... also had the joy of buying smaller t-shirts yesterday, as most of the ones I had were starting to look huge on me

Hit a new milestone on my weight loss journey today, 20kg gone now

It's quite literally "calm before the storm" in Auckland right now

a moon with a face and the words i 'm the moon below it ALT: a moon with a face and the words i 'm the moon below it

Amazing pictures from Artemis II

Absolutely nothing is wrong with him. I just admire his courage.

Oh God that’s the stuff

Sweet Caroline with drunk people singing extra bits over the top

I was looking at the comments on RNZ's Instagram post for that article, and a lot were from kiwi expats in UAE basically calling out the article as complete BS

Aren't they an old-school money laundering mechanism? (pun intended)

I find it really funny that the trend of Hot Honey flavored things has seemed to have only recently arrived in New Zealand, 5 years late

Thanks. Yeah it's kinda wild how much it's helped with my mindset around food, I literally haven't needed a snack since starting it, and managed to cut-back meal portions.

Hit a good milestone today, I've dropped 10kg this year so far.
Yes that has been with the help of modern medicine, but fitness and diet has me feeling really good, and keen to keep going.

Was pretty shocking to see Ralf Aron crawl out of the car like that, hope it's nothing major

Yeah I assume so, they also had two "SCH" on the tower before, so I probably isn't unique codes

Absolute UNIT of a hornet beside an array of puny common wasps.

A guide for Aucklanders keeping watch for yellow-legged hornets:

1. “Hmm, is this stripy waspy thing a hornet?” = not a hornet

2. “JESUS EFFING C what the F is that MONSTER, that’s he biggest wasp I’ve ever SEEN, NO Jaden KEEP AWAY, shit I think it has yellow legs” = hornet

a man wearing a yellow shirt is holding a helmet in his hand ALT: a man wearing a yellow shirt is holding a helmet in his hand

...and yes, I did have the H.A.P.P.Y song stuck in my head during much of the time working on it

A black Lego Technics model of a 1966 Ford GT40 MK II

Long weekend project already done

One looks like Police, the other some kind of surveying perhaps?

Trying to watch NFL in NZ is so tedious, as for every ad break it's the same 4 or 5 ads for ESPN panel shows, usually with clips of retired sportspeople yelling at each other

A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Manage My Health CEO: 'Trust us even though we've dropped the ball' The chief executive of beleaguered patient portal says he is open to standing down if required.

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵

If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

Ick, made the mistake of wearing a grey cotton t-shirt outside in Auckland today

I wish this was something you could report to the police instead of local councils, as it's not just illegal parking, but dangerous and reckless also

You don't exactly need AI for it

if (guest.saidSomething == true){
jimmy.startOverdoneFakeLaugh();
}

... and the Sepang 1000km is currently happening

Had a few hours to kill in KL between flights, luckily there's a very cool racetrack nearby...

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

For the first time in my life, I've had a flight depart 10 mins early, and arrive 20 mins early. Surprisingly with Air Asia 😳

two panel comic P1: cop stands in middle of kitchen, unnerved by red spatter marks on walls and cabinets and countertop, saying "Mother of God... Nothing human could have done this." P2: Panel labelled "Earlier." shows pup struggling to squeeze catsup from the bottle onto his cheeseburger source:drawerofdrawings ig