Ben Allan

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Subeditor / lamestream media left-wing govt mouthpiece / right-wing govt propagandist trapped in Dunedin, New Zealand. Opinions those of the Voice of the Mysterons. Used to program binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators in most respects

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Proofreaders: hire us

You have to specify this every time now.

Cobra Kai continues to be, inexplicably, the best.

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.

unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

I get the urge to go "Look at this awful front page ad! Now, NZME's shareholders are these mining companies..." but honestly I reckon the process was as conspiratorial as "...you want to to book the whole front page?! OMG OK!" The fact we are in the Newspaper End Times still isn't quite landing.

Thank you, bold neighbourhood leaders who know for sure what colour bins we are putting out this week. Yours in heartfelt appreciation, A rubbish sheep.

How the heck did we end up with "foul play" as a euphemism for murdering someone? Which happy toddler boisterously kicking a ball around straight up killed a man?

David Farrier over here just casually going through the most The Ring-arsed shenanigans imaginable

the subtitles "i hate you" will not stop displaying when i watch prime. turned them on and off again. action, drama, romance.... whatever i watch, i just have the words "i hate you" looking back at me. it's starting to affect the viewing experience & also my perception of myself

True story: I made my intermediate school chess team for our multi-day sports exchange to Timaru, but then teachers told me that wasn't enough to justify a spot on the bus, so now I was also on the table tennis team (I'd literally never played). So I salute NZ's relatable Olympic canoeist heroes.

Do we think the NZ government is aware that is operating at literal cartoon evil levels?

Our Prime Minister continuing in fierce dedication to his ultimate goal: becoming the villain in a Muppet movie.

Luxon says schools can defer arts, music as teaching comes under microscopewww.newstalkzb.co.nz Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said he is prepared to see schools deferring arts and music curriculum to raise achievement in maths and reading.

Man, you can really still see the piles of fresh soil and displaced grass from JK Rowling burrowing alllllllll the way down the rabbit hole, huh.

People get down on what Facebook has become these days, but without it I might easily go a couple of weeks without being reminded that my friend Emma likes Subway.

I'm going to ultimately decide this is more evidence to add to the pile I've already seen for the case that the streamers don't bother with proofreading, but also it almost works?

When your job is to make sure everything conforms to the very meticulously specified rules but you yearn for freedom of expression

A) Man we have some weird priorities as a species B) Wouldn't these hurt to land on? www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/202...

Simone Biles delivers stunning return to Olympics in £2,333 diamond-encrusted leotardwww.telegraph.co.uk American great starred – literally and figuratively – in Paris to underline she is back to her best after twistie trouble in Tokyo

Today in Unexpected Avenues Via Which to Feel Suddenly Old: my R2D2 keep cup misidentified by young fellow coffee cart customer as BB-8.

Every "what is wrong with my houseplant" search: 1) You're not giving it enough water 2) You're giving it too much water

I don't get to bring the Outsider Perspective to many things in my life I guess, but I'll tell you one thing from an area where I can: you have no idea how weird you all are about cars.

Presumably this CrowdStrike thing can be traced back to one person who did or didn't do something, and that person must be having some feelings about now.

Sometimes thundering posts about how All Of BlueSky Is Bad or Approved Ways To Block float past me out of context, and I imagine the feeling is likely similar to what Britons living in a quiet Northumberland village in 200AD felt when news randomly reached them the senators had been arguing in Rome.

Today proving to me that the days on which you feel the greatest urge to go and Be Online are in fact also the best days to take a break from Being Online.

Chitty Chitty Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Bang Bang

merge two films In The Mood For Love Actually

I have questions about dragon power-to-weight ratios.

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

I suspect what the at this point *truly ridiculous* haters of "woke" Star Wars seethe about the very most is the knowledge that for all their rage and noise, the world has just left them behind. screenrant.com/star-wars-th...

Exclusive Data Suggests The Acolyte Is A Star Wars Success Story Despite The Backlashscreenrant.com The backlash really is exaggerated.

Oh no.

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

Subediting colleague appreciation post

If you want an ideal snapshot of the contradictory concepts of media that people hold now, here's the Taxpayer's Union arguing Facebook shouldn't have to pay trad media for content because trad media sucks, and then ONE PARAGRAPH LATER warning how it would suck to have no news on your timeline.

How easy would it really be to live (say) 300 years on Earth as a vampire without, in all that time, being caught out in the sun *once*?