Potato ENTHUSIAST

Software Engineer in film/anim/vfx. Also elected to some Internet governance role. I grow potatoes between pull requests. I used to contribute to laconia, the predecessor of mastodon. They/them

Trying to be a good ancestor.

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2024-09-15 20:06:22

Bringing back the guns that killed families in mosques
Turning the most vulnerable employees into contractors
Removing emissions targets that combat climate change
Removing discounts that helped nz import EVs
Gaslighting that nation that Tiriti o Waitangi wasn't about tangata whenua
Smoothing the path for mining, fracking, drilling, and don't worry about the impact on our lands and endangered species
Planning to build roads that take 10% of nz govs budget for the next 25 years
What else? #nz

2024-09-15 19:56:10

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@npub1vt6…w2mw is that a defensive trench?

2024-09-14 23:46:16

what are all those skinny white women drinking from those giant "stanley" branded cups?

2024-09-09 21:09:23

spotted on trademe....
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/crafts/knitting-weaving/looms-frames/listing/4903144416

2024-09-07 05:59:13

Probably time for nerds to get their shit together and overthrow capitalism.

2024-09-03 10:03:13

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@npub12nm…wh2s
Yes this. If voting is like catching a bus then we need to stop telling off people who decide not to get on the bus that funds genocide.

2024-08-30 23:38:31

Hey #nz #NZTwits fedi friends.
@npub1nnm…ahp5 is needing support from our community right now. If you have cash to spare, consider sending some to her givealitte.
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/support-us-with-our-24-week-nicu-baby

2024-08-27 02:24:05

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@npub1zg9…nh26 take a big stick with u. I found the biggest spider I've ever see, under the Toby plate

2024-08-25 02:02:18

You know, if you stopped covering your food in garlic, salt, and chillies, you might be able to taste something else.

2024-08-24 22:11:25

Butter is so expensive now, we are researching if we can milk the dog
Heck, I used to make my own milkfot the kids, might be cheaper to do that again.
Probably better idea to grow soy beans. But that doesn't make butter.

2024-08-10 00:06:45

Me the genius: I'll move the firewood from the front yard to the back, using my car
Also me: why is my car full of angry wētā?
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/934/804/764/487/256/original/93100c5adc00f8b1.jpg

2024-08-08 22:34:50

hello fellow soldiers fighting in the #NZ war on the cost-of-living-crisis
you can get cleaning grade vinegar direct from DYC
https://www.dycvinegar.co.nz/shop/

2024-08-05 10:29:51

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@npub147m…7rue damn. Is that mount John?

2024-08-04 20:21:16

Fun fact. Destiny church peaked in 2003 with about three thousand members. Now days they have about 1,700. They take up far too much space in #nz news media for a club that's smaller than nz fedi.

2024-07-30 02:49:52

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@npub19xu…e8yd it disappeared around the time all the branding changed to "beef & lamb"....

2024-07-30 02:23:12

It's a weird thing that in new Zealand the butchers don't sell hogget or mutton so you gotta buy goat instead. Plenty of sheep out there but I guess it all does to dog food?

2024-07-29 20:15:36

Stuff did a bunch of steps to have reo #Māori language on their news website.
But soon after they decided to instead have AI translate news stories written in English, into Māori, and not pay translators anymore.
This is not a step to revitalise the language. Every reader could have put a story thru Google translate if they wanted to read the news in uncanny valley mode.

2024-07-28 00:25:02

In nz, "tough on crime" means cracking down on youths robbing corner food stores, by sending these children to military training camps, and hiding gang patches.
It doesn't mean being tough on domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault. It doesn't mean crackdown on wage theft by employers, violence by racists, male supremacist and gun violence, terrorism targeting minorities or men harming their former partners.
It's only targeting those that scare financially comfy conservative adults.

2024-07-22 07:07:45

i think i've muted most of the USA... so much calmer now

2024-07-21 05:12:29

I have far too much celery. What can be made with abundant celery?

2024-07-16 10:54:22

ffs what's next
https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/350345208/government-considers-rolling-back-insulation-standards

2024-07-11 08:58:32

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@npub147m…7rue I wonder how much it changes if you have a window seat.

2024-07-03 07:13:39

Stop what you're doing and look at my cat.
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/721/315/433/621/818/original/c0d890cbe74cd4e8.jpg

2024-07-02 03:15:10

life hack: wear gloves that look like you have far too many fingers -- so if anyone films you doing crimes you can plausibly claim it was AI generated.

2024-06-27 23:09:23

It shouldn't be controversial to say stop killing civilians, children, aid workers.
#ceasefirenow

2024-06-26 21:56:28

Do northern hemisphere people know about mid-winter-christmas?
I mean, you get to ado a normal christmas in december with BBQ and ham and beaches and summer berries and seeing family
and then 6months later you get mid-winter christmas, which is flexible on dates, and involves your ancestor's traditional mid winter foods .

2024-06-26 08:26:39

I want to invite everyone in eastern suburbs who finds themselves suddenly without a day job in coming weeks, you should come hang out with me at strathmore park community centre. I'm there each Monday. Have a cup of tea with others and take home some of the rescued kaibosh food. It's for everyone. Make it a regular and meet your community here.

2024-06-25 10:44:50

Not sure why any whistle blower would pick Australia to go to. Have they heard what Australia does to whistle blowers?

2024-06-24 00:14:50

When I was a student, we had a flatmate that was studying dentistry because she liked inflicting pain. She had a part time job as a assistant at a local clinic and would describe all sorts of awful things with glee. Hate to think where she is now.

2024-06-23 20:24:38

With hay-fever and a bee allergy, I definitely feel unhappy about all the "grow wildflowers not lawn" posts lately.

2024-06-23 06:56:22

I have waaaay too many apples. Making apple crumble now.
Please send more idea on how to use up all the apples.

2024-06-22 23:36:25

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@npub1zg9…nh26 awww. We get maybe one fireplace every few kilometres and it's a nice woodsmoke smell. So different when everyone does it

2024-06-20 21:51:59

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@npub19xu…e8yd yeah but we can't tell online
Reminds me of a hearing friend I met through Deaf and sign language communities and I knew her for five years before I learned she has a German accent.

2024-06-19 20:30:34

It's juneteenth and I'm gonna talk about at least one part of Aotearoa and Australia's role in slavery in the americas
Blackbirding
This is a term for sailing to a Pacific island, stealing away people from their families, sometimes taking a whole island nation of people, forced into the cargo hold and then sail to the Americas to sell as slaves.
Then taking a cargo of things back to Australia and New Zealand.
Ships did the trip back and forth.
And Polynesians end up in brutal lives.

2024-06-11 20:54:52

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@npub1zg9…nh26
When we first moved here the gate would freeze shut every winter.
Hasn't happened for four years now

2024-06-11 20:27:37

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@npub1zg9…nh26 whaaaaat. It's been years since we even had a frost

2024-06-02 08:22:36

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@npub1drn…qz4p what is that app?

2024-06-02 06:42:31

Can anyone give me info on when and where to look to see that comet?

2024-06-01 21:27:13

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@npub1knz…c73p is it one of those "window tax" things? Where having more windows meant paying more property tax.

2024-06-01 10:54:10

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@npub147m…7rue yikes. What's the temperature up there?

2024-05-30 06:52:36

maybe we should stop filling the Internet with all the info a bot needs to impersonate us

2024-05-28 23:40:39

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@npub1drn…qz4p ah, what's behind the pay wall tho?

2024-05-23 09:14:14

well that's it then. no apple strudel recipes for me until #duckduckgo is back. should have bought cookbooks

2024-05-20 08:41:16

The generation that believed they didn't need knowledge, we could just Google it, we are about to find out how that ends.

2024-05-20 05:44:54

If the world all seems too much, too broken, then it's time to look for a small, very very small problem, near you, that you can help solve, instead of watching the biggest most horrible things far away.
Still too hard? Look closer. Smaller. Until you find something you can help.

2024-05-20 04:31:13

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@npub1zg9…nh26
That's so sensible
Miramar was built with sewer lines under the back yards of all the blocks.

2024-05-20 04:25:04

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@npub1zg9…nh26 maybe do what I should have done and check where the sewer line is.
I gotta take out my feijoa tree.

2024-05-19 03:18:25

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@npub17nc…9dam the sky is so woke

2024-05-14 20:41:48

yeah i wonder.
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/441/378/693/115/874/original/bd22d417885b9c6d.png

2024-05-14 20:02:01

Just realised all those meetings I thought I had all morning are actually tomorrow so I do get to sit with my dog and drink this coffee for a little bit longer right now.
Aha so it's their Wednesday, not my Wednesday.

2024-05-11 06:33:46

Moa point right now
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/421/058/389/225/881/original/94d1382003eb5eea.png
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/421/058/655/098/283/original/4fd4a04707b3068e.png
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/421/058/930/976/064/original/692c5c6f86beb535.png

2024-05-09 05:22:48

umm.. okay - i guess both can be true?
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/409/452/921/959/679/original/b1b746ad1a7e03d3.png
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/409/454/628/103/440/original/5f98485b13301677.png

2024-05-08 10:26:48

TIL that feudalism was finally abolished in the last British dependency in 2008
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/09/britishidentity.samjones

2024-04-27 22:22:26

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@npub1xr8…3q0g yeah, but I'm trying to get the gst claimed, because then I am able to spend more on my monitor.

2024-04-27 21:58:04

should my USA based employer be paying GST when they buy me a new monitor from an NZ store (back light died on mine)
if i was a contractor, i'd claim the GST back. but i'm an employee now (via Deel)
if they were an NZ business they would claim the GST back, but they're not here at all
so.... how do we get the GST back if i buy this monitor urgently from PBtech today?

2024-04-15 23:10:30

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@npub12nm…wh2s Stub

2024-04-11 19:46:29

"God of landlords at they feet, in the stolen bonds we meet. Hear our voices raise the rent, God defend the LandLords"

2024-04-10 01:04:54

This morning's interview of Winston Peters on RNZ. They called him a world leader, talked about the eclipse, and ended with how cool he looks in eclipse sun glasses.

2024-04-06 18:59:25

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@npub19lt…qfjk need one of those sand batteries to store heat for winter

2024-04-05 00:43:51

Aotearoa hair dressers can get very flustered and rude at non-binary people because they can't work out whether to charge them the men's rate or the women's rate for the exact same haircut.

2024-03-31 01:14:00

NZers who don't speak te reo Māori language have an impressive vocabulary of Māori words anyway. Paper published measuring it.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12635

2024-03-25 21:47:51

I see Judith Collins talking about hackers from China, and it brings back lots of memories: the time she was the minister when someone reported a security hole, and she declared that person a hacker and went after him*.
*pronoun used at the time in hansard

2024-03-22 04:24:34

THEY. DEFUNDED. INSULIN. PUMPS. AND. GLUCOSE. SENSORS. FOR. DIABETIC. CHILDREN. SO. THE. RICH. CAN. GET. TAX. CUTS.
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/paying-for-tax-cuts-by-not-funding?r=akd4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2024-03-12 05:16:31

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@npub1ke3…xcva Ummmm.. OK 😊

2024-03-07 21:38:54

sometimes i really want to read a news story but can't bring myself to give money to the herald

2024-03-06 19:29:26

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@npub12f7…lkxh
i found this -- i think the magic word to add to searches is "pinout"
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/050/395/664/940/715/original/2acf84449a99af80.png

2024-03-05 19:39:52

what's missing in a lot of these "AI is racist" thinkpieces is that they are racist because the human actions/decisions they were trained on are racist too.
gotta say that bit loudly too.

2024-03-02 20:37:05

What are they surveying....?
Wrong answers only.
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/112/028/001/985/084/679/original/6719082ede0d52ab.jpg

2024-02-29 18:49:42

Couriers dart through our streets every day. Better for the world than each household driving to all those shops and back.
If we can do the logistics better, it's gotta be less travel, less fossil fuels, less microplastics, less roads to build, if we can get them to take efficient routes without duplication.
Maybe we already do this?

2024-02-28 18:40:12

NZs new gov looking at removing the Official Information Act.
https://nzccl.org.nz/media-release-bizarre-government-secrecy-keeps-public-in-the-dark-about-law-changes-affecting-the-oia/
#nzpol

2024-02-27 02:32:40

"we don't need *new* treatments [for menopause] we just need women to be able to access all the existing proven treatments"
Listening to a menopause specialist on RNZ .
"we dismiss menopause symptoms as a natural part of ageing, but so is high blood pressure and we're fine with treating that but not menopause"

2024-02-26 06:32:04

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@npub1zg9…nh26 the control panel is possessed by a demon.

2024-02-26 06:04:55

Once again I have no oven.

2024-02-24 19:50:16

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@npub19lt…qfjk have u tried mastodon/fedi?

2024-02-22 21:16:23

i'm a bit discombobulated about one thing
my usual approach when I need to replace an appliance is to buy FisherPaykel because
* their stuff lasts
* their stuff is user serviceable
* parts are easy to find, cheap or free in NZ
But that's all changed. They've switched to rounding up Uyghur Muslims to "work" in "factories" and produce what may or may not be the same quality but also not something I want to contribute to, nor do I want to see a monument to that in my home every day.

2024-02-22 03:37:46

I don't know who needs to here this but:
it's okay to write open source #golang libraries that doesn't start with the letter G

2024-02-21 02:57:40

Question for people who don't live in Aotearoa New Zealand:
What does "co-design" mean to you?

2024-02-20 21:21:47

Efeso Collins had passed away. This is shocking and sad. He was 49, and exactly the political leadership Auckland needs. It's just so sad and tragic. 😔

2024-02-12 03:43:07

BEYONCE JUST DROPPED NEW MUSIC!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKNjTb6U1Y

2024-02-10 21:19:47

Going to hospital for non-covid treatment, and then getting covid in hospital, really is the modern day version of denying germ theory and hygiene while your patients all die from infection because the hospital doesn't think that those deaths are worth preventing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/patients-catching-covid-hospitals-australia-infection-control/103442806

2024-02-09 03:53:01

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@npub1zg9…nh26 @npub1sw6…nnvv the treatments for cat renal failure have gotten better in the last decade

2023-06-11 06:44:11

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@npub19lt…qfjk t
I chose whatever is first on the form, so I'm mostly mister

2023-05-30 11:53:06

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@npub19lt…qfjk I'm worried it might not have agreed well, even tho it's only from 2011

2023-05-30 11:36:31

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@npub19lt…qfjk hey, try watching The Almighty Johnsons. I'm curious how far you'll get.

2023-05-12 05:25:41

Can someone translate this to standard English for me?
“For somebody who has A$50m, they've got $100m, and that's the reality of our market now for Sydney if they want to live on the waterfront,” Klaric said
If you have 50 then you have 100? I don't get it but it seems to be an important part of the story
https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/300877502/basic-1920s-brick-home-on-sydney-waterfront-sells-for-53-million-in-australia

2023-04-24 05:56:03

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#[0] #[1] your hypothetical are very different scenarios and you know it.

2023-04-18 19:28:54

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#[0] server down #[1] ?

2023-04-18 07:50:08

Fuck sake Aotearoa
Wellington to Auckland
$240 by train
$106 by plane

2023-03-25 06:24:49

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#[0] did you draw this?