le daily thread :D

  • BaconEnglish
    28•2 years ago

    Hear ye hear ye. This has already been mentioned but I’m repeating the PSA:

    Our escape pod has (an) impostor(s). Last night one pretended to be epicpillowcase and attacked Hongohones. Another pretended to be MissDarylC.

    Please remain vigilant for anyone sus. If in doubt, contact the original crewmate on reddit to verify identity.

  • @[email protected]English
    26•2 years ago

    Just posted my “resignation” from the reddit Dt. Hopefully it’s not permanent, but I’m confident it’s for the best. I wanted so much to be a part of the gang when I started out, to walk away feels a little like losing some mates. But I don’t know how to stay when I’ve lost respect for the platform, the mods and tbh some of the community members.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•2 years ago

      Sigh. I actually completely missed whatever went on the past few days. Was on a cat sub from a Google search at 6pm last night and then saw the melb sub was open again.

      Part of me really doesn’t want to know which regs did what the days prior… part of me really needs a break from social media altogether. I kind of just vaguely hoped the sub would reopen and things would go back to what they were slowly, but from your comment and seeing some posts here today it seems like there’s been an irreparable rift beyond just what the admins and mods are doing.

      Anyway it finally got me over the line. Hi guise

    • @[email protected]English
      12•2 years ago

      It’s such a damn shame, but at least we can continue to build up the community here. Tbh I was always more of a lurker than a poster, but nothing’s really drawing my back right now. It’s been nice to have some distance while everything was going down, and maybe I’ll just keep it that way.

    • PeelerSheila English
      10•2 years ago

      I don’t blame you, I was myself a little shocked at how nasty things got back there. This feels like a haven and I am totally here for it.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 years ago

      Agreed. I’m still between both but I find the lemmy thread to be way nicer with less anger/trolls etc…

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      Yeah, I’m slowly moving away from it too. No matter if you support or don’t support the whole Florida thing, some of the community were getting so hostile about it, and it made it into a bitter place I don’t want to be a part of.

      There have been some really nice folks here, and in the event that this is it and Reddit is dead, I hope they can join us here.

  • BaconEnglish
    24•2 years ago

    Turns out it’s reddit admin making automod remove all lemmy links, not the r/melbourne mods

    I’m definitely staying here.

  • HongohonesEnglish
    18•2 years ago

    Happy thursday. Got up and am just finished chairing my first online AA meeting. Service and volunteering are in my blood. Service is the last step and I have a lot of work to go to get to that bit, but I’ve been doing volunuteer work since I could. I started in cubs all those years ago. Another place where all the boys called me a girl and I didn’t mind at all.

    Have the transgender victoria job fair today so I have to try and get some normal looking outfit together. Being female makes this a lot easier than wearing a fucking suit and tie and having that corporate rope around my neck.

    Then I have my usual volunteer work to do on a thursday, counselling and another aa meeting specifically for trans people and allies, then probably more aa with my normal 24/7 group.

    I’m over what happened yesterday, but everyone be aware that trolls impersonating our old friends from the reddit DT are here spreading their vitriol so if something seems a bit off from a familiar face, message the og so you can confirm who it is I guess,

    Thanks to Briongloid for super prompt action dealing with it and for everyone for reminding me that for every doucebag transphobe I have 50 allies or more! Have a beautiful winter solstice everyone and get some dirt under your toes and hug a tree or whatever connects you to mother nature. She’s my guide at the moment. Bless her.

    • CEOofmyhouse56English
      7•2 years ago

      I don’t know what the comment that was posted said except it was offensive but this is a safe space here (even though it is the internet) and I’d definitely call shit out if I see it. Have a good day today and remember we’re in Melbourne wear black with a small pop of colour.

  • @[email protected]English
    17•2 years ago

    Got to sleep in, have scrambled eggs, didn’t need to rush to make a coffee. Now it’s time to get ready and go to work. Start of my birthday is going good! Can’t wait for whatever shit show happens later.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•2 years ago

    Knockout sleep. Woke up before alarm. Caught the early train to work. Made myself a coffee and ready to suck the day’s dick at work…and some fucknut comes in all chirpy and shit and greets me with ‘Happy Thursyay!!!’

    Sometimes violence is the anwer

    • @[email protected]English
      9•2 years ago

      Sounds like you were only ready to suck the day’s dick, your mate already had it down their throat. You’re just jealous

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        I like to fellate the day on my own terms without some chucklefuck being overly exuberant at the prospect of being in the office.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•2 years ago

      I started a new job 3 weeks ago and discovered there’s a mothers club in the office. They all come in on the same day and started chatting loudly as soon as they walk in the door. Then non stop talking all day about their kids and anything else related to their kids 🙄🙄

      • @[email protected]English
        6•2 years ago

        Noise cancelling headphones are your friend. Worse I have is someone who’s laugh is like a hyena cackle.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•2 years ago

          Oh yeah, noise cancelling headphones is a must have!

          I think I can almost hear that hyena cackle like laugh now 😳……

          • @[email protected]English
            3•2 years ago

            I’m sure her name is Deborah, Janet or Margaret. Gotta be…no offence to any Debs, Jans or Margs present of course.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        I barely know this person, I just happened to be the only one in the office.

        And I’m sorry, but ‘Thursyay’?

        No thanks.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•2 years ago

          I think there are some compromises most people in an office will make to keep things moving along smoothly and help to build camaraderie and cohesiveness. I’m sure if you can compromise yourself to think of this person trying to keep things positive, others will compromise for you too.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      That’s just the day blowing its load early, even though it told you it’s cum outside your mouth. It’s testing to see if your devotion is real.

            • @[email protected]English
              3•2 years ago

              ohh this is going back like a decade and a half if not two, but Vice did an article where they got two people to use semen as a facial moisturiser for a month and post the results and the ongoing commentary day to day comparison was fuckin’ hilarious. The woman who already had a skincare routine is bitching about how shit it is and it’s causing her to break out while the guy who had no skincare regime is positively rapturous about it’s effects…which were probably being caused by the fact he was now regularly washing his mush.

              • @[email protected]English
                3•2 years ago

                Oh lord. I do recall that in one of the Jackass movies, the lads replaced (added to be bottle) Johnny Knox’s facial moisturiser with horse semen. After w few weeks they told him and he thought something was up cause his skin was getting a lot tighter than previously.

                Anyway…that’s probably enough of ejaculate talk for the day.

    • CEOofmyhouse56English
      5•2 years ago

      Very cute. I have learnt that if you take the photo in landscape rather than portrait the photo comes out the right way instead of sideways.

  • 🇦🇺BakuEnglish
    15•2 years ago

    I’m a feeling a bit upset around how things have been going recently. I’m not necessarily disappointed about the sub returning to how it was, but it just all feels so pointless. Like what the fuck was that? Everyone (myself included) hit the roof and there were sub despicable comments about the mods and a handful of others, and what was it even for? The subs just gone back in time 2 weeks, all the hatred, negativity and pessimism was all for nothing. I was all for protesting, and as I said, I don’t necessarily think things should’ve continued as they did, but it doesn’t seem like there was any way to win

    All the recent goings on combined with the usual mid week blues and wintertime SADs has led to a whole lot of mindfuck for me

    I’ll be back, probably. Boredoms a mofo and reading what everyone’s up to is a good cure.

    I wish everyone peace and love ☮️✌️♥️ and I’ll catch you all later in the week

    • @[email protected]English
      8•2 years ago

      undefined> just all feels so pointless Wait 'till the ipo clarity will appear then only then :)

    • kudrakarma
      8•2 years ago

      I was an occasional fanatical Redditor but mostly lurker these days, but am a very active Fedi user, and have watched the #Rexxit with interest.

      What was it even for? Hopefully to wake some people up: this is just going to keep happening in any online space that is owned by a company expecting to make a profit from the free labour of its users. It feels really shitty to watch people retreat and succumb, go back to the familiar, to those places and people you know. The powerful people pulling the strings are actually betting on that being the majority.

      It’s been handled more obviously or more stealthily in different spaces, but it is inevitable, and while the Fediverse is clunky and doesn’t have the same resources as profit driven entities, it grows in spurts and won’t suffer the same fate, even with the arrival of bigger entities, once it is clear enough people have woken up and won’t give their social graph and intellectual and emotional labour to them for free anymore).

      Email, while “captured” in many ways early on by Hotmail, then later Gmail, continues to function and new players continue to arrive (eg ProtonMail) because the protocols remain open to all.

      Leaving walled gardens like Reddit and Twitter and returning to the open, interconnected Internet is the only sustainable path in the long term.

      I hope many of you stay =)

        • kudrakarma
          1•2 years ago

          aww ta! I’m very heartened to see m/melbourne so busy even with the taking down of links on r/melbourne -​ makes me hopeful for humanity!

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      Yeah tbh I decided not to go back mostly because I couldn’t unsee the vitriol and hate it exposed in some people. I initially supported the mods, till the fumbled time and time again on the messaging and communication.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•2 years ago

        Seriously some people just went straight up apeshit at the mere thought they could…no longer continue to passively read a sub and not interact with it.

        I get people missing the social interactions but what the actual fuck was with that

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      I echo a lot of replies, take care of yourself Baku. No point in hanging around somewhere where it leaves you pretty shit.

      I voted for the protest, but tbh the mods mishandled it so bad. I think people would’ve kicked a stink, but if the mods were open and honest about what they were going to do, then I don’t think there would’ve been much outcry from people.

  • Hanhula
    15•2 years ago

    My partner got his working holiday visa! Now he can get back over here and we can start working on our partner visa next ♥

  • @[email protected]English
    15•2 years ago

    Given a few trolls have followed the team here, I was thinking if someone is sus on an account, send a confirmation message to their counterpart account on reddit.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•2 years ago

      Might be worth whoever has the spreadsheet taking it down. We’re basically advertising potential people to try imitate.

      • BaconEnglish
        7•2 years ago

        Done. If anyone wants access DM me on reddit.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•2 years ago

      Probably the best thing to do. Considering a troll used the same name as someone on the DT to say something pretty transphobic.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 years ago

          I suspect they’re part of an active disinfo campaign from right wing oligarchs affecting the planet. It’s looking to sow dissent among the poors to keep us bickering rather than having more people start celebrating cinco de submarino.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•2 years ago

            Not to be political. It’ll also be in a ramp up to the us elections. Russia are losing the war. They’d be winning if trump was still in charge. Keep folks fighting a fake culture war and they won’t see the real enemy.