The flip side is also fucked: “The lease starts on the 1st Jan. The space still needs to be cleaned. When will you be moving in?” Basically 12 month lease cycles are just exploitative of students or whenever else might live in those spaces

Some of y’all didn’t live through the era of Bonsai Kittens and it shows. We need to improve our media literacy, since apparently some of y’all just didn’t get the memo that shit on the Internet is often just made the fuck up.

When I hear this, I think of the people who were in the streets in Ferguson in 2014-2015 for 375 days STRAIGHT while the national guard was called up and people were being brutalized by cops in the streets for WEEKS. Complete amnesia.

An apt metaphor

This is somehow even stupider than I expected 🫠 Way too many studies have been done on autistic people’s gait/pelvic tilt/toe walking, compared to literally any aspect of our internal experience

"COVID-19 is associated with increased risks of neurological and psychiatric sequelae... changes impair the function of the nervous system, providing important insights for COVID-19-associated sequelae." dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre

Wow this site is full of trash today. I guess we survived the holiday long enough to choose violence and bad takes

I've been asked a few times about Peter Beinart's book *Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza* so I'm going to say a few things about its existence (I haven't read it/probably won't): 1. Read Palestinian authors 2. The destruction of Gaza isn't over 3. Jews stop centering themselves challenge

This case is particularly egregious since it’s a car dealership that has parked in the cycle lane. Jerks. A reminder that it is illegal in Aotearoa New Zealand to park a car in a cycle lane.

This is an example of bias being handed down as science. Where he said “don’t write it down”? That’s part of the hidden curriculum: all the stuff students internalise as part of medical learning, often in clinical spaces that is not in a textbook or lecture, but gets taught just the same.

violence is often the last resort after every other avenue has been explored. but not for states. for states violence is their raison d'etre. they exist to do violence against those they deem undesirable to protect the interests of the rich and powerful.

rules for strip settlers of catan

Don’t swim if you are in Wellington. Heavy rains means the harbour and beaches are replete with the foul emission of our industrial settlements. Code brown. Poop in the water.

Specific to dementia, our old assumption that the blood/brain barrier keeps viruses out of the brain just isn't holding up in the era of COVID. Still learning how much it's solely COVID and subsequent infections, but it's clear that SOME viruses can get there AND stay there SOME of the time.

A whole generation of kids are gonna hate us. And they will be right.

Be careful out there in the Yule Void, everyone

We know about higher rates of dementia in people who have had Covid, we know MS is associated with Epstein-Barr, but apparently it goes much wider than that.

This is a double whammy story... Multiple entirely fake entries on this list published in multiple papers. But the list itself is taken whole from a press release. So it's a warning story about AI slop, but also a warning about unquestioning reproduction of press releases.

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

#nzbirds One of my pūtangitangi is injured. Looks pretty grievous, dog attack I suspect. Please does anyone have any leads on anything I can do for it? DOC not interested (guess we do hunt them after all) and our local emergency vet were like 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ can't see any open bird rescue options either. ōamaru

I am currently reading Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski, Elite Capture by Olúfemi O. Táíwò, and just finished The Sunforge by @understatesmen.bsky.social, and about to start re-reading The Disposessed by Ursula K le Guin.

A worthy cause to put our names to!

lol

When things become so ubiquitous that it’s easier to do them than to explain why you don’t do them, it carries a level of power we cannot ignore. Whether it’s holidays or compulsive heterosexuality or eating meat or having kids. If passive non-participation is not an option, we need to unpack that

You’re literally a class traitor if you use genAI SORRY

Only when I leave the house or am around people outside our bubble ;)

Did not realise so many people would be into this, the usual response from friends is "why though?" 😂 I do special holiday line ups but it broadcasts 24/7*, cartoon block daily from 6-noon, a 'sci-fi Saturday' line up, and themed matinees and midnight movies

It is currently 17 and raining 🙄

New peer-reviewed paper by me, @sheencr.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social about effective communication and public engagement around infectious diseases and vaccines. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cool new paper alert! “Friendship: The Most Overlooked Public Health Asset” - Jamie Krems and Victor Kaufman journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Well done, and well said!

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Yep, the pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT got leaked, ripped, and torrented. Not that I would of course advocate for anyone to break CBS News's copyright in downloading this from somewhere, because that naturally would be wrong. Just noting that the internet kinda did the thing it is designed to

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

THE CANCELLED 60 MINUTES SEGMENT DOWNLOAD BEFORE APPLE INTERFERES

There’s a link in the thread to watch the 60 Minutes episode about the CECOT “Terrorism confinement center” prison in El Salvador. The ep was pulled last minute presumably for showing how fucked the US govt is and somehow made its way into Canadian streaming platforms.

GLOBAL TV FOR THE WIN, dropbox link in thread

I looked at this with my eyeballs, so must you. I’ll never be the same after knowing this exists. www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

Today I went for a walk, watched a bunch of Downton Abbey, have a meaningful conversation with loved ones, complained about the weather, planned my break, and didn’t do anything related to Christmas.

I suspect people see the sea of Christmas prep on social media and all the consumerism adverts, and forget that none of this is actually required. None of it. All seasonal traditions are optional: even when you don’t feel like it, you have options. You can choose what parts appeal and leave the rest

The “born this way” narrative was a mistake. Embrace that we choose this behaviour. It’s all about autonomy and self determination, baby. I raised myself up right, I am compassionate and dedicated and very very queer.

TIL we have native mistletoe that grows on introduced trees!

I’ve been asking people “is the water here safe to drink” when I travel my whole life. Only here in NZ have people been SUPER INDIGNANT at the question. Y’all are fools to think that having a poorly regulated agricultural industry can coexist with drinkable water.

While people in developed/colonial nations wail about how ai will steal our jobs, let’s think of who is actually going to suffer first: the people who are already exploited by our shithole developed/colonial countries.

Happy Winter Solstice! Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025). You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!

There are many reasons why I cannot or should not return to the US. But I’m not gonna lie, avoiding being on streets with driverless cars is one of the reasons why I don’t want to.