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  • Rusty Raven  ( RustyRaven@aussie.zone ) 
    16·
    3 years ago

    Time for bed. Anxious about the bot, but it has worked once, I must have faith. I have instructed it to make a post at midnight given all the test posts worked last night. I think it will take a few more successful posts before I can really trust it is working.

  • MeanElevator ( MeanElevator@aussie.zone ) 
    15·
    3 years ago

    Up just before 6 am to hit the gym…fuck yeah!!!

    Got some energy, ready to fucking lift.

    Do my stretches, light warm ups, first rep of the first exercise and something tweaked in my back.

    Off to the physio I go!!!

    Yay!!

        • dumblederp ( dumblederp@aussie.zone ) 
          3·
          3 years ago

          I don’t find cycling to be very good exercise for me. I lived inner city and rode a bike everywhere for years. I don’t have access to enough consistent bike path before I have to stop for crossroads (Djerring Trail). I like running because it gets my heart rate up and I can do it at the local footy oval. I could take my bike to Malvern velodrome but it makes exercise a three hour job with getting there and back.

          • MeanElevator ( MeanElevator@aussie.zone ) 
            3·
            3 years ago

            Oh bugger. I can’t run cause everything below the equator is sore for days on after. I’m guessing the answer is yes, but have you looked into knee support braces? One of the dudes at my gym swears by one (I’ll find out the brand) cause he run again without discomfort.

  • Zane ( Zane@aussie.zone ) 
    12·
    3 years ago

    It’s my daughter’s first birthday today! Mum’s at work so it’s just me and her celebrating until she gets home. Is it stupid to take a baby to NGV during school holidays?

  • stardustingss ( stardustingss@aussie.zone ) 
    11·
    3 years ago

    Hard day. Baby hasn’t been well. I keep getting irrationally angry at my partner too because I’m freaked out and projecting. I have managed to not actually say anything and just keep my emotions to myself but I’m exhausted from managing myself too. Baby will be okay but it’s hard when he’s screaming in pain 😭

  • StudSpud The Starchy ( StudChud@aussie.zone ) 
    11·
    3 years ago

    I have two twitter accounts that I linked a thousand years ago. I never ended up using twitter so the accounts just sit there. I went to go delete them, as my little ‘fuck you’ to Muck, but it wants my password… as if I’m going to remember a password I used 10 years ago.

    Anyway, I changed my usernames to variations of ‘elon suck my dick’ and now I’m going to troll his tweets until I get banned. Stupid fuck.

    Wish me luck!

    Edit: give me some more people to insult on twitter, I’m trying to nuke these. Im on that moron Jordan Petersons twitter atm

  • StudSpud The Starchy ( StudChud@aussie.zone ) 
    11·
    3 years ago

    P O T A T O L O V E

    Nightshade just like the to-mate,
    Oh, po-tay-to, po-tah-to, po-tate!
    Colours red gold, blue, purple majesty
    La Ratte, Jewel Yam, please, French Fingerling
    I want them scalloped and baked,
    Friiiiiiied, driiiiied, and potato-caked!

    OH POTATO!!
    WHO MADE YOU
    SO DELICIOUS!?
    OH POTATO!
    YOU’RE THE FIRE
    FROM PROMETHEUS

    Boiled and bubbled in a big pot
    Stirred till the 'tates are steaming hot
    Smash 'em, mash 'em, butter and milk
    Whipped up smooth, starchy-white silk
    Cleaned up and chopped, wedges or chips
    Salty and sauce-y upon my hungry lips

    OH POTATO!!
    WHO MADE YOU
    SO DELICIOUS!?
    OH POTATO!!
    YOU’RE THE FIRE
    FROM PROMETHEUS!

    thank you, ReadEverything; your comment about licking the potato-masher inspired me

      • cuavas ( cuavas@aussie.zone ) 
        7·
        3 years ago

        I lived in Melbourne for about a decade solid, and have split time between Melbourne and Sydney for over a decade since then, and am also lucky enough not to have encountered him. If he pulls this sexual assault stunt somewhat regularly, why hasn’t he been put away?

      • Hongohones ( RosaliePreistley@aussie.zone ) 
        5·
        3 years ago

        It seems like its true, but I don’t think alleging crimes on reddit then putting someone through a trial by fire is legal. It’s for sure a PSA but it still a bit creepy. For all anyone knows he’s stopped doing it. I’m a survivor too and this triggers me to even think about but I don’t know. On reddit I’d be downvoted to hell and I seem to have found some here too, this isn’t playing devil’s advocate I’m specifically talking about the legality. Those using reddit to threaten violence and suggest he suffer violence are not a lot better than him imo.

          • Hongohones ( RosaliePreistley@aussie.zone ) 
            3·
            3 years ago

            Yeah, but they published a photo of someone without their consent and made allegations against them. Regardless of OP’s intent, I don’t think a magistrate would see if that way. Sexual assault is a terrible crime and luring people into is completely fucked, I just think doxxing is also fucked and it’s also a crime. As we are taught from a young age, two wrongs don’t make a right.

            Either way, it’s nice to be able to discuss things like adults over here without resorting to brigading or threats of violence.

        • Rusty Raven  ( RustyRaven@aussie.zone ) 
          4·
          3 years ago

          IMO the people who threaten violence are much worse than him. I would consider posts inciting/advocating violence or harrassment to be a clear breach of the community guidelines here.

          The guy’s weird and has a weird fettish, but tricking people to have them sit on you is something that requires counselling, I don’t know that it would even fit the definition of an assault. Maybe there needs to be some sort of social intervention order that can be used for people who don’t target a single victim, that can tell someone their actions are unacceptable and if they can’t follow it to make it possible to put some sorts of interventions in place.

          • cuavas ( cuavas@aussie.zone ) 
            4·
            3 years ago

            From what I’ve read, after he gets someone to sit on him and hold his arms down, he starts kind of grinding his crotch against them. Definitely seems like it would qualify as molestation.

            I just hope it doesn’t stop people from helping when someone else actually does have an epileptic fit. I’ve seen it happen a couple of times.

            • Rusty Raven  ( RustyRaven@aussie.zone ) 
              4·
              3 years ago

              That is pretty gross.

              In regards to actually helping people having a real fit, the appropriate actions for that would be the best way to deal with this guy too - move any dangerous objects away, call 000, and the only reason you would touch them is if they are unconscious after the siezure, in which case you would roll them on their side.

  • bananafungus ( bananafungus@aussie.zone ) 
    10·
    3 years ago

    One of my friends was just talking about Heartstopper and while I haven’t watched it because I just don’t really care for a show with a cast of teens, it got me thinking about how lucky young LGBT people are these days in terms of content they can watch and see themselves in. When myself and my generation were coming out and looking for media that represented us it was all very full on, and stuffed to the brim with sexual content, a lot of it truly dubious. My friends and I at the time just didn’t understand how incredibly damaging watching that stuff could be for us as teens. I don’t know, just got me deep into thinking about how not just myself but my friends maybe wouldn’t have engaged in some risky shit had we had shows and movies that showed healthy age appropriate stuff.

    Related off note, but I thought about the OG UK Queer as Folk, and how I thought 15 year old Nathan banging grown arse Stuart wasn’t that bad. Adult me is mortified, but I think about how those old shows were all my friends and I had so of course we thought yeah that’s how it is, that’s what we should want and how we should behave.

    I dont usually get deep on here, but I just can’t stop thinking about it now.

    • landsharkkidd ( landsharkkidd@aussie.zone ) 
      7·
      3 years ago

      I’m in that weird section where being LGBTQIA+ was accepted but still sort of looked down upon (like I grew up learning to say “that’s gay” whenever something bad happened or something I didn’t like happen, if that helps put a stamp on when I grew up). And I love Heartstopper, I actually just finished reading the first two volumes of it and I watched the show when it came out. But admittedly, I am slightly jealous that kids nowdays can see representation on tv, and not just gay and straight people, but bisexual characters, pansexual, trans and nonbinary. If I had the language I have now that would’ve helped me as a kid.

      But ultimately, I am so happy that kids are now getting tv shows and movies where they can see themselves. I just hope that for us 25+ and older can get some representation. I want to see more elder LGBTQIA+ folks on my screens. Because, I mean as you would know, so many of our elder died unnecessarily because the government didn’t care about us. We’ve lost so much history. And being able to see old LGBTQIA+ folks means that we’re here. And that we can grow old and beautiful.

      I’ve felt weird about how I’m not even 30 and my hair is greying, but I watched some TikToks where elder queers have said “Grey means you’re here”. And as a queer person with depression, I take that to heart.

      • bananafungus ( bananafungus@aussie.zone ) 
        2·
        3 years ago

        We must be a similar age, growing up (especially in Brisbane) I still had bullies and things weren’t great but for the most part people left me alone.

        I do enjoy seeing so many of the letters present these days, at the time I was coming to terms with being bisexual it was still very much a pick a side mentality from both sides.

        I also agree some more content with older LGBT for would be great, especially as my friends and I transition into the next phase of settling in life.

        • StudSpud The Starchy ( StudChud@aussie.zone ) 
          4·
          3 years ago

          31yo nb bi (lol)… there is still a ‘pick a side’ mentality from both Ls and Gs (edit: and the Ss) today. To me, labelling myself bisexual means I am attracted to people with my genitals, and people who don’t have my genitals. Like-me and not-like-me. Binary.

          everyone is hot, is really my point.

          edit: not like, actually have my genitals, but, yknow, people who have genitals like mine and people who have genitals that aren’t like mine. Have I typed genitals enough? Probably. Did I think of that ridiculous song ‘show me your genitals’? Yes I did.

          • landsharkkidd ( landsharkkidd@aussie.zone ) 
            3·
            3 years ago

            You know what’s wild, is that there are bisexuals who say that pansexuals are just biphobic or have internalised biphobia. Nah man, I just like pansexual, but I dig tf out of the bi flag. I like to think that pan means attracted to people regardless of gender. And I don’t have a definition for bi because it’s up to how the bi person identifies.

            I love my bisexual siblings, y’all are amazing.

            • StudSpud The Starchy ( StudChud@aussie.zone ) 
              4·
              3 years ago

              We as queers shouldn’t be so divided against each other; we are many different colours but we are all part of the rainbow flag, because there is strength in kindness and numbers. Bi and pan are both part of the spectrum that is our human experience, and whatever label we identify with shouldn’t stand in the way of us standing up for each other in face of discrimination. We cannot let labels divide us - that is exactly what the ultra-conservatives, far-right extremists, and cookers want. It makes it easier for them to kill us off if we do most of the work for them.

              Bs who hate on Ps, or Ts, or anyone really, are pieces of shit like any other bigot. Bs ought to know what it is like to be invisible, they shouldn’t be perpetuating the cycle of hate and exclusion. Ugh.

              You are amazing, thank you for being amazing. 💜 thank you for reading my long-ass rant ha