The Buddha always meets us where we live.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d ago

I spent three months locked in an audit room with a lady who told me about how she opened her third eye by accidentally hitting a DMT laced bong hit at her friend’s birthday party. During the trip, she met a Buddha made of pure energy, who told her to buy a mustang.

github.com/AminBlg/Simp... has been a useful skill addition in my Claude Code for when I just want the facts, not a long mid-level management beige waffle.

GitHub - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop

Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish

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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Wow they're printing your therapy sessions in the paper.

To vote in this years general election you need to be enrolled by midnight, 13 days before Election Day. Days left to enrol or update your details. Maori Roll: 3 days General Roll: 83 days Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol

NZSIS making a lot of assumptions here about the value of Mr. 24's Latin . . .

Just saying, from a point of view of anti-authoritarian streaks in us as a people, there aren't many countries with an official National Monument for Conscientious Objectors. The UK for example, has a memorial stone.

For at least twenty years, in every hotel I've stayed in, if there's a Bible I've signed it 'Cheers for believing, all the best, Jesus'. As a full-time touring musician it's well past the thousand mark by now.

Your morning serenity

"As I conclude my term as Children’s Commissioner, one message I want to strongly emphasise is this: these negative childhood health outcomes are preventable. The hardships experienced by children reflect the priorities the Government sets and the policies it chooses to invest in." #votethemout

The plight of our children can't wait for politics

Children can't vote but inherit the consequences of government and societal failures for the longest time, writes outgoing Children's Commissioner Claire Achmad in a final plea

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My better half has been in America for two months, which would make you think we haven't been able to play music together. You'd be wrong! We've been doing shows in Second Life ("Still A Thing"™️) through the miracle of double streaming. Old nerdage explaining "double streaming" follows.

#nzpol Hurt people hurt people. Not sure what Paul Henry's damage is, but it'd be great if the next generation of kids didn't suffer for it too. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students

ACT wants to give teachers the legal power to remove "seriously or persistently disruptive" students from a classroom.

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Interesting conjunction of headlines. Luxon's 'parent-child mentality' description of NZ businesses 'valid' in some cases - Seymour www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

There was a quote on RNZ today maybe from a muso on AI along the lines of “Anything dead that pretends to be alive is just plain creepy”

@softwaredoug.bsky.social re: softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07... . This is my current quest, too. I'm reading a lot of ACT books at the moment -- "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" which seems pretty cool. Half is "sad/etc thoughts happen, don't fight them, figure out what you'll do when they arrive"

Don’t ask what you want. Ask who you want to be

A revelation has occured to me. Don’t obsess about what you want. Figure out who you want to be.

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Trivia: for 19 days in April 1945, Winston Peters and Adolf Hitler were both alive.

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 5d ago

If I was Phil Goff I would be getting ready to stamp Winston Peters into a mulch given what he got sacked for compared to what Winston's pulling.

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

I aspire to this level of disdain.

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

There's a lot going on in New Zealand, as this headline shows. www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Rush to desex pigs rehomed after alleged murder as boars break in

An animal rescue charity is rushing to desex 42 female pigs due to frisky wild boars breaking through electric fencing and into their enclosure.

rnz.co.nz

I've taken the Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook down from the shelf. Tonight's menu includes the Steak and Onion pie (p. 249) and the Double Good Blueberry pie (p. 62). I add some diced carrots to the steak and onion. Nothing bad every came out of these recipes, properly followed. 😋🥧

Farm journal's complete pie cookbook; 700 best dessert and main-dish pies in the country : Farm journal and country gentleman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

vii, 308 p. 22 cm

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Just amazing how this headline gets worse with every line

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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This subagent could have been a six line Perl script.

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”

Ok, so NZ's Temu Trump fired off a racist diatribe that will leave you slackjawed. It's awful. AND ... you've got to see what set him off. He was moaning about NZ's COVID response again, and dog-whistling vaccination risks. This is the first time in that debate that he spoke.