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[โ€“] Marsupial@quokk.au 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Good to see my lizard friends still doing well in my backyard, hadnโ€™t heard from him in a few weeks. He went in the garage to do some โ€ฆ thing.

https://quokk.au/pictrs/image/13396a3d-ec29-4dcc-88c1-3504949e80c7.jpeg

Lilโ€™ bird buddies still around as well and still very curious about me every time I come out. Set up my dogs outside watering bowl that he never uses as a bird bath and Iโ€™m seeing lots of these blackbirds and native pigeons using it to splash around in.

https://quokk.au/pictrs/image/da623a4f-17e1-426f-81b9-201ac4a7d9b6.jpeg

Also planted some native flowers I had seeds for in some boxes around the yard to help encourage some more bugs to come visit.

[โ€“] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Snuggling with the hairy baby. I love my cat.

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[โ€“] tone212_@aussie.zone 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Got last minute tickets to Swift last night. Great show but my god the noise of 96k people screaming. My ears got blasted.

Bit of a crowd crush outside the ground after the show but other than that, it was all pretty orderly for that many people.

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

I'm glad you had a good time.

[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

City and PT busy af. Swifties everywhere

[โ€“] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago

Do not confront them. They will eat you alive.

I should go out tonight. I'm all about basic white girls lol

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[โ€“] bananafungus@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago

Off to an open house and then it's onto to some hiking! Keen to see what my fitness levels look like, doc said I might still experience some issues, but he was happy to give me the approval to get back to it.

[โ€“] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

๐Ÿบ2,1

[โ€“] Grackle@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just finished up dinner and trying to avoid going home. I can just hear the TS gig from my apartment and given how much time I've spent trying to get a ticket it just feels like I'm being taunted ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

Grab a glass of wine, sit by an open window and enjoy what you can. ๐Ÿค—

[โ€“] bull@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I forgot to post my photo from my Thursday Kyneton lunch adventure.

Magnificent ๐Ÿ˜™๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] bull@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

At the Country Cob Bakery! Best bakery I've been to in ages.

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[โ€“] imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

I went to a short course about the local wildlife and birds this morning. Was daunting (I have been in an introvert hole lately) but was really interesting and the people were nice too. Now celebrating with a late lunch in the sun ๐ŸŒž

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

My first ever Vietnamese coffee

And oh boy was I mistaken. I thought it would be a delicate over sweet little coffee but oh no it's a punch to the head. Anyway I'm gonna be awake all night ladies and gentlemen. ๐Ÿ‘€

I also had a bath tub of delicious beef pho

The man had sweet and sour pork

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[โ€“] Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hit 3 personal bests at the gym today so in celebration, I'm doing nothing but sitting in bed reading and playing with Gibson.

And maybe some video games and guitar later.

[โ€“] DolphinLundgrin@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is your guitar also a Gibson?

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[โ€“] bananafungus@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

House this morning was shit, tiny tiny bedrooms (have a hilarious pic of the housemate with their arms out stretched almost touching two walls at once), mould in both bathrooms that had definitely made it's way deep into everything, and extremely old appliances (not overly a deal breaker but you just know it's probably going to break now you're the tenant).

On a better note, the hike went fantastic, just a little sore in my feet!

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Another rest day. Nearly better and have to be sure not to cause relapses.

I have not watched lotr or the hobbit in 4 weeks. ๐Ÿ˜‚ maybe 10 minutes

[โ€“] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Today's attempt at scones with jam and cream was much more successful than yesterday. No cheese or chives in evidence.

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I believe I can say with all honesty until the previous 5 minutes I have never contemplated the logistics of shagging on back of a moose

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[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have been fart bombed by an impudent male. This means war!

[โ€“] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I got a cat who just ate a tin of sardines if ya wanna get really red

[โ€“] Catfish@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

Excellent! I believe lunch will involve kimchi

[โ€“] StudChud@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

My partner hits me with a drive by sometimes, so sometimes I'll walk into the study, give him a kiss, and leave him a gift in kind haha

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago
[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago

Devilled chicken on rice for din dins. My lovely neighbour gave me a whole shopping bag of beeyoutiful beefsteak tomatoes, so some of these will be fritters tomorrow. Draining the cut slices overnight in the fridge so batter won't be soggy. Having one in salad tonight with lettuce.

[โ€“] Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago

Still cleaning up the mess from the storms. Still no power either. I just want a nice relaxing weekend dammit

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No thank you I'm not a fan of jelly beans.

[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

no they are the variety that makes you fart

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm in that bored and boring lull , the time when I;m still not well and my brain is now numb from not doing anyfing and sleeplessnessless

So I'm rewatching the Fargo series. Oh ya.

and it's making me wonder how dumb people really are , and that dumb people get promoted because it's dumb all the way up

anyhoo, I was trained in the sciences to analyse data in such a way that all data had to fit the hypothesis /narrative as well as fit known facts, no data left out

seem to me most those cops in the show don't get that training

and it's hard to see where dumb and sexist are two different things

[โ€“] SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago

Love Fargo, really great show. As a subjective empirical observation, I can confirm yes, there really are people that are that dumb, and yes they regularly get promoted. And yes, there are people who are so sexist (or homophobic, racist, or all three) that they would rather agree with and promote someone dumb than compromise a millimetre of their bigotry. The writing in fictionalshows like Fargo is so brilliant because it can highlight these traits by allowing them to run free in absurdist criminal storylines. The best fiction is always a keen observation of the truth of the human condition.

[โ€“] SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This asbestos mulch situation is pretty awful. I suspect itโ€™s no accident to have that many affected sites/batches of mulch. Someone has been dumping asbestos into the mulch process to avoid paying the proper fees to dispose of it? I hope itโ€™s investigated thoroughly. Sadly the environmental laws in aus are weak and poorly enforced.

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's needed is testing for stuff going INTO the mulching process. Which won't happen cos expensive.

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[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Breakfast ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฅญ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅฅ๐Ÿฅฆ๐Ÿฅ‘๐Ÿซ›๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ…๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿฅ’๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿซš๐Ÿฅ”๐Ÿง…๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅ–๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿงˆ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ–๐Ÿซ“๐Ÿ•๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿฅ™๐Ÿง†๐ŸŒฎ๐ŸŒฏ๐Ÿฅ—๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฑ๐ŸฅŸ๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿš๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿชผ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿฅฎ๐Ÿข๐Ÿก๐Ÿง๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿง๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฅœ๐ŸŒฐ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฅ›โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿต๐Ÿบ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿง‹๐Ÿงƒ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿท๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿน๐Ÿง‰๐Ÿ”‹

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Need something sweet this chill foggy morning. Crumpets with honey and tea please.

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[โ€“] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Slow cooked lamb shank with mashed potato please

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[โ€“] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] bacon@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I finished the last one. Here's a crumb I found: ^๐Ÿ˜^

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[โ€“] wscholermann@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People at the gym with terrible form yet nonetheless look a million times better than I do

Irritates me.

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