Simply Simon

Oh cool, this sounds great. A racism school. #nzpol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360870634/former-free-speech-union-boss-heads-charter-school-build-western-civilisation

So, AWS outage followed by Azure. So, GCP next week and Alibaba Cloud the week after?

@XauriEL and Zombies

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social Same

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social Yes but unfortunately he IS the so-called man in charge of the biggest single economy on earth. So love him or hate him, the PM has a duty to connect with him when the opportunity arises.

Personally it's difficult to think of someone I would want to meet less. Even […]

A Cloudflare Radar chart for today shows a C2 server for the Aisuru botnet is currently the most sought-after domain on the internet.

I guess I can write about these guys till I'm blue in the face. These proxy/botnet stories have a lot of moving parts, so I get it when another big development makes everyone yawn. But don't take my word for it: If you look at Cloudflare Radar right now, you […]

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@foxylustygrover.bsky.social "I haven't flipped properties!" says man who has provably flipped properties. "But it's not about me..."

"But if you have one and the other, it's a disaster. The loss of interest deductibility makes investing in residential property unprofitable. So people will exit the industry, there's no doubt about it."

People who would like to own the house they live in: awww, sad. #nzpol […]

The image features a social media post with a circular profile picture on the left showing a person wearing glasses and a blue top, holding a phone. The main content is a tweet in black text that reads, "honestly will never top the year i told everyone i was going to be amelia earhart for halloween and then didn’t show up to the party." The username "pilot @pilotviruet" is displayed above the tweet. This alt-text was autogenerated using Apple Intelligence Private Cloud Compute.

#halloween

@the_gneech oh yeah well I’m gonna launch a competing service called Herewolfs.

@rickf However, just in case you didn't figure out who the monster was from the 1979 or 1986 originals, Alien: Earth would very much like to beat your skull to a bloody pulp with a steel pipe with it until you get it.

@mattblaze @ai6yr *Looks down at rubber horse head mask*

...Okay.

@Powerfromspace1 [Insert Fry "I'm shocked" meme]

Rabbit guards: finished. Finally.

But Energy Minister Simon Watts tells Newsroom they haven’t rejected Lake Onslow out of hand; they’d be open to a fast-track application from the Lake Onslow consortium. “The fast-track legislation was put in place to help enable large scale infrastructure projects.”

Bullshit. You shut down the […]

“One gentailer CEO said, you couldn’t run an aeronautical operation the way we were running the power system… We do not have the security around electricity supply that we should have.”

If only he knew someone who could have done something about that. #nzpol […]

You guys putting quad noob hammers on your starports ... you know what you did. #elitedangerous

(Nobody else got one, btw.)

Just woke up from a dream where the teacher sent us out of the room in small groups, challenging us to find an English word where ‘oi’ does not make an ‘oy’ sound, confident that there are none.

Our group swaggered back inside, looking even more confident, and the teacher said, ‘So, what’s your […]

Makes sense; rocks are about the most nutritious things that are native to Australia.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/the-first-people-to-set-foot-in-australia-were-fossil-hunters/

@i0null ... seen here preparing the Automatic Sequence Computer to enumerate the 9 billion names of god ...

Shielding Chart

I'm going to have to dispute his ordering for armour vs. biohazard suit against sharks.

https://xkcd.com/3158/

@pezmico Luxon government: we're already doing as much as we can to bring it about, what more do you bottom-feeding dropkicks want!?

“While it is natural for controversial legislation to draw wider engagement, the rise of coordinated, largely online campaigns risks undermining the committee’s ability to identify and consider substantive, good-faith submissions.”

Meager is going to be PISSED when he finds out he's been a […]

each of my books took years of my life and indeed probably off of my life. culture warlords is even now training slop to destroy the internet and steal writing jobs. im incandescently furious about it. i worked so fucking hard on that book and they just stole it to profit from it. bastards.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Today's harmless but annoying brainfart: define a function in the Lua style while actually writing in Python.

@strypey Rather than forcing them to license from Zespri… yeah, madness.

@dimsie.bsky.social Well, clearly, he's entitled.

Yeah, no, this is an excellent look for him