Ben Clapp

Lunar eclipse at totality, looking quite orange.

Last one, time for sleep! Redder again, but ngl a bit duller to the eye. Other worldly to watch though

Moon near totality during lunar eclipse. Less glare from the sliver of the edge that’s still lit white

Nearer totality now, looking redder but IRL it’s more of a hint of red

Picture of the moon during a lunar eclipse. Moon is perhaps 3/4 shaded, with a peach hue.

Eclipse! Looks more red in pics, but moon looks less illuminated to the eye

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

I started making a moderation list to mute some AI bot accounts I come across… I spend my time here for the people bsky.app/profile/did:...

I guess this is one way to make more hydro power in NZ

was

Those disagreeing have clearly never had a good quality hot cross bun

Alt text for previous image - a series of Grafana graphs showing rates of Bluesky events. Blocks/Likes/Posts/Reposts/Follows

Definitely quite thirsty, about 2MiB/sec at the moment. Might leave this running over night, see how things change as things get busy for US hours!

GitHub - benclapp/bsky_firehose_exporter: Prometheus exporter for the Bluesky firehose. Prometheus exporter for the Bluesky firehose. . Contribute to benclapp/bsky_firehose_exporter development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just because I could, I created a Prometheus exporter for the Bluesky firehose.

Perhaps not the most efficient way to collect these metrics, but it's a fun experiment to see what's possible!

Stuff is reporting that Parliament grounds are essentially full with still thousands on the hikoi yet to arrive. I am so so proud to be tangata Tiriti & Pākehā today. Te Tiriti gives me a place to stand here in this whenua alongside tangata whenua. Thank you Aotearoa. PHOTO: Megan Jones

CEDE DEEZ NUTS

EW, DAVID!

TOITŪ UR MUM

HONOURING TE TIRITI IS BRAT

#toitūtetiriti

NGL that’s less than I expected. Now you have me tempted to play with creating a feed or two

What kind of hardware/resources does it take to keep your feeds running?

this rules

🇳🇿 #nzpol

Bad photoshop of an angry looking luxon on Prince Farquaad meme. “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”

Melissa Derby breaking new ground as NZ's first ever pro-racism Race Relations Comissioner

Ok yea that default one is super comprehensive too! Elon would never

Are these account(s) muted by default, or is it a specific moderation list you have? Mind sharing if it’s the latter?

The Banner/Thor meme. Banner: You expect better from a security appliance. Thor: Do you though?

TIME TO RELEASE THE MEME

I suspect that some of you are feeling this quote, too?

"The most painful anguish that mortals suffer is to understand a great deal but to have no power at all."
—Herodotus

Tumblr post from user sapphia USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead. Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while

one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court.

They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions,

deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency. It’s been six months.

I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

Al accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it.

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i hear you little buddy

This is a very good idea, friends

Getting pretty tired of this being almost my entire tech news feed these days.

This tax cut isn't even pissing on us when we're on fire; it's pissing in our faces whilst our body's on fire.