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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 30/09/2025

As far as I know if someone views your profile repeatedly they’ll eventually show up as a recommended friend. I’m not sure exactly how many times is necessary for them to show up though.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 29/09/2025

From the research I did before nearly buying one, the P38 isn’t too bad and most problems are solved by putting a fresh and high CCA battery. L322 is even better because its basically just an X5 wearing the skin of a Range Rover.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Well, that's one way to open a programme.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 20/09/2025

On the Off Track is back for a bonus episode from the cutting room floor! Some Tracks Lead Nowhere youtu.be/3hfBJfKYiNM

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Some Tracks Lead Nowhere | BONUS EPISODE

YouTube video by On The Offtrack

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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 27/08/2025

Hey, authors! If you do not like that your work may have been among the thousands of books Anthropic AI used for training and did not/would not give your permission for them to do so, please file a claim: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

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Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 26/08/2025

I suspect they just haven’t figured it out yet, or maybe they have better immobilisers and aren’t worth breaking into - most here are jap imports with pretty much zero security measures

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 25/08/2025

Aquas are super common here, so much so that they’re also the most stolen car in NZ That’s mostly down to the incredibly easily broken quarter light window that then enables thieves to very easily unlock them, followed by a joyride. They’re getting tough to insure now.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 20/08/2025

The tapes themselves are actually extremely cheap per gigabyte (fraction of the cost of HDDs) but the drive to read/write them is a huge upfront cost

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 20/08/2025

If you can stomach the upfront investment there is no better digital archival medium than LTO tape drives as far as I know

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 18/08/2025

I’m now 2.5 years and hundreds of hours into one video Admittedly, my channel isn’t doing all that well but that’s because explosive growth isn’t the point

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/08/2025

I love that it just immediately runs off the road... trillion dollar company, clearly on the brink of solving self-driving forever

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 09/08/2025

You can’t even get an ADSL or VDSL connection anymore afaik. The options are fibre, satellite, or 4G/5G wireless (which I suppose in a way is like modern dialup)

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 30/07/2025

As far as I can tell it’s one of those things that media studies people are really into and professionals pretty much never think about

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 28/07/2025

I’m pretty sure they shot both sequels simultaneously years ago, and spent a lot of the time in post doing the VFX

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 19/07/2025

I really wanna see a UK version

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 16/07/2025

Here in NZ that’s pretty uncommon, we just have a big heat exchanger thing outside with a big fan

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 15/07/2025

The only thing I’ve ever found it useful for is generating plausible nonsense, and most humans I’ve met can do that too

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 14/07/2025

I must admit the comment was aimed at the Americans Hank was already talking about

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 13/07/2025

Wait a second y’all aren’t using heat pumps for heating as well? Here in NZ it’s like the number one home heating method other than firewood. Our AC units do heating as well. Using the same method they do cooling. Is this not a thing elsewhere?

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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

*scribbles that one in the notebook for later because it’s a banger*

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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Call me a prude, but the beak and talons would scare me

r/AskReddit
u/RocketDraco24 • 17m
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Do you prefer sex with or without a condor? why?

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 15/06/2025

The tank is squeaking. The tank needs grease. The tank yearns for grease. Frankly it looks and sound rickity and old if anything.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 13/06/2025

They’re really common here, I’ve been a passenger in at least one (single cab box truck version). Definitely not what I’d call a small vehicle, but then we need special licenses for some US pickups because they’re so big

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 12/06/2025

It might have originated on one of those subreddits for incredibly poor architectural choices

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 12/06/2025

Trade off is that it’s not a true kei vehicle, and the GVM is high enough to require a heavy vehicle license in some places. Or if not, higher road tax.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 12/06/2025

I’m openly trans. It may be decades before I can safely visit the US. Here’s hoping it gets better though.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 12/06/2025

And oh god I had to touch his icky cursed fucking laptop to offload some files This whole thing sucks on so many levels and I feel so bad for the people who were his close friends

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 12/06/2025

Devasting news to hear about, I worked on a short he produced a couple of years ago and he gave a totally different impression when I met him

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 12/06/2025

It's a real shame as well, right as I'm getting towards a financial position where I could maybe have visited my friends in the US

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The new “Warner” company will continue the traditional film and television business, while the “Brothers Discovery” company will focus on the booming market for incest pornography

Tweet from Variety: “Warner Bros. Discovery to Split Into Two Companies”

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 05/06/2025

Strictly speaking VR doesn’t render all the way around you, it just has to render two high resolution views from slightly different angles - one for each eye

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Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 31/05/2025

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing. Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust. Unbound stole our money.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 29/05/2025

Let’s not go giving Elon any ideas…

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 22/05/2025

The other option is my actual dream to do someday, take my actual 1989 Isuzu Bighorn on a trip around the world. Long way off though, and due to current conflicts it’d be impossible to actually complete a round the world trip.

A front 3/4 shot of my 1989 Isuzu Bighorn (Irmscher trim in blue) on a gravelled area near a river.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 22/05/2025

My infinite money scenario vehicle of choice would be an earlier LR Defender 110. There’s enough room and payload for supplies and internal sleeping, great aftermarket support, and with an Isuzu drivetrain it’d be plenty reliable as well.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 22/05/2025

Even when I lost a coolant line and blew the head gasket on my old motor it drove pretty much exactly the same, it just lost coolant constantly. They’re also mechanical direct injection, so there’s no electronics to go wrong, and they don’t crack heads the way that indirect injection is prone to

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 22/05/2025

I’m a little biased because I actually own one, but I’d probably go for a 4JH1 or 4JB1 from Isuzu. They’re rock solid diesel engines with very few failure points that can actually kill them.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 22/05/2025

I feel like in many cases it’s not so much playing by different rules as it is one side having morals and the other side actually just not really caring. It seems like it’s less that Hipkins is worried about the flak if it doesn’t work out, and more just doesn’t want to lie to people for votes

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 07/05/2025

So ah… what’s the trick? Or did the body police get you?

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Cammie Racing @cammieracing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Oh no, bed bugs.

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 05/05/2025

Why use a simple calculator program when instead you could give the job to glorified predictive text, and consume enough power for a mid-size island nation while you're at it?

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Ash Montgomery @ontheofftrack.com · 05/05/2025

I sure hope he can’t impose it, but after this many goes at “he could never do that” becoming “oh god he did that” I wouldn’t dare assume it’s impossible

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