Also I’m going to have to drag my chronically fatigued butt out and help with electioneering aren’t I? Fuck this bunch of shitheads. And yes you should do it too.

It bothers me way more than it should that hearing aids seem to have settled on “red for right” to distinguish which one is which. Red is left and green is right, landlubbers!

I don’t care what or why, the government should never have a say in what a doctor can prescribe for what reason, that’s between the doctor and patient.

Time to start organising for the election.

So they’re saying there was no savings to be made on the ferry construction, given the new ones cost $40M more than the cancelled ones…

The existence of paramour and metamour implies there’s an orthomour.

figured out how to make the sd ide work in my PowerMac 7220 (reformat the card), installed MacOS 8 (the macos 7.5 installer for the machine didn’t believe you could have a 16gb HDD…), and it runs! I can play the bundled Barenaked Ladies music video!

Another day, another medical study that’s commonly used as evidence for health outcomes which has much worse data quality than the ones which aren’t good enough to use as basis for transgender healthcare.

I’m quite surprised that enough people are still aware of the fate of SS Edmund Fitzgerald to make memes of it on the 50th anniversary of its loss with all hands.

My playlist shuffled on to something that reminded me of Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and I got sad and the angry at toxic gamers who hounded the developers out of the industry

So many comments on the overseas shipping cost for the Wahine Toa Firefighter Calendar... welcome to NZ shipping costs!

Well after soldering some really tiny components on to a PCB (0603! TSSOP!) I have a working HID Hopper to connect my Apple Pro USB mouse to my PowerMac 7220!

Bear Your Soul #comics

Huh, even the nation’s chain-smoking drunk homophobic racist uncle is saying fireworks should be banned now. I didn’t have that on my bingo card.

AAA games are expensive? The RBNZ inflation calculator says this is about $275 in today’s dollars.

Mobile app accessibility people, is there any way to incorporate accessibility in to automated tests? Ideally I'd like to be able to export the current accessibility info to a snapshot of some sort so we'd know if something had changed it.

I’m at the point in cooking where I’m regretting not following my earlier hunch to use a bigger pan

There must have been a motorbike rally in Auckland today, there were several groups heading down Tamaki Drive, some in costume including at least 3 fairies definitely not dressed for the slide.

The FSU requires thinly veiled racism. I guess that’s why he left, no more veil.

It's always interesting looking at papers where they try to correlate brain structures to sex and gender. The answer is always "Some of the time it's right most of the time".

To see if he has any backbone of course.

Some of you may have heard about a crash involving an electric bus here last week. Contrary to the NZ Herald reporting, turns out the batteries did not ignite. It was the internal-combustion car that collided with it. My thoughts are with the bus driver's family. evsandbeyond.co.nz/bus-driver-k...

Queer Endurance in Defiance is organising a protest to let Helen Joyce and the FSU know that transphobia is unwelcome. Helen Joyce is a piece of sh*t human being who is being platformed by the pieces of sh*t at the free speech union, including Stephen Franks, their Chairman. GO PROTEST! PEACEFULLY!

I wish that medical literature would stop comparing the risks of things like breast cancer and blood clots in trans women to cis men. Yes the risk increases. Because _women have a higher risk of those_. The risk almost never exceeds that of cis women.

I wish journalists would do 2 minutes of fact checking. > Neodymium magnets have been banned since 2014 but are still available through online marketplaces. A trip to a hardware store will show you this is wrong. They're only banned in toys and jewellery. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Finally got around to opening my AirPods Max, they broke over a year ago. It’s easier than reported but will damage them. The screws turn towards the centre, so top left and bottom right go clockwise, the other two anticlockwise. Run a thin shim between the case and plastic to break the glue

us-east-1 is down PagerDuty is still up

It used to be common for people in their late thirties to forties to acquire “project car”, which was often a high school dream car purchased at the end of its life with the goal of restoring. In the 2010s the retro computing scene emerged in the same age group. In this essay I will

Yay it makes the noise!

If you use the iOS hearing test and get an audiogram that looks like this it says “little to no loss”. However this level of hearing loss can make it very hard to understand speech especially with background noise. Hearing aids (including AirPods Pro) may help.

Unlike Winston Peters, I happen to know what _both_ ends of a cow look like.

Simeon Brown wouldn’t understand ethics if the bridge he was running over after taking candy from a baby collapsed due to the engineer skipping the calculations to spend more time chatting up the receptionist and the builder only using half the concrete and pocketing the money.

I just thought it was a trick to get people to buy a’merkin

I wish people would actually listen when you tell them that someone is a convicted sex offender who fled a country to avoid jail for breaching a protection order and to avoid paying spousal or child support. Especially when you have the court documents to prove it. But no. They’re the victim.

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

Launch: Protect Protest Aotearoa. We're joined up with other groups to resist attacks on the right to protest. protectprotest.nz Join the launch event with a screening of Operation 8 at 4:30pm October 15th in Wellington. More details: nzccl.org.nz/launch-prote...

Neat that there’s another option for people with endometriosis: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... It’s a combination of a drug to put you in menopause and not enough estrogen + progesterone to make you feel normal afterwards. Well, it’s norethisterone acetate, not a great option really.

C’mon, general strike!

Went to the audiologist last week. They said I might need hearing aids. I put my Airpods in to hearing aid mode and… well fuck. It's mostly just EQ to boost the treble, but it really helps.

The kids are following the example set by politicians! Why do hard work for poverty wages when you can fly off to Hawaii twice a year and take half of the money from people actually doing the hard work as “rent”.

“The world doesn’t owe you a living” So I guess parents need to prove future income before they’re allowed to have a child, because I don’t recall being asked if I want to be in this world.

I wish it was possible for an independent media company to get market share without bucketloads of money. We have The Spinoff but there’s only so much they can do. Well. There’s 6 News as an actual example, but it’s cheaper when you live with your parents.

Just a reminder NZ,a PSA that the owner of Spotlight is a massive Israel supporter and has directly donated money to the IDF

You can’t make someone trans. You can’t make someone not trans. We know because we have reports from apparent medical professionals trying both.

i see they just tripled down: www.rnz.co.nz/news/correct...

*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST* The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...