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Me: If I reduce this pasta sauce outside on the barbecue, the resulting steam won’t turn my whole house into a swamp. I am a genius. Literally every fly in the country: be right there bro

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Matt @kiwimatt.bsky.social · 22h

today I learnt that tortoises are a subspecies of turtle, so all the children's books that call tortoises turtles are technically correct years of irrational annoyance at said books mislabelling tortoises was indeed irrational, and wrong!

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 23h

What in the seven hells is avuncular … actually no, I refuse to get sucked into this bullshit.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 23h

<Winston Peters, kicking in bathroom doors and yanking down people’s pants at gunpoint> We must avoid the creeping fascism of random beneficiary drug testing! #nzpol

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love* being forced to rapidly reverse-engineer someone’s unclear intent from a tangential question under time pressure. * Do not, in fact, love.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Driver assistance features maybe a little too aggressive for NZ country roads.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Proposal: lower voting age to 14

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

also “polestalk” is a god tier typo and you should tell people it was on purpose 😁

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

GUILTY ALSO. Polestar is like a Tesla only good.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve fucked up just the vaccination side roughly 50% of the time in the last five years. There’s just something about that question in that context that makes me fumble it.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A bit sappy maybe and I never said this before but the two of you thriving is a great lesson for everyone fretting about not having an icemaker, and I’ve really enjoyed watching it happen. Which is not to say it was easy, but it undeniably worked.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What I’m getting from this is that when it comes to sewers, shouting is OK, pumping is OK, but both together probably means something bad is going to happen.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have no idea how they ever expected to make money but damn if I don’t miss Mevo every single day, and I say that as someone who has been a Cityhop member since before they even launched publicly.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I try not to be argumentative on this subject but observably almost no private citizen buys any kind of motor vehicle based primarily on its cost efficiencies. I do love the Yaris, though. It’s absolutely the car you’d buy if the Leaf didn’t exist.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rather read you on your worst day than most people on their best.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My slowly developing theory is that the robber barons of previous ages built libraries and theatres because they were very aware of the pitchfork-wielding mobs that could accumulate outside their homes at short notice with kitset guillotines.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m no expert on American cars but from a distance it seems like the more exotic the name, the worse the car. “Chevy Cavalier” == worst car ever. “Ford Bland Lump SE” == best goddamn car ever, easy repairs, great to drive, several examples with more than 1M km on the clock, still running.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We should not be enemies. We should work together. IF YOU’VE COME FOR THE FORK, YOU’LL BE SORELY DISAPPOINTED.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not everyone knows this, but there’s actually an ongoing competition among open source developers to use the most obscure compression algorithms possible, with an annual awards show for whichever project prevented the most users from unpacking the source tree

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From direct and unpleasant experience: The $10 sack of painting rags from Mitre 10. Empty the sack onto the floor, wait five minutes, shovel it back into the sack, throw it away immediately.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“I am sad” is Gus for “I need to poop but I don’t want to bother you” as well.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No-context post of the day

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s many hilariously awful things about Google wasting half a page of search results on their asinine LLM thing, but perhaps the best one is that it takes every page of the SCP Foundation wiki completely seriously and reports it as stone cold fact.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a god-tier post that would have gotten you a book deal before space karen ruined twitter.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s fucking nothing. I talked shit to a bouncer once and met seventeen different Jesuses, and one of them was wearing a frilly pink dress.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dear sir or madam, my guitar wants to kill your mama. Rgds etc.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

95% of all OSINT is political. The rest is just bookkeeping.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

who on earth would want to fuck a bank mascot what a ridiculous <alex horne taps clipboard> dear god it’s full of stars

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be fair they were very busy getting rid of all the blockchain bullshit, doesn’t leave much time to update anything else.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

tasty cheddar now $20 a block ffs

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today I learned that I am not good enough at games to finish Dead Cells..

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Get to the place you want to go by connecting it to a place you already know how to get to is a time-honoured Australasian tradition.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The earliest iteration of google maps, back when google was a cute cuddly dork of a company, had a feature to print out turn by turn directions to take with you on a piece of paper while you drove.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

100% normal to call a store, say hey, I need this specific thing and the person who answered would go check it was on the shelf and if they had it then they’d tell you how to get to store from the nearest landmark or whatever both you and that person agreed upon.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Things I’ve been alive long enough to see change: “it’ll end up going to the Supreme Court” used to be a positive thing.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That sweet, sweet services revenue is like smack and they can’t stop doing it, even though they have plenty of people smart enough to know it’s going to bury them.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve been told that other people have faces and often those faces can be used to identify them even in contexts you haven’t seen them in before. I hope one day to remember one of these “faces”.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t mind if you woodchipper all humans, I just don’t want to be the human that caused it.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just like to go on the record and say that I’ve known Tom for 20 years and to my knowledge he has never woodchippered a family of any ethnic or national origin.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans would walk five hundred miles and Americans would walk five hundred more, just to ‘void the use of metric systems at their do-ooo-oor

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI-powered innocent-South-American-family-woodchipping spatulas are inevitable, and we must all learn to embrace AI-powered innocent-South-American-family-woodchipping spatulas in our cooking or we will be left behind.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am very, very bored with people churning out middle-of-the-road opinions in the AI meme wars with zero acknowledgement of the astonishingly well-funded disinformation campaign feeding them their talking points.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That thing where someone ends a post with RESHARES WELCOME but it’s early in the morning and you misread it as REHASHES WELCOME and you stare at it for a while and then go NOPE IT’S STILL THE SAME MESSAGE.

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

even the politest, most mild-mannered dog is a sick twisted fuck just below the surface, who will stick their nose firmly into your butthole at a moment’s notice

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just signed an executive order permanently declaring Gavin Newsom “Gavin Newsom” in California. You’re welcome, America.

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