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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2h

Worked out good. With zuchini pickles from 2023....and some home brew.

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 3h

Tonight is beef knuckle (a really cheap cut of meat) put through the mincer and turned into burger patties. Lettuce from the garden. And burger buns from kaibosh. And the last of the homemade tomato sauce.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 12h

whittling spoons

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 14h

I'm applying for jobs and I suspect the process involves ML making cover lettters which are sorted by MLand then summarised back to the prompt so a human can read it.

I have long thought all the padded waffle humans add is a waste of time, and really how about we just send the prompts?

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight was sweet roasted parsnips, fennel and Brussels spouts, butterflied chicken with chilli oil, and bean/silverbeet/tomato/capsicum smokey casserole... Mostly from the garden or rescued food.

It was nicer than it sounds.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 1d

What kind of foods? Is it working?

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

This is the correct answer
www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/veget...

Learn About Blanching Celery In The Garden

Simply put, celery is not the easiest crop to grow in the garden. When celery has bitter taste, chances are it hasn't been blanched. Blanching celery is often done to prevent bitter celery. Click here...

www.gardeningknowhow.com

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

If you want a example of AI making shit up when it doesn't know, ask it about "blanching celery" and it will assume it's about cooking/boiling it.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

We are rehearsing the Egmont overture, and for my own benefit I have decided the story and emotion is a complete Karen having a tantrum, and then she wins.

youtu.be/pkxXFLRmqvw?...

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Egmont Overture

YouTube video by ᛏᚤᚱᚠᛁᚾᚷᚱ

youtu.be

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Generally the old shoreline is now inland, not underwater. The land upheaval was massive. At least two quakes raising the land by about 4m upwards.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

This! I'm relying on the green party vetting. And while they let through some homeopathy folks, they don't tend to let through white supremacists.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a map of the tāua

nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/...

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

This is a huge part of the mindset of the generation that signed a treaty with the British.. Surrounded by rogue traders selling weapons of mass death... Not unlike war zones today as people are armed by various foreign powers.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

It was a hugely disruptive, violent time all over the island. The balance of power had shifted.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

The second tāua was in 1821. I think the name of this was Āmiowhenua.

Ngāti Whātua, Waikato Tānui, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Maru of Taranaki.

The invadera defeated Ngāti Ira in a battle at Tapu Te Rangi. (Island Bay).

There are many battlefields all over the suburbs of Wellington.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Atiawa, and Ngāti Tama Also.
These should sound familiar if you live in Pōneke now.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Ngā Puhi leads a tāua into Whanganui-a-Tara in 1819. This was before British settlement, into the Wellington lands held by Māori. (of course nobody called it Wellington then). They were joined by Taranaki iwi, Ngāi Toa, Ngāti mutunga (my whānau, btw) and a leader named Te Rauparaha.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Okay we're getting to the musket wars now. A time I'm not qualified to fully describe.

It was a new technology, Pākehā weapons of war, traded to northern Māori by profiteering missionaries. It was a powder keg, as the atrocities so normalised in Europe came to these islands.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

More names of more iwi of more people who migrated here from north.

Ngāti Māmoe. Ngāti Kahungunu. Ngāti Ira And Ngāi tahu.

Such a long time here, so many actors doing so many things recorded in so many histories.

Many kept migrating south.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

I'm hestitating cos we'll get to the musket wars and I still don't really have an understanding of them.

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

And then the earth eater. Haowhenua, an 8.0 earthquake in the mid 1400s raised the land more than 2 metres. Changing the shoreline, causing tsunami, land slips. Drying marshes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haowhen...

Haowhenua earthquake - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Centuries of living here. The population start small, but grows.

Imagine the smell of roast moa. (and other things you roast)

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

Radio carbon dating of sites around Wellington estimates this to be around 1250. But it may be a few centuries earlier. Depends on a bunch of factors. Radio carbon dating of findings only tells you about that item. Oral history tells us the settlement is older.

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Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social · 2d

It's best to think of time by "generation" not by year, when learning Māori history.

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