Slept in my Talking Heads t-shirt and woke up thinking that this was not my beautiful house.

I worked for Morrie many many years ago, he was passionate about motorsport, seemed like a good dude back in those days,I hope he never changed.

Last week I almost blinded myself while weeding the garden. If you grow swan plant/milkweed for the butterflies, you should maybe be more careful with it than I was.

Keep away from

Im trying to be positive today, its a pretty shitty weather day so not a lot of outside stuff is going to get done but i can go and work on my bar top in the shed, and to be fair, its a fucking mess out there so I will probably have a bit of a tidy up while im at it.

Does anyone know of a simple to use (non AI !!!) online tool to make silly little music jingles? Im trying to put some fun sounds into a thing im doing.

Its not actually cold this morning, but its dark and snotty so I lit a fire to make me feel better. It never fails.

No Kings!!! 💪💪💪💪

Please read this whole thread, but this clip really drives it home, now imagine the AoNZ Healthcare system in 2020, it would have fully collapsed under waves of covid. Think of this the next time someone is complaining about our response, think of this as you tell them to shut the fuck up.

Hegseth: Tell me Claude, what will happen when America goes to war with Iran? And don’t give me any of that pussy DEI bullshit or I’ll cancel your contract. Claude: When America goes to war with Iran, a powerful destabilizing force in the Middle East will be weakened and humiliated. Hegseth: 👊🇺🇸🔥

I did have a funny story to tell but I just dozed off halfway through writing the post. This means two things, it clearly was not that funny, and its probably time for bed. G'night whanau. May we all wake up to "the" good news.

This is just so depressingly true.

At least its not creepy as fuck

This is pretty cool.

We are surely due for some good news.

JFC, the baby of the family turns 22 today the oldest is approaching 30, I've got 2 grandchildren, most of my beard is white, I make noises when I get off the couch, I have hairs growing out of facial orrifices... WTF??? I thought I would have grown up before all this happened to me.

No one wants to hear my hot take about how wealth gives you a bigger sports advantage than genetics.

I don't know who is running Iran's info war but they are orders of magnitude better than the fundy slop served up by the US...

Finally the international respect he deserves. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

AoNZ, again, I give you the results of privatized water supply.

AI prompt "artists" are the equivalent of me demanding that I should become a great guitarist despite being a lazy latentless dickhead with add.

In today’s NZ Herald

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

Im feeling a bit of a softy, but it is just shit fucking weather here ( but not as bad as as a lot of the country is getting by a long shot) and I didnt even go out to the shed and do anything useful tonight.

I have seen this a couple of years ago, and i love it, but as someone who was too young to see Jaws when I did, if i was one of those kids there would be an exxon Valdez sized slick of shit

Oh fuck yes, except I dont have (any) four cats

I reminded myself of something just now, i thought "man, these dogs have it better than a whole lot of people " , which is true, but instead of thinking that the dogs have it too good, we need to keep the dogs at that level and raise the people's quality of life.

Orcas swim straight past 2 kids in shallow water at Waiheke Island, New Zealand 😲💙😎

Pet peeve at the moment. Gaspy Its Gas spy, spying on gas prices Not Gasp ee gasping at the prices And I dont care I im wrong because im not.

The Jetsons lied to us

Sovereignty overboard

The church has no place in how a state should be run. That's why we must separate religion from politics.

A couple of hours of the first rough sand and im already excited about how this wood is going to turn out. Many many more hours to go, thank jebus for wireless earphones and podcasts. But I mean, look at this fucking shit, the texture is gorgeous.

Really interesting link here, you can get into plant of detail.

Fallen in to a bit of a hole just now thinking about my mate. I was a hick, in the big smoke, primary school in the mid 70s Auckland. We spent nearly 50 years drifting in and out of each other's lives I last saw him in Auckland hospital dying from alcoholism. I wish the world had been kinder Dave.

I have been playing with my wood, in my shed. Had a wee setback due to "working with wood" which is one of the fun things about it, its got spirit, and life, and you never know how its going to react. Anyway, two steps forward and only one back. I will post pics eventually.

Meanwhile in clean green Aotearoa we are planning on building an LPG receiving terminal.

For the Ōtepoti contingent: Queer and Trans Clothes Swap happening 31 March, 4-6pm Event description: Outgrown a look? No longer needing something? Bring your favourite fashion treasures of days gone by to one of the donation points during the month of March for the Queer and Trans Clothing Swap.

Ok AoNZ people, a while back there was a short thread about this brilliant joke that showed great dedication and it was about a "secret 'stash" Does anyone recall the thread?

Look, I know we are worried about fuel price, but i would love for one of the people involved to tell us what happens after next week when the last on water shipments arrive. Obviously they dont want panic hoarding but thats going to happen anyway.

If a GnT is a cocktail they're talking to me! (I know its only Tuesday and not even 5 o'clock but look at the state of the fucking world)

He is actively making EV infrastructure worse and less user friendly. Public chargers should be high capacity DC chargers.

I have to admit that even my overactive imagination could never have come up with anything nearly as absurd as the current reality.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

What a fucking surprise.

Good.

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