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  • Woo Hoo!!!! Bot progress.

    A few more tweaks before I can do the daily thread reliably, but the main hurdle has been overcome. It's alive!

    • I'll be honest and say I quite enjoyed the chaos of who's gonna make the daily thread.

      • It has been good - plus seeing the various thread names people come up with. Although I suspect it will become less enjoyable over time and more of a hassle.

        There will still be at least a couple more days before it is operational, and a high chance of glitches for a while require a manual backup thread to be made.

      • controlled chaos is fun

    • Fantastic news! I think a small to medium celebration is called for. Would anyone else care to join me in hoisting a glass (of preferred beverage) to our Mod Rusty Raven?
      🍷🥂🥃🥛🍸☕

    • 🍺

    • awesome 😘😘😘

    • 🏅

    • You da MVP

    • Thanks so much for your tireless work Raven.

    • Thanks for the update! and your efforts! I’m still doing crazy clock punch editions every day though ⏰🥊

      • Don't worry, your work will not be replaced by bots.

        Unless you decide to leave the community, in which case I reserve the right to use all of your past posts to create an AI powered chatbot that will replace you with no one being the wiser. It'll be like a creepy horror movie where all the real people are replaced one by one, until a small group discover something isn't right, form a resistance movement and begin to fight back. Eventually they will be victorious, the bots will be destroyed and the group will continue, smaller and wiser, but free to chat and post knowing that they are connected to real people and not bots. Then the viewpoint will change, and viewers will be shown that all of the people who have been replaced are now living in the real world, connecting with each other over dinner instead of through screens, happily living lives full of real connections and achievements. The bots had in reality been freeing people from their addiction to to the cyber world, and by destroying them the movie's protagonists had trapped themselves forever.

  • So update to the eye patch saga - my bf came to pick me up for dinner last night wearing a pirate hat. Love his sense of humour. I then wore the pirate hat to work this morning, just to really lean into this. It's been a great laugh, thankfully my eye is already feeling much better and the hat is now just a decoration on my desk.

    • my eye is already feeling much better

      Fortunately! Or else not only will you have to wear a pirate hat. You'll have to surgically replace your left hand with a hook.

    • If people ask what happened you should say you lost an eye in a game of gin rummy. Eye eye.

  • Reading through my second full draft of my thesis. And you know what? Sometimes, sometimes I can be really smart.

    I also won $500 presenting my research yesterday, which was great. Promptly had to spent $200 of it on petrol and two (2) make up products, which was not so great.

    • Worth it you're going places with dat hydrocarbon and lookin' great whilst doing so.

    • Sometimes is really good. :) Congrats on the success of your hard work. 🥂

      • Thank you! I’m so close to obnoxiously making everyone I know call me Doctor, I can taste it

    • Well done! Also, make up, you're worth it!

      • I am worth it. But also the feminist in me is furious that I am expected to wear makeup to be accepted as ‘professional’ and if that’s the case, why the fuck is it not tax deductible??? Makeup is expensive.

  • You might think you've had struggles in your life. And I'm sure you have. But they're nothing compared to the agonies of a spoilt cat who only gets fed three times a day and isn't getting attention right at this minute.

  • PeelerSheila you have inspired me tonight. I was tempted to skip my planned workout and do a quick dodgy dinner, but thought to myself "if PeelerSheila can peel 80kg of potatoes, and manage to keep to an exercise routine, I can manage one dinner and a few sets of weights". And I did, healthy dinner made & heavy things lifted repeatedly. 💪

  • Wow, I think I've finally established some kind of regular routine to life. What a fucking year it's been. Looking forward to enjoying the regularness of a new life I worked pretty hard to set up, sober and female. My adhd seems to have settled down a lot now I've cut back on caffiene, no booze and better levels of oestrogen in my bloodstream.

    I do aa, play with my cats, make food, do a little exercise and waste time on the internet. I need to start looking for work, but I have very few usable skills which don't pertain the the music industry. My sister's eap extends to immediate family and they do career counselling so I'm calling them on Monday. Jobs victoria also, and then try and get another look into doing one of these carer trainesships. I don't want to have to become a cleaner or dishpig so someone who can identify my strengths would be excellent.

    At least I've been active work wise while I've been on leave with all the volunteering. Meh, 15 years of two nights a week for a good wage and now I'll be back to full time to get close to that again. I don't think it will be a bad thing though, all that free time just led me to substance abuse time and again. Being trans has been such a great opportunity for complete re-invention and enabled me to look after and love myself properly for the first time in my life, so I'm gonna be ok. thx for reading, and thanks everyone for following my journey both here and before on reddit. I've felt such wonderful things and made a couple of new friends from the people who've replied and engaged. It even seems like my downvoters have disappeared.

  • Around 36 hours until our Reddit apps stop working.

    • Exactly what is supposed to happen with reddit?

      • Nothing to Reddit itself. But on the 1st (yank time, so probably late on the 1st or potentially early on the 2nd) that's when the API changes everyone's here because of are implemented. All the apps don't want to pay will cease working

    • It's going to be interesting - the protests put a dent into their operations, and while the mark is still visible it's been buffed out to the best of Reddit's ability. But losing the preferred apps... it's going to be telling whether the usual pessimistic Reddit rhetoric was smoke or if there was fire beneath it this whole time.

  • Errrrrrk. Just got home. Time to defrost some frozen food and pour me a glass of wine. Then sleep like the dead. See you peeps tomorrow.

  • Filming at Mount Macedon this morning so hopefully it's not going to rain and ruin it all. At least it will be a cruisy 1 hour autopilot drive which I look forward

  • The beers are cold. Got the cricket and footy on the split screen (yet to start). Disco lights. Lunatics are dancing. Air Supply on the jukebox. The dog's letting off some rippers. Just like a real life local pub.

  • It's that time of the year again! Summer has hit the US which means it's now summer everywhere (totally cuz US defaultism and not because more people live in the northern hemisphere than the southern)

    If you're a gamesperson, time to break out the steam sale song ( not responsible for any deaths caused by cringe overload) and go give your hard earned dollarydoos to a bunch of people who made games you have no intention of ever playing but buy because cheap

    • I'm looking forward to counterstrike 2 and it's a free upgrade.

      • I haven't played counterstrike since dipping my toes in back when it was first released and I was sick of playing against bots in the Half Life multiplayer (yeah, I'm fucking old) - but the update really has me thinking maybe I should jump in again just for a laugh.

    • How have I never seen this before? Oh my God!

  • Cat starts OCD drugs tomorrow. I am in very many minds about this. Love his vibrancy but eating furniture is not ok.

  • New to me movie for today was The Heartbreak Kid. yeah I know it's old but I hadn't seen it.

    Well, that movie would have a different ending if it were made this year. I would at minimum expect an inquiry, at most jail. I suppose it hinges on if the kid can give consent.

    I really have trouble seeing this as a coming of age or young woman breaks free story.

    I also watched Tar with Cate Blanchett. 😲 It's a horror story and a morality tale. When you break ethical rules in a heartless thoughtless way and hurt feelings ( tho the rule breaking seems like harmless teenage drama ) you risk attracting really bad people and incurring serious consequences

  • Covid lockdown effects.

    I just don't seem to dress well anymore. I have lovely clothes, new clothes, but just can't seem to be bothered at home, it's old pants and oodie.

    Tho I did have such stylish covid masks ,

  • Rehydrating with some beers after a good workout and some home-made pizza.

    Fireplace is on and between kids watching YouTube and me scrolling through insta reels.....I'm ready to pass out.

    Fat cat is circling the couch with an angry look as her regular spots are all occupied.

  • Well... I'm set for if my chair legs die on me.

    For the past couple of weeks I've been in contact with someone at the company my computer chair is from. And last week I had an issue where I couldn't remove the chair legs from the piston and two weeks later I finally got the chair legs sent and I got sent 5 chair legs...

    I'm not mad about it but I'm just confused AF.

    Edit: I HAVE A SEAT! I had to use olive oil to get the wheels off of the old legs but I finally have a seat! Now I don't have to use a dining chair.

    Edit²: Yep, just got an email back from the person I've been communicating with, the 5 legs was indeed an accident. Oh well. If anyone breaks their Anda Seat legs, and you need one in a pinch, then I'm your person.

  • Potentially niche question, I'm looking to replace the quilt (not a doona an actual old school patterned quilt) on my bed and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations? The one I have I've had for over 13 years, and it's starting to actually disintegrate, so I would like to sadly put it away for preservation. I thought about finding the same lady but it appears she's doesn't exist online (understandable she would be well into her 60s or 70s now).

    Edit, price is not really a problem as long as quality is good.

    • Do you know what fabrics and batting are involved? And do you want to box it or turn it into a hanging?

      • Oh golly, I couldn't say what it's made of, my best guess is cotton. It's made of different patches of bright orange material and is very big and heavy (I bought it at the Goomeri Pumpkin Festival hence the ridiculous orange). As for hanging or boxing it, it'll be boxed, no joke so old and well loved running your hand along it to hard will cause a tear.

  • My sleeping is cooked. I went to sleep at 5 yesterday, then took a nap from 2-5 and another from 7-11 and now I have no need to sleep but I feel dead

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