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• Post #3114042

  Made Käsekuchen (German cheesecake w/ a sort of cream cheese called Quark) for my colleagues. It’s a thing to bring your own baked goods to celebrate your bday/anniversaries in Germany.

• Post #2849130

  So much blossom in Düsseldorf it looks like snow.

• Post #2849129

  Helped build some raised garden beds at work today. My plan to become a forest witch if I get hit with the layoff hammer is progressing.

• Post #2849128

  Someone tried to break into my apartment building while my landlady and I were both home. Physically tried to break down the front door. Luckily she has a very yappy dog and the main police station is only a couple of blocks away. Not going to be an easy sleep tonight.

• Post #2849127

  Some good changes (getting rid of homeopathic funding, raising alcohol and tobacco taxes), some absolutely terrible changes (reducing/eliminating orthodontic services, increasing medication co-payment) coming out of Germany's health insurance changes https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-04/gesetzliche-krankenkasse-reform-schwarz-rot-koalitionsausschuss-gxe

• Post #2849126

  Pleasantly surprised that the Preisänderung (price change) from my power company _wasn‘t_ my gas hot water going up but the electricity price going down by 4¢ per kWh (around 10%)

• Post #2849125

  I learnt the hard way today what stinging nettle looks like in Germany. Thankfully more mild than the New Zealand native one.

• Post #2849124

  GitHub Copilot just announced pricing changes. /r/githubcopilot on reddit if you want to point and laugh at idiots like this

• Post #2849123

  I finally slipped up and updated my phone to iOS 26. People weren’t kidding about how bad Liquid Glass looks eh? Time to start looking into a FairPhone.

• Post #2849122

  My parents are arriving in Düsseldorf tomorrow evening. Haven’t seen them in person for 3 years so quite excited. Probably the last time they’ll be able to come to Europe, especially for my dad, so I’m going to try and make the most of it.

• Post #2849121

  We don’t have the beds ready in our greenhouse at work and the radishes have escaped containment. Unfortunately been nibbled on too.

• Post #2849120

  I'm not sure I want to go back to NZ in the near future https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360981025/government-wants-replace-8700-public-servants-ai-heres-what-ministers-think-robots-do

• Post #2849119

  I‘m so fucking done with NZ aye? Fucking „progressive country“ my arse. Junk science designed only to hurt trans people and Labour probably won’t give af. Getting EU citizenship became a much higher priority https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595798/nz-first-s-gender-bill-to-be-supported-by-national-act

• Post #2849118

  Western/Central Europe right now: oh you wanted a gradual introduction to summer temperatures? Nope, your daily highs are going to literally double.

• Post #2818611

  I hate paying for yet another subscription service, but damn - Kagi is actually worth it. It’s a paid search indexer and it’s like searching back before Google enshittified. DuckDuckGo is decent but it’s still just an aggregator of other search engines.

• Post #2004247

  These are some ghoulish changes - queer refugees are often escaping regimes that make any visibility of queerness illegal. Is that "bad faith" by these standards? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594326/is-new-zealand-sliding-toward-a-us-style-approach-to-immigration-and-asylum