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Stephen

stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz

Not quite a gentleman, an eternal Mr Salteena.<br/><br/>Interests include but are not limited to: cider making, gardening, frugality, mandolin and music in general, computering; civil liberties, misinformation, the politics of Aotearoa; menswear, physical culture, language.<br/><br/>Capoeirista, cat dad, meddler, Yid.<br/><br/>Posts deleted regularly, so save your own copy if you want it for eternity.

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    An excellent week in a terrible month - another week of being Mean As https://meanas.asdf.nz/posts/spending-week-2026-11-03/

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    Interesting little nugget in this story about how many pints an hour of minimum wage buys these days https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360987900/old-bottle-broken-what-hospo-business-veteran-says-can-save-struggling-sector

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    It was late 2021 when my friend Marianne twisted my arm to run a capoeira angola workshop one weekend in Christchurch. And that led to regular classes. Capoeira groups are always marginal in places where noone knows what capoeira is. You&#39;re mostly dependent on people who have come from somewhere else where it&#39;s better known, and by nature those people move on, and it&#39;s hard maintaining a core so that newcomers don&#39;t turn up and find no other students. But today I had 9 people t...

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    Has anyone written in any depth about Carrot Ironfoundersson and autism? Was just musing on his literal-mindedness, focus, rigid sense of fairness, oversharing detail about his interest in AnkhMorpork history and culture and his knowledge of dwarf culture, inability to pick up cues from eg Angua...

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    I have made an important scientific discovery

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    Many people however would argue the crown goes to No Agreement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBnIsh5YzM

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    Can&amp;#39;t have people holding The Platform and the oxymoronically named Reality Check Radio to account. Oh no. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594400/broadcasting-standards-authority-to-be-scrapped

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    I hope he wins, but I also hope a few zeros get added on to the sum sought in punitive damages. $1.5m is change lost down the sofa for Google. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/05/canadian-ashley-macisaac-fiddler-musician-singer-songwriter-sues-google-ai-sex-offender-ntwnfb

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    Tonight&#39;s home grown bean is Good Mother Stallard. Not only holds its shape, but unlike any other bean I&#39;ve ever eaten, the pattern on the skin is preserved. #gardening

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    Electric chainsaws - am interested in your opinions, especially about models available in Aotearoa.

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    FFS. Have we not seen so many &amp;quot;false flag&amp;quot; conspiracy theories from the right, why must the left turn to them too. When a president is historically unpopular and in an incredibly polarised environment it&amp;#39;s not surprising or unexpected that someone tries to kill him, and it&amp;#39;s also not surprising if they don&amp;#39;t succeed. Genuinely surprised and disappointed to see people in my timeline going there.

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    I ate the last fig of the year today: https://vital.org.nz/posts/figs.html #gardening

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    I think most people are unaware of the sheer scale and ferocity with which AI services pummel every web site. Here&#39;s a look at what just one small, friends-only server gets: https://www.osnews.com/story/144851/the-day-i-logged-1-in-every-2000-public-ipv4-visualizing-the-ai-scraper-ddos/

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    These apples all came from my garden. Egremont Russet, Belle de Boskoop, Kingston Black, Monty&amp;#39;s Surprise, an unknown crab apple. Almost enough for a 5 litre carboy. Going to add another kg or two of apples I foraged from the park, and then press for cider today. This will be a very local product indeed. #cider #gardening