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[โ€“] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Introducing the newest member of our family

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 months ago

    Friends of ours are going away for 10 days. It took a lot of convincing from his partner to allow YL to look after their tiny old delicate dog. Tittles has an extensive routine. Tittles is their baby. PLEASE DON'T LET TITTLES DIE ON YL'S WATCH.

    *Tittles is not her real name.

    **Also means 10 days of partying plus YL has a 2 week job following. I love part time daughter.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Replaced the chairs that were holding the monitors up in the studio with a few hundred kgs of limestone lol.

    I really hope the MDF it's on holds.

    Unintentionally the light above seems to hit it quite nicely.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    In a world of One Uppers and Talk Overers, thank you for this being a safe to share my weird stories. Sorry if I don't talk too much IRL, it's conditioning. May we all have an excellent Friday and a bangin' weekend!!

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago

    Wrestling with 150 32kg+ rolls of fabric today have resulted in a long, long shower and snacky plate for dinner. Cocktail onions are so underrated!!

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Two more days until holidays. So so close...

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Happy World Snake Day ๐Ÿ

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    am feeling "stuck"

    will just have to stand up and do stuff

    now to go to shops to get panadol, my hands ache ๐Ÿ˜•

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think I made a new friend through my retail course :3 she's lovely

    We both found we're both queer, and she asked if she could come over to charge her phone. But we ended up just having some beers and chatting about retro games lol.

    She left her fam in nsw due to them being transphobic, and her and her partner seem to have found it a tad hard to find nice, safe friends. I'm chuffed she saw me as safe :3 young trans women have it so hard ๐Ÿ˜ญ she's so sweet and cool and goth ๐Ÿ˜ she didn't judge at all that my place is a total bomb looool

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Do ya think we could use something like /c/tellhimhesdreamin or /c/dalesbargains where we can post good deals that aren't for us? Anyone near Carrum need a food processor? There's a Magimix (same model as mine) for $65 on marketplace. Today's equivalent model - the 5200 - is $1100.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago

    fell asleep after dinner , up now

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Listening to music by opening VLC, going "Add Directory", and choosing a bunch of albums to queue up. There might be better ways but this is what I'm used to and nothing beats it.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Used to do that until my laptop exploded. Then I was too lazy to go and redownload all my music. Now I'm a slave to Spotify ads

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's worth doing. I still have all these mp3s I got off my brother who got music off another guy. He was into metal and was a big Mike Patton guy so I think having that library of music helped develop my own taste because there was so much interesting stuff to just find amongst the folders.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    vlc is the best , luv it still , I use it to play very old dvds and cds

    and I have sent the guy payment!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago

    The classic adage that "If VLC can't open it, you're screwed" still holds true. I haven't sent them any money but I wonder if they have a marketing team I could become part of, I'd love to help get the word out more

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Check out Navidrome (server) and Feishin (client). It remembers how many times you have played things and you can also rate the tracks or favorite them then later just play favorites or let it auto DJ. Supports playlists too. Between them they find cover art so you can pick by album cover rather than rummaging about for file names in weirdly named folders. They also find the lyrics and display to help you singalong. VLC is great though for consuming media in odd formats - it will play anything.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I will be hopping on the Sleeping Duck train as of this weekend. Choo choo!

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Also a friend has left me a bunch of toiletries (long story) and encouraged me to use them. I am scented today with Fleur de Peau and it is absolutely exquisite.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I looked it up, the full phrase is "ร  fleur de peau" which literally translated means "on the flower/bloom of the skin" but is closer in meaning to "emotionally vulnerable/raw/just beneath the surface". It's a play on words to do with emotion and fragrance applied to the skin. Quite cool.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Went to a networking event tonight. Was pretty casual and fun. Spoke to a bunch of recent graduates who are just massively struggling to find work though. And smart, funny people .. it's feeling a tad recessiony out there. I am so glad I'm not at that job hunting stage right now.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago

    I remember it was hard being a graduate looking for work back in my day too. Employers only want people with experience so they donโ€™t have to invest in providing training, and itโ€™s getting worse. Where do the next batch of people with experience come from if no one is hiring graduates? I also wonder if AI has something to do with it. With lower level type office jobs being absorbed into AI activities, therefore less and less entry level positions.

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  • Fuck you shoulder. I don't want to go to the gym tonight.

    Yet here I am.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Saw a Lamy fountain pen is on sale. Are fountain pens worth it for left-handers with bad handwriting?

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I already get ink on my fingers from writing, I was wondering if a fountain pen would be worse. I didn't even know left handed nibs would be a thing, shows how little I know about fountain pens

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    There's a reason why kids back in the day had to earn their 'pen licence' to use a fountain pen in class. And it wasn't just because they had to be trustworthy enough not to poke out the eyes of the kid in the next seat.

    Actually writing with one is dead easy in copperplate or chancery hand, but standard round script is a lot harder with a fountain pen as that script is designed for biro usage. So it depends on what script you were taught as a kid for handwriting.

    The real problem with fountain pens is re-filling it. If it's a cartridge refill, that's fairly easy but the consumables aren't as easy to find nowadays. If the refill protocol is from a bottle of ink, then things can get messy very fast as the bladder arrangement inside the pen that holds the ink ALWAYS leaks. Also finding suitable ink, as not all inks are suitable for writing nowadays. A lot of the bottles on sale at Daiso etc. are intended for art/craft/calligraphy, and are formulated differently. eg take longer to dry.

    The nibs are important too - the correct nib for the job makes using a fountain pen sooooo much easier. You'll need a pen-wiper of some sort and a supply of blotting paper too.

    Best of luck! Fountain pens can be fun but are not really a substitute for a biro for everyday usage. Hard to transport in a pocket or bag too.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I remember school desks with ink wells set in them. Thatwas grade 1 or 2 or 3 and we didn't get to use them. Only were allowed pencils.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I am proud to say that I am old enough that I was (for one term!) an ink monitor for grade 6. That is, I had the duty of arriving in class early and had to fill up all the ink wells from a big glass bottle. There was a special apron in the cupboard with the big glass bottle, and I had to wear it during the task. I doubt that apron had ever been washed as it was stiff enough to crackle and was completely covered in spilled ink.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The one thing I know about fountain pens is there's a whole culture about really cool inks and they can sell out in an instant. Kinda fun!

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Martin Tyler's voice just makes it. I always wished him and Les Murray were in the same box and not on different networks.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I have spent the entire day under the impression it was Friday. Er...

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
    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”‹

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