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Makes software. Dad. Likes Rust, Python, Go, bouldering and mountain biking. Aotearoa import. he/him https://menno.io/about
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When I was young, my dad was super into tabletop military simulator games (“Avalon Hill games” in the parlance of the time). He is a student of history and of systems and one of the things he impressed upon me based on these experiences was that the way you win these games — and the way you […]

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Five days apart.

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Bringing back incandescent lightbulbs? Big time old guy energy. A policy that smells like dead skin and nursing home disinfectant.

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OH: Isn’t it a thing that if you punch a butterfly a tornado appears?

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I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

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I went to see the excellent production of Strictly Ballroom at the Court Theatre last night. As is typical when going to the theatre in #chch #nz the average age of the audience was somewhere north of 70. Are younger people just not interested or are boomers the only ones with disposable income?

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Took this image 27 days ago on Christmas Eve (seems so long ago now!). The Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264). 96 images at 5 minutes each (8 hours) in Sulphur II, Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen III. #astrophotography #photography #astronomy

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Trump rules the GOP with an orange fist.

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a lot of people don’t realize that mountain time zone is for every mountain in the world, it’s the same time on every mountain due to their distance from the earth’s core

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Yeah, America is the so called "land of the free", but you try to bring a monkey on board the plane and suddenly everyone's all about rules, rules, rules.

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Ghostty is out! ghostty.org

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Right now, foxes are being chased to exhaustion and torn apart by hounds—all in the name of ‘tradition.’ Boxing Day remains the biggest day of the year for the fox hunting community. Please RT to raise awareness and follow us to help end this cruelty for good.

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