Happy Hump Day, Team!

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    I hope don’t jinx myself with this.

    This morning I had more little meetings voicing my concerns and problems and my mental state and initially they decided that they’d assign extra staff to aid me at the end of the day,

    It’s now been decided that the problem I’ve been having at work has escalated enough now after a serious meeting today that the person will not be able to use the service that I look after and therefore will not be interacting with me at the end of the day.

    If that is true and holds true for the rest of the work year I’m really relieved finally, it may not stop everything but it will certainly mean I don’t end the day feeling super crappy and stressed about everything.

    One thing at a time but at least that’s a load taken off me from a work perspective.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    fucken’ hell, saw a guy on the tram in the seat across from get out his meth pipe and fill it up. His gf was already pretty manic and jumping around the tram.

    How do people lose sight of what is acceptable and what is not? 😣

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    Holy shit I had some weeeeeird dreams… calling Gina Rnehart about a rotted out power pole that I pushed over indoors at the Northcote Automotive Museum (?? It had a network of indoor roads…), having a tooth rot out (my dental hygiene is bad tbh), and @Force_majeure123 appeared out of nowhere with a comment saying everything’s going to be alright 😭

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    8 months ago

    Last day of gardening bee today. Just some repotting of pot plants left to do. There was lots of rain overnight to help the new plants outside settle in which is good, plus predictions of more intermittent rain during the week. Hopefully when I come back for Christmas there will be some growth to see.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    so my ebay seller got back to me. We swaped out the faulty X for Sun. and I’ve gotta say, I’m having a stack of fun with it! Despite the fact that its insisting on holding my hand despite ~25 years of playing pokemon games it looks great on the 3ds. They’ve also included a bunch of OG pokemon so its only 1/4 of every encounter where i proclaim “WTH if that thing!?”

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      We sometimes make the thread earlier so people don’t actually have to stay up till midnight or after to make a thread.

      It can be up to an hour earlier sometimes depending if people need an early night and we’ve accepted that we don’t move on to the thread till midnight or after.

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    First world problem : pizza or fish & chups? Cbf cooking tonite. And no meat in the fridge. Or freezer. Bad me. Must go shopping this weekend.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    Apart from my own personal struggles, I look at what the government is doing (or not doing) and think take me to Jesus now. I’m ready and I think I’ve lived enough.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      Sometimes you have to not think about external things too much. Live your life as well and comfortably as you can, be a good person, be kind to others and be kind to yourself. That’s it. There are bad days and good days, sometimes bad months and bad years. Do what you can to live a good life, and let the world turn.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      I’m struggling with getting sucked into doomscrolling. All I can do is try and take a break and think about something else.

      Useful hobbies. Practice gardening for if it ever comes down to subsistence farming, and art skills to trade for rations in gulag /j

      But no. I’m grateful to be housed and be able to have my pet, that’s what I’m holding on to

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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        8 months ago

        my uncle found playing the violin a useful skill in the concentration camp as musicians would play for their captors and the red cross

        i’m not joking

    • chingatello@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      It is easy for us to get distracted by the big picture, and it can feel overwhelming when everything is is much bigger than us.

      Remember that it is in the nature of our governments to disappoint us - this is because we live in a democracy centered on compromise. This is a good thing! This is another reason for us to have our representatives deal with that process - it allows us to keep moral clarity while they try to get the work done. We can sit in judgement of them while they make the Faustian bargains which keep the peace between those of us who would slay each other in the name of what we think is right. Sometimes, however, we need to look away from the sausage making. Give yourself a break, and come back to the body politic refreshed and refocused.

      Would I change the system? Absolutely! Would most people agree with my changes… well… I’m not so sure… hence a system of disappointing compromises.

      We can also get distracted by our personal struggles, stuck in the small frame of our own lives.

      I am currently stuck in my small frame too, my personal struggles have overwhelmed me and I have found my self seized, stuck, immobile, useless, rotting, failing… well, you get the picture I hope.

      I am trying. Slowly, the gears will be oiled, and the machine will move, and I am going to build capacity and become part of a community.

      That is the middle ground - the place humans used to live. The way humans evolved to live. Act local, build community, and simultaneously the big picture and the small frame both start improving.

      This is easier said than done!

      To be honest though, you are already doing it here! This is a community. These people would not see you return to your creator, and I am absolutely certain the creator will be willing to wait many years for you to come back. They will call you when you are both ready.

      I am not trying to offer advice, as I do not know your struggles.

      I hope that you can continue through them, and I hope that your growth and success inspires others to continue their struggles.

      I hope that your success can inspire your community to more success, more unity, and a better life for everyone.

      (This post turned out much longer than I had initially intended - tldr: “Keep at it, we’re with you”)