um… it’s Thursday here on NZ… all hail Tūmatauenga!

any American chocolate tastes like vomit

In New Zealand the sun feels like it’s stabbing you after 10min in summer. I can feel my skin prickling like tiny fire ants.It doesn’t take long to burn here. serious respect for the sun and upper atmosphere

there’s a hole in my ozone dear lyza, dear lyza…

We’ll vote them out next election Screw these assholes Freaking hate this government

yup newpipe all the way adblocker by pihole no ads on my network 🤩

This article was all I needed to go install unbound and use that as my upstream server for pihole. Took me 20min and it’s been working for the past few hours. Easy and now all my dns are my own. You don’t even need a pihole, just point your router dns to the unbound server. It works out of the box with no configuration unless you want to configure it. Easy

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I’d go one further; strawberry chilli sorbet. sweet strawberry, hot and cold at the same time… perfection

hey thanks everyone for your points of view. really appreciate your time to comment. my take home is that Ukraine does knows what it’s doing with Trump and I’m no longer worried a bad deal will be made. ideally no deal with the US will be made, that’s my preference. anyway… the gods willing Ukraine will continue smashing the Russians cheers all

thanks for the long reply. I hope EU actually sends weapons and puts boots on the ground to assist Ukraine. UK has given some cruise missiles and I’m sure other EU countries will do similar. interesting that the EU financial assistance was loans but as you said these can be cancelled easily. I guess loans are easier to sell to you population. I’d also prefer to not have the US involved now the administration has changed, but disentangling so much bureaucracy is difficult and doesn’t happen overnight. I’d suspect Ukraine doesn’t want any deals with the US now but needs to keep playing the game until they don’t need to. Russia wss never going to play the game anyway, never in good faith. The EU really needs to step up… but again this takes time to start building up stockpiles and uniforms… so I can see why the game is being played. I just hope Ukraine wins every hand. thanks 🙏

this was me about 30 years ago on a larp where at midnight we came across a mage in a circle… along with a scarecrow… I smacked the scarecrow with my sword and it screamed and lunged at me… I ran away bravely and as fast as possible straight into a tree, dropped my lantern and carried on screaming into the night. the most scared I’ve been in larp, proper suspension of disbelief. thanks for the memory 😆

left the UK 13yrs ago and never regretted it

skills shortage list is how I got in, and being under 40 (at the time) gave me points in their system.

anyway just going to drop this here if YouTube is allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWLlDIzi8SU

so honestly, who would you use now? I’d never buy HP, Acer, Lenovo. total crap machines. what other brands of laptop are any good going into 2025/2026? The XPS was always my go-to but now what options are remaining?

good answer it’s has always been about power

and being able to wield power without corruption is the human condition

I’m not certain we’re hardwired that way.

though I’m hopeful

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this is good more of this please

jellyfin with sonarr and radarr and now jellyseerr make the whole process simple. usenet and nzb are the way now i just wait 10 min to get the film/series i want and then watch it. a minor delay I’m more than happy with. I’d be happy to pay if, and it’s a big if, the studios can catalogue all their shows in one place. i can watch without adverts. i can pay per episode if i want. I’d rather pay 50c an episode than pay for the whole service. let me curate what I want to watch on my terms. until then, the high seas win every time

this dude is awesome if I was younger and child free I’d volunteer to be on his boats and fuck up some japan whaling fleets this guy gets much respect he was too militant for Greenpeace we all need to be more militant to save this planet from the corporate chaos

this is good

too be fair I studied Latin at school 40 years ago so this tracks