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@mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

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Recently got a marine science PhD. Now doing data science stuff with river flow data, and learning te reo Māori. A sci-fi/fantasy nerd, gamer geek (board games, video games […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.nz/@mwt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

#DinnerTonight was an attempt at spinach pide. Neither had quite the right shape but they were fun to make and tasty. recipetineats.com/pide-turkish-flat…

Two homemade pide before baking. They are filled with spinach, and are more long and skinny than boat shaped.

Two homemade pide after baking. The filling is darker and toasty, and the openings have widened out. Bread is lightly browned.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Got 90% of the way toward buying a new car (an EV!), and then backed out at the part where I sign the loan because I'm fundamentally opposed to fees. (Fees are theft. It's how rich people become rich - not by working, but by stealing tiny amounts of money from a large number of other people.) […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@janef0421 living up to your potential is the bane of the gifted, I think. I too have had that conundrum. Eventually I realised that living an authentic life that makes me happy is far more important than other people's expectations.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@janef0421 I had a yoga teacher who often said "it's never too late to be what you might've been."

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@gooba42 we didn't ever think that. The point of school is to turn people into well behaved worker drones.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

My morning commute starts out with lots and lots of going east. For the past month, I was walking it while waiting for the sun to get high enough up that I could scoot or bike without being blind. But wait! Daylight Savings! Let's instant replay the whole sun in my eyes thing for another month! […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I seem to have lost the ability to favourite posts. :|

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@phil_stevens sounds like 10ish years ago with the Democrats tacking right to woo the (what became) MAGAs, and look how that worked out.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@Niall I took a closer look at the packaging of the tofu in tonight's dinner, and it has a website. So I went there and it turns out they have a factory in Auckland. Whodathunk! It was on sale, $4 for 850g (in two blocks).

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@Niall hmm, not seen that one before that I know of. The Asian supermarket is where I'm finding affordable tofu, and the packaging is in various east Asian languages, so I assume it's imported. Meanwhile the brands in the standard duopolies are in English with the usual obligatory origin […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Today I learned that tofu imported from overseas is a quarter of the price of tofu made in New Zealand. o.O

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@libroraptor I don't recall learning that. The War of 1812 immediately makes me think of Tecumseh. But I suspect a lot of what history people learned depended on what state they learned it in. I briefly dated someone from Connecticut who said they never made it past the Revolutionary War in any […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Today I learned that the tune to Battle Hymn of the Republic, which is a patriotic song that children learn in the US, is also the tune to Solidarity Forever. Last night we sang the latter to close out a union-hosted political debate, and my brain was short circuiting on the words. >.>

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@MichaelaKHulse Dinner here was remarkably similar: one can tomato sauce, one can coconut cream, one cup red split lentils, two tablespoons curry powder and one of turmeric, and some leftover roast buttercup pumpkin. Chopped onion and garlic fried a bit at medium heat before adding all the other […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@MichaelaKHulse ice cream cakes were a favorite in my family when I was a kid. Layer vanilla ice cream with crushed oreos or other cookies.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@pezmico okay serious and possibly dumb question... if we are producing 40 million people's worth of food, and there's only 5 million of us, where is most of it going? I assumed it was mostly exported but is it all going to landfill (which is what the policy on their website seems to imply since […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@pezmico They should also implement a domestic quota system, whereby food exporters are required to fill 100% of domestic demand before they're allowed to send anything overseas.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

also, not pictured: plunger coffee from a guy who just started roasting locally, also from yesterday's market. :)

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

#food Breakfast this morning: handmade bagels from yesterday's market, spread with chili goat cheese from yesterday's market. A winning combination!

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@janef0421 Even that doesn't work in real life, alas, because the real Earth isn't a sphere...

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@lucky That's what happens to me whenever I go to the weekly outdoor market here. If I approach any of the stalls to ask a question, it's all over - I'm going to buy something.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@reesecommabill awesome, go get 'em! And thanks for leading the charge!

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

father-in-law to spouse: "all but one political party wants to raise taxes on your future inheritance. Think about that when you vote." me (much later after the conversation was over): "would you rather give him a pile of money, or for him to have access to high quality publicly funded […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@phil_stevens there was an article about a bookstore in (I think) Wellington that is similarly rejecting these. And warning other bookstores around the world.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Update: I went back to the store and got it swapped out with another one. Then I cooked and ate the new one, before it could swell up at me. There were two other packages of tofu involved in #DinnerTonight that were always fine. Mapo tofu uses up a lot and then we eat so much of it at once that […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Umm... so... What do I do if the tofu has clearly produced a ton of gas in this package?

Block of tofu packaged in plastic. The plastic is a bulging bubble, when it normally would have more of a shrinkwrap appearance. The box it came in is behind the tofu bubble.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@paninid 1960: Walk into any establishment that looks like it has work you want to do. Ask for job. Get job.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Spring has sprung. There's useful sun reaching the ground in the front yard again. It only lasts a couple hours so far, but long enough that it's worth putting out the solar farm.

Three portable solar panels in a gravel yard with some greenery and a wooden fence in the background. The electric generator is in the shade behind them. Like all electric generators, it's a small box about the size of a desktop tower computer, and not a big loud smelly contraption like most people think when hearing "generator."

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@SimonCHulse @va2lam I have a knife block where the storage area is a bunch of flexible plastic rods. Can stuff knives of any size anywhere in it. It was from Briscoes for $80 8 years ago.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

@davemosk (without having clicked on the article, but with having clicked on many tech job ads...) Are they hoping for AI or crypto here?

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Update: I've just found out that there's an electricity plan available at Genesis that would allow charging an EV at ChargeNet stations for the same price as home charging. There's a ChargeNet station down the street from us (within walking distance). So maybe I'll just do that then! Problem solved!

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Switching to an EV as a renter Step One: Move to a house with an internal access garage that has a plug outlet. I still can't afford to buy anything because I'm too old to be trusted with a mortgage, and the housing market steadfastedly refuses to crash, so now I need to find a place to live […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

@damianpeterson phooey. I like my late night math better.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

It occurs to me that if we were to guillotine one NZ billionaire and divide up his $billion equally amongst the other 5 million of us, we'd each have $200 million. So... I guess the best way to improve my personal lot in life is to bring down capitalism.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I found recipes for Dominican dumplings, so basically I ended up just boiling everything as is. Worked fine with the marinara sauce I had going. It wasn't haute cuisine, but we did end up fed.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

#food #cooking #pasta Suppose that I was super optimistic about making pasta from semolina flour. And then it turns out I don't have anywhere near the physical strength to knead and roll the dough into actual pasta. What are my options for what to do with the dough next? I've kneaded it into […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

@pezmico it even includes helping us renters!

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

@RFPatterson We need to end capitalism so that the economic fiction of stock markets can cease to exist.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

@RFPatterson i might try to convince my conservative in-laws to vote for TOP. There's no way they'd vote greens, so maybe it's a viable alternative for them?

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

#DinnerTonight was spinach feta gozleme (www.recipetineats.com/gozleme). I slid the slider from four servings to two, and wish I hadn't, because the proportions of dough ingredients came out really weird, and then I improvised, and the end result wasn't quite right. Overall it was […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

@janef0421 I've been thinking about it myself. But then I also figure that there will soon be a climate apocalypse, and if I was in any part of Australia I'd be with multimillions of people in a desert. So... I guess the next question is, what's Australia doing to prep for that?

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

[Conservation Amendment Bill] #nzpol Getting it in at the last minute (due tomorrow at noon!), but here's what I've just submitted: I oppose the Conservation Amendment bill because Aotearoa's land is not a commodity to be bought and sold, nor otherwise exploited, for private profit. I oppose […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@libroraptor also I've found that my immersion blender works better than the blender. Haven't got a mincer unfortunately.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@libroraptor with chickpeas I don't, but the chickpea stock at bin inn seems to move fast enough that the supply is quite fresh. The pintos and kidneys on the other hand need extra help.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

#DinnerTonight was an attempt to make "falafel" out of very old pinto beans. I pressure cooked the beans first, which might've been a mistake. I aimed for Mexican spicing (cumin, chipotle, cayenne for extra heat) with onions, garlic, capsicum, and cilantro. Otherwise went with the normal […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

@lucky What are its advantages over a debit card?

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

@Niall I do all that. :) And add baking soda to the soak water and sometimes the pressure cooker water. And then the beans still get just barely edible after cooking them in the actual recipe. (I'm now on a mission to eat the entire stock of beans at Bin Inn in the hopes they get some fresh ones […]

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MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Looking for recipes that include both lentils and uncooked yogurt. (It turns out if you suddenly start eating lots of beans, your guts have to adjust... >.> So, trying to help things along with probiotics.) #Food #cooking

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

@jendefer the card game where you build a 4x4 tableau and score points based on what you put where? I like it. Beautiful card art, enjoyable game play with no negative player interaction. Moderate complexity, 2 hours.

MWT @mwt.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

@Niall Agree with you on the lack of innovation at the uni/industry level. I think that's basically what I'm saying, some form of how I figure it should work ought to exist, or have research in progress somewhere. I'm in no position to carry out any expensive experiments, it's all just "gleam […]

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