TIL when they say “don’t flush coffee grounds down the sink”… they aren’t joking. I didn’t have being up to my armpit in a gully trap on my weekend bingo card.

We have recently been asked to return to office three days a week. I’m ashamed to admit I never considered it could be a ploy. #RTO youtu.be/sLywoXWTJAw

People who pull your supermarket trolley behind you by the corner tanning up twice the space… Why are you like this?

A friend just sent me a voice note so long it was brought to me by Squarespace

Of course it’s going up.

I don’t know what it is but I just can’t get into Taskmaster NZ.

Really enjoying VS2026 at the moment. Nice and fast and the UI is refreshing. The latest update installer (11012.119) doesn’t seem to work though. I can report it but I don’t know where the logs are kept. #VS2026

In 1991, Sony released the Sonahawk, a portable audio player with a motorized swivel stand controllable via remote.

Random taxpayer rant: This is how the reckonomists want you to view Govt... scrounging around for tax revenue, or begging rich people to lend them a few billion dollars to build a 4-lane road or pay Ed Sheeran to play at Eden Park every Saturday for the next 5 years. It's bollox... [🧵 1/n]

Health NZ is expanding hospital visiting hours to 24/7: #HealthNZ says changes to allow family members to stay with #hospital patients around the clock is about valuing family support, but the #nurses union says the move has more to do with staffing shortages #nzpol #Defunding #staffing #NZGovtFail

If democracy does finally fail, it will simply be because a few people wanted more money than can be spent in a 1000 lifetimes, and I find that deeply sad.

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

They did it! Those crazy bastards did it! #Spotify #Lossless

The Spike Lee documentary on Netflix about Hurricane Katrina is well worth a watch. It goes places I didn’t anticipate.

So, this is a woman?

Hey so Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is out, and it's very exciting, but if you edit Razor files I have a personal favour to ask. For the last ~18 months I, and a few of my friends, have been working on a new foundation for the Razor editor called "Cohosting". I'd love for you to try it out.

At this stage, I’m pretty sure Nash has custard between his ears. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Can’t quite put my finger on why, but somehow the actual doodle makes it so much worse and more disgusting.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

It’s….. a stick.

I got an electronic drum kit a few years ago and it has been great to get back into drumming. I have a playlist of drum songs that I play along to for practice. Yesterday I discovered that “Flashdance” by Irene Cara is a banger to play.

Couldn't pay me to go there while those people have the keys

TVNZ news opens with an item about the shark attack and then later follows with an item about Jaws. Optics people, optics.

Dear Apple, please give us a vertical scrolling home screen. And a list view default setting for the app drawer.

Saw this on Facebook. Meta’s AI just making shit up that sounds plausible.

Blows my mind that 5G at the fish and chip shop is faster than the already fast fibre I have at home.

@pearljam.com my daughter drew this pic of early-era Eddie a while back.

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

Could programmers from the 80's understand today's code? Could todays programmers understand code from the 80's? My brother, I don't understand my own code from last week. Every line I write is a bespoke bit of spontaneous genius that even I am incapable of deciphering mere days after writing it.

I’ve tried the iOS 26 public beta on my iPhone. Let’s just say I’m glad I had a backup of iOS 18.6. I’m not sure they got the direction right on that liquid glass thing. Transparent icons look awful.

The 2023 IRD wealth study found that the richest 300 people in NZ pay tax on income of 9.4%, versus 28% for someone earning $80k. Luxon Govt is removing the clauses of the tax law that allowed IRD to collect the study data. They don’t want you to know. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The Living End 👏

“Private care does not “free up a bed” because the same limited pool of doctors and nurses work in private as well as public care.” This needs to be more widely known. My wife’s oncologist works both public and private. She doesn’t exist in two places at once.

Double-cab utes are everywhere in Auckland; I daresay 98% of them are not owned by farmers. Most Auckland ute owners are cosplaying as "rugged individuals" while driving to work as an accountant or sales rep. It's the kind of vehicle sold to men whose Tinder photo shows them holding up a fish.

Oh FFS.

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Is it too late to change my answer?

There are many reasons to be sad about the loss of so much media culture and competence lately but one of the reasons is that there is not one single article about this headlined "BELL ENDS" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Today I discovered that you can add a minimal API to a Blazor code-behind file. This makes locality-of-behaviour for HTMX much nicer by having the endpoints embedded in the component itself. #Blazor #HTMX

If you’ve ever wondered to find something in Bunnings… In each aisle, the bay numbers start at 1 from the front of the store. Odd numbers on the left, even numbers on the right. You’re welcome.

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

Y’know, I’m starting to think this government doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Oh TradeMe, you really don’t know me….

And this is the software the UK government wants everyone using yes?

As much as I am a fan of F1, the movie is pretty meh. Honestly, Drive to Survive offers a better story and character development. #F1Movie

I’ve left X because it had become a moral vacuum. However I’ve seen a X post from The Egalitarian - #DissDisinfo (lacking the courage to use their real name or photo). For the record I was invited to the Covid-19 Inquiry public hearings & was set to attend. Also met with them for 2 hours privately.

If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.