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Madam Snazzy

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Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat.
She/her.
Reckons here: the-opinionist.ghost.io/

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Jennifer's avatar Jennifer @jennifilm.nz
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Ōtautahi, if anyone sees one of these, a Magnum Metro S, with one brown tyre and one black one, missing a battery, either on the street or for sale, will you please let me know? Someone broke into our back gate to take it.

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What made me realise this is that I didn't turn my bedroom heater on a couple of nights in a row and had a bad throat when I woke up, but once I had the heater going this fixed it.

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After thinking I was DEFINITELY getting a cold I have come to the conclusion that my nasal passages + cold air = extra mucus. It's just kicked off in the last week with the temps dropping a bit more. I am otherwise fine but just extra snotty/stuffed up.

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What's the American version of Anglophile, because I think he is one.

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People like this absolutely understand power rankings and who has it and who doesn't, and who they can manipulate and who they can't and they act accordingly.

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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I am purposely not going to google any of those kids because I'm not sure I want to know.

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Me too! Wouldn't be the first time I thought a guy was great only to find out he was actually a piece of shit...

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

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Bree Lundberg ✨'s avatar Bree Lundberg ✨ @breelundberg.com
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Whatever happens in politics, it's not going to stop me from helping my neighbors, friends, and family. And in turn getting helped when I need it. If you're feeling hopeless I strongly urge getting more *involved* in your community, whatever that looks like (online or offline)! We have each other.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly's avatar The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social
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ah, another day of not changing the language settings on this keyboard and getting the é for my own name by googling beyoncé

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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The key to budgeting is… having a budget. 🤯

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Solar Christchurch's avatar Solar Christchurch @christchurch.solar.v.cx
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The sun will rise in #Christchurch #NewZealand tomorrow at 8:01, 24 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 17:07, 41 seconds later than the day before.

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I love this repairing vibe. The fake leather they use on headphones is just gross when it starts flaking. I was picking little bits of black stuff off myself for ages before I realised where it was coming from - thought I might have a very ashy ghost haunting me or whatever.

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Well, I don't know what a "traditional budget" is in this context because this is how I've always done it.

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Yeah, I was confused by this. If you're someone who is used to following a budget line, in a business sense (different budgets for different departments/expenditures), surely you'd be able to do this MUCH MORE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD form of budgeting? Unless they meant something else?

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I tap eftpos machines without a second thought BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S MONEY IN MY ACCOUNT but I don't think that's how they meant it.

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Sorrowscopes's avatar Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social
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Sagittarius: Mermaids were actually manatees that drunken sailors mistook for beautiful creatures, just like you with your ex.

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Sorrowscopes's avatar Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social
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Cancer: Scientists have discovered a link between depression and seeing your face.

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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I feel like we're somehow disagreeing while saying the same thing?

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Yeah, we had a revolving credit mortgage and that's the only time in my life I wasn't on top of the budget, because I didn't need to be.

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I don't have a trust fund and I basically use this system and it's not a disaster. I think you've misunderstood something somewhere.

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But that's still just matching your outgoings to your incomings, even if it's in advance (because all budgeting is for figuring out future spending/saving). I'm really struggling with this because, in my mind, that's what budgeting IS. If you're doing it some other way you're not really budgeting.

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Dr Lucy Stewart's avatar Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social
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I think the issue is that people who are or have been actually poor know this because they have to. People who DO make enough to live on, and always have, can get by never having to learn this because everything just sort of works out. Credit cards probably a contributing factor.

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Right, right. And that middle, as we keep hearing, is getting "squeezed" so they're having to adopt strategies that poor folk typically use.

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Wow. I had assumed that people had basic financial literacy. I guess growing up on the DPB in the Shipley-Richardson era gives you mad skillz. (My kid is ten and I've already taught him the "pay yourself 10 percent first" savings trick).

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The numbers don't care how you feel about them! I mean, I clearly am a saver rather than a spender so this didn't teach me anything I didn't already know. Also, I've never heard of basing your budget on previous years? As a rough guide, maybe. But your expenses now are your expenses now.

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Apparently the way I manage my household income is a TikTok trend.
I read this whole article waiting for them to get to the bit where this budgeting trick was something more than "making sure you don't spend more than what you make". Do people not know this?!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

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"It's actually only called 'Sham pain' when it's sparkly fash tears from the election year in France"

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Proposed update: “Inside you are seven dwarves, which one most closely aligns with your mood today? 🍆Horny 🗡Stabby 🩹Crampy 😭Weepy 🧟‍♀️Zombie 😫Stressful And 👍🏽Yeah, fine actually”

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There’s all this stuff in the fitbit app that lets you track your period (and tells you when you’re probably ovulating) but none of the mood options include “horny” which seems like an oversight.

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Deco nerd here. Deco isn’t mid century.

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Sorry but not surprised that this seems to be resonating.

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