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Thea
@thea.hutchings.gen.nz
Nerd, sewist, tinkerer, Pākehā

https://thea.hutchings.gen.nz/
With the election coming up next year it’s time for the 300 day leftist try not to infight challenge!
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Also I’m going to have to drag my chronically fatigued butt out and help with electioneering aren’t I? Fuck this bunch of shitheads.

And yes you should do it too.
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It bothers me way more than it should that hearing aids seem to have settled on “red for right” to distinguish which one is which.

Red is left and green is right, landlubbers!
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I don’t care what or why, the government should never have a say in what a doctor can prescribe for what reason, that’s between the doctor and patient.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Time to start organising for the election.
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
So they’re saying there was no savings to be made on the ferry construction, given the new ones cost $40M more than the cancelled ones…
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The existence of paramour and metamour implies there’s an orthomour.
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
figured out how to make the sd ide work in my PowerMac 7220 (reformat the card), installed MacOS 8 (the macos 7.5 installer for the machine didn’t believe you could have a 16gb HDD…), and it runs! I can play the bundled Barenaked Ladies music video!
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Another day, another medical study that’s commonly used as evidence for health outcomes which has much worse data quality than the ones which aren’t good enough to use as basis for transgender healthcare.
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I’m quite surprised that enough people are still aware of the fate of SS Edmund Fitzgerald to make memes of it on the 50th anniversary of its loss with all hands.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
My playlist shuffled on to something that reminded me of Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and I got sad and the angry at toxic gamers who hounded the developers out of the industry
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
So many comments on the overseas shipping cost for the Wahine Toa Firefighter Calendar... welcome to NZ shipping costs!
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Well after soldering some really tiny components on to a PCB (0603! TSSOP!) I have a working HID Hopper to connect my Apple Pro USB mouse to my PowerMac 7220!
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Reposted by Thea
Bear Your Soul

#comics
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Huh, even the nation’s chain-smoking drunk homophobic racist uncle is saying fireworks should be banned now. I didn’t have that on my bingo card.
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
AAA games are expensive? The RBNZ inflation calculator says this is about $275 in today’s dollars.
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Mobile app accessibility people, is there any way to incorporate accessibility in to automated tests? Ideally I'd like to be able to export the current accessibility info to a snapshot of some sort so we'd know if something had changed it.
November 3, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I’m at the point in cooking where I’m regretting not following my earlier hunch to use a bigger pan
November 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
There must have been a motorbike rally in Auckland today, there were several groups heading down Tamaki Drive, some in costume including at least 3 fairies definitely not dressed for the slide.
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The FSU requires thinly veiled racism. I guess that’s why he left, no more veil.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It's always interesting looking at papers where they try to correlate brain structures to sex and gender. The answer is always "Some of the time it's right most of the time".
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
To see if he has any backbone of course.
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Some of you may have heard about a crash involving an electric bus here last week.

Contrary to the NZ Herald reporting, turns out the batteries did not ignite. It was the internal-combustion car that collided with it.

My thoughts are with the bus driver's family.
evsandbeyond.co.nz/bus-driver-k...
Bus driver killed in Auckland crash; Batteries did not ignite
Investigations have confirmed the batteries in an electric bus involved in a fatal crash on Auckland’s Tāmaki Drive did not ignite in
evsandbeyond.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Queer Endurance in Defiance is organising a protest to let Helen Joyce and the FSU know that transphobia is unwelcome.

Helen Joyce is a piece of sh*t human being who is being platformed by the pieces of sh*t at the free speech union, including Stephen Franks, their Chairman.
GO PROTEST! PEACEFULLY!
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I wish that medical literature would stop comparing the risks of things like breast cancer and blood clots in trans women to cis men.

Yes the risk increases. Because _women have a higher risk of those_.

The risk almost never exceeds that of cis women.
October 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM