Call from locksmith for mystery reason? What is happening?
Locksmith called you? That is mysterious.
FYI it looks like you posted this on yesterday’s daily thread instead of today’s.
Holy sweaty shirtballs. I am COOKED, was out from 11 to 6 jumping in and out of the car but I got the time sensitive stuff done, and I pushed on through to correct ALL the other measurements in one day to make the most of cruisey traffic… and I’M DONE WITH MY DATA COLLECTION!!1!1! (for that side of town, anyway. Got one more area that I might have to let go of if the weather doesn’t play nice this weekend/next week)
I’ll be glad to not drive over the effing Westgate for another year now, thank you very much.
Bonus is I managed to get some cheap Asian veggies while stopping for refreshments (kang kung, choy sum, winter gourd and very cheap small round eggplants). Plus a full tank of cheap petrol. Ordered pizza for dinner as a very well-deserved treat… just waiting for the clothes to wash and I’ll pick it up while I do the laundromat run. Whew, what a day.
Yay. 👍☺️
I feel a bit like I didn’t get much done today, but I have made significant progress in de-Goggling my life.
I’ve also removed Reddit. Again. Apparently it’s like cancer. I obviously didn’t get rid of it all when I moved over here and it regrew. Now it’s been cut out again.
Hopefully with a new influx to Lemmy there will be a bit more engagement here. Although we are all terrible people who “incite violence” so maybe we should just riot instead?
what happened to reddit THIS time?
They are going overboard with censorship, which seems to be aimed primarily at anyone expressing anti-Trump sentiments. Not just banning people for making comments but also people who upvoted them. They have very wide criteria they classify as “inciting violence” - including using the name Luigi or the phrase “eat the rich”, but they are not transparent about what their criteria are. They have also been banning people for reporting too many comments, regardless of whether or not those reports are valid or not.
You could say you luigi’d your reddit.
Hey hey hey - you can’t use that word or um, the Americans will ban you!
An nobody upvote him either or they’ll get ya!
I could say that, but only here. Try to say that on Reddit and they luigi you 🤣
i feel like I aged ten years just figuring out how to use mastodon
it’s like lemmy but they don’t actually tell you what server you signed up on or what server you’re on, so that’s fun. Also, you don’t actually sign in with your mastodon ID, which is so intuitive 😵💫
now to move my gmail to proton
I use duckduckgo anyway, but even that algorithm is getting more and more shitty, getting really hard to actually find anything
reddit, I am so blocked on most of my accounts I couldn’t delete them even if I wanted
maybe if i tried the computers at the library it would work 🤷♀️
I never downloaded the reddit app
I haven’t actually looked at mastodon. Lemmy took a whe to figure out initially too, it’s probably similar and it just takes a bit of time.
I managed to avoid an actual ban on reddit (probably because i didn’t use it much) and only had comments banned with a warning.
In many ways I miss the old 90s newsgroups.
I’ve been having comments removed on newspaper discussions , for stating inconvenient facts that were actually in the article
and i’m getting down voted a lot on reddit a lot
there are some massive propaganda campaigns on reddit at the moment , it shits me
Tomorrow I am exploring Bluesky , which looks a bit like mastodon but with many more members
Just upvoting things like that can get you banned now, along with saying things like “eat the rich” or the name luigi in any context.
pointing out lies by foreign fascist governments can also get you in trouble
this is not right , it seems the terms of use are being exploited by bad actors
the little strawberry yoghurt ice pops were delicious, I chose very very red small straws for a strong flavour
I don’t feel guilty eating these either 🙂
Fun fact - the old English word for strawberry is streawberige, etymology is light on this but it could have the same etymology as straw, as in, it is strewn (literally “that which is scattered or strewn”), based on how strawberry plants grow across the ground. Related to Proto-Indo European *stere meaning “to spread”.
Literally “strewn-upon-the-ground berry”.
when I lived in Europe sometimes species wild strawberries would appear in my garden beds, such tiny little berries, very little taste but they edible, they are very pretty and the robins love them
I read somewhere the strawberries we cultivate and eat are native to America
“Gibson why are you eating cobwebs?”
The next couple of weeks at work are going to be a glorious trainwreck.
Maybe the person I’m handing over to will call me and ask me to dictate an email to them again lol
refuse. and escalate concerns to your manager. “Bringing this to your attention now so it cant be pinned on me after my departure. I’m greatly concerned about how X will handle the workload”.
There is 0 reasons to be “Nice” any more.
Good move. Fuck it, I’ve got nothing to really lose.
Go to print something in black and white and it refuses because the colour is low. Fuck HP printers.
Check out reject shop daiso etc. for christmas wrapping paper. Maybe even colesworth. Some kinds have squared grids on the back in 1 cm intervals for ease of wrapping presents. I bought a couple of rolls and use that for pattern drafting. At a couple of bux per roll its MUCH cheaper than formal drafting paper and just as good. And if I screw up a pattern it’s no big deal to do it again on a new bit of paper. Buying paper patterns is expensive and they usually need to be adjusted (for me anyway) before they fit.
Thanks, that’s smart! I have Xmas wrapping paper but sadly no grid on the back.
Sorry for the ninja edit removing the part about making patterns, I had figured my weird activities weren’t actually that interesting
Long day! Remembered sunscreen and I remain pale and unburnt.
Now sitting outside the laundromat, washing mein liebes pants for his interview tomorrow. He has used all his spoons, so I sent him back upstairs to rest lol
washing mein liebes pants for his interview
May your washing of pant land him the prospect of more pant.
💜💜
After about six hours of gaming, and maybe two hours of phone scrolling and napping; now that the sun has set, I finally feel like getting Things™ done.
inspired by Low’s recommendation I bought a lot of cosmetics today ☺️ lots of eyebrow and eyelash stuff, new liquid eye liners too
Oooh, tell me more. I’m a cosmetics fiend and wish to know all of the details!! Brands! Colours! Finishes!
One discombobulated Boyo is back home after discovering halfway into work that they’ve given everyone the day off.
Shit sleep last night. Can’t think of anything to do for our wedding anniversary next week. I’ve had two shits already which is unheard of. It’s fucking hot. I will survive.
I had a long second sleep, musta been tired.
I’m surprised cookie monster is there. Surely Vicpol with their extremely sound judgement chucked him in the drunk tank, then refused to do a blood test, fail to communicate the charge, then didn’t offer him 2 phone calls and just chucked him out on the street at 4am on a monday with no way home except for an 8km walk. (It was a while ago but I’m still bitter).
He doesn’t know where he is. He’s high as hoeing down cookies. He wouldn’t remember his age let alone a phone number.
I’m sure Oscar got good reason
He lives on the street, he knows what’s up.
Electric toothbrush or manual toothbrush?
Manual, do it in the shower and you get an extra few minutes for free
Manual. Gotta get that exercise in somehow.
Electric, better clean
With less effort
Manual!
manual
Electric all the way.
Manual. Quieter. No vibrating brain. No need for batteries/charging or replacement heads. Or company no longer makes heads the type you need.
There’s electric now?
Yeah. They’re new.
Coming back from beechworth, we all had a great time. The boys got to pat lizards and feed frogs. There were animals grazing around the grounds and they got to watch a crocodile be fed.
To top it all off, they use a product work sells that lines up perfectly with an upcoming product launch. I asked if I could use them as a case study and they said yes, so I could retroactively spin this as a work trip
Definitely a work trip, and the boys were the quality testing team
getting used to mastodon, nearly had a breakdown
AAAAARGH
😭
I think I have it sorted now
