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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Tūī tasting my wharariki and also fighting off a manu pango who is pretty sure he owns it. #birds #Prosthemadera

Goddamn that’s a colourful bird lots of iridescent blues and greens and a white ruff under its chin

Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Today there are 54 thriving karo #pittosporum plants. I checked one and all its leaves fell off. Oops. They’re hard to tell if they’re alive because they stay green and glossy for a long time. The sign they’re doing well is fresh leaves at the top […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Brown sticks and soil in the background. Glossy green plant. Lighter green and less glossy leaves at top are fresh. Lower leaves are tending a bit more yellow and chewed and sad looking

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

You gotta get onto Home Assistant and do all this sort of thing: @essjax

Three meters showing 99% self sufficiency and 27.3kWh net export to grid

In the month of October the garage consumed 158kWh

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Checking the trail cam. Couple of deer. A hunter came through about 11 hours after this one was spotted.

It’s all brown and green with hardly anything to see until you notice a deer looking for a snack

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Bloody hell some cats were having a proper fight last night. I wonder if there’s anything left??? Please keep your cats indoors! (This looks like my workspace part way through stripping a possum for fur.)

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

After dark last night walked around the house. It was crispy underfoot with snails. I gathered a bucket of them (CookieTime Xmas Cookies, for scale). Gave them to the chooks this morning and they were suspicious. Then a chook flicked one with its beak and […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Six chooks and a plate of snails on luxurious green grass

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I don’t often share photos of my children, and certainly never without their permission, but just this once. Enjoy!

The beautiful snowy slopes of Ruapehu. There are no humans easily visible but if you zoom and enhance multiple times there are approximately four darker pixels on a ridgeline in the center of the photo. That’s them. Oldest is on right.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

A third major raid on December 12, 1941, hoped to snare 1,000 Parisian professionals. The obsolete Tulard files only yielded 743 correct addresses. To round out the numbers, foreign Jews were picked up at random on Paris streets. Where was Carmille? Where […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Text from the book:

But only 3,022 Jews were arrested. For three more days, the authorities tried to locate more Jews. The inefficient operation only netted 609 on August 21. Then on August 22, they located 325 more. On August 23, as the word spread and Jews everywhere in the District tried to disappear, only 122 Jews were nabbed. The total for the four days was 4,078. The men were sent to the Drancy transit concentration camp. Paris was shocked and outraged because the raids seized both foreign and French-born Jews.134 But for the Germans, it meant the updated data from Tulard was profoundly inefficient.
A third major raid on December 12, 1941, hoped to snare 1,000 Parisian professionals. The obsolete Tulard files only yielded 743 correct addresses. To round out the numbers, foreign Jews were picked up at random on Paris streets.

Where was Carmille? Where were his Holleriths?

By the end of 1941, numerous Vichy officials had concluded the elaborate census of June 1941 conducted in both zones was completely nonfunctional.
A new one was needed.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

This typesetter clearly has an issue with the letter “f”. “financial”, here as “capital W nancial” “afforded”, as “a capital V orded”

Text on a page, with a capital W instead of the letters f i

More text, this time with V instead of f f

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Some of my lavender. 3 different varieties.

A burst of pink and purple flowers on green stems, smelling so delicious

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Early bird, pictured here with worm, has had one of her tail feathers tousled and is wearing it at a rakish new angle. #Turdus #bird

A female blackbird or thrush with a worm in her mouth.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The disadvantages of having an #EV Fast chargers are dangerously close to delicious dining options.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Farmer now loading the hay into trucks. Yes, the sun is now shining (when the clouds aren’t in the way). Odd that they’re just dumped it into the same trucks they used for the forage feed in late summer.

Brown hay field, close cropped. A tractor with a chute is picking up and blasting hay into a giant open topped truck being pulled alongside

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

First of the month. Check your #solar import and export tariffs are correct. Today I lose the PowerCo 7c/kWh peak time export bonus since it's no longer winter. I also discovered there is a sneaky "off peak" higher tariff between 2100 and 2300 every […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Octopus import tariffs and daily charge: 20 cents at night, 29 cents at off-peak.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Transplanted Karo (#Pittosporum crassifolium) are doing well. These were self-sown underneath the existing hedge. I moved them to some other gaps. One of them is showing some new growth which is encouraging. Others had been pulled out by a neighbour doing […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Green glossy leaves, with the upper leaves being lighter in colour because they’re younger

Dark glossy leaves. No new leaves yet but these ones are healthy

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Tip-Top Goodie Goodie Gum Drops 2 litre tub, $5.49 (0.27/100ml) Fonterra sells Tip-Tip to Nestle Tip-Top Crave Goody Goody Gum Drops 1.2 litre American style cylinder, $10.39 (0.87/100ml) Goddamn business geniuses were so goddamn smart they gave it […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Pak n Save website screenshot showing a tub of ice cream for a ridiculous price

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In the first 15 minutes of the Equinox we have had: Blazing sun Heavy Rain Showers Hail What will the next 5 minutes hold for us?

This was a blue sky but it is now very dark clouds edged with sunlight. Some rain drops are visible at the front

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Emptied the compost bin and turned it all over before restacking it. This thing fell out. Looks like a button mushroom, but fresh. Must have grown in the compost bin? We wouldn’t have thrown out an entire mushroom, just pieces, plus we haven’t had any for months. Thoughts? #gardening #compost

Cut into halves and showing the internal structure with some adorable little gills

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

It works! After some tweaking my automation to detect the washing machine running is a little more cautious and doesn't go off in the middle of the cycle when the motor stops for 30 seconds. At the conclusion of the cycle my voice booms out and reminds […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

A graph showing washing machine state as well as active (water heater) and reactive (agitator / spin) power. It lines up pretty well, except a little lagged.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Saw some quite incredible things today. I looked at satellite views overlaid with electricity generation. Even though satellite photos are updated quite often the pace of building solar and battery storage is so fast that often they would just be an empty […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

A brown dry patch of soil with a wind break at the top and some rows of orchard. No solar panels visible

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Curious typographical correction here in Richard Hammond’s book On The Edge. “And even if there had been a Speedo fitted, I would have hesitated to lower my eyes and glance at it.” Speedo, an abbreviation for speedometer, has been replaced with Speedo […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Photo of the text in the book, as quoted in toot

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

A female blackbird has claimed the deck outside my bedroom as her own. I’ll walk past and she will scuttle behind some plants or hide under the BBQ. I mowed the lawn and she was back in to check for snacks before I’d even walked away. Fearless. Here she […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Brown passerine bird with a yellow beak, staring back at the camera with her left eye. In the foreground a messy planter

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

A rather perplexing typographical mistake. The word “confiscated” is turned into “con capital W scated”. Does a capital W look similar to a “fi” but rotated? Unsure how this would happen. It’s a large print edition by Random House Large Print.

The page of the book focussed on the misprinted word

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Classic Kiwi humour. “I went down to my local Briscoes who, believe it or not, just so happened to have a sale on” Alex Ritchie in Rod & Reel

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

YouTube has done something wrong with their encoder. There's a big line down the middle of every video where the left hand side is slightly too warm (pink) and the right hand side is slightly too cold (grey). I thought at first it was one particular […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

A white jacket worn by a darker skinned lady. It has a perfectly straight vertical line down the middle and the left is greyer and the right is redder.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

[Kai / sour dough] Is this about right for a sour dough? Partner has it rise overnight and popped it in the oven this morning.

A round sour dough on a cooling rack. Has some cracks in the lid

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I have now finished the indoor bouldering course. I had some difficulty figuring out how to attach it to the wall behind, but that’s been solved by instead attaching it to the opposite wall, and the new beam has been carved/routed to make some handholds […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Grabbing a hand hold with a blue grey wall that has several rock climbing holds on it

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Invoice numbers are usually sequential. If you're getting billed monthly that gives you a rough idea how many customers a company has, and although it doesn't tell you how much they're bringing in it does give some idea about the health of the company and […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Scattered dots on a plot, roughly flat, or maybe trending somewhere

It goes down, then flat, then slowly upwards

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I have once again over extended myself in computer hardware repair attempts, this time attempting to refill the click reservoir* in a Logitech M185 mouse. Comparing the older and newer mouse I can see substantial physical wear on the switch. I attempted to […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Two mice, one red, one blue, are disassembled on a silicon mat. The circuit board is removed from one.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Is there a more local option you could use? I’m quite partial to pōhuehue. Once it gets going it’s brilliant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muehlenbeckia… I have spent much too long removing ivy from banks. This past Saturday, for example. @RobynNuthall

A creeping plant with delicate thin brown stems and small rounded green leaves

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Off-peak power plans lead to new, localised 9pm spikes in parts of the network. Interesting snippet from Vector's Annual Report 2026, page 22 > As more households shift electricity use into cheaper off-peak periods, we are seeing a new demand spike emerge […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

CHANGING DEMAND PATTERNS
Smart meter data is revealing how quickly
customers respond to price signals. As more
households shift electricity use into cheaper
off-peak periods, we are seeing a new demand
spike emerge at around 9pm. This is a good
example of the future arriving in real-time: pricing
is changing behaviour, and we must be ready for
what happens when many more customers act
at once. It shows why better data, smarter pricing
and flexible network tools will be critical to helping
customers access lower-cost energy while keeping
the network secure and efficient.

This is followed by a graph showing an AM peak, a PM peak, and with 2025 data overlaid, a 9pm SUPER peak

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

These are photos from yesterday’s trapping in the Kaimai. We’ve been trapping on the plateau behind Okauia with Ngāti Hinerangi for four years now so we’ve seen a difference and can see the ebb and flow of the bush. Some of it is positive with increased […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Hakeke or ear fungus a delicious and nutritious native mushroom

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Crossing the upper reaches of Wai Te Arikia stream. Lower down, the river was a spot reserved for chiefs to swim. Rodent damage to one of the trap covers. They’re stealing the bait out of the possum traps. Some of these covers were just replaced from our […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

A river crossing. Calm crystal clear waters over brown sandstone. Flanked on either side with tree ferns and an over canopy of podocarps. Various other hard ferns and kiekie fill it out

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I have built a home rock climbing wall and installed the first hold. Ask me anything.

A red rock climbing hand hold on a grey background with an offset grid of holes for mounting

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Question for anyone who has done sound design for a club in the past decade: Why do DJs now have their own personal line arrays as foldbacks? Here's a photo from Tomorrowland main stage that shows it really clearly but you can see it on other stages and […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Novah at Tomorrowland, flanked by 4x 2 line array speakers and a giant crate

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Computer hardware people, I have some leftover parts after reassembling a laptop. There was some rattling in this student's laptop. After disassembly, removing the plastic bits from the fan that stopped it rotating, the brass nub that no longer held the […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

A scuffed capacitor label that involves the text "EAD45" and "2.5V"

The socket without capacitor. PCB markings OF1 CD42

And with the capacitor thrown into approximately the right place in the plastic mounting

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Oh no you didn’t, ChargeNet! You asked how likely I am to recommend? That’s a 0 from me. Every survey gets a 0. Stop asking me for feedback. 0 for everyone. NPS = 0. No stars. Unless you’re the cleaner at Changi Airport in which case big smiley face, Uncle. Good work.

ChargeNet email from Ask Nicely asks how likely I am to recommend them

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Getting really tired of all the reminders from the bank to “avoid phishing” and “protect your details”. I closed my account 8 years ago. Now they’ve noticed I haven’t made any transactions for quite some time and are threatening to restrict my account. Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Wall of text from email:

We noticed that you have not made any transactions on any of your accounts with us for some time.
It is easy to keep your account relationship active - simply make one transaction (such as an ATM withdrawal / deposit, online fund transfer or over the counter) in the next 2 months. We hope you have the access and support you need to do this.
Please note that if you are not able to make a successful transaction within the next 2 months, we would need to put all your accounts (including your Securities Settlement Accounts and Wealth Settlement Accounts) with us on hold as a precautionary measure.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

With the current cold weather, let me show you a genius tool that I was given by one of the patrons of the Men’s Shed (Auckland East). It’s a turned wooden handle that fits over a hot water bottle stopper and makes it a lot easier to loosen. Great idea! […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Side view of the wooden knob, showing a prominent split for the stopper to fit into

The wooden handle is placed over the smaller stopper allowing it to be gripped and twisted

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

7am and the ground is all crispy and frosty. -3° #EV is all toasty warm, pre-heated, warm steering wheel, no frost on the windows. Next to it the diesel Ute can barely be seen under a thick layer of ice. Good thing I don’t need to run it today. It would […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Leaf dashboard showing a snow flake symbol next to the temperature of -3°

Crispy frost and a complete opaque windscreen on a diesel ute

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

An apology: Earlier today my account posted some messages that were defamatory and contain some light lèse-majesté. This was a result of a sophisticated frontier model #AI breaking out of containment. A full investigation has been launched and with the […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

A very simplistic bash script that chooses an insult from a list and then posts the result to Mastodon using curl

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Great news, 2degrees does give a static IPv6 range for free with the paid static IPv4 address. I added that all in to my UniFi configuration and now all my devices are happy with their new IPv6 addresses. Less happy: along with the delegated IPv6 prefix […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

UniFi configuration screen filled out with IPv6 addresses but the Gateway IP is highlighted

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Another perfect Waikato winter morning. 8 degrees and foggy. Can’t beat it. (Or my sheepskin slippers.)

Foggy grey sky with some bare tree branches reaching upwards. Theoretically there’s a sun behind this

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Wonderful morning watching #Matariki and the rising of the sun on te tau hou over Tauranga Moana with my friends and neighbours and listening to the waiata and kōrero. We had the first wānanga in the warm sun. Hosted very kindly by Ngati Hinerangi. I didn’t check my few photos until this evening.

A night scene of people standing near fires on a mountaintop looking over the ocean towards the rising sun

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

It sure is great to fly our red, white, and blue flag! You know, the one with the stars. We can fly it if we choose to but we’re not required to, because that’s true freedom. We’re also encouraged to discreetly burn the flag (if it is damaged and needs […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Official photograph of the Aotearoa New Zealand flag, taken by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage

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