Finally home, safe and sound and exhausted, from Kawaiicon. I can tell I'm home because it's 10pm on a Sunday and someone is letting off fireworks 😭

Cool, love a hacking cough at an airport. Wouldn't it be nice if they wore a mask to protect others instead of me having to wear one to protect myself? 🙄

Sorry Wellington but me and my hair are very much looking forward to leaving the wind behind when I go home 😅

Today has been so social, it's been amazing but also I'm so exhausted and very glad to be off my feet I got to see/meet six friends who I either hadn't met in-person before or haven't seen in-person since at least 2019, including a few who weren't even at Kawaiicon

There's a weird conflict here at Kawaiicon where some speakers are giving (great) talks about making the world a better place, whereas others are talking about generative AI without any acknowledgement of any of the ways that is making the world a *worse* place :/

I felt that one! Never felt an earthquake before

god I hate to rain on peoples' parades but NZF haven't withdrawn their horrible transphobic bill -- the MP who proposed it (Jenny Marcroft) withdrew it but then a different NZF MP (David Wilson) immediately proposed an identical bill bills.parliament.nz/v/1/53b62068...

So far my plan of "be in a plane on Guy Fawkes" evening has worked pretty well. Almost enough to make me wish the flight was longer

Always love hearing a wet phlegmy cough in an airport. It's never coming from someone wearing a mask, of course 🙄

NZ First's new fireworks ban member's bill has replaced the transphobic one Thank you Winston Peters for this personal gift just for me 😂

A party directing its MPs what to put in the ballot is an abuse of the process designed to give agency to individual backbenchers. Putting bills in you have no intent of even getting drawn is an abuse of the process & clogs things up for genuine proposals. This systemic abuse is the actual story!!!

Please stop the fireworks I just want to sleep 😭 (Someone tell Winston Peters fireworks are keeping me woke)

Pō mārie I really should be packing my bag for Kawaiicon, however... Milo is so comfy

Did Winston Peters hear someone complaining about fireworks keeping them awake and think that means fireworks are woke and therefore must be banned?

Any idea which NZ First Member's bill has disappeared oyt their revolving door of member's bills this week? Looks like the fireworks one isn't on the parliament website yet

Oh cool, another night of playing "when will the fireworks stop so I can go to sleep?"

Pō mārie Over the weekend I came out to three of my high school friends, who I hadn't seen in a while It went super well! Big confidence boost. My first ex was very excited for me 🥰 I'm still waiting for just one person to be weird about it, but it hasn't happened

Ah, early November. What a time of year The carton of eggs we bought today was Christmas themed. Someone was letting off fireworks at 1:20am the other night Can I please fast forward to January?

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I hope the motherfuckers who just woke me up with their fireworks at 1:20am never see a dog that's happy to see them

I hate Halloween, but I also hate that I hate Halloween. Like go have fun, dress up, eat lollies, it's fine! Just please I don't want strangers knocking on my door for any reason I haven't put up decorations or come to the door on this night in the nine years I've lived here why do they still knock

I am so fucking tired of there being fireworks every night, and we haven't even got to the bad nights yet They never even fully stopped from last year

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So it turns out I'm still ridiculously shy when I go to in-person events, I guess some things never change 🫣

How was everyone's Labour Day weekend? Pretty relaxed one here, barely left the house but I'll be away soon for Kawaiicon so happy to spend time at home The new kitchen is so close to done, we've been putting things away but not cooking yet. With any luck, Wednesday will be the last bit of work

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It's so nice and quiet in here since I turned repost visibility off. I've only had to block like 10% of the accounts I normally would have in an evening, and there's way less incentive to doomscroll

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This card never fails to fuck someone up the first time they see it, there's really nothing else like it This effect kills so many auras, abilities, and combat tricks, and it often lets my own creatures waltz right through unblocked in the deck that's built for doing exactly that

If I had a dollar for every time a colleague sent me LLM output "explaining" what was wrong with some code, when the problem was not actually in the code, I'd have $2. Which isn't a lot, but it is annoying that this has happened twice.

anyone in Wellington need a cleaner? spring time a good time for a spring clean, and who better to hire than someone who gets immense satisfaction out of seeing the difference she's made? $70/2hr, $100/3hr, + travel. $120/4hr just for one-offs. can re-stock your cleaning supplies on my way over :)

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Pō mārie If you've seen me on here less, it's because I'm trying to be online less. It eats up time but doesn't make me happy And also I personally find that during any sort of an election is always a particularly miserable time to be on here

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Very exciting (and very loud) weekend, my kitchen is entirely gone. In a couple of weeks I'll have a brand new one Been months in the planning and it's very exciting to have it finally happening. Even if it is going to basically wipe out all my "savings" (which are actually still debt anyway 🫠)

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Video game thoughts probably no one cares about incoming. Just making a different initial post to start the thread to help avoid it escaping my network

Oh no. It's early October. Fireworks season has apparently begun in my neighbourhood The last fireworks season only just ended 😭

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The Veritasium YouTube channel is such a boring example of why you should have to learn about ethics before you can get an engineering degree

I think it’s pretty safe to say with confidence now that Aotearoa’s media landscape is broadly and consistently anti-trans. They have repeated disinformation, refused to call out disinformation when they report it, and regularly take the least charitable framing possible around trans issues.

RNZ's "correction" article following the Media Council upholding complaints about Ruth Hill's transphobic coverage of a young trans man's death continues to misgender him I cannot stress this enough: fuck you RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/correct...

Made the mistake of searching for Media Council rulings about RNZ to look for the decision to uphold a complaint about Ruth Hill's coverage of a trans man's death Recognised a TERF's name, clicked. The Media Council seems poorly equipped to handle this topic, I'm glad they upheld the Hill complaint

I really miss Gizmo tonight. Found some old printed instructions from when I was tube feeding him, it's made me think a lot of those last hard weeks. How he was getting better before the end. How he deserved so much more time 💔 I hate that I never talk about him. How can you know me but not him?

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Oh cool it's the quarterly "Steam forgets about the global south sale" I always appreciate a reminder that they forget we exist 🙄

I hate it but I've deleted this post. Annoying Americans who don't know me keep liking it no matter how many I block and I don't want to wake up to a ton of worthless notifications This sucks. Also why the fuck would someone "save" this please just be normal about me instead