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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. " - Dr. Seuss
If you want to "protect the children", start listening to them!
"The current proposal "was just giving the companies leeway out of their responsibilities to manage their algorithms properly", he told Checkpoint."
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"Companies needed to ensure they were not showing predatory content, "whether that be this manosphere that's been happening online, or content that's giving them anxiety or hurting their self-confidence", he said."
Saturday's mood aka #OnTheTurntableNow: [SIC!] by Broilers.
Plant-based steak (Harmless Foods) pairs well with sauerkraut mash (Dutch edition) and mushroom gravy.
💯 Plant-based goodness on a plate.
Actually you mean you don't like passwords over 15 characters 🤦♂️ Should have said so 😁
Fix the error messages, give peeps a better online experience
(and no, not even ranting about short passwords)
Colourful end of the weekend.
#SilentSunday
Saturday's mood: relaxed & entertained 😊
Tasty smoked bock by Grutte Pier #brewery and a great #RetroGaming book. Perfection.
🍻 Smokey sweetness with herbs & spices
There's a new #PlantBased bacon in town 😋 It's tasty and will get you in shape as you'll need to visit at least 5 Woolworths stores to find one that has this product in stock 😆
When the morning is "In Motion" it will be a great Saturday. Gathering memories through #music 😁
Two live recordings - Dynamo Open Air and Katowice - on a double album 🤘
City life.
Every once in a while you need to check whether your personal #travel rules are still valid and/or necessary 😁 No early morning flights yet here we are: 7am 😱😆
Power up Tuesday 🎮 Time to relax and have fun... @kererubrewing@mastodon.social Night Spirit 2020 barrel aged stout, Steamdeck powered up and meal prep done. Perfection 👌
"2020 edition of Night Spirit. 3636 bottles produced. 20 months on American Oak."
Btw, wouldn't a Kererū x Moersleutel collab be awesome? 🤔 #CrazyIdea
Sunday's mood... Thor's Cup Norwegian #FarmhouseAle by #GarageProject while playing Parks #boardgame.
So why is there a #crochet penguin sitting on a coffee cup? Good question... When playing Parks with 2 people there's an invisible player active called Ranger Teddy.
So Frosty the #penguin - a crochet creation by @eswoooo@masto.ai - has stepped in as Ranger Teddy. Now it's Frosty's Cup next to Thor's Cup 😆
Just a chilly start of the day: -2.34C. But Marty #LEGO McFly is ready for some ice skating 😁
RNZ: "...severe inland frosts for most of the South Island... lowest temperature at Mount Cook, where the mercury plunged to -6.3C on Sunday morning."
Meanwhile in the UK... "millionaires asking Andy Burnham to tax them more... We can afford it. We're not talking about higher taxes on those who get up and go to work for their income every day, but on the very richest whose income is derived from the wealth they hold."
Another example that shows they won't flee if you tax the rich a little bit more. Small change, big positive impact.
Good times @ Urbanaut Brewing in #Auckland. Geek x craft beer fan meet-up.
Double Red IPA for starters (on the right) and Triple IPA to finish it off (on the left).
Marble madness on a Saturday morning 😱 I definitely prefer the #RetroGaming version 😆
Next level: coffee
Stop believing in fossil fairytales, start listening to the experts...
"$1 billion would be far better spent on funding home insulation to make energy use more efficient, or accelerating the growth of renewable energy.
"Home insulation sounds incredibly boring, but you can ... get better homes for people, it can happen quickly, it employs a lot of people, and the results are pretty much guaranteed.""
As it's almost impossible to get some plant-based burger patties in NZ nowadays... Morningstar, Bird's Eye, even Impossible and Beyond seem to have left the market... It's time to create 'em yourself. DIY patties.
Tasty attempt nr. 1 😋 Good mix of TVP, beans and breadcrumbs... Next time add some vital wheat gluten as well.
Combined with Nu-Dairy's plant-based cheese and condiments it was the perfect Thursday lunch.
A strong & sweet start of the weekend.
Hellbender - BA American Barleywine
"Hellbender is a leviathan of a beer made with over a tonne of malt and a mountain of American hops. You know it would taste great right now, but a beer this big will only get better with age. What will it taste like in a year? Two years? More? Will you ever get to find out..."
Plans to travel to #Holland? Check out these tips; see & do more in The Netherlands 👇
Chilly & relaxed Saturday... 10-15km/h wind (SSW), 5.1C but feels much colder. After a trip to the local Vitamin, Fiber & Mineral Dealer (farmer's market) it's time to stay inside and decide what to do next: finish & publish a blog post, tweak back-end of one of the blogs or work on the next steps of the #HomeAutomation project... Or do it all! 😆
Some days just call for something heavy 🤘 tasty and dark. Moon Dog's Black Lung X is just what you need.
This #BA stout is soft as silk with a boozy & smokey rhythm section playing in the background. Nothing overpowers, extremely well-balanced.
"...we sourced some of the smokiest barrels we could find all the way from the home of smoky whisky, Islay, Scotland.... we brewed the biggest, booziest, Black Lungiest, Black Lung..."
A long time ago, in high school, no one ever warned me about this: if you drop Biology you'll never be able to solve captchas in the future 😆
How metalheads select new shoes for the gym... Well these 3 are somewhat similar in purpose, price and comfort... Oh that one is "named after" a #BlindGuardian song 🤘 Hell yeah that's the one for me 😄
And now I hear that theme park / carnival intro in my head every time I step into the gym 😆
I wish organisations would stop using "We're not that security conscious" when you point out flaws in their processes or workflows. 🤦♂️
So basically you're saying that you don't care about your customers and their data.
"Whittaker's drop in rank isn't because it's doing less on ethical and environmental factors - it's because other companies are doing more."
Well... Standing still means going backwards. So yeah, you are doing less compared to the competition.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/food/whittaker-s-extremely-disappointed-by-results-of-chocolate-scorecard
Might as well end the weekend the same way it started: strong & sweet. 🍻
Wooden Dragon barleywine by De Klep Brewery 🇳🇱 "Two firsts for De Klep: canned beer and wood ageing. A superb combination of Calvados infusion, ageing on acacia wood and a base of their well-known and award-winning barleywine, Draakstaeker."
What today will bring (besides work)?
Black Jacket! It's release day.... And after a lot of hours on the demo I can't wait to see what the full version of the #game will bring! 🎉
Best start of a Saturday morning? Voting in the Guitar Riff Top 100 🎸
https://kink.nl/stem/bevestigen/fd8263cd-4dfd-4760-9677-d5f7454955fc
A session of killing your darlings. So many great songs that qualify.
🇳🇱 Yup inderdaad... Leuk artikel.
#TeamZwerven
"Zij wil op avontuur zonder navigatie, hij wil langs alle pins op zijn must-see-lijst. Ze proberen het allebei... Wie gaat er nog op de bonnefooi op vakantie? .... Ze zoeken het uit op een kibbeltrip naar Lille."
Blog post about the @volla@mastodon.social phone Quintus has been updated ✅ 5G works perfectly in #NewZealand as long as you're on One NZ and not on Skinny 😁 Easy fix.
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