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Itโ€™s taco Tuesday! Hope you get to eat some tacos today. Have an amazing day ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

These my new kittens Carl, Donut and Mongo. They are basically one cat with three bodies. I think they are a swarm cat.

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Edit: As requested, here's the rest of my fuzzy friends.

Little Munch and Baby Bear protect the dirty bird from Dixie Cup

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Lil Munk

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Baby Bear

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Dixie Cup

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Shadow Pup

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (8 children)

You could combine the three names, and then it would be a Congo Cat.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Thought I'd join the masses over here...it's a lot busier, haha!

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Welcome... even though it's my first day here myself! Was a semi-regular at the old place, but have dropped it with all the crap going on and the way they're treating their community.

Signed up here yesterday and definitely much more going on DT-wise!

I've been a Mastodon convert for a fair while now as well, thankfully a lot of my tech/retrocomputing interests line up with the user base, so I'm enjoying it so fart!

Edit: The typo stays... :|

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Cutest thing just happened.

I work from home, in the garage most of the time. I just left the garage to come into the house, and the fluffy little dude meowed at me, walked to the bedroom and meowed again. I followed him and he jumped up on the bed and meowed, so I sat down and he went straight onto my lap! Totally made my day, he's not a super outwardly affectionate cat very often.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Spent the past 30 minutes talking shit with two workmates (good shit, not bad shit).

Just joined a meeting and someone asked me something. I was still in a shit-talking mindset and replied 'sorry dawg, ain't me'

FUCKING KILL ME RIGHT NOW

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (13 children)

After posting my dinner I realised I may have been insensitive to the fact that some people might be struggling right now. My apologies if I have caused any discomfort. So thought I might share some of my cost saving secrets because I like you guys. We are on a one low income so I know how it feels. Here we go.

We have never ordered ubereats. If we get take away my husband goes and gets it. We eat from local take away or we get specials from fast food. We have cut this down from once a week to once a fortnight. We eat out on special occasions.

I go to the local butchers for my meat. If I don't eat red meat I feel fainty due to low blood pressure so I spread my meat consumption of the week. Most meat I buy is the cheaper cuts plus one special lamb product (that's why we had ribs tonight). Sometimes I'll see a two for deal at Coles like sausages or hamburgers and I'll freeze them. Every 6 months I have to defrost my little freezer so we live off whatever is in there, defrost it, fill it back up.

The vegetables I have in my freezer all the time are peas, beans, broccoli and corn on the cob when it's available. Everything else I get fresh from the market when in season.

The things that I have in my pantry all the time are pasta, rice, cous cous, chickpeas, canned tomatoes, baked beans, tuna, corn.

I check for half price specials every week. I only buy them if I need them. No point having 6 bottles of shampoo in my cupboard. Also on shampoo and conditioner, I buy pump packs when they're $6 each. It's shampoo and conditioner it's all the same.

I try to make the evening meal serve 4 so my husband has lunch the next day or I'll make enough for 6 meals so we can have leftovers for dinner the next night.

I freeze bread. You can't beat toast. Ever.

I can't think of anything else right now but if you want me to answer any questions I'll be happy to answer them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thank you for this, you are amazing! ๐Ÿ’œ ๐Ÿ’œ ๐Ÿ’œ

Reading this made me think of something we do here (context: 2 of us, austudy and jobseeker, renters - no microwave). We mix our leftovers together, usually with rice, noodles, or pasta, on the stovetop. Or we'll put it in the oven in a baking dish with cheese on top. Add whatever spices we have in our cupboards, and it feels like a new meal. Staves off the depression that comes with eating the same thing for every meal for a week.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (16 children)

My dinner

From top left clockwise: Aldi's potato scallop, peas, sauted mushrooms with chives, marinated lamb ribs definitely not burnt just well done, mint jelly. Corn on the cob not pictured.

Please note that the plate is small. (26cm in diameter)

My husband made an observation. He said "I noticed that the smaller ribs did not make the photo but ended up in my lunch". :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (24 children)

Does anyone else see a B next to my name. It looks like a badge, have I been classified as a bot

E: in your profile setting, if you check โ€œBot Accountโ€ then this badge will appear. Looks like I accidentally classified myself as a bot

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Recieved a disappoining pay rise for the new FY. Despite my employer saying they weren't interested in negotiating the amount, I am asking for more anyway. Worst that can happen is they say no. And let them - so when I leave, they know their tightassery is to blame.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I'm on an EBA which has just expired, which means my employer will spend the next year failing to negotiate, before eventually agreeing to 4% a year for the next three years, with maybe a $1000 one off payment which does not make up for the year without a payrise, and it will be reported in the media as a 12% payrise making everyone think that is an annual rate. Then I get to see people grumble about public servant fatcats wasting public money while actually getting less than average. It's a great life as a wage earner, isn't it?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What we have here is a failure to launch. Dammit.

It has to be a problem with the date, bot won't work after midnight. It's eather Cinderella or a gremlin. Next attempt will be before midnight, if that posts it will be a stopgap solution at least while I work out the issues. Maybe I can check the dark web for bot viagra.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Another day of waiting to see how badly the RBA is gonna blast me in the arse this time.

Honestly, my favourite path of the month these days.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (11 children)

So while all you intellectuals are discussing social media my simple brain is thinking about dinner. Airfried marinated lamb ribs with peas, aldi scallop potatoes, sauted mushrooms and maybe corn on the cob. I cannot wait.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Day 10 of my exercises completed. This morning I snuck into my MIL's back room, which is like a sun room/family room, and did them there. So much space! I think I will continue this from now on. She isn't up early so I'm not disturbing her, and she's said she doesn't mind me using the space.

Yesterday I set a target of 2500 steps and we were busy at work so I ended up doing 6129. It won't be anything like that today because I'll be standing at a bench hand stretching pizza bases and cutting dough.

Have a lovely day!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Watching Star Trek TNG ๐Ÿ––

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Just want to vent a bit about a really horrible experience trying to go out to trivia in Brisbane tonight. Iโ€™m up here for a work conference and didnโ€™t want to go to the costume dinner thing they had, so booked a table at a local pub thinking Iโ€™d see if another team wanted a solo extra. First off the pub was super seedy and gross, the stickiest place Iโ€™ve been to in years. Then the only thing on the menu I could eat (recently developed awful reflux that I think is triggered by onion and garlic) was the pear and rocket salad and you guys, it is in my top 5 worst meals of all time. It was genuinely inedible. Then the trivia host ignored my three separate times as she went table to table. Genuinely ignored me waving and saying excuse me. At that point I just said fuck it and left. Now Iโ€™m sitting back in my hotel room eating yogurt and an apple as the saddest fucking dinner because my anxiety is through the roof. Fuck me. Plus itโ€™s raining so now I have wet jeans that might not dry in time for me to pack them in my suitcase tomorrow.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (21 children)

OK, bot has now been given a process management system to help run continually and not crash completely if there is an error. Not sure if it will help with the not posting at/after midnight issue, but it can't hurt and will give me a bit more information.

I have instructed the bot to post at 11:55, but after past failures am much less hopeful it will actually work โ˜น๏ธ I've added in a few more test posts elsewhere at various intervals to try and get some more information about what is going wrong. At the moment the theory that the cat is sabotaging it seems as likely as anything else. It is very frustrating that every single test I do works perfectly, and the actual post doesn't.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do I really have to go to work again today? Surely it's the weekend.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Ugh I can't believe it's only Tuesday... I don't even wanna taco bout it...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Dad's birthday tomorrow and i hadn't thought of gift ideas....... So i may have just ordered a couple hundred dollars worth of Scottish meats and treats to be delivered. Min order was $150 for free delivery so i had to order some for him and some for me :P

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Bro, its my brithday tomorrow too, you know

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Shoutout to the headache gang. I had a joyful one at work and itโ€™s still kind of lingering. So frustrating. Alas, Iโ€™m an uncool kid, so no tacos for me this Tuesday. Itโ€™s pasta, cheesy garlic bread and whatever else I can wrangle. Iโ€™ve also been cheeky with my chocolate cookie and chocolate bar this evening. You know, dessert before dinner.

How is everyone?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Got called into work today, did some shuffling of things to make it work. Good call because it was crusiy as and great crew of people today.

Also means I'll get a 4 day weekend this weekend pewww.

Also, went to doctor Saturday morning cos throat was still sore and I was miserable after 2+ weeks. Doctor was awesome. Swabbed my throat which I got a text today was all clear and gave me some super grunty anti biotics and anti inflammatories.

Immediately felt improvement and now by day 3, the pain is gone, swelling is gone down and I'm feeling normal again! Soooo glad to be past all that.

Apparently had covid and also throat infection simultaneously. Really sucked haha. Do not recommend.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Fever might not be over. Iโ€™m sitting under the heater with slippers trackies shirt and hoodie plus a blanket and I am FREEZING!

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So last night I plucked up the courage to call my dad out in a relatively respectful and well rounded manner about some of his recent behaviour and his response was a atrocious, he was genuinely quite horrible to me and it was really hurtful. I responded to one nasty message, but after the second petulant message, I left him to it. Sometimes I think the universe got it a bit topsy turvey and maybe I should've been the parent.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My raising suspicions about a medication I was prescribed resulted in my pharmacist discovering a "serious" and potentially "life-threatening" drug interaction with another regular medication I take.

Not sure if I should be shitty that both my GP and the pharmacist didn't pick up on this before dispensing the drug? Thankfully I hadn't started taking it yet.

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[โ€“] Baku 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I got some kinda sad news today. So CP wanted me to move out and into lead tenant on the 15th, and I said that was way too soon and I'd want a longer transition to at least early August and proposed August 1st s my official move in date. They said no and that the best they'd give me is the 24th and I should be happy they compromised at all

I mean I guess I am lucky they compromised because usually they dont, but it's just kinda giving me flashbacks to all the random days they've told me I have a few hours to pack my bags and then they ship me off to some new house. I mean, it's still 20 days away, and I have been wanting to move out for the last 4 years, and it's only a week earlier than I was hoping for, but it kinda sucks I don't get to control my own timelines

Also the lead tenant place hasn't even given me the address yet. They gave me the street and suburb, but no number until after the 3rd meeting. I also had to pick out furnitures for my room despite not even knowing how big my room is, so that's fun

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Moving homes is one of the most stressful life events we go through, I can only imagine this is amplified in your situation. Try to be kind to yourself, and vent here all you need โค๏ธ you seem like a brilliant young human.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Hmm itโ€™s 3pm and I havenโ€™t been tagged in one single food/taco pic ๐Ÿ˜”

Which makes me think everyone is too poor to afford food. So free tacos for everyone!!!! ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฎ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Well since Iโ€™ve dubbed today specifically as taco Tuesday, if anyone does have tacos today, whether purchased OR make it themselves and provides a pic with a description (because you know inclusiveness) and tag me. Iโ€™ll reply with a Sun infused star ๐ŸŒŸ in lieu of there being no awards on this site.

If you tag me with food (because I like food) and itโ€™s not tacos Iโ€™ll also give a Sun infused star but a different one โญ๏ธ

Letโ€™s make taco Tuesday a fantastic day

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Thereโ€™s a frightening lack of potato on taco day. Iโ€™m getting worried. Maybe we get the goods when Chief makes the Aldi scalloped.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually hate Tuesdays more than Mondays. The fatigue sets in real fast. Where my other Tasmanians at. I can't be the only one here.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How bloody good is ibuprofen and Panadol? I was shaking under a blanket and now Iโ€™m just back to โ€œmehโ€

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is most Mondayist Tuesday ever, granted it is my Monday lol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (27 children)

Thanks sun goddess.

Is it really taco Tuesday or tight-arse Tuesday? That's the big question.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (14 children)

With Reddit's changes (albeit I think more people thought it things would be more dramatic than they have been), and Twitter's continuing shit show, alongside Facebook's shadow of it's shadow of its former self... do we think we're seeing or are in the middle of the end of social media in a large sense?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I think social media is something that will inevitably have a cycle of growth and collapse. Small groups tend to attract a more creative people that want to make something new. When they are successful that attracts lots of other users and the groups grow. Once they reach a certain size the nature of the group inevitably changes. Maintenance starts to overtake creating, and as it gets bigger the content becomes primarily quick & easy content and things created by those with vested interests (advertisers etc). At that point the type of person who created the initial small site tend to be looking for somewhere else where they have room to create, and the content on the large site becomes more and more recycled content and advertising. Which means the users start to look around for something different - and find some of the things the people who have left earlier have started to create. At which point the cycle starts again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We may be seeing the end of less savvy user, which tbh is a good thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Should clarify: by less savvy I mean "People who do not actively seek out social interactions online unless it is via a platform thrust under their nose as a massive zeitgeist"

I've been farting around on the internet since fredmail, I shall continue farting long after the corporate monoliths have died

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I've noticed that when you post a comment there's no line on left only when you reply. I like it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hard or soft shelled tacos?

In my opinion? If it's a taco, I'll stick it in my face.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Porque no los dos?

Canโ€™t believe Iโ€™m the first to say this.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there some kind of unofficial hierarchy when it comes to the length of tradies' shorts? I mean there's a lot of construction happening around here and some of the older blokes, even in the middle of winter, are wearing shorts so small they may as well be hotpants.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

They're both comfortable and non-restrictive. You can take a massive step in shorty shorts. Once you start trading, the exercise gets you pretty warm quite fast.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

My reference is being a slow piece of poop, so I sent them a nice text about how nice it would be if they could check their frick-fracking email because I need money ffs

arghhhhhhhhhhh

ID: A close up of Homer Simpson screaming; indicative of how I feel within.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Panadol and ibuprofen finally got me feeling semi human. Good god this has not been fun!

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