It's nice to go to bed to the sound of persistent rain, knowing at 5am I'll be heading out for a five day hike. 😬

hot duck

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@sexenheimer.bsky.social morning matey. Any comment on this? Can a simple fence stop you?

Spaghetti is the worst pasta shape. It should be banned.

it's never too soon to gear up the "products are on sale, does it make you mad?" engagement machine though.

Name a better duo

Fascinated to learn that the "... NOT!" gag predates the 90s by almost a hundred years

Eating berries in the sun and you can't stop me

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Wishing you all a happy, healthy, peaceful New Year. #2026 #morekindness #lesscruelty

Packed a backpack to take in for a 12 hour NYE shift. Realised I grabbed my "fresh, white, going out sneakers" instead of my "tired, beat up, comfy, New Balance" sneakers. Pray for mojo

Sitting on the couch, with my cat, periodically asking him "having a good snooze guy?" He never answers. He is indeed having a "good snooze"

I'm not going to take conspiro advice from someone who can't even spell HAARP correctly. come on man.

Power's out. Time to burn my battery looking at Facebook posts about the power outage, because it's an emergency.

despite me turning off gemini every chance I get, gmail just autofilled an email and gaslit me. I came back to my desk with a written email in my style... Very cool tech.

it's a gorgeous sunny day (pretty typical of Westport tbh)... but I'm online doin admin, so I'm going to share some good news to cheer me up. Taproom sales are already 65% up (YoY) this month, with three days left. Wholesale is up 20%.

Today I stripped and sanded our dining table, and last week I refinished our coffee table. New things for me, but it's been a lot of fun. I might be in my restoring era?

How have I never heard or seen this song before. That cover

Doing Xmas dinner a day late (and at 6pm). I'm cooking solo for a reasonable size group, which is fine, but there's a real temptation to have a couple festive drinks while I prep. But then I'm just getting blasted all day in my kitchen by myself. Which isn't very festive feeling.

Emma has been away so I've been watching OG teen/college party movies that I've never seen. Porky's Porky's II (inexplicably about a Shakespeare festival, with an interracial kiss) Animal House Revenge of the Nerds And now on to Meatballs.

Christmas time is Da Kath & Kim Code time.

I'd love to get left behind by ai. I'll walk into the woods and live off berries and bark, while you all worry about prompts or whatever.

Corpse flower blooming in Christchurch. Bummed I'm not there. Go enjoy it if you are.

Since, AFAIK, it isn't probed by New Zealand media or critically raised elsewhere incl. in parliament, it will never cease to surprise me how the Foreign Minister esp., & others in Govt willingly appear on a far-right podcast platform that promotes, & normalises ChCh terrorist's violent extremism.

Peter Arnett dead. One the most famous media figures ever to have been born in Aotearoa. apnews.com/article/pete...

Our media loves marketing for shop.

This is a great essay: "The real history of Italian food is turbulent: a saga of hunger, improvisation, migration, industrialisation and sheer survival instinct." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 14,1943

I would pay anything to see him do other mundane shit. Imagine Trump trying to set a table, or turn on an oven. He simply couldn't do it.

Why would they get Matan to host?!

Made gummies so good that after one (1) last night I forgot how to minus two from four.

Today we had protesters in our building. We were not allowed in the lobby, and were re-routed around the back of the lobby and out the back of the building, well out of our way, to keep us "safe". The protesters? 4 young girls singing carols whilst holding a climate change banner.

This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)

it's psycho

New post up on Beer Diary — some thoughts the recent history of Australia's annual Hottest 100 Beers survey, and Mountain Culture, the brewery who have dominated it while rapidly evolving and at the same time seeming stuck in their own mythic past.

While we're here, let's change the name from "homekill" to literally anything else.

Would listen to a true crime podcast about this.

This specific hipster joke is 20 years in and still winning fans.

the prime minister cut the ribbon at the first ikea store lol We are such a funny country.

Emma is going back to Melb next week so we are doing* Christmas** early this year. *watching *Da Kath and Kim Code

I know it's ad nauseum at this point but jfc ai search is so bad.

snack anarchists

whomst among us wouldn't swallow an egg filled with baby ocotpus?

l'oeuf this

Incredible username/comment in the reddit post

even the website we use to randomise our secret santa has ai now. If I ever get to the point I need ai to tell me what I would like for christmas, I may as well just walk into the ocean.

They absolutely did not get their money's worth from this news Corp jaunt.

This guy thinking he can anthropologise us and get away with it. Handheld meat pies lol