Chris Burgess

@chris

Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. Tech for good, for people, for orgs. Less tech, and slower too. Popping balls through hoops, open source, learning guitar, making prints, building with wood. Web:

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Chris Burgess@chris· 4d

this poster has stayed with me

A poster (seen in Dunedin, NZ)

SOMEONE ELSE WILL WORK
NO ONE ELSE WILL MAKE YOUR ART
CALL IN SICK
MAXIMIZE CREATIVE OUTPUT

Chris Burgess@chris· 5d

FRIDAY or whatever you call it there

The Very Hunter Caterpillar says,

REJECT TASKS
EMBRACE COCOON

Chris Burgess@chris· 10d

Searching for open hours at a local art gallery. Google's suggested questions... Uncle, WTF?

Google suggested questions screenshot for search "Dunedin community art gallery"

People also ask:

Who is the current director of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery?

Is there an entry fee for the Dunedin Public Art Gallery?

How many Maori are in Dunedin?

Who are some famous artists from Dunedin?

Which NZ city has the most Māori?

Are there more Indians than Māori in NZ?

Chris Burgess@chris· 14d

Even if it was just stupid snails all the way to the far shore, they can fuck off with their miltech testing. Do not test it in Palestine. Do not test it in Aotearoa. Do not test it in the terra nullus you imagine to exist.

Badge from 1980s Pacific anti nuclear testing campaign: "If it's safe, test it in Paris, dump it in Tokyo, and keep our Pacific nuclear free"

Chris Burgess@chris· 14d

DevilSkin planting a flag on the far side of a second major cultural divide, per this image reported from their socials

Chris Burgess@chris· 18d

really enamoured of Paperless-NGX especially now i've got a flow for scanning paper journals to PDF onto the second (just found the setting to let me scan > 10 pages per pdf) let's see if i get through more than a handful tho!

scanned pages of paper journal, thumbnails in Paperless NGX, hopefully illegible

one journal is scanned open in several 10-page scans, 2-up

one is combined into a single PDF

Chris Burgess@chris· 26d

geez

the sky and clouds and Moon and Venus are looking very amazing

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 28

Fractured scaphoid at netball in April, bone hadn't unioned up, now I will get an operation. And be back in a cast for ages 😒 Plotting a path back onto the court for 2027.

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 24

RNZ new website (or a tidy up edit?) had pushed this story FROM 2020 to Google Discover / News / Showcase (that news screen on Android phones). Eek!

Screenshot of Google News, RNZ article about Mediaworks (in 2020) asking staff to take a 15% pay cut or face redundancies.

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 15

can't imagine this making people feel disappointed or enraged when they try the door

Caption: "how a shop front could look with one of the AI generated images"

A store window depicting delicious baked goods. But it's an AI sticker, and now you want to smash it.

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 15

Oh no no no #caversham let's not Folks will not appreciate you for making the boarded up stores look like a lively grocer until they get closer

AI image use floated to prompt Caversham spruce-up

(Photo of man holding nasty AI art cover-ups for store windows)

Caversham Community Group leader Tony Culling with some AI-generated images that could make empty shops in Caversham look open and busy. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

Sticking pictures of people in busy shops, on the windows of empty shops in Caversham’s main street, may be the answer to changing the fortunes of the ‘‘rundown, dilapidated, neglected and embarrassing’’ area.

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 13

Odd / interesting thread to connect in the title there Newsroom? (It's not a review of the named book, it's a review of Keep Calm We Are Coming, a book about the SAS) https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/11/book-of-the-week-once-were-warriors/

Screenshot of Newsroom article, title says "Book of the week: Once were warriors", photo is of NZ Army SAS, review is of a different book "Keep Calm We Are Coming"

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 9

i'm five layers of sidebar deep in this nonsense it's so microsoft lol

a microsft UI where there are five layers of sidebarz

azure service > storage centre > storage account > wtf123 > more stuff > idk

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 8

beautiful - a leucistic kāhu kōrako - wow https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/photographer-rapt-have-sighted-hawk Photo: Peter Langlands/Wild Capture

A rare white kāhu kōrako with one wing raised, spotted in the Waitaki Valley last week. PHOTO: PETER LANGLANDS/WILD CAPTURE

Chris Burgess@chris· Jun 2

admiring the state of some license reports for my silly website - two versions of ansi-regex, any-promise, argparse - three versions of ansi-style - it's all coming from github package management is impressive and wild

screenshot of text in JSON

» ajv@6.12.6: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://aithub.con/
» ansi-regex@5.0.1: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» ansi-regex@6.0.1: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» ansi-styles@4.3.0: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» ansi-styles@5.2.0: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» ansi-styles@6.2.1: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» any-promise@0. 1.0: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» any-promise@1.3.0: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» anymatch@3. 1.3: { licenses: "ISC", repository: “https://github.con/
» arg@5.0.2: { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» argparse@1.0.10 { licenses: "MIT", repository: “https://github.con/
» argparse@2.0.1: { licenses: "Python-2.0", repository: "https://gith

Chris Burgess@chris· May 30

here, have some neighborhood telemetry reports Do you see the storage company thermometer from your place?

A chart of temperatures samples from Meshcore repeaters around Dunedin, with wildly different and intermittent measurements reported, including one location that's suspiciously warmer than all the rest

Chris Burgess@chris· May 27

Ok but I really hope their rangefinder measures in metric cos there's a lot of wiggle room in that headline

Online headline: a Ukrainian crew said it's Italian tank gun hit a house that was 120 football fields away

Chris Burgess@chris· May 22

opens local history book to find photo of steamers leaving shore to float away into the skies, better understand local interest in #steampunk

A photo of p87 of Roadway to the Rushes by Eileen Foote

Figure 2 is of steamboats offshore, the sun is reflected in the ocean near the shore, making a false horizon which the boats appear to be floating above

Figure 3 shows the shore and hills behind it, with the photographer probably placed at the top of the face behind the shore

Chris Burgess@chris· May 20

What skies, Ōtepoti!

Dark skies just before dawn, spotlit beneath the clouds in bright oranges and reds revealing curvy cloudy shapes

Chris Burgess@chris· Apr 29

What marketing team thought "New ways to stay caught up in Activity" would sound anything but deranged? Our must-look-and-feel-busy world is just fucking stupid. The tyranny of notification dots. The appearance of productivity.

Screenshot of a Slack notification dialog, which reads:

# New ways to stay caught up in Activity

Never miss an important message
Everything that you care about will appear right here, including direct messages, reminders and posts from channels.

Scan with ease in dense mode
Toggle between dense and detailed layouts to review in bulk or dive into the specifics.

Save custom views
Got a particular project that spans a few conversations? Set and save your filters for easy reference every time.

Chris Burgess@chris· Apr 19

use mealie for this, it's great (mostly i just use it to make recipes legible but why not also for satire)

JSON export via Mealie application of a recipe for Skillet Chicken Thighs With Broccoli and Orzo from the NYT

Various details and properties of a structured representation of a recipe are visible.

Chris Burgess@chris· Mar 31

RIP the plan (fuck!)

photo of The Plan Ōtepoti gig guide

it says due to budget cuts it is cancelled
Oh no

Chris Burgess@chris· Mar 27

magnificent garden ornamentation https://www.haywards.co.nz/auctions/230/catalogue/0205

several concrete garden ornaments, including gnomes, a cat, a cherub, and a face on some kind of shaft

Chris Burgess@chris· Mar 20

Paulie Gualtieri from the Sopranos sitting at a table.
Text over the image says "HOW BIZARRE, HOW BIZARRE".

Chris Burgess@chris· Mar 10

What's your sign?

A yellow sign on the curved roof of a bus from the 1900s probably. People are smiling.

Text reads

Happiness is a spaced out bus
Please move to the rear

Chris Burgess@chris· Mar 5

A bold strategy

Screenshot of TradeMe email in mobile client.

The visible subject is "We're singing goodbye to Success".

(The actual email subject is "We're singing goodbye to Success Fees".)

Chris Burgess@chris· Feb 26

I have not seen double sliders like that before, can figure the concept (eg high/low filters) but not how that would work IRL. Is it made up AI stuff? Bandcamp!! https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/women-of-detroit-house-feature

Illustration style image of audio deck being operated by hands with long pink fingernails.

There are lit buttons, knobs, regular sliders, and sliders with top and bottom slider controls, which may or may not be real.

Chris Burgess@chris· Feb 26

In a tramping hut recently I picked up a copy of Trotsky's "My Life", and appreciated this from the introduction:

Screenshot text: And I am in a complete agreement with Lenin (or rather Turgenev) that the worst vice is to be more than 55 years old!

Chris Burgess@chris· Feb 22

mucking about with imagemagick and tesseract. timg is handy! #pcm8 #abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890

a screenshot of CLI displaying a blurry digital scoreboard

shell command at top says `timg src/screams/GNpYT-oyBxI/frame_0060.png`
(sorry, it actually says streams, that was a wee joke)

then there's a scoreboard with zeros for each time first quarter and total, and a clock with 08:00 on it, and some team names that might blurrily be "Big Bgf" vs "Feets" (it's not)

Chris Burgess@chris· Feb 14

went to Sandymount, saw some butterflies