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Strypey
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Free human being of this Earth. Pākeha in Aotearoa.

Be excellent to each other!

Email: strypey @disintermedia.net.nz

Jabber: strypey@jabber.org

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The yin and yang of curry ...
A photo of a bowl with a dark and light coloured curry, with a spot of each in the other.
September 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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[Complaint about white supremacist imagery, includes photo]

Some prick has painted a white shithead tag on the river path, just by the boardwalk where Hillsborough Tce meets Cobham Drive. Any suggestions for how to creatively alter this, culture jam styles?
A white supremacist tag on the river path in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), Aotearoa
August 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Some days I really feel like everything I do trying to make the world better is a waste of time. Like my efforts are not only ineffective, but actively counterproductive. Like the world would be a better place if I spent my days smoking ganja and stacking […]

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A cartoon of a heron trying to swallow a frog, who is reaching out of the heron's mouth to strangle it. Caption beneath reads "Never give up!"
August 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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@pine64 I subscribed to your #PineTalk podcast in AntennaPod, using the "Get the RSS feed" link on the podcast page;

https://pine64.org/podcast/

AntennaPod was able to find the podcast and add it, but the RSS feed doesn't seem to tell it where to download […]

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August 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Thanks to the #noscript plugin I use in my browsers, I just noticed that scripts from at least 2 Goggle domains and at least 1 Cloudflare domain (see screenshots) are being served to people visiting the official enrol to vote website […]

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Screenshot of NoScript showing the primary domain vote.nz, and third-party domains googletagmanager.com and gstatic.com Screenshot of NoScript showing the primary domain vote.nz, and third-party domain cloudflareinsights.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Hey Team @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org I notice that browsing to;

https://gotosocial.org/

... gives an error page (see screenshot) rather than redirecting to what appears to be the active subdomain;

https://docs.gotosocial.org/

This is small […]

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screenshot of GoToSocial.org
August 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I'm on a very low income but occasionally I treat myself to boost morale. Paid $30 for a vegan breakfast. Felt profoundly ripped off.

I have no problem with being served supermarket food; bog standard baked beans on toast, with chopped button mushrooms […]

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See post text
August 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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This reminds me of the campaigns to push the drinking age back to 20; knee-jerk, unprincipled, and contrary to the evidence for what is likely to achieve the desired outcome. Basically it's anti-youth populism, where genuinely concerned parents are driven […]

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Photo of ad on bus shelter, with black on white text that reads; "what happens online shapes offline. B416. Sign the petition to raise the social media age. B416. CO. NZ"
July 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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I give you, the country's most obscure bath. Snapped today in Mangokutukutu Gulley in Kirikiroa.

#bush #baths #bushbaths
A bath, perched on its edge, on the side of a steep, bushclad gully.
June 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Shout out to @ByteHamster and @keunes, the current lead developers of #antennapod;

https://antennapod.org/about/

I've been subscribing and listening to podcasts using AntennaPod since I got my first Android-based device in 2019. It's gone from strength to […]

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Screenshot of Strypey's AntennaPod home screen, with hamburger menu, search button, and 3 dots menu along the top. Then various lists scrolling sideways; Continue Listening, What's New, and Get Surprised. Screenshot of Strypey's AntennaPod home screen, with hamburger menu, search button, and 3 dots menu along the top. Then various lists scrolling sideways; Get Surprised, Check Your Classics, and Manage Downloads.
May 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Much of the hilly pasture land in Aotearoa has gullies like this. They take up a very small proportion of the overall property, and create hazards for grazing animals.

Fencing them off and reforesting them would create both habitat for wildlife. Plus a […]

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Photo of a gully in a hilly sheep paddock
April 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Look at this beautiful being!
Photo of big, beautiful moth, with dozens of fake eyes on its grey wings
April 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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"AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts."

https://search.brave.com/

You can say that again.
Algorithm-generated answer to a web search, which flips the majority party in government before and after the 2023 NZ election.
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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That's refreshingly honest.
Sign on a fence warning og the presence of "Spytower construction site surveillance security cameras"
April 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Nature is surprising and beautiful.
A log with a flower-like pattern, made by the actions of dozens of wood eating creatures.
April 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Does this guy really think shouting at people and calling them names is how you convince them to change their mind about political strategy? His rudeness is matched only by his total inability to defend his position with logic or evidence.

This is why the […]

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Useful Idiot accusing me of being a Russian troll for questioning Democrat centrism.
March 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Pharmaceutical companies are getting around the NZ law ban on direct-to-patient advertising of drugs by advertising conditions they want to sell drugs for. Clever. I'm guessing the linked website has info about drugs for treating shingles, that just happen […]

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Awareness ad on bus stop about shingles Fine print of shingles awareness ad showing it's funded by GlaxoSmithKline NZ
March 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Spray-painted on the footpath outside Wellington Hospital, Newtown, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
Yellow text reading "this government is too racist to represent us"
March 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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"This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Captain America: Brave New World is a 2025 American superhero film based on ..."

#wikipedia

https://search.brave.com/search?q=captain%20America%20brave%20new%20world

What's that now?!?
Screenshot of linked page at time of posting, the relevant text is contained in them post itself.
February 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Now they're just taking the piss. You can make a disposable bag out of thicker plastic, and print "reusable bag" on it all you like, and but this is a disposable plastic bag.

Hopefully it's at least made of recycled plastic, but it's still not […]

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A plastic shopping bag with the label "small reusable bag" and a big green recycling symbol.
January 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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This whining coward replied to a post I was mentioned, in with a cherry-picked statistic and a bunch of wild conspiracy theory, then blocked me in an attempt to to deny me a right of reply. That tells you everything you need to know about the intellectual […]

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January 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Since Phil has done the equivalent of throwing a drink in my face and running away (ie reply with evidently false nonsense and Block), see the screenshot for his claim, or this link;

https://mastodon.philtanner.com/@Phil_Tanner/113768044580935840

What he […]

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January 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Just so you know, without widely used open standards that allow us to do decentralised identity efficienly, we get this;

"In 2009, Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest co-founded Okta, and the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) market was born. Since then, we’ve […]

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A monochrome photo of two old white techbros in suits, giving each other bones, in the foreground of some corporate gathering.
December 10, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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Trees are epic. This tree got knocked over in a storm a few weeks ago. It's still green and thriving.

I'm no expert in European trees, anyone know what kind of tree this is? If it survives, and if it's a long-lived species, it's going to be really epic a century from now.

#trees #resilience
A tree lying on its side, while still growing.
November 25, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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@aral
> I didn’t compare it. I asked if you had a line. And if that line isn’t homophobia, what is it. But you know what, I’m so not in the mood to argue minutiae with you right now. With everything that’s going on, you thought: “Hey, here’s my hill. Why […]

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November 7, 2024 at 2:03 PM