ChatGPT later noted that Chris Chambers and I have appeared in public at least once together, which would seem to prove that we are not the same person, but it still seems to think it's a possibility!

I'm really enjoying Timberborn, the cute city builder where you build dams and a city for adorable little beavers

one of my guilty pleasures is judging peoples' dresses on r/weddingattireapproval and there's some seriously unhinged AI written wedding dress codes from brides deep in the wedding industrial complex

mom and mum are two different words

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Found this "unusual 19th century lamp...of a supple gentleman" at an online auction and gosh, it sure is as described. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

Moon's haunted

380 yen for 5 pieces of karaage 😭

TIL that "turn to custard" is specifically a New Zealandism

Depluralize a movie: I-Man

make like the sea people and buy and repaint everything in there

Time to play the official anthem for the end of daylight saving in Aotearoa New Zealand youtu.be/v3gc_3p0St8?...

Paying my respects to NZTA’s greatest achievement.

CEO Explains How The Future Of Tech Is Himself Being Wealthy

ホーム #今日のマヨネーズ #マヨネーズ #キユーピー

The social media dynamic of "we are hurt and can't reach the people who hurt us so will instead aggressively attack someone who is visibly on the same side but worded a post suboptimally" very sadly remains undefeated.

also applies to Trans Day of Visibility. sorry, you’re visible now, those are the rules

oh, the huge manatee!

This iron age man buried in Sussex was so proud of his awesome helmet that he developed an archaeologically detectable neck injury from wearing it so often.

still trying to get over the cherry blossom and paper lantern supermarket display for the pagan/christian rabbit egg spring festival being held in autumn

i fucked up and ended up with 5 hours of audiobook left the day it was due. i put the phone in Flight Mode and got an extra hour or so, but it cut out 2 chapters before the end and the last words i heard were “and my enemies came for me.”

Carrick. Fairland Street. Caller claims that two woman are attempting to place a hex on him by channeling Obi-Wan Kenobi. Caller wants to talk to PD about options.

look if you want to read about a wizard called Harry so much, read The Dresden Files

i just feel like Bulls could’ve done so much more with branding the EV chargers in their town

mmm forbidden powerade

just had the best prawn tempura i have had in my life at Tatsushi in Wellington pictured: plate of tempura after my gf and i scarfed one prawn each and i remembered i should take a picture not pictured: all the other food we had before i remembered food photos are a thing

there’s a classic car show happening up north and we saw a good 30 or so classic cars making their way up State Highway 1, which at current petrol prices, ooof

today in terrifying op shop finds

there’s a video somewhere on the internet of me immediately buzzing in with the opening lines of sonnet 18 on university challenge

Snowpiercer and Sunshine. in the near future there’s a failed climate change experiment that fucks up the sun, they send a crew out into space to fix it, and meanwhile everyone on earth is stuck on a train

every time i mention the Science Museum in London my gf starts a rant about the extremely depressing sandwich she had there

speaking of dip and wikipedia, my all time best contribution to wikipedia is removing one letter from the Reduced Cream article

my gf managed over 5 years after coming out as trans to avoid the horror of shopping for women’s jeans, but unfortunately that streak has ended today

i have a joke about the doppler effect, but far be it from me to let you hear it

ngl the algorithm was a contributing factor to me stopping using bluesky for a bit

this hairdresser has more than one review describing it as an any% speedrun 🤨

i've been sick for most of the past week and i more or less completely lost my sense of smell (in a non-covid nasal congestion kinda way). but i can finally smell tabasco sauce and mouthwash now

the nz national party has the chance to do the funniest thing they’ve ever done today

popping back in here to say that i called my mom last night. the hospital called me to try and schedule minor surgery for her mid-may, to which her response was "wait, i have tickets booked for a boy band concert at Tokyo Dome 5 days after, can i still go?"

yeah so it turns out everyone else had this idea at IKEA too

they've started one of those insane rhythm game showcases on AGDQ. we're only 5 minutes into a 1h15m run and I'm already pretty sure you need at least three hands for this game

Ringu (1998). And then I went to sleep in my bedroom, which had a big CRT TV directly opposite the bed 😬

if you want to feel old: AGDQ is currently running Mario Kart 64, which was released 29 years ago

AGDQ couch guy doing a good job explaining the pronunciation of the “nga” phoneme for an american

I’ve been mopping up shit like this for longer than most of you have been alive and I cannot recommend this thread enough. It’s a masterclass.

Menopause: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/menopause-myth-vs-fact/

good lord that's a parfait