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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Ugh chronic headaches are such a pain, literally and figuratively. You have my deepest sympathies

carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

After seeing the mostly disappointing Life of Chuck, I want to see Tom Hiddleston in more movies with dancing. Giles suggested "Loki, the Musical" and I AM SO HERE FOR IT that I've been writing the set list in my head #LokiTheMusical #OnceMoreWithGloriousPurpose

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

And particularly ill-timed, given the cost of living is hitting so many people hard right now

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This was an Opinion article, but it was otherwise packaged and headlined to look like part of their price-aware thread

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

What bothers me is that the Stuff article is totally oblivious to the downside

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Note that the article's example has the cost of a coffee after the change being lower than the cost with the surcharge, but higher than the cost without the surcharge, and customers had the option to avoid the surcharge by using their PIN instead of using paywave.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

www.stuff.co.nz/business/360... This change is great for those customers who were choosing to pay with paywave and pay the extra, but crap for those who were choosing to not use paywave, who will soon be forced to absorb the extra cost of everyone else using paywave.

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The payment processing racket is finally getting busted

OPINION: That awkward checkout dance has been playing out across New Zealand for years, but it was never really about café owners trying to squeeze extra profit from your flat white.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

#Dunnettcontent Latest WG issue quoted a comparison between Dunnett and Dumas that made me grin, because I discovered Dunnett soon after I got my adult library card, by wondering what the other big hardbacks were on the shelf next to Dumas ⚔️📚

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I seem to recall her saying she believed in astrology and telepathy, but I can't remember the source of her comment, and she didn't mention a specific experience

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

And I am disturbed that the face cream Nostradamus gives Philippa has mercury in it. Not unusual for the time, but eek!

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/01/c... F*** you. You have no f***ing right to call for the next government to not repeal your law when you've been repealing perfectly sensible laws right, left and centre since you got into power 2 years ago

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Coalition parties call for opposition not to re-ban oil and gas exploration

The government's repeal of the 2018 ban passed through Parliament yesterday.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The writing quality outweighs it, for sure, but it contributes to the fact that much as I adore many scenes in Checkmate, I don't love the overall book, because Lymond spends 95% of it being pushed around by Philippa, Marthe, the Dame or circumstances rather than driving the plot.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It's because I don't believe in either. My biggest issue is with the Dame de Doubtance though, and her arranging Lymond's birth and then his life because of what she'd foreseen

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I object to the telepathy and I object to the divining. But the divining at least provides a bit of fun in terms of spotting the links between the two series, whereas the telepathy in CM mostly seems to convey misery in both directions

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Are you saying that the filming ban is barely mentioned or that Hamas-run health ministry is barely mentioned? Neither is true; both get repeated in BBC stories multiple times every week

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide. "To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/07/2025

Science shouldn’t be a partisan issue. From cancer treatments to extreme weather alerts, science makes everyone’s life better, regardless of political affiliation. But science becomes partisan when corrupt politicians defund research, fire scientists, and censor data, harming us all.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

How does Matt Goodwin expect to know what people voted for? Just because a politician has a manifesto and people vote for them, that doesn't mean you have any idea what they voted for or why. His post is stupid as well as horrific

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Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com · 18/07/2025

Cowabunga Dude! 🤙 #tmnt

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ten writers by whom I've read more than 10 books: Dorothy Dunnett Lois McMaster Bujold Ursula le Guin Terry Pratchett C J Cherryh Ben Aaronovitch Martha Wells Georgette Heyer Ellis Peters Captain W E Johns

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Beetroot! Very tasty on burgers (and very common on burgers in NZ)

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Car skid warning sign is the perfect summary of generative AI issues: initially looks plausible, then you realise it's not physically possible -- and there's danger in your future

Car skid road warning sign, which features a car and two skid marks coming from the wheels that somehow cross over each other...

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Yes, I saw that, it was good, I'm just not so keen on the graph

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I love the results ie high public transport use, but not happy about the plot, esp. that the title is described as an increase but it's actually just showing the amount of bus use as a percentage of the 2019 usage, you have to work out the increase by comparing the bars in the plot

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

once again I must tap my own sign

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honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I realise now also that many people won’t know that harmful digital communications & much of harassment is considered civil law, not criminal. So those women photographed without their consent can’t have been harassed because they don’t *know* that he photographed them. It’s a massive flaw.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I find that reading and listening are not equivalent, but neither is better. I take in information more easily by reading, so find it easier to immerse myself in the world of the book, but I also skip over lots of bits in a way I can't while listening so listening reveals stuff I missed on reading.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In the Praise Singer, Mary Renault's character Simonides (6th century BCE) bemoaned the fact that his apprentice poet actually wrote ideas down rather than composing everything from memory

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"The SSAG stands firmly of the view that our parsimonious attitude to research funding is a core reason that New Zealand has become an outlier in performance on productivity growth." 3/3

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"We note the bemused commentary of other nations and experts when we discuss the inability of New Zealand over decades to accept this very clear economic understanding."

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Literal money quote p23 SSAG report: "The global evidence for the role of [Science,Innovation &Tech] in driving productivity growth is unequivocal and increasingly obvious. We stand frustrated by the apparent & persistent inability of the policy community in New Zealand to comprehend that reality."

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Board Game Arena is good because you can access about half of the games with a free account and for the other half, only one of the online players at the table needs a paid account to invite the others to the game. We use it to play with friends abroad

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I talk to people and type things

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I am not impressed with this NZ summer, or the quality of NZ housing. We have the heating on, I'm wearing as many warm layers as I do in winter, and I'm still cold.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The main appeal of the Day of the Jackal was always the competence porn: the Jackal is intriguing because of how thoroughly he does his job. Four episodes in, the TV version is mostly good but all the characters have been making an irritating number of mistakes

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

This is the same Internet Archive that decided unilaterally during the Pandemic to allow infinite numbers of people to check out the same library books simultaneously, right? And thus attempted to destroy the virtual library system, leading to them getting sued by publishers and authors?

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

On BBC Radio Scotland shortly talking about the role of money in politics - and how the super rich are buying access to politics In 2023, two-thirds of political donations in Britain came from just 19 individuals, each giving more than £1 million.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My next-door neighbours from London days, Ilia and Andrew Leitch, are contributors to the project that's discovered the current longest genome in the world: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

cell.com

A 160 Gbp fork fern genome shatters size record for eukaryotes

Plant genetics; Plant evolution

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Supposedly SW finally made the transfer on 19th Feb, but their confirmation letter doesn't say where they transferred it to, and the receiving scheme hasn't received the money!

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

It's as if one of my students had 3 weeks to do an assignment, and when they're a day late asked for 3 weeks' extension for no good reason!

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

I just rang pension company again. They were meant to have finished the entire transfer process within 10 working days of 1st Feb. They only got partway through the process by 16th Feb,and that now means that I have to wait another 10 working days for them to go through the remainder of the process!

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 31/01/2024

I *think* the first book fandom to have Merch (and a convention) was probably Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, AKA The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which was 1870s. Trilby was mid 1880s iirc.

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carusis.bsky.social @carusis.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Yeah I discovered that sometime last year, it's brilliant! 😮🤣

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