First day of the weekend. Let’s goooooooo!

    • @Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
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      61 year ago

      Be excellent… ‘Nuff said. But seriously Raven, thanks for your work and of course to everyone else who got this kickstarted and rounded up the troops. It was heartwarming to see.

    • @Goddess_Amaterasu@aussie.zoneOP
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      41 year ago

      Clarifying the gif part are you saying no gif or to write a description before adding one? I don’t usually do gif unless it’s a pm to a friend, but just trying to understand that part when I read it, due to it can affect some people with its nature

    • @landsharkkidd@aussie.zone
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      31 year ago

      I’m pretty happy with everything here. I think that, my major concerns are just trolls and such. Since what I remember of the DT was a lot of really welcoming folks (even now here while I stopped being active in the DT it feels like this place is safe… a safe space as one would say), but when it came to posts on the subreddit at large there were just some horrible and mean people, especially when it came to threads about the current climate/the American culture war they’re trying to bring here.

      Obviously, everyone has a right to their opinion, just as I do. But a lot of those would get ugly, luckily they’d be pretty downvoted quick. But other than that, it’s a pretty simple rule list that makes sense. And I’m sure you folks on the admin team will edit the rules with enough warning if something comes up!

  • Rusty Raven M
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    151 year ago

    Instead of doing anything constructive I have been reading about the Aboriginal stories about Raven (AKA Crow). Known as Waa to the Wurundjeri People. Waa was originally a white bird, who stole coals/fire from seven sisters who were keeping it to themselves. He either dropped some or ended up throwing it at other animals who were wanting to have some too, which is how fire came to be used by mankind. In the process Waa started a bushfire in which he was burned, which is how he became black.

      • Rusty Raven M
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        51 year ago

        I can hear it as well - but I think that’s because there is one in the backyard right now!

    • Hongohones
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      11 year ago

      There are several stories about crows I’ve heard from different nations. They usually count them among the cleverest and most mischievious of animals. I love thier stories.

  • @jezbeenz@aussie.zone
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    151 year ago

    Ahhh hello DT friends, a bit late to the party but I have lurked a little. Glad to see you all here in this friendly space :) (formerly jezb87)

  • 🇦🇺Baku
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    141 year ago

    If anyone remembers all my long rants in the Reddit DT, I have some kinda good news about it.

    Things at the hosue have been much more settled, it appears one of them (the main noisy one) will be moving out and back in with his family. He hasn’t been here in about a month and a half, so things have been more chill. One of the others is just going about her life as usual. She tells and throws things once every day or two still, but not as bad as it was. And then the other one is still chill, he’s never caused many problems

    And on the lead tenant thing I mentioned a while ago, it seems things are going well. They lined up a house that sounds chill and I had my first meeting with the program coordinator on Tuesday. She gave me a rulebook I need to read, and then this coming Friday we meet with her again and I officially sign the papers. After that, it will be about 4-8 weeks until I move in.

    It’s still stressing me out a bit, mainly because I don’t fit one of their requirements properly and I’m only about half fulfilling it. Allegedly they’ll be pretty lenient on it, but lenient as in they’ll accept me, but if I don’t 100% meet it within a few months, I’ll be locked back and sent back into Resi.

    It’s also kind of fucking with my head because I’ve been here for 4 years, and although I’ve never considered it to be, or felt that it is my home, that’s the longest I’ve ever lived anywhere in my entire life. For about 3/4 of those years it’s been pretty bleak living here and felt like a never ending nightmare, but now that it is ending and comparitively the end is so close I can basically touch it, it feels is backwards to what I’m used to

  • @Seagoon@aussie.zone
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    131 year ago

    Had an interesting day, yesterday I watched a pretty cool YT of Danny Elfman, he’s old and weird and awesome and so talented. But watching him gave me the confidence to be older and weird too. I’m just miserable if I wear beige and be “comfy” and be my “age”. I like to have some style, I like to express myself, have fun, wear black even. So today I bought black and stylish stuff, including a cute jumper with embroidered stars and moons and a grey cashmere top . Felt good. :)

  • The lies I tell myself. Went to the sourdough bakery in Bayswater to avoid Dröm but they were sold out.

    Braved the queues at Dröm promising myself I would only buy sourdough 😆

    What I actually bought:

    • Bavarian beignet
    • Chocolate marmalade babka
    • Marshmallow choc chip cookie
    • Chocolate pecan cookie
    • Honey butter kouign amann
    • Sourdough
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    121 year ago

    Yay a Marketplace item sold. No scammer this time, just a real person with cold hard cash.

  • bull⚡
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    121 year ago

    I’ve only just got here but Bright and the drive in is very pretty. Totally guessed the motel wifi password like a hardcore hacker because they didn’t give it to me and there’s nothing in the room about it.

    Now that I’m settled it’s time to go for a look around. I friggin love alpine regions/mountains.

  • @LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Good evening!

    Very glad we have this thread.

    I have to start work at 7 tomorrow so I shall enjoy another episode of Modern Family and then go to sleep.

    Also, I broke my two week no crying streak and it was a nice release.

    P.S. if r/melbourne doesn’t come back, should we start a new sub from the ground up?!

  • @Purplemo@aussie.zone
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    111 year ago

    I love my job but they cut my hours, so I went job hunting. First interview and they offered me the job which is 30k more than I am currently getting. They want me to start in 3 weeks but I’m so scared I’ll quit my current job and then hate my new one and never get to go back.

    Has anyone has a situation where they got the job and ended up hating it

  • @Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
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    111 year ago

    Good day for laundry - wind and sun. It’s also hard rubbish weekend in Darebin, so I’ll be looking out for large plant pots and mesh to cover the fence in the courtyard. Let the curb crawling commence (after breakfast). Reduce, reuse, recycle!

    • Rusty Raven M
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      51 year ago

      I’d be a bit worries about the laundry blowing away. With some of the gusts out there the hard rubbish might blow away too!

      I do love a good hard rubbish crawl. We have on demand pickups here, so don’t get the concentrated collections anymore.

      • @Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
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        31 year ago

        Trees are definitely thrashing their branches around here. My consolation is that the laundry will dry very fast today. Hard rubbish day is lots of fun I reckon. It’s remarkable the number of items that keep appearing only in front of different houses each year.

        • Rusty Raven M
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          31 year ago

          My blue clamshell I bought for the dogs (that they refused to use) got taken by someone down the road. I was happy to see it had quite a few years of use before I saw it outside their place again.

          I threw out some old curtains a few months ago, which mysteriously reappeared in an abandoned trolley dumped at a vacant house acrosss the road. Not so good, and I have wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what on earth was going on there.

            • Rusty Raven M
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              31 year ago

              I really have no idea. But I just got back from a walk and there are another two dumped trolleys there as well, it seems to be some sort of trolley staging area. There is another up the road, which is potentially still making its way there. Perhaps the curtains are a robe to designate the Trolley Monarch?

              • @Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
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                21 year ago

                All hail the Mighty Trolley Monarch! Definitely rules in High St Thornbury/Northcote. Mind you we do have 2 Aldis, a Woolies and 2 Coleses as well as a lot of other shops in a 1 k strip. And Preston Market not much further away.

                • Rusty Raven M
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                  31 year ago

                  The closest stores with a trolley to me are 1.6km away, you have to cross a highway and then mostly push up hill to get here. Yet still they come.

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      Oh I came across the BEST pot in someone’s hard rubbish on my morning walk this week. It was too heavy to carry so I was gonna swing by in my car to grab it. But I walked past it again not 15 minutes later on my way back and it was gonna. 😞 Gotta act quickly if you see something good

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      31 year ago

      I wish my council still did it that way (Merri Bek), but you now have to book a collection and you’re allowed 2 per year of a certain size. If you go over that size you lose your second booking. I like it better when everyone puts their stuff out all at once, and then you can go around having a polite lift and sift of everyone else’s stuff. Last time we booked a collection they forgot about it for weeks. When we rang and reminded them they came and got it and the nature strip was all dead! In the meantime people had been coming after nightfall to add paint cans and other stuff that you’re not allowed to and the pile was huge.

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      I’ve got a hard rubbish collection coming up too, and I’m putting all the good stuff out today in case someone wants it. No large pots though, unfortunately. Hopefully the rain holds off