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Kiwi geek. Privacy cybersec and tabletop roleplaying.

Free Gaza, kick Russia out of Ukraine.

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mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
Honestly, I thought the 2025 Naked Gun movie was pretty true to the original. No one has quite the deadpan that Lesley Nielson had, but Liam Neeson does ok.

I think they kept very close to the original comedy style.

#movie #review #nakedgun
December 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy
X-posting from BluSky (from https://cjs.nz/socials/) - https://bsky.app/profile/cjs.nz/post/3maoq6ugzmk2s

> I’m not certain if there’s a big #nzpol community on here, but if there is:

> Last night I finally launched my web tool to track when this Parliament has gone into urgency, and which […]
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mstdn.io
December 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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jennifilm.nz
The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and
life-saving treatment option”
PSNZ responds to government announcement on puberty blockers
www.paediatrics.org.nz
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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MakeUseOf: I never expected an open-source app to beat IFTTT and Zapier — but this one did
https://www.makeuseof.com/never-expected-open-source-huginn-app-beat-ifttt-zapier-but-this-one-did/

Where paid automation ends, this open-source tool begins.
I never expected an open-source app to beat IFTTT and Zapier — but this one did
Where paid automation ends, this open-source tool begins.
www.makeuseof.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy
It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

#vivaldi #ai #llm […]
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social.vivaldi.net
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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quadradical.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy
# Nexus Client

Hi, around two weeks ago I started making Nexus, a Matrix client.

In these two weeks, I've made great progress, as you can see in the progress list.

However, I'd love some help implementing some features, or help with UI design, as it takes me […]

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Screenshot of Nexus Client in dark mode, showing users talking, with a sidebar showing rooms and spaces, and another sidebar showing members The same screenshot as before, but in light mode
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
What does everyone else do with dear friends that have died?

I have contacts in my phone with numbers that will never be answered, but I find it really hard to delete those numbers.

#absentfriends
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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anti-disease.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy
What are the best _European_ or at least _non-US_ respirators?

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #keepmasksinhealthcare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPLUS #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #davossafe #BringBackMasks #covidconscious #cleanair #COVIDcautious #boycottusa #FFP2 #ffp3 #n95 #n99
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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fiona.frontrange.co.ap.brid.gy
It’s been a minute but do any #aonz
peeps know any science projects which use volunteer support? My partner and I are both (former) scientists. Ocean research preferred!
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
Trump was elected less than a year ago. It feels like he's been in for a decade.

There is three more years of this.

Urgh.

#uspol #trump #cmontheapocalypse
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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volts.wtf
I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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[puberty blocker ban, nzpol]

to stave off The Horrors I've made donations tonight to Youth Hub (https://www.youthhubchch.org.nz/) and Qtopia (https://qtopia.org.nz/).
Youth Hub Christchurch | youthhub | 109 Salisbury Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand
Youth Hub Christchurch provides everything young people need to improve and maintain their mental health, from supported housing and health and support services, to recreation and creativity.
www.youthhubchch.org.nz
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Finally deleted the reddit app, with regret. It was important to my career, and I like it, but the algorithmizing and infinite scroll turned it from the enjoyable experience of checking in with interesting topics into yet another app generically trying to addict you.
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.

Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
“What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
So we know that smart TVs send a lot of information back about what you're watching. I assume all the dongles do as well, does anyone know a good source for finding out what (say) a Chromecast is reporting back to Google? Or AppleTV is sending to Apple?

Hopefully someone has put together a […]
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mastodon.nz
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:

- Things are going to get worse, no matter what

- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today

theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
a colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dar kblue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5c), and one of deep purple (3c and more)
January 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy
hi fedi, looking for lawyer recommendations

i build safety/accessibility tools and honestly should probably talk to someone who knows digital rights law. need guidance on doing this work across different places (US/EU/Australia).

any recommendations? boosts appreciated
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.

Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.
Slide with the title “The anti-vaccination movement has no new material”. Montague R. Leverson, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 1895 Robert F. Kennedy, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 2025 Accuse expert vaccine advisory committees of pro-vaccine "bias" "That commission was deliberately packed at its very outset..." "The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine". Falsely state that vaccines cause death "Vaccination has caused more deaths and diseases than ever has smallpox". "This [COVID19 vaccine] is the deadliest vaccine ever made..." Claim that healthcare practitioners and scientists are only in it for the money, not because of scientific evidence "...Jenner was a mercenary charlatan whose ignorance and impatience of scientific methods were equaled only by his mendacity..." "Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They're pressured to follow the money, not the science". Use false and inflammatory words about vaccines The "Blood-poisoning process of vaccination" "They went on a search... looking for the most toxic things that they could find...to
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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fedi.wake.st
was wondering what font the Zohran Mamdani campaign is using and learned its hand lettered at a co-op by worker/owner Aneesh Bhoopathy of https://forge.coop
ZOHRAN for NYC sign in purple and orange
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
Getting into the Halloween spirit by watching the Nightmare Before Christmas, and Beetlejuice.

Alec Baldwin is just a baby! And Winona Ryder was probably just out of school!

#halloween #everyoneissoyoung
October 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251019120503.htm

“Receiving a #covid19mrnavaccine near the start of cancer immunotherapy dramatically improved survival in advanced lung and skin cancer patients. The discovery hints at a new era of universal, immune-boosting cancer vaccines.”
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy
I guess it twas ever thus
It's a Garfield comic strip, Garfield is looking out the window Panel 1: "life is like a Ferrari. It goes too fast" Panel 2: "but that's ok" Panel 3: "because you can't afford it anyway"
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy
The Linux Mint installation was refreshing, everything that Win11 wasn't. It asked my language and keyboard type then asked to connect to WiFi and it ACTUALLY TOOK "NO" FOR AN ANSWER. It asked for timezone and local account name and info and spent 10-20 minutes installing the base system.

It […]
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oldbytes.space
October 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Colombia: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters”

“Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.”

“The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”
US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government. x.com/RTVCnoticias/s…..
October 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM