I prefer working from home, fewer distractions & interruptions (though the pandemic & Teams/Zoom have ruined that quite a bit), and I absolutely do not feel lonely at all. I do feel lonely when I come into the office, sit in my team office, and none of my teammates are here. Yort no mates :(

Risks?!

By not joining its close allies over the question of Palestinian statehood, NZ risks being ‘on the wrong side of history’.

Just remember that Black Cats aren't bad luck. That's just gossip spread by orange cats.

Steve is quite shocked it's Monday again.

lol. Pays to have fluent members of staff

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid:

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

Now you may think to yourself "i don't want either of those things", but what i would say to you is, it has been decided

I just saw on Insta someone refer to the recent false rapture as being holy ghosted and I will admit I’m a little embarrassed at how much I laughed at that.

Misogynistic male ‘leaders’ in politics and on social media who are given an infinite sense of entitlement without a shred of accountability are certainly galvanising my feminism at the moment…Just saying….

Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.

TWO HUNDRED YEARS since the first train burst into life and still we're hoping to get one built from Auckland to Wellington. chuff chuff chuff

wait

Via Bruce Mahalski

"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." - The Bitter Lesson (2019), by Rich Sutton www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...

New sticker

“The rules were brought in under 2017 changes following the Canterbury Earthquakes and the subsequent Royal Commission of Inquiry.” Literally any EXPERT ADVICE based on GOOD PUBLIC POLICY will be ignored, belittled, or removed by these homicidal greed fuckers #NoConfidence #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

The United States drawn entirely from memory

So exhausting..

This never gets mentioned much , who was running the country back then... #nzpol

Lol

Banana bread takes a lot less time with this new recipe

Have a read of this thread... it is shocking, especially to see every region seeing a downturn and how many jobs lost in the regions. 🤯

America’s most farming-dependent counties backed Trump by an average of 78%, up from both 2016 & 2020, despite him previously instigating a trade war that caused higher prices for supplies & decreased exports. Soy farmers are projected to lose 16M tons of exports to China in the next 3 months alone.

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse

Too many! #activism

"yeah I'll get the demo done by december" *looks at TODO list, minimum net date is easily march 2026* "yeah I'll get the demo done by november"

12/ Meet George Vernon Hudson, an entomologist and astronomer who lived in Wellington. You can blame daylight saving on him and his shift work. No, really, DST is another Kiwi innovation. The fella wanted more sun!

8/ Local times were not always reliable. Christchurch and Lyttelton lacked transit instruments to set time exactly; complaints in Canterbury newspapers attest that Lyttelton time was sometimes ahead of Christchurch and sometimes behind it! And how about this report from Hokitika on 7 Feb 1866?

Early this morning, daylight saving began in New Zealand for another year. This is, I think, a good opportunity to highlight two Kiwi innovations: it was the first country in the world to establish a national mean time and a New Zealander invented DST. How did that happen? Well, read on... 1/20

Timeline Cleanser!

Fifty five dollar water FIFTY FIVE DOLLAR WATER

Every cis man should have to wear a period simulator at least once for so many reasons, but definitely because it’s so fucking hilarious how low their pain tolerance is

“To refuse to provide a symbol of hope and promise during these dark days is akin to arguing that we need to wait for the genocide to be completed before we recognise the place Palestinians can bury their dead,” he said. “Shame on us.”

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Gonna start something called week savings, where every time it reaches Sunday afternoon, we put the clocks forward to Friday evening

Ugh, DST lag already 6:30am was really 7:30am and now 3pm feels like 5pm

Anyone heard from the "one law for all, equal treatment" crowd on this or are they too busy complaining about something important like macrons on road signs

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

it happened and I missed it!

“..the collective wealth of the country's wealthiest went up by $4.5b last year - while the net worth of all households declined by $4.2billion.“ Recession for some. But not all. #nzpol