• Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    1 month ago

    Having security cameras is kinda fun - I’ve just looked at last night and discovered Miss Meow has also worked out the dog door. It appears she just stayed under cover and looked out for a bit before teleporting back inside, but that last bit could just be continuity gap from the motion sensors not picking up when she went inside.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    I actually kind of miss dating. But I am determined for this year to be my single year where I make no attempt to date.

    In the past, things have just happened, and I didn’t really make a conscious effort to put myself out there.

    I think I just want more connection, and to feel understood. I want to run a marathon before I date someone again (runs a marathon with no training whatsoever). No rush.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    I’m so annoyed that Cetaphil is the one available from supermarkets. I’d happily use sorbolene (and used to) but that also burns my skin.

    Straight up using unscented body lotion on my face just so it doesn’t get uncomfortably dry, don’t give a crap any more. Vaseline for lips.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        1 month ago

        Cerave is alright, it’s just pharmacy only and getting expensive.

        Cetaphil absolutely made my skin red and sore

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      I’m using a dermeze cream that I can only find through Priceline.

      Been looking for a cream that is oily enough to be nice and long lasting but not to the point of the ointment from dermeze

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    1 month ago

    My attempts to be lazy and have a parcel from Bunnings delivered have not gone well. They split it into two parcels, one of which was returned to sender for having a wrong address, the other is in limbo having been sent to a LPO for collection and then sent on again from there as being incorrectly sorted. I really should have just done click and collect.

    Edit: the new poop scoop arrived ok, so at least one of my deliveries has worked out.

    🎂

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    I keep picturing my ideal life - but it’s still being a cat person 🤔

    I’d like to end up somewhere more peaceful and make things all nice inside, and if I can’t have Melbcat forever (if only) I’d like more cats or the stability/reliable health to foster.

    Maybe when I’m up to it there’ll be a local craft group to grind out basic items for charity and maybe the area will be safe enough to wear my preferred style. On low energy days there will be a lot of video games. Maybe there’s a little space to garden in pots. If we’re getting fancy there could be a garage or shed for painting and the energy to do it.

    Unfortunately Melbourne kind of sucks but this is what I would ideally end up with. I hate dealing with dysfunctional people and have no interest in bullshit drama.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I think I’ve done what I can to prep for the presentation tomorrow - gonna do a few more reviews and editing (scientific names for animals should be in italics), and run through it with my partner.

    I have a suspicion I may have put more info then they need, but I’ve adhered to the marking rubric so 🤷🏼‍♀️

    Anyone want to know some cool facts about Tachyglossus aculeatus (The Short-Beaked Echidna)? 😂

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Is that the Niu Gini one that’s recently been re-discovered? I know they’ve got long beaked echidnas, but I think there’s been some developments on the short-beaked side quite recently.

      He he, the actual word echidna is NOT an indigenous word - it comes from greek mythology and is the name of a goddess of chaos. quote below from theoi.com

      "EKHIDNA (Echidna) was a monstrous she-dragon (drakaina) with the head and breast of a woman and the tail of a coiling serpent. She probably represented the corruptions of the earth–rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease.

      Ekhidna was sometimes equated with Python “the Rotting One”, a dragon born of the fetid slime left behind by the great Deluge. Others name her the Tartarean lamprey, and place in her to the dark, swampy pit of Tartaros beneath the earth. Hesiod, makes her a daughter of monstrous sea-gods, and presumably associates her with rotting sea-scum and fetid salt-marshes.

      Ekhidna was the consort of Typhoeus–a monstrous, multi-headed storm-giant who challenged Zeus to the throne of heaven. Together they spawned a host of terrible monsters to plague the earth including the Khimaira (Chimera), Kerberos (Cerberus), the Hydra, Sphinx and the Drakon Hesperios (Hesperian Dragon).

      Four other closely related she-dragons were the Argive Ekhidna and Poine (Poena), the Tartarean Kampe (Campe), and the Phokian Sybaris."

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 month ago

        The Short-Beaked Echidna is the only native Echidna to Australia - the other 3 extant echidnas are native to Niu Gini! Thank you for the etymology! I had no idea they painted Ekhidna as such a gross sea-beast 😂

        I studied the skeletal structure of T. aculeatus! They have a pectoral girdle that is really similar to the therapsids (mammal-like reptiles from the Permian/Triassic)! Shows how old of a species monotremes are! Their humerus is lateral to the body, giving them that waddle, and their tibia and fibula are “backwards” compared to mammals causing their hind feet to point caudally!

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 month ago

        The maxilla and mandible of T. aculeatus is fused into a beak-like mouth. It isn’t actually a beak, however, as it is made of specialised jaw bones and muscle, rather keratin coated bone (like a bird beak). They use their long tongue and long mouth to snuffle in soil for ants and termites (they are insectivores), and then use their tongue to grind up their food against a bony hard plate on the maxilla, along with a slight back and forth motion of their jaws, as opposed to the up and down motion humans do when we chew.

          • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Their backwards facing hind feet (pointed towards the posterior of the animal/ pointed caudally) means that when they dig out their food or dig out burrows, the dirt is kicked back and away. Combined with the females backward- opening pouches (the opening of the pouch is also pointed towards the posterior) this means that dirt and soil and bugs won’t be kicked into their pouch and onto their puggle.

            They also produce milk (one of the reasons they are in the Mammalia Class) via mammary glands, but they don’t have nipples in their pouches; the milk serious throw the skin a bit akin to sweat