Luke
@aleofatime.com
Food, drink, conspiracies. Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa (but I tweet about Australia too).
Co-founder of @shortjaw.co.nz
Co-founder of @shortjaw.co.nz
I'm not going to take conspiro advice from someone who can't even spell HAARP correctly. come on man.
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm not going to take conspiro advice from someone who can't even spell HAARP correctly. come on man.
Power's out. Time to burn my battery looking at Facebook posts about the power outage, because it's an emergency.
December 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Power's out. Time to burn my battery looking at Facebook posts about the power outage, because it's an emergency.
despite me turning off gemini every chance I get, gmail just autofilled an email and gaslit me. I came back to my desk with a written email in my style...
Very cool tech.
Very cool tech.
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
despite me turning off gemini every chance I get, gmail just autofilled an email and gaslit me. I came back to my desk with a written email in my style...
Very cool tech.
Very cool tech.
it's a gorgeous sunny day (pretty typical of Westport tbh)... but I'm online doin admin, so I'm going to share some good news to cheer me up.
Taproom sales are already 65% up (YoY) this month, with three days left. Wholesale is up 20%.
Taproom sales are already 65% up (YoY) this month, with three days left. Wholesale is up 20%.
December 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
it's a gorgeous sunny day (pretty typical of Westport tbh)... but I'm online doin admin, so I'm going to share some good news to cheer me up.
Taproom sales are already 65% up (YoY) this month, with three days left. Wholesale is up 20%.
Taproom sales are already 65% up (YoY) this month, with three days left. Wholesale is up 20%.
Today I stripped and sanded our dining table, and last week I refinished our coffee table.
New things for me, but it's been a lot of fun. I might be in my restoring era?
New things for me, but it's been a lot of fun. I might be in my restoring era?
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Today I stripped and sanded our dining table, and last week I refinished our coffee table.
New things for me, but it's been a lot of fun. I might be in my restoring era?
New things for me, but it's been a lot of fun. I might be in my restoring era?
How have I never heard or seen this song before.
That cover
That cover
Helicopters - Solid State Logic [New Zealand, Synth-Pop] (1981)
https://redd.it/1pusmpf
https://youtu.be/-H7oBWYF8fo
https://redd.it/1pusmpf
https://youtu.be/-H7oBWYF8fo
Helicopters - Solid State Logic [New Zealand, Synth-Pop] (1981)
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
How have I never heard or seen this song before.
That cover
That cover
Doing Xmas dinner a day late (and at 6pm). I'm cooking solo for a reasonable size group, which is fine, but there's a real temptation to have a couple festive drinks while I prep.
But then I'm just getting blasted all day in my kitchen by myself. Which isn't very festive feeling.
But then I'm just getting blasted all day in my kitchen by myself. Which isn't very festive feeling.
December 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Doing Xmas dinner a day late (and at 6pm). I'm cooking solo for a reasonable size group, which is fine, but there's a real temptation to have a couple festive drinks while I prep.
But then I'm just getting blasted all day in my kitchen by myself. Which isn't very festive feeling.
But then I'm just getting blasted all day in my kitchen by myself. Which isn't very festive feeling.
Emma has been away so I've been watching OG teen/college party movies that I've never seen.
Porky's
Porky's II (inexplicably about a Shakespeare festival, with an interracial kiss)
Animal House
Revenge of the Nerds
And now on to Meatballs.
Porky's
Porky's II (inexplicably about a Shakespeare festival, with an interracial kiss)
Animal House
Revenge of the Nerds
And now on to Meatballs.
December 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Emma has been away so I've been watching OG teen/college party movies that I've never seen.
Porky's
Porky's II (inexplicably about a Shakespeare festival, with an interracial kiss)
Animal House
Revenge of the Nerds
And now on to Meatballs.
Porky's
Porky's II (inexplicably about a Shakespeare festival, with an interracial kiss)
Animal House
Revenge of the Nerds
And now on to Meatballs.
Christmas time is Da Kath & Kim Code time.
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Christmas time is Da Kath & Kim Code time.
I'd love to get left behind by ai. I'll walk into the woods and live off berries and bark, while you all worry about prompts or whatever.
So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively
December 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I'd love to get left behind by ai. I'll walk into the woods and live off berries and bark, while you all worry about prompts or whatever.
Corpse flower blooming in Christchurch.
Bummed I'm not there. Go enjoy it if you are.
Bummed I'm not there. Go enjoy it if you are.
December 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Corpse flower blooming in Christchurch.
Bummed I'm not there. Go enjoy it if you are.
Bummed I'm not there. Go enjoy it if you are.
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Since, AFAIK, it isn't probed by New Zealand media or critically raised elsewhere incl. in parliament, it will never cease to surprise me how the Foreign Minister esp., & others in Govt willingly appear on a far-right podcast platform that promotes, & normalises ChCh terrorist's violent extremism.
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Since, AFAIK, it isn't probed by New Zealand media or critically raised elsewhere incl. in parliament, it will never cease to surprise me how the Foreign Minister esp., & others in Govt willingly appear on a far-right podcast platform that promotes, & normalises ChCh terrorist's violent extremism.
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Peter Arnett dead.
One the most famous media figures ever to have been born in Aotearoa.
apnews.com/article/pete...
One the most famous media figures ever to have been born in Aotearoa.
apnews.com/article/pete...
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Peter Arnett dead.
One the most famous media figures ever to have been born in Aotearoa.
apnews.com/article/pete...
One the most famous media figures ever to have been born in Aotearoa.
apnews.com/article/pete...
Our media loves marketing for shop.
Shoppers visit Ikea from other parts of the country in 'unprecedented' numbers
Shoppers visit Ikea from other parts of the country in 'unprecedented' numbers
Shoppers came from as far away as Canterbury and Otago in the store's first week, according to data.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our media loves marketing for shop.
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This is a great essay: "The real history of Italian food is turbulent: a saga of hunger, improvisation, migration, industrialisation and sheer survival instinct." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different | Alberto Grandi
The comforting tourist-brochure idea of what Italian food looks like obscures a story shaped by hunger, migration and innovation, says Alberto Grandi, author and professor of food history
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This is a great essay: "The real history of Italian food is turbulent: a saga of hunger, improvisation, migration, industrialisation and sheer survival instinct." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 14,1943
December 14,1943
December 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 14,1943
December 14,1943
I would pay anything to see him do other mundane shit.
Imagine Trump trying to set a table, or turn on an oven. He simply couldn't do it.
Imagine Trump trying to set a table, or turn on an oven. He simply couldn't do it.
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I would pay anything to see him do other mundane shit.
Imagine Trump trying to set a table, or turn on an oven. He simply couldn't do it.
Imagine Trump trying to set a table, or turn on an oven. He simply couldn't do it.
Why would they get Matan to host?!
Currently at the New York Young Republican’s annual gala, where the MC is 18-year-old streamer Matan Even.
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Why would they get Matan to host?!
Made gummies so good that after one (1) last night I forgot how to minus two from four.
December 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Made gummies so good that after one (1) last night I forgot how to minus two from four.
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Today we had protesters in our building. We were not allowed in the lobby, and were re-routed around the back of the lobby and out the back of the building, well out of our way, to keep us "safe".
The protesters?
4 young girls singing carols whilst holding a climate change banner.
The protesters?
4 young girls singing carols whilst holding a climate change banner.
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Today we had protesters in our building. We were not allowed in the lobby, and were re-routed around the back of the lobby and out the back of the building, well out of our way, to keep us "safe".
The protesters?
4 young girls singing carols whilst holding a climate change banner.
The protesters?
4 young girls singing carols whilst holding a climate change banner.
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This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
it's psycho
call me psycho, zx spectrum (1987) www.mobygames.com/game/69537/c...
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
it's psycho
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New post up on Beer Diary — some thoughts the recent history of Australia's annual Hottest 100 Beers survey, and Mountain Culture, the brewery who have dominated it while rapidly evolving and at the same time seeming stuck in their own mythic past.
Upending the you-know-what: the Hottest 100 and Mountain Culture
Voting is now open for the 18th GABS Hottest 100, and Mountain Culture — having placed #1 for the past three years running — recently launched their latest campaign, this time with a Ted Lasso them…
philcook.net
December 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New post up on Beer Diary — some thoughts the recent history of Australia's annual Hottest 100 Beers survey, and Mountain Culture, the brewery who have dominated it while rapidly evolving and at the same time seeming stuck in their own mythic past.
While we're here, let's change the name from "homekill" to literally anything else.
New government rules coming for micro-abattoirs; homekill for sale in pipeline
New government rules coming for micro-abattoirs; homekill for sale in pipeline
The government is looking to cut red tape for small meat processors and is also exploring how homekill meat could be made suitable for sale.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
While we're here, let's change the name from "homekill" to literally anything else.
Would listen to a true crime podcast about this.
Police officers were with the suspect around the clock until the stolen pendant was recovered.
Stolen James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant swallowed, recovered after six days
Police officers were with the suspect around the clock until the stolen pendant was recovered.
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Would listen to a true crime podcast about this.