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TOITŪ TE TIRITI Nerd of the highest order, whether it’s guitars, amplifiers, or the cyberz. Learning something new every day. Tāngata Tiriti. youtube.com/@theaotearoaguitarshow www.youtube.com/@wadepool.productio…

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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 29/09/2026
Got a crowdfunding extension, closes Friday, please join us and share with a music nerd in your life! It’s a big push but we can do this… #nerds #history #music #documentary #amps #highvoltage #neuralampmodeling #aotearoa #newzealand
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 23/09/2026
Last hours for the crowdfunding and there is a ways to go. Chip in if you can and share if you can’t. Thanks for all the help so far! #guitar #kikorangi #amps #music #musichistory #aotearoa #newzealand #loud pledgeme.co.nz/projects/9167
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 16/09/2026
I’m doing a couple of hardware tiers for the crowdfunding. If you or someone you know wants a slick little box with 30 extremely rare (even in-country) AoNZ amp models loaded onto it, give us a pledge! pledgeme.co.nz/projects/916...
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 13/09/2026
Please pledge if you can! This is gonna be fun. Also please share with one person that you think might be interested! Full video and more here: pledgeme.co.nz/projects/916...
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 06/09/2026
Oh! Oh! Is it voting out the death cult?!
RNZ
What New Zealanders are doing to try and live forever (or at least longer)
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 05/09/2026
Nice day. Good mahi. #LFG #Greens ghostchips.nz
Putting up signs for the Greens.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 26/08/2026
I thought about replying to this one just because of the epic name…
FA
Fatrash Agency
12/08/2026
To: support@southpacifictubeoutp... ›
No Subject
If a Collab can work to bring in additional 15-20orders to Southpacifictubeoutpost store.
Would you be open to discuss via WhatsApp
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 11/08/2026
ghostchips.nz
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 10/08/2026
Yeet the veges
GHOSTCHIPS.NZ
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 09/08/2026
Don't Look Dumb
In Front Of Monique.
ghostchips.nz
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 08/08/2026
AI IS
STEALING
HUMAN-MADE ART
DESTROYS MACHINES
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 07/08/2026
Well it’s not a fireworks ban apparently…
RNZ
59m ago
What's the plan for wildfires this summer?
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 03/08/2026
Nice link you got there, it’d be a shame if it redir’d to a scam site
huyouxi.com
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 03/08/2026
In the course of all the previous events, it is evident that something’s bound to happen… 🤘
pledge me.
"Helping Kiwis fund the things they care about. "
Kia ora Wade W
Hi Wade W
Good news! Your project has been approved!
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 30/07/2026
Racist tears officially wet alongside wai and tōuarangi #whinyracistshitgibbonsfuckoff
RNZ
15m ago
English becomes official language of NZ alongside Te Reo Mãori and sign language
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 27/07/2026
Losing Jennifer Finch (L7) and Lou Koller (Sick of it All) both at 59, both from cancer is a seriously big FUCK CANCER moment. Saw them both on the the first Warped tour. Both amazing. RIP(unk), kick out the jams in whatever comes next.
Warped tour guide from 1995 with both L7 and Sick of it All on the main stage.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 27/07/2026
Don’t threaten me with a brighter future…and learn to use a macron you shitforbrains… 🇳🇿
Card dropped in my postbox stating “RADICAL MAORI ARE TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY” sent by a bunch of gutterknucle trashknobs.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 21/07/2026
Saw this on LI and the irony was so heavy it moved the Earth’s wobble orbit a bit.
Fred Midgette in
• 3rd+
Vice Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret)
7h・
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The Chinese government flaunts the rule of law as a matter of routine. They bully their neighbors and exploit nations far from their own shores. They must be exposed and opposed across the globe.
Sergio Gonzales • 3rd+
Marine Biologist | Conservation Rese...
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The Great Wall of China is no longer in Asia. It's floating over the South Pacific.
You can't see it from shore. But every night, more than 300 industrial vessels switch on their lights just beyond the 200-nautical-mile boundaries of Peru and Chile, forming a wall that stretches for hundreds of kilometers across our horizon.
Using satellite data from Global Fishing Watch, I traced the Chinese squid-jigging fleet operating in international waters off the coasts of Peru and Chile throughout 2025. The result: 262,258 hours of apparent fishing effort targeting jumbo flying squid (pota), packed tight against the edge of our Exclusive Economic Zones - the very resource that thousands of artisanal fishers depend on.
This image alone doesn't prove harm to our fisheries; proving that takes rigorous science. And that's exactly what I'm building: research that connects this fishing pressure with ocean dynamics and the catches landed along the coast.
The ocean has no borders, but it does have witnesses. What we can finally see today, we can protect tomorrow.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 21/07/2026
So what I received in my mailbox from National is straight-up propaganda and disinformation right? RIGHT?! #nzpol
bullshit maths from our gov:
GROWING THE ECONOMY
National is growing the economy to create jobs and boost wages.
Responsible economic management means more money coming into local communities, more opportunities for Kiwis to get ahead, and more funding for better hospitals, schools and roads.
We're delivering:
***• More than halving inflation by stopping wasteful spending.***
• Ending the war on farmers, by stripping red tape so that farmers and growers can just get on with it.
• Replacing the RMA with a new system to make it easier to get things done.
• A 30-year infrastructure pipeline and started work on four Roads of National Significance.
• Growing exports by $20 billion by signing trade deals such as India, which increase jobs and lift wages.
• InvestmentBoost, helping businesses invest and hire with a 20% tax deduction on new assets.
What's next:
K
Na mi
KiN to
WRNZ
Inflation rises to highest level in two years
11:02 today
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 18/07/2026
Ah yeah, absolutely in the kit!
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 16/07/2026
🇳🇿 Anyone got a spare radioactive spider they can share? WTAF
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 14/07/2026
Gonna bump this up my reading list 😔
Book:
SAM NEILL
DID I EVER TELL YOU THIS?
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 12/07/2026
To anyone in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland that’s a valve/tube nerd and into amazing old tech but also modern tech and audio/radio, I’ll be at the Auckland Music Market in a week. Come say hello! #auckland #audio #valves #tubes #amplifiers #radio
Auckland Music Market
FREE ENTRY
Sunday 19th July 2026 10am - 3pm
New Lynn Community Centre
Valve testing at the market
Bring yours for a test/ check up
First one is FREE!Most advanced and accurate testing in the country
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 10/07/2026
Not just matching on the outside, but matching on the inside at 3% diff for transconductance and both over 100% nominal. They’ve been hiding in these boxes longer than I’ve been alive. Should make somebody happy soon… #audio #tubes #nerd
Two matched 1965 Mullard KT88 valves/tubes in their original boxesValve/tube all lit up and glowing on the tube tester
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 27/06/2026
Ah thx for that. I swear I know the difference between months that begin with “J”! Also the date in the Science Daily article threw me. TBF to myself I was probs offline and digital detoxing in Jan. Also FTR I did search RNZ but their search algo sux balz. But I never make more than 3 excuses 😜.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 25/06/2026
Here here!!
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 29/05/2026
Oh sure just grab four screwdrivers and push all of these tabs in at the same time with those four screwdrivers. I think they forgot the part about becoming proficient with your toes.
Image showing instructions as described in the post
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 27/05/2026
I think it’s officially rainbow season?
Rainbow with sun reflecting off of something in Tāmaki Makaurau
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 18/05/2026
Some great finds at the market yesterday
Four used albums:
1. The Cars
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Bowie - Let’s Dance (with SRV)
4. DEVO
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 17/05/2026
To everyone talking about the AI mega-datacentres needing to be required to build/use solar energy, just note that this is only half the problem as the amount of water needed is staggering, solar or no solar. It won’t just raise the power consumption, but also boil away available water.
By plunging advanced processors into liquid or running coolant directly across the silicon, facilities can manage the intense heat of Al training.
However, this engineering marvel simply trades an electrical bottleneck for an insatiable drain on a rapidly depleting physical resource: freshwater.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 05/05/2026
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 02/05/2026
Quantum immigration enforcement policy? 🇳🇿
Establish a dedicated overstayer enforcement unit within Immigration New 

But also

No ICE-style immigration raids, minister promises
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 10/04/2026
Bad colour conversion apparently:
Joan Jett with a Gibson Les Paul in the 70’s
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 25/03/2026
Sometimes nostalgia is a great escape, & this right here should do it for me. So many venues I got to play within these pages, hoping to read about some of the bands we played with & got to know. So many stories of my own to remember while reading other’s experiences. Viva la Blue Flamingo & Emo’s!
A CURIOUS MIX OF PEOPLE -
THE UNDERGROUND SCENE of ‘90s AUSTIN
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 17/03/2026
snake_eating_itself_then_finding_out_its_not_even_a_snake.gif

Darryl Moore • • O @tuxit.b... • 1h
Not at all. You need to know software in order to fix the Al mistakes. Al has a long way to go before it can replace people. at the same time it allows those people to work far more efficiently.

Chris Johnson @cxj.bsky.social • 6h
As a senior software engineer and successful entrepreneur, I say all you're really doing is creating technical debt at an accelerated pace.
• 1
Darryl Moore • • C@tuxit.b... • 1h Technical debt? That is not a term I am familiar with.
口》…
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 13/03/2026
Who this expert is has been my burning question all along.
WITHOUT DATA IT'S JUST AN OPINION
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 09/03/2026
You, in another decade That’s me busting out some Careless Whisper on the sax (~4 years before it’s release). Don’t tell my brother that he’s in this photo tho…
Two kids at Xmas opening gifts that were destined to annoy our parents, likely given to us by our grandparents from 1000 miles away.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 03/03/2026
Just sayin….
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 28/02/2026
So the big electronics project I’ve been working on for a couple of years is causing me massive grief with a short somewhere in one of the circuits as I try to work through the first power up. I love this stuff but sometimes I get to the point of “JUST F’ING WORK ALREADY” lol
Circuit board from hell
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 02/02/2026
This made me happy to see/not see (guess I’m doing *something* right)
Ok Fran
Blocked
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 01/02/2026
When timelines collide I feel like it might actually be a good day
Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social
This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now.
It's not even remotely an exaggeration.
the earth is a resort for like 500 rich people
and the rest of us are just the staff
Everybody can reply
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 30/01/2026
Litany against water (for chocolate making)
There must not be water. Water is the chocolate killer. Water is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the water. I will not permit it to pass over the chocolate or through the chocolate. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the water has gone there will be nothing. Only the chocolate will remain.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 30/01/2026
Uhhhhhh…
"We're just mindful that we're still looking into this individual, and we don't want to mistakenly drive this person underground by making them aware that there are these kinds of investigations ongoing into them."
Listen to RNZ
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 25/01/2026
Whoever and wherever you are you probably need to see this about right now (dolphin video for those that are smart and turned off auto-play)
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 22/01/2026
“We will be there sometime between 8am-5pm and it needs to be showroom level”…I hate this so much.
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Routine Insepction ^
Things you as a tenant are responsible for ensuring are well presented for property inspections include:
Lawns mown and clippings removed from property (not dumped in garden!)
Lawn edges neatly trimmed
All weeds removed from garden
Interior of house reasonably clean and tidy, such that photos can be taken for the owner to show you are taking good care of the house
Vacuum any carpeting and mop hard surfaces
Dishes done and put away
Stove top and oven are clean
Air conditioner filters have been cleaned/ vacuumed
Clear cobwebs from ceiling areas and
corners
All smoke detectors have working batteries
Beds made and toys picked up
Report any damage to the property
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 21/01/2026
RNZ was SOOOOOO close to saying it…
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 21/01/2026
Patch saying “Remember Kids, Electricity Will Kill You” with a cartoon electric dude holding a knife
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 20/01/2026
Some of it’s guts (partial description in alt text)
Main board with transformers and 17 card slots plus a stupidly large heatsink for four MOSFET transistors that are gonna cook when powered up and working.
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 20/01/2026
Been a long haul soldering 1000’s of parts, metal fabrication & wiring, and while awaiting on the final two diode arrays I think the old Mac Pro has been rebuilt into something entirely different and I can’t wait to smoke test it and get it going #everythingoldisnewagain #electronics
Older Mac Pro having been heavily gutted and modified to be a new piece of test equipment
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Wadepool @wadepool.wtf · 16/01/2026
Post a game you remember playing that (mostly) nobody else remembers ( as a timeline cleanse)
Temple of Apshai
EXPLORE A WORLD OF MONSTERS &
MAGIC, HEROIC ADVENTURE!
A FANTASY ROLE-PLAYING EXPERIENCE FOR YOU AND YOUR COMPUTER!
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