Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday 5 Jul 2023 - eviltoast

This is your captain speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts. You are in for a turbulent Flight.

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    Funny sort of an evening. Started with, I think I’ll finish that little bit of cleaning… Next thing I know I’m behind the bloody washing machine. Late dinner out and now it’s past my bedtime and I’m still out… Thank goodness tomorrow is my Friday…

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    Time for bed. Anxious about the bot, but it has worked once, I must have faith. I have instructed it to make a post at midnight given all the test posts worked last night. I think it will take a few more successful posts before I can really trust it is working.

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        It’s made from other people’s code, I just had to add the specific variables and work out how to actually run it - which starting from absolutely no knowledge has been pretty hard. If I knew what I was doing it would probably be fairly easy!

        If you want to look at it the code I used is on GitHub. Search Lemmy Bot for the main code, and Lemmy Frank Bot for the specific posting bits. I had to strip out the sections to pin posts as they were not working, possibly because of the change to version 18 on Lemmy as that’s not been updated since the change.

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    On the final leg of my trip home! Flight delayed 40 mins, then took 40 mins to get my bag. Far out there’s some nonsense with our airlines at the moment!

  • heyheyitskay@aussie.zone
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    I’m hoping I don’t feel as shit about work tomorrow. I have some big thinking and planning to do for myself I feel like I could really use a week off. I’ve written down a list of stuff that I need to do including routine medical checkups that I’ve been procrastinating on. I don’t know how so many things have crept up on me. Adult life I guess. Just as you feel like you got life sorted, another bunch of problems or life admin stuff comes up. Sigh.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zone
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    I have made the fatal mistake of finishing all of my travel preparations and there’s still 40 days to go. I’m ready now, damn it.

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      I’m so jelly. Will this be your first road trip in the US? I’ve been on two short ones, Detroit to Kenosha and Detroit to Manhattan, and I think my fave thing was the beautiful countryside and the pretty small towns.

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        I did a little bit of driving on my last trip over there in 2012, mostly over on the east coast too. Buffalo up to Niagara Falls, Toronto then down to Manhattan. I did a bit more driving down in Florida too. This will be for sure a more scenic road trip though! All of my US trips in the past have been focused on the cities and/or amusement park locations but this time I’m hitting a buuunnch of national parks. Then cap it off with some downtime in Vegas to just chill out, eat edibles, go to the movies, whatever. So pumped.

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    i’ve been doing so many reCaptchas over the years and I have noticed there are far too many people in tropical places who wear thongs while riding a motorcycle

  • MisssDarylC@aussie.zone
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    Trying really hard and struggling immensely to write an introductory paragraph or two for my LinkedIn as I begin my campaign to reshape people’s perspective of neurodiversity and neurodiverse children in ECEC.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    It’s been a long time since I’ve had fennel bulbs but damn I’d forgotten how unbelievably good they are roasted. The air fryer is far too filthy to use right now but I’d love to try it in there

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        Slice thinly across the grain and dress with olive oil/lemon etc. for a salad. I’m not a fan of them cooked - don’t like the taste. Raw, they are nice and crunchy and refreshing in a salad with an aniseedy bite to them. Slices can be quick pickled and are wonderful with practically anything. Can be used as a celery substitute in almost any recipie I believe (except mirepoix but that may be just me). The green fronds can be used instead of dill, but will taste of aniseed. Pretty though.

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        I just roasted them and tossed them through with pasta. They go wonderfully with capers or lemon and maybe some zucchini or red capsicum.

  • KagariY2@aussie.zone
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    day 5, had to drive with the corset; let’s just say the loaner car is too low… but yea excited to get the dashcam and boot protector installed, my cupboard didn;t turn up today…

    williamstown enterance to the west gate this morning was shit. the car was moving around 1km an hour, turns out becos it was a one-lane-only entrance everyone has using the second lane to cut in. best part was I used a side road to exit and there is a “keep clear” box outside this side road, had to loudly horn at someone who was cutting in. smh

    The pain is better today took a nice afternoon sleep. yea, these days I’ve been sleeping a lot, resting a lot. some said no housework but having both of us having back issues, someone has to do it lol, but really taking it easy. might attempt t go to the city on Friday for the footy as well as on Saturday to go to the finders market with a friend. definitely weaning myself off endone. will attempt med-free sleep tonight.

    weather is too cold…

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    Hard day. Baby hasn’t been well. I keep getting irrationally angry at my partner too because I’m freaked out and projecting. I have managed to not actually say anything and just keep my emotions to myself but I’m exhausted from managing myself too. Baby will be okay but it’s hard when he’s screaming in pain 😭

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      If you have a car, then put the baby in a carrycot and drive bub around the block a few times. This really helps a colicky baby settle down. Having something to do with your hands (steering wheel) also helps oneself settle a bit inside. If no car, then put baby in pram and walk around the block a few times with bub instead. Warmly wrapped of course. Same effect. Also, we’ve all been there with colicky bubs. Part of baby wrangling, and not the easiest part. People talk about changing nappies, but colic management is far tougher on the parent(s). And so is teething. Remember this difficult situation WILL end. Heart goes out to you. Stay focussed on what’s going right.

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      You’ll have days like these, and this was definitely me yesterday when Little Man had kicked my ass all day long! Remember that’s it’s ok to say to your partner “tag, it’s your turn”, and take a break from everything for a little bit…even stepping outside for a 5 minute reset can make a huge difference to your sanity. It’s important to look after yourself, or you’re no good to anyone. ;)

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zone
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    I have two twitter accounts that I linked a thousand years ago. I never ended up using twitter so the accounts just sit there. I went to go delete them, as my little ‘fuck you’ to Muck, but it wants my password… as if I’m going to remember a password I used 10 years ago.

    Anyway, I changed my usernames to variations of ‘elon suck my dick’ and now I’m going to troll his tweets until I get banned. Stupid fuck.

    Wish me luck!

    Edit: give me some more people to insult on twitter, I’m trying to nuke these. Im on that moron Jordan Petersons twitter atm

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zone
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        hehe I got restricted to read-only because I told him to do a very bad thing to himself that I won’t repeat here.

        But that was after I kept tweeting Elon calling him the awful slur

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        cis

        and

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        cissy

        , and repeatedly called him a

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        pussy

        bc he didnt ban me immediately lol.

        I may have gotten carried away with Jackoff .B Penison 😬 😬