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Thea
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Nerd, sewist, tinkerer, Pākehā

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Well after soldering some really tiny components on to a PCB (0603! TSSOP!) I have a working HID Hopper to connect my Apple Pro USB mouse to my PowerMac 7220!
A HID Hopper connecting a USB mouse to an ADB PowerMac. The display is showing the MacOS 8 installer.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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AAA games are expensive? The RBNZ inflation calculator says this is about $275 in today’s dollars.
A boxed copy of Perfect Dark for Nintendo 64 with a price sticker showing $149.95 on it.
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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And back together!
A Power Macintosh 7220/200, now reassembled. There is some clutter on the desk around it.
October 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Yay it makes the noise!
October 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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If you use the iOS hearing test and get an audiogram that looks like this it says “little to no loss”.

However this level of hearing loss can make it very hard to understand speech especially with background noise.

Hearing aids (including AirPods Pro) may help.
An audiogram showing normal hearing until 2kHz, afterwards the hearing loss starts increasing by around 20dB every 2kHz of frequency increase.
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.
Pirates of Dark Water
October 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.
Marshall BraveStarr and his horse Thirty/Thirty
October 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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This year Vector overcharged its customers by $134 million.
Hello fellow Aucklanders! We are delighted to have paid the 2025 Entrust dividend of $364. This year we paid $134 million to 368,000 Auckland households and businesses.
September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Yeah it was the live thread and the spineless gits kicking out Chlöe for standing up for her principles took over.

It’s in the scroll back here www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
August 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Well this is a headline I just read with my eyes.
August 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A Soviet era joke, for anyone in the USA now
My favorite Soviet era joke: Three Russian men were sent by their company to attend a convention in Moscow. All 3 shared a hotel room. Two of them cracked open a bottle of vodka, but the third just wanted to sleep. The two drinkers got louder and louder as the bottle emptied, telling each other political jokes. The third was kept awake, and got angry. He went outside for a smoke. On his way back to his room, he stopped at the desk and said ‘Please send a pot of tea up to room 23’ The two drunks were still being loud. The third man went in, looked at them, then leaned over to the light socket ‘Comrade Major, please send some tea to my room’ The other men thought this was hilarious...until there was a knock on the door, and a waiter with a pot of tea. They became completely silent, and the third man fell asleep. When he woke up in the morning, he was alone. He went to the front desk, and asked where his roommates were. ‘Well, the KGB came this morning and took them away’ The man was horrified ‘why did they spare me?!?’ ‘The comrade major thought the tea joke was very funny.’
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Went on an adventure!
The Hobbiton sign at the Hobbiton preserved movie set A view towards Bag End. The gate is closed with the sign “no admittance except on party business”. The front door is ajar.
August 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Internet NZ voting right now
An image of the Reddit mascot hitting another with a mallet labelled "F5", while saying "It's still down..."
July 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Nah I'm good eh.
A pop-up from a Zoom meeting "Not hearing anything? Turn up volume"
July 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Whelp the UNESCO sea level gauges are showing… data.

I hope all the island nations don’t get badly hit.
A screenshot of the UNESCO sea level gauge at Wake Island, showing a normal tide pattern until around 0330 UTC then random level changes between 200cm above and below normal for the next half hour
July 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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I think my 2degrees bill is ready
A screenshot of my email inbox showing four emails from 2degrees with my latest bill all received at the same time.
June 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I guess I need to get some screencaps from Rimmerworld, because this is all I can find even on Tumblr
May 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Introduced David Seymour our part time Deputy PM #nzpol
A clip from Red Dwarf of Arnold Rimmer waving his hands in an attempted “gangster sign” while saying “Okay home boys, let’s posse!”
May 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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They seem to be decreasing
May 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Suspicious Fry (Futurama)
April 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I finally got around to clipping this scene from The Matrix. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be prescient.
A clip from The Matrix Agent Smith: I say "your civilisation", because when we started thinking for you it became our civilisation
April 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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But what if I take the red pill _and_ the blue pill?
A red and white capsule, a blue and white capsule, and a beige round pill that smells strongly of mint.
April 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Oh no, not this again
A screenshot of a tweet by Alec Blechman Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
April 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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This cheese is a disaster waiting to happen
A packet of Swiss cheese slices.
February 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Tactical Breach Wizards has some great achievements
Achievements: Look Both Ways Let the Less Lethal Pyromancer get hit by ghost traffic Back On The Streets Defenestrate Steve Clark, Traffic Warlock Improvised Window Knock the Traffic Warlock into a Death's Door Jaywalker Make a Steve hit another Steve with ghost traffic Who Needs Therapy? (Jen, Still) Complete Jen's Anxiety Dream
February 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM