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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 1h

This is exactly how I read it

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 1h

Did you at least ask if they were ok?

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 4h

Old Man Yells At Cloud was right there

Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 4h

Broadcasting Standards Authority finally takes steps to regulate lies, hate, and disinformation on online news platforms. Old man, cooker media and Atlas-funded astroturf complain.

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

Winston Peters accuses broadcasting watchdog of ‘Soviet era stasi’ censorship

This comes after the Broadcasting Standards Authority revealed its looking to widen its remit to include online media networks.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 4h

Reagan/Carter Iran hostage siege also springs to mind

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 5h

Always fun discovering the ratio of administrative costs to work delivered for charitable enterprises and incorporated societies.

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 6h

When you've lost per capita, you've lost

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 1d

Same data but just for September months. Completely unnecessary self flagellation. It's like all the lessons learned on the need for fiscal kick-starts are being roundly ignored. Small island, housing ponzi, rogergnomics, 8-wire, whip the poor exceptionalism. (2/2)

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 6h

If only there had been some way to know this could have been an issue before the election

Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 7h

Excel spreadsheets and biscuit tins

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 7h

TLAs getting caught in alleged invoicing scams in THIS century?

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 7h

Is this the-Dunedin City Council property manager?

Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 9h

You can actually go deeper into the stack than this. Young people should get their own BGP peering session and get jobs transferring packets on the Internet backbone by hand.

Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 13h

"Young people should just go out and get a job distributing Facebook Posts and Instagram Reels ... "

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 9h

Ram-based economy is still a sheep-based economy

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 10h

If they had children, this means that the knocker-upper knocked up his knocker-upper

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 11h

Who was the knocker-upper’s knocker-upper?

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 11h

Even simpler words include: red, white (but never rosé) and bubbles

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 11h

strings, grep and netcat have served me well over the years

Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 1d

federate.social/@mattblaze/1...

Matt Blaze
@mattblaze@federate.social
Oct 08, 2025, 11:24 AM

30 years ago, Bob Morris, then a senior scientist at NSA, gave a keynote talk at the CRYPTO conference (the leading conference for academic cryptographers).

He opened by telling us he would reveal the NSA's first rule for cryptanalysis (which certainly got our attention). "First", he said, "look for cleartext. You'll usually find it."

True words, and enduring, too.

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 12h

They can walk in front of motor vehicles waving a red flag.

Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 14h

Simeon Brown tells young jobseekers to “get a paper run” on RNZ this morning 🙀

He is so out of touch, he thinks neighbourhoods still get a daily newspaper delivered
#nzpol

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 13h

A curious game. The only way to win is to not participate in consumer-driven capitalism

MollyByGolly @mollymoo.bsky.social · 15h

This government, ruthlessly focussed on the things that matter … tv ads on Christmas Day 🙄

#nzpol

Government allows advertising to be broadcast on Christmas, Sundays www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Government allows advertising to be broadcast on Christmas, Sundays

It could generate a multimillion dollar annual boost for the industry.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 14h

Let's hold an election today then.

flaneuse1.bsky.social @flaneuse1.bsky.social · 14h

"Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Speaker Gerry Brownlee would both be ousted from Parliament if an election were held today, as National’s support slides and Christopher Luxon’s personal ratings hit new lows.

www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...

Big names at risk as Labour pulls ahead and PM loses ground

Christopher Luxon’s leadership is under growing pressure as National slips behind Labour in the latest The Post/Freshwater Strategy poll – and senior figures Nicola Willis and Gerry Brownlee face bein...

www.thepress.co.nz

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 16h

Well this explains the weight gains.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 17h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 1d

I bought a full-size set of weights on TradeMe - dumbbells, kettle bells, plates, barbell, the lot. Unfortunately it said “Buyer must pick up” on the seller’s instructions

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 1d

“If everyone you encounter is telling you that you’re making everything up and it’s all in your head, you are action a coma and all the events are in fact made up and all in your head”

Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 1d

Ours said “I know what you’re thinking but the Powerwall 3 is the best on the market”

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 1d

This administration seems to have real difficulties with numbers

nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent piece by @mountaintui.bsky.social

The most telling quote: "Luxon sold the lucrative Heathrow slot for $27 million in 2019, stopping the 40 year London service, but only 4 years earlier, another airline purchased the Heathrow slot for $75 million. Today Air NZ can't get it back."
#nzpol

Prime Minister, Unions ARE Workers

Chris Luxon, Erica Stanford and Simeon Brown continue to gaslight Kiwi workers, in their latest instalment of divide and conquer

mountaintui.substack.com

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 1d

Just realized that I thing I haven't done for ages was to look at whethere it's an El Nino or a La Nina. That weather pattern seems to have shifted.

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

Aerial footage shows Waikato farmland under water

Three Ruapehu towns are cut off due to flooding in all directions as heavy rain and thunderstorms still to come batters the North Island highway network.

www.stuff.co.nz

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