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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 7h

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 7h

Like trying to come up with a new password in a place where a security nerd has been allowed to run amok.

"Must contain at least three punctuation marks, one of which cannot be entered without using three keyboard modifiers to access it"

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 10h

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · Aug 2

Tweet too long.

“If HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS had filmed a season in the 2010s, there definitely would have been an episode where Hercules and Iolaus travel to the city of Ur—which looks like a New Zealand suburb—and discover there that Salmoneus has been placed under arrest by the King for fraudulently selling lousy copper. Hercules investigates and it turns out Salmoneus is just a wholesaler and the crappy product is the fault of his supplier, an absolute dirtbag merchant played by guest star Keenan Ivory Wayans.

Hercules beats up the merchant's goons to discover evidence of his shady business practices and the evidence saves Salmoneus from getting his hands chopped off but the king respects the merchant too much to punish him for his fraud. Salmoneus fecklessly screams out as he departs on horseback with his companions that he's going to write a formal complaint about his poor customer service, and the merchant just clutches his gut laughing and finally shouts back "And who shall ever care, that humble Ea-Nasir had a displeased customer?" Fade to credits as Salmoneus seethes”

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 11h

Guess the Post are already lining up the “Upper Hutt in a shambles due to mayor’s neglect” for the day after they elect a woman

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 11h

Surely anything to do with the Brots would have been released under the thirty year rule by now?

Unless it got lost in the same flood that took out all the colonial era Kenyan documents I guess.

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 12h

Kandallah is the Epsom of Wellington

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 13h

I certainly do not love "wet because rain and moist because muggy"

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 13h

I'd rather have a functional local government

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 17h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 15h

“Japan will act like a regular economy any day now” for 30 years

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 16h

“Monster, but horny” is absolutely in line with Giger’s work.

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 1d

Mattel meets H.R. Giger with a stunning new Monster High doll that reimagines the Xenomorph from ALIEN as a terrifyingly chic fashion icon:

Mattel Meets H.R. Giger With Stunning New ‘Alien’ Doll from the Monster High Collection!

Mattel’s “Skullector” wave of their Monster High line has proven to be a treasure trove of incredible dolls based on horror properties, with movies including The Lost Boys, Bride of Chucky, Jordan Pee...

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 16h

Two people I follow are unintentionally doing a great job of confusing me when I scroll my timeline

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 17h

The fact that Nicola Willis apparently doesn’t understand the difference between an asset and a debt explains a lot.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 19h

I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.

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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 18h

Watching someone, who I hope was a volunteer, wheel an orange bin of votes down Lambton Quay and into Whitcoulls does not really inspire confidence that local body elections are run at the standard of national ones

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 1d

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom