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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 6h

my husband just referred to happy feelings from playing with the dog as “dogamine”

Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5h

Probably. "probably" the poster child. He's the NZME ratings golden boy, commanding a fan base of the most uncritical thinkers, and he can't even pluck up the courage to be unequivocal on something that's implicitly subjective.

I'd take it as a compliment tbf. You scared him into a 'probably'

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 6h

maybe not? I searched for the flight number expecting a trickle of comments, but it's not as busy as it might have been on… another social site, in years gone by

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 22h

If you run a NAS company, don't upset the nerds.

www.guru3d.com/story/synolo...

Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet

Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology...

www.guru3d.com

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 12h

how far we've come from "Here's to the crazy ones" [in the alt text]

Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules.

And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

They invent. They imagine. They heal.

They explore. They create. They inspire.

They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?

Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?

Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Mike Suszek @mikesuszek.bsky.social · 8d

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 2d

one explanation for the bsky ceo's severe case of posting syndrome is the buckets of silicon valley dopamine in anticipation of new-big-number day

Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 2d

hail and thunder in Miramar 🥶

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 3d

I mean yeah, there's a chance they were beaten to it by about five billion people

Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 3d

Wall Street Journal is not the first one to rank him as the worst.

#USDemocracy

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 3d

What about Child Support liability, too? That’s going to leave the custodial parent hanging if the contributions also dry up

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

What a night for the heater to crap out while we’re trying to dry all this stuff though

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

and now the city emails me to say they’ll get back to me with a timeframe for repair, I dunno what the hey is going on

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

I called the city and they got someone around here fairly shapish, only to tell me it’s a private drain. It’s on a ROW with four other houses, all of which are uphill from it, so it looks like its between me and my landlord, neato

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

What a day of it. After hanging everything out to to dry, I found this blocked sump by the driveway, and ten million pounds of slush from New York and New Jersey under the car and through the wheels, looks like the roof leak is the least of our worries and its all coming from here

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

Assuming there’s slack in cable, and the the cables aren‘t bound around a heap of crap, and that the dislodging of said cable isn’t going to add 5 minutes to what should be a two second operation

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

And the only way to know it’s one of those dumbass machines is a label that says “back here! The paywave sensor is on my asshole” except you can’t see it because it’s covered by the receipts that it prints which exactly zero people want

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

They designed an EFTPOS machine with the Paywave doofer on the back of the machine next to its asshole - obviously - so if you want to pay using your watch you have to dislocate your shoulder to manoeuvre your wrist between the tip jar and the table numbers that are just dying to be knocked over

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 5d

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

fingers crossed the next shift will be the last. This is our fifth temporary place since leaving Whangārei in July.

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry to hear. Yep, got plenty of pics

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

Appreciate it mate

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

We got off pretty lightly in the end, got to most of it before it had soaked through the moving boxes, so it’s all spread through the house next to two very happy dehumidifiers. Lost one box of books, another of photos, and maybe my piano keyboard which I’m waiting to dry out first

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

mostly books and art 😥

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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 5d

so, this is a bit fucked, but almost all of our shit just got drenched after the garage at our short term accommodation took on a heap of water. It's half an inch deep in there which even for Wellington is a bit on the damp side

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