New music video just dropped! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKfM... We had so much fun in the hall making this. Can't wait to share the album with you and tour it next year!

Anyone got recommendations for big but simple analogue clocks that don’t make obnoxious ticking sounds? Bonus if it has a tide clock on it too. We live somewhere very very quiet now and the ticking is… too much.

Gus could not believe his luck just now. He was getting cuddles from me on the couch and then Bernard hopped up on the couch. Bernard put his butt right in front of Gus nose and didn’t show any signs of aggressive. Gus got to surreptitiously (but thoroughly) sniff a cat butt.

Damn I have so much yard work I was gonna do today. Mowing, weed whacking, pruning some dead branches off my citrus, gorse clearing… It was meant to just be overcast but now it’s raining!

Hey #nzgardens do you have any recommendations for accessible ways of turning compost? One of these bins was left with our house and I just cannot get things turned in there with the big stick I have. Should I just donate it and get a tumbling one? Or is there some magic tool I should get?

So some news from us - inbetween the chaos of moving house. Te Whare Hangahanga and I are finalists in the Sustainable Business Awards this year in the Transformational Leaders category sustainable.org.nz/next/whos-ne...

It's actually not irrational for people to react strongly to any use of "AI" as a moniker. AI doesn't mean anything. At best, it's a marketing umbrella term. More realistically, it's a group signifier for a right wing technopolitcal project.

Knocking down the kms on our 100km goal to raise money for the Burnett Foundation #PrideUnleashed www.sweatwithpride.com/profile/shar...

Does anyone have first-hand experience with using an AI agent that has “participated” in the response to an actual incident in a genuinely diagnostic — or otherwise contextually-specific way?

Tamaki Makaurau! What is all this rain??? Don’t you know it’s October?? This week has been silly

Raising money for the Burnett Foundation by walking 100km with Gus this month. If you can spare it, please considering sponsoring us! #PrideUnleashed www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...

Siiiick first berry

I haven't been posting much about it here, but I am having a whale of time growing some stuff. I'm a little early tbh, but I just got too excited. Every day it looks different!

@styla73.bsky.social I have a vague memory of you recommending a music streaming service recently, was that you, or am I imagining things?

I don’t think that’s for you little buddy

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

Jeeez Auckland mayor options so grim there’s barely any media coverage? Yiiiikes. Anyone from the Greens or Te Pati Māori done a run down on all the candidates? I need tactics 👀

Make a submission re: Productivity Commission report allowing AI to run rampant in Australia (“Harnessing data and digital technology”) Please consider doing so, if you don’t want to see artist’s work being “legally” stolen for profit, in an #AusPol “AI arms race” engage.pc.gov.au/surveys/secu...

I always wanna do my plantings between 11am-2pm and have to RESIST so my tiny seedlings can survive

Make a band singular The Bleeder

I always say "thanks" after Siri does something I ask and today Siri replied with "you're welcome!" and I'm distinctly uncomfortable with that 👀

The Beths new album is <chefs kiss>

This is your reminder, you are one viral infection away from being incapacitated. No one choses to be sick or chronically ill. Have some compassion and empathy for others and the fact that some don't get to be healthy again.

There comes a time in every foster dog's life when they discover the toy basket and pull out every single toy. Today is that day for Rosco.

Someone just sat down next to me and started scrolling videos on their phone. With the volume up loud. Ex-fucking-scuse me

Woah! What a tale!

Tank water users in NZ Heading towards our first summer. How early do you book a tank refill in summer and how chaotically do you gamble? Especially in your first year? I have no idea how tricky this might be and no data yet. But everyone else around here has a little more tank capacity than us.

Okay #nzgardens I’m prepping my strawbs for the summer. How many should I put per planter? At 2 per side / 4 per planter, they’re a comfortable 20cm apart. At 3 per side / 6 per planter, they’re only 15 cm apart.

For @styla73.bsky.social

You know you stayed on the incident call for too long when you refer to the technical issue as “the fuckery” during a summary in front of two VP’s 😳 in my defence, they had also been on the call for many hours

I hope everyone knows that Sam Neill took his Jurassic Park money and bought a big piece of land in New Zealand, and now he makes videos walking around there telling his pet ducks that he’s proud of them

just a quick note that after 5 years + 4 months of writing webworm, i am moving my newsletter off of substack and taking it out on my own. for any readers - nothing really changes: the next edition will arrive in your inbox as per usual. my thoughts: www.webworm.co/p/webwormisl...

when I was learning html/css during the web standards movement, or rails during its ascendency, you couldn't move for people writing about them, even before social media. now I do databases and erlang and sync and the air is full of this gunk getting in the way of you actually learning anything!

We saw this coming. This was the obvious goal from the start. If you didn’t see it then, see it now when all the pretence is gone and they’re masks off. The leopards eating faces party is gonna eat your face too.

I just pulled out and poisoned the base of so much bloody jasmine. It’s twisted in and around a huge bird of paradise plant and I’ve been struggling to get at it. Hoping that now I’ve got poison on my side I can really tackle it properly

Do you know what I enjoy about working with someone inexperienced in my field? Teaching them the cool weird edge cases and fun layers to the work we do, and how to weigh up important decisions against cost, reliability and security. Working with AI is none of that shit and it sucks out the joy.

I think it’s actually illegal to live here?! They’re gonna come take us away soon

I prefer buying American groceries because their labelling requirements are so strict (due to all the suing), that I know when the “dehydrated vegetables” or “spices” are actually onion and garlic - a super fucking common food intolerance that NZ regulations don’t require us to label. More labels ✊

I planted some seeds and there’s little green leaves pushing up out of the ground?! I’m so genuinely delighted. For the first week I was convinced not a single one would sprout 😅

I got invited to give my dream conference talk in San Francisco this year. A city I’ve always wanted to visit. It was both difficult and not difficult to turn it down. It’s not safe to go there.

Bernard got opinions on these fascist ass motions. We’re doing our democracy.

Feeling smug as fuck

I wish I could snooze through AGMs smh

just casually watching the power cuts getting closer and closer to our house 😬

Spending three hours pulling up weeds and listening to podcasts is deeply satisfying. I never take before photos because I just jitterbug around different areas with no plan. But I knew where I was gonna start today so I managed to snap one. I branched out in three different directions after this

Sometimes Gus lies down with a big flop, and just lies there with his head on his front paws, wagging his tail gently. Thinking good thoughts. Dogs are real good

Our driveway rapidly became an extremely dangerous slip’n’slide and this morning we paid someone to come spend 4 hours power washing it. It’s so clean and grippy and perfect and I am so thrilled.

Sleepy weekend belly rubs are what make the world go round

Some definite upsides to a cold house and a cold snap, and it’s that this guy turns cuddly (as long as I don’t touch him)

The number of default-gendered custom graphics i encounter has exploded thanks to GenAI. Taking more humans out of the loop allows the long-standing sexist biases of AI about who does what jobs to spread even further. Not the worst impact but it's noticeable and annoying