Me, 5 years ago: “I wonder what’s under that bit of deck, I must get round to fixing that”
Me, today: *scratches head*
“The stainless deck screws are the only legit thing here”
Me, today: *scratches head*
“The stainless deck screws are the only legit thing here”
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Me, 5 years ago: “I wonder what’s under that bit of deck, I must get round to fixing that”
Me, today: *scratches head*
“The stainless deck screws are the only legit thing here”
Me, today: *scratches head*
“The stainless deck screws are the only legit thing here”
There is a hire power
the reason for the season
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There is a hire power
She said, "Aren't the stars pretty?" And he said, "Yes, and I'm the only person in the world who knows what makes them shine."
(Attributed to Eddington, probably apocryphal)
(Attributed to Eddington, probably apocryphal)
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
She said, "Aren't the stars pretty?" And he said, "Yes, and I'm the only person in the world who knows what makes them shine."
(Attributed to Eddington, probably apocryphal)
(Attributed to Eddington, probably apocryphal)
Startup panel: “pitch is your new CrossFit product”
Me: “so it’s a padded gym mat with handles on each side”
SP: “and?”
Me: “you stand on the mat and pull the handles up to lift your own body weight.”
SP: “how does it scale?”
Me: “you can add more people with bigger mats and more handles”
Me: “so it’s a padded gym mat with handles on each side”
SP: “and?”
Me: “you stand on the mat and pull the handles up to lift your own body weight.”
SP: “how does it scale?”
Me: “you can add more people with bigger mats and more handles”
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Startup panel: “pitch is your new CrossFit product”
Me: “so it’s a padded gym mat with handles on each side”
SP: “and?”
Me: “you stand on the mat and pull the handles up to lift your own body weight.”
SP: “how does it scale?”
Me: “you can add more people with bigger mats and more handles”
Me: “so it’s a padded gym mat with handles on each side”
SP: “and?”
Me: “you stand on the mat and pull the handles up to lift your own body weight.”
SP: “how does it scale?”
Me: “you can add more people with bigger mats and more handles”
He’s not plotting, he’s scheming.
Bishop’s problem here is that if Luxon just stands on a square of the opposite colour, there’s nothing he can do about it.
Bishop’s problem here is that if Luxon just stands on a square of the opposite colour, there’s nothing he can do about it.
Chris Bishop says he's not plotting to roll Christopher Luxon
Chris Bishop says he's not plotting to roll Christopher Luxon
He's not the only MP who has been asked about a leadership challenge.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
He’s not plotting, he’s scheming.
Bishop’s problem here is that if Luxon just stands on a square of the opposite colour, there’s nothing he can do about it.
Bishop’s problem here is that if Luxon just stands on a square of the opposite colour, there’s nothing he can do about it.
Post your warning label
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Post your warning label
Man Follows Instructions On All Placards And Illuminated Signs, Awaits Compliments From Flight Crew
Woman hopes the checkout people will notice how well she's stacked her groceries and they will compliment her >.>
Man Hoping People Notice How Many Folding Chairs He’s Carrying At Once https://theonion.com/man-hoping-people-notice-how-many-folding-chairs-he-s-c-1819576444/
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Man Follows Instructions On All Placards And Illuminated Signs, Awaits Compliments From Flight Crew
My apple was green.
The horse was brown, but facing right.
I hear voices in my head all the time, but that's mostly because I use a Bluetooth headset on calls
The horse was brown, but facing right.
I hear voices in my head all the time, but that's mostly because I use a Bluetooth headset on calls
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My apple was green.
The horse was brown, but facing right.
I hear voices in my head all the time, but that's mostly because I use a Bluetooth headset on calls
The horse was brown, but facing right.
I hear voices in my head all the time, but that's mostly because I use a Bluetooth headset on calls
I mean you *can* spin every area of mathematics out of "counting" but that's not normally how it gets taught.
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I mean you *can* spin every area of mathematics out of "counting" but that's not normally how it gets taught.
New season of The Diplomat just dropped
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New season of The Diplomat just dropped
“Posted from my iPhone 7”
what stage of capitalism is this
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Posted from my iPhone 7”
There’s a deep irony in a Reith Lecture being censored.
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
There’s a deep irony in a Reith Lecture being censored.
If the big downside was crashing the global economy and the small downside was an SEC penalty, I’d probably just fake the earnings report
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The most obvious impact of a regional government shakeup will be water assets and delivery capability.
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The most obvious impact of a regional government shakeup will be water assets and delivery capability.
The days of Waimea County Council are numbered.
It is understood reforms to be announced today will mean the dissolving of regional councils, and the first steps could be within this current three-year council term.
End of regional councils tipped in local government reforms
It is understood reforms to be announced today will mean the dissolving of regional councils, and the first steps could be within this current three-year council term.
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The days of Waimea County Council are numbered.
Producer: pitch me
Me: it’s a crossover franchise thing
Producer: which…which franchises?
Me: Shetland and Grand Designs
Me: it’s a crossover franchise thing
Producer: which…which franchises?
Me: Shetland and Grand Designs
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Producer: pitch me
Me: it’s a crossover franchise thing
Producer: which…which franchises?
Me: Shetland and Grand Designs
Me: it’s a crossover franchise thing
Producer: which…which franchises?
Me: Shetland and Grand Designs
Career #1: self-taught programmer
#2: bought a suit from Gieves&Hawkes
#3: headhunted, by professionals
#4: answered an ad on an email list I don’t remember subscribing to
#5: “can you sort out this problem?” plus $1
#6: “I might need to get something comprehensible on the CV”
#2: bought a suit from Gieves&Hawkes
#3: headhunted, by professionals
#4: answered an ad on an email list I don’t remember subscribing to
#5: “can you sort out this problem?” plus $1
#6: “I might need to get something comprehensible on the CV”
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Career #1: self-taught programmer
#2: bought a suit from Gieves&Hawkes
#3: headhunted, by professionals
#4: answered an ad on an email list I don’t remember subscribing to
#5: “can you sort out this problem?” plus $1
#6: “I might need to get something comprehensible on the CV”
#2: bought a suit from Gieves&Hawkes
#3: headhunted, by professionals
#4: answered an ad on an email list I don’t remember subscribing to
#5: “can you sort out this problem?” plus $1
#6: “I might need to get something comprehensible on the CV”
Betteridge’s Law as applied to NZ policy headlines: “It’s corruption (but not as you know it)”
I looked into importing gas (LNG) as a solution to our energy woes, and almost no one except the domestic gas industry thinks it’s a good idea.
So why why is a “last-resort” fuel suddenly the centrepiece of our energy plan?
🔗 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
So why why is a “last-resort” fuel suddenly the centrepiece of our energy plan?
🔗 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The fuel of ‘last resort’: How imported gas became New Zealand’s first choice
It's expensive, vulnerable to price shocks and terrible for the planet. So why are we importing gas?
www.rnz.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Betteridge’s Law as applied to NZ policy headlines: “It’s corruption (but not as you know it)”
I struggle with how this was not blindingly obvious from at least 10 years back and also how those of us who identified the pattern and called it out were called conspiracy theorists.
“Wake up sheeple!”, cried the sheeple.
“Wake up sheeple!”, cried the sheeple.
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I struggle with how this was not blindingly obvious from at least 10 years back and also how those of us who identified the pattern and called it out were called conspiracy theorists.
“Wake up sheeple!”, cried the sheeple.
“Wake up sheeple!”, cried the sheeple.
Cook Islands as well as NZ, eh? What a surprise
The Cook Islands allowed over a hundred shadow fleet tankers trafficking sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. A Big Read from me looking at the curious case of Maritime Cook Islands with an investigation employing big data analysis and fieldwork in Raro. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How shadow fleets made the Cook Islands flag inconvienent.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Cook Islands as well as NZ, eh? What a surprise
I mean it’s literally known that the oath is to the Constitution
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I mean it’s literally known that the oath is to the Constitution
Adds to my collection of files on the Great Datacenter Hoax
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Adds to my collection of files on the Great Datacenter Hoax
Gaps between the bottom of a wall and the floor are both the sign of a high-quality build and also a poor-quality one
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Gaps between the bottom of a wall and the floor are both the sign of a high-quality build and also a poor-quality one
I would not have said anything about the $50,000 I found down the back of the chairs.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
‘Is this for real?’: Cleaner's ‘insane’ $20,000 discovery
She says it's the most "insane" thing she's ever found.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I would not have said anything about the $50,000 I found down the back of the chairs.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Brilliant, I vigorously encourage him to continue in this approach
Eric Watson says he used not a team of lawyers but a team of AIs to create his latest legal letters and briefs: "I use a combination of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and one other – four different AI systems – and it’s pretty good, actually” www.nzherald.co.nz/business/mar...
‘I am winning’: Eric Watson defiant after latest US court loss
Embattled businessman speaks from Mallorca of his AI-assisted self-representation.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Brilliant, I vigorously encourage him to continue in this approach