Discussion Thread (Where is Yarrabyte?) Thursday 31 July 2025

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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Me: gets home. “Giiiiiibsoooooon”. Silence.

“Giiiibsoooooooon”.

Faint meowing

Look around

Loud, sad meowing

Open the blind

There’s Gibson outside looking very unhappy.

Rescue Gibson from the cruel outdoors. Is somehow both happy to be saved and annoyed I’m carrying her.

Once inside, hassles me for treats in .002 seconds

Note to self: replace the fly screen on the bathroom window.

The culprit in her natural habitat

Bottom_racer@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Lucky gibson didn't have a run in with the outdoor kitty gang.

I would put my monies on gibson though

Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y

Faaaark

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y

You brute!

RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 1y

Traffic over the westgate was horrible this evening. Three and a half hours to get home. I was very happy to finally get to the toilet after that. The nice bit was that I got to see all the sky pretty today - sunrise over fog, hot air balloons and the lights of Melbourne this morning, sunset with both pretty colours and the light illuminating clouds from below on the way home.

StudChud@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

::: spoiler cat in the machine :::

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

::: spoiler dog testing my new couch doona :::

SituationCake@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y

Fluffness tester.

SituationCake@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

Catputer.

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 1y

Going go-karting on Sunday with friends for a bit of fun. Not a competition but I plan on winning.

Catfish@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Today I am building bugs

wire butterfly

melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That’s cool! I’ve seen a favourite doll artist make bee/fairy wings with wire and resin like that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf__Z2l5Tks

Edit: Timestamp 23:26

Catfish@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

Crepe paper & pva here, but yay 😺

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That looks so cool. They would look great in a hanging mobile

and does anyone else remember that craft where you could make shapes in wire loops and dip in some kind of liquid plastic that would dry?

I found a video of it 😊 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQXKtLuDcIQ

Another similar craft I remember is using panty hose fabric in wire loops, you could get use different colours and texture hose of course

Catfish@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

I keep meaning to make garden defender moths out of deceased pantyhose. Same basic idea, loop of wire & cover it. 🦋

Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y

Feeling better today. Back to the norm which works for me.

Have an appointment next week to review what’s happening with sleep and what can be done to deal with it.

The night I have a full nights sleep, I’ll be going out to celebrate the next day lol

SpinMeAround@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y

Scenic rail with unlimited drinks and a cute little cheese plate. Worse ways to spend a Thursday afternoon.

just_kitten@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Lots of running (driving) around for gifts and things today. Used to be so much more excited about hunting down truly local gifts from Melbourne but idk these days I haven't got the energy.

Leo's in Kew is apparently closing down - after the Heidelberg one was shuttered - so that's a big loss of random imported fancy groceries. Gonna grab my Monsieur Truffe for the last time in a long time I guess...

sigh I came home for a pit stop that lasted 45 minutes but it's time to get my arse in motion again before traffic becomes deathly

Bottom_racer@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Leo’s in Kew is apparently closing down

Heard that :(

Will become apartments I guess.

I will miss the in-house pizza things they do.

just_kitten@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

It makes sense to put apartments there but boy the traffic is going to be even more heinous. I guess they were planning on shutting the place down anyway, it's so dingy and unrenovated, and all the other shops in that block have progressively closed down (first the vegetarian restaurant, then Laurent, and I suppose the $2 shop is next)

I hope this doesn't mean the excellent (in terms of range) Kew Woolies doesn't start enshittifying because they have less competition. And that toscanos can up their game.

LowExperience2368@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
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SituationCake@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

I think Leo’s said 12 months until they close. Probably the time they need for apartment plans and approvals.

tombruzzo@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Damn, we're losing both Leo's? When I lived in Heidelberg during the height of the pandemic I'd hit that place up all the time. The bottle shop was really good too

LowExperience2368@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y (16 replies)
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Kanye West - late registration

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I really don't know what to think about him. Is he mentally ill or an arsehole? Does he have a grip on reality or has he been surrounded by manipulators and yes men for so long he no longer knows what's right or wrong?

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

All of them

Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

I don't know but that album got me listening to hip hop when all I mostly listened to was metal.

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

John Lennon. Great song writer. Alleged wife beater and adulterer.

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

agree on that one

StudChud@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hard to watch anything with Kevin Spacey in it (especially because I find it weird his accusers died 👀), but I'll still watch Se7en because I love Fincher films and that one is in my top 10.

I loathe Taylor Swift. I dislike the lyricism of her songs, they feel so "I'm 14 and this is deep", she smears her exs in her music while having them sign NDAs, she's dating a known moron and MAGA supporter, giving up the façade of being a feminist.

And she's a billionaire. I think billionaires should either be forced to give up their wealth or face execution by stoning.

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

I don't loathe Taylor Swift, I just find her lyrics very young teen and/or also mean spirited, they don't appeal to me at all

on the positive side she's a good philanthropist and a very good boss

TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Arthur C Clarke's science fiction. A damn fine scientist and science communicator - a thoroughly nasty human being. Love his books, but I don't want EVER to meet him in real life.

Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Oh no.... That only leaves me with Phillip K Dick :(

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

there are still so many great classic writers

harry harrison

harlen ellison

william gibson

larry niven

ray bradbury

TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

Include Isaac Asimov in that list.

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

TIL 😔

bacon@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Jackie Chan

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

it was that or be disappeared like Zhao Wei ( who was as famous and influential as, for example, Emma Stone. )

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

another day of resting so my back can get better , just to be safe, I really hate this 😔

in good news I have been reading books all week, I've been buying books the past few years I know I want to read so now I can just go to my home library. I've read some short books on Australian landscape painters ( am further motivated to start art classes ) and am also dipping into Past Imperfect, History According to the Movies, which is fun, interesting and informative.

and today the weather is beautiful and mild, the sun warm and the sea breeze smells nice 😊

Duenan@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The side of my back is hurting too. Not sure if it’s because I kept my right foot elevated too high in relation to my body.

I’m with you on the rest. !

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

gentle hugs

any change can cause back pain, injury any where else on the body, new shoes, a new chair, bed, change in habits , anything that can cause a change in posture or gait

and now I am going to the sofa near the big windows to read a book and get some sun

RustyRaven@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Why is it that my security camera sometimes fails to miss things like a person walking up to the door but today it has notified me of a crow on the driveway?

underwatermagpies@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y

Crows are inherently suspicious.

bacon@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

Crows belong to murders

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (7 replies)

When the Sirena Tuna ad comes on and it's just me and the dog, I like to serenade him with the tune.

🎶 Just the two of us we can make it if we try. Just the two of us. Just the two of us.

He gives me nothing back.

melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I haven’t seen the ad but this is me and Melbcat

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

gmta 🐱

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Lol

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

you need to train him with treats

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

If I sing loud enough he does howl croon with me.

SituationCake@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sirena is the best tuna.

bacon@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (8 replies)

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Force_majeure123@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Deb brand mashed potato (onion version) as a stodgyass to hold my desired amount of butter and cheese please

Catfish@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Cheeky bugger. Enjoy 😹

Force_majeure123@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

🙏

bacon@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧅⌛️⚱️

Catfish@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You're early. May I have the worm?

bacon@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

🐛🪱

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

black tea and crumpets with non milk based margarine and some honey please

bacon@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

☕️🥯🧈🍯

melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I’ve bought more imitation cheeee

::: spoiler spoiler I’m really annoyed that currently my options are very processed expensive products but the more whole food options cause me issues or I’m intolerant. I love vegetables and legumes but cannot digest them. At this point I’m just trying to find anything I can eat. :::

More tofu has also been boughten and maybe I’ll invest in a blender.

 

::: spoiler Game censorship I’m really disappointed that Mouthwashing (Warning! implied NSFW, graphic images of injuries) is among the games being cracked down on. It’s a confronting horror game with heavy themes but not cheap shock value at all.

The violence, severe injuries and implied (offscreen) sexual assault are a commentary on workplace safety and the lack of accountability in abusive work environments.

It’s a mature game in every sense of the word.

Edit: It’s also ironic that this brouhaha is just spreading the content to wider audiences. I didn’t know what half of these games were before the Steam crackdowns invoked the Streisand effect :::

Catfish@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Are you within range of a Cheaper Buy Miles? They often have loads of vegan stuff. If you need to dietary experiment it mighT be worth a go.

melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y

Good idea, ty

tone212_@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

The amount of loud and inconsiderate assholes in my co-working office today is unreal. Phone calls in open plan area instead of phone booths. A team of people I've never seen before sitting near me who think I want to hear their conversations and are not capable of using meeting rooms. When I arrived this morning, one of them was sitting at my desk using my monitor. I politely pointed out MY monitor and cables are not common property and asked them to move. Food crumbs left on my desk once they moved. I can barely concentrate even with headphones on.

I think it's time to move somewhere else. I'm starting to not enjoy coming here, which defeats the purpose of paying for a membership.

Edit - add several people watching a video on a laptop on loudspeaker.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

report them to the management, they tend to look very dimly on behaviour that drives other customers away

tone212_@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I have complained in the past about another disruptive group (not there today) and basically the staff there did nothing because the leader of the group is “difficult” to deal with. They kept saying they’d talk to them but never did. I suspect because the group brings in more $$ in membership fees that they didn’t want to annoy them. Plus the other people in the area where I sit that were annoyed by the group all left, so I was the lone complainer.

My membership works at other locations so I might go check another out and see if it’s less crazy. I don’t have to stay there.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Ughhhh. Nothing worse than coworking space with absolutely pissweak managers

Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The goblin has had her fill of treats.

Goodnight all. 🕺🏽 🪟 😿

Duenan@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

Night night!

StudChud@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Quick! Someone lend me some motivation to vacuum!

💀💀💀

bacon@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y

that sucks

SituationCake@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

I currently have negative motivation credits so sadly none to lend. But I’ll leave this here. Jog on the spot, a few air punches, then show that floor who’s the boss. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

SpinMeAround@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

You can do it! I believe in you!!

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

it starts when you cbf to vacuum

here's a cleaning channel, it's great motivation

https://www.youtube.com/@MidwestMagicCleaning

imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Oh I love this guy! I often use this to keep me company when I clean

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

just him and his moose

Duenan@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Back at the doctors but at a new different clinic.

Decided to wear an Ugg boot on one foot but I’ll need to buy a new one as this one’s breaking apart.

I might be able to get away with wearing an Ugg boot to work.

Anyway more to see what information I can get and how to treat it as it wasn’t really given to me properly from the other clinic I went to which could have potentially saved the nail.

I think I’m consigned to losing it now.

Thornburywitch@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Not the end of the world if you do. Just keep the nailbed clean and protected from bangs and bruises. Wide bandaids worked for me. Have lost a toenail before - it's painful but the nail grows back just fine. You might need one of those foam "corn protectors" inside your socks to protect the toe from rubbing on your shoes.

Duenan@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I’m back from the docs.

So apparently it’s healing well and looking good but the nail may or may not come off. Still a bit swollen though.

There was a differing opinion from doctor and nurse if the nail would come off.

Anyway it’s splinted up for a couple of days then I’ll just keep using band aids to make sure the nail doesn’t get caught on anything.

I also have another couple of days off so I’ll just rest up now.

Also as an unexpected bonus it was fully bulk billed at this place.

I’ll try not to worry too much now as that was my main concern. If it happens it happens.

StudChud@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't stress, eventually it will heal and you can start selling feet pics for extra money again! 🙏🏼

Duenan@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

World’s ugliest feet maybe.

Don’t think I could retire on that.

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

nothing beats soft wide shoes when you have a foot injury

and I would consider using a cane for a week just to take a bit of weight off the foot when walking

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y (4 replies)

oh no

Duenan@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I think it was more my fear of experiencing it for the first time and the unknown.

Anyway what’s done is done. Just have to take care of it as best I can and just wait to see if it fails off by itself or grows out and fixes itself.

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

number one is keeping it clean and free of infection ,

lots of hugs for ya

Duenan@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No infection so far I think it’s healed well enough now for that not to happen

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

excellent 😊

tombruzzo@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I got the game Hundred Line for my girlfriend a while ago and I swear it's "Video games when mum walks in: the video game".

Not every line of dialogue is voiced, so the characters just make these moaning and grunting noises, which can sound like something else when you're speeding through dialogue

Duenan@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hundred Line Defense?

tombruzzo@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah, I think the tagline is Last Defence Academy or something. The teams behind the danganronpa and 999 games worked on it, if you're familiar with those. It's pretty much every type of Japanese visual novel in one game

MeanElevator@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Took the day off yesterday, had an out office message on teams and email, come back today to several people sending me messages and asking for a quick reply.

We really need to bring the R word back from the 90s for such individuals. There's other names we can call them, but none of those are harsh enough.

Thornburywitch@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Illiterate sounds about right too. Clearly can't read.

MeanElevator@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

I mean they can write, so not sure about that. Also it's too classy and high brow. Gotta hit them with something they'll feel.

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Retro cunt?

MeanElevator@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Not quite. It's the French word for delay

Catfish@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

And a perfectly valid musical term

CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y

Also to keep the fire from spreading

MeanElevator@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

I'd love to treat them to some sweet chin music.

melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Quick! Funny NSFW video before it gets hidden!

(NSFW, butts) https://youtu.be/Orv0Yy-dXdg

StudChud@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

😂😂😂

melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y

😏

melbaboutown@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y

Small things: Feeling really shitty about losing my YouTube playlists. Wondering if I should screenshot for the songs that are hard to search by name but that’s a lot of clutter to go through. And I wonder if the internet friends I’ve sent my email address to will actually stay in touch once I’m off social media.

Big things: I’m looking at Melbcat’s nose and just fretting.

::: spoiler spoiler I know these things are slow growing and probably most of the damage happened in the 13 years of her being a semi-outside cat before I adopted her. But I still let her sunbathe in the backyard, and after becoming an indoor kitty she was allowed to bask in the sun through the window. I looked into pet sunscreen back then but the options didn’t have great ingredients.

I’m ordering some now and she’ll be wearing it for her sunbeams this summer. :::

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I gotta rest my back again, so time for background movies

SpinMeAround@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Whatcha got lined up??

Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I ended up watching the last episode of Poker Face and some Sherlock Holmes

Duenan@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

I’m maybe going to do Ballerina tonight. (John Wick)