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flockofnazguls, 9 days ago to random

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iangriffin, 25 days ago to Astronomy

Bloody Elon Musk is destroying the night sky. This is a single one minute exposure of Comet Pons Brooks tonight. #muskisscum #notostarlink #starlinksucks #savethenight #astronomy #NewZealand

b9AcE, 3 days ago to random

Russia has now in two attacks bombed a construction hypermarket/superstore and a central park in Kharkiv, NE Ukraine.
SOTA reports there were hundreds of people in the store at the time, that the area of the fire is 15000m² and that the number of killed people is currently unknown.

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runoutgroover, 10 months ago to random

Anyone who's been following me for a while will know I'm far from a Green party stan. But, as the only viable party to the left of Labour, I'll be giving them my party vote this year. The only way voting Green will 'let National in' is if they slip just below the 5% threshold, and if that happens labour are cooked anyway.

runoutgroover, 1 year ago to random

I’m playing around with Bookworm (bookworm.nz). Here’s a micro-review of a book I just finished… https://bookworm.nz/user/runoutgroover/review/2273/s/good-twisty-slow-burn-sapphic-romance#anchor-2273

runoutgroover, 9 months ago to random

#NZLabour are a spent party. They have no vision and no real purpose beyond putting a pink-tinged figleaf on neoliberal policies.

runoutgroover, 2 months ago to random

I finally found a use for 'workspaces' in a browser, whānau!

runoutgroover, 11 months ago to random

It strikes me that one of the most successful things neoliberalism did is change the language we routinely use to talk about economic roles. We say 'investors' not 'capitalists'. We say 'executives' not 'bosses'. We say 'employees' not 'workers'. All this serves to frame things so that capitalists/bosses sound like the 'doers' and workers are simply defined by their dependant relationship to their bosses.

runoutgroover, 11 months ago to mastodon

Correct me if I'm wrong, but #mastodon.nz / NZ Fediservices have yet to declare a position regarding Meta federation. Is that right?

iangriffin, 12 days ago to random

things I will NEVER use. 1. Starlink. 2. Uber. #shitcompanies

runoutgroover, 10 months ago to random

Kia ora fediwhānau. I'm preparing a series of short presentations on 'rebellious women'. Women who refused to toe the line and made waves. Who would you pick as your subjects? They can be from history or alive now. Aotearoa or international.

runoutgroover, 10 months ago to random

Short clip of some jazz dancing at the Napier Arts Centre yesterday.

https://peertube.nz/w/bJhSdwU1y8zgvd9uvFQ9Xj

runoutgroover, 11 months ago to random

Ruminating on the ephemeral nature of digital storage, it strikes me we need a reverse Project Gutenberg, where the best of digital art, literature and correspondence are trasferred to durable physical media for posterity.

runoutgroover, 8 months ago to random

We’ve been using our new induction hob/cooktop for a month now and we have zero regrets. This was a good purchase!

runoutgroover, 1 year ago to random

Every new and replacement NZ roadsign referencing a place with both a Māori and English name should be bilingual from now on. Bilingual roadsigns are absolutely normal, uncontroversial practice throughout the world. The only reason for objecting to this is racism.

runoutgroover, 8 months ago to random

Me at a party baiting linguists for kicks: "But English does have grammatical gender. We have 'a' words and 'an' words. The article must agree with the noun!"

I call these two genders 'frisky' and 'stolid'.

But I'm open to other suggestions!

runoutgroover, 5 months ago to random

Depressingly topical reminder that research shows transgender women who have undergone testosterone suppression have no clear biological advantages over cisgender women in sport. Restrictions on trans people participating in sports are designed to stoke bigotry and humiliate trans people. Don't fall for it.

runoutgroover, 8 months ago to random

Anyone else getting the following spam this morning?

“Hi, I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained access to your operating system.”

Someone seems to have got hold of a bunch of old passwords from soemwhere. Anyone know where?

runoutgroover, 10 months ago to Pixelfed

Using my #pixelfed account to follow image-focussed #mastodon accounts is cool!

runoutgroover, 10 months ago to random

If the global supply chain collapsed, could Aotearoa feed itself?

runoutgroover, 9 months ago to random

I think we need a new commune movement. The first time round it didn’t stick because a) The promise of a normal, comfortable life in mainstream society was alway too seductive and b) everyone was too baked too much of the time. Time for a redux?

runoutgroover, 8 months ago to random

The left needs a good, motivating story. A coherent, compelling narrative. And one based on hope and courage rather than fear and reaction. 19th Century Marxism, whatever its flaws, provided a grand narrative which motivated millions. The cookers have their conspiracy stories which stoke them with a rage for action. The modern left seems confused and story-less.

runoutgroover, 6 months ago to random

Hi @Tutanota are you having an outage?

runoutgroover, 6 months ago to random

I'm enjoying The Crowded Room (Apple TV + miniseries) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14417718/

runoutgroover, 1 day ago to random

Billionaire backlash shows the power of basic income | Al Jazeera

"The success of basic income pilots in the US has been followed by efforts to kill such programmes. The rich are scared."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/27/billionaire-backlash-shows-the-power-of-basic-income