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Vale @vale.rocks · 19/06/2026

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

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Lance @lance.god.frey.nz · 06/06/2026

A white screen, on mobile. A Cloudflare block page in desktop mode.

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Lance @lance.god.frey.nz · 14/05/2026

Flying home from AWS Summit. Highlights: - @lizthegrey.com's two-day marathon live demo of AWS DevOps Agent - Chris Lamont-Smith on defense-in-depth for AI workloads: leverage OAuth token exchange + attenuation, hook into agents to add deterministic safety checks

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 05/05/2026

Celebrate TEN YEARS of Pepper Raccoon with Aotearoa Aeternum, a full art hoodie featuring 13 extinct native bird skulls, sleeve illustrations, and distressed textures. Pre-order ONLY, each one will be made to order with no extra stock planned. Ends May 29: pepperraccoon.com (more details below)

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Lance @lance.god.frey.nz · 07/05/2026

Hard not to make the comparison 🤣

A chart from a Yougov.com poll of US adults, showing that 75% of Democrats and 33% of Republicans think they could beat Donald Trump in a physical fight.

A chart from a Yougov.com showing that 72% of Americans think they could fight a rat unarmed, while 30% think they could beat an eagle.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/04/2026

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/03/2026

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

going by the shibboleths and archetypes of what the broadest cross section of Americans consider honorable and decent, CBP executed a goddamn saint today. a nurse who served veterans, who no one would speak a word against, a legal gun owner exercising his 2nd Amendment rights, and yes, a white man.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Okay, might as well get this started. It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930. The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d. 1/

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Rosewatta Stone @rosewattastone.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Desecration Plague #GoogleTranslatesMTG Original: scryfall.com/card/jo...

Sexual Dysfunction Treatment
3G
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Blow up your house.
“God makes insects. Maybe we are smarter.”
—Perisophie, scientist

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 16/12/2025

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

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Lance @lance.god.frey.nz · 25/11/2025

My daughter wanted to make me a replacement #kawaiicon ticket 😊

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Lance @lance.god.frey.nz · 21/10/2025

From an old conference: www.youtube.com/live/4xGxotB... From 6:30 onwards, there's a cool talk about the recent history and practicalities of engineering undersea fibre. It's pretty entertaining! The math behind phase division multiplexing and digital signal processors is modern wizardry.

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NZNOG 2020 Day1

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/10/2025

of course, all the requisite hugops to everybody at AWS, but I will share a little secret: I always tried to hold the line on Glitch being entirely hosted within US-EAST-1 simply because I knew that it would make people more forgiving of outages and downtime once they knew where we were hosted.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/10/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/10/2025

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 24/07/2025

I do the art for this magnificent con, and if you’re a hacker, you owe it to yourself to a) come down to NZ for it, it slaps, and b) submit a talk????

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

So there's someone arguing about using people's requested pronouns with the sentence, "no one can compel or coerce me to use or not use certain words. I decide what I say and how I say it." Which... fine. That's a stance a person can take. I could even see there being some merit to it as a policy.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

looking at new hardware, and it is /such/ a nightmare that everyone's added an onboard NPU without a single actual use case. like literally MS has not even come up with a single NPU application other than studio? obscene. they're just waving their hands about how there's going to be in the future.

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untitled 1 @medianoche.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

it would be cool if i had a sibling who had kids and and really liked black jelly beans so i could have a niece named anise

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

One of the most unsettling conversations I ever had was with a guy from NASA about 8 years ago. I expressed my skepticism that space colonisation was worthwhile. He expressed that it was an amazing way of selling billionaires on the idea of funding tech we’d need here on earth in a few decades.

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Hamo @hamo.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

NZ Govt: we need to live within our meanness.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

every time I see one of those rants that include an"Ozempic is a weight loss drug" rants its like yes it is and you're simply gonna ignore that it functionally cures Type 2 diabetes and to land whatever zinger you think you've cooked up here huh

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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I think of this quote all the time.

“When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else.” - Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The first thing I noticed was how fast this swallow flew. When it landed, I noticed the white cheeks and green back. I was thrilled to realize that it was a Violet-green Swallow. They are stunning! #birds #photography #birdphotography #birding

Swallow perched on a dead tree in front of some beard moss (Usnea), blueish-purple wings, green back, clean white front and violet neck.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 10/05/2025

one of my favorite archaeology terms is "manuport" which just means a thing (rock, animal, stick, etc) that's in a weird place because a prehistoric human picked it up and carried it there. this one is estimated to be 3 million years old

Wikipedia screenshot of a reddish brownish maroonish rock that had indentations in it that look like a face. There's a scale at the bottom that shows it's a little bigger than 5 cm across. The caption text reads "The Makapansgat cobble with its distinct 'face'."

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer

Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through Al video

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A frog wizard and his faithful familiar on this international bat day These two will be the leads on my next frog book (whenever I finally get to it)

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

[SHIVERS] the streets are overwhelmed, you moron. they cannot take the stench of five of you. the streets buckle under your degeneracy.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Swelling with patriotic pride as I watch a kid cycle down the bike lane alongside sh1 with one hand on the handlebars and the other chowing down on a pie. That's my Aotearoa.

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Gotta love when the rain is heavy enough that you can triangulate where the radar is, based on what it can see through the Alps.

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

NZer's going on the internet on the 2nd of April with trepidation...

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Gavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"BuT YoU'vE rUiNeD tHe LaNd'S PrOdUcTiViTy!" I visited this fresh, new solar site and asked all those dumbass questions you've seen at the 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEFg...

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Building a BIG solar farm in New Zealand!

YouTube video by Ecotricity NZ

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 26/03/2025

So I've been through this process before where hey I'm gonna start managing all patches. It works for a while until you burn out. You just need to let the vendor manage the patches unless it's something mission critical. Your process is going to break and then something worse happens: no patches.

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Mike Julian @mikejulian.com · 27/03/2025

Contract negotiation tip: “This is standard” and the like are best read as “please don’t look too closely at this, that was the only reasonable defense we had for it”

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A lot of young men bought tulips, it would be irresponsible to let the price of tulips fall now

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The literal genie is a very common trope: when you "make a wish" you get exactly what you wish for. This is one of the explicit limits on the spell Wish from D&D - often called the most powerful spell in the game because its effect is "make a wish and it comes true." (this is a thread about tech)

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Lance @lance.god.frey.nz · 08/03/2025

Oh no! I hadn't heard about that D:

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Lance @lance.god.frey.nz · 08/03/2025

Hey @pepperraccoon.com, the Bazaar is in open beta now! You playing some?

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