Discussion Thread 🫠 Thursday 10 April 2025

Partner officially diagnosed with ADHD, and a treatment plan now in place. I'm so proud of him!
We got back to Brunswick, had a couple of Doppel Ename from Mokum, and then got some beer from Blackhearts and Sparrows. It's been a lovely birthday.
Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes and good vibes!! I don't know where I would be without you all! 💜💜💜
- Aweeesooomee.
  From a spousal perspective: you know how sometimes you feel like you're dealing with a toddler and want to stuff them in the toilet? Meds will help drop that shit riiiight down
  
  Is it wrong to call out for some spare dexies? Asking for a friend.
  
  I feel it in my bones lol 😂
- Ooh belated happy birthday and congrats on the diagnosis for the spud adjacent human.

Edit: thank you for the birthday wishes! Sending you all good vibes! 💜💜💜
I've been falling asleep to hour+ long videos on space, by Astrum Extra, so I don't know why I had a nightmare about

The cat came and cuddled me so I fell back asleep and was fine. I'm not upset, just tripped out lol.
Second ADHD assessment appointment for my partner today, so another trip across the city. Gonna treat myself with a cafe coffee, because it's my birthday 😂
My beautiful friend came over yesterday, and made a delicious soup, healing for the mind, body, and soul. I feel so happy to have spent the day with them. They got to meet Mickey, we took a walk, it was great! They gave me their guitar, so I've been practicing last night - gonna practice more this afternoon when I return. I do wish I had slightly longer, thinner fingers so I stop flattening the other strings when practicing chords, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it with practice.
- Happy birthday!! Go treat yourself and have a wonderful day!
  🎂
- Happy b'day!
- Happy b'day. 💐🎂
- Happy birthday, birthday neighbour
- Happy birthday ❤️❤️🎂❤️
- Happy birthday! A cafe coffee with this sun is a good mix.
- Happy Birthday! 🎂
- Happy birthday!
- Happy Birthday 🥳💋
- Happy birthday 😊
- Happy Birthday wishes Spud!
- Happy Birthday! Hope you have a fabulous day!
- Happiest of birthdays to you
- Happy Birthday Spud! 🎂 have an amazing day!
- Happy birthday! Hope you have a lovely day! 🎂
- Happy birthday 🎂

Gonna have a few celebritory drinks today/ tonight because of the perfect weather, the few birthdays this week on here and the man finishes up work today for a 3 week holiday. I am match ready.
- 🥂
  
  Cheers for later 🍺
- Cheers 🥂
  
  Cheers buddy 👍

Full moon this weekend. Plus hotter than expected weather. Expect weird shit to go down. Not liking the vibe rn. I will be avoiding crowds this weekend.
- I've been on the fence about going out, but now my interest is piqued further.
  
  Just a feeling in my bones. Don't get these often but I've learned to listen. Stay safe everyone.
- I am the great cornholio!
  I need TP for my bunghole
  Are you threatening me!?
  
  are those those burrowing owls? So cute.
  there's a movie about 'em https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot_(film)
- Awooooooò.
- Ooh, thanks for the reminder - moons do make people whacko. Kinda pleased I can stay home this weekend

It took me nearly a month after getting my psych to fill out uni support forms (which she did within 24 hours of asking) to actually submit them to the uni out of paralysis/shame/anxiety/whatever - I did it this morning and then got a response from the subject coordinator eerily quickly... was out doing fieldwork and told myself I wouldn't read it till I got home because I was fully expecting a "no".
Turns out I got 10 days extension no questions asked. Fucking A. Sat with so much anxiety and avoidance for nothing.
Gonna celebrate by treating myself to an afternoon and evening of yet more PHM. Good good good. Thank!
- Fuck yeah!

I have just submitted my first rental application, which was slightly terrifying. It is a lot more involved than the last time I was looking for a private rental (over 20 years ago!)
Hopefully they haven't just rented it to someone else, the landlord falls in love with Mr Woof and Miss Meow when they see the pictures, the property will be just as I imagine it in real life and I won't have to look at any others. Unlikely, but I can hope!
- Bring it home Mr Woof and Miss Meow 🤞
- Good luck!

Thanks for the birthday wishes yesterday everyone. It feels like I got a bigger response here from people I haven't met in person compared to what I ever got from people I know on Facebook
- Birthdays are important, regardless of how we individually celebrate! I hope you had a great day!!! 💜💜
- It's a happy day and to echo Spud an important day where we celebrate life. I hope your day was a good happy day. 😘
- Happy belated birthday!

Only 2 3 wake ups so far. Not bad.
That reminds me. There's several Simon's at work. I'm very unaccustomed to having the same name as other people.
Ive only ever met 1 other person with my real name.
Feels odd to call someone else by my name.
- 3 wakes, 3 recovering from migraine wakes because i have to pee
  name, i don't meet many people with my first name and have met none with my last
  
  I dropped my weird religious name and am left with a John Smith grade common white guy name.
- I know some arabs that named their twin boys Jesus and Moses (in arabic) and then there's little brother Adam.
  
  Next one would be Eve?
- There have always been a bunch of Thomas's around for me. There's one guy at work also called thomas with the same initials as me, so that could get very confusing in the project management software
- The first three people I met with name, we're all in my grade 8 class. Thankfully our surnames had different initials.

Aaaand Trump goes back on the tariffs, and nobody is surprised because the country is run by toddlers basically. Stock markets are back up. Wonder which of his friends made a pretty penny by buying during the low and selling for an overnight 5-9% profit
- All his cronies would have gotten a nice payday.
  But it's all legal though!!!
  
  I doubt it's legal.
- It’s exhausting to be honest, it’s generating so much news and tension over several industries leaving them with a bleak future ahead.
  Been seeing talk of insider trading. Think that’s got any truth to it?
- 5-9% profit
  I sold at the bottom and bought cheese kranskys :(
  Still winning though.
- I'm surprised they even happened. I thought they'd be the sorry of things he talks about forever and never actually does. But I guess this is like the Muslim ban; do it, revoke it, blame other people, and talk about it without ever implementing it again
  
  Almost feels like he did it purely to be able to boast to the American public that he (allegedly) had world leaders kissing his ass at a recent dinner due to these tariffs.
  In other words - it's all just a fucking show leading up to an ever more disgusting version of politics from which there feels like there is no going back...
- I’m waiting for the announcement of 1 millionth percent tariff on China, and for MAGA voters to keep insisting Trump knows exactly what he’s doing and America is now great again. I want to laugh, but am so sad for the Americans who didn’t want this. Another day in the American clown show.
  
  there was a notice on my payment page from aliexpress about tariffs.
  Chinese people expect many Americans to direct their anger at them and they are right, they just don't understand that trump lied and lied and lied

Got a new phone and now I've been locked out of my banking app in trying to set it up 🤦🏼‍♀️ Will have to sort it out tomorrow. I'm kind of annoyed.

Just saw first comedy show if the season. So so good. Saw: He Huang (absolute best of the night), Nazeem Hussein, Dave Hughes, and an Australian/African girl who's name I sadly forgot who was second best for me - has her own show and is going to be on taskmaster this season. It was a work social club thing and I almost bailed but I'm so glad it didn't. Buzzing 😊
- I’m watching the festival supershow on telly atm - so many great performances

I have van. Now I'm waiting for an assessment of whether the reversing camera can be installed without a new head unit 🤞
It is nice sitting up high and being able to see further, but it will take a while to get used to primarily using the side mirrors. I have so far managed to avoid turning on the windscreen wipers instead of the blinkers.
Edit: this is taking much longer than anticipated.
2nd Edit: I will need a new head unit. The good news is they can do it tomorrow, so will be able to back more confidently very soon. I did manage to back into my carport without too much trouble when I got home, although the sensors' beeping adds a new feeling of drama to the process.
- if your existing headunit doesnt have carplay/android auto just replace the headunit anyway. its a game changer!
- Seconding getting the head unit upgraded to one that has carplay/android auto (if it doesn't already) - it makes SO much difference. Got it done on my car and while it was a strain on the wallet in one hit, it has paid off in scads from all the times it has made navigation etc so much better (and safer) than a mounted phone.
  
  It will be having android auto - it has some connection already, but it might just be to play music. I have a TomTom gps unit that I actually really like for navigation, both because it keeps the maps downloaded and doesn't need internet connection and because the dashboard or windscreen mount position is better to look at than in the centre console.

gecko frens living on the front porch 🦎🥰
- Love these little dudes even though it's a bit less nice when they're inside the house and leave their poo around (but still so helpful otherwise)
- They are so cute. It’s so nice to have wildlife around! Is it possible he lost part of his tail? The ones I’ve seen have a tail that narrow to a thinner point. Unless this is a different species. It’s amazing how tiny some of them are.
  
  i do think this gecko has lost a bit of his tail, it's too stubby , a lot of predatory birds around here so that's probably how he lost it
  it was such a lovely surprise to see them both 🙂

Power is out, right before I could make breakfast.
Hopefully it’ll come back sooner rather than later I’m all prepared for it!

Ahoyhoy

Life alternates between the 🫠 emoji and the 😤 emoji
- true

Had some absolutely funky dreams last night. Vivid, memorable and absolutely bonkers.
Last time I drink sugar free lemonade before bed time.

On the reptile train today aswell.
Ol' boy caught this (in the wild) on his trip to N. vic last w/e.
I've never seen one in person.
- bearded dragon?
  that's so cool.

Angle grinding done. Not touching that thing for a while. Fiesty little fucker.
Pretty sparks though.

Thank heavens for portable power packs.
Getting through the day with them.
- It's still not back on? What's going on there?
  
  Line maintenance apparently.
  Been off since about 8:30am.
  Loaded some movies on an iPad and have podcasts downloaded on my phone for some background noise.
  Just about to go play on my Switch to pass the time.

Sitting in the sun on my lunch break is good for my soul

anyone else got that "First hot day of spring" kind of high thanks to the weather?
- Nah. It's more "last bit of summer" "what big items can I wash?" before hibernation starts for me.
  
  Yep. Definitely wash-the-oodie weather
  
  I'm gonna pressure wash a rug.
- Feels like summer, looks distinctly autumn through with the trees changing colours. It's weird but I don't hate not being cold.
- A bit, but looking at the forecast, bloody hell it just looks like summer redux - 28-31 from Sunday through to Wednesday?! Throw some cool days in there mang... this isn't the autumn I signed up for 😭

Got a covid and flu shot yesterday and I am zonked.
- but it's good to have the shots 🙂 hope you feel better real soon
- shit I gotta do that
  
  Covid was free, flu was $20. Just sorta mentioned it at the doctors and they had it all ready to go.

Anyone looking for ideas for carpet?

Just think, someone had to make that carpet, someone else had to decide to stock it to sell, and someone else had to buy it for this to happen. So many people you have to wonder "what were they thinking?!"
- Walks across the room
  seasick
- how did you find MILs 70s carpet? She had lovely matching shantung cushions and curtains.
  looked like a cinema or hotel
  
  I love that vibe
- I have to admit I kinda like it. Then again, I grew up in a brown Berber and fake walnut veneer paradise so anything oddly colourful appeals to me.
  
  Having some colour is definitely good. Especially atfer looking too long at the modern grey look everything is done in these days. But there can be too much of a good thing.
- So 70s chic.
- It’s giving suburban RSL or casino vibes

Went to the gym at lunchtime today. It's 2 doors down, then got some sushi as a treat.
I usually just wander around aimlessly on lunch breaks so I'm glad I'm getting my workout without having to wake up at 5am or get home late.

what a beautiful day out there 🌞

Suddenly have an absolutely raging craving for prawns. Nice juicy prawn heads drowning in flavour... maybe a nice prawn curry or tacos... that'll be tomorrow's treat.
Meanwhile it's back to having the fan on full blast to try and get to sleep. Too hot in here!

Melbourne black ibises.
- Huh... different park, but the ones at mine were eating these....
  
  Slimy yet satisfying.

I just watched Flow 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
- It's a much more intense movie than it seems. Great film though
  
  😭

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Rock on, gang 🤘🍺

My kingdom for a chicken stock cube 👑
- I have some but can’t throw that far
  
  I thank you squire! 🗡️ you are a knight of the realm. 🗡️
- I've got chicken, beef and vegetable. And I'll throw in some vegan stock cubes completely free.
  
  My mash is forever grateful 🫡🗡️

- Akshully, Bunnings has inserts with dog doors that can be put in floor to ceiling glass doors. Basically a long thin strip with a dog door at the bottom. The one in the picture looks pretty amazing though.
  
  They do, I have one I use at my parent's place. But if you don't have a sliding door they are not much use.
- I don't know, but that is an awesome idea.
- I would have loved to have one of those before princess got jailed

Thinking.
There are so many people I have a lot in common with and could get along with really well - if they would treat me with respect.
They’re always so shocked and angry when you set a boundary or leave, too. Like… you expect me to just take that?

When this under 16 ban comes in I’m going to lose all the collected art resources I carefully organised and all my YouTube playlists…
VPNs get you banned or shadowbanned but kids under 16 won’t care. They could just keep churning through a bunch of new accounts, the disposability encouraging them to do whatever they want.
But for me when I’m unwell and can’t do much else I spend a lot of time collecting and organising reference photos, art tutorials, and posts with links to free art books. There’s a few years worth that will be near impossible to back up.
And I don’t know what sites will be affected which makes it hard to even try to start migrating.

It will also cut me off from a lot of other artists.
This crap isn’t going to do anything but punish disabled people who spend a lot of time online and people who care about privacy.
But that’s the Australian government’s way. Make grand promises (usually involving “protecting the children”) and then do something that doesn’t work - and has unintended consequences.
I have much more to say about that but I’m tired -_-
- have you tried proton or Tor? They give privacy.
  
  I could but at the moment it might be a bit of a steep learning curve for me. And if it gets picked up as changing where my traffic comes from I’ll probably be banned (so instead of inaccessible everything would just be gone)

Not going to finish my assignment in time, probably a few hours after the deadline. It is what it is. Just going to focus on getting the next four in before their deadlines.
I never learn. But for the next lot of assignments, I am going to force myself to break down each assignment into achievable tasks using this AI thing that does that and slot them in on the calendar.
My laptop has 8GB of RAM which is not conducive to many tabs open. It is currently showing a white screen instead of a chrome tab. My aunt has a laptop with 64GB of RAM which I think is other worldly.
- You can do this Low! a 5% late penalty is not the end of the world. I guarantee you it will not even register on your mind 10, 20, 30 years later and when you're on your deathbed reflecting on the things that mattered to you.
  And truth be told academic structures are not always conducive to those with attention disorders. I am only smashing it at my current job because the deadlines are all within 2 weeks, the projects are almost all short term, and there is support and advice available most of the time. I don't think I will do any further study for quite a long time after I finish this cursed subject and degree.
  
  Thanks Kitten, you can do it too! That sounds like a wonderful working style. Long-term projects aren't really my thing right now.
  It's unfortunately 10% at my uni (should've stayed at the old one hehe), but I'd rather submit an assignment that's 10% better tomorrow than one that would get the same mark if I submitted it on time.
- I once heard a saying - ‘C’s get degrees’
  Not sure how true it is but just get what credit you can for getting it done

Got a bit of a headcold going on, so off work today. Went for a slow stroll out in the sunshine and oh my god it was glorious. Takes just a couple of grey days to really appreciate the sunshine.
Now just need the headcold to fuck right off.

ok guys, it's bed time
good night, sweet dreams 😘😘😘