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2026-08-12 03:16:15 GMT

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is that the Postfix point release that breaks all the SQL?
That was when I burnt my mailserver, vastly reducing the amount of BS I have to deal with.
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2026-07-09 01:25:34 GMT

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Yah, pancreatic cancer is a particularly morbid diagnosis so it's hard to blame people for trying whatever weird trick, because the medical system can't offer a lot of hope.
It seems likely that Our Dude brought his malady on himself through some of the stuff he put in his mouth.

2026-07-01 12:45:59 GMT

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Time for a #FediBlock on those guys in particular.
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2026-06-22 23:49:08 GMT

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That actually looks terrifyingly sensible.
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2026-01-14 10:59:42 GMT

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If the Chief Constable was misled by his staff he may have been mistaken but not lying.

2026-01-11 14:41:05 GMT

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Interesting. The damage to the building is quite unlike most normally seen,
I see spalling and vertical cracking in horizontal beams from vertical acceleration which is usually associated with P wave shaking, as in this case, being on top of the rupture and everything
Usual damage is criss-cross cracking between vertices from horizontal movement associated with S wave motion.
(Speaking in generalities. None of this is without exception.)
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/876/961/464/081/713/original/b7bc201a911b0a75.jpg

2025-12-29 09:01:21 GMT

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Someone find a Queenslander !

2025-12-15 06:18:49 GMT

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Not *the* Mark E Smith I assume.

2025-11-21 06:41:28 GMT

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I suspect that the wealth inequality would become more apparent if groups of the Top 0.1%, Top 0.01% and Top 0.001% were also shown.
But also remember that most of those in the top tranches are adept in hiding their income in trusts, companies, and offshore tax havens.

2025-11-17 01:56:43 GMT

There is almost no coverage in New Zealand media of the arrival of voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia in Waitangi from Hawai'i.
The vessels are on a 43,000 mile circumnavigation of the Pacific Ocean but will remain in New Zealand for six months until the end of the hurricane season.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/13/hokulea-hikianalia-crews-receive-ceremonial-welcome-new-zealand/

2025-10-08 22:21:53 GMT

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Minor scandal with New Zealand's government accident insurance scheme and their "independent" disputes resolution company going all goblin-mode, as they always do under right wing governments.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/575272/acc-disputes-resolution-company-accused-of-sending-complainants-cut-and-paste-decisions

2025-10-05 01:07:14 GMT

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Because there is a lot more hardware support in 13, and more still in testing and unstable.
It takes a particularly long time for hardware support to make it into Debian.
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2025-10-05 00:26:52 GMT

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Debian 12 is old.

2025-10-04 22:27:45 GMT

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There's this, with the rider that I don't believe a word Krusty Gnome or her allies say.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/04/us/chicago-dhs-shooting-vehicle-ramming
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2025-10-02 19:34:23 GMT

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I'm left with one burning question: Where did the dude park his Cybertruck?

2025-10-02 01:00:45 GMT

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Can we take it that the people, including Samuel Leason and other New Zealanders, illegally kidnapped in another act of piracy by Israel are now hostages?
[@phil_stevens](https://mastodon.nz/@phil_stevens ) @npub148y…00j5

2025-09-27 00:14:10 GMT

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Waiting for the Tesla remote vulnerability with a payload that disables the door locks and sets the battery on fire.
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2025-09-09 00:01:49 GMT

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Curses, someone's had the ruffler, the zig-zagger and the buttonholer.
These are all words new to spellcheckers.
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2025-08-26 03:09:11 GMT

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In case there is anyone that hasn't seen it, Spike Lee's When the Levee Broke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjFCv6JvZnU

2025-08-25 02:00:59 GMT

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The Scorched Earth Policy was a significant factor in forcing the USA to give up on it's mad war in Vietnam.
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2025-08-15 11:54:38 GMT

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Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2mXdK9Wzr8

2025-08-08 23:07:41 GMT

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Amputation was the best chance against infection before antibiotics.
Lint is called muka in Maori, and was the basis of assumedly independently developed weaving technology.
I first saw kuia scraping flax with oyster shells almost sixty years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWbOSqI2Nj8
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2025-08-08 22:26:36 GMT

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I assume the wee bottle is for smelling salts / Amyl Nitrate.
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2025-08-06 12:07:31 GMT

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If the power company is propagating the last reading forward through times of no data they are flirting heavily with fraud.

2025-08-04 06:30:48 GMT

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nearby transmitter or RADAR?

2025-07-27 12:40:47 GMT

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My suspicion is that Israel will use air drops of supplies to the same effect ... forcing people to break cover to get food that they may be killed.

2025-07-11 22:14:38 GMT

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The same M.O. from a year and a half ago.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/18/middleeast/israel-exhuming-bodies-gaza-cemetery-intl/index.html
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2025-07-11 01:53:29 GMT

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Most of the stoning stuff is Old Testament so it's not actually Christian.
Memory tells me there something in Deuteronomy about crushing an adulterer's testicles with stones.
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2025-07-01 23:03:37 GMT

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Uranium as the metal has a density of 19.1 grans per cubic centimetre. As the oxide it is about half that.
This translates to a cube about 10cm on a side for the metal or an block 10x10x20cm for the oxide.
Adding 18.2cm of lead shielding around a 10cm cube gives a block 46.4cm on a side, about 0.1 cubic metres, which would be more or less transportable except that it would weigh about 1.1 tonnes.
Perhaps not that easy to ship in a suitcase.
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2025-06-29 01:38:42 GMT

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Humans are cancer, cities are tumours.
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2025-06-17 00:00:09 GMT

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tag #CitizenThiel

2025-06-16 08:28:24 GMT

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Was anyone watching where they all went?
I have to go all Real World.

2025-06-01 12:07:54 GMT

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A bit of a timelapse looking South from Kapiti.
#aurora
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/608/013/836/932/690/original/f59ed252d2bd4a5d.mp4

2025-06-01 10:35:56 GMT

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Naked eye visible #aurora Kapiti now.
And here's a live feed from Nelson, New Zealand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDK1jm6fTQ

2025-06-01 10:20:56 GMT

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Current southern hemisphere #aurora forecast.
Animation and northern hemisphere at
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/607/589/787/865/155/original/9aed719e71c30a0b.png

2025-06-01 10:15:56 GMT

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Out late with cameras, but perhaps a hint of red behind the clouds brightly lit by local skyglow.
#aurora
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/607/581/744/390/991/original/4d3336ba1d82b328.mp4

2025-06-01 06:02:05 GMT

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This looks like a bit of an arrival at 0522Z on 1Jun2025 (1Jun2025 5:22pm NZST).
Perhaps too early for the main event, we will see.
If you find yourself outside look south and up.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/606/568/616/602/453/original/4579b539458260a0.png

2025-06-01 02:45:09 GMT

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Coronagraph imagery showing an Earth directed Coronal mass Emission thrown from the Sun at 0005Z 31May2025.
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=06&year=2025
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/605/810/325/023/865/original/cf19a532b6d955ce.mp4

2025-06-01 02:43:16 GMT

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Imagery of an M8.2 solar flare starting at 0005Z on 31May2025 throwing a significant Coronal Mass Emission towards Earth.
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=06&year=2025
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/605/796/730/209/380/original/1a580a1bc4299402.mp4

2025-06-01 02:33:19 GMT

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https://mastodon.online/@npub1vwy…fm47/114605568765632290
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/605/760/362/107/385/original/9ea1fffbb095e457.png

2025-06-01 02:21:41 GMT

This prediction from NOAA indicates that a Coronal Mass Ejection emitted from the sun at about 0005Z on 31May2025 will hit Earth at about 1300Z on 1May2025. That's 1am NZ time, tomorrow 2Jun2025.
I don't remember seeing a CME arrival either predicted or actual with a plasma density like this.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa-enlil-solar-wind-prediction
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/605/708/136/226/623/original/9cc3bb8fdcada23f.mp4

2025-05-25 03:13:05 GMT

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Grommet nut is another good search term:
https://www.hiq.co.nz/products/search?search=grommet+nut

2025-04-22 04:16:52 GMT

I assume that someone is building a database of ICE employees and correlating that with Proud Boys, Oath-Keepers, and January 6th insurrectionists.

2025-03-29 20:15:17 GMT

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The university does not appear to have memory-holed his wife.

2025-03-21 10:30:11 GMT

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Not being flash enough to flex, I'd just observe that reading is 390uV below the nominal Weston Cell voltage, and that Wikipedia claims unsaturated cells degrade by 80uV per year, which would make the cell 4.875 years old which seems unlikely, therefore this is an older saturated cell.

2025-03-11 07:39:55 GMT

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Didn't Elon challenge Zuck to a one-on-one and then wimp out horribly?

2025-03-05 06:46:49 GMT

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ping
@phocks
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2025-03-03 17:47:47 GMT

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Tropical Cyclone Alfred appears to have significantly devolved and continued moving southeat. I'm guessing it will cause more trouble for New Zealand than for Australia's east coast.
Thank you very much.
[pretty odd that the BoM site is working only on http, for me anyway]
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/satellite/
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/099/742/516/395/301/original/c1dc75dbe60f9c56.png

2025-03-02 11:20:54 GMT

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Storm surge could get a bit interesting in much of Noosa too.

2025-03-02 08:57:49 GMT

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Shortly, by way of a guess.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=misery_index/orthographic=-206.52,-23.36,2092
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2025-02-12 09:23:51 GMT

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The SMA-BNC adaptor looks pretty cheap.
I suspect it will look better with a good N-BNC adaptor.

2025-01-24 21:59:12 GMT

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That looks a bit Hundertwasser-y.

2025-01-13 07:55:04 GMT

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Oh, the sales listing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/226519226661

2025-01-13 07:52:26 GMT

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Probably unsafe:
https://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/test-94200/dir-test-94200.4.10.pdf

2025-01-13 07:23:49 GMT

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There's some stuff about it on-line.
GEC product used in test gear for aircraft RADAR and likely other things.
I can see one for sale at about $NZ2750 but, I mean, who is that mad?
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/819/835/404/365/358/original/91e4030b945015c1.png

2025-01-12 22:17:25 GMT

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Nice horn, so to speak.

2025-01-12 20:20:04 GMT

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How about adding a waveguide bend and aiming it at the sun?
Those blue Chinese cables are remarkably good.

2025-01-05 11:55:00 GMT

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And this:
"Programmable Attenuator 60dB ATT-6000, first impressions"
https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/3455-programmable-attenuator-60db-att-6000-first-impressions/

2025-01-05 11:53:58 GMT

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I found this:
"Data Format for ATT-6000 Step Attenuator Module"
https://cygnusa.blogspot.com/2020/05/data-format-for-att-6000-step.html

2025-01-05 08:54:55 GMT

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Too expensive to tempt me, though most of the price is in the attenuator block rather than the control electronics.

2025-01-05 08:50:39 GMT

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Looks cool, what's it's name?

2024-12-30 01:10:05 GMT

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Did the Iomega Clik! come before or after their ZIP drives with their infamous click of death?

2024-12-26 03:51:55 GMT

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Dunno.
This was a few years ago, but they probably shouldn't have survived it:
https://bishopfox.com/blog/aerogarden-1-3-1-advisory
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2024-12-26 02:48:02 GMT

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It appears that Aerogarden have decided to not shut down after all.
I smell lawyers.

2024-12-17 17:48:25 GMT

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I've thrown away a similar product in similar circumstances. It was a black plastic and stainless steel thing with a rather narrow base and translucent plastic internals. It was also pretty useless at spraying olive oil. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the olive oil was sucking up toxic volatiles from the plastic too.

2024-12-12 04:39:46 GMT

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Most people are absolutely rubbish at making any observations or rational judgements of things they see in the sky.

2024-12-01 01:53:20 GMT

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I never made it to five digits: 6800 6805 6809 was me.
I did like the undocumented Halt and Catch Fire instruction in the 6809.
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2024-12-01 01:45:09 GMT

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Seconded.
8080 SDK FTW !@#
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2024-11-23 06:11:48 GMT

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I seem to remember significant scientific advice that pandemics, especially of tropical diseases, were likely to increase with global warming.
The ostriches running the show will naturally declaim that.

2024-11-23 05:01:56 GMT

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True that.
The USA is going to go from the least efficient and least equitable healthcare system in the world to something significantly worse.

2024-11-19 09:29:06 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
Putatara 2
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/508/906/084/033/989/original/b4113723a1c5d14d.jpg

2024-11-19 08:55:56 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
Putatara
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2024-11-19 07:57:31 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō, the Māori Queen, sneaks a glance at the camera while Hone Harawira cracks a joke.
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2024-11-19 07:55:33 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
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2024-11-19 07:54:49 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
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2024-11-19 07:53:28 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
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2024-11-19 07:52:08 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
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2024-11-19 07:51:03 GMT

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#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
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2024-11-19 06:30:16 GMT

Karanga
#Hīkoi :tinoflag:
#NZpol
#ToitūTeTiriti
#hikoimotetiriti
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2024-11-17 22:01:44 GMT

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To answer my own question:
The rally is at Waitangi Park near Te Papa in Wellington at 9am.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/500/537/212/463/430/original/473434367c523e7b.png

2024-11-17 21:04:11 GMT

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I'll be there tomorrow.
Where and when is the rally?

2024-11-15 22:53:18 GMT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEtj1Vc1MnE

2024-11-14 22:41:37 GMT

What's the story with all the golden skulls inside the Sultan of Brunei's #B748 "Flying Palace" anyway?
#V8BKH #avgeek #8953DF
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sultan-of-bruneis-extravagant-floating-palace-touches-down-in-auckland/OVV3XJEVKRHL3IKR2H6QY4ATDQ/
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/483/696/491/993/840/original/d1bbc89a6c4f3a27.jpeg

2024-11-06 19:36:47 GMT

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Alternative link for those of us who are not X compliant or otherwise exiled:
"Trump Wins The White House. Again."
-- Jonathan Pie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0eq7VNCcYY

2024-11-05 19:04:33 GMT

Radio New Zealand is reporting that personal tax data on 268,000 New Zealand taxpayers was provided to Facebook and Google without "encryption".
Earlier reports stated that the data was hashed to preserve anonymity.
Most people (including reporters) will be confused by these terms but remember:
A hash of a unique identifier is another unique identifier.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/431/895/625/803/793/original/bcc3719f7cfacced.mp4

2024-10-11 08:52:42 GMT

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