Gah how did I manage to use the word appropriate twice in the same sentence

I am told it is appropriate to wish NZ happy new year now and for once the weather here seems appropriate

How has it taken me this long to note the Weta and NZFC logos in Things

Good morning

@antonyjohnston.bsky.social Additional Xmas reading

Experimental whiskey tasting with @davebushe.net

Dinner

@campbellbox.bsky.social @kiwiburgerer.bsky.social

@smharney.bsky.social cheers for the beer

At the pub with a predictable number of reprobates

Croydon drinks agin

@antonyjohnston.bsky.social I am told I must thank you for this if I haven’t already (I may have I just don’t remember)

A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

It's a longshot people will get this joke

it's a strange thing to ponder that you might have seen the peak of human technological achievement in terms of usability, adaptability and capability and it was running Windows 98

Good morning, music lovers

Happy Krampusnacht, everybody. Get ready for a whoopin'.

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling

My first Xmas present

Alasdair/beer/pizza again

Good morning

I am told to share a picture of my new Xmas jumper

Song of the day “Expert in a dying field” the Beths

Morning.

At the pub, yet again. Dragged to this disreputable establishment by Alasdair (of course) though he did buy me dinner

It is happening again

“It’s DARK at 3:44” “that’s what’s wrong with this country” “I’m not disagreeing”

www.reuters.com/science/firs... BOOOOM

under my regime if a company uses the term “tools” to refer to something without measurable weight which cannot be physically brandished and used as a weapon, that company will be dissolved and its assets seized

Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

This is how @metallica.com celebrated Halloween in Australia last night. James Hetfield dressed as a kangaroo performing "For Whom the Bell Tolls"! #metallica #metal #jameshetfield

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

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Tonight’s viewing

Today’s music of the day is : Wesley Willis - I whupped Batman’s Ass

Dysania. Hmm. Clinomania. Hmmmm. Sounds relatable.

Sssnnnwhuffffll? Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl? Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl. Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl… —Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #BookWormSat #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

@susanne.bsky.social the cartoon may have been a positive euphemism

Time to start watching

I am walking like a cartoon drunk and have yet made it upstairs

Final beer of the evening picked solely by label 5.3ABV