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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lexx marathon? Don't mind if i doooo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was just listening to the Brunnen-G song the other day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Great track but having just watched wake the dead i'm still laughing at the psycho kai version

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fuck yeah YarraByte rocking up with the goods. Nice one Brion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Parkrun PB in sunny Lalor this morning. Quite happy with that actually. Now at the stage where I'm enjoying running rather than feeling like it's a punishment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Brunch chess and coffee with friend soon, then nothing else all weekend. PERFECT!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey hey, I’m off to the gym

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I went even though I really wasn't feeling it this morning. Now I can sit back with a pot of tea and feel virtuous all morning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nice, the bot is working. I was trying to make one but got stuck in permissions hell with Docker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I usually add docker as a sudo user, it's just a minor reduction in security.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'll try that. I've added users to the docker group but that hasn't worked

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Sky dark. Pavement wet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My migraines occur due to a shoulder imbalance. My right shoulder raises up (like a shrug that's stuck) and rolls forwards.

I asked chatgpt to give me some ideas on how to deal with it.

It gave me some exercises. I did 2 of them. The pain reduced significantly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You're on this. You are super aware of your body and that counts for a lot.

and rest up , hugs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If Dandenong rehearsals are a regular thing you can swing by my place and I'll have a look at it. I was no good at the business of myotherapy but I was good at the myo part.

If you think it's nerves, have a read up on brachial plexus flossing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That's incredibly kind of you!

I head there twice a week one day is on a Saturday.

I'll PM you my details. I would be more than happy to pay for your time :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I have arisen. Wattle birds are fighting over prime spot in the big gum tree. Might go walk down to the water before Marge gets here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Good morning YarraByte. Are you here to supervise?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There were a lot of pumpkin blossoms this morning. I’ve pollinated the open female flowers and have a total of four potential pumpkins now.

I need to look more carefully though. Was moving a flower aside to see if any more females were budding underneath and then realised my hand was like an inch away from a bee inside it. 😨Luckily I didn’t end up needing the epi pen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Power outage in my area. WiFi not working. Some things are working and some not, so at first I thought it was a fuse. Must be a brown out then. Lucky I charged my shitty power bank.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's matcha time 🍻

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Oh hey there Yarrabyte 🤖

 

There’s this painting I once saw and I can’t find it again. It was a landscape painting of a cliff on a shore and looked very much like the 19th century romanticism oil paintings.

The layout looked a little like John Constable’s paintings of Weymouth bay but it wasn’t grey and overcast. It was glowing with slightly warm yellow light.

The sky was a desaturated yellow sunrise or sunset haze with clouds. The cliff rising behind was a crumbly warm orangey yellow. The incoming small wave was a light warm blue with a rill of white foam and the jagged rocks in the sea(?) were brown. There were a few smaller flat rocks towards the centre at the bottom of the cliff with a scattering of human bones near the larger central one, including a skull or a few skulls. Those were brownish.

It’s driving me nuts because sometimes I think I’ll have narrowed it down to a particular setting or artist and then I find another very similar but not quite the same in a big way. I think this is an entire genre I’ve stumbled on (Romanticism is apparently big on landscapes and there might have been a British movement) so I’m looking for a needle in a haystack.

I could also be chasing a ghost if the image drew from multiple works and was ai 💔

Edit: Hold up now. The texture of the Etretat chalk cliffs is similar and the beaches of Normandy were popular with impressionists. The jagged rocks and the flat angular rocks are also familiar.

I don’t know man. I know nothing about art history and am going by eye, off only a brief look and an unreliable memory

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