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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Hear ye hear ye. This has already been mentioned but I'm repeating the PSA:
Our escape pod has (an) impostor(s). Last night one pretended to be epicpillowcase and attacked Hongohones. Another pretended to be MissDarylC.
Please remain vigilant for anyone sus. If in doubt, contact the original crewmate on reddit to verify identity.
God… imagine having so much free time on your hands that you’d go out of your way to impersonate someone online in a casual space like the DT. Holy fuck that’s low.
I suspect it's paid time. I reckon there's active online campaigns looking to sow dissent among friendly communities.
I think Bacon is sus. Blow ‘em out the airlock. But no joke, is it worth someone sending messages to those who still have the reddit accounts to “verify” that we then have to DM on here to confirm identity.
Just posted my “resignation” from the reddit Dt. Hopefully it’s not permanent, but I’m confident it’s for the best. I wanted so much to be a part of the gang when I started out, to walk away feels a little like losing some mates. But I don’t know how to stay when I’ve lost respect for the platform, the mods and tbh some of the community members.
Sigh. I actually completely missed whatever went on the past few days. Was on a cat sub from a Google search at 6pm last night and then saw the melb sub was open again.
Part of me really doesn't want to know which regs did what the days prior.... part of me really needs a break from social media altogether. I kind of just vaguely hoped the sub would reopen and things would go back to what they were slowly, but from your comment and seeing some posts here today it seems like there's been an irreparable rift beyond just what the admins and mods are doing.
Anyway it finally got me over the line. Hi guise
It's such a damn shame, but at least we can continue to build up the community here. Tbh I was always more of a lurker than a poster, but nothing's really drawing my back right now. It's been nice to have some distance while everything was going down, and maybe I'll just keep it that way.
I don't blame you, I was myself a little shocked at how nasty things got back there. This feels like a haven and I am totally here for it.
Turns out it's reddit admin making automod remove all lemmy links, not the r/melbourne mods
I'm definitely staying here.
All the dt people!! I've missed you! Thank you for sharing the link Sir Lister!
Happy thursday. Got up and am just finished chairing my first online AA meeting. Service and volunteering are in my blood. Service is the last step and I have a lot of work to go to get to that bit, but I've been doing volunuteer work since I could. I started in cubs all those years ago. Another place where all the boys called me a girl and I didn't mind at all.
Have the transgender victoria job fair today so I have to try and get some normal looking outfit together. Being female makes this a lot easier than wearing a fucking suit and tie and having that corporate rope around my neck.
Then I have my usual volunteer work to do on a thursday, counselling and another aa meeting specifically for trans people and allies, then probably more aa with my normal 24/7 group.
I'm over what happened yesterday, but everyone be aware that trolls impersonating our old friends from the reddit DT are here spreading their vitriol so if something seems a bit off from a familiar face, message the og so you can confirm who it is I guess,
Thanks to Briongloid for super prompt action dealing with it and for everyone for reminding me that for every doucebag transphobe I have 50 allies or more! Have a beautiful winter solstice everyone and get some dirt under your toes and hug a tree or whatever connects you to mother nature. She's my guide at the moment. Bless her.
Lotta skewers! Tried to upload the piccy straight but no dice:
Great night. SIL's fambam is great.
That's not what I imagined. I thought there would be one metre long sticks!! Looks delicious tho. :)
Got to sleep in, have scrambled eggs, didn't need to rush to make a coffee. Now it's time to get ready and go to work. Start of my birthday is going good! Can't wait for whatever shit show happens later.
Given a few trolls have followed the team here, I was thinking if someone is sus on an account, send a confirmation message to their counterpart account on reddit.
Might be worth whoever has the spreadsheet taking it down. We’re basically advertising potential people to try imitate.
Knockout sleep. Woke up before alarm. Caught the early train to work. Made myself a coffee and ready to suck the day's dick at work....and some fucknut comes in all chirpy and shit and greets me with 'Happy Thursyay!!!'
Sometimes violence is the anwer
I'm a feeling a bit upset around how things have been going recently. I'm not necessarily disappointed about the sub returning to how it was, but it just all feels so pointless. Like what the fuck was that? Everyone (myself included) hit the roof and there were sub despicable comments about the mods and a handful of others, and what was it even for? The subs just gone back in time 2 weeks, all the hatred, negativity and pessimism was all for nothing. I was all for protesting, and as I said, I don't necessarily think things should've continued as they did, but it doesn't seem like there was any way to win
All the recent goings on combined with the usual mid week blues and wintertime SADs has led to a whole lot of mindfuck for me
I'll be back, probably. Boredoms a mofo and reading what everyone's up to is a good cure.
I wish everyone peace and love ☮️✌️♥️ and I'll catch you all later in the week
My partner got his working holiday visa! Now he can get back over here and we can start working on our partner visa next ♥
Day 2 of stress leave and I think I'm going to order lunch in and then spend the arvo working on my Dutch. My lessons are getting a little harder as I get into verbs, pronouns, and formal/informal language. Also "de" and "het" and the rule for which one to use being "you sort of just memorise which goes with what" is so fkn funny.
So the bride of the wedding I'm attending is Butter's the burmese owner. The cattery the cat is at in Melbs just sent a piccy whilst we were at brekky and she burst into tears :(
She's so attached to bboi I love it.
After 40 years of pretty much exclusively wearing Adidas shell-toes (thanks Run DMC!), Vans and Converse, my feet are fucked and I've had to come over to the dark side with some fitted fat-soled New Balance runners. Oh my! It's like walking on air and I love it lol
Went to the optometrist to fix my eye pads on my glasses and this cuddly bear of a man fixed them and also tightened the screws, cleaned it, and was also really nice
10/10 customer service
20/20 (!)
The cats are going to kill and eat me. No breakfast by order of the V.E.T.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
So the one thing I've noticed about here in Indo is that there are no public bins. But people don't just chuck their stuff. I've asked a bunch of people what's the go and they thought I was mad.
Fire lit and burning well. Cats are happy.
If anyone else was wondering, I just tested if you can put a spoiler inside a spoiler, and the answer is yes.
Attention all UniQlo Heattech clothing lovers. I just had a look at their website looks like some items are on sale now. I would suggest picking up an item or two if you need to before stock runs out.
Tinyest is so funny. I was trying to unzip his stupid jammed Wondersuit the other day, my hand slipped off the zip and I (very lightly) bonked him on the nose. He stared at me for 2 seconds before slowly screwing up his face and screaming “bahhhhhhhhhhhh” at me. Mrs b just dropped a toy near him and he did the same thing cause he was scared. I swooped in to calm him till she started laughing at how funny it all was which set him off again cause I think he felt mocked. Poor little fella, but it is hilarious! It’s like he has to charge up the cry before he unleashes it.
Some drinks before dinner! Hope I did the picture/spoiler correct!
(Pictured is three cocktails, one is a Pina Colada with whipped cream and lime, another is a blue-green drink with lime and then the third drink is a more deeper blue)
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Two Birds Brewing and their Spotswood taproom is being shut down. I wasn't a great fan of their beers, but it's a shame to see independents taken over and then spat out by the big conglomerates.
I'm a fairly heavy gym-goer and feel pretty good with my deadlifting as of late, but I still have issues with my mobility when squatting. I keep listing to one side which is preventing me from progressing. My PT has been recommending mobility warm ups/exercises to do before my set...but I'm also just sooo lazy when it comes to doing them so I just...never do them. I should try and fit them in before I go to the gym so I don't have to worry about them once I get there.
Welp.. it has been a day. Suddenly I have flights booked to the US in 7.5 weeks time. Premium Economy baybeeee lessgoooo!
Turns out Citibank got sold to NAB so their excellent debit card is no longer the best option for cash withdrawals overseas. My Latitude 28 Degrees credit card is still going strong for purchases, although I'm reading I might not be able to use it at any venue (food etc) inside a casino which is a bit shit. Been doing research into what's the best for cash now but I'm not loving any option I can find.. RIP Citibank debit card 😭
