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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 2h

Grey District Council pleas to stop motorbikes using the Wilderness trail.

Locals in the thread complain about ban.

How to shoot your golden goose in the head when cyclists in the Wilderness trail encounter motorcycles, or the track gets destroyed.

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 3h

Share a NOT cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

The Kenny Everett Video Show! Captain Kremmen

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 3h

Share a cartoon that kids today have never heard of.
I loved this cartoon because it looks childish from the outside but often broke the fourth wall and had subversive humor and plots.

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 4h

I am in the odd position to be trapped in my office for the next week with nothing to do but cruise on the net.

I would build a website if I could think of something that will survive the great AI internet obliteration.

Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 4h

Very strange.

Maybe they don't want competition poaching their customers so will call us individually.

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 4h

Apparently the cost of running it is too high and they are going to shut it by 8 Dec (?). Everyone will have to change to fibre.

But they are very silent on the change and nothing official has gone out yet.
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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 4h

Has anyone encountered any information on OneNZ shutting down its hybrid fibre coaxial network (HFC cable)

Over on www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?f... is a long thread about it.
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One NZ to retire HFC (cable) network

Discussion about One NZ to retire HFC (cable) network

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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 17h

Praise be to Anoia!

Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 1d

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

To expand on that. If you live in the USA you are collectively responsible for the political situation you are in.

All of you.

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

Now this is cool.

Overseas comedian making a joke about Kiwis not having a chant.

Then someone in the audience sings out Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi and the whole audience shouts Hi aue hei in response.

So the comedian tries to learn it.

Good vibes, real kiwis.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Kiwi crowd schools US comedian

Visiting US stand-up Jeff Arcuri expressed his surprise that there were no New Zealand chants - his fans quickly put him right.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

When I was backpacking around the world back in the 80's this was one of my favorite tapes that lived in my bag, with Decade by Neil Young.

Sounded awesome through my akai walkman and headphones.

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Behind the Gardens, Behind the Wall, Under the Tree... (feat. Walter Keiser, Pedro Haldemann)

YouTube video by Andreas Vollenweider - Topic

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

I love the crocodile one :-) And they are all good!

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

—how can one think that, with a little bit of education toward international understanding and a bit of “’goodwill,’ these demons can be exorcised, these forces can be banished?”

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

“How can one close one’s eyes here to the fact that the demons themselves have taken control of the world, that it is the forces of darkness that here gruesomely conspire and can burst forth at any moment

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

There were more than 20 internal plots to kill Hitler.

It was surprising that none of them worked as they were well thought out.

They saw the problem long before

Writing in 1932, Bonhoffer decried the situation on the ground:

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Gary @netchicken1.bsky.social · 1d

What! You have 7 digits, you're young
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