Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton

Research & policy lead, university research associate, sociologist, feminist, geek, coffee-vampire, lesbian 🏳️‍🌈, urbanist, electric motorbiker, wannabe Carol Danvers/Clarke Griffin/Kate Kane. She/her

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2024-09-02 22:35:48

Retail Company: Good news, your item has been dispatched for delivery to you!
Me: Yay!
RC: Click here to track your package.
Me: *click*
Aramex: Hey!
Me:
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2024-08-19 20:09:11

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@npub1zg9…nh26 I watch YouTube on my 65" TV via my AppleTV box, it's great :)

2024-08-16 03:44:56

The whole purpose of a postmenopausal female is to lead the resistance ...
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2024-08-10 01:05:30

Life may be kinda shit right now, but at least I managed to remove my broken toilet seat that had also almost rusted itself solid, take all the right measurements & pics (according to the guy at Bunnings), purchase a new (better - soft close) toilet seat, and install it by myself.
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/935/038/263/153/221/original/f8b313395ba77bd1.mp4

2024-08-06 19:20:31

Living dangerously with my charge levels on the motorcycle on my ride in this morning :)
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/916/690/210/776/119/original/36e71ea17fb956f4.mp4

2024-08-06 00:52:28

Don't think the author is on Mastodon, but he shared this on Bluesky & Threads, so I thought I would share it here too, as it's got some really good basic advice on dealing when you're a reader with authors who reveal themselves to be problematic.
"Dealing with Problematic Authors"
https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2024/08/dealing-with-problematic-authors.html

2024-07-31 02:39:05

REALLY not trusting Boeing right now …
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-D6cmwyfHA/?igsh=enVmbTIybm1uNTc5
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2024-07-23 06:30:01

Dang.
https://newrepublic.com/post/184119/kamala-harris-campaign-snub-netanyahu

2024-07-17 23:02:26

I was on 95BFM ...
https://95bfm.com/bcast/artificial-intelligence-usage-in-education-w-doctor-sarah-bickerton-from-the-university-of-auckland

2024-07-17 02:36:05

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@npub19xu…e8yd If it's not jellied custard between two hunty & palmers cream crackers, don't want to know about it ;)

2024-07-06 18:57:15

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@npub1ke3…xcva it really is

2024-07-06 06:24:56

Sunset over Little Oneroa Beach …
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2024-07-05 23:19:36

I’ve seriously fallen in love with living on Waiheke Island.
It will never happen of course, but after living here for some time to dog-sit, goodness I’d love to buy here. Even a one bedroom place.
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/736/441/026/097/137/original/38cdd0d02cf320e5.jpeg

2024-06-30 21:05:44

That was seriously impressive, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg seriously shutting down EV disinformation from Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).
https://youtu.be/EgbAQpR3TeY?si=UaW4Lz_oawVrc8Yu

2024-06-29 23:25:45

Another ride out to the East Coast of Waiheke Island, this time to Orapiu Bay …
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2024-06-20 21:31:56

"Back to school for the Govt’s new speed limit policy"
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/19/back-to-school-for-the-govts-new-speed-limit-policy/

2024-06-18 23:18:28

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@npub19xu…e8yd Hell, doesn't even need to be brand spanking new if they're certain they want their 'toyota corolla'

2024-06-18 23:08:38

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@npub19xu…e8yd Yup, just buy a long range Airbus ... doesn't need to be huge or anything. Just buy it already, give it to the Air Force to operate, and be done with this extended stupidity.

2024-06-18 10:37:11

Adulthood is basically one long realisation at how disconnected finding out is from fucking around.
Seriously, most of my adult life is finding out with yet no fucking around at all. Near continuous finding out. Zero fucking around.
And those that actually fuck around? Rarely find out unfortunately.

2024-06-14 01:10:51

So, I can just get paid NZ$74 billion dollars if I just demand it? Like not actually do anything to 'earn' it, just demand it?
Huh.

2024-06-10 22:04:43

Kia ora e te whānau,
As some of you know, my 50th birthday is coming up this week.
I've mentioned this before, so this is a remind that to mark it, tomorrow (Wednesday the 12th) from 5pm I am going to have a casual meetup for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland folks, at Vulture's Lane Craft Beer bar (10 Vulcan Lane).
Would love to see you! ❤️
Please share 🥰🎂🍺🎉

2024-06-09 01:17:53

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@npub1ke3…xcva oh for sure, still spiritual and beautiful, but just different from how things normally are.

2024-06-08 23:26:48

Well to be honest the weather this weekend has been pants, but I’m making the most of it (this is in Russel)
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2024-06-08 23:06:40

Every time I come up the Bay of Islands, I realise how much I would adore buying a small wee bach up here.
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/583/507/744/430/044/original/3fecbb1f3d87e47a.mp4

2024-06-06 19:51:13

Kia ora e te whānau,
As some of you know, my 50th birthday is coming up next week.
So to mark it, on Wednesday (the 12th) from 5pm I am going to have a casual meetup for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland folks, at Vulture's Lane Craft Beer bar (10 Vulcan Lane).
Would love to see you! ❤️
Please share 🥰🎂🍺🎉
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/571/414/595/249/864/original/26b81b4d45bc1272.mp4

2024-06-04 20:46:35

Cool bit of news for fans of Philosophy Tube ...
"Stars Wars welcomes its first out trans actor in the form of The Acolyte’s Abigail Thorn"
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/03/the-acolytes-abigail-thorn-star-wars/

2024-06-02 21:31:13

Why paying higher interest rates in earlier times doesn't compare to the crisis of housing costs today ...
source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7mYKuDOQfS/
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/549/158/355/002/855/original/ce4f8ad595d668c1.mp4

2024-06-02 02:29:21

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@npub19xu…e8yd Well, I do have articles in Pocket on my Kobo that need reading ;)

2024-06-02 02:08:52

I probably should be grading papers …
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2024-05-29 23:45:25

Well, there we go, end of an era in Aotearoa New Zealand.
I will admit, I did suspect this might happen.
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2024-05-29 19:49:46

You know, I wish I could buy this just so I could undo that abomination of an interior redesign.
Serious example of money not equaling taste.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/residential/sale/listing/4732121414

2024-05-09 20:30:36

I find myself again posting to Bernard Hickey's excellent 'When the Facts Change' podcast ... this episode looks to the sociopathy (Bernard's word) of the decision to reverse the smoke-free legislation, in terms of lives lost and also the anti-longtermism in it.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HtFy5Uern3bHzGhZXdQBv

2024-05-01 21:31:24

I love this, it speaks quite solidly to the cultural differences between NZ and the US: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-05-2024/help-me-hera-my-friends-boyfriend-steve-is-always-always-always-around

2024-04-30 04:18:43

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@npub1zg9…nh26 Thanks hon :)

2024-04-30 03:15:41

Woohoo! I passed my Motorcycle Restricted License test!!!
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/357/994/586/755/206/original/58ce25f0ff1ff7be.jpeg

2024-04-21 03:41:24

If you watch one thing this weekend, watch this. And then think what you might be able to change, at both the individual level & the structural/societal level.
“All the ways Car Dependency is Wrecking Us”
https://youtu.be/4kSTJnT0tUE?si=3lFojIX9PH8xw8xf

2024-04-20 21:16:18

The stupidity and futility of our 21st Century lives are summed up by the US House of Representatives passing a bill that could trigger a ban of Tik Tok when what they should be doing is passing comprehensive technology & online media regulation.
I spoke of anomie earlier? Yeah.

2024-04-18 22:57:57

Goodness, it's really interesting (and by interesting I mean seriously painful) reading reviews of electric motorcycles on traditional motorcycling websites.
Because the comments sections are just horrendous. There are some seriously insecure ICE bike riders that RAIL against electric motorcycles!

2024-04-15 23:23:45

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@npub1zg9…nh26 He's a much better person that either you or I.
I'm perfectly ok if this person wants to stand against the will of the entire neighbourhood, just the rest of the neighbourhood will know about it.

2024-04-15 23:21:11

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@npub1zg9…nh26 Totally rat them out, seriously.

2024-04-15 22:19:31

So, Stuff might be buying Newshub then?
Honestly, this could be a good outcome of all this.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350239818/live-stuff-newshub-reportedly-reach-deal-save-news-operations

2024-04-15 16:30:52

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@npub15ml…2w4s lol, reference acknowledged

2024-04-15 04:22:44

Question ... why do you need a "pet bond"? Isn't the whole point of regular "bond" is that it covers any reasonable damage that might occur? Is regular "bond" then in this arrangement just "human bond"? Should they then double "human bond" if your partner moves in?
Shouldn't "bond" just be "bond"?
(leaving aside the point that if you are specifying that landlords can still deny you pets anyway then it's not really changing much substantially about current rental inadequacies)

2024-04-09 23:33:45

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@npub1ke3…xcva Did a look-see around on Google Maps, and yeah, couldn't see anything around there that looks like such a cafe :(

2024-04-09 22:53:30

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@npub1ke3…xcva Yeah, unfortunately doesn't look like there is a cafe like that there anymore, bum :(

2024-04-09 22:43:06

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@npub1ke3…xcva What was your local, do you remember hon?

2024-04-05 01:04:50

Don't forget that any collective action must never ever disrupt normality, should always be done at times when you will inconvenience the least number of people, never upset the privileged, not impact the institutions of society at all, and no one should be made uncomfortable in the slightest.
Because that's how real change always happens.

2024-03-31 02:46:45

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 both Panadol and Ibuprofen are in these blister packs here.

2024-03-31 02:11:31

My Panadol, and my girlfriend’s Panadol …
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2024-03-27 19:35:25

I’m so f**king angry I can’t even say.
Some human-sized wankstains, inspired by Destiny Church, painted over the K-Road rainbow Pride crossing overnight.
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/169/328/407/742/794/original/c67abe2ba6eb877c.jpeg

2024-03-24 23:53:53

Turns out Te Huia is actually cost effective. Shocking, I know.
“How does Te Huia’s subsidy compare to roads?”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512586/how-does-te-huia-s-subsidy-compare-to-roads

2024-03-23 23:29:39

One of the things about being an elder queer now is that you see young queers, baby-gays, being out & being themselves and it makes you so proud & so happy.
I saw a couple girls waiting for their lunch near me, about uni age, obviously a couple with those light touches & closeness of togetherness.

2024-03-23 19:24:45

This is excellent from John Campbell, if incredibly sobering …
“Our water infrastructure is in the poo”
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/23/john-campbell-new-zealands-water-infrastructure-is-in-the-poo/

2024-03-19 22:36:56

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@npub15ml…2w4s I suspect when/if we get into the nuance of that statistic it'll be less compelling, but still, even in rough generalist terms it suggests an overly privatised rental market.

2024-03-19 20:07:08

Interesting ...
"The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-landlords-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-uk-housing-crisis

2024-03-19 02:47:47

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@npub1zg9…nh26 Yeah, I thought it a really good report. Doesn't cover everything nor every situation, but I thought it really interested for what it did cover.

2024-03-18 19:03:33

This is such a great report … well worth a read.
“Electric Homes: The energy, economic, and emissions opportunity of electrifying New Zealand’s homes and cars” - Rewiring Aotearoa
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloadswebsite/Electric%20Homes%20-%20Rewiring%20Aotearoa%20-%20March%202024.pdf
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2024-03-15 19:53:23

So, today I’m going on a road trip, because I just want a break out of the city.
But how, you ask, when I am quite car-free? Well I use Zilch, a kiwi all-electric car-share company (like Mevo, but only EVs). They’re not paying me for this, I just really like them, and have been with them for years.
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2024-03-14 19:50:48

This is beautiful, but also so sad.
On the long, lonely, slow death of Voyager 1 ... the part of us that really has gone where no one has gone before, and given us so much.
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/

2024-03-14 08:17:34

The Tron Legacy soundtrack playing in my helmet headset, whizzing along the motorway lanes at night on my electric motorcycle, through the ‘spaghetti junction’ interchanges in the central city at speed, street lights flicking past me as I curve along of the on-ramps & off-ramps.
NGL, that was cool.
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/093/052/984/181/960/original/bdbe9f2fff254ce0.jpeg

2024-03-12 18:29:02

Just a point to realise that at its core, the idea that giving a tax break to landlords will result in lower rents is merely another form of ‘trickle down economics’ … an economic policy that has been disproven repeatedly over the last half century or so.
And that’s leaving aside the fact that we’ve been repeatedly told that landlords charge “market rates” … ie what the market will bear. This is a price setting mechanism that has very little to do with the actual cost of provision.

2024-03-10 18:54:13

Just a reminder that hard work isn't intrinsically a good thing in & of itself.
You aren't intrinsically a good person because you perceive yourself as being 'hard working' and others aren't bad people because you perceive them as not.
Hard work being a moral good is historically constructed.

2024-03-10 18:29:08

@npub15ml…2w4s Just wanted to say, excellent work explaining on ATP the European Commission position in regards to Apple vs Spotify. One of my pet peeves from a lot of tech journalists is that they tend to universalise from the US context/values/culture (which makes sense of course given they are US based themselves) and not really be conscious of the different approaches involved.

2024-03-09 20:33:39

Kia ora team …
So a good friend (and ex-flatmate!) of mine is selling his Zero SR fully electric motorcycle.
He REALLY knows his way around EVs so he has maintained & upgraded this bike so well. He’s only selling because he has upgraded to a bigger EV motorcycle.
Hell, I’d be buying it off him if it weren’t for the fact that in NZ the Zero SR isn’t designated as a LAMS vehicle, so requires a full motorcycle license, and it’ll be a couple years yet for me to have that.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/trade-me-motors/motorbikes/motorbikes/other/auction-4602881253.htm
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2024-03-09 00:48:38

So, how’s that cost of living crisis going?
“Govt axes kids, youth public transport discounts funding”
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/09/govt-axes-kids-youth-public-transport-discounts-funding/

2024-02-29 19:13:11

Hey team ... could you sign this petition to make the Road User Charges for EVs set at a fair amount?
Note this is not about not paying RUCs, but rather about putting them at a comparable and fair level.
https://evsandbeyond.co.nz/ev-ruc-petition-to-parliament/

2024-02-28 22:41:32

In positive tech news for a change ...
"Lodestone Energy officially opens North Island solar farm"
https://evsandbeyond.co.nz/lodestone-energy-officially-opens-north-island-solar-farm/

2024-02-27 23:01:01

Ok, this is genuinely shitty news ... in the world we live in right now we need more journalism, not less. My thoughts and best wishes are with all the good staff there.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/510391/live-newshub-to-close-down-newsroom-in-june-sources-say

2024-02-22 19:33:25

Refusal to take a compulsory course “on a subject that is only peripherally connected to their job under threat of losing their right to work.”
Goodness, a REAL ESTATE agent who thinks "Māori culture and tikanga" is only peripherally connected to SELLING LAND.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/realtor-janet-dickson-facing-5-year-ban-for-refusing-maori-values-course/RUVMVQWKFVBGZE43VH4YF6BL4M/

2024-02-21 00:17:04

Just popped down to the square in front of Britomart to leave some flowers of my own amongst what already has been left for Efeso Collins.
It’s a striking spectacular late summer’s day in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, blue skies so striking they almost seem piercing, in this city he loved.
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2024-02-16 21:14:01

There’s an event for @npub10jk…dpae here in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland this Sunday evening! https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018926463/paris-marx-tech-won-t-save-us

2024-02-09 20:02:47

How Norway took its natural resources and instead of neoliberal capitalist wealth creation, used long-term generational investments, and crucially collectivist democratically-owned generational long-term investments, to create economic feedback loops in green renewable futures:
https://youtu.be/RO8vWJfmY88?si=CAhcg0_KLJdzneW0

2024-02-08 21:15:51

Hey fellow academics here … was wanting some advice if I may?
I’m thinking about moving away from
Endnote, as it’s too clunky and I really don’t like the new interface.
Should I go with Zotero or Mendeley? I’m on a Mac btw, and I want good syncing between devices, and iPad functionality is a plus.

2024-02-06 04:05:36

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@npub1zg9…nh26 I mean it hon, seriously hadn’t even thought of Viv as I was creating her, wasn’t till you said lol.

2024-02-06 03:55:28

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@npub1zg9…nh26 huh, I hadn’t even thought of Viv, but now that you mention it …

2024-02-06 03:06:31

Created a miniature of my D&D character Ryath Tribesbane (a female half-orc barbarian) for download as a file to be 3D printed 😀
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/111/882/324/339/721/475/original/bd5f139b86bce238.jpg

2024-01-26 21:43:26

Backdowns on smokefree rules suggest tobacco lobbyists are in the House - Max Rashbrooke
https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/350159475/backdowns-smokefree-rules-suggest-tobacco-lobbyists-are-house

2024-01-18 20:34:38

"Ending EV subsidies equal to extra year of Huntly coal burning: a rough cost-benefit analysis finds scrapping the policy would cost New Zealand a dollar for every 47 cents it saved"
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/18/ending-ev-subsidies-equal-to-extra-year-of-huntly-coal-burning/

2024-01-18 00:34:28

"Fear of a 15 minute city"
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-01-2024/fear-of-a-15-minute-city

2024-01-15 22:09:07

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@npub1ke3…xcva Very much so!

2024-01-15 21:25:39

Ok, I did not know that's how rice cookers work ... very cool. https://kottke.org/24/01/the-clever-engineering-trick-that-allows-simple-rice-cookers-to-perfectly-cook-rice

2024-01-14 21:36:44

In positive Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland transit news though ... https://x.com/NZTransitBuzz/status/1746599732812931572
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2024-01-08 02:54:45

Hey team ... my old landlord back in Eastbourne (Wellington, NZ)let me know that her current tenant (who took the place over after me) is moving on from the lovely wee cottage there that I lived in during my PhD, and to pass on to people who might be interested.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G-CSIfscckA

2023-12-31 20:23:26

While of course I already knew it, it really particularly hit me just now that I’m turning 50 this year.
SO not ready for that.

2023-12-11 23:43:31

In UoA’s Kate Edger building 😍🏳️‍🌈🥰
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2023-10-31 01:59:40

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@npub1zg9…nh26 I love it, it’s such a great machine. I spent extra to max out the RAM and get the model with 4 ports in the back rather than 2. I did only get 512gb as the storage tho, and in hindsight I wish I had gotten 1TB.

2023-10-31 01:32:41

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@npub1zg9…nh26 I got the original M1 iMac, but in silver, and it’s still gorgeous
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2023-10-17 02:10:10

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@npub1zg9…nh26 Yes! :)

2023-10-17 02:06:14

I've been working extra hours lately so I could take 4 hrs today to do a (voluntary) motorbike urban training course for those that will be taking their Restricted licence at some point (in NZ we have a Learners, then Restricted, then Full graduated licence scheme): 1 hr class, 3 hours riding.
My electric motorbike handled it terrific! But I will admit the seat of my Super Soco TC Max, while great, isn't designed for super long rides like that. Ouch.
But totally worth it tho, learned a bunch!
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2023-10-15 23:28:49

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@npub19xu…e8yd @npub14qc…wpgv Can't take credit for that, lol, heard it from @npub15ml…2w4s :)

2023-10-15 23:25:54

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@npub19xu…e8yd @npub14qc…wpgv Oh, I definitely have noticed the increase in the size of the camera mesa after the 12 models, which for sure suggests leaps & bounds for camera performance ... am so looking forward to next year :)

2023-10-15 23:06:59

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@npub19xu…e8yd @npub14qc…wpgv I'm still rocking my 12 Mini, but am feeling it ... thinking I might wait for the 16 Pro, as I am hoping the 5x camera will move from the 15 Pro Max to the 16 Pro next year, as I simply don't want that huge phone :)

2023-10-11 20:03:19

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@npub178r…qekt Well, at least there is that now, good to hear! Just it did suggest 'hostile architecture' a tad to me regarding unhoused persons.

2023-10-11 19:55:18

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@npub178r…qekt I always think this hall absolutely gorgeous whenever it pops up in videos etc that I watch ... but the thing that strikes me is the lack of seating, every single time. I'm sure I'm not the only one to note this though :)

2023-10-08 19:43:10

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@npub1qw5…037m My eternal wish is the former.

2023-10-06 21:20:00

Things that bother me unnecessarily… the charge port on the battery for my motorcycle when I pull it out to charge in my apartment isn’t centred.
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2023-10-05 02:10:20

New hairs under consideration ...
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2023-09-21 00:02:31

No matter how much I do it, the amount of research you do to sound informed on a topic, and the tiny amount of such you actually use when interviewed for TV on that topic, is always a surprise

2023-09-20 21:20:38

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@npub1r5l…5l0q Ooooo, very envious of the Pro (natural titanium?)

2023-08-31 04:46:15

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@npub1ke3…xcva it does operate, but it doesn’t operate reliably apparently. I’ve hear it can’t be counted on.