I would have thought that Seymour would be more circumspect about law changes allowing 'reasonable force' against 'little shits'
Matt Gordon
@mattgordon80.bsky.social
Kiwi abroad. 1s, 0s and wiggly lines for EVs. Beer league hockey
Came home to a pair of hummingbird hawk moths in the garden, which was a pleasant surprise
Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.
The benefit of this site being *just a little bit niche* is that I get to see crossover between people in my birth town in NZ and my current town in UK
This week Mum and Dad picked up 6 donated sewing machines from Hawkes Bay, and 5 from Woodville. I have two from Wellington in my boot to take to Mum for checking this weekend. Keep up the good work, Aotearoa! Email us at sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com if you have something to pass along!
Do the Devs who work on MS Office products realise that that could have not fucked with things for the last 20 years and, actually, that would be fine?
And Windows has done a restart overnight closing all the applications I had and the work that I was halfway through.... It really is a steaming bag of excrement
Trying to plan a family holiday and this is getting depressing. I mean, we're comfortable but the prices are just horrific. Every turn you take the number just goes up and up The cost of a week away in Europe for our family of 4 is probably 2/3 of a trip back to NZ (where we can blag accommodation)
Can't decide whether England winning the sports thing would be good because they'd finally shut up about 1966 or bad because they'd be utterly insufferable
Two hours of fighting with banking apps to verify identity and enable a card for a 17 year old. Only to find we can't view or change, the PIN. We have to wait for it to come by mail. What security scenario is this designed for? They think this will counter russian cryptobro money launderers?
The Pete Tong set at Blenheim is loud enough I can sit in my garden a mile away and enjoy it. We've just had Right Here Right Now and Zombie Nation so far
Plans are to go to Encaenia on Wednesday and stan both Jacinda and Prof Shuji Nakamura (IYKYK) Forecasts of 40C are a bit daunting though!
www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/... "For the past few years, consumers have been swarming to AI chatbots and agents, taking advantage of powerful new artificial intelligence models that are transforming how we live and work" Sorry, what, swarming? We did not ask for this
Memory crisis hits such extremes that 'even Apple can't be safe'
Apple appears poised to take the rare step of increasing prices to deal with what CEO Tim Cook called an "unsustainable" memory shortage.
cnbc.com
Positive thoughts for the day: Pick the person in this world whom you most loath and remember you are now one day closer to reading their obituary.
Well, Google in it's infinite fucking wisdom has now decided that I can't take photos and it has to 'enhance' everything It's fucking ruined all the photos I've taken this afternoon. Contrast blown all to hell, everything taken as 'Motion' images. Fuck them
Oh gross. Small cat has the sneezes and just left a circle of pussy cat snot all over the window.
I just read a BBC article referring to an author as a 'book content creator'. I am not happy about this
Fuck cancer man. Childhood best friend has glioblastoma and there's no good prognosis with that. I was thinking just yesterday that I'd like to catch up when I'm back in NZ. It's been a long time. Like, decades long. Now I'm hoping I just get the chance to see him again.
Not suggesting that there's anything happening but there's a LOT of air traffic going in and out of Rammstein tonight. Not one-way either, shuttling back and forth to the middle east
I'm not sure what I pay the cats for. I've just seen a mouse in the kitchen, presumably feasting on cat biscuits, and not even a hint of interest in the mousey smells. Slackers
I just want to go home. I've done my time overseas. More than I ever expected to. And I just want to be home. There's a swing under a Pohutukawa at the end of a beach that I think about every day. I'd be on a plane tomorrow. If I could. Next year, eh?
Lol. Even Microsoft admit their LLMs are overblown. They've taken the Fox News defence of 'its only for entertainment' This is from the actual T&C's for Copilot
I'm shocked, shocked I say, that church attendance in the UK isn't actually 'skyrocketing' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Church attendance report pulled after YouGov finds 'fraudulent' responses
The original report claimed a rise in young people attending church in England and Wales.
bbc.co.uk
I'm used to seeing USAF heavy transport in my part of the UK. Not this much though. The US is not dialling it back
But they STILL can't bring themselves to admit that Brexit was a failure in every way possible despite all the evidence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir John Curtice: Why Labour's Brexit focus has shifted from Leavers to Remainers
Will the pursuit of a closer relationship with the EU risk courting electoral disaster by alienating Brexit-backing voters?
bbc.co.uk
I'm taking the fact that it now takes two of us to give the cat her antibiotics as a positive sign
Well she's not wrong. On either count
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5mo agoReporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”