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Tom Eastman
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It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it.

What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
The reason the text was "oops" is almost as gory.
October 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Oops
October 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
That's not how temperature works.

When the temperature hits zero* it does not mean you've used up all your temperature.

*celcius
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Stuff NZ really needs to stop publishing this complete baffoon. Not even because of the mysoginy, but because of the plagiarism. His entire argument is 2014-era-gamergate-mysoginist. There is absolutely no original or novel thinking here. And there never will be.
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Fuckin' sea lions, man.
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Here's a perfect example.
September 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My brothers family had to say goodbye to their good boy, Kobe.

He's been a slow old boy for a while now, but he was the fastest dog I'd ever seen back when I took these photos.
August 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
It's nice to feel winter drawing to a close.
August 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
July 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Last hop home! it's a long damn way from London to Wellington
July 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Absolutely LMAO that Battersea Power Station is now an ultra upmarket gentrified shopping mall.
July 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I found Valhalla! (Iykyk)
July 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Boop

WLG MEL ✈️ DXB MAD VLC
July 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Tortuna City!
May 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
They can't even make original jokes.
May 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.

IYKYK
May 8, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I wonder if we have any good recent examples of what happens when tradies can certify their own work?
April 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
100% reminds me of this moment from @theabigailthorn.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I saw this posted earlier today and it's 100% relevant here.
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Why has this sentence vanished from the page its linking to?
March 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The NZ media, literally the next day:
March 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is the most popular story on Stuff right now, and to save you a click, the answer in the article is "because it might expire".

Passports have expiry dates. That's the top story in the country?
March 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Is this the passive voice? or is it something even weirder as it implies that this thing just happened magically rather than imply a driver destroyed a child's life with a car?
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Vodafone ("One NZ") competence never ceases to not amaze me.
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Firing threatens fragile ceasefire".

What is the definition of a ceasefire, if one side can continue firing during a ceasefire?

Honest question.
March 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM