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(very morosely) it's that time again: new pokemon game is coming out soon so i'll inevitably spend some time on the worst parts of the internet trying to get the leaks when they happen

Not a great result for Maori wards. I'm sure Luxon and friends are popping bubbly this evening. And of course that doesn't include the councils that just flatly decided to get rid of them (Kaipara) or refused to hold a referendum (Auckland). #nzpol […]

#nzpol

not all my numero uno votes got in (RIP Alex Baker, too left wing to be mayor of wellington at this moment but we were all rooting for you) but i'm really happy to see a green candidate (Laurie Foon) make it in my ward

Technology used to be cool, but now it's owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. But there are transsexual furry hackers out there, still fighting the good fight

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI with no measurable benefits : Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity

😆 headline 10/10

McKinsey wonders how to sell AI with no measurable benefits • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/mckinsey_ai_monetization/

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Empty water reservoir with archs

Empty water reservoir with archs

Empty water reservoir with archs

Empty water reservoir with archs

every 3-4 years when they are cleaning it the authorities allow visitors into the #Lodz waterworks.
They are pretty fussy about security (I guess rightly so) but they do allow pictures.

#pictures #water

this week i watched a colleague ask ChatGPT to give him some good numerical patterns to try in the Powerball and then actually put money into the Powerball following those numbers

@josh but my old neighbor's way is the most wrong: he'd just pinch a single random corner of the clothing item and hang it up by that, all wrinkled and balled up still. zero surface area exposed to the sun. often touching each other

Grapes ringing up at fifteen dollars a kg. Not organic grapes of anything, just regular grapes. In the photo I'm buying $22 of grapes.

I was patting myself on the back for choosing fruit over candy today only to be raked directly in the face by $22 grapes. Guess I'll go fuck myself

BlueSky users thank you for joining us this week! We’ll see you again in 6 months time when the BS CEO has killed and eaten one of you live on TikTok.

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report

Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot

"....Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used […]

technology makes me rage often but it's very soothing how well gittyup consistently works for me

food that is not good for you is like "why choose between the bread and the circus? every molecule of our new Cheez noodles are packed with a veritable explosion of orgasmic flavor that will permanently destroy your heart chakra" and food that is kinda good for you is like "you poor dumb hog […]

i use the fake butter with plant sterols in it since they have potential cholesterol-controlling effects so my butter assumes (not wrongly in my case) that i am a fat bitch and the packaging on the fat bitch butter when you open it up is like "Your best is yet to come..." and i'm like damn can i […]

Digital illustration done in a sketchy style featuring a dinosaur character. The text around it reads "I'm gonna become the best version of myself".

Digital illustration done in a sketchy style featuring an anthropomorphic lynx character. The text around it reads "My weirdness only exists in other people's eyes".

🌌 #art #furry

Tami Neilson's Neon Cowboy show tonight was phenomenal. So glad we went. Still giggling about the backstory she revealed for her supervillain love song You're Gonna Fall (she originally wrote it for the second spongebob film and it was supposed to be Plankton/Karen) […]

Motueka has become quite a growth "market" for Linux conversions lately. We have just today launched a local bulletin board to support all those new users in the region. If you are interested in #linux feel free to join (if you live in Aotearoa / New Zealand - access is restricted)

Nope, I can't do it. There's no fucking way I'm going to temple today. I cannot pretend everything is normal and my religion is functional while our designated ethnostate is hijacking the flotilla. I am more ashamed every day. Yom Kippur my ass. Where is our atonement now?

i actually can't believe that next year will be my ten year anniversary of moving to nz

so far i'm only finding dave barry's colonoscopy journal which is definitely not it, dave barry rocks but he did NOT try to minmax eating every incorrect pre-colonoscopy food

hey did anyone ever read that website where a guy put up a lot of articles of him "pranking" people by being weird but there was this one saga on it that was him having to get a colonoscopy and they had a list of all the foods you shouldn't eat before the colonoscopy (mostly high fiber stuff […]

i'm weirdly stressed about going to yom kippur tomorrow. i want to do it but i'm increasingly alienated from everyone at temple for... you know... reasons (being antizionist)

the book Nonbinary by Genesis P'Orridge, featuring a black-and-white photo of the author, with long pale hair and tattooed arms

such a strange feeling (and even a little bit nervewracking) holding the memoir of a friend who passed away five years ago -- there's so much i don't yet know and here it all is!

Watch movie | Streamable Watch "movie" on Streamable.

https://streamable.com/fkpytv

hehe... kakapo

(video of a game i'm working on with some little kakapo running around, all illustrations by https://tanyamarriott.co.nz/ )

OpenAI’s New Social Network Is Reportedly TikTok If It Was Just an AI Slop Feed

https://gizmodo.com/openais-new-social-network-is-reportedly-tiktok-if-it-was-just-an-ai-slop-feed-2000665200

awesome. just what i wanted. an app where i can upload face scans and then other people can generate a […]

A reddit post in r/mildlyinteresting titled: "I add a layer of paint to this quarter whenever I’m in a meeting". The associated picture shows a rounded conical glob of blueish white paint on top of a yellow kraft paper square, with a paint-riter+ pen behind it, on a desk.

A comment by the author of the post named "nominyomom": Some information: - The coin has been in progress since February 2025. - Daily standup is the biggest contributor. - Engineering at Big Tech is 90% figuring out what everyone is doing. - I’ve emptied 2.75 Markal Paint-Ritter+ pens. - I also add colors with Expo and Sharpies but those don’t add much thickness. - The paint blob never fully dries, it takes fingerprints very well and sags due to gravity and surface tension - If it ever gets misshapen, I add a bunch of the paint, it softens up and surface tension pulls it back into symmetry. - The quarter is a State Quarter, but I have forgotten which state. - if the meeting is especially useless, I lift it to my nose and take nice big whiffs.

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

[long excerpt from In lizard years I was 52 : wearing, writing, becoming other : [an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand]: / Kathleen Mary Collier]

"For three months between the Thursday […]