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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social have NZ folks already shared Brendan Larsen’s picture of Mt Taranaki with you? It is taken by Brendan Larsen. Shared on FB. His website is here: https://www.blarsenphoto.com

Don’t get between Ken Behrens and meat on a stick. Mad for it. #canberra

@midor@mastodon.social @btschumy@mas.to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social thanks for sharing the details. I should have taken a screencap of the post as you have done.

NSW South Coast was gorgeous yesterday.

I’ve always thought the problem with elite football is that there wasn’t enough money in it https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/fifa-sale-continue-despite-opposition-/106984546

@futurebird@sauropods.win @pluralistic@mamot.fr TBH I think Cory was making most of the jokes. Jon was pissing himself. I too laughed a lot, when I wasn’t gasping in horror.

@sister_ratched@toot.community eggnishnah

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange thanks for your generous support.

@irix@cloudisland.nz Aus compulsory super means we now have $4.5 TRILLION in super. That is a fuck ton of capital looking for investments.

Damnit. Sam was one of the truly good ones. :(

@irix@cloudisland.nz outside shots!? A HELICOPTER!! The budget has skyrocketed.

@benroyce @cmconseils the only time I wished I bought Pepsi so I could stop buying Pepsi

Good https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/30/house-prices-fall-capital-cities-australia-sydney-melbourne-adelaide-canberra

@wavygk@mastodon.nz did the Auckland-Whanganui flight a few times recently and have experienced the full range, from seeing volcanoes out sides, to a contiguous blanket of cloud hiding everything, but that is an absolutely cracking day.

@juliew2010 patchwork daleks FTW

@thomasbeagle @futuresprog such a shame

@futuresprog I feel yah. It can be difficult to rehome pianos these days.

@parismarx the enshittification of humanity.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us same in Australia. The Labor party here has colluded with the “conservative” “opposition” to pass laws to make it harder for Greens and independents to raise campaign funding from individual donors while refusing to improve transparency of corporate donors to themselves. It just makes people less likely to vote for them, and so they double down …

@irix@cloudisland.nz I was thinking of a wall mounted split system. You could get away with a single unit and use resistive heating in bedrooms etc as a top-up. Heat pumps are generally 3-4x more efficient than resistive heating.

@futuresprog @thomasbeagle worth it got the comedy value alone

@csaetre lack of cited references is problematic. Are we really to believe there is no prior literature on this topic?

@irix oh sure, but also more money will siphoned off into the pockets of socially destructive big tech.

Surely the #AIbubble will lead to the shittiest of enshittifications. Massive capital over investment enabled by nuts speculation will mean a bunch of players going out of business, contraction of competition and a need to make back a heap of money to pay for it all. Businesses which have gutted their workforce and now rely acutely on these tools will be vulnerable and unable to pivot, and just have to pony up the increasingly large fees.

@sister_ratched Tom ain't holding back

He died right there, I got the pearl from his snout A puff of gray smoke, the tongue of a cloud He rotted in the sand and all that they found was his boots on the ground Boots on the ground, boots on the ground All that they found was his boots on the ground, boots on the ground

@trib fuck `em

Well, something goеs tink when the cardrige is spent Where do you think all your cartilage went? Boots on the ground, boots on the ground Now who the hell are these federal pricks? Hiding in the Senate like a bloated-ass tick Air-conditioned fuckstick loafers Sittin' in a room full of army posters A coal to a diamond, a vote into law They campaign up all the blood they can draw Mold your world, a soldier's just clay How much does every soldier weigh?

@KiwiEV lovely even bake. Are you a crispy, chewy, or declicious cusp (crispy outside, chewy inside) kinda guy?

@Jgbird@mas.to oh my!

@irix@cloudisland.nz kinda amazed that it has taken this long in “you pay you play” obsessed NZ. Just as long as the water companies aren’t privatised. The scale of that disaster in the UK is really starting to come home to roost.

@cathywilcox@theblower.au genius! Once again, and thank you for all the times I haven’t said it before

Of course #israel has been, and continues to, target journalists. They are committing #genocide and they don’t want their supporters in the west to know about it https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/idf-accused-of-war-crime-targeted-strikes-lebanese-journalists/107006472

Cut you at the ankles and they throw that ass away Boots on the ground Cold and hot as Satan's hoof Spinning on the world, I'm hiding on a roof I kill a brown man I never ass knew Choked on spit and then he turned blue He spattered black blood, he rolled Fin out

Born shiny bullets in an army of ants Blow that horn, we sleep in our pants Big titties, big titties Well we holler and we burn down cities Boots on the ground, boots on the ground Shootin' up the town by stayin' in the holе 'til Jimmy Hoffa is found With my boots on the ground

@jimbob some colleagues are super bullish about Claude Code. I wish they were wrong, but there do seem to be some impressive examples.

@futuresprog the zucchini of instruments

@irix@cloudisland.nz historically ticker was a synonym for heart/courage. Belling only know from belling the cat. Or are these more recent yoof references?

@jef I think we can rely on lawyers and their fees to make your dreams come true

@mattblaze@federate.social oh yeah, been there done that. Here in Aus we had 2 months of appalling air quality during the massive bushfires. Terrible time. You have my sympathy FWIW.

Big legs dangle from a helicopter hole Big chug rhythm, gotta be now ho! Brown, mean and young, dumb and full of cum What can you use a Marine for? This is a fucking ass machine gun war With your boots on the ground, boots on the ground Boots on the ground, boots on the ground We trim your hedges, we fight your wars Wait in the trenches and we're fucked 'til we're sore With boots on the ground, boots on the ground

@jimbob No I haven't. Should get Claude to refactor it. Soz for the late reply. My masto instance had a week of instability ...

@tk @cdarwin eco-concern-trolls

@irix@cloudisland.nz do you have a heat pump?

@irix@cloudisland.nz ”What happens if you put Mike Oldfield in a box, roll him down a steep hill and run after him yelling in Japanese”