Ira

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Ira@ira· 28d

WTF is this shit?

Screenshot which says “@schizanon.bsky.social has added you to the "People who get really offended when you put them on a list" moderation
list”

Ira@ira· Jun 25

The wind warning from the NZ weather service is only orange, not red, because gusts are “only” up to 130km/hr I think they dun goofed on this one and it’ll be bad tomorrow though

Area: Wellington, also Marlborough east of Seddon including the Sounds
Period: 21hrs from 9pm Thu, 25 Jun - 6pm Fri, 26 jun
Forecast: Severe gale southerlies with damaging gusts of 130 km/h in exposed places. Low chance of upgrading to a Red Warning.
Impact: Damage to trees, powerlines, and unsecured structures possible. Driving may be difficult, especially for high-sided vehicles and motorcycles.

Ira@ira· Jun 25

Not til Sunday evening!

Screenshot from the inter Islander website showing that all sailings of the ferry are cancelled until Sunday night

Ira@ira· Jun 25

I think tomorrow at midday the Cook Strait will be the windiest place on earth (100km/hr sustained). Took a look on Nullschool and can’t anywhere with faster wind than this🤔 Just another day in Wellington 🌬️

Screen shoot from nullschool’s earth map showing wind lines blasting the cook strait and a wind speed of 27.8m/s

Ira@ira· Jun 1

I may have just bought a giant 3-tier brewing system as I can't resist a bargain. I have no idea what I'm doing... anyone want to help me spurge my grist into wort? (I have no idea what that means 😂). Plan is to make it available to anyone nice. Just need somewhere in Wellington for it to live!

3x 100L pots on a portable 3 burner steel frame on wheels. The pots have thermometers and are attached by tubes and a pump.

Ira@ira· May 12

Gonna post some thoughts on today’s ConnectingAotearoa conf on this thread. First up is these chart crimes. Like, how can you end up being a Commissioner and have this level of criminality?

Another Hideous pie chart with bad text kerning

Ira@ira· Apr 27

Something must be going well in life if multiple people are giving me free speakers and sound gear. Got a set of these plus a mic mixer and a 1.2KW amp 🥵

Photo of two speakers on top of each other.

Top is an 8ohm AWA studio speaker and the bottom is an 8ohm Tapco 69 series.

Ira@ira· Apr 20

The old Wellington “10°, feels like -3°” also in effect 😐

Ira@ira· Apr 17

Not the best phrasing #NZPol

“'Head down, bum up': Chris
Bishop brushes off leadership bid questions” screen shot from stuff

Ira@ira· Mar 16

Loving the new public events space at the new Te Matapihi / Wellington Central Library 😍

Photo of Te Matapihi showing sunlight streaming in across a bright yellow and purple mural

Ira@ira· Mar 13

What's the word to use when the photo of an old white male CEO is replaced with fake AI photo woman of colour?

Ira@ira· Mar 4

Just another day with police arresting homeless people in Wellington. Not sure what happened before but it looked like they were moving her on but she was yelling at them. She crossed the road to leave and then they just swarmed her for some reason?

Four police arresting a woman on Courtney Place for nothing obvious

Ira@ira· Jan 26

Whelp! Thanks for the reposts - looks like a bunch of new peeps came onboard. Now we have way more orders than we normally have and Thursday is gonna be mad. We’ll probably hit $3.5k by Tuesday night I think? Now I just need to find a place for the a sail boat in my truck to live by Thursday😅

Bar Chart showing last 5 weeks of sale with this week showing $2,709.79 for Central Park

Ira@ira· Jan 11

Here’s a few nice pics of yesterday’s amazing sunset just out of Wellington. First time visiting Lake Kohangapiripiri, a beautiful spot I will definitely be heading back too!

Photo showing orangey sun just setting above Tapuae-O-Ueneku on the north coast of the South Island over the Cook Straight with grassy hills in the foreground. Wellington’s south coast is visible in the right.

Ira@ira· Dec 18

A bit late to the #SecretSantaAoNZ party but loving this present! I am indeed a coffee connoisseur and this book will probably tip me over into planting my own coffee bushes 😅 My kids are already eyeing up that chocolate and that sticker is going on my laptop Thanks so much whoever you are!

Picture of “the world atlas of coffee” book by James Hoffman, some Whittaker’s sea salt and caramel chocolate and a Free Palestine sticker and pin.

Ira@ira· Dec 18

Also FYI, Bluesky thinks your posts are Japanese??

The post you're replying to was marked as being written in Japanese by its author. Would you like to reply in Japanese?

Ira@ira· Dec 1

If you want to see the future of graphics check out gaussian splats, a kind of point cloud of blurs Especially if you're into #MacroPhotography. The image below is a still from a fully interactive 3D model you can view on this link and runs very smoothly in a browser superspl.at/view?id=ac0a...

Detailed macrophotography image of a honeybee created using gaussian splats - it looks very detailed

Ira@ira· Nov 28

You left you the best bit out! 🤣 “The three men and their associate left the property, but not before Hoffman ran into his house, grabbed a spatula and hit Dell with it, as they were leaving.”

The three men and their associate left the property, but not before Hoffman ran into his house, grabbed a spatula and hit Dell with it, as they were leaving.

Ira@ira· Nov 21

Oh no, downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com is reporting that downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com is down! 😱

Functional joke site showing 3 locations as down

Ira@ira· Nov 18

I mean, is Jalebi cake? It’s like that old “what’s a sandwich” chart

Chart showing various “sandwiches” in 9 panels, including a taco and a waffle sandwich

Ira@ira· Nov 18

I’m playing a real-life version of “Is it Cake?” with the new released food compliance exemption for all types of cake in Aotearoa NZ - the only class of food exempt! How soft does a biscuit need to before it’s a cake? When does banana bread become banana cake? www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/...

(1) For the purposes of this notice:

cake means an item of soft sweet food traditionally made from a mixture that may include flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and sometimes iced or decorated. This definition also includes cakes made with substitute ingredients, for example to make the cake dairy-free or egg-free.

Shelf-stable cake means a cake which may safely be consumed (together with any filling or decoration) when it is stored at room temperature until it is eaten, or cake that is intended to be consumed within 3-5 days and which does not need to be refrigerated during this time to keep it safe to eat.

(2)

All terms used in this notice and that are defined in the Food Act 2014 or Food Regulations 2015, but not defined in this notice, have the same meaning as in that Act or Regulations

Ira@ira· Nov 14

They can’t even be bothered announcing a new operation. Southern Spear was announced in January www.navy.mil/Press-Office...

Operation Southern
Spear: Latest Development in
Operationalizing Robotic and Autonomous
Systems
28 January 2025
Operation Southern Spear will deploy unmanned air and surface vessels to help determine combinations of unmanned vehicles and manned forces to provide coordinated maritime domain awareness and conduct counternarcotics
operations.

Ira@ira· Nov 13

This is what some of the data looks like 😅 [skype logs]

jumbled up JSON data showing snippets of chat logs

Ira@ira· Nov 13

Lots of valid "AI is shit" on takes on here but it's taken me maybe 20 minutes of no-code tweaking with AI to import the Epstein email dump into an Elasticsearch to the point where I can visualise a timeline based on a free text search of 1926 emails. All emails with 'thiel' by year and sender 👀

Ira@ira· Nov 13

Needed to say it's just ridiculous now how easy it is to just get shit done with AI. One-shotted it 😅

Run the quick start script that automates everything:

./quick_start.sh
This script will:

Check prerequisites (Docker, Python)
Start the ELK stack
Wait for Elasticsearch to be ready
Install Python dependencies
Index all documents
Show you the next steps

Ira@ira· Nov 12

Found out why the Wellington Hospital has been so busy at night lately. The only 24hr Afterhours Medical Centre in Wellington is shut due to staff shortages. NZ’s health system is borked! #NZPol

Photo sign at the entrance to the 24hr Wellington medical center

“DUE TO STAFF SHORTAGES
WE ARE NOW CLOSED
# you require Urgent medicol treatment please present to the Wellington Hospital Emergency Dept”

Ira@ira· Nov 11

Just reading through the full report, strange the media aren’t following up the fact that the IPCA were alerted in 2018 and just brush it off!

Highlighted text:

11. Issue 7 of this report sets out the IPCA's involvement in the matter and describes actions we have taken, and have committed to take, to address any deficiencies in our complaint receipt and handling. Several people we spoke to told us that one of their considerations when failing to act on complaints made against Deputy Commissioner McSkimming, was that the IPCA had known about the matter for years, had investigated and had found there was no substance to the complaints. While it may be true to say that, by virtue of being tagged in a Facebook post in 2018, we had some knowledge, we did not have any further context until 2023. More importantly, senior officers knew that we had not in fact investigated, let alone found there was no substance.

Ira@ira· Nov 3

Waiting in a carpark to do an off-the-back-of-a-truck illicit produce swap for a ticket to #Kawaiicon Gotta do what ya gotta do when gardening is illegal in New Zealand 😂 @kawaiicon.bsky.social

Photo of the inside of the back of a truck showing a green produce truck full of tangelos, capsicum and avocados.

Ira@ira· Oct 30

Will be interesting to see how we are tracking in 2060, given this chart was made about 40 years ago 😅

Ira@ira· Oct 28

oh I take that back, I didn't realise it was actually that pessimistic!