World Water Day
The day serves as a platform to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources and bring to the fore the importance of clean, accessible water for all.
I have some tradies in the house today, and I’ve just walked upstairs to find two of them giving Gwyn a belly rub and Gwyn lying flat on his back, loving life. Was so funny. He’s such a little belly rub slut and I love how friendly he is.
I believe it has been a while since the Gwyn tax has been paid…
To be honest a two hands belly rub from tradies sounds pretty nice
Thanks for being so supportive guys. Honestly, it’s been a real blessing to have all your kind words ❤️
They sound like they would have been a toxic/backstabbing employer anyway
hugs the blessing is ours, you are an inspiration 😘
You’re all good Gibsy. We’re always around if you want to chat
Employment extended for 2 more years. Yay!!
Congrats! Does that mean you dont have to keep applying for new gigs? or still wanna get out of dodge?
Gives me some breathing space to only apply for gig I actually want, instead of anything and everything. I’ll keep my eye out still, but will be very picky. My manager is supportive of me getting a higher paying role and might advocate to make my current role a level higher.
At least I don’t have to deal with interviews.
That’s definitely a great position to be in! The feeling of desperation and having to sell yourself is really demoralising.
If I wasn’t so burnt out at my last place I would’ve definitely preferred looking for jobs while knowing I still had my existing job, but I was in no headspace to look for new jobs without first quitting my old one
I’ve done that once in the past. Had enough and quit. Found another role fairly quickly, but it wasn’t fun at the time.
Nice! Yeah always better to job search without the metaphorical ticking clock hey.
Had an interview recently and was shortlisted. Didn’t really vibe with the role and the team, but work is work. Glad I can withdraw from that process now. Two years of certainty is very welcome :)
Nice one! That must be a relief
Heck yeah.
congratulations - always a relief/achievement
Thanks friend :)
I can put the CVs away for another year
Be gentle with yourselves today folks. It’s been a long week but it’s finally a beautiful sunny autumn day. Treat yo’self. Go on, I give you permission.
Thanks homey. Nice kind words to start the day :)
Feeling really down today. Already ate a lot of baked goods at work.
sigh
Hug. Sorry to hear that. I approve of baked goods treats though. Maybe a little sunshine break too?
I’ll be running errands during lunch today.
Just depressing news and be struggling again for another 10ish days.
Sorry mate. Sending good vibes that way. Go gently.
I’m having a slow soft day to help my back get better. I might tidy my work area. :)
Nice. A tidy workspace always makes me feel better.
Getting back into the gym helps lift that weight of anxiety on my chest.
I know gym gets a bad rap because of the way some people behave, but it really is great for mental health
gym helps lift that weight
I see what you did there.
exercise is the best
and before anyone says it doesn’t replace metal health help, the first thing my psychs to me said was that exercise is part of every mental health treatment plan and that I was expected to exercise
Exercise is fine. Gyms, like hairdressers, suffer from an excess of mirrors.
those mirrors are a necessity. We need them so that we can see ourselves when we do lifts and make sure we are doing them properly
Understanding them doesn’t make them tolerable.
Dressage arenas likewise.
I have not thought at all about what to do with the weekend yet and then I realised next weekend is a long weekend and I also have no ideas for that.
BUT I am finally getting my dashcam installed on Tuesday so maybe I should hit the road for the long weekend and see if I can get some Dashcam Owners Australia footage of some dickhead doing dickheadery.
In my experience you won’t have to drive far for dickheadery or arseholitude. They’re everywhere.
The Macedon Ranges are lovely this time of year.
Considering blowing out the Easter long weekend into the next week and doing a significant drive. Back to looking at the map and thinking about where’s new and interesting. I have never been west of Adelaide city in SA, or really anywhere in SA besides Adelaide city and a suburb around it or two. Adelaide is barely worth slowing down for but maybe Port Lincoln or Flinders Ranges could be alright.
I’ve done the east coast up and down a bunch of times so it’s not super appealing to me unless I decide to go FNQ which I’ve only visited twice but I do like me some tropical holiday.
Will have to do some pondering.
Confest is 5 hours.
I did some googling into what that is and although slightly intriguing… I’m not sure that’s something I would be comfortable attending solo. Also I feel like I’m already judging imaginary attendees in my mind as poseurs and phoneys and I can’t handle people like that very well. I’m pre-gatekeeping a community I’m not even a part of and that’s a me problem.
Ah, Confest. Rock out with your cock out. In mud.
The one time I went, decades ago, there was indeed a man with the aforementioned out, greeting people at the front gate. Luckily he had a hat and top on, so was being SunSmart
There were many more than one dressed much less when I attended. Can’t imagine it would be a fun sunburn location. An entertaining weekend, but too crunchy woo-woo to make a habit of for me.
Yeah, once was definitely enough for me
Have you been to Victor Harbour? Or anywhere on the Limestone coast? Nice drive at this time of year. Whale watching etc.
Nope I haven’t spent any time in SA besides Adelaide and traversing to/from it by car without detouring. Could definitely be an option though. FNQ is nice and all but it is a lot of driving to pack into a week.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look into that area.
Don’t miss Coffin Bay and the oysters. Particularly as a lot of Tassie oysters are dying right now so won’t be cheap or easy to get for some time.
Go up to bright? thats doable in a day. Its a big day, but its doable.
Lovely day for a walk back from the dentist with an entirely numb mouth. Also, turns out my phone has this AI assisted action pan photo mode.
Been fighting a gut bug of some description the last few days. Are actual food today (yay) feel nauseaus now (boo). Been working from home because we are understaffed at the moment but did not get much done today. I’m stuffed. Gonna turn everything off and lay here in the lastof the sun rays.
Happy weekend everyone 🥂
Hope you feel better soon friend 🍺
All these days of late finishes and early starts have finally gotten to me. I conked out at 4 and we’ve got a conference dinner at 7, but I don’t think I have the energy to go. There’s a yuppy restaurant on the floor above me so I think I might just go there for dinner. I ended up leaving the conference 2 hours early too
I feel bad since they gave me a grant to come see and do everything, and I don’t want to show my appreciation by not doing half of it, but I’m trying to make myself feel a bit better with the knowledge even if I did pay for my own ticket I’d still be going for a nap
Only do what you’re comfortable with but remember some opportunities only come around once in a lifetime. Take what you can grab now.
You look after yourself. It does no one any good if you are too stressed/overwhelmed to fully enjoy the experience. I think an early exit sounds like the right strategy. Then you will be all systems go for Saturday/Sunday (if you feel like it). This should be a good experience for you - so take what steps to you need to, to fully enjoy the bits you do end up doing. It’s a very mature response to realise that the gas tank is empty, and that you need time and space to refuel.
Ah damn it. You’ve just reminded me I need to do talking tomorrow :/
I’ve decided to just ad lib it. As long as I’ve got the names of the people I need to introduce I should be right
Oh, you’re chairing/ doing intro bits? Hand cards (can’t electrically fail) Name, is really cool to have here because [……] [Reason you hopefully agree with]. Paper. Then, thanks, state was interesting, open questions, ask a question if you want to start. If it gets too quiet, thank again and direct to the buffet if extant.
As long as I’ve got their names and where they’re from I’ll be fine. Besides introducing them and where they’re all from, all I have to do is introduce myself and do a shortened version of the acknowledgement of country. I have the option to do whatever else I want provided it’s within the time, but as long as those are all done I’m golden
Rather counter-intuitively I struggle more with speaking when I’m reading a script than when I’m ad libbing it. I struggle with memorising things and reading ahead so if I have a script my eyes will be glued to the paper, where as if I just talk for myself based off a loose collection of ideas I just sorta know what to say
Addenda: create yourself a persona for presenting. Don’t need a costume, just an attitude. You can do this!
I did actually buy fancy clothes to wear, so I will be costuming. But I certainly have an attitude so I guess I have both
Brilliant! Baku’s presenting pants should host the next tread 😺
Nobody goes to all the things! Sleep well, Re-brain.
assuming this is an academic conference, rest assured that everyone has skipped out on a few sessions.
It’s a sort of cross and very diverse crowd. There’s a combination of young people with state care experiences and profesional development types attending, and all of the workshop type things (idk what they’re called) are run by mostly YP with a couple of academic types sprinkled through
Buying a tiny personal wheatbag for the cat was a good call. I’ve heated it up and tucked it in next to her. Hoping at some point she’ll put her head on it so the warmth can help the ear pain and let the antibiotic drops sink in deeper.
It bugs me that I didn’t notice further problems until now, but I thought the first round of drops had cleared it.
piranha noises
acquiesce your soul,
time drifting never alone,
sleeping pills take hold…
- Haiku by the two brain cells that are supposed to be sleeping
(Srsly why hypnotic no work)
I’m going to be wrecked for a week but I got the ear wash. Hopefully it cleans the wiggies out so the medicated drops can do their thing.
The amount of pinned daily threads is starting to get a bit silly. They’re not even from this year!
Managed to write a whole bunch of emails and applications (10+), so yay me, although I’m completely knackered.
Also feel like I might be mildly cursed. Every time I contact an RACV drive instructor, I get asked for details, and promptly ghosted afterwards. 2 more, and I’ll be out of the ones that serve the local area.
Joke’s on me for buying the vouchers first, and then trying to schedule an instructor, rather than going the other way around.
In my experience with the Lemmy.world instance, sometimes pinned posts will not “un-pin” the next day. You need moderator status to unpin them I think.
pinned threads where?
I think it’s a federation bug, when I still was on my lemm.ee account, the unpinning isn’t getting synced.
I get this as well. It’s the pinned posts on the melbourne comm.
What it looks like on db0:
What it's (probably) meant to be like:
Don’t know how or when this happened.
Can confirm that the latter is what it looks like on aussie.zone. Guessing it’s some issue with federation.
@Nath@aussie.zone, @lodion@aussie.zone, @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com any ideas what’s going on?
What a fascinating issue! No, I have no idea what’s going on, here. It’s clearly some sort of federation bug. The pin request is federating, but the unpin is not.
I’ve checked six other lemmy instances, they all have extra Melbourne Daily threads pinned. They each agree that
- Mar 22 2024 (Today)
- Dec 26 2023
- 26 Nov 2023
Should all be pinned. I don’t know what November and December 26 have in common, I wonder whether they’re Lemmy version upgrade dates? There was one at Christmas time, I’ll have to double-check the exact date.
Beyond those dates, five of the six instances had random dates pinned (though two of them had 01 Jul 2023) still.
This isn’t affecting aussie.zone users.
Upgrade dates might make sense, or it’s a left over when aussie.zone was having a few synchronisation problems with servers that weren’t on 0.18 at the time. They might have just not unpinned properly.
Is this a thread where posts are only allowed by mods?
Sorry, just realised I mentioned you with no context about what this is. Anybody’s allowed to post the daily threads, and anybody can comment in them. They get pinned until days end when a new one is posted and the old one is unpinned
Then I don’t know. There’s a bug when the community is mod-post-only, but since it’s open for all, it must be something else. You’re not lagging however https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=aussie.zone
Righto, thanks for checking. I’m not an admin, so I’ll probably just leave it to lodion/Nath to check out. Thanks 0!
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Yep, I basically get the first one on lemmy.world.
That’s unusual because with in 10 minutes of me posting the thread at midnight some kind soul pins it and unpins the old one.
Ok, I won’t say I’ve fixed this bug, but I have managed a dodgy hack around it that fixes it sorta. In the immediate term, it has been fixed it for lemmy.world and lemmy.dbzer0.com users. I’ll look at other instances soon.
The answer is to re-pin the post, wait a while (10 minutes is enough, but I might try reducing it and experimenting) for that to propagate/federate across Lemmy, and then Unpin the post. Doing it this way unpins the post properly.
It appears the original unpinning for some dates didn’t get exported to other instances. I’m still not sure what was special about November and December 26, I got a bit distracted with the solution and not bothering much with the cause.
This fuckwit washed my window without my permission.
Reminds me of when another fuckwit threw dish soap all over my instructer’s car during my driving exam.
It doesn’t look like he was trying to chase you for money, so maybe he’s just (thinking he’s) doing a public service?
I get mega social anxiety on these guys. I cant even look at the video.
