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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 21/09/2026

I just accidentally uploaded the Hyperborea cleric spell list to my Southern Cross (medical insurance) claim…

A screenshot of a PDF viewer showing a table of spell names

gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 16/09/2026

they’ve now completed Silent Titan’s R8BY and Brom and the players keep finding new connections that they think are hints linking back to their “old selves” in the previous adventures as Pendragon knights, it’s great, they’re doing my work for me

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 14/09/2026

accidentally found National party health policy in a stairwell at (what is apparently now called) Sky World

A sign reading "walk straight past the disabled" with an iconographic "female" figure and an arrow pointing to the right. White on black.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 27/08/2026

if you wish to read the yijing, first you must… build a recension from scratch

another UI image, this time showing a layout where the same passage from 8+ different texts is being compared side-by-side. alongside each passage is shown the original image strip; characters that differ in the transcriptions are highlighted.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 11/08/2026

the kids have never seen a computer that doesn‘t lag

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 11/08/2026

I realize that this is a crazy-person thing to say but I’ve done some statistical analysis on the Yi Jing and everyone has read it wrong

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 13/07/2026

what do I make with excessive lemons and limes? do I get really into American-style pies?

a photograph of a composite stone benchtop with a big pile of lemons in a tray on the left and a big pile of limes (yellow) on the bench on the right.

behind is a large stainless steel colander full of mandarins and a bowl with overripe habaneros

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 11/07/2026

Went for a short 3km walk in Tãwharanui and unexpectedly spotted Toutouwai (NZ Robin), Tieke (Saddleback) & Pāteke (Brown Teal)… along with the standard Tüï, lots of Korimako, Kererü, a bunch of Pōpokotea, and a silly number of Piwakawaka. Do recommend! all my bird photos were bad so some walkways:

photo from the top of a gravel path looking back down a grassy hill to a beach below.

The water is very shiny with the sun reflecting off it. The grass is bright green. There are some clouds and a lot of scrubby bushes.

Photo of a gravel pathway under native trees which lean in from either side. Blue sky is visible through the sparse canopy.

A similar photo but browner/muddier pathways

A photo from the beach in the first photo. The sand is on the left and the sea on the right. Above a grassy embankment on left are large dark green trees. The sky gapes blue above. There are clouds in the far distance on the right.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 08/07/2026

I have discovered the worst tic-tac-toe/noughts-and-crosses implementation of all time

a brown plastic panel with a faux wood pattern on the side of a playground with space for only three X/O yellow spinners in a row

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 05/07/2026

I do think Rust should have had different traits for 1:1 (injective) conversions vs those that might normalize/be non-invertible

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 24/06/2026

I’m not parochial about much, but I do feel that what the government is planning to with conservation lands is essentially treason

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 20/06/2026

North Head was real nice, last weekend

A photograph from a hill looking back over a harbor. The grass is mown and bright green. On the right there's another mount in the distance visible, with houses in front and a beach wrapping all the way around till below the Hill the photo is taken from. Across the other side of the harbor on distant left is the city core, with skyscrapers and the Sky Tower. The sky is deep blue with scattered clouds.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 16/06/2026

*adds two exponents together* ha! ha! I’m doing homomorphic encryption!

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Skullboy @betterlegends.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I miss pre-prestige television.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 07/06/2026

this one plant just won’t quit, it must have made like 60 habaneros by now. I have multiple bags in the freezer. I have a litre of hot sauce. running out of things to do!

a large IKEA stainless steel bowl with red habanero chilies in it, about 25

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 05/06/2026

which way Western dude

Sausserian diagrams with two parts: concept/sound image

A Piercean diagram with three nodes: object - sign - interpretant (linked in that order, object dotted-linked to interpretant)

A Greimas square diagram: top left s1, top right s2, bottom left not s1, bottom right not s2. The opposite corners are linked by solid diagonal lines. The outer edges of the square are linked by dotted lines. Left side labeled "deixes 1" and right "deixes 2".

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 27/05/2026

toki pona auto-glosser, ha

a screenshot of some commandline output about the sentence "mi pana e tomo tawa sina" with two readings listed

the first (which has multiple different glosses but I'm giving the first line) is "I give house to you" - the second is "I give house moving your"

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 24/05/2026

we use an old Google device in the kitchen for adding stuff to the shopping list and setting timers. recently it changed to Australian mode† it’s not going well

A shopping list showing

Khaki batteries
Pancreas
Flair drip
Cherry tree
Ant bait

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 24/05/2026

winning on the op shop finds

A book cover "The sport of life and death: the mesoamerican ballgame"

With a photo of a clay figure running with a ball

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 24/05/2026

when I ran Hot Springs Island the opera scene from the Fifth Element was the centerpiece

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 21/05/2026

am I stumbling my way into running something that is both Pendragon and Silent Titans at the same time? I sure hope so!

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 15/05/2026

trained ones, strays, sirens, denumerables, those included in this classification, and those that—at a distance—resemble flies

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 15/05/2026

slipping Bruno into an internal slide deck again, ha, ha

a slide title "translation and pdf search/indexing" with a bunch of hermetic geometric diagrams on it, none of which seem comprehensible

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 14/05/2026

I do think choose-your-own-adventure books had a significant detrimental impact on my ability to make decisions

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Dave Eng @davengdesign.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

🎲 Exploring Sicherman Dice: Discovered in the 1970s by George Sicherman, these unique dice, with numbers 1-4 and 1-8, mimic the standard D6 sum distribution. #TabletopGames #DiceInnovation gametek.substack.com...

gametek.substack.com

Sicherman Dice - by Geoff Engelstein - GameTek

A GameTek Stocking Stuffer

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 12/05/2026

turns out there’s a nice way to encode Sorceror-style dice pool rolls making them very susceptible to analysis

Output showing "sorc(84d10, 76d10)" above a chart which is nearly normal but has a gap in it at 0. The values range from -76 to +84 and the mean is .9039

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A Rose In Concrete 🔞 @roseinconcrete.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 08/05/2026

making my own dice roller, on steroids, for when you need… a lot of dice (the output here is analytic, not generated by sampling, but it _is_ a close approximation [mean off by 0.0005%] and not an exact calculation — it has to be, with values this large)

$❯ .\target\release\drole.exe "sum largest 50 500d1000" --no-table Summary Statistics Values: 7005 (29199..49978) Mean: 47479.8077 Std deviation: 393.4369 Mean deviation: 314.7699$

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 07/05/2026

it’s 2026 and I have to write a unit test for “is there a functional HTTP client or does it panic at runtime telling me to enable a crate feature?”

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 06/05/2026

stuck in a `native-tls` loop again; Rust desperately needs something like GHC’s “backpack” for these kinds of requirements rather than a maze of feature flags essentially the package is parameterized over a dep, and you then ‘plug in’ another package — sorta like node peer dependencies, only better

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 06/05/2026

reading 6yo’s sign and suddenly realized it has her first ever footnote, so proud

a cardboard sign with pen on it reading
(translated from 6yo handwriting)

"Warning: please do not come in here it is a nightmare cat's* territory.

*Nightmare cats are cats that can bite you in half."

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 06/05/2026

He was a cop, and good at his job, but he committed the ultimate sin—and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops that tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands... an outlaw hunting outlaws... a bounty hunter... a renegade.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 06/05/2026

hahaha— gulp (Alex Hern as quoted in Escape, Marie Le Conte)

'The big thing the internet has done is made me realise I don't actually have any niche interests. It's sort of a mixed blessing: on the one hand, it's nice to know how many other people share my enthusiasm for this stuff, but on the other hand, it's a constant reminder of just how incredibly normie I am.

'At school, I thought I was an interesting snowflake, for playing mildly-artsy video games and having a standing order at a comic shop. Now I know that I am the most vanilla nerd imaginable. Occasionally, I wonder whether I should try and cultivate a really niche interest, but I honestly think, when comparing yourself to Literally Everyone Else In The World, the only stuff that looks niche anymore is going to be borderline impenetrable.'

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 06/05/2026

reading Giordano Bruno’s memory-works again and thinking: the fact that grid cells are linked to memory is probably part of what actually made this ‘effective’ … the discovery of grid (and path) cells won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: and guess what appears in the NP lecture?

a slide from a deck with a map of South America on the left and a bisected drawing of a house on the right

the left is labelled "space is used as a framework for storing memories" and the right is labelled "method of loci"

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 16/08/2025

when the library returns anyhow::Error

a film still from Joan of Arc (1948) with two characters in high-ranking medieval dress. the subtitle reads "Your attitude is slovenly"

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 04/05/2026

my main goal is to be able to cite Dummett-on-tarot and Dummett-on-Frege in one work

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 04/05/2026

Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) (in the Artificial Intelligence section)

I have strong hunches about the inner work-
ings of men who get millions of dollars from the
Department of Defense and then say in private
that really they're going to use it to create a
machine so intelligent it can play with their chil-
dren. (Not to name names or anything.) An
obvious question is, do they play with their
children? No, they play with computers.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 03/05/2026

trying to figure out my lawn fungus: some kind of tiny puffball?

Green grass and a white fungus with short white/fluffy spikes on top

The same but split open, there is a "meaty" part at the top and a more "empty" part in the shaft

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 03/05/2026

went to the Aotearoa Art Fair and all i got was this incredibly sick poster (Jess Johnson)

a poster with hard to describe geometric fleshy imagery, masks with vagiform faces and intertwined limbs. the background is a marigold yellow and it says GAME TRANSFER PHENOMENON

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 01/05/2026

This isn’t funny, NZ literally tried this in the 2002 election! They called the on-screen line “the worm” and the audience had a special dial they could turn which ran from Very Good to Normal to Very Dull. You can see it in action here: www.nzonscreen.com/title/2002-l...

A black plastic contraption in a man's hand. It has a cord and kinda looks like a 1970s toaster. It has engraved white text. At the bottom it says Audience Studies. Above that is a dial going from A Very Dull to B Dull to C Normal to D Good and finally E Very Good. There are exposed screws and it looks very DIY.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 29/04/2026

Black Hole Punch Won’t you come And take away the chads? Stum-b-ling, on my feet Spill confetti on the floor Bottom’s gone, from the punch And it won't stay on agaiiiin

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 29/04/2026

in general Luxon has no opinions on *anything* but he really wanted to support bombing Iran? two weeks ago he was at a Buddhist temple in Auckland giving a speech about world peace! what a genuine piece of shit

Christopher Luxon standing behind a podium with "2025 Buddha's Birthday, Celebration for World Peace". He is wearing an orange ribbon around his neck. Behind him are golden dragons and small Buddha statues for the "bathing the Buddha" ceremony. There's a NZ flag and a Buddhist flag flanking him in the background.

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 29/04/2026

hell yeah to whoever was in the crowd filming Takanaka on a Nintendo 3DS

A man in a red suit playing a guitar on stage beneath spotlights

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gəorgə pollɐrd @porg.es · 29/04/2026

need to drop some Lore in my Pendragon campaign not sure my players will be happy with my new “actually stirrups haven’t been invented yet” ruling

Photo of a book cover: The making of the Middle ages: an atlas of Europe by John Hayward

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