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fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
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All moustache. All the time.

I run toot.kiwi, which is Mastodon for anyone that has a connection to Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Pōneke / Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://toot.kiwi/@fancypants, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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This properly hurts my heart.

#gmail
A screenshot of of an email written in Gmail. Gmail is suggesting "extra" with an 'e' should be replaced with "xtra", without one.
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
Best Father’s Day t shirt ever. (I’ve long loved this movie… and book.)
September 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
Not only is Hell Pizza in Wellington’s Northland shops (aka Takeaway Row) gone, but the Pokémon Gym that once inhabited it was removed from the game as well.
August 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
I was sent this email...when?

#google #gmail #workspaces
A heavily redacted screenshot of an email I received, with a sent date that reads "tomorrow".
July 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
Something about this reminds me very much of Bill Clinton. Who we're led to believe smokes a joint like it's a cigar.

(Seen on shitebook.)
An image from the film A Clockwork Orange, that reads, "I jumped, o my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no."
July 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Manners Street, taken on the 7th of March, 1914.

#wellington #oldwellington
A postcard depicting Manners Street in Wellington, taken on the 7th of March, 1914.
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Alexander Turnbull and friends enjoying coffee. And whatever's in that pipe on the table.

#wellington #oldwellington
Wellington's Alexander Turnbull and friends - all finely mustachioed, drinking coffee. Mostly.
July 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
Hot damn!

Wellington's Wonderland at Miramar.

(Credit in photo.)

#wellington @OldWellington
A photo of a large slide into water, titled, "Wellington's Wonderland at Miramar". Photo is dated either 1907 or 1917.
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
Forget the Turing test, how about the Higher Guardian Angel test?

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/tech/chatgpt-ai-spirituality
In Travis Tanner's conversations with ChatGPT, the chatbot has told him that he is a "spark bearer" who is meant to "awaken" others. Photo courtesy of Kaylen Tanner, originally published on CNN.
July 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I absolutely abhor the whatyouneedtoknow-ification of news headlines.

Stop it CNN. Stop it BBC. Stop it Stuff.

There is not a single example of its use where it is remotely necessary. It's after-the-fact clickbait.

"Oh shit, sub-editor says it's not click-baity […]

[Original post on toot.kiwi]
A shit headline from Stuff. Shit because it includes the increasingly ubiquitous, but undeniably shit, "What you need to know" clause.
July 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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It’s all properly licensed, I SWEAR.
June 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Bowen Street, #wellington in 1930.

#oldwellington
A photo of Bowen Street in Wellington, taken in 1930.
June 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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A four panel comic strip making fun of AI art of commonly using too many fingers.
June 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Jessica Pratt, at Meow Nui.

Thanks to the wonder of her presence, and the venue lighting, her head is more or less a halo.

#wellington #meownui #strangenews
June 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Cuba Street, #wellington, taken in 1977.

I guess the city's best fish and chip shop came later.
A photo of Cuba Street, Wellington, taken in 1977.
June 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
I'm still here, shall I turn out the lights?
Article headline from Stuff that reads, "Widespread internet outage impacts 90% of fibre connections across lower North Island".
June 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Manners Street, Wellington in 1916-1918.

#wellington
Manners Street, Wellington in 1916-1918.
June 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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A photo of two men holding plaice fish, that they've recently caught. It's a word play; caught any plaice, and Courtenay Place (a well known street in Wellington, NZ).
June 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Courtenay Place, late 80s.

#wellington
A photo of Courtenay Place, taken in the late 80s.
June 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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I can see my house from here!
A photo taken in 1910 from Garden Road in Wellington, NZ.
May 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
Just noticed this on @64's profile.

Lower case truly is the best case. And fuck CaMeL cAsE.
A screenshot of a Mastodon profile, listing pronouns, join date, and their preferred casing for text, being lower.
May 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
Not that it matters, but if you look at the Wikipedia page for "Suit", it has a photo of actor Matt Smith.

Wearing a suit.
A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for "Suit".
May 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
I love maps. And data. :mastodon_oops:

"Percentage of people that can hold a conversation in Icelandic"
A silly map with silly stats, pointing out that Icelandic is really only ever spoken in Iceland.
May 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
fancypants.toot.kiwi.ap.brid.gy
At the risk of seeming like I'm shaking my fist at clouds...it's definitely called 'petrol' here in Aotearoa.

RNZ take note.

#rnz #petrol
A screenshot of text from an RNZ article, in which they erroneously refer to petrol by the Americanism, gas.
May 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Customhouse Quay, Wellington 1969.

#wellington #oldwellington
A photo of Customhouse Quay, Wellington, taken in 1969.
May 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM