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Dave Dustin

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Semi competent Principal Engineer based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Formerly a Microsoft SQL Server MVP but still a big fan of Azure. Primarily working with AWS these day.

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Watching Amรฉlie (again; probably 20th time)

Such a good film.

14.08.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AOL is finally killing dial-up in September.

13.08.2025 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

no it won't

13.08.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Photograph of a tuxedo cat looking out a mesh window from a pet carrier sitting on a bench at a veterinarian's office.

Photograph of a tuxedo cat looking out a mesh window from a pet carrier sitting on a bench at a veterinarian's office.

Little princess is spending the day at the vet :(

13.08.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Used to take me about a week to completely disconnect from work. Now it's usually about 2 days (excluding weekends).

I also go back in cold; no pre-checking email/slack/teams โ€“ first day back is just triage and clear the backlog.

13.08.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
President Gas - The Speed Of Light New President Gas album out now

presidentgas.com

13.08.2025 07:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Slightly diminish a band: Vice-President Gas.

13.08.2025 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Digital RUC meters track distance travelled. So all farm equipment driven on paddocks incurs charges. But you still want to track them when they actually go on road.

13.08.2025 06:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
13.08.2025 03:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1509    ๐Ÿ” 167    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
Common sense bike laws

We need a law that says if your gonna be riding your bike for exercise you should stick to the bike trails. And if youโ€™re going to be using that bicycle as a means of transportation on the roads you should get it registered and have a license for using that bike as a vehicle.

Common sense bike laws We need a law that says if your gonna be riding your bike for exercise you should stick to the bike trails. And if youโ€™re going to be using that bicycle as a means of transportation on the roads you should get it registered and have a license for using that bike as a vehicle.

We need a law that says if you're only driving your car for fun, you must do it on a race track. And if you are driving a car for transportation, it must have a speed regulator, and your phone will be disabled as soon as you enter the vehicle.

13.08.2025 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 778    ๐Ÿ” 111    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

French toast and crispy bacon

12.08.2025 19:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Over Ten Window

https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16724
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jenniebreeden

11.08.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You pay the shipping, I'll send you one.

11.08.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Panels one and two: 
Two white mice make their way through a maze.

Panel three:
Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says:
 โ€œPoor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.โ€
 
The second scientist looks at a clock and says: โ€œCoffee time!โ€

Panels four and five:
The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked โ€œCanteenโ€

Panel six:
The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: โ€œOoh, Donuts!โ€

Panels one and two: Two white mice make their way through a maze. Panel three: Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says: โ€œPoor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.โ€ The second scientist looks at a clock and says: โ€œCoffee time!โ€ Panels four and five: The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked โ€œCanteenโ€ Panel six: The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: โ€œOoh, Donuts!โ€

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

11.08.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3747    ๐Ÿ” 1065    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
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BANK ROBBER: Where's the safe?
TELLER:
ROBBER: I said, where's the safe?
TELLER:
ROBBER: ???
PENN: He's always like this.

11.08.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photo of a plastic squeezy bottle of DOVE nourishing secrets moisturiser, with natural fruit oil and thioacetine. On the front is a picture of a luscious tropical looking durian.

A photo of a plastic squeezy bottle of DOVE nourishing secrets moisturiser, with natural fruit oil and thioacetine. On the front is a picture of a luscious tropical looking durian.

11.08.2025 05:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 164    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Fortunate to be able to do so, but I just sucked up and paid whole rates bill in one go instead of doing it quarter by quarter.

This way it's out of the way and done.

10.08.2025 07:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They often don't always melt completely. Check your filter regularly less ye flood the kitchen.

Ask me how I know.

10.08.2025 04:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the phone call between Viggo and Aurelio is the single best scene I have ever seen for establishing how scary someone is

โ€œI hear you struck my son.โ€

โ€œYes sir, I did.โ€

โ€œMay I ask why?โ€

โ€œWell, uh, he stole John Wickโ€™s car, sir. And killed his dog.โ€

โ€œโ€ฆ oh.โ€

that โ€œohโ€ is all you need to know

09.08.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 376    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

this is part of what makes it a perfect action movie

John Wick asks the question โ€œhow many dudes is a man allowed to kill if the puppy his dead wife left him is murdered?โ€

the answer is โ€œyesโ€

10.08.2025 00:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 307    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I can also write Japanese characters for tattoos that are definitely not slurs

09.08.2025 03:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Caramello is the only one I can think of, and I refuse to buy Cadbury.

09.08.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is it just me or is everybody doing salted caramel chocolate these days?

Whitaker's is the only one I'd buy; If it wasn't $8 a slab

09.08.2025 05:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did you at least save them to a favourite group first... Just in case?

09.08.2025 05:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would

08.08.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 933    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Saturday Farmers Market.

30 jumbo free range eggs, 2 broccoli, 5 onions, 2kg potatoes, 1kg yams, 500g mushrooms, avocado, 2 breakfast empanada.

$35

08.08.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yay

08.08.2025 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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