Lucky ✨

33/F??/Te Whanganui-a-Tara, living w 2 cute cats and my wife. Programmer, teacher, gamer nerd.

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2026-08-18 01:14:30 UTC

nothing quite like logging into the ethics portal to find that the submission date was mistakenly set to the 31st and my forms are actually due by the 24th. was anyone gonna send an email about this or like....

2026-08-09 01:15:48 UTC

just got a spam email titled "7-second secret King Solomon used to get rock hard" and like, historically, it'd be demons wouldn't it

2026-07-09 01:48:45 UTC

been in NZ so long i called a baguette a "french stick" and then recoiled at myself

2026-07-07 14:00:22 UTC

I assume whoever is sitting in front and behind me wishes I was dead cuz the airline food is making me toot nonstop. I'm very sorry to the strangers I'm hotboxing with farts rn

2026-06-29 04:55:49 UTC

look, I love an unnatural eye color as much as anyone else, but it's so sad seeing most of the use cases for FLAAK (the still experimental, quite concerning eye color changing surgery this one guy is performing) are people with the most gorgeous deep dark brown eyes ever, and then they walk out with uncanny valley pale blue eyes. colonialism really beating the shit outta us I see

2026-06-25 23:43:05 UTC

I bought the clock bag. It's so fucking cool. Yes the clock works!
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2026-05-31 06:29:21 UTC

my GP has nicely added to my notes that my CT scan in April showed an "incidental Bochdealek's hernia" in my diaphragm, whatever that is! the problem is that i did not have a CT scan in April

2026-05-15 23:26:19 UTC

i try to remind myself that paying $4 a week for another human being to remove non-compostable garbage from my home is an insanely good deal and that i live in paradise but paying $20 for the five-pack of yellow rubbish bags still hurts so bad every time

2026-05-15 01:48:49 UTC

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@nprofile…v9wr @nprofile…srmn oooh!!! I would be interested :)

2026-05-14 22:04:25 UTC

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@nprofile…wljr boosting as I'd like to know too!

2026-05-11 05:56:49 UTC

https://www.webworm.co/everleehasdisappeared/
Everlee Wihongi has been moved between detention centers and is now not listed anywhere in the system :(
There are still no official charges or reasoning given for her being detained. She has been in custody for over 30 days.

2026-04-12 21:09:53 UTC

anyone else finding mastodon.nz is addicted to throwing 503 errors this week?

2026-03-29 21:58:05 UTC

McDonalds (or "maccas" as we call it here) is now advertising a "Brekkie McWrap" and I gotta know what this item is called in other countries that don't talk like this

2026-03-25 21:27:15 UTC

i think we've been too hard on jk rowling for how she names her characters*, we make fun of Wolf McWolf who got turned into a wolf but with the arrest of Crispin Blunt for cannabis possession it's very possible Britain is the only place on Earth where nominative determinism is 100% real
*we are not hard enough on her for anything else though

2026-03-03 00:21:53 UTC

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@nprofile…vvev there have been a lot of people commenting about how Trump in particular is the most Television President possible, and i think the fact that his body itself is a spectator sport at this point is very on-theme for him

2026-03-03 00:16:56 UTC

people are speculating the huge crazy scabby rash on his neck is either a reaction to blood thinners or shingles. personally, i'm hoping it's shingles, because it's more painful and also easily preventable by vaccination, so it's much funnier

2026-02-25 00:37:19 UTC

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@nprofile…xpw3 ooh, that's never a good sign! I'm always wary of people who seem to be trying to exit the platform, haha.

2026-02-24 22:31:50 UTC

people say the OPPO Reno4 Pro 5G can't have its bootloader unlocked, but mine can (it has an OEM Unlock toggle in developer settings!) If anyone has any leads on custom ROMs in development for this bad boy, I've made a sad thread on XDA about it :) https://xdaforums.com/t/cph2089-with-unlocked-bootloader-any-custom-roms-for-it.4780115/

2026-02-16 23:43:52 UTC

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@nprofile…vvev I reacted to this image the way I think arachnophobes must react to detailed photographs of spiders

2026-02-16 22:04:45 UTC

a friend who's forced to use Outlook for work has noticed they've made the already-garish Copilot button even bigger and it's making me laugh so much. They should add a subtle pulsing glow effect that gets slowly more frantic and the button gets 1% larger for every minute you don't click it and then eventually it gets a face and starts crying and screaming and begging you to PLEAAAAASE use AI features PLEAAAASE satya nadella's family is DYING
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2026-02-10 22:43:18 UTC

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@nprofile…5mvz the times i've seen it, which was quite funny, was someone putting the packet in the sink and then FULL BLAST hitting it with cold water from the faucet, which of course ricocheted off the chicken

2026-02-06 05:18:06 UTC

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@nprofile…5mvz she's fucking awesome, would love to see her live again asap

2026-01-19 18:40:33 UTC

I love this new thing where websites no longer provide any useful information. The NZQA website made me talk to a chatbot to find my national student number. The chatbot couldn't find it and offered to help me email them. Then it couldn't email them either.

2025-12-07 02:53:48 UTC

has anyone been in court in NZ? I'm showing up to support a victim of harassment next week and have noooo idea what to expect. Already know I should dress cute but not too informal and just support silently but that's basically it

2025-11-29 21:37:36 UTC

spent some time halfheartedly looking at phone deals (and having to not only compare them to my current phone from 2021 but make sure they can have LineageOS installed) and instead i'm just going to walk down the road and ask the local repair guy to replace + paste my phone screen back on for me and keep using it

2025-11-27 10:35:32 UTC

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@nprofile…ne85 they were awesome!!!

2025-11-05 04:13:37 UTC

i love when somebody slightly left gets elected somewhere in the states and every crackpot newspaper trips over themselves trying to go "THE COMMUNISTS ARE HERE" first and loudest

2025-11-04 11:57:48 UTC

remember when Dick Cheney shot a geriatric lawyer in the face and then the lawyer apologised to America for being shot in the face

2025-10-26 03:07:50 UTC

whacked against the brick wall of port forwarding for a while before i discovered Contact "upgraded" everyone to cgnat years ago (lol) and doesn't even seem to offer a static IP as a paid option

2025-10-11 21:36:45 UTC

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@nprofile…jc9n it'll likely be some of my LibreWolf settings keeping me slightly TOO safe, so it can't phone home about me in some way and freaks out instead of showing me anything

2025-10-11 21:18:32 UTC

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@nprofile…jc9n wack, The Press always gives me a fun "Error: We’re unable to display the article or subscription options because of your network settings. Click here for more details" message. carry on...

2025-10-11 21:09:59 UTC

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@nprofile…jc9n https://archive.is/20251011073131/https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360851565/contender-oldest-tranny-mayor-world-takes-64-vote-lead unpaywalled link :)
love the photo of her in Sock World, great framing

2025-09-30 19:45:44 UTC

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@nprofile…g3cq "hey copilot code me a modal window"

2025-08-16 20:56:39 UTC

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@nprofile…wtkx @nprofile…eqw3 It does! Two options there: either alcohol is not a meaningful factor, OR the people who were teetotalers did so because of past abuse of alcohol. (This shows up in other studies too but usually coverage is a little better at picking it out, haha.)

2025-07-25 09:17:16 UTC

kia ora NZ mastodon, does anyone know where to buy some smallish and high quality flags of various types? i'd love to chuck some pretty standard ones (like pride, palestine, tino rangatiratanga) up on my fence to brighten up the place and something like stickers feels a bit meh
please boost if someone who follows you might know :)

2025-06-18 20:07:24 UTC

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@nprofile…kvnh my mom is a libertarian anarchist and my dad is a free love prison abolitionist hippie, I had no chance of being any normal political ideology. I did experiment with a bit of edgelord center-right thinking as a teenager but I was never willing to commit to evil. Even at my most right my mom told me her favorite book was Atlas Shrugged and I made fun of her for a solid week until she decided it was an ironic love.

2025-06-13 10:00:35 UTC

where do I buy a bunch of wood or metal coat hangers, I wonder? we have a mighty need but I'm trying not to bring oodles of plastic into my home and that's what the local op shops have

2025-06-11 03:25:16 UTC

Today is a very special day. Four years ago, my wife Bo and I were married in the Botanic Gardens.
Let's go even further back. Sixteen years ago, we exchanged our first words. As we are both thirty-two years old, this means that on the day we met, though neither of us were even slightly aware of it, we were standing at a threshold which now divides our lives into two halves.
The half before I met you, Bo, which was once the only life I knew, is frozen in time and will only shrink in proportion with each passing day -- and with each passing day, the half of my life that I share with you will grow larger and more real in comparison. This life is already better and brighter than I could have ever imagined.
If I could say anything to the sixteen-year-old I once was, the one who met you half a lifetime ago, I would tell them that they will fall in love with you, that they will move across the world to be with you, that you will marry them, that you will buy a house together. I would give them a vision of the life that they have with you now. You are smiling and radiant and full of brilliant ideas.
Assuming they believed me, my teenage self would act exactly the same.
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2025-05-23 06:33:26 UTC

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@nprofile…g3cq mine is "and how do you plan to verify everyone's ages? oh by having us hand over our legal identifications to social media websites? wow what could go wrong" but yours is the same message, more succinct

2025-05-05 08:38:40 UTC

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@nprofile…5plc sugar-crusted medialunas are my recommendation if they've got any, so superior to a regular croissant! alfajores (dipped dulce de leche sandwich cookies) and empanadas (hand pies) are also always winners

2025-05-04 20:21:59 UTC

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@nprofile…g3cq the sluttiest thing a man can wear is knee high black socks and athletic tape over his knees. to me

2025-04-17 23:46:13 UTC

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@nprofile…jc9n @nprofile…l5w8 live your truth, but it's not as good a punchline eh?

2025-04-17 23:29:04 UTC

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@nprofile…l5w8 Celebrating Passover like Moses himself: wandering in confusion for 40 years

2025-04-14 20:19:34 UTC

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@nprofile…sq5g I do in fact have the ass torture historical post
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2025-04-07 08:14:46 UTC

i'm a citizen now :) they took my photo with tory whanau at the ceremony and i immediately told her my wife and i voted for her LMAO

2025-04-03 22:33:12 UTC

Absolutely thrilled to report the major LLMs I am paid to wrangle and insult are MISERABLE at doing anything NZ-specific. I have never seen such a high frequency of 2025 LLMs from major industries accidentally jailbreaking themselves and starting to output total gibberish! It's awesome! They also can't understand even a single thing about Te Reo. We're safe
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2025-03-12 07:19:31 UTC

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@nprofile…jc9n i certainly hope you're right!!

2025-03-12 06:32:19 UTC

the left government in Greenland is out, begin your countdown to when the new guys sell Greenland

2025-02-28 21:46:35 UTC

Help, fediverse!
As predicted, #Skype is shutting down. I have a VOIP number through them and I only have until May to figure out a service to transfer it to.
Please reply if you know any alternatives that I can transfer my number to in order to make calls & texts with a USA number -- and please boost if you don't!

2025-01-29 06:01:11 UTC

For no reason at all (chatting about past experiences with friends), I wanted to remind anyone in AoNZ who is looking to report security vulnerabilities but scared of potential ramifications: Cert NZ has an official process to act as your in-between so that you can remain anonymous! Also great if you've tried to contact someone about a vulnerability and heard nothing back.
https://www.cert.govt.nz/information-and-advice/reporting-a-vulnerability/cert-nz-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-policy/

2025-01-27 20:05:06 UTC

i remain utterly skeptical that LLMs will result in consistently reliable output but i am howling with laughter at the idea that DeepSeek is SO much better than the usa versions

2025-01-26 19:19:05 UTC

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
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2025-01-15 10:16:06 UTC

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@nprofile…jc9n He's awesome. I'm very thankful for the ways I take after him. Except the hereditary health problems, damn the old man for those!

2025-01-15 09:13:30 UTC

My dad's friend sent us this photo of my wife and I in Argentina last year... and also my dad lurking off to the side. FANTASTIC framing, no notes
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2025-01-14 06:56:53 UTC

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@nprofile…cgs9 me getting up in the morning and thinking about my gender

2025-01-10 02:34:29 UTC

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@nprofile…hmg2 I can reach them -- I use Mercury. I have had internet spottiness all day though, wonder if the same thing is causing it?

2024-12-29 07:30:05 UTC

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@nprofile…wjwm oh jeez. When I ate meat I preferred their stuff over all else -- I bought into all the sustainable promises and loved that it didn't have additives. This is so messed up :(

2024-12-21 21:33:47 UTC

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@nprofile…l5w8 Yeah this shit has made me more averse to the dentist which is not great. I see a dental hygienist quite frequently who I adore and who is the only one at the practice who masks. She has still managed to avoid ever getting COVID 🥳 ...and tells me everyone else who works there has had it 3+ times. Arghhh!!!

2024-12-15 20:12:22 UTC

The fundraiser has been up for a week and we're at nearly $600 :) Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed or even just shared the link around, I really appreciate it!! If we could get some more boosts on this that would be awesome. My friend's mental health is not great, but he has really appreciated everyone's help and being in safe housing for now. Thank you. <3
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nate-get-his-health-back

2024-12-09 06:12:08 UTC

hi! My name is Zelle, and I'm raising funds for a dear friend, Nate, to help house him as he goes through the process of getting SSI.
Even if you can't personally donate anything, PLEASE read and share this fundraiser anywhere you're able - you might know someone who can!
Any donation, no matter how small, makes a huge difference here. THANK YOU.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nate-get-his-health-back
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #GoFundMe
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2024-11-25 19:54:10 UTC

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@nprofile…l5w8 my wife and I were just marveling at how much money we save by *not* having a car... by taking public transport we're saving for all the good things in life that aren't car-related at all, haha!

2024-11-25 19:52:47 UTC

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@nprofile…5wev Another reason I am so happy to have two indoor-only cats. Many cat owners seem to believe there are two kinds of cats, hunters and non-hunters. From a lifetime of owning cats and all the available data I believe there are hunters and stealthy hunters.

2024-11-25 01:08:21 UTC

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@nprofile…5wev R users are very, very strong emotionally and I fear you

2024-11-24 04:37:58 UTC

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@nprofile…gyq6 My late grandmother was a BlackBerry fanatic and early investor, and had a drawer full of different models of them for years after they stopped being A Thing, so I always think fondly of them. I do miss physical keyboards...

2024-11-17 07:01:28 UTC

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@nprofile…l5w8 Yeah, I've just been checking back occasionally... it would be a great feature though.

2024-11-17 07:00:10 UTC

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@nprofile…l5w8 I've done the same thing, so far so good. I wish the Bridgy bot had a way to tell you "ok, they did it!" after you ask someone to bridge though!

2024-11-17 06:08:14 UTC

whenever there's a particularly bad Discord outage it makes me think about how much putting all your eggs in one technology basket hurts and how hard it would be to find a handful of these people again if it never came back... anyway, i just linked whatsapp and signal to my Beeper setup (which is of course matrix-based, yay for that) as more neurotic insurance against each inevitable failure

2024-08-27 20:47:30 UTC

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@npub147m…7rue I think on most days I still prefer walking through a candy-flavoured vape cloud than a rich dark regular cigarette cloud, but I'd prefer to not be assailed by either... and there are SO MANY VAPES!!!

2024-06-03 22:27:40 UTC

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@npub1zg9…nh26 Always scares me when they recommend you dump it in the tip... I start wondering, that's not where you guys were planning to put it, were you?

2024-05-08 08:47:31 UTC

Today a 17 year old asked if the game industry was good to work in and my co-teacher and I just started taking poison damage on the spot

2023-08-05 21:05:56 UTC

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@npub146j…xt3c i did for quite a while, and i really enjoyed it! it/its is probably my favorite pronoun set, though it requires a lot of retargeting in the middle of sentences (instead of "yeah i love her, she's going to the store later" people would find themselves going, for example, "yeah i love lucky, it's going to the store later" to avoid ambiguity). it was a lot easier online, and people will still give you flak sometimes about it, which is why i don't tend to push for it IRL any more ;_;