Dan
@danxduran.bsky.social
🎵 Anecdata - https://anecdata.bandcamp.com/album/vita-brevis-part-2 - music by a human about what it feels to be at threat of being replaced by a robot https://bsky.app/profile/anecdata.bsky.social - digital news editor at RNZ
This headline reads VERY differently if you've watched Arrested Development
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoCareless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all
Weird how Peters is choosing to end his political career as some kind of antipodean Temu Trump
Wow they're printing your therapy sessions in the paper.
Me: Damn, I'm not gonna finish The Blue Album before the news is on The news: 10 MINUTES OF SPORTS
I would never vote for someone with that haircut, Nazi or not
The Press@thepress.co.nz · 3d agoA senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
I will never not be annoyed the Post Primary Teachers' Association has the correct apostrophe, but is missing a hyphen. Thank you for your attention to this matter
Three minutes left on the walk to school and Ms 7 asks me when the first person was born... I tried to sum up evolutionary theory in the time we had left, but the only thing she seemed interested in was that birds used to be dinosaurs
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Let's not anger the moon, please. Not now, with everything else going on
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d agoDrifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon
It's one child, Michael. What could it cost? $15,000?
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d agoWinston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Imagine spending $20,000 on a helicopter ride to Kmart when you could have got one to the Warehouse for $19,999.97
Looking at concert ticket prices and constantly going 'nah, you're dreaming' then thinking if Pulp came to New Zealand again (I missed them in 1998 since I'd already shelled out $40 three times to see Blur, Oasis and Radiohead), I would pay anything - even if it meant emptying my KiwiSaver
Me at the bakery tomorrow buying another pie
Mr. Snrub's Appearance in The Simpsons
ALT: Mr. Snrub's Appearance in The Simpsons
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Thomas Lumley@tslumley.bsky.social · 7d agoI'm sorry, a data breach last year included your face. You should get a new face as soon as possible. It is best practice to use different faces for different businesses
Trying to listen to Nine Inch Nails but the kids are around, and I sound like the roadrunner
Took me 90 minutes to get to Hamilton the other day from WEST Auckland - not even south! - because of the actually great road they've built around Huntly. No real need for a helicopter... www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
An Air Force chopper had to be flown up from Ohakea to take PM from Auckland to Hamilton
The Defence Force is flying more than five hours to chopper Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to Hamilton, so he doesn’t have to make a 3-hour return drive. It’s happened twice so far.
stuff.co.nz
Remember how John Key was known as the 'Smiling Assassin' because he was happy to sack people he didn't think were performing? Beginning to think Luxon hasn't sacked anyone, ever
I spent an hour the other day researching the so-called RSV 'vaccine' that isn't actually a vaccine (it's a preventative antibody dose which doesn't involve the immune system) and worded a story very, very carefully, only to just hear 1 News use the word 'vaccine' about two dozen times in 90 seconds
Ruin a book by adding a word: Not It
Dell R. "Dell" Adams@dell-adams.bsky.social · 7d agoRuin a book by adding a word: Consider Phlebas Suspended
Thought I'd walk to Lynnmall. Had a guy crash into me on his scooter then threaten to smash me because I touched him, then 20 min later a blind guy screamed the N-word at me. Should have taken the bus...
Me, trying to get Me 12 into Stargate SG1: It gets better, honestly SG1, from the start: Absolutely hilarious
I'm a time traveller and I've got some bad news about Rangitoto in 2056
Why do politicians use this bizarre phrase? Why not just say "I don't care" like a normal person
The Press@thepress.co.nz · last wk.Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he’s “completely relaxed” about a journalist’s questions to his Health Minister ending up with the Free Speech Union.
Mate, you're a landlord, the biggest beneficiaries this country has
"Case Closed – Not Enforced on Wardens Discretion" That's a new one. I guess if you look scary enough you're allowed to park across footpaths in Auckland
