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Luke
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Food, drink, conspiracies. Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa (but I tweet about Australia too).

Co-founder of @shortjaw.co.nz
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November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This guy thinking he can anthropologise us and get away with it.

Handheld meat pies lol
* New Zealand takes pies (namely, handheld meat pies) so seriously that there are National Pie Awards that get major media coverage. The New Zealand National Library has a whole dedicated category for “Pies — Competitions.”

Pie.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
How I be when it's too cold at Meredith
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My till (cash register) is now spamming me with ai.

(Okay so it's point of sale software blah blah blah. It's just an expensive till).

Thinking about going back to a regular till with no software. Just old fashioned buttons.
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Finally listening to the Rosalia album. It's very good. Everyone is correct about it
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Emma saw an Instagram of a huge cat then realised that it was either ai, or the result of ruthless breeders ( who use an ai avatar), and immediately got super bummed out.

Welcome to the party die hard dot gif
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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what was this guy’s fucking problem
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Get hard head. Horns. Problem solved.
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
wild how many pubs refuse to buy our beer ("we're under contract"), then come to us for raffle prizes/donations.
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
was planning on launching a "cutting gold strawberry's online" business but ai, once again, has it cornered.
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
hey if you like music you should check out Nancy and the Jam Fancy's - Swan Song, and Black Polish - Yuna.

Two 2025 albums I have been enjoying a lot lately.
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Struggling with opposing taste in art work

(posted in /r/marriage)
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
people on here will write anything. "every major dairy country has a premium cream liqueur that people recognize and reach for". No they don't. That isn't true.
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
setting up mobile eftpos/POS terminals in NZ is straight turning me into the joker.

There's no simple setup for mobile events/payments. At all. There's nothing. idk why. Don't explain it to me. I just wanna be mad.
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My mum and her friend came into work yesterday and said "you'll know the answer to this... What's a bap?"

"It's very complicated..."

Lucky I could her this from @katiematherkm.bsky.social & @pelliclemag.com

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2021/2/...
Bun! A Taxonomy of the British Bread Roll — Pellicle
A review for William Rubel’s Bread says: "In discussing bread one can find oneself talking about some of the largest issues of history and society." I hope so. When I messaged William to talk about...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Building relationships with bars and pubs has long been a key skill in craft beer - but today, is price the only important thing?

One rep shares what it’s like working in sales and how many venues use breweries to make their margin, bargain with the biggest players and improve their cash flow.
The Secret Sales Rep: The Death Of Relationships
On occasion in the past, The Crafty Pint has run articles under The Secret Brewer banner, in which members of the beer industry have raised issues they believe needed addressing. Here the mantle passe...
craftypint.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Looks like a NZ NFT company went bust, and everything is being liquidated.

An insight into tech startups and how much cash they burn on hardware alone:

www.number8.bid/auction/1608...
© 2025 number 8 solutions LtdAll rights reserved.
www.number8.bid
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Sometimes you're just a small cat, on a big floor.
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A NZ version of the Kroll show skit but it's about eel. Tu Meke Tuna.
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This big arrow pointing to Kawatiri Westport says fog, but you can see it's crystal clear skies. I'm currently bathed in sun.

You can't keep us down, metservice.
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Dick Cheney is immortal. This is literal. We believe it" was always an odd choice for a song. Smart move.
The 1975’s most recent album is now shorter

www.stereogum.com/2328713/the-...
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
if true, this is a steal
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
got PR asking me to write about the doutta galla in Melbourne. Which is not unexpected, however I haven't written about melb hospo for five years now.

But also, is this how much beer costs in melbs now? I know tins over the bar are a little more $$, but this is outrageous
November 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM