seasonally appropriately spooky Pàra

constantly in search of a job that is chill enough I don't immediately burn out, but still stimulating and validating enough that I don't need to go dopamine hunting on the internet.

It's really funny how people are just doing the same "the stuff that happened to come out when I was 13 was the objective cultural highwater" stuff as every previous generation. This is the Variety review from 1999:

A charming series about young wizards entranced you as a child. A man wrote fan fiction of it, now he has movement that may be a sex cult. Senators meet with him about the machine god. The author wants to eradicate a gender minority, but the federal govt wants you to fuck one of them from her books.

someone should paint over that billboard on SH2 again with NO NEW FERRIES

cool, that's somewhere between about Charon sized and Makemake sized.

NFL commentary for anyone who isn't American:

Current situation:

A New Zealand PT operator could never...

It means people can finally give up on the America's Cup ever coming back to Auckland.

Man, real sick of politicians acting like the gangs are cartoon baddies who sprung fully formed from Zeus's head, and not a social problem the state created by systemically abusing vulnerable kids for decades: www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/13...

RNZ asking the Sensible Sentencing Trust and TPU for comment on the new attack billboards is yet more evidence they learned nothing from Dirty Work. These are bad-faith PR orgs and RNZ is willfully running cover for them.

Yeah, the bigger problem for democratic self-government is the fact that an election in a country I don't live in gets to determine the direction and tone of large parts of my life for the next 4-5 years.

Sunrise Hut lives up to its name. very cool to see the sun reflecting off the Pacific Ocean from like 100km away.

what's the bet this "sickness" from "not receiving medical treatment" is just the inevitable comedown from not taking all their elective testosterone and steroids. Oh, and whatever other drugs they've been on.

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

We're also quite open to Butlerian Jihad

hurt my back trying to rush a gym workout and deadlift too heavy too fast. I feel about a thousand years old.

so, the shearer is National, obviously. who is the sheep, getting all its economically valuable assets cut off and sold overseas, supposed to be? They know we mostly raise sheep for meat, right? and the wool is mostly byproduct at this point?

you try to tell kids these days about Encarta and they won't believe you

Yeah, it sounds like a bad idea, but after the first 8 hours of the Knees Up Mother Brown marathon it really starts to hit its stride

Fucking love it Microsoft. Best time to get a forced update and restart is right when I'm supposed to be starting an important 4 hour meeting. Yeah, these more frequent updates are super convenient, thanks.

You can tell us Jensen. This is a safe space. Is Connie the Cryptoland coin making you say this?

The people in the autonomous pod on "trial" in the pedestrian area sure got mad when I didn't get out of their way too.

Today is Octidi the 28th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate tomatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

1873? (actually, 1883) so, like, built during the Third French Republic? what happened to the town hall that was there before? the 1811 town hall was stormed by socialist revolutionaries in 1871 and then demolished? huh.