Sarah 🇳🇿🏳️‍⚧️

I saw an Alpha Male in the wild!

17 Sept

Wordle 1,916 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Years ago a colleague’s husband started a company with this name. For some reason, I decided to try it out 🤷‍♀️

17 Sept

Two of my most used apps but @libbyapp.com is creating waves. They're finally adding some verification to the app and Auckland Libraries are swamped. It's years since I've laid eyes on my card and I've moved house so I'm guessing it's gone. The library had dropped my email address 🤷‍♀️

17 Sept

I had some trouble resetting my PIN because of the missing email and then the new one wouldn't work and the whole verification system died. I did get put through to my local library and the woman said “this is because of Libby, right?” and sounded exhausted.

16 Sept

Exports are bad, apparently 🤷‍♀️

Michael McKee@mckonomy.bsky.social

Well, that took longer than I thought, but he hath spoken:

23 Aug

In New Zealand, thieves steal diesel from farms and businesses when the cost goes up. Trump's “excursion” is driving crime rates up!

23 Aug

Rode up to a common meeting spot in Auckland. Another group was gathering but none of mine had arrived yet. Bloke wanders over and tells me I need a louder exhaust. I tell him I'm not an asshole. He left me alone after that!

Brandon - "Fietser"@americanfietser.bsky.social

Men on loud motorcycles in cities are a desperate cry for attention.

23 Aug

My 500cc Honda agrees! bsky.app/profile/lee....

lee 🎃@lee.ourand.me

I ride a 500cc Honda that’s bone stock and sounds much like a sewing machine. Virtually every convo that’s struck up by randoms about my bike is “why don’t you put an aftermarket exhaust on it?” It’s all so tiresome.

9 Aug

An unbelievable sight in New Zealand. Alternative Health used to harmless at its worst and potentially helpful. Now it’s plain dangerous!

8 Aug

Wordle 1,876 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, that was a fluke!

3 Aug

Would you describe pigeons as an iconic NYC sight? If I ever risk spending thousands on a 21-hour flight to NY (which I hope will be possible again one day) I will not be treating pigeons as a key tourist experience.

rnz.co.nzNew Zealand First Kiwi Kids Grant plans to pay parents for having childrenNew Zealand First wants more people to have babies - and would pay them to do it.

2 Aug

$5000 would be nice when starting your family but as an incentive to have more children than you originally planned? Hell no! That works out at less than a dollar a day and won't make any real difference to the recipients. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

1 Aug

A lovely, dry winter @ingress First Saturday in Auckland, New Zealand. Thanks to RTC1 for the banner and @grogyan.bsky.social for managing the stats.

22 July

It should be on rooftops, over car parks etc instead of on arable land!

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social

"New Zealand already generates 85% of its electricity from renewables — and is now adding solar at record speed to reach the 100% clean target that will make it one of the world's first fully renewable electricity systems. New Zealand's electricity grid is alrea..." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

20 July

10 years ago this wouldn’t have made me laugh. #TheVeil

13 July

When you get your “West Island” references muddled and have to look it up 🤣🇦🇺

Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social

Achievement unlocked: going out for a late afternoon bike ride on the West Island, deciding impromptu to stay over for dinner in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue because there is a nice bike path to the REM, which runs every 15 minutes past midnight to go back home.

9 July

Doing tourist things today. Overheard a woman loudly telling everyone that she was from LA. I was shocked. I wouldn't want people knowing that about me looking askance. Shouldn't she be at home fighting for her country and not swanning around Europe?

9 July

Interestingly, I was in a busy place yet she was the only person talking loudly or declaring their nationality. I'm sure there were other Americans too but perhaps they were more discreet?

25 June

I've been busy but I don't see anyone talking about the economic impact on the US of Europe turning their backs on: - Visa & Mastercard - Apple & Microsoft - Google & AWS cloud storage Is the US worried about the economic ramifications? Are companies outside the US stepping up to fill the void?

24 June

I'm in France, and yes it's bloody hot! But rather than ask people if they'll get aircon maybe the on-the-street reporters should be asking about attitudes to climate change? France could teach NZ a thing or two about cycling. It's impressive everywhere we go. I've never seen so many cargo bikes!

1 June

I had a doggo visiting over the weekend. I've known him since he was a pup tho I don't see him that often these days. Sitting at a cafe he lunged at an older man & nipped him. The man took his registration but didn't show us the “gash”. Discovered that he'd been kicked by an older man once.

1 June

I'd put money down that the man this weekend had the same build and gait as the other man. Why are people so awful? Poor wee fella has limited control over his life. Keeping them safe from human cruelty is the least we can do.

13 May

Why does it look like his soul is leaving his body?

Bob Geiger@bobgeiger.bsky.social

No, it's not too much to ask at all. In fact, waaaaaaay back when I was in Journalism school, they taught us that we were to be public arbiters of fact. Not give our opinions, but tell people what's true and what isn't. Seems that's not a thing any longer.

7 May

Sometimes it pays to stop and look behind you.

19 Apr

Is TVNZ down for all of us?

19 Apr

So they rolled out an app upgrade and hosted a UFC fight on the same day and crashed the servers 😂 Such incompetence can't be real!

9 Apr

Do i spend too much time on Reddit?

8 Apr

Any other software developers having problems accessing TripAdvisor? I got kicked off because my browser had “inspection tools” Or maybe because I had bots running - how would they know?

30 Mar

Repeat this but with “Gods” instead of “super hackers”

robscami86.bsky.social@robscami86.bsky.social

I no longer believe these super hackers actually exist. If there was a group of super hackers wanting to help rid the world of these evil men they'd already be exposing them.

24 Mar

This is insane. One of the wealthiest countries in the world and a modern President revolutionised access to healthcare. Now his successor is destroying it. Absolutely not the greatest country in the world.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

21 Mar

Quick hike up the Pipeline Track in the Waitakere Ranges today.

NZ has suffered two hacks of major medical information systems and I’m horrified that my GP uses a system that appears to be incompetent. Lets start with the fact that it says it’s running on sample code…

Then there’s the specialist referrals that go through with the wrong address even though we confirm our contact details at EVERY visit. The address used to be mine, but why is it storing my address in more than one place?

Someone's having a bad day in Ponsonby! Does anyone know which building? I hope everyone is ok.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

stuff.co.nzFire breaks out near petrol station in central AucklandThe blaze took hold by the Z Ponsonby on Williamson Ave in Ponsonby shortly before 2pm on Thursday.

Someone's having a bad day in Ponsonby! Does anyone know which building? I hope everyone is ok.

I rode through Ponsonby yesterday and saw the public meeting. Then watched the news and saw it was pro-Trump. Pro the people saying they're going to kill all Iranians. I hope, for their sake, that they're right but I cant see this ending well.

4 Mar

I play a game called Ingress and one of the quirky things about is that the community have built online tools, complete websites that utilise publicly available information or info we’ve authorised the sharing of.

So with that in mind, I started playing a silly little game on reddit last year and saw some flaws in the outside-the-game mechanisms. What was initially just for me became this would be more useful if other people crowdsourced info to a completely over engineered tool.

4 Mar

But along the way I’ve learnt a lot about web security, and bypassing it, running shell scripts, and using headless browsers. I’ve even been comparing chatgpt, code copilot, gemini & claude. How any of this will be useful with the regular code I write I have no idea. But it’s been fun 🤷‍♀️

Even if you’re a less ambitious user you quickly learn to use discord, slack, telegram, zello, trello, and glympse and more.

24 Feb

The anticipation of MAFS Australia. A magat and a woman who wants a trad husband… until she gets one and discovers that she likes her feminist life. api.photon.aremedia.net.au/wp-content/u...

8 Feb

The NZ Herald proving they're spineless. First thing we tell our kids is not to share passwords and that anything posted on your account is yours. FWIW the Herald actively encourages its premium subscribers to share their accounts.

23 Jan

Loving that Bluesky told me about Heated Rivalry before this week's pub quiz. The team were most impressed!

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21 Jan

I'm loving the memes about men stealing prizes from women and this is brilliant too. www.instagram.com/reel/DTTT028...

Sarah 🇳🇿🏳️‍⚧️ reposted

BrooklynDad_Defiant!

@mmpadellan.bsky.social

OOPS.

I don’t know if Halara have the most efficient warehouse ever but apparently in the 13 minutes between when I made an order, and when I cancelled the order it was already out for delivery!

19 Jan

Their snotty response was that I had had a change of heart! What actually happened was that I wanted to buy 3 items with no visible branding only to be told AFTER payment that the items MAY indeed be branded.