Old Looney Tunes with YouTube thumbnails like Yosemite Sam TOTAL MELTDOWN over Varmint
1. The EC ethos has always been, count every vote possible, make it as easy to vote as possible. 2. If staff had to say to someone's face, No, you're not on the roll, you can't vote, they were going to get abused. I'm not working this election, and I really feel for the people who are.
Let me take a minute to tell you how bonkers this is. The first election I worked was (I think) 2008, before there was really any advance voting. At every election, if you weren't on the roll, we let you cast a special vote and then worked out if you were eligible afterwards. Two reasons: 1/2
Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren't on the printed roll and who say they're unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/03/t...
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
How do people know their dogs' names? I can't understand a word mine is saying
just sharing something a friend sent me for no reason
I would like to propose a members bill banning male politicians telling us to have babies.
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
The timeline we avoided but the ghouls refuse to acknowledge it
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
Surely it's up to the parents to decide if their child is mature enough to handle whatever social media the parent decides to let them go on - my kid isn't mature enough, and they don't go on any! It's easy! You're in charge! theconversation.com/the-jurys-ou...
The jury’s out on social media bans. Here’s a better idea NZ can borrow from Australia
A version of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner could be a better way to tackle the online harm experienced by under-16s – and New Zealanders of all ages.
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Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, turned 81 yesterday. It must have been his birthday
wow….they just sell it in vending machines over there……………..
Riya Scampini@riyascampini.bsky.social · last wk.Just googled pc98 dithering and this lovely picture of Galpis came up
It's funny that someone shared that exact same ad with a different implication. (Can be read as a partner's or we're going Da Vinci's Notebook.)
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
In surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)
Sir, You Are Being Hunted: Out now on Switch, PS5, Xbox (and Steam, of course.)
YouTube video by Jim Rossignol
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I was a 911 dispatcher for a decade. To really understand how terrible an idea it is to have AI answer 911 calls, I'll present you with a single real-life call: Upon answer, the caller calmly began ordering a pizza. Large, pepperoni. Side order of chicken wings. To be delivered promptly.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 2w agoAI has no place in 911 calls. From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “State of Emergency”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
AI has no place in 911 calls. From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “State of Emergency”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
"decisions about whether or when minors access transgender medical care should be made by parents, not politicians" actually they should be made by the minors in question, who are human beings. if you don't need parental consent to experience one kind of puberty why should you need it for the other
Not to get political but life should be easy and free
Just adding that clean air and good quality masks protect against all airborne viruses, including RSV, as well as flu and Covid. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
Explainer: What is RSV and why is it making so many people sick this winter?
Explainer: RSV may not quite have the name recognition that influenza and Covid do, but it's actually causing more winter illness.
rnz.co.nz
