• Dalek Thal@aussie.zone
    14·
    2 months ago

    Can I just have a fucking break? I put a cat down three weeks ago, and now a dog has fucking cancer?

    Can I just get a month where nothing fucking goes wrong?

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    14·
    2 months ago

    House now in possession of a calendar of semi clad firemen with cats. Not my fault.

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
    11·
    2 months ago

    I’ve just caught up on the Australian breakdancer. It’s so very bad. The sprinkler and the play school kangaroo hop moves were great, but the sprayed roach was glorious. I watched on repeat laughing. 5 stars.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    10·
    2 months ago

    *shitty mood COVID rant

    Still no smell or taste. Busied myself with laundry and mopping to try and stop being angry. Can’t go out in the backyard for too long because MIL had a dude over to cut down the bottlebrush tree and rip half the garden out. She hasn’t got a plan really, just felt like replacing half the garden beds with more bloody lawn 🤦🏼‍♀️. It wasn’t necessary and looks shithouse, just like the barren wasteland of a front garden I try not to look at. Still strongly positive test, looks like I’m out of work until at least Wednesday. As a casual worker this isn’t good.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 months ago

      I generally despise lawn. It’s boring, water hungry, and itchy. Use clover or chamomile or something instead.

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
        4·
        2 months ago

        I’d love to do something like that out front. Eliminate lawn altogether, it’s boring and redundant in terms of our particular household. Nobody plays on the front lawn, it’s just useless. Out the back I’d have food production for humans and native birds as my priority. And as little lawn as possible, preferably none! I have to admit, the back lawn is about 60+ years old and has been well looked after (bout the only thing that has lol) and it is pleasant to walk on, but for the amount of time anyone spends actually doing that it’d be better off as something else.

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    On my street, the massed chorus of lawnmowers, whippersnippers and blowers has just started up. Right now it’s fairly minor, but I predict it will reach a crescendo later on today.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 months ago

    Ever since, I deleted InstaGratification and Tik Toxic, I’ve noticed (finally) that my doomscrolling on those apps has been replaced with the following:

    • opening 500 tabs of long form videos and reading the comments to find out what the video talks about. Most of these videos are things to do with self-help, which I am exhausted learning about from information overload. It’s like watching how to stop procrastinating videos and inadvertently using them to procrastinate. Trying to find out how I can do the work on myself is stopping me from actually doing the work.

    • compulsively googling every thought I have. This has lead me back to the other place, because a Redditor from seven years ago has had the exact same experience as I’m having. I think it’s doing more harm than good though, and am thinking of avoiding Reddit altogether. I played my keyboard and ukulele for a bit, even though I have next to no dexterity, and I felt way more at peace doing that than actually trying to reassure myself that I’m going to be better by reading advice on how to be better.

    The people in my life use junk content on social media to switch off, but my brain has been switched off for so long. It’s time to get into the real world. Maybe one day I’ll be able to be indoctrinated into Big Social Media again, and use it in a healthy way. Not today. Not tomorrow. Or the next day.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      4·
      2 months ago

      Here is what I have learnt about “self help” videos. If I have a read an academic book on the topic then I can pretty much guarantee I know better than the twit giving us their opinion.

      99% are crap or worse than crap, many are actually harmful.

      Just watch videos by famous and respected peer reviewed doctors, but these videos are far and few between.

      I do watch some how to videos. Like how to do upholstery, etc.

      so hugs and just keeping doing real stuff. :)

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      Social media content is purposefully designed to keep users on there for as long as possible. Because more data collected, more advertising presented, more $ for the owners. It’s designed to keep you watching and not realise the time passing. Most people don’t even realise it’s messing with them, so you are already winning just from that.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    I confess: I was up all night playing contraband police (I was stuck on a level and it was annoying me), playing some missionchief, and messing around with JavaScript and python.

    I don’t understand JavaScript and evidently chatgpt doesn’t either, because my attempt at modifying a chrome extension didn’t quite work. But I used it to create a python script to take a few dozen JSON files from a web scraper, de-duplicate them, and output it to a CSV file, which can then be imported to google sheets and bulk archived onto the Wayback machine

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        The only people I’ve heard pronounce it drastically different from Jason are the tech elitist types. You probably know the ones. The arseholes that spend 13 hours a day on tech/programming forums and nitpick every single fucking thing anybody says

        I say it slightly differently from Jason, but barely noticeable. Jason is more like Jas’n, the O mostly vanishes. Similar to Melbourne, it’s not Mel-Born, but you still out yourself as a yank if you say Mel-ben or Mel-bin, because almost everybody from here gets rid of everything between the b and the n. It’s just Melb’n. JSON I pronounce with a more noticeable O. I do not say “Jay Ess Oh Enn”, or JavaScript Object Notation. It’s just Jason with a harder O

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    Stayed in bed for an alarming amount of time today watching Fast Forward and Full Frontal clips after someone on the other site mentioned that the infamous breakdancing reminded them of Jane Turner doing gymnastics as Berylina Stumpy…

    Why do I sabotage myself like this! Spent a very large part of a very fine day in bed, when I actually HAD energy to do other things if I’d just put away the phone. Could’ve indulged in videos at night instead. Now I am behind on stuff for next week. At least I got a brisk 30min walk in rather than sitting in negativity.

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      I did the same, but on the couch. Watched some tv but was mostly on my phone (and I looked at that clip too!). It does feel like I’ve wasted the day but was feeling pretty blah earlier, so maybe needed some downtime. Good on you for getting a walk in - I reckon half the battle is just getting out of the house sometimes.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 months ago

        Half the battle is getting out of bed, for me 😭 once I’m actually out of my cocoon it’s easier to get going. I think I’ve been so fatigued recently that my body needs some conditioning to want to do something with my life. I fit the walk in with a time sensitive errand. It’s the only way I seem to get any exercise in.

        It has been nice to completely and fully blob out in some ways though. I feel ready to get stuck into some uni work tomorrow!

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      I watch tv in the mornings and then do work and activities until bed time. Morning is my time. :)

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    8·
    2 months ago

    Facebook’s AI search suggestions are crazy. Just saw one suggesting I might want to look for “mayo related customer service stories”.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been seeing that cute fluffy cat from may around on the camera feed a lot. It seems to visit us a lot, I’m not sure if it always has, and I’m only noticing because of the camera saving the video, or if it’s gotten lost

    In any case, I got a notification that it’s in the backyard so I went out and gave it some scritcheys. Then it was gone just as quick as it came. It seems to have a routine though, it comes in from the driveway, walls last the front camera, sniffs some plants, then goes down the side of the house, squeezes through a gap in the gate, pops up on the back camera a couple of minutes later, goes to the other side of the house, does who knows what there, then does it all again in reverse.

    Sounds like I’ve been adopted! Obligatory photos (same ones posted in may, I didn’t take any today):

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        I thought the same thing at first, but on further petting, it’s actually just really really fluffy. It feels quite skinny underneath all the fluff