Wadepool

@wadepool

TOITŪ TE TIRITI Nerd of the highest order, whether it’s guitars, amplifiers, or the cyberz. Learning something new every day. Tāngata Tiriti.

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Wadepool@wadepool· 12d

Racist tears officially wet alongside wai and tōuarangi #whinyracistshitgibbonsfuckoff

RNZ
15m ago
English becomes official language of NZ alongside Te Reo Mãori and sign language

Wadepool@wadepool· 15d

Losing Jennifer Finch (L7) and Lou Koller (Sick of it All) both at 59, both from cancer is a seriously big FUCK CANCER moment. Saw them both on the the first Warped tour. Both amazing. RIP(unk), kick out the jams in whatever comes next.

Warped tour guide from 1995 with both L7 and Sick of it All on the main stage.

Wadepool@wadepool· 16d

Don’t threaten me with a brighter future…and learn to use a macron you shitforbrains… 🇳🇿

Card dropped in my postbox stating “RADICAL MAORI ARE TAKING OVER OUR COUNTRY” sent by a bunch of gutterknucle trashknobs.

Wadepool@wadepool· 22d

Saw this on LI and the irony was so heavy it moved the Earth’s wobble orbit a bit.

Fred Midgette in
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Vice Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret)
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The Chinese government flaunts the rule of law as a matter of routine. They bully their neighbors and exploit nations far from their own shores. They must be exposed and opposed across the globe.
Sergio Gonzales • 3rd+
Marine Biologist | Conservation Rese...
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The Great Wall of China is no longer in Asia. It's floating over the South Pacific.
You can't see it from shore. But every night, more than 300 industrial vessels switch on their lights just beyond the 200-nautical-mile boundaries of Peru and Chile, forming a wall that stretches for hundreds of kilometers across our horizon.
Using satellite data from Global Fishing Watch, I traced the Chinese squid-jigging fleet operating in international waters off the coasts of Peru and Chile throughout 2025. The result: 262,258 hours of apparent fishing effort targeting jumbo flying squid (pota), packed tight against the edge of our Exclusive Economic Zones - the very resource that thousands of artisanal fishers depend on.
This image alone doesn't prove harm to our fisheries; proving that takes rigorous science. And that's exactly what I'm building: research that connects this fishing pressure with ocean dynamics and the catches landed along the coast.
The ocean has no borders, but it does have witnesses. What we can finally see today, we can protect tomorrow.

Wadepool@wadepool· 22d

So what I received in my mailbox from National is straight-up propaganda and disinformation right? RIGHT?! #nzpol

bullshit maths from our gov:
GROWING THE ECONOMY
National is growing the economy to create jobs and boost wages.
Responsible economic management means more money coming into local communities, more opportunities for Kiwis to get ahead, and more funding for better hospitals, schools and roads.
We're delivering:
***• More than halving inflation by stopping wasteful spending.***
• Ending the war on farmers, by stripping red tape so that farmers and growers can just get on with it.
• Replacing the RMA with a new system to make it easier to get things done.
• A 30-year infrastructure pipeline and started work on four Roads of National Significance.
• Growing exports by $20 billion by signing trade deals such as India, which increase jobs and lift wages.
• InvestmentBoost, helping businesses invest and hire with a 20% tax deduction on new assets.
What's next:
K
Na mi
KiN to
W

RNZ
Inflation rises to highest level in two years
11:02 today

Wadepool@wadepool· 24d

Ah yeah, absolutely in the kit!

Wadepool@wadepool· 26d

🇳🇿 Anyone got a spare radioactive spider they can share? WTAF

Wadepool@wadepool· 29d

Gonna bump this up my reading list 😔

Book:
SAM NEILL
DID I EVER TELL YOU THIS?

Wadepool@wadepool· Jul 12

To anyone in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland that’s a valve/tube nerd and into amazing old tech but also modern tech and audio/radio, I’ll be at the Auckland Music Market in a week. Come say hello! #auckland #audio #valves #tubes #amplifiers #radio

Auckland Music Market
FREE ENTRY
Sunday 19th July 2026 10am - 3pm
New Lynn Community Centre
Valve testing at the market
Bring yours for a test/ check up
First one is FREE!

Most advanced and accurate testing in the country

Wadepool@wadepool· Jul 10

Not just matching on the outside, but matching on the inside at 3% diff for transconductance and both over 100% nominal. They’ve been hiding in these boxes longer than I’ve been alive. Should make somebody happy soon… #audio #tubes #nerd

Two matched 1965 Mullard KT88 valves/tubes in their original boxes

Valve/tube all lit up and glowing on the tube tester

Wadepool@wadepool· Jun 26

Ah thx for that. I swear I know the difference between months that begin with “J”! Also the date in the Science Daily article threw me. TBF to myself I was probs offline and digital detoxing in Jan. Also FTR I did search RNZ but their search algo sux balz. But I never make more than 3 excuses 😜.

Wadepool@wadepool· Jun 25

Here here!!

Wadepool@wadepool· May 29

Oh sure just grab four screwdrivers and push all of these tabs in at the same time with those four screwdrivers. I think they forgot the part about becoming proficient with your toes.

Image showing instructions as described in the post

Wadepool@wadepool· May 27

I think it’s officially rainbow season?

Rainbow with sun reflecting off of something in Tāmaki Makaurau

Wadepool@wadepool· May 18

Some great finds at the market yesterday

Four used albums:
1. The Cars
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Bowie - Let’s Dance (with SRV)
4. DEVO

Wadepool@wadepool· May 17

To everyone talking about the AI mega-datacentres needing to be required to build/use solar energy, just note that this is only half the problem as the amount of water needed is staggering, solar or no solar. It won’t just raise the power consumption, but also boil away available water.

By plunging advanced processors into liquid or running coolant directly across the silicon, facilities can manage the intense heat of Al training.
However, this engineering marvel simply trades an electrical bottleneck for an insatiable drain on a rapidly depleting physical resource: freshwater.

Wadepool@wadepool· May 5

Wadepool@wadepool· May 2

Quantum immigration enforcement policy? 🇳🇿

Establish a dedicated overstayer enforcement unit within Immigration New

But also

No ICE-style immigration raids, minister promises

Wadepool@wadepool· Apr 10

Bad colour conversion apparently:

Joan Jett with a Gibson Les Paul in the 70’s

Wadepool@wadepool· Mar 25

Sometimes nostalgia is a great escape, & this right here should do it for me. So many venues I got to play within these pages, hoping to read about some of the bands we played with & got to know. So many stories of my own to remember while reading other’s experiences. Viva la Blue Flamingo & Emo’s!

A CURIOUS MIX OF PEOPLE -
THE UNDERGROUND SCENE of ‘90s AUSTIN

Wadepool@wadepool· Mar 17

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Darryl Moore • • O @tuxit.b... • 1h
Not at all. You need to know software in order to fix the Al mistakes. Al has a long way to go before it can replace people. at the same time it allows those people to work far more efficiently.

Chris Johnson @cxj.bsky.social • 6h
As a senior software engineer and successful entrepreneur, I say all you're really doing is creating technical debt at an accelerated pace.
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Darryl Moore • • C@tuxit.b... • 1h Technical debt? That is not a term I am familiar with.
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Wadepool@wadepool· Mar 13

Who this expert is has been my burning question all along.

Wadepool@wadepool· Mar 9

You, in another decade That’s me busting out some Careless Whisper on the sax (~4 years before it’s release). Don’t tell my brother that he’s in this photo tho…

Two kids at Xmas opening gifts that were destined to annoy our parents, likely given to us by our grandparents from 1000 miles away.

Wadepool@wadepool· Mar 3

Just sayin….

Wadepool@wadepool· Feb 28

So the big electronics project I’ve been working on for a couple of years is causing me massive grief with a short somewhere in one of the circuits as I try to work through the first power up. I love this stuff but sometimes I get to the point of “JUST F’ING WORK ALREADY” lol

Wadepool@wadepool· Feb 2

This made me happy to see/not see (guess I’m doing *something* right)

Wadepool@wadepool· Feb 1

When timelines collide I feel like it might actually be a good day

Hyper Mega Bummer Boy @neveronbrand.bsky.social
This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now.
It's not even remotely an exaggeration.
the earth is a resort for like 500 rich people
and the rest of us are just the staff
Everybody can reply

Wadepool@wadepool· Jan 30

Litany against water (for chocolate making)

There must not be water. Water is the chocolate killer. Water is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the water. I will not permit it to pass over the chocolate or through the chocolate. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the water has gone there will be nothing. Only the chocolate will remain.

Wadepool@wadepool· Jan 30

Uhhhhhh…

"We're just mindful that we're still looking into this individual, and we don't want to mistakenly drive this person underground by making them aware that there are these kinds of investigations ongoing into them."
Listen to RNZ

Wadepool@wadepool· Jan 25

Whoever and wherever you are you probably need to see this about right now (dolphin video for those that are smart and turned off auto-play)