Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌞🌞 Wednesday, November 6, 2024

I've finally started at the new job. Let me know if you're having trouble with your employer, I can send them an email that should scare them into shape.

I'm working for the sort of government department departments wouldn't want to hear from, as long as they don't dig too deep and look at my job title

This is the only good social media, right here. Thanks
- Anytime! My camera roll is just pictures of Mickey and screenshots of ptv timetables 😅
oh my god I would die for those crossed paws. And that "heheh" look with the slanted eyes and uplifted mouth
- He just sleeps like that when it gets a bit warm, he always does a little "rah rah" to say hello when we walk past, and will roll over he gets his belly kisses. So spoiled.. I brush him and fur just keeps coming and coming. I wonder if he is a medium haired cat, rather than a short haired one 😂
He looks like he’s giggling
- He certainly was having a great time munching my knees today, when I was wearing just my boxers 😭 he's very pleased with himself I think
Oh my God!
Oh my goodness, look at those paws!

"Why yes, I do apologise to my cat when she meows at me for not brushing her exactly the way she likes. Don't you?"

I get a bite and a hiss . Tomorrow Ted will be held down by the vet while I brush out his knots. I have kevlar gloves.
Calling me ouuuut lol
Look at her sweet face 😍 I love her

ah feck

My words were a little more x rated but yeah.
- I did see what you posted, just chiming in to say this is really putting a pin in my plans to visit my brother in the US next year after I finish uni :/
  otoh he probably needs some cheering up...
Ugh, that smug dipshit Elon Putzk will be positively gloating.. ugh, the thought is personally repulsive. How could they not love Tim Walz? Did they really want to not vote for a coloured woman so hard that they voted for a racist rapist delusional carny sheisty pathological liar instead‽ Jesus Christmas cookie Christ.
- Real talk, they didn't vote for Trump because Harris is a POC woman, the reasoning seems to be much simpler, and dumber
  The economy isn't great
  It was better under Trump (any thoughts revolving around why it was better cough covid price gouging and shit trump repealed don't exist)
  Vote trump
Round the twist again
☹️
Indeed
Please no.

Jesus christ.

Oh he ain’t saving them at this point!
If there is a God, where is he now, hmm? Riddle me that, batman
the parallels with Weimar are chilling

I’m now afraid for reproductive rights in Australia.

Nah. It'll be alright. We don't generally go backwards. We go at a snails pace forward unless it's a pay rise for pollies then it's all speed ahead.
- We don’t generally go backwards.
  This is generally true. Except for the destruction of medicare, loss of local manufacturing industry, no taxation on our mineral resources, expensive and half useless universities and no consequences for government corruption
- I wish I could know it would be ok. We have our own fundies here so things could get dicey
I really ought to look into a hysterectomy. I don't want kids anyway, but this is certainly an incentive to advocate better for myself lol

Oh joy. Impending major restructuring at my workplace. No redundancies, more like the drive-the-people-remaining-to-breaking-point strategy.

My 11th year may end up being my last, time to dust off the resume and get the hell out of here :| At least I hit my LSL eligibility beforehand... :\

Aww, that sucks, but hopefully another door opening…
have you taken LSL yet? I'd take it, disappear for a few months then take the redundancy they offer when you get back.
- The LSL is banked with the intention of just taking the cash when I leave, on top of the 7 weeks annual leave I've also got sitting there.
  They're adamant there will be no redundancies, without coming out and saying it they're definitely trying for reduction through attrition.
  See what happens I guess.
Oh noooo. Sorry to hear. Certainly brings up a lot of anxiety. What a shit way to restructure... I agree with taking your LSL as part of your plans. If they're going to be merciless, so can you

My old family dog I used to look after.

So adorable 💖

So one of the clients I look after, is cracking the shits about something that I have no control over.

I really hope I don't get scapegoated over this.

Fingers crossed.

Edit: spoke to our GM, he said not to freak out and no one's getting fired. The issues probs have very little to do with me.

So there’s now literal children buying anti-aging products like retinol and there’s a hair disclosing spray so women can completely defuzz their whole faces?

People are getting preventative Botox and giving themselves gastroparesis by using Ozempic and 20 year olds are either removing the fat from their cheeks or getting fillers? Celebrities with slightly crooked teeth are getting full veneers or caps?

Earlier periods of history got a bad reputation for their rigid beauty standards and rightfully so but I feel like it’s all much more out of control now because internet. Modern beauty standards are insane.

Screw that I’m crawling back under my rock

there's celebrities and then there is insta and tiktok celebrity. Insta and tiktok is freaky.
- I feel like TikTok is weirdly disconnected from reality

Jesus Christ I HATE watching this US news, but I cant look away! Some folks are already calling it and I think I might throw up. Thats not a joke or an exaggeration.

The fact that it's this close speaks volumes of the US population.
- It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.
  Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.
  It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.
  All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.
- thinking on it I am not surprised
  for 100 years the press and influencers have been making race an issue as a distraction to class , money and opportunity issues ( to stop the working class uniting , and yes, race is an issue )
  the working class have genuine grievances and want a voice, sadly trump says he is their voice ( even tho that's a lie )
  they don't want to hear more race issues
  we need unity
They need mandatory voting, at the very least
- I'm very thankful for our electoral system.
- Like my gran used to say (she thought she was upper class).. "I deserve two votes" even though she never read any policy. I once flippantly said maybe charlie (her doggo pug) should get one too and she was thrilled at the idea.
Yeah I'm starting to get a bad feeling about it all. About to turn off notifcations and try to bury in work for a few hours
I have friends in the US 😭
It's looking real ugly over there. People are talking about a red mirage, but....that seems more and more unlikely the longer this goes on.
Just saw someone talk about a republican house, senate and presidency altogether as a good thing.
Compared it to Obama. Obama had no interest in dictatorship. Republicans meanwhile keep getting real excited about Hitler.
It's too early to tell
- It is too early to be sure, but it took four days in 2020 to get a result and things looked a lot more purple than they do this time around.

I don't like this reality can we reset the simulation pls.

I really cbf making this potato salad but I know future me will appreciate it when I hear "What's for dinner?" And I get to answer "it's in the fridge. Help yourself".

I might go the meatball sub tonight. Maybe a bit of side salad to give the illusion of health
- Lettuce and cucumber is what keeps my family healthy.

My cat's heart isn't working well and he doesn't have a great prognosis, but he's well and happy in himself and I'm focusing on that. We'll be ok.

I've just ordered takeaway for the first time in yonks. Fried goodness is now on the way to me and in the meantime I've poured a glass of wine. I will enjoy it and not wallow.

And I'm putting my fingers in my ears and ignoring the news out of the US.

Many hugs to you and puss. ❤️
I’m sorry. I’m hoping he has some more good days and can soak up the love for as long as possible

Christmas lights have been hung up. Half my street is already done, and I've gotta say I LOVE it.

🙌🎄
There's a street in Ivanhoe (boulevard) that really goes to town on decorations. So if kiddo needs more xmas photons might be worth a visit :)
I used to think of the first weekend in November as the time to put decorations up. But then we had a kid born at the end of November. So we usually wait for his birthday, now.

World news aside, I've finished my first day at the new job. I think I need to get past induction and do some actual work, and start working from home, before I can decide if this was the right choice.

I think it will be. I need to remember how shit my old work was, even before things for really bad. Once I get started I won't wish I got things right in the old role, because even when things were working, they were just barely, and things were still shit

I'm trying to explain to the cat that he can't have breakfast because the nice vet is going to give him medicine to go to sleep and do some special scans.

He's just looking at me with his trusting little face, like ok that's fine but can we have chicken now please? I did tell you I'm hungry?

Poor kitty :(
Hope the scans go well.
- Thanks :) He's been dropped off now so someone else can deal with his small sad noises.

Something to distract us all from the doom and gloom shark quiz

I got 3/10 poo

eee 7/10
I have an intimate knowledge of sharks because one hasn't eaten me yet.
I got 5/10 and I dispute the answer for megalodon tooth size. They have many sizes of teeth depending on what kind of tooth. Question should have been, the biggest megalodon tooth. Most meg teeth are about 10 cm.
7/10, not too shabby indeed lol
- We have good odds in the ocean.
6/10 - lots of guessing/educated guessing.
6/10 Any knowledge I have is due yo my son and his shark fascination from the ages of 3 to 6.
Same result
LOL, also 6/10.

top comment on The Daily Show summary video is "I Prey for Ukraine". No words for the feeling of when that registers in your mind. I hadnt even consdidered.... Will the EU step up? God. I just.... those poor people.

My partner just said it would be darkly humourous if America delays entering another world war.... Again lol.
I wanna see the other timeline ffs
The EU stepped up a lot during the other bad trump years

Just as a little moment of grounding... What are we all having for dinner on this sombre evening? I gotta use up my other half tin of coconut cream, so I'm going to do a rich tomato curry with tvp balls that I also need to use up. Along with the leftover everything-in-one veggie and dal curry and boiled eggs my aunt gave me.

I’m still fairly limited in what I’m able to have but a few squares of dark chocolate just climbed into my mouth
- Same here! I needed it.
- Very dopaminious choice for the evening 👍
I might be done for night.
I ate a bunch of bread with peanut butter. Started to feel a bit like I had too much because the bread was very doughy.
We’ll see how I feel later.
- I'm hoping you get to have a bit more than just pb and toast to keep you going through the night, but also, there are days that are like that. Getting up at 12 midnight feeling ravenous is the worst tho...
Frozen fried rice heated in the microwave - a real cbf dinner. Now the cool change has come through I NEED CALORIES! Had a nice salad for lunchies with some gorgeous red grapes after - grapes rn are pretty wow. These were intensely sweet and almost musky - very much muscatel vibes but juicy. Best I've had for a long time.
- Ooh, you've inspired me to pick up some grapies to share at work on Friday. And yes re: the calories. Very grateful for some potat in my diet tonight.
Chicken roast, with roast potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower.
- All hail the faithful potat. And the wholesome feeling of a dinner roast! I actually wanted to have something similar for dinner myself but remembered the coconut cream.
I'm having thai mango curry with some roti
- Yum!! Homemade roti? :o I keep meaning to do it for ages but am lazy to even though I know it's so easy (and easy to freeze)
Tendies and salad pita wrap.
- An excellent balance of health and heartiness!
Wood oven pizza and lemon lime bitters cordial. Maybe a kids size callipo if I'm feeling extra moody.
- Tis the night for a nice wood oven pizza, good choice. I've told myself I'll reward myself with one when I finish moving. A $30 splurgefest deluxe seafood pizza.
  Do you just randomly have kids size callipos at home though lol
Keeping it healthy tonight. I had a big lunch so I'm going with a chilled, fermented, yeast activated hop and barley soup
- No sardines to wash down the beer?

Now is the time to narrow my view, focus in on my own world, school, partner, Mickey, coffee, chocolate, beer. I don't want to know about the world anymore, not for a while. I can't let this drag my mood down. I have good things in my life idc about anything else lol

I reckon it could be a good time to read more books and avoid the internet.
I’m going to try to do the same as well.
Work, coffee, podcasts, bit of shopping, streaming shows and movies and video games.
Yes. Keep making choices that make your life and the lives of your loved ones and those around you stronger and better.

ooh bit of sky grumble I'm okay with that.

Just want to bury my face in the soft, purring flank of a cat...

So I put in a request to cancel my group fitness membership after the next billing. Will check out the local council gym and also another one to try and get my mum to come along.

It's such a beautiful night, Orion is bright in the sky and the air is fresh. 🌌🌃

The real question about the US Election is do they get democracy sausages?

I'm not sure they'll even have democracy much longer, sausages are probably pushing it.
- They haven't ever had it. Current system is more or less an oligarchy, it's just called democracy so as not to scare people.
No. In fact, some states have passed laws prohibiting the distribution of refreshments to people waiting in line to vote
- That's wild
- This is really at the core of their issues.
No. In fact when we ask about it, they usually think we are joking.
They do not

sky pretty

The joys of apartment living

The barometer's dropping and my migraine's rising. Storm probably incoming. Or rain anyway.

And here's the thunder.
the pollen is intolerable
ok, that's shaking the windows

I've had to move my open mic to next week due to feeling sick :( sorry for the short notice to anyone that was wanting to come along

Edit: I have the day after off from work because Saturday is my birthday so we can have a couple of drinks lol

Dammit. Still, next week will be fine too. Glad to get fairly early warning.
- I'm sorry it wasn't more warning, I just took a really bad turn at lunchtime :(

I'm to hot for this bed
\ Too hot for this bed
\ I'm losing my head

So hawt in here i'm gonna take my clothes off ♫
If your head is broken it should be spoken, and if your mind is not where you need, you should open your eyes to the greed. The greed for which we shed our blood, just to hope it will all come good. So take a toke on some weed, because shits ain't ever gonna get better whilst we all still believe.

thunders

I had a bunch of random fruits shoveled into my bag at the free food market today. Including gold kiwi fruit that I don't really like, so this afternoon's job will be kiwifruit chutney. I'll also chop up the peaches for the freezer (they are generally a bit bruised and not great for eating fresh).

I also got some chicken to roast and lots of salad kits, so meal prep has pretty much sorted itself out for the next few days!

I want to buy more seeds and garden stuff but the money… the limited number of pots and the invasive grass… the fact that it might get stolen or the garden destroyed/raided…

:(

have an indoor garden on shelves/rack in front of a window
and I really admire your ability to grow from seed, that takes real skill 🌞
- I’m not really able to do that without exacerbating mould issues or taking up room I can’t afford, but maybe I can work something out.
  Thanks. I’m not actually very skilled, the plants are just motivated to live and I give them what help I can

It’s apparently going to weaken the Australian economy too? Which is fun.
I want to rage and call Americans stupid, and to be fair a lot of them did buy in to the hate and spin.
But I think there was also a lot of gerrymandering and ratfuckery at play. And apparently voting in America works differently to Australia. Can’t imagine being a minority in America right now.
I really hope this doesn’t hasten the Americanisation of Australia or import more crazy bullshit
- I don't think so. The working class here are more compliant and don't think in terms of rights like Americans do. Thus Australians have fewer resentments and less anger than Americans. They don't need to bring in full strength fascism here to crush the working class and labour movement.
  It will be more like English class oppression.
they have 3 months to set up systems to protect national security systems
it all depends on the defence forces and intelligence , they have to be protected from corruption
- pull out the spies or hide the files real well because once he gets his hands on them they’re all gonna get sold out

What in the ever loving Mary Shelly nightmare is the Helicoprion's mouth in that quiz???

I've heard of that one, the tooth whorl is one of the most prized fossil finds evah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicoprion
Funnily, it was the name that gave it away for me lol. Helico-pter, helix, etc.
But yeah, fuck that noise.
- Exactly how I worked it out too.
P

Bereft of the left it's obvious theft

Stay to my right and keep me in sight

Unless you have no insight I'm bigger than you

Don't dilly daddlidoo in the middle you poo.

-A pedestrian 2024

TLDR: FAFO

Oh my god, as a woman unfortunate to be cursed with lots of body hair, ripping off the paper tape is worse than whatever required the use of the tape, most of the time.
- unfortunate to be cursed with lots of body hair
  For me on the other hand I was lucky enough to grow a beard and buy strongbows when I was 16. I was very popular for a bit there.
😂
I love ripping tape off hairy arms. Ready on the count of 3. Onnne......rip. Victims faces. Priceless.
- Are you also a pimple popper?

Marge had a grumble but Huey isn’t sending it down. Melbcat has still retreated

We had some faaaaaat rain drops... and now sunshine.
Gonna have to speak severely to Huey. His latest efforts have been distinctly sub-marvellous.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-06/shark-quiz-facts-about-ocean-predators-megalodon-great-white/104320696

2/10. It turns out I don't know much about sharks.

Damn 4/10. Those questions were not easy.
6/10. Only because I watched a doco not long ago

Hard to tell who's dressed for work, and who's making their way home after a big night 🤔

Beep Beep 🚚
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A prompt and some pear juice for Simon please.
- Prompt: waste a ticket inspector's time by taking WAY TOO LONG to find your myki
  🍐
- Eyyyyyy perfect timing!
Roast lamb with crunchy spuds and gravy please.
- 🔥🐑🔥🥔🍯
Could I please one of forces' icy poles.
edit: I keep on forgetting words in sentences. *please have
- I do that too. For me it's agrammatic dysgraphia brought on by stress. I sometimes forget words but can read perfectly so what I do is read back what I wrote and then edit.
- 🧊
  🧊
  🧊
- No you may not
I'll have a fruit juice with a fancy swizzle stick in it please.
- 🍐🍊🍌🏒🥤
A fresh ice cold juice for the hot day today please Chef.
- 🧊 🥤🧊
Ill take some nutritional icy poles, keep em coming please
- 🧊
  🧊
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I'm undecided on whether or not I should cancel my gym membership and switch to the council instead. The gym I'm currently at is a group fitness gym which is a highly motivating and supportive environment, and great for making sure I see people considering I don't really have a third space besides school and work. However, I miss going to a gym with machines and the council one has a pool. Plus it's cheaper. Only the social aspect missing. I think it's a case of loss aversion here.

I should add that I'm not using it as often as I like to get value out of it.

the social aspect is of very great value. I would stay where you are.
- That's the part I don't want to give up. Being in a group setting is motivating.
Does the Council gym offer classes you can join in?
- Yep, they offer the standard sort of gym classes.
Can you get a casual pass to visit the council one a few times to try it out? Idk maybe there’s something that would sway your decision.
Or maybe even get a casual pass to use the pool and machines whenever you want to.
That’s if they still offer that
- I will look into this :)
I use a council gym and it's fab. Pretty cheap ($36/fortnight for the top membership which includes reformer pilates) and it's pretty social too. With really lovely staff and a mandate from council around social inclusion and engagement and stuff. They run events, there's a cafe, and it's just a really nice vibe.
It's not actually my closest council gym though, I travel (a whole ten minutes) to a neighbouring LGA for a shiny new facility.
- 18 bucks a week, that's really cheap for reformer pilates too!

I need to put a 2nd non vodafone Sim card in my phone because they randomly drop out when you need them most...

MARGE!

boom

😭

I still have hope.
- 😭
It's not looking good, is it?
- no, it is not
😭as well
Unless a miracle happens I’m shutting myself away from live tv for the next 4 years.
Continuing the global tradition of voting against self interests.

And so it begins....

hard to believe Trump is getting as many votes as he is. Scary shit.
- He offers nothing apart from anger...and yet...
- Indeed, I've been refreshing the news pages pretty often, at the moment it might be because of the safe seats and counting that has happened through the midband of the US, as it hits the west coast Harris should get more votes to balance it out but it's not helping that Trump has won a few swing states already.
the what
- The counting of the US election votes.

Having a side path done. Two nice blokes. Their first question: "What are the parking inspectors like around here?". I hadn't had enough coffee yet so I'm like "what?" Took me way too long to understand that question. I is not prepared for that sort of question at 7:30am.

I swear, just seeing pollen makes me itchy.

Good night. 😘😘😘

🚂Train roll on

On down the line, won't you

Please take me far away

There will be a similar upset next year with our own federal election. Looking forward to Prime Minister Dutton?

Delete this sentiment now, I cannot handle it. No no no no no. Where the fuck to escape to
- If I leave it up for us to get accustomed to maybe there won't be such a sting when it actually happens.
We do so love to follow in their footsteps, and this may embolden those with less than nice views.
Disgusting.
The way state elections have been going it night just happen

So, seeing the early US results, anyone looking for 2 When We Were Young festival tickets?

Why are you selling them? I don't get the correlation.
- As a punk I will not tolerate social injustice, racism, sexism or support fascist regimes. It goes against everything I believe in. And I wasn't looking to sell, I was looking to give them away for free.
  But maybe I should over price them and rip off people in the US as it is sold out. Might as well make a few bucks off those racist, sexists backwards thinking twats right?

Hot exclusive seedlings pic in the gardening thread ✨🌱

BOOOOOM

SHAKA LAKA LAKA

Listings have been placed on Marketplace. Let the is this availables commence.

I've received an absolute avalanche of requests today after listing stuff last night, god it's overwhelming! Do you give preference to the person who replies first or the person who can buy the most stuff off you...
- Most stuff it's quicker :)
  E: that's if they rock up.
- I give preference to anyone who can give the soonest time to pickup, preferably telling me their preferred pickup timeframe in the initial message. I honestly don't care that much about the price, I just want stuff gone quickly with as little fuss as possible. So the more questions I have to ask/answer the less likely I am to sell.

I've been singing Hot In The City all day then it came on the radio. Ummm a day too late psychiic ability.

Got a huge nosebleed on the train, so that was fun. Spent a few minutes looking like I'd come fresh from the exorcist.

Forgot to take a photo, but a bee landed on me and started cleaning herself, which was cute. Had to relocate her with a spare tissue so she didn't get on the bus, but was otherwise the highlight of the day.