The 'vicar' approached me. He wore strange robes, and clasped around his neck was a collar marking him out as a hunting dog of their Christian Lord. He wore a wooden fetish around his neck which depicted a man being executed. As he approached, he cast a spell of fortune with the words 'Good Morning'

YOU LITERALLY VOTED TO CANCEL 33 PAY EQUITY CLAIMS. YOUR VOTE SCREWED OVER 150,000 - 180,000 WOMEN. GET ABSOLUTELY F*KED WITH YOUR "CONVERSATION" BIZZO

Mediterranean Warehouse have Rossana Spicchi, which I hadn't previously been able to find in NZ at all! Not to mention three (3) separate brands of fruit jelly. It's a golden age of lollies.

Just reposting this for reasons. Cause the reasons I made it are still valid. #nzpol

I _did_ do it to prove I could. "It" being, in this case, "knit two socks at once, one inside the other". Satisfying achievement, but I have no need to do it again and will go back to one at a time on dpns (I do not enjoy Magic Loop).

I burned my arm and hand on a wood burner, guys! FUCKING OW! Masterton A&E are tops ❤️❤️❤️ (PS I am not endangered and I presume not permanently damaged)

Migration is our collective human history. People have always moved. Whether it’s from rural to urban, country to neighboring country, or straight up continents, this is what we do. Social stability is not at risk because people moved it’s at risk because you are a hater.

They played I Hope I Never in the encore and I thought "ooo, that's pretty on-the-nose as a finale" and then I thought "it'd be churlish to be disappointed at this point ... but it is a bit sad they didn't play Strait Old Line" AND THEN NEK MINIT 🙈⬅️🙈➡️🥄🥄🥄

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I've got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style.

An oddly Bluesky-related thing: around xmas @dimsie.bsky.social skeeted about the Routeburn and I thought, oo, a guided Great Walk could be a good trip for next December? Maybe the Milford Track? (1/2)

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Rocky shore. So much rocky shore. (signed: all of NZ, potentially)

inflekt.net L4 in 14, surely there is a better solution. @jbhay.bsky.social @upsidebackwards.bsky.social

Daaaaaamn

Today's inflekt L4 in eight moves @jbhay.bsky.social. (inflekt.net)

Today's inflekt L4 in eight moves @jbhay.bsky.social. (inflekt.net)

"The government has made the law simpler and more robust."

Following @jbhay.bsky.social, inflekt.net level 4 in 13 steps today.

Your semi-regular reminder that if you see a map labelled in any way that contradicts these two maps, it is wrong

Let's remember Judith Collins for that time Danyl performed the Voight-Kampff test on her to prove it was actually her running her Twitter account.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

So my baseline for a lot of this stuff is "If I think about it and protect against it building the secret santa app, a company dealing with health data should sure as hell be thinking about it". Maybe that's unfair, I mean, I used to deal with health data, I'm actually pretty good at what I do.

Trying to delete my uploaded documents from Manage My Health. It's not working.

Are Manage My Health going to be required to pay for identity protection for those impacted? Asking for 100,000 friends.

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Extract from "Important things about Apple computers", A Gale, 1986.

My weird food take is that describing a dessert as 'decadent' is insufferable.

Take me now, baby, here as I am Hold me close, try and understand Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed 🎶

Personally victimized by doxygen.

To put it diplomatically, I know there's *cough* a certain element in Labour that are pissy boots that the Greens snatched their wigs in "their" Wellington seats but this is taking spite way too far. #nzpol

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

In fact, I think a truly mature conversation would actually assess some of our many past asset sales and consider whether re-nationalising some of those assets might be in the country's interest. But that's definitely not the conversation he wants.

Wellingtonian shame: I can't really distinguish Blair St and Allen St without a map. I've never been able to. Most of the time I don't even try. I just say "Blair St or Allen St".

More misleading BS from min of Ed, Stanford. #nzpol

Started explaining the McGillicuddy Serious Party to my American husband, although somewhat hampered by my own lack of expertise. e.g. "they wanted the restoration of a monarchy but I forget which one", "there was also something called Clan McGillicuddy that was somehow related".

How many nice school lunches $600m could have bought and for how many years? Nicola Willis needs an hour of maths and reading every day cause she clearly did not read the fine print or know the cancellation maths 🙄

I only recently learned that the People With Long Ears in Carnival of the Animals are donkeys heehawing and not, as I'd believed for most of my life, rabbits hearing a predator stalking them and pricking up their ears.

“‘No one saw it coming,’ but what they mean is that they consider the people who saw it coming to be no one.” - Sarah Kendzior

Mulder and Scully used to be older than me. Laura Palmer used to be older than me. Adrian Mole used to be older than me.

My parents asked me for help contacting an old friend of theirs and I was like, hm, not sure I really have a lot of resources I can leverage in search of someone I haven't seen since I was a child last centur...n/m, found her.

Hi, I'm a technical writer in a movie/tv episode. Ha ha, no I'm not. Except Monk's brother that one time.

I just verified my age by reading the hydatids poster as I wait in line at the local butcher's shop.

Our high school exam results/university course results were printed in the newspaper. Not just for kids, there are entire countries full of contemporaries who you can appall with this one.

I told my sister's kids that we had to listen to the radio to find out whether or not our Saturday sport had been cancelled due to bad weather. They weren't even horrified so much as perplexed that a person could utter that combination of words.

I'm a little bit sad every time I hear or read "kiwi onion dip". It should still get to be just "dip".