Can't even get a normal ice block at the closest dairy - the freezer space all taken up by disgusting-looking overpriced 'viral' ice creams

At risk of getting a new Guns N Roses album before GTA VI

Beginning to think they should just let the thieves go free www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

After many years I'm coming around to T20 as a format, but it's still way too long for casual viewing. Solution: Cut each innings to 10 overs and bring in one hand, one bounce catches. Also you can get the batsman out by hitting him with a throw. If it's a tie, a quiz round with a Chaser

Would be suspicious if there were a series of earthquakes right after a budget crunch...

I'm so behind in following who all the new Black Caps are, but this Chapman guy seems like a good shot *finds out his first name is Mark* OK, perhaps there's a better way to word that...

Well they didn't send an email to the newsroom inbox, so of course it won't be on the news

Reprehensible behavior. Anyone pushing this kind of malicious disinformation should be utterly ashamed

I’ll give Dick Cheney props for one thing. When he said New York would have a Muslim mayor over his dead body, he really meant it… 😳

I'm no pilot, but I'm pretty sure the wings are supposed to not be on fire during takeoff

It's new Civilization VII DLC day, which means it's time for... Tongan Pirates

The Smoking Man just endorsed Andrew Cuomo

I wrote a whole-ass song about what I think about Winston Peters, but perhaps thankfully no one listened to it

Benjamin Linus just endorsed Cuomo

This is not The Chase!??!?!

Got an average review on a *checks notes* progressive rock website? houseofprog.com/anecdata-vit...

It's the third anniversary of the last album I did under the 'Dharma Police' name, called 'Escape from Mars'. Lo-fi retro synthpop. Free/pay what you want dharmapolice.bandcamp.com/album/escape... Streaming links: koshrecords.net/dharma-police/

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

'Vita Brevis, Part 2' is out now! No, you don't have to have heard 'Part 1' for it to make sense. It's music, not a movie franchise! Bandcamp (pay what you want/free): anecdata.bandcamp.com/album/vita-b... Streaming links: linktr.ee/anecdata #musicsky #indie #musiciansky #indiemusic #nzmusic #nz

Was just keeping an eye on the cricket via Cricinfo, and just realised the 222 England put on was in an ODI, not a T20... explains why the required run rate is pretty low

So close

I bought this on tape. Would have been early '96. I had $15 and went to Sounds to buy the new Cranberries album, but saw this and remembered I'd seen 'Common People' on Top of the Pops and the 'Something Changed' video and decided to get it instead. CB album was good, but this was on another level

If there was one album that could have been an all-timer, but was recorded/mixed badly, it's this one. Some absolutely top-tier Pumpkins tunes and some of Jimmy's best drumming, but such a mess of a mix

Change one letter, ruin a lolly. Mangy fruits

Change one letter, ruin a candy Pineapple dumps

Anyone got any insight as to why modern vacuum cleaners are so rubbish? They hardly suck, stop working if the slightest bit of fluff gets in the filter, have an eight-step process to empty, etc. The switch seems to have happened over the past 10/15 years. And yes, I have a name brand, it 'sucks' too

This is the longest I've ever gone (six days!) since releasing an album without actually sending the embarrassing promo email telling people it exists... not like it makes a difference, but it would be kind of nice to just, like, not

Check out 'Simulacranium' from 'Vita Brevis, Part 2', out now! Bandcamp (pay what you want/free): anecdata.bandcamp.com/album/vita-b... Streaming links: linktr.ee/anecdata #indie #indiemusic #nzmusic #nz

Check out 'News to Me' from 'Vita Brevis, Part 2', out now! Bandcamp (pay what you want/free): anecdata.bandcamp.com/album/vita-b... Streaming links: linktr.ee/anecdata #indie #indiemusic #nzmusic #nz

"Kids love going to school to play dodgeball"

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Rare L for Cards against Humanity. No one wants *more* Oblong Fusk in their lives

Not sure who to trust - the Ministry of Education or 'Bangerz', a group with a website designed in 1998

They're* bringing back iPredict! *sorry to inform you it's not the 'they' we wanted

Just saw a guy backing his car out of a repair shop, right into a concrete power pole 😂

I wasn't even trying to sound like Devo on this one 😂

You must know by now what to do, mate

'Vita Brevis, Part 2' is out now! No, you don't have to have heard 'Part 1' for it to make sense. It's music, not a movie franchise! Bandcamp (pay what you want/free): anecdata.bandcamp.com/album/vita-b... Streaming links: linktr.ee/anecdata #musicsky #indie #musiciansky #indiemusic #nzmusic #nz

Shaft? It's him or the Stonecutters

Band name idea: 'Bali Davidson'. Punk-metal tunes about chilling on the beach

Someone actually paid for it! Wooooooooo

It's the weekend and it's a double album, so I guess I'll wear this shirt Sunday too, this so-called '30th' anniversary

For the goths at Halloween

The Manics cover of 'Umbrella' comes on. Mr 12 says he doesn't recognise the song. Play him the original. Nope, never heard it. I hadn't in a long time either, and it's insane how much better the Manics version is... www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Of...

Chrono listen I began on January 1 is now up to 2007. Great year, even without the obvious #1. But I'm pretty sure now I won't make it to 2025 before the year is up...

Movie's more than 25 years old, unfortunately(?)

Well this is a first - a district council email on the updates on the weather/storm etc has subheadings which are not only in a font that not even Notepad can erase, but they appear to be unique Unicode characters so there's no tricks I can use to clean them, short of rewriting them from scratch

I have three of these t-shirts. Bought one, got another as a work leaving gift, and I have no idea where the third came from. Just assume every indie guy in his 20s/30s has one materialise out of the ether in their shirts drawer

I remember writing this new @anecdata.bsky.social tune on an acoustic guitar after getting back from a trip to Wellington in 2001. Took a while to get it properly finished, did not plan for it to end up sounding exactly like New Order, but not complaining open.spotify.com/track/6kT6Lu...