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Gathadair
@dubh@cloudisland.nz
mastodon 4.5.18Formerly of cybre.space.
TTL for Toots: 1 month.
Wellington, New Zealand.
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Joined November 06, 2022
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@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz the rumoured Apple one will be more like that, folding out into something like an iPad mini held landscape. But I’m guessing 3 - 5 grand so…
Last night’s Marlon Williams gig was a banger. Such an entertainer. If variety shows were still a thing that pulled audiences he’d be a sitter as a host: music, comedy, and an ease with audiences and guests that is very loveable.
He did a duet with a kid he’d spotted on Instagram covering one of his songs. He took requests. And he had a bunch of fun, as did we.
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@MichaelSands@cloudisland.nz ooo thanks! It’s almost a pity I’m not in the Makita battery ecosystem…!
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@raikou@donphan.social AWESOME I hope it was what you wanted. I was happy with any of the three I chose out of yours; the Pinsir came out at 91% which I am very happy with.
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@evilchili@linernotes.club same: open Doppler, play random… there’s 40 years of bangers in there… selected at great cost… of course it’s all good!
@raikou@donphan.social exciting! We have a remote trade! As you can see, I’m looking for shiny now-and-future Megas and you have quite the supply!!
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@miramarmike cool! My niece is working on a cattle station somewhere in the vicinity* I believe.
*also a couple hours out of Alice, so somewhere within a 1,000km I am guessing
Out in the damp and cold August dark getting the dog emptied. The tree frogs are very loud this evening, somewhere down the hill in the forest.
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@rmi@cloudisland.nz @ThisCJ@mastodon.nz there’s a new one by Daniel Mendelssohn that is recommended by Mary Beard alongside the Emily Wilson one. I’m off to Unity shortly to see which one I like best.
Sadly there is no Detective Pikachu in this Pokémon Go event.
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info I could walk outside to a local gym and invite you but I probably won’t be able to get enough other people to make it work.
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info we will be walking to a quieter area soon, hopefully fewer fake players. I’ll keep inviting!
Not sure which is worse: USB charging prongs (that you plug straight into a wall-wart) or charging sockets (requiring a cable).
Having now broken several prongs on expensive Knog lights (most recently on my beloved Bilby head torch) I’m thinking sockets FTW though these aren’t always the best either.
Anyone have a good head torch rec? Main use case is monitoring our dog’s evening ablutions on our unfenced section… we don’t want her attacking Chungus the hedgehog who lives in the neighbour’s deadfall pile; chasing our increasingly emboldened rat population; or barking at passers-by…
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But also the drama in the bike racing is insane… there’s always some joy in there, courage, villainy, humour, generosity, pain; several ongoing story threads; team rivalries, personal rivalries… you can see the edges of it on TV but eventually you get it all.
And the sheer power and endurance of these people is amazing. And how do they do it in 39°C heat?
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io we once made a special trip to Hog Pits Bottom (not far from London). It was not terribly exciting except for the story of doing it.
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info sorry! The lobbies filled up so quickly with spoofers I could not get invites out.
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@miramarmike@cloudisland.nz @stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz the photo is from May though.
I often see him at gigs, he’s a genuine NZ music appreciator.
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Feel free to reject the trade if I haven’t selected your #1 preference. Meanwhile, I do not mind which of the froakie or tynamo you choose.
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@Firesphere@cloudisland.nz if you can trust them, the Adguard mobile app uses a local VPN to log (and potentially block) all dns requests by an app. Quite handy in figuring out what apps are doing. Charles (possibly iOS only) logs connections too, also handy and possibly easier to trust.
But you probably already have something in your router I’m guessing.
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info this is my strategy too. Maybe I’ll get lucky tomorrow with a shiny Pikachu to evolve.
I caught three shiny Raichu in mega raids today and about 20 normal Raichu.
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info Success! I hope you got a good shiny!
(In this case though the shiny mega is less interesting than the normal mega!)
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info it is Sunny here now. It will not be Rainy, I am sorry to say.
But I will invite you. Because of spoofers the lobbies fill up very quickly. Good luck!
Note to self to check that the subscription sport place has the thing you want before you drop some $$ for a month pass. Do not assume.
Related: no, Sky Sport Now here in NZ does not have the Giro d’Italia (despite having the Tour and the Vuelta… and many much smaller cycling events). Very annoying. And we still need to pay $$ to a different provider should we want to watch lots of Football World Cup coming up soon.
/whine
Well. Wasn’t that bronze final game great?
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Is there a strong preference among the three the rabbit selected?
Meanwhile I’m looking at the ones available to me…
Who knew such a thing were possible?
https://cocoquizon.recleague.com/r/30012-makita-adcm501z-18v-lxt?lyr_campaign=share&lyr_source=native&lyr_s=MDc4NDg
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info I’m sorry I could not get you into more raids here. The lobbies were filling and closing in 20 seconds. By the time I finished sending my invite to you the battle had started.
Is 75 different costumes for Pikachu enough? Nope. That’s only the ones I’ve caught; I know there are more out there…
Downloaded and paid for an iOS app which superficially seemed great but now, at the edges, is full of slop content and badly tested features.
Much regret.
The core functionality works but the extra stuff around it does not.
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info which ones evolve? A shiny Pikachu that evolved into a Raichu that I could mega evolve would be best. (I know it would not keep its costume as a mega evolved Raichu.)
Maybe I can find a shiny flower crown Pikachu this morning. 😉
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@glorfindel@pokemon.mastportal.info oh! I need to win 100 showcases at the same Pokestop to get the Professor?! Coooool!!
Looking at wifi 7 routers with mesh capability. A whole new shopping experience.
So many opinions out there though…
Surprise new song by The Durutti Column just dropped today. I can find out nothing about it, thus returning me to that pre-internet space of assessing a track on its own merits.
But I would like to know how Vini is getting on. He’s making music again…? The last news (from 2023) was not great.