Me to bank: Um...why did you authorise this transaction against my card which is no longer active?
Bank: For convenience, innit. You didn't tell us you didn't want the card number to remain active.
Me: ...because you explicitly told me in writing it wouldn't remain active.
Bank: lol psych.
Me: ...
An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable
I think I may have cracked it
Just little sprinkles of joy in the timeline. Please never stop (unless you need to nap!)
This is giving me strong Mighty Boosh 'Cheese is a kind of meat, a tasty yellow beef' energy.
Covid booster done. Get in my veins, LP.8.1.
I thought that's what 'boiled egg' referred to.
I actually exclaimed 'fuck off' when I got to 'written intentions over the water'.
To help save the planet, I'm going to stop using carrier pigeons and get a pigeon for life instead.
Impressive!
ok giles corey
Some tourists trying to tap onto the bus in Hamilton with contactless cards. Not an unreasonable thing to think you should be able to do in 2026.
It's ludicrous that we don't yet have that in place across the motu.
Do they have any idea how many people want to watch {favourite_tv_show}?
As disinformation is to misinformation, when does misspeaking become 'disspeaking' (aka lying)?
Where does liability for issues then sit, if said private org goes cheeribye?
I always think of him as an uncanny valley Jack Nicholson.
Nice top!
And now I'm sitting at my desk saying 'Are you squawking to me?' like De Niro.
I think the full adage is: 'Don't judge a book by its cover (but do judge it by its stench of arseholery)'
I just want to remind everyone out there that rest is an actual thing you do and when you do it you aren’t doing “nothing,” you’re doing something essential to your health and wellbeing and also essential if you want to do *anything else.*
Christopher Fuxup
If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.
Blood moon during lunar eclipse
Best I could manage with my small zoom lens and a tripod from the back garden.
Panasonic Lumix G100D | 140mm | 1s | f5.6 | IS0 3200
Blood Moon 2026-03-04
Luxon: 'Look, what I'd say to you - and I can't be any clearer about this - is that yes, I have no doubt that I could win a point against Serena Williams.'
What is absurd and frustrating is that journalists are pushing Luxon on "any action to stop Iran getting nukes" and not "there was no reason to believe nukes were an imminent concern" or "how about the rule of law".
The question cedes too much ground to US/Israeli propaganda.
I mean, I've played in a kilt before.
Luxon "misspoke". Three times. With prepared notes. Said the same thing three times followed by "I don't know how I could be any clearer".
That kind of misspoke.
Chris Luxon says he misspoke yesterday saying “any action” was supported if it stopped Iran developing nukes. He says he should have said *bings and bongs of a panicked fax machine*
I can offer: cello playing, reading stories with good voices, cooking and baking, tending to a garden, mixing a decent negroni, general DIY skills, and a demeanour that was once described as 'chihuahua-calming'.
To the driver of the police car which pulled out in front of me without signalling as I was overtaking said vehicle: fuck you.
