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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 1h

If you're in a school area, it's a pretty good bet you're looking at somewhere someone got bored playing hide and seek, or it's a good place to be out of the way of the teachers.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 5h

Only serious river witches need apply - NO TIME WASTERS

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 5h

Oh they think the office network is their ally, but they merely adopted it...

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 16h

For anyone who's having trouble with enrolling to vote due to e.g. lack of ID, there are other ways: vote.nz/enrolling/en... (Please do send this to anyone you think might need it.) #nzpol

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IGN @ign.com · 23h

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 17h

Life on an alluvial floodplain... but hey, the city's nice and flat for sprawling across, right 😅

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 18h

Council disaster recovery planning and railing against any hint of "managed retreat" aside, it will be interesting to see just what the insurance companies have to say about this area over time. (And yeah we're definitely going to have to think about the long-term wastewater treatment situation...)

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not _entirely_ surprised, but I'm very definitely dismayed.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Christchurch #NZ New tsunami zone A closer view of Christchurch’s new tsunami blue zone ⬇️ The black line on the right is the coastline. West of that covered in blue is the tsunami zone. Near the rivers are blue zones quite a long way inland, too.

A closer view of Christchurch’s new tsunami blue zone ⬇️

The black line on the right is the coastline. West of that covered in blue is the tsunami zone.

Next to the rivers are blue zones quite a long way inland, too.

Blue evacuation zone: Long or strong, get gone

This is an area that is most likely to be affected by a tsunami.

You should leave this zone immediately if:

You experience a long or strong earthquake
You see sudden sea-level changes or hear unusual noises coming from the sea
You receive an official warning from Civil Defence Emergency Management

An official warning will most likely be issued through an emergency mobile alert to your phone. If there is an announcement to evacuate the blue zone, follow the instructions immediately. Stay out of this zone until you are told by an official source that it’s safe to go back.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 22h

And when talking conservative branches of Christianity, it's also worth determining whether their church is involved with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper... Because if they've gone down that path, calls for "personal responsibility" also imply that poverty is a choice made by the _spiritually_ poor.

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Prosperity theology - Wikipedia

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 22h

There are definiitely some social workers (and other care workers) out there who essentially see it as "mission work" with only a thin secularised veneer over the top.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just in case you too find you have a need for a Contact Tracys "These men!" reaction image.

Tracy: "These men!"

[ From The Chaser's "Contact Tracys" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuBclbplgDo ]

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our abiding local exemplar of the "masterful gambit, sir" meme.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While in Scotland, Big Bird is called Tall Lass.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*looks around on the socials* Nope. Too busy with elections to think about elections.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Police do have a data portal. It's a bit clunky to work with, but from what I can see there doesn't _seem_ to be a huge uptick in gun crime? That's not to say there's no story in it, but nothing that immediately pops out of the noise.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hate it when the toilet backs up like that.

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 05/10/2026

Need a senior engineer in #Aotearoa New Zealand - but not enough to justify sending someone over? I’m available for short engineering assignments. I’m good at practical eng., unusual environs, prototypes, mfg & troubleshooting. Need a trusted pair of technical eyes & ears? Contact me!

Woman in a gold jacket and a drill in her hand.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 05/10/2026

one aspect of the Cornell case I've not seen reported on much is what Cornell faculty think of how Cornell has handled it Suffice it to say: hooboy, the texts I'm getting from Cornell faculty, especially those who are junior and can quite easily get snapped up by other wealthy universities

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wishing them strength, and also a stack of those tasty little pancake things.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's an unfair characterisation, some of them work in infosec.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like at least half the horse girls I knew were in the film.

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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ironically when intercity rail is done which includes electrification freight goes electric as part of the deal as welll Kiwi Rail have told me more than once any move for electric passenger rail will mean electric freight rail as default too

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be fair it is pretty much going on a walk only with treats 😊

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Government-owned bank struggling amid high interest rates.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Komm gib mir deine Ha-a-a-a-aaa-nd..." :-)

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are a New Zealander who's going to be overseas for the election, you can still vote. You'll need to be enrolled, and if you're on the unpublished roll then you'll need to sort things out with the appropriate people. Stuff you might want to look at: vote.nz/2026-general...

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm reminded of the confusion I feel whenever I hear 99 Red Balloons.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And all the confidence of a World Snooker Trickshot Championship.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That sounds like it could be the right kind of tragic 🖤

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm now imagining an alternate history setting where James Blunt started World War 3. With or without the music career on top of that.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Conservative mindset wants to be protected but not bound, and it wants the rabble to be bound but not protected.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hope that both your trip and your overseas voting experience go well ❤️

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(list of overseas voting places is still pending, unfortunately)

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

vote.nz

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes. And quantitative analysis of a debate is a highly weird way to determine "who won".

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Its usage has es-- has risen quickly since then.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That is one expression of the phenomenon, yes :-)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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