Jombucha
@mangetout.bsky.social
Fraud-fighter and wannabe philanthropic entrepreneur. Help me? Inclined to making terrible jokes. https://twitter.com/mangetout and basically anywhere else I could get the handle.
It's my dream to have a 7am funeral so that all the guests reflexively say "good morning" and then feel quite awkward.
Is Sullivan's Crossing a drama about a horrific explosion at the wig factory, because if not it'd be horribly distracting. I'll not be watching.
It's my dream to have a 7am funeral so that all the guests reflexively say "good morning" and then feel quite awkward.
There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
George St in Palmy is such an easy choice to do. Library, cafes, alternate routes, underground parking already present.
Living Streets Aotearoa@livingstreetsnz.bsky.social · 2d agoCar-free streets are not only safer for people walking and cycling, but they are also better for public health because they reduce air pollution and noise pollution. This is supported by a recent study of a street in Canada that is closed to car traffic during certain hours on summer weekends.
Car-free streets are not only safer for people walking and cycling, but they are also better for public health because they reduce air pollution and noise pollution. This is supported by a recent study of a street in Canada that is closed to car traffic during certain hours on summer weekends.
Car-free streets reduce noise and air pollution. More cities should have them
Pedestrianized spaces can help support local businesses, give public spaces back to people and retrieve them from cars.
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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MSc and PhD students are the workforce in the engine room of our public research system. They are very, very cheap labor by policy design. This talk about a 'cost blowout' is utter rubbish. We frown on company owners that charge people to get a job. We should be doing the same here. #NZPOL
Cost blowout puts fees for foreign PhD students under review
A blow-out in the cost of treating foreign PhD students like locals has prompted a rethink of the long-standing policy and a cap on spending next year.
rnz.co.nz
"Clearly humans cannot be trusted with this sort of technology. "Grok, take the wheel."
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2d agoBatman in The Dark Knight (2008): I have to use mass surveillance tools in order to save Gotham. I struggle with this, but will have to learn to live with my decision. Spider-Man in Brand New Day (2026): I'm scanning the faces of everyone in NYC and IDGAF 🤪😜
You know that thing where people tell you, don't talk about what you're working on or new workout plans, because it'll feel the same as actually doing it? Vibecoding gives a sense of productivity indistinguishable to you from actually *being* productive.
This whole thread is very true, at least for personalities like mine. I got badgered with lazy questions about data trends so I ended up spending a day writing a reproducible data set that answers 95% of those queries. One thing the LLMs get is permission. Humans can't write macros, GenAI can.
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6mo agoSimilar to how the best way to learn a new keyboard layout is to switch to it and then get in an argument online, the best way to learn how to program (not a specific language) is to have a mound of annoying and soul-destroyingly repetitious grudgework to do.
THREAD/ORIGINAL ART GIVEAWAY This hare linoprint is by my mum, Jo. I'll be sending an original of this to one randomly chosen person who reposts this link to my recently updated website & pops a reply below. www.tom-cox.com The offer is open worldwide. I also have some more art to give away...
Parent teacher interviews were challenging. Two of them suggested The Boy was well on his way to being an evil genius.
Honestly enjoying the word "povertunity"
Jombucha@mangetout.bsky.social · 3d agoDon't call it a workhouse! Call it "povertunity!"
Tell everyone. Get in now because later is too late.
Aotearoa's Electoral Orange Guy@poti-aotearoa.bsky.social · 3d agoTo 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
Now imagining Pokémon as a Dark Souls prequel, just as Bluey is Mad Max Minus One.
Chris Brosnahan@chrisbrosnahan.com · 3d agoMy Warhammer starter kit looked badass once I painted it.
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily
WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...
portcitydaily.com
Making "apathetically" such a long word seems unnecessarily cruel.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
I hate that we have to take these foul people seriously because our sunfish PM gave them policy power. "5% of the population thinks only healthy rich kids deserve an education? They are welcome to their wrong opinion. Simple solutions suit simplistic people."
Chantalle Smith@chaneyz85.bsky.social · 4d agoOh this is absolutely terrible. Neurodivergent kids are going to be even further excluded… If this policy was in place before the 8yo was diagnosed (which the system wouldn’t do until he was 6), he would’ve been stood down multiple times in his first couple of years at school. 1/n
Apparently GenAI is really great at helping people steal cars. One of those things that is obviously bad, but also an obvious use case.
if you’re smarter than a bad movie, nobody cares because everyone is if you’re smarter than a good movie, nobody cares because it’s a good movie
David Sims@davidlsims.bsky.social · 4d agoif I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
If Binface was an android then I could bring back my favourite mispronunced joke: Farage Against The Machine
Jombucha@mangetout.bsky.social · 5d agoMagnificent. The One Good Cyberman*. *Not a Who dork, so this may not be the case, although obviously The Count is not fictional, so...