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Lotographia 🍹

@lotographia.bsky.social

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Lotographia on various other social networks. Person of Pōneke, Aotearoa. They/He (in that order). Green Party supporter & volunteer. Lego collector. Trying to build a website and write a book and failing at both. "David Thomsen".

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 17h

I used to try not to judge people by the company they keep but I eventually figured out that I totally can because it's actually a very accurate way to judge a person's character

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 1d

What's it like inside your head?

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 2d

Share a picture of the next President of the United States of America.

Miley Cyrus sits in a wrecking ball. She is wearing practical boots and is holding the chain of the wrecking ball with both hands because she is very worksafe conscious.

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I buy "edible food-like substance" without reading the label properly and it doesn't taste quite right so I look at the fine print and realise it's only "substance flavoured".

Contains 0% actual substance.

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 3d

How are they just always on the wrong side??? Of literally everything?

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

Momentarily thought you had the most posh bathroom

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 4d

I am weeping. I am supporting nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...

Poetry Shelf Protests: in support of nurses, doctors, teachers

Catastrophe and calamity slip through like fettuccine but I close my eyesto the unbearable pain of humanityand picture myself on Te Henga’s tideline A nurse asks if I need anythingeven when she is …

nzpoetryshelf.com

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

NZ Bluesky: I'm scared of going outside today because I might get blown away

US Bluesky, not understanding: Oh wow gun violence must be really bad down there

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

One of my superpowers is to be able to sit indefinitely with children while they play repetitive games and I think the world missed out a little but not making me a parent

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

Someone just said something to me as they ran past but all I heard was "(inaudible) (inaudible) windy (inaudible)"

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

This wind in Wellington has ridiculous stamina

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

This wind in Wellington has ridiculous stamina

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

One month when I was nine my parents accidentally picked up a copy of Amiga Computing instead of our regular magazine Amiga Format and this is why I have a lifelong devotion to New Order

Song9 (Blue Monday) - Musicbox14 - Amiga Computing May 1990

YouTube video by amigacoverdisk

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 4d

What I love about this is that you are clearly not blocked.

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know Korean and I can't cook :(

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

Some days all posts have a Theme.

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

Both a national pest and a national mood

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

Oh Kiwibank lets you disable your cards from the app, but it's all-or-nothing, so I can't selectively disable PayWave

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

The initial of the manager who inspired me to leave retail? No it was KO, but I'm not surprised that this manager is reminiscent of other managers

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

The Prime Minister of New Zealand and a former tobacco lobbyist gave a press conference today. The former tobacco lobbyist commented that the Mount Victoria Tunnel opened in 1931 and the Prime Minister laughed at this even though there was no obvious joke.

He was sneering for the sake of sneering.

I used to work in retail. In my final year a manager took over who inspired me to make it my final year.

At one point I was working in the cash room when there was deafening construction one room over. I asked the manager for hearing protection. He said we could write off some earbuds and I could listen to some music. I said this wasn't good enough. I did some other shop tasks while waiting for him to find a better solution to this problem.

Later he came up and told me he'd got some earmuffs from the construction people and left them in the cash room for me. If he'd left it at that I might have thought he'd done something right. Instead he made a point of saying, "there wasn't any noise when I was in there".

I'd worked in this store for eight or nine years. This manager didn't even make the effort to sign my leaving card when I left. He had no grace, no visible competence, no obvious reason for him to be in this position.

Christopher Luxon reminds me so much of him.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand at a press conference. The text 'visible incompetence' is placed over him in the style of the meme where 'visible confusion' is placed over Young Old Ben Kenobi.

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

I'm with Kiwibank and they don't have that option yet. I did ask about it three years ago and they said they're planning to add this option, but they haven't done it yet 😐

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I'm with Kiwibank and have asked them if this is an option

Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 6d

I have never been under so much pressure to get something right

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 7d

Random question but is there a way to physically disable PayWave on a card?

I bought an expensive meal this evening and was trying to avoid the PayWave surcharge but the machine detected the chip on my card and charged me the surcharge anyway. I'm a bit pissed off about it.

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 8d

These new US Govt accounts on Bluesky are so weird?

They'll have names like "American Librarian Association" and you'll be thinking "at least librarians are normal?" but then the profile banner will be a librarian with an AK-47 and it'll drawn by AI in the style of a soviet propaganda poster.

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 8d

I went and it was really good! Got to see a first edition Frankenstein! And some Gutenberg bible! I didn't see you but I did get to have a chat to @samorchard.bsky.social!

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