Smitty

Motherfucking wind farms…

Awww! Congratulations to you both!!! :D 🎉🥂🎉

Found a really nice cello version of "The Rains of Castamere" to play during the signing of the register. There was some distinctly nervous laughter going on behind us....

Congratulations!!! :D

Just wait until they hear about Manchester United fans....

Hah, boats in driveways are common here but they're very much in use and I guess keeping them on the trailer is cheaper than in the marina (largely reserved for boats with bloody great masts).

One of the joys of being allergic to onions is that I never have to worry about this while cooking!

Used to work with someone who was involved in containing an outbreak of New World screwworm that popped up in Libya in the late 80s - had a big bronze plaque thanking him for his efforts. International cooperation at its finest. Interesting beasties but, yeah, nasty.

Waitangi 2025 #ToituTeTiriti

A bunch of fascists stand behind a woman who has just quoted scripture and, calling for mercy, as Christ did. They are angry, confused, and despicable because they are all weak little piss babies. The caption reads "Trump's furious beause as a Bishop, Budde can move as far as she wants diagnoally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time." The awards for this caption are not present, but clearly implied.

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Three panel black and white comic. Panel 1. A smiling eel-like primitive fish shows off it's new iPhone in front of it to two trilobites. Fish dialogue: check out my new phone! It's got 16 gigabytes it can hold! Trilobite dialogue: oh yeah? How many trilobites can it hold? Panel 2: the fish looks on, concerned, as the two trilobites crawl onto the phone and others join. Panel 3: the fish looks upset, its phone is buried in several trilobites. Fish dialogue: please stop

An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte

Somehow Palpatine returned

Christopher Luxon is what you get when you shave a furby then proceed to teach it nothing but business jargon.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #825,249!

Not sure that really counts as an early adopter, but I'll take it! :)

Onion-intolerant here - can do garlic, but leeks, scallions, chives, etc. are no-nos. Raw onion has a nasty burn that not everyone can tell from chilli (I can, happily), but there are plenty of other spices, and MSG can really lift things. Or just use flavored salt at the table like my husband does.

I'm still adding new speculative fiction venues to my starter packs.

If you like sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and various points in between, you can easily follow a whole bunch of podcasts, zines, and publishers by checking out these starter packs.

bsky.app/starter-pack...

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Went to Emirates yesterday to raid the shop and see the Wenger statue. Apparently we now have something new to watch when we get back to NZ! :D ⚽️

We have a new Queen! #NZPol

Well, THAT explains bloody everything! 🤣

Uuuuuurgh. It's like the current bunch of muppets have been looking at the shitshow of Tory Britain and deciding that they want a bit more of THAT action. Hopefully, they'll be gone soon. *crosses everything *

Oh look, it's my home town. And people wonder why I'm so happy to be in New Zealand.

‘It's like an open prison’: the catastrophe of converting office blocks to homes A policy designed to open up the planning system has left thousands in tiny flats, far from schools and shops. And with more deregulation coming, things will get worse

an article on the subject.

We're in New Zealand - day booked off work, popcorn at the ready for 9am close of polls. :D

That would never fly in NZ! They're not quite compulsory, but sometimes I wonder....

When we were moving to AoNZ (from UK), we asked a Kiwi friend for any cultural quirks that don't usually get mentioned and this was the big one. Eye-opening - when I was a kid, my mum's favourite place to sit was the kitchen counter; would never have occurred that it was an NZ no-no. Thanks, Fliss!

#NZPol

The little yellow digger, absolutely dwarfed by the ever given as it tries to free it from the side of the suez canal

For no particular reason wondering what ever happened to this digger

#wintersolstice2024 :)