microwave: purring in anticipation 😎
Man it looks amazing out there today. Pity I have 30 emails to answer this morning. Volunteering has its ups and downs but I got such amazing feedback yesterday from my manager and then still couldn't work cos my brain was too foggy. So I'll try and pull a big effort today and get as much done as I can so it's not all up to someone who really doesn't have the time.
Anyone else done AA? I've found a zoom group which is always online and at the very least just listening is helping, and I get a sense of calm when for the last three months I've been a complete anxious mess most days. I was worried they'd try and talk about de-transition but they've actually been super trans-positive and sensitive. I need sensitivity in my life as I've upped my oestrogen intake by 50% this week and it's feeling pretty amazing but yeah, deeper. Only a few more days alcohol withdrawl to go and I'll be steady enough to get back on my skateboard, though I'm going to try again today anyway.
Thank you all for the brain cells, the email is in its final draft! Tomorrow night me can have another once over before I hit send.
Resubmission of my last TAFE assignment is complete. Nothing major, but it involves about 14 billion different files to submit the assignment, so it is quite possible I missed something about which ones I needed to redo.
Okay ill do my first Aussie Zone whats on for the weekend?
Tonight im going to chat to the owner of Valhalla Axe Throwing and have a beer or two. Tomorrow is yoga and meditation at the buddhist centre (balance ;) ) and we are seeing a caberet type show tomorrow night. Sunday is mead maintenance, moving latest brew to secondary storage, i will have two 5L batches from this, the base is strawberry and rasberry. One 5L batch will be getting more strawberry juice in secondary and some wine tannins and the other will be getting 0.5kg of dried sour cherries in there for a bit :)
Thinking I'll take off tomorrow for another one of my overnight weekend roadtrip adventures to get out of my apartment. I quite enjoyed driving along listening to my audiobook on my last one to Swan Hill rather than my usual Spotify playlists.
Not sure where to head this time though.. time to consult Ye Olde Google Maps.
Day 3/4 of this tummy bug. Last night was pretty brutal. Flying out to Indo next week so tum tum better behave by then or everyone on the plane isn't going to be pleased.
Pls pray to the gods of immodium, brawndo and codeine for me.
Oooft paid $6 for fresh strawberries and they were half rotten. Other half was still delicious tho 🍓
The man's car is fixed so that means I get my car back. He refered to it as the "family car". I correct him with "eeeerttt no". I had to go through the rules with him. Wash your hands before getting in my car. Fill it up. Strictly no eating in my car. If you must have a coffee DO NOT SPILL ANY because it will cost you your life. No hooning and the most important, if you bend it, you mend it. Apart from that I am pretty easy going.
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