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Pōhuehue, NZ. I suppose you’d call me a leftie. [bridged from https://mastodon.nz/@Salty on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Oh HELL no. "Stellantis says that, on average, customers receive about two in-vehicle messages annually, containing safety, maintenance, or marketing information." That's two more than the correct number of advertisements. Which is zero. Zero is the correct number of advertisements […]

On the first day of slop lunch, My Seymour gave to me A cold, greasy Mac and Cheese On the second day of slop lunch, My Seymour gave to me Two butter chickens and a cold greasy Mac and Cheese On the third day of slop lunch, My Seymour gave to me Three ham halal meals Two butter chickens and a […]

Somebody hacked the TVs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the US today to play this video on a loop. They couldn’t figure out what to do so they sent staff to turn off the TVs, but other staff started turning them back on.

Can confirm that ChatGPT will oblige if you tell it to 'sprinkle in some Maori words for authenticity' when pretending to love the Seymour Slop. #nzpol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542797/what-the-ministry-of-education-is-being-told-about-school-lunches

"In diplomatic circles, the question isn't whether America will honor its commitments but which one it will break next." https://www.theindex.media/the-american-guarantee-is-a-joke/

Seymour's Slop #nzpol https://www.seymourslop.nz/

NX buses still going every 10 minutes at this time of night. Sometimes Auckland public transport can surprise you by not sucking!

Ba-dum tsss https://xkcd.com/3053

Life is like a box of chocolates- they keep replacing all the things you used to love with cheaper, crappier artificial versions.

Wedgied Ozzie just before he could giggle at the ‘first man on Mars’. #PrankABookCharacter #HashtagGames

Replaced the Ring with a giant LMAO emoji a light-year wide and an atom thick. #PrankABookCharacter #HashtagGames

Transmitted a series of stable three-body system solutions to Alpha Centauri. #PrankABookCharacter #HashtagGames

Swapped Phileas Fogg’s calendar for a Julian one while he was in Yokohama. #PrankABookCharacter #HashtagGames

Changed the last rune on Sting so now instead of glowing blue when there orcs nearby, it smells really bad. #PrankABookCharacter #HashtagGames

Told Yossarian the Major was out when he was actually in. #PrankABookCharacter #HashtagGames

Dressed up in gold body paint and a top hat and convinced a GSV to displace me into a Sleeper Service war reenactment tableaux for a few minutes as it was passing by. #PrankABookCharacter #HashtagGames

I did *what now*?

Buying some Canadian maple syrup. We don’t need maple syrup, but, you know.

Dave is a dick. An effective dick, but a dick nonetheless. #octopus https://youtu.be/Ou-tbidf5GY

OMG... (Male) ACT MP tells woman giving submission how to handle her period without unduly burdening the taxpayer. #nzpol https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360582255/act-mp-simon-court-asks-woman-if-shes-aware-menstrual-cup-during-hearing-benefit-sanctions

The mind boggles. What an absolute idiot. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/13/donald-trump-reciprocal-tariffs-us-markets-wall-street/

Takes a real special candidate to make me think "Gee I'm glad Simeon Brown is Minister of Health." #uspol https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c626eezr76wo

Oh yes, we're an oligarchy now. We were an oligarchy before, too, but we're definitely one now. https://youtu.be/_LQa28X-1AQ

This should definitely help us catch up to Singapore in the R&D race. #nzpol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541771/more-than-60-jobs-to-be-axed-at-callaghan-innovation

Apparently some tech bros are having to learn the hard way that the creator of #Linux is a leftist

Sounds like we’ve tried everything except “using our majority ownership to force the gentailers to build more generation and transmission capacity.” #nzpol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/541804/energy-minister-delivers-ultimatum-to-gentailers

This is dumb. My W11 laptop has slowed down because every time I try and open a folder I have to wait for #Windows invasive account sign in / telemetry to time out: #Privacy #Network

#GulfOfMexico #map

The Internet is mostly shit these days, but every once in a great while I stumble across an incredible, passion-project website. This one is hand-animated weird art and it is worth your time as a fun decompressing thing in between your doomscrolling sessions. https://floor796.com I don't […]

Me: Hi. Yes, I'm looking for an idle game that doesn't suck. Siri: Sir, this is the App Store.

I don't touch roaming config very often - in the Olden Days all I had to know (for charging) was the network ID, and those were grouped into big groups for ease of understanding the costs. Nowadays I also own a platform important for setting up voice calls in VoLTE. And OH MY GOD even though […]

I hate it when I have to pay for the pollution I cause. #nzpol https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360577778/ineos-blames-cost-saving-measures-after-breaking-sponsorship-deal-new-zealand-rugby

Second day in a row I got #dailywordle in 2. After yesterday’s ‘score’ idly thought to myself ‘Be cool if the editor is doing a sly Trump protest’ and made up a series of words that would do it. Sure enough today’s word is the one I thought would go after ‘score.’ I guess I’ll know for sure […]