So apparently these were made by Crown New Lynn pottery in 1965. They're almost as old as my parents.

I see the post is on Bad Headline day. This creep is not a creep because he's "tragically lonely" what in the incel fuck

Should taxpayers subsidise water treatment when the bottled water industry exists

drawing from the 2010s policy bucket i see

come on national if you can rush through dogshit under 16 bans before the election you can cut labour's policy legs from under them

No or negative incentive for landlords to solar the 30% of all residential

Does anyone know where/when these #airnz bowls would have been used? Picked them up from an op shop a decade ago...

listened to murderbot 8 while entirely disassembling my keyboard to clean it and touch up a solder joint and this was very satisfying

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean. ' The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:

heck we really spend a lot of time beating ourselves up and trying to do the best we can with the little we have and disrupt as few people as possible at all times and then my power provider declares it's going to have a 3-6 DAYS downtime event

I'm playing a stupid capybara mobile game where my display name is [ZWNJ][ZWNJ][ZWNJ] someone in global asked why my name is invisible I tried to reply "I hack for a living" unfortunately the in-game chat has aggressive censorship, and the message sent as "I **** for a living"

one day i hope to be put together enough again that i can start and maintain a lievito madre

Finally managed to get an almost perfect 15 load average on my 12 core laptop (it's usually 45 when i do stuff)

we got a new schism of the catholic church before gta 6

choosing not to go out to physical shops to avoid the inevitable small talk of a fandom i'm not into (football)

So here are some thoughts on this heatwave: against fatalism, against inevitability, and against the fossil fuel industry's ongoing efforts to ensure they do as much damage as they can over the coming decades. These fossil-fuelled extremes emerge from decisions we can identify in recent history

random idea: a physical thermometre that is measured in angular degrees not sure how to do negative degrees but fortunately this is never a problem here

The heatwave is frying my brain, so please enjoy too many words about the state of the so-called games industry

40% of cops probably identified with the man www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

you asked firefox to do a thing firefox did not do the thing firefox wants to know if you really meant it when you asked it to do the thing and it will keep asking unless you click the box that tells it to really remember this time pinky promise

started a letterboxd and immediately discovered i hate the people who review the same films i watch

is it legally mandated for every american film to start with a shot of the american flag in the first few minutes

I think a party that set a billion dollars on fire should sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up about economics.

A friend of mine has built this very cool tool which will show you the impact the various parties' tax policies will have on you. Well worth checking it out. yourtax.nz #nzpol

can we afford not to?

America loves oil, they should just fill the pool with mineral oil

the bugzilla experience: comment on a fairly new bug 9 years ago, it sits ignored for nearly a decade, and then is closed wontfix because someone 6 years prior made a remark about a different browser feature that no longer exists. even better, you can't protest because you can't comment on old bugs.

But of course! It's much more profitable to sell to both sides in the conflict rather than just Israel.

YOU're the system dumbass!

Happy pride month

just as a random reminder, asimov's books' entire point is that the three laws don't work lol every time i see "the three laws are a good start" no they're not! that's the entire point! don't get inspired by the robotic laws from the famous book series the robot laws don't work!

I'd be a lot less hostile to social media regulations if it weren't so obvious that everyone who proposes them is a) trying to enshrine their own taste in law, and b) uninterested or unwilling to think for more than 30 seconds about what they're actually proposing

#2 is only valid if you do the same for short posts, because the reality is that Twitter wrecks people's brains just as effectively as tiktok #4 would ban vastly more than it intends #5 is just categorically untrue lol, people will even post horrifying shit on *LinkedIn*

I'm open minded on real names, except for anything fun or people who enjoy anime

so cool. i loved doing this kind of optimisation work when i was studying architecture.

can't wait for labour to start enacting the 30-year Infrastructure Plan, and then national to repeal it next time they're in power, despite voting for it today, wasting billions in the process

kill the fashion cop in your head; wear whatever you want

"This open source software is good! Why can't this other software also be good?" *looks under the covers* The first has 30 full time staff and millions in revenue, and the other has a patreon making less than unemployment benefits

gonna tell you one big culture problem is putting all open source developers in one bucket and saying shit like "foss devs have never used any pro tools" or "not built here syndrome" instead of the fact we're literally making shit for you for free trying to steer away from IP infringement

hot damn spielberg is doing some t r a s h nowadays

#nzpol having a normal one today

“The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.“ www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

"If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers."

my new "how busy was the week" metric is how many cluesbysam i've finished

the story is: they didn’t like each other until they both started struggling with mental health. they got closer and after the pandemic left the convent. but for financial reasons they moved in together (lol) and fell in love

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

two whole degrees outside. yesterday afternoon it was 25. that's a northland winter alright

well, some train

Labour is taking its sweet time, you'd think it would be to get all their ducks lined up, but they keep fucking up in the stupidest way

Man we really need a better rnz reposter that doesn't embed shitty ads fuck off with that shit nzcow