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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yeah there needs to be a trigger warning on this post for ppl who grew up in pre-quake Chch. My linchpin for the CBD will never not be the Java Cafe

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I hate it when offenders say things like this: "Remmerswaal appealed the decision ... and said the consequences of a conviction would affect his ability to teach in schools." That's the whole point of your conviction, arsehole. It's the fuck around and find out part of the justice system.

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Nigella is the undisputed queen of culinary adjectives

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My go-tos are Nigella's pasta e fagioli www.nigella.com/recipes/past... and Alison Holst's baked beans vegancooking.livejournal.com/1850381.html

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

*Olivia Newton John Kylie would be: Everybody's doing a brand new dance now C'mon baby, do the online voting

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This house is obviously very well cared for

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

What a gorgeous specimen. I've always loved that style of timber window frames. Such lovely proportions.

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If Special K can take The Vivienne (RIP) it can bloody well take Musk too

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I had that error on a different website yesterday. It went away when I added my phone number. Give that a try?

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My aunty in Wellington says her grandkids are constantly anxious and they cry whenever it starts to rain

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I found something similar in an asian grocery (in Dunedin though, sorry). Best of luck on your squashed fly search!

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I must admit, whenever I harvest home-grown lettuce I have to override my first instinct of "eww this has grown in dirt I can't eat this" Gorgeous tomatoes!

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Roadkill shaver would be quite a thing to have on your resume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hear, hear! If I have to read one more article condescendingly advising the stupid greedy peasants that they should be taking cold showers and eating cat food to save 50c a week... "No Stupid Questions" my arse 🙄

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Indeed. My nan taught me that if your pav collapses in the middle that's all the more room for lemon curd and whipped cream

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I got my mum tickets for her birthday last time it was on. She said it was amazing.

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As always, I'm amazed by your indefatigable eloquence and I'm sad and angry that it's necessary in the first place

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hey hold on now, lamingtons are god tier 😂

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Lamingtons are from Queensland. I went to uni at the Gardens Point campus in Brisbane and often ate at the cafe where they were invented (formerly Government House). Sadly, they were taken off the menu because not enough people bought them. Kids today...

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

He better order a few ferries his first day in office, I tell you what

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If you're anywhere near Dunedin, the New World in Great King St sells them in the international food section. (In Aussie I could get them at Ikea, along with Daim cake... oh how I miss Daim cake...)

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This pic is very real. The person who took it is a family member of mine. (She and her whānau are ok, and assisting their neighbours as much as they can)

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We're moving house and I very nearly switched to Meridian. Their EV plan rates are terrible compared to Genesis though. Dodged a bullet there.

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you buy refrigerated items from Wonky Box, they're sent in a large-ish wool liner. I've been using them as weed matting on my garden

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Home again after a holiday in Akaroa. Still one of my favourite places in the world.

View of Akaroa harbour. Moody clouds with blue sky peeking through, reflected in the water. Boats moored in the distance.

View of Akaroa harbour. Grass and a pohutukawa tree in the foreground. Water with boats moored in the distance, and hills in the background. Cloudy sky. The end of a jetty is visible to the right.

View of Akaroa harbour from the main jetty. Sunny blue sky with sparse cloud, and blue water beneath. Moored boats and a smaller jetty stretching out into the water, with the main part of town visible in the distance.

View from a boat of Nikau Bay near Akaroa. A small valley of Nikau palms with cliffs in front and tall hills behind. The sea water looks especially green.

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Headline could have been "Hundreds of dickheads ignore new, safer speed limit" but RNZ made their choice

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Yep. If you can't afford Bluff salmon, do not be fooled into thinking that Tassie salmon is a viable alternative

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Sadly I met a lot of old-school "traditional family" christian men when I lived in Palmy, who would have found this hilarious

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

No, a resident was telling me just this weekend that they have to get to Oamaru via Maheno

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Yeah I've had local business people make offhand comments like "the Maoris really do have it too easy" and "they're all criminals anyway" while trying to get me to spend money with them?! Makes me want to headdesk and move back to the city

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"Shut up! We did not lose Vietnam! It was a tie!"

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I can't help but think that if, in 1945, you told people that the US and Israel would be the aggressors of WW3 you would have been laughed out of the room

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Absolutely. They "o" everything. Rego, servo, bottlo, houso, arvo, avo

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Between this and her chick hatching this afternoon, Rakiura is must-see TV 😄

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Years ago a friend of mine worked for ECan. She said their operating model was that if they didn't have an overwhelming reason to say no to an application, they had to approve it. That's how we got dairy farms in the Mackenzie Country. I think about that a lot 😞

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I've seen the dwellings in Glenavy fishing village referred to as cribs and baches in equal measure, so the border is definitely somewhere around Oamaru/Timaru

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Fret Level Midnight @basementjatzz.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

R.I.P. the Hutt Valley train tracks

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