@morachbeag I dunno, they’re worth like $600 each.

#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (3?) is MOST AGGRIEVED. Tears streaming down his face, bottom lip a wibble-wobble.
Mum says: "What's wrong?"
He wails: "I bit Braden and he didn't THANK ME!"
Mum sighs. "You bit your brother and you want him to thank you?"
"YES! He ASKED me to bite him!"

A tiny human (2?) has a rather special shiny black feather in her hand. She's flouncing through the shampoo aisle of a supermarket.
Flitting her feather here.
Flapping it there.
Beaming and whispering: "Magic! Magic! Magic!" as she goes.

Two women (18 & 50?) are walking through a big department stall.
The older says to the younger: "It's a bit scary to work here at first but you find your feet quickly."
She gives her new colleague an encouraging smile.

A tiny human (2?) is riding a push-along bike down the footpath next to dad.
Roaring "BRUMBRUMBRUUUUM" as she goes.
A laughing passerby says to Dad: "Sounds like the muffler's gone on that bike. It's a loud one!"
Dad grins: "Loud since day one, mate! Never a quiet moment with this one."

A man (20s?) wearing a suit, with morning shower-damp hair runs into a cafe, skids to a stop at the counter and orders an almond croissant. Saying: "Gotta fuel up. Big day! Running late." Before skidding out the door again and run-walking down the street. Croissant crumbs trailing behind him.

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Apple Maps is renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Change is rolling out now.

US: Lake America
Canada: Lake Ontario
International: Both names

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/apple-maps-renames-lake-ontario-lake-america-after-trump-order?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI5NDU2MywiZXhwIjoxNzg4ODk5MzYzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS1A1QjhLSVAzSUswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.QuyC3i17_sq9MQOGc3etCuMclgEz2ZWvZ2Dg-JTfAj0

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/117197677242218132

Companies were never your allies. I hope that is clear now.

directory checksum is otherwise solved, for simple trees as well as arbitrary cyclic directed graphs. hashing a cyclic graph is much less difficult than everyone makes it out to be

Today I learned that in 1971, activists planned a "shit-in" to disrupt the Chicago O'Hare airport by occupying every bathroom stall and urinal. They did not actually execute the protest because just the threat of it brought City Hall to the negotiating table.
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-ohare-shit-in-airports-occupied-infrastructures-and-excremental-politics

(Okay I take that back - the whole establishment talks this way about trans people too. So "any other marginalized group but trans people." Sorry, I make a habit of not centering MY personal struggle when we're talking about antifascism and that has weird side effects when the fascists are obsessed with using trans people as the thin end of the wedge for the 4th Reich. Been a problem for half a decade now.)

Anyway, Milo is on TV complaining about being treated like a brown person, in case you think being deported by Trump might have instilled some self-awareness.

#WhenTaken Movies 🎬 #598 (02.09.2026)

I scored 721/1000🎟️🍿🥤

1️⃣📍16.0K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥉99/200
2️⃣📍889 m - 🗓️11 yrs - 🥇182/200
3️⃣📍635 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇179/200
4️⃣📍5.6K km - 🗓️17 yrs - 🥉82/200
5️⃣📍447 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇179/200

https://movies.whentaken.com

@lydialurch This. This is *pro* tier. 💯

Bonfire Of the Manatees

#MakeABookAboutZoos
#HashtagGames

@ArrestJK

I remember doing a design packaging project in 2011 for a NZ product that was mainly sold in Europe. The manufacturer wanted to use moulded plastic housing to encase the product however I soon discovered that the packaging the NZ manufacturer wanted to use was banned in the EU.

I developed a cheaper and more sustainable cardboard box to house product. The manufacturer was disappointed that they were unable to use plastic as they wanted the product to be visible through the packaging but accepted that there was no point in spending more on a package that was banned in its largest market.

This #NZPol govt is either so dumb or corrupt they have to be considered mentally unfit to govern.

god don't make me go back to the fucking border until I've got the piece of paper saying I'm allowed to work here

“The president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself." https://kottke.org/26/09/trump-is-in-open-revolt-against-the-constitution

@GrimmReality It's true they were considerably smaller than in the movies. However, they were fierce, and hunted in packs, and could take down prey larger than them.

@decryption My problems with stinky uncomfortable buses have rarely related to the means of propulsion 🤣

Man könnte die Schattenflotte in der Ostsee effektiv stilllegen, die Rosatom-Aktivitäten in Deutschland unterbinden, LNG-Käufe beenden und so einiges mehr. Aber die Konsequenz für eine versuchte Sprengung von Flugzeugen auf einem deutschen Flughafen soll die Schließung eines Generalkonsulats und eines Kulturzentrums sein? Das wird #Putin als Einladung deuten.

Overhearing my spouse on the phone:

“I need a •human being•“

…in that withering tone one uses to speak to a machine that represents the crushing omnipresence of corporate techno-dystopian suffocation

build tool is now blocked on file-based checksum and i am L O C K E D the fuck in