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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · 20h

the service's pro/con list with "implausible hallucinations" annotated with "PRO!!!"

Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · 11d

Well I was wondering what the retribution for the cancel party the coalition did at the start of their term needed to be. Rug pulling Collins' arms deals & any gas exploration seems a good start.

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · 11d

Mystified how the energy market & how capacity isn't getting built in NZ stories don't all start with "generation in NZ is financially rewarded for closely matching supply & demand, so it not being built as demand goes up sure is a puzzler!"

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · 11d

This photo only partially captures the contempt this pug has for the very idea of going onto the wet grass

Pug looking horrified that I suggested going onto grass

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · 12d

BMO has gradually accepted that Bitey Face is still a good game

Two dogs taking a short break from Bitey Face

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · 21d

Me on my way to the rapture

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · 21d

Busy afternoon, bracketed by other high energy go-getters

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Sep 14

Poisoning on Parker Road is very much around the places the kids grew up

Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Aug 25

No NZ KPop Demon Hunters singalong sessions??

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Aug 22

AT is responsible for BMO looking like a serial killer thinking about his life choices.

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with a tiny muzzle & an existential crisis

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Aug 22

The “I have a solution: wolves” bookmarklet _delivers_

robmanuelfuckyeah.substack.com/p/ive-got-a-...

(I edited the tag list in mine to only target h1-h6)

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Aug 18

liz-lemon-no-thankyou-please.gif

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 17

What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Aug 17

artbyblastweave on tumblr: "Easily the most annoying kind of vampire in the world are the ones where you finally corner the fuckers and when you're going in with the stake they start spouting off sociology 101 bullshit to try and weasel out of it. "Oh, no ethical consumption under capitalism," "oh, the rich are the real vampires if you think about it-" yeah, yeah, you ate like fifty homeless people, asshole. Hold still"

dialectrician: "Okay but if you aren't a vegetarian your case against vampires is actually pretty weak."

artbyblastweave: "I SAID HOLD STILL"

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · Aug 17

ICYMI- Horses Changing Courses- yesterday's cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

Scene is two people and four horsemen of the apocalypse in coloured robes instead of the dark ones. Instead of the normal "death, famine, pestilence" etc, they have banners saying "Hope", "Justice", "Empathy" and "Just basically not being a dick"
Horseman 1 is saying to the two people "THe whole apocalypse thing got too depressing so we've reinvented ourselves as the Four Horsemen of Working Together to Get Us All Out of the Mess We're in"

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · May 14

*crab-walked

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · May 14

I'm concerned that people at work will one day appreciate what I'm saying when I put "this code will work" in a code review

Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · May 14

Getting this app off my phone has _really_ knocked down engagement. I think that's a good thing, I don't think I need the sturm & drang?

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · May 8

Truly amazing. OneNZ called me & immediately put me on hold.

Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Apr 30

confirmed that swearing wards off AI results in duckduckgo, but then realised that you can just turn it off with a configuration. ennh. tomato, tomato fuck.

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Apr 24

Trying to figure out how to deal with LLMs being "full self driving" — they'll tell you they'll kill you if you try and nap while it has the wheel, but all your trivial tests will say it's safe to nap.

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Apr 24

card scanner on this bus is fucked so driver's like "free ride, go go" but, like, in a cranky way?

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · Apr 23

Weird how Luxon reckons he works 60 or 80 hour weeks but still never knows what is going on about specific things he gets asked about.

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Rowan Crawford @rowan.roundbird.nz · Apr 23

going into work with the three other folk fool enough not to take the days between the statsplosion

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