@va2lam @joncounts @inlaing They have something similarly iced: the black-and-white cookie or half-moon cookie. In New Haven they were about 15 cm across and the line between the black and the white was never centred, never straight, and the icing was often mealy or drippy. It's hard to get it […]

@joncounts @inlaing One of the greengrocers here was saying a couple of weeks ago that he always sells more stonefruit and strawberries at double price before they're ready than when at normal price in peak season because people have such a strong need for stonefruit and strawberries for Christmas.

@joncounts @inlaing They taste like cheap artificial vanillin to me – they're missing the deep cookie flavour from the butter and flour.

There was a Mrs-something brand that sold at little street kiosks, freshly baked, something like the big soft chewy ones that you get in New England, but I […]

@joncounts These cookies puzzle me immensely. They're popular far beyond their quality, in my opinion. But I suppose that my opinion is grossly unpopular.

@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social Another case for comparison – makes one wonder how how judges evaluate and decide. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581999/man-jailed-for-more-than-five-years-for-collecting-child-exploitation-material

One of the scariest parts of this project was learning more about Starlink's orbital operations. I had always assumed they had some kind of clever configuration of the satellites in the orbital shell that minimized conjunctions, and we would see the number of conjunctions grow over time. But no! […]

@Niall @davemosk Good people rarely get press unlike these media frequent fliers in parliament and federated farmers. The system's designed to make us feel alone and weird.

A little group of us are starting a timebank here that's already helping to make apparent the normality and reality that […]

@davemosk Maybe farmers, and the rest of us, could shift from fearing the law to doing what we should.

@jevvv I don't think that you can get the US-style buttermilk here, so what you make won't taste like the US one. I've had it over there and was impressed but not in a positive way. It's basically junk food flavours.

@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social Given Collins' return from the dead, paranormal activity does not seem off-limits for the National Party.

@pixelpusher220 I must post a listing for the double-ended knife I've been developing – cut twice as fast, both ways at once!

I even save YOU money but not wasting it on a handle!

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

@grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social My current one once told me that she'd talk with the DHB and St John's about their handling of people in psychiatric distress (a psychotic friend, specifically, deep in hallucinations and paranoia, whom I'd been calming down while my wife phoned for help that never […]

@SimonCHulse @cloventt We clearly need a feline precedent...

@SimonCHulse @cloventt so my cat to driving a car is not illegal in the same way as for a Tesla algorithm driving a car? Because I don't recall any laws forbidding cats from doing this. Nor much else – plays right into the hands of those who say (erroneously) that the Law recognises the rights […]

@cloventt I suspect that this is because we have old laws written by people who reasonably presumed that cars would have human drivers, and therefore didn't explicitly legislate a requirement for one.

@lucky automation of so many kinds saps the joy from so many things