Mark
@maetl.bsky.social
Lecturer in Product Design at UCNZ. Tech industry dropout. Narrative systems and geoscience meddler. Old school web sectary. Frankenbike curator. Waste stream wrangler.
This is for a game project which is currently under wraps, though analog switches give a strong hint as to what the experience might entail.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is for a game project which is currently under wraps, though analog switches give a strong hint as to what the experience might entail.
Maybe the "mature conversation" NZ needs to have is about the gap between rhetoric and reality with CEO and board appointments.
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Maybe the "mature conversation" NZ needs to have is about the gap between rhetoric and reality with CEO and board appointments.
Spilled-milk discount deck furniture piss country.
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Spilled-milk discount deck furniture piss country.
The profound and tragic human cost to tuning the chatbot to be sycophantic and amiable. *This* is what humans are ditching emissions targets and climate action for?
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The profound and tragic human cost to tuning the chatbot to be sycophantic and amiable. *This* is what humans are ditching emissions targets and climate action for?
Want to end the week with something positive.
This will change Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa in ways we don’t yet understand.
Beyond inevitable teething problems and media beatups, there will be a sense of possibility. We can have nice things. We can incorporate good design into daily life.
This will change Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa in ways we don’t yet understand.
Beyond inevitable teething problems and media beatups, there will be a sense of possibility. We can have nice things. We can incorporate good design into daily life.
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Want to end the week with something positive.
This will change Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa in ways we don’t yet understand.
Beyond inevitable teething problems and media beatups, there will be a sense of possibility. We can have nice things. We can incorporate good design into daily life.
This will change Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa in ways we don’t yet understand.
Beyond inevitable teething problems and media beatups, there will be a sense of possibility. We can have nice things. We can incorporate good design into daily life.
I keep coming back to this. Just such a fundamental failure of everything that has been claimed about a "knowledge rich" curriculum. Teachers are demanded to have higher standards but this slop is what they put out as their big rewrite.
October 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I keep coming back to this. Just such a fundamental failure of everything that has been claimed about a "knowledge rich" curriculum. Teachers are demanded to have higher standards but this slop is what they put out as their big rewrite.
If Erica Stanford has any sense of self preservation, she would throw this smug self-serving fail-upwards Pakeha statue guy under the bus. He has potentially wrecked her political career.
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM
If Erica Stanford has any sense of self preservation, she would throw this smug self-serving fail-upwards Pakeha statue guy under the bus. He has potentially wrecked her political career.
Happy exhaustion.
A new northbound FKT of 9 days, 5 hours and 50 minutes.
A new northbound FKT of 9 days, 5 hours and 50 minutes.
October 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Happy exhaustion.
A new northbound FKT of 9 days, 5 hours and 50 minutes.
A new northbound FKT of 9 days, 5 hours and 50 minutes.
8km left, and a final descent into the bay and campsite.
October 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
8km left, and a final descent into the bay and campsite.
Inside the last 30km now. The last section of SH1 before the turnoff to Spirits Bay.
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Inside the last 30km now. The last section of SH1 before the turnoff to Spirits Bay.
Rufus says he’s fighting demons and headwinds today.
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Rufus says he’s fighting demons and headwinds today.
Rufus has been grinding for a few hours in the early morning to get onto the peninsula. Just 75km to go.
October 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Rufus has been grinding for a few hours in the early morning to get onto the peninsula. Just 75km to go.
Meanwhile, Rufus has been riding steadily into the night, through the forests and farms of the Far North towards the Aupōuri Peninsula where the land narrows. He was still going well after midnight. Is now around 170km away from the finish.
October 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Meanwhile, Rufus has been riding steadily into the night, through the forests and farms of the Far North towards the Aupōuri Peninsula where the land narrows. He was still going well after midnight. Is now around 170km away from the finish.
8 days 16 hours is now the FKT for the 3003km Shaky Isles route from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
October 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
8 days 16 hours is now the FKT for the 3003km Shaky Isles route from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
What a way to finish, cranking up this steep gradient in the dark with 20 knot winds ripping through the trees and scrub.
October 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What a way to finish, cranking up this steep gradient in the dark with 20 knot winds ripping through the trees and scrub.
Onto the peninsula, just 8km to go. It’s nearly over.
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Onto the peninsula, just 8km to go. It’s nearly over.
The lights of Bluff visible in the distance.
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The lights of Bluff visible in the distance.
The last 50km for Joe, zig zagging across the hinterland into the roaring wind as darkness sets in. No more elevation left until the finale of the savage climb up to the top of Bluff Hill.
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The last 50km for Joe, zig zagging across the hinterland into the roaring wind as darkness sets in. No more elevation left until the finale of the savage climb up to the top of Bluff Hill.
Rufus is on the move again after an hour rest stop and resupply. It’s 220km to the finish from here.
October 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Rufus is on the move again after an hour rest stop and resupply. It’s 220km to the finish from here.
Adding a puncture to the list of things that happened on the ride through from Otago to Southland.
October 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Adding a puncture to the list of things that happened on the ride through from Otago to Southland.
At the top of the last major climb!
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
At the top of the last major climb!