It’s taco Tuesday! Hope you get to eat some tacos today. Have an amazing day 🌮🌮🌮
OK, bot has now been given a process management system to help run continually and not crash completely if there is an error. Not sure if it will help with the not posting at/after midnight issue, but it can’t hurt and will give me a bit more information.
I have instructed the bot to post at 11:55, but after past failures am much less hopeful it will actually work ☹️ I’ve added in a few more test posts elsewhere at various intervals to try and get some more information about what is going wrong. At the moment the theory that the cat is sabotaging it seems as likely as anything else. It is very frustrating that every single test I do works perfectly, and the actual post doesn’t.
FWIW one of my peeves with the way it worked on reddit is that a new thread at midnight can interrupt the thread conversations for night owls. I feel like a 4 AM time for the new thread would be good.
Midnight is a clear break between one day and the next. 4am is arbitrary.
I picked it as a solid guess as to when most people are offline. Not arbitrary at all.
So did I end up being right then?
That your cat was the saboteur and is trying to take over the world?
Its the best theory I have right now. She’s trying to look disinterested, but she definitely has a keyboard obsession she’s not been able to hide, so being a closet hacker is something I wouldn’t put past her.
My dinner
From top left clockwise: Aldi’s potato scallop, peas, sauted mushrooms with chives, marinated lamb ribs definitely not burnt just well done, mint jelly. Corn on the cob not pictured.
Please note that the plate is small. (26cm in diameter)
My husband made an observation. He said “I noticed that the smaller ribs did not make the photo but ended up in my lunch”. :)
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The last few days have been really low
My applications are progressing slow
Like glaciers taking a thousand years
To slide down into an ocean of fearsHeart sinking down down down
Mind thinking round round round
Blood rushing without a sound
Threads unravelled, coils unwoundMelancholic sheets between fields of pillows
Speckled with heavy sighs hanging like willows
Their leaves are tears feeding the streams
Of fears that this is all that it seemsIn other more positive news, I have my initial ADHD assessment via Telehealth on the 15th! This place is much cheaper, the only drawback, though bearable is that I have to wait until November for my official diagnosis. So please manifest are sooner cancellation for me.
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Day 10 of my exercises completed. This morning I snuck into my MIL’s back room, which is like a sun room/family room, and did them there. So much space! I think I will continue this from now on. She isn’t up early so I’m not disturbing her, and she’s said she doesn’t mind me using the space.
Yesterday I set a target of 2500 steps and we were busy at work so I ended up doing 6129. It won’t be anything like that today because I’ll be standing at a bench hand stretching pizza bases and cutting dough.
Have a lovely day!
Keep meaning to ask - what exercises are you doing? I need to get back into a routine myself.
I downloaded an app called Fitness Coach and, seeing as I’m not very cardio fit, set it to a beginner level on a 30 day body shred program. It’s pretty simple and has some in app purchases but I’m just using the free things in it. It’s working for me so far.
Ta muchly. 😊
PSA to check your hot water bottles for leaks. I got into a wet bed last night and realised mine had wet itself. Thankfully I actually didn’t refill it last night so it was left from the previous night and must have just seeped through some very minor crack in the rubber.
I think you are supposed to get a new one every 2 years? The rubber degrades from the heat and becomes stiffer and therefore more prone to cracking or bursting.
Hmm it’s 3pm and I haven’t been tagged in one single food/taco pic 😔
Which makes me think everyone is too poor to afford food. So free tacos for everyone!!! 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮
Godspeed little taco.
I’ll be having fried rice tonight methinks. Possibly in a taco shell if that helps.
Pics with descriptions please?
Shoot I forgot to take a picture of my rice. Raincheck?
Sure I’m down for that
Deal.
I certainly will!
The Taco themself hath cometh
Lying down on the couchafter a couple after work drinks. Got up and had a most impressive burp. Shame no one was around to witness
You should hear my son fart! Louder than his dad I swear.
Impressive!!
Just want to vent a bit about a really horrible experience trying to go out to trivia in Brisbane tonight. I’m up here for a work conference and didn’t want to go to the costume dinner thing they had, so booked a table at a local pub thinking I’d see if another team wanted a solo extra. First off the pub was super seedy and gross, the stickiest place I’ve been to in years. Then the only thing on the menu I could eat (recently developed awful reflux that I think is triggered by onion and garlic) was the pear and rocket salad and you guys, it is in my top 5 worst meals of all time. It was genuinely inedible. Then the trivia host ignored my three separate times as she went table to table. Genuinely ignored me waving and saying excuse me. At that point I just said fuck it and left. Now I’m sitting back in my hotel room eating yogurt and an apple as the saddest fucking dinner because my anxiety is through the roof. Fuck me. Plus it’s raining so now I have wet jeans that might not dry in time for me to pack them in my suitcase tomorrow.
I’m so sorry, that is such a shit evening. There are probably pubs like that in Melbourne as well, to be fair, but more so in the middle to outer suburbs (assuming you’re in the Brisbane CBD). There’s a number of things I liked about Brisbane when I lived there, but the insularity of many mainstream communities puts Melbourne’s apparent standoffishness to shame sometimes. Still like a large country town in some ways.
Dad’s birthday tomorrow and i hadn’t thought of gift ideas… So i may have just ordered a couple hundred dollars worth of Scottish meats and treats to be delivered. Min order was $150 for free delivery so i had to order some for him and some for me :P
where did u order the meat from?
The place is called Mowatts, not used them before
will check them out
Haggis for everyone!!
Awww yeh!!
Bro, its my brithday tomorrow too, you know
They didnt have Herring sorry…but happy birthday!!
It’s not really my brithday tomorrow. I was fibbing to try and score a couple hundred dollars with of meat. Forgive me! 😭
🥔 here you go
Thanks. This is my best brithday ever now!
What we have here is a failure to launch. Dammit.
It has to be a problem with the date, bot won’t work after midnight. It’s eather Cinderella or a gremlin. Next attempt will be before midnight, if that posts it will be a stopgap solution at least while I work out the issues. Maybe I can check the dark web for bot viagra.
If it’s a problem with the date, would it work on 07/07?
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. Could it be that you have to do American dates?
Thought I’d join the masses over here…it’s a lot busier, haha!
Fresh meat!
Welcome!
tastes like pork
The best meat’s in the rump!
Yeah nah the crackle is the best bit.
With Reddit’s changes (albeit I think more people thought it things would be more dramatic than they have been), and Twitter’s continuing shit show, alongside Facebook’s shadow of it’s shadow of its former self… do we think we’re seeing or are in the middle of the end of social media in a large sense?
Seeing how younger people use social media is actually quite interesting.
My kids use it to share funny crap with their friends. Pretty much what email was back in the late 90’s early 00’s.
They don’t really use for posting or communicating. Just sharing.
Their interactions with friends are video calls and meetups.
It’s been interesting seeing the recent stuff that’s happened. Like there’s Mastodon as a Twitter replicate, Lemmy for Reddit, Tumblr is still Tumblr (a lot of Twitter and Reddit users migrated to Tumblr recently, it’s a lot of fun over there. We still don’t allow porn, but if it’s artistic like a photograph or in a movie it’s allowed but there are mature filters for like nusity, gore, etc).
There’s a MySpace replicate called HeySpace. It’s actually pretty cool, as someone who was on MySpace as a scene/emo kid.
But yeah it seems social media is imploding. I’m curious what the future of the Internet will be.
We may be seeing the end of less savvy user, which tbh is a good thing.
Should clarify: by less savvy I mean “People who do not actively seek out social interactions online unless it is via a platform thrust under their nose as a massive zeitgeist”
I’ve been farting around on the internet since fredmail, I shall continue farting long after the corporate monoliths have died
I’ve often said that one of the worst inventions was the smart phone, but I think social media has a lot to explain for itself as well. I was discussing this with the wifey the other day, saying how Instagram seems to be one of the few that people are still actively turning to (and I guess TikTok?). Both of those platforms really blur the definition of “social” media. It doesn’t seem like they’re widely used to communicate with people they know (vaguely or otherwise), but rather give this faux connection with celebrities, causes or anything else that some people seem to deem as “important.”
seems like vaguely interactive television
