• bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I can only tell you of my experience. I have had an Antler soft case for… I’m not even sure how long. 14 years? I’ve travelled a fair bit with it and never had any sort of issue with it. It can expand a bit which is nice. My only advice I ever give anyone is get something with 4 good wheels. 2 wheeled luggage is dumb.

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      I have a small hard case (it’s like a strand bags rip off of a Samsonite). It is smallish, hard shell, unique colour, has an expansion zip, combo lock and can be wheeled on four wheels or two. Have taken it all over the world and it’s awesome. I would go hard case everytime.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    4 months ago

    hooray for left overs from the freezer , I’m having chicken curry, rice with nuts and some chutney

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Oh noes! A text advising my medicare has been suspended due to unusual activity! How legitimate!!

    -_-

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    A coffee in the cool morning light,
    Steam wafting lazily, taking flight.
    Cold fingers grip the mug, quite tight,
    A coffee in the cool morning light.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I woke up just after 6, forgot to go back to sleep and now it’s probably time to get up

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’m struggling to get out of bed. I think at its core, it boils down to: bed warm, not bed not warm

      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        I woke up early and decided against it. Just woke up now and only because I was having a nightmare. I feel free of brain fog for the first time in weeks tho. Sometimes ‘bed warm’ is the answer

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    I’ve recently started adding healthy squirts of lemon juice to almost everything I cook (generally some kind of mix of pasta, rice, veg and meat/fish, flavoured with garlic onion and chilli), and it has been making a big difference. Before lemon juice I was adding vinegar for a while which helped, but lemon juice is making everything much more tasty

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    I keep having weird dreams at my current accom. Last night it was a very vivid one where I’d somehow had to move into a share house full of irritatingly self-absorbed and messy adults who were in their little northside cliques and weren’t keen on making space for me. It was so alienating and made me desperate to move back to my own place. I bolted awake thinking I needed to email my previous landlord asap and beg to go back to my own apartment. The relief I felt when I realised a few minutes later that I didn’t need to do any of that…

    The day before it was about my brother betraying my location to my dad. Definitely a theme of despair and being trapped, and waking up to remember what freedoms I do have.

    I think it’s the humidity. 90%+ every day indoors. It always brings up bad memories…

    Yesterday was the only day on the island where we’ve had sun. Today it’s overcast again and this afternoon it’s back to more rain… slept in massively after two days of hiking (with a thoroughly unconditioned body), time to get outta bed and go walk to the nearest town for some coffee and to get some postcards.

    How on earth do the trees in Japan look so naturally stylish over waterbodies though?!? Is it the tiered structure of the crown?

    pretty even in the rain

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      My dreams last night were weird like that too. My house became some sort of domestic violence shelter and then 2 crazy guys with baseball bats came over because they wanted to kill me. They attacked an old lady who worked outside and then broke the door down and for some reason I tried to confront them which didn’t go well. Then I woke up. I actually had to turn on my light and do a double take and then had to calm down for about half an hour because the fear translated to real life and I thought the baseball bat people were actually in our house

      Yesterday was the only day on the island where we’ve had sun.

      I think Australia is a little bigger than an island, but ditto. It was a nice sunny day yesterday. Still chilly, but the sun was out

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    The amount of drug affected people wandering the streets these days is alarming and it’s not just limited to one suburb.

      • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        You’re not wrong. I saw one guy randomly headbutting a pole yesterday.

        If you’re on meth in many cases you’re either going to be in prison, in some kind of hospital (normal or psychiatric), or on the streets.

        Unfortunately at the moment option 3 is becoming a much more prevalent outcome.

        If these folks were harmless that would be one thing, but people on meth can become scary violent.

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Most of you guys are too young to have lived through the angel dust (PCP) craze of the late 60s and 70s. That was some scary violence all right. Fortunately, angel dust out of fashion now. Meth, oddly enough, has a much milder effect. Scary, yes. But the violence level is a lot lower and the triggers a lot higher.

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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          4 months ago

          we have to have a society with hope, where people have real chances at making a life worth living, so when they are offered choices they can choose to not have meth

          the way things are now is not good

          • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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            4 months ago

            That’s very well put. I got into that world because of child trauma, but having grown up in poverty, I saw no reason to try to have a normal life.

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      The problem with meth, apart from the psychosis inducing effects of the drug itself, is the propensity for staying awake for several days, which compounds the effect.

      I remember hallucinations so vivid, I was literally hearing voices with my ears. That’s how messed up the brain can get. And the hallucinations weren’t positive, let’s put it that way.

      The people you see on the street, have most likely been in a psych ward until they are stabilised with meds, and then thrown out back onto the street with no assistance.

      It happened to me. They just get rid of you.

      There’s a lot to be said for both psychiatric and addiction services in Australia.

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        As a former sufferer of really intense auditory hallucinations, I strongly relate to what you’ve said. I had long given up drugs but was still suffering from the voices for ages afterwards. It’s hard to get people to understand just how real they felt. And so spiteful, mean and negative. Also hard to get some people to understand that it’s strong enough motivation to never go back there and go through that horrifying shit again. The “once a junkie, always a junkie” crowd just don’t get it at all.

        • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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          4 months ago

          I completely understand. In the end I had to take a med to make it all go away because I was still getting faint whispers upto 18 months after quitting.

          Mine weren’t too bad when I was sober. It was when I was fucked that they were nasty.

          You couldn’t pay me enough to touch that shit again. Not for a million bucks.

          As for what people think, I have two thoughts about that:

          1. only people I trust a shitload know about my past

          2. if anyone wants to treat me poorly because of my past actions, they can fuck themselves with a giant spikey cactus.

          So few people ever get clean, and have a normal life. 95% of people that talk shit about addicts, were they to be addicted themselves, would not get clean. That’s a statistical fact.

          So fuck em. They don’t know the strength it takes to escape the hell of using. And in all likelihood, they wouldn’t be able to.

          Let them enjoy their high horse. I know who I am, and what I’ve achieved. No one can take that away from me.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    I had today marked for cleaning the floors but it’s too nice in the sun, I’m having trouble making my way back inside to start the job.

  • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Still COVID positive so still isolating at home, but not feeling too shabby so I have spent the morning absolutely smashing out some garden/outside house jobs in this fabulous weather, and am now going to reward myself by lounging on the terrace with a book.