if elf girls were real i think it would solve a number of the worlds problems
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if elf girls were real i think it would solve a number of the worlds problems
yeeeeup. really looking forward to my mortage refix in december, gonna drop back to minimum payments and use that extra to rebuild my cash savings instead. water heater replacement and vet bills cleaned me out and then some, and paying back my parents for the money I borrowed is keeping me thus!
I did a good job keeping my expenses down this fortnight, but the $257 monthly bill for my parking spot has come along and ruined that. Usually I pay that out of savings, which I current have none of. :|
my reaction to both facts in this tweet is 'jesus christ'
I think I was under the impression that they got minimum wage, but I think thats a default assumption rather than being specific to strippers. I certainly did know that their meaningful income comes from tips and (while I've never been) would never go without cash in hand
Every time I hear Health NZ representatives say the nurses are putting people at risk I think: no, Health NZ, you are putting people at risk and this strike is Nurses trying to stop your harm
'Do ALL of the carnivals have a twink?!' #outofcontextdnd
I hope this guy gets hit by a car and the driver of the car is given permanent name suppression and one month community service which is the commuted because they have already done their community service
oh good. my tomorrow mostly comprises of meetings where people are going to ask me for solutions to problems I have no intention of solving for them.
that's legitimately interesting and hopefully true. I think it would need to be handled carefully socially (and of course it won't be) because all these things have causes not entirely reliant on the chemical addition of the thing, but being able to break a physical addition would be revolutionary.
now that would be revolutionary
ayup. and thats before we consider the latent fatphobia in our society and the big door this opens to social harm in that direction too. I'm not gonna place any blame on anyone taking it, right now these outcomes are speculation, but I'm deeply concerned about the amount that it is being pushed.
exactly! and thats why I am very carefully not blaming anyone here. right now, it looks pretty good. but I am very worried that there is a devil in the details. and the ways in which it dovetails in with some pretty heavy fatphobia in society at large opens a big door for social harm too. :|
I could be wrong. I'd be thrilled to be wrong. And I have absolutely no evidence for this. I still won't be seeking it out for myself though.
I truly believe that ozempic will be one of those things that, with the benefit of hindsight, we concur caused far more enduring harm than was realised while they were being widely used. Just a gut feeling. I am pre-emptively putting it in the same class as lead and asbestos.
the gift is the chance to dolphin more efficiently
'gift box' it costs $60 to buy from you, it is not a gift in any sense
Good morning and Happy Labor Day
trying to recall what came after the pre-depression peak
If you're earning less than $176,000ish, you'll pay less tax under TPM's model.
return to moria is good as hell
AWESOME
@chariot.bsky.social the m4e app is out in beta for android www.wyrd-games.net/fourth-editi...
pissing hell I missed out on the sands from the last round of skyscope missions by one mission :( just from inattention
the tried to fuck with the wrong advocate
This weekend I was granted life membership in Auckland Pride, only the third person to be recognised like this. I'm honoured, but I was recognised for being one prominent spokesperson for the radical vision of what Pride could be - not because I'm an individual, but because I'm part of a collective.
I think it’s finished?? Have I forgotten anything?
I don't think so, that looks fantastic.
You could safely bet that the people screaming and making death threats against councillors are the same people who furiously opposed Three Waters. They're stuck with the bad solution they loudly demanded. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571...
"‘belt-tightening’ created the exact opposite of reducing inflation. Imposing new fees and rates on consumers to replace Government-funded capital investment has added the worst surge in administered inflation in 35 years, as the Reserve Bank pointed out in its Monetary Policy Statement last month."
gotta keep new zealanders humble by reminding them that lenin was right when he described us as “a country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.”
Wellington's small business owners after two years of National: Why did Tory Whanau do this to us??? Who knew she had such power???
Knowing the difference between a purview, a bailiwick, a wheelhouse and a forte isn't my thing i'm good at.
landfall can suck my nuts though
the amount of spell slinger in standard right now makes magebane lizard very funny. not really GOOD, but funny for sure
Bonus video now on Nebula: debunking “they weren’t using the land” - a lie colonisers used to justify land left in the early US, which philosopher John Locke contributed to nebula.tv/videos/philo...
"I think we should start calling them Fisher and Paykel, because they've got more spin than a front load washing machine." I'll give Hipkins credit, that is funny #nzpol #fisherandpaykel www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
cygames have finally discovered live2d. I'm so proud of them
Council rates skyrocketed in 24/25 and 25/26 because the govt cancelled three waters. The govt then blamed councils for wasting money, when what they were doing was continuing to own, operate, maintain and upgrade the water assets the govt had cancelled the transfer of. This is surprisingly obvious.
I am trying and failing to find a picture of the globe from Crash Course where everywhere that is not america is just coloured in uniform green with no markings
Oh yeah. Having two pieces that don't connect to the gantries really does change the vibe of the table. I love this.
Hasbro:
literally yes
oh, and jyn, bohdi, baze and chirrut too for sure. but I haven't been able to get any paint on them, my grey seer can is dead and not yet replaced
sad to announce: I did not win lotto
oooh I love grey tabby cats, adorable
aha! Commune With Beavers. 😂
I am really looking forward to my Shatterpoint game tomorrow. TWO new terrain peices, both fully painted. I am so excited to see them on the table
Finished farming demiatma, so now I guess I'll go back to FFII
pippin voice: but what about second copilot
and besides, you can fuck a lot of couches in three months
Undertale
I guess a little bit of wishful thinking never hurt anyone though
the only basis I have seen mentioned is that he hasn't been seen in public for a few days? but maybe there is something else that is less of a nothingburger hidden amongst the vaguetweeting
I cannot recommend this and 800g of chicken thigh enough (makes 3-4 meals, serve on rice)
chicken karahi my beloved
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
the opponent choosing to time out just tells me that not only did I win, I made them mad
damn. now I want some garlic bread
i have decided to rise the price of my labour given my inputs have risen. wait- wait- what do you mean i'm the only one not allowed to raise my prices?
The Official Information Act provides a legal right to access official information held by government agencies. Or in this case, a legal right to access a blank page. ☹️
I think it would be worth the effort yeah
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
lmao a league of legends tcg
Katō Misa according to a wiki
New Zealand government spends $10m to fix national war memorial bells, fires only person who can play them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #NZPol
I went to bed really early becuase I was tired. And I am. But still
A man who is very angry about being extracted from under the kitchen unit. Dude, I'm about to open the windows, its gonna get fucking cold under there.
"I like your ship. She's a classic. Razor Crest, am I right? Pre-Empire?"
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
multiple hours of applying nuln oil into the recesses absolutely paid off. never perfectly tidy, but still way better than if I'd just slapped it on and called it done. kept a lot of the shiny without any need to re-paint panels
yeah I am really pleased, it came out so well
"I like your ship. She's a classic. Razor Crest, am I right? Pre-Empire?"
as always, washes are magic
Don’t think I ever shared the “end product” of my drawing for the custom sleeves for my Leonardo da Vinci deck.
I do wonder if, like with everything else, Bandai does it better. this kit here, the decals are in places going over raised details that just cause the fucking decals to pucker. Luckily its distressed paint so I've been able to correct buy poorly cutting holes in it and it looks fine
nor would I try to, I'm putting this at 'manual edge highlighting' levels of giving a fuck
I regret to inform you that while water-slide decals are a huge pain in the ass, they are worth the effort.
Iguana Surprisingly Un-Chill
Would be nice if I wasn't wide fucking awake despite being quite so tired though. 😴
Events really pushed me off my chair, and then kicked me a couple of times for good measure, but its about time I stood back up.
Okay. I think it's time to turn the corner and head back to main street. At the risk of seeming dramatic, I've been telling myself that I'm okay for a couple of weeks now (and prior to that, I didn't bother, it would have been an outright lie), but tonight is the first time it's actually felt true.
decided that I wanted to bust out some of my ultramarines for game tonight, and some of them were under the bed. get them out, find out the cat had sicked up a little on one of them old as, so not smelly, but I have just had to clean crusted cat vomit off an ultramarine so it could have been better
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
if u get hit by a bus and reincarnate as a Gungan that's a meesa-kai
It’s only a Gatling gun if it was designed by Jordan Gatling, otherwise it’s just a sparkling rotary cannon
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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
such a good sculpt
nothing says technology of the future like forcing everyone to use it secretly
looking for a specific dril tweet and oh my god
6 months ago, this prediction was made 🤣
matched up to diamond twice on one win is pretty fucking rough though, leave me alone
I drafted aetherdrift again, like a fucking idiot. why do I keep doing this to myself, please god let this set rotate off quick draft soon
the enemy in this event is 'Bloated Python'
I wish you were wrong