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nickkapur.bsky.social
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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mutablejoe.bsky.social
the Coldplay song Yellow is about cooking with turmeric
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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mountaintui.bsky.social
What a fuck wit - Nelson hospital have been pleading with him for budget/resources for a year. Also the same guy who ordered Auckland City Hospital to do minimum work resulting its infrastructure/backup plans failing in emergencies. This guy would not last a day in a real work environment. #nzpol
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
A yard display of famous movie serial killers around a table THOSE TEENAGERS DESERVED IT CHANGE OUR MINDS
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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garydelaney.bsky.social
A story in three parts
A story in the parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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basicbishop.bsky.social
Nobody ray chung tonight
October 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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robbienicol.bsky.social
One good thing about the local elections is finally getting a definitive list of how racist all the different bits of New Zealand are.
October 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
mandrewnz.bsky.social
The best wild beers in New Zealand come from a shed in the back blocks of Hamilton thespinoff.co.nz/kai/11-10-20...
The best wild beers in New Zealand come from a shed in the back blocks of Hamilton
On one side, the country’s largest and most well-funded breweries. On the other, a guy called Darryl with some barrels.
thespinoff.co.nz
October 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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kevinpowell.co
Are you the type of dev who just copies and pastes hex codes?

If so, I've written an article over at @piccalil.li just for you!

I take a look at some of the new CSS colour features that are most useful for those who don't really care about colours.

piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...
A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one
Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...
piccalil.li
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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burritojustice.bsky.social
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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zoedrayson.bsky.social
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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apiln.bsky.social
“Free art lessons for mayoral candidates” is a campaign we can get behind.
The 'deconstructionist' meaning behind Queenstown's curious election hoardings
"I'm kind of making fun of politics, like the election cycle... it's a bit of a circus."
www.rnz.co.nz
September 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
outstanding
www.engadget.com/wearables/me...
engadget article screenshot: ...skipped ahead by several steps and continued glitching. The chef told Zuckerberg that the "WiFi might be messed up" in the venue. Bosworth said, however, that it was not the case. Apparently, when the chef said "Hey Meta, start Live AI," it fired up every single Meta Ray-Ban's Live AI in the building. And since the event was all about the company's smart glasses, there were a lot of them in the venue at the time. The company had also routed Live AI's traffic to its dev server to isolate it, but it ended up routing the Live AI traffic of everyone's glasses in the building to its server. "We DDoS'd ourselves, basically," he said. He continued that it didn't happen at rehearsal, because there weren't as many people wearing the glasses when they tested it out.
September 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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neal.fun
I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now!

good luck :)

> neal.fun/not-a-robot/
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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bernardchickey.bsky.social
More very useful info.
musicalchairs.bsky.social Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · Sep 16
Random taxpayer rant: This is how the reckonomists want you to view Govt... scrounging around for tax revenue, or begging rich people to lend them a few billion dollars to build a 4-lane road or pay Ed Sheeran to play at Eden Park every Saturday for the next 5 years. It's bollox... [🧵 1/n]
Begging bowl image from Oliver
September 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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codepo8.bsky.social
I miss these days…
Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit
September 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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brucel.bsky.social
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...
"AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex"
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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frontendfocus.bsky.social
You’re Loading Fonts Wrong (and It’s Crippling Your Performance): https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/youre-loading-fonts-wrong/
You’re loading fonts wrong (and it’s crippling your performance)
Fonts are one of the most visible, most powerful parts of the web. And yet: almost everyone gets them wrong.
www.jonoalderson.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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cydharrell.bsky.social
whoever did this, I would be absolutely thrilled to buy you a drink. seriously - dm or find me, I'm the only Cyd Harrell on the internet. I'm good for an excellent beverage & a civic tech rage session. americabydesign.fail
America by Design Fail
Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government
americabydesign.fail
August 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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publicaddress.bsky.social
The Beths did a What's In My Bag! I love the way Liz and Jonathan are so earnest, like they have to answer every question as if it's the last time it will ever be asked of them. Also appreciated the shout-out to "New Zealand's first band", Split Enz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-btv...
The Beths - What's In My Bag?
YouTube video by Amoeba
www.youtube.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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pattymo.com
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
August 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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davidslack.bsky.social
laminate!
August 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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quinnypig.com
Sam Altman telling the Fed he’s worried about AI fraud is like a bear telling the park ranger he’s concerned about all the mauled campers.
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · Jul 23
In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending "fraud crisis" because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people (Clare Duffy/CNN)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
July 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM