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BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
www.courtsofnz.govt.nz
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
My daughter wanted to make me a replacement #kawaiicon ticket 😊
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
My daughter wanted to make me a replacement #kawaiicon ticket 😊
From an old conference: www.youtube.com/live/4xGxotB...
From 6:30 onwards, there's a cool talk about the recent history and practicalities of engineering undersea fibre.
It's pretty entertaining! The math behind phase division multiplexing and digital signal processors is modern wizardry.
From 6:30 onwards, there's a cool talk about the recent history and practicalities of engineering undersea fibre.
It's pretty entertaining! The math behind phase division multiplexing and digital signal processors is modern wizardry.
NZNOG 2020 Day1
YouTube video by NZNOG
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October 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
From an old conference: www.youtube.com/live/4xGxotB...
From 6:30 onwards, there's a cool talk about the recent history and practicalities of engineering undersea fibre.
It's pretty entertaining! The math behind phase division multiplexing and digital signal processors is modern wizardry.
From 6:30 onwards, there's a cool talk about the recent history and practicalities of engineering undersea fibre.
It's pretty entertaining! The math behind phase division multiplexing and digital signal processors is modern wizardry.
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of course, all the requisite hugops to everybody at AWS, but I will share a little secret: I always tried to hold the line on Glitch being entirely hosted within US-EAST-1 simply because I knew that it would make people more forgiving of outages and downtime once they knew where we were hosted.
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
of course, all the requisite hugops to everybody at AWS, but I will share a little secret: I always tried to hold the line on Glitch being entirely hosted within US-EAST-1 simply because I knew that it would make people more forgiving of outages and downtime once they knew where we were hosted.
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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I do the art for this magnificent con, and if you’re a hacker, you owe it to yourself to a) come down to NZ for it, it slaps, and b) submit a talk????
... are you STILL sitting on that talk idea for the Kawaiicon CFP? What if we told you it ended AUGUST 1st? Would you submit it then?
Get to it! Go on, get! kawaiicon.org/cfp/
Get to it! Go on, get! kawaiicon.org/cfp/
a cartoon character with antlers and a white shirt with a cross on it
ALT: a cartoon character with antlers and a white shirt with a cross on it
media.tenor.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I do the art for this magnificent con, and if you’re a hacker, you owe it to yourself to a) come down to NZ for it, it slaps, and b) submit a talk????
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So there's someone arguing about using people's requested pronouns with the sentence, "no one can compel or coerce me to use or not use certain words. I decide what I say and how I say it."
Which... fine. That's a stance a person can take. I could even see there being some merit to it as a policy.
Which... fine. That's a stance a person can take. I could even see there being some merit to it as a policy.
July 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
So there's someone arguing about using people's requested pronouns with the sentence, "no one can compel or coerce me to use or not use certain words. I decide what I say and how I say it."
Which... fine. That's a stance a person can take. I could even see there being some merit to it as a policy.
Which... fine. That's a stance a person can take. I could even see there being some merit to it as a policy.
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looking at new hardware, and it is /such/ a nightmare that everyone's added an onboard NPU without a single actual use case.
like literally MS has not even come up with a single NPU application other than studio? obscene. they're just waving their hands about how there's going to be in the future.
like literally MS has not even come up with a single NPU application other than studio? obscene. they're just waving their hands about how there's going to be in the future.
July 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
looking at new hardware, and it is /such/ a nightmare that everyone's added an onboard NPU without a single actual use case.
like literally MS has not even come up with a single NPU application other than studio? obscene. they're just waving their hands about how there's going to be in the future.
like literally MS has not even come up with a single NPU application other than studio? obscene. they're just waving their hands about how there's going to be in the future.
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it would be cool if i had a sibling who had kids and and really liked black jelly beans so i could have a niece named anise
June 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
it would be cool if i had a sibling who had kids and and really liked black jelly beans so i could have a niece named anise
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One of the most unsettling conversations I ever had was with a guy from NASA about 8 years ago. I expressed my skepticism that space colonisation was worthwhile. He expressed that it was an amazing way of selling billionaires on the idea of funding tech we’d need here on earth in a few decades.
ok this is wildly wrong, the worst place on earth at the least tecnologically advanced time in the history of the human species was still more habitable because it had a breathable atmosphere
Mars with modern technology and a big prestige/research budget is considerably more habitable than subsistence living with premodern tech in various especially hellish parts of the Earth.
June 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One of the most unsettling conversations I ever had was with a guy from NASA about 8 years ago. I expressed my skepticism that space colonisation was worthwhile. He expressed that it was an amazing way of selling billionaires on the idea of funding tech we’d need here on earth in a few decades.
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NZ Govt: we need to live within our meanness.
May 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
NZ Govt: we need to live within our meanness.
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every time I see one of those rants that include an"Ozempic is a weight loss drug" rants its like yes it is and you're simply gonna ignore that it functionally cures Type 2 diabetes and to land whatever zinger you think you've cooked up here huh
May 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
every time I see one of those rants that include an"Ozempic is a weight loss drug" rants its like yes it is and you're simply gonna ignore that it functionally cures Type 2 diabetes and to land whatever zinger you think you've cooked up here huh
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I think of this quote all the time.
May 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I think of this quote all the time.
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The first thing I noticed was how fast this swallow flew. When it landed, I noticed the white cheeks and green back. I was thrilled to realize that it was a Violet-green Swallow. They are stunning!
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
May 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The first thing I noticed was how fast this swallow flew. When it landed, I noticed the white cheeks and green back. I was thrilled to realize that it was a Violet-green Swallow. They are stunning!
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding
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one of my favorite archaeology terms is "manuport" which just means a thing (rock, animal, stick, etc) that's in a weird place because a prehistoric human picked it up and carried it there. this one is estimated to be 3 million years old
May 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
one of my favorite archaeology terms is "manuport" which just means a thing (rock, animal, stick, etc) that's in a weird place because a prehistoric human picked it up and carried it there. this one is estimated to be 3 million years old
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I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer
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A frog wizard and his faithful familiar on this international bat day
These two will be the leads on my next frog book (whenever I finally get to it)
These two will be the leads on my next frog book (whenever I finally get to it)
April 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A frog wizard and his faithful familiar on this international bat day
These two will be the leads on my next frog book (whenever I finally get to it)
These two will be the leads on my next frog book (whenever I finally get to it)
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[SHIVERS] the streets are overwhelmed, you moron. they cannot take the stench of five of you. the streets buckle under your degeneracy.
They need to add hero limits to Disco Elysium. I’m sick of queueing up and being the only Kim on a team of five Harrys
![r/DiscoElysium 3d
i tried to edit my save file and broke the damn game
[Disco Elysium screenshot with five Harry icons]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z4llsx425l4htoylyyx6iam3/bafkreigeiow7rb3igj4bpav5cztvhkqhprrj2vi75onmkfrxh27fdiqp5i@jpeg)
April 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
[SHIVERS] the streets are overwhelmed, you moron. they cannot take the stench of five of you. the streets buckle under your degeneracy.
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GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
October 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this