I’m so fortunate to be able to hear native birdsong from my house in the city. Having said that, there is a tūī near my house that has been making the same noise every five seconds or so for the last three days, starting around 5am.

Walt: “Shouldn’t you be in school?” Carla: “It’s night.” — William H Macy and Julia Stiles in State And Main (2000)

SEASON'S GREASONS

finding out you’re autistic is wild because not only do you discover that things people told you your whole life were personal moral failings are kind of just a different way of being a person…

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

He said, “it’s all in your head” I said, “so’s everything” But he didn’t get it —Fiona Apple, “Paper Bag”

Anyone know if Air NZ will let you just check in a big (well-packaged) cardboard box? It’s within the size limits but I don’t have a suitcase that fits.

"So many comics are afraid to talk about 1880s paleontologist Othniel Marsh. They try to keep things safe by talking about relationships or dumb song lyrics or complicated political topics. But that’s taking the easy way out."

elf on the shelf is against tikanga. you telling me his whole ass goes right in the fruit bowl? no way man

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect

wellington: maybe completely blocking off a major intersection next to the central fire station for a movie about fire-themed violence is a little on the nose

The same people who tell me it takes more muscles to frown also tell me I should exercise more.

“here comes santa claus right down santa claus lane” ok so you’re waiting at the end of his driveway like a fucking pervert??

Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen More than ever hour after hour Work is never over

neurotypicals stop telling people to be more approachable when what you mean is less inconvenient to you personally challenge (level: impossible)

joke country

honestly this would go hard as a concept for a supernatural buddy cop comic. a seen-too-much-shit priest having a crisis of faith partners up with the actual ghost of st thomas aquinas to fight spooky shit. he carries around the skull because the ghost is tethered to it

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

I'm once again thinking about Drunk Jonathan Frakes

My local Chinese takeaway has the BEST sign ever

I’m not going to watch Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 so could someone let me know in the comments whether it’s another 5 nights (10 nights total) or if they up the number of nights? having two numbers in the title is confusing me

[phil collins christmas album] pa-rum, pa-rum, pa-rum, pa-rum, pa-pa-pum

[phil collins christmas album] pa-rum, pa-rum, pa-rum, pa-rum, pa-pa-pum

Six Foot Vulva Only Second Biggest Cunt In This Story

a cool thing to try is telling an autistic person their communication is too impersonal and they should run it through chatgpt to get a more human tone

landlord told me she won’t raise my rent if I re-up for next year, it’s a christmas miracle

if I’m neurodivergent, why are you neurotypical and not neuroallegiant? and where are the neuroinsurgents??? (I have not read these books)

what the fuck is any of this

The standard order for adjectives in English is opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose (OSASCOMP). For example, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” follows this order: “teenage” (age), “mutant” (shape), and “ninja” (purpose).

introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen Sigur Rós Radiohead Mogwai Sufjan Stevens Carly Rae Jepsen

i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...

personally I like to think of glass onion as a knives IN mystery, so that rian johnson’s next project can be a shake it all about mystery

if anyone needs a name for a nail salon that’s a front for the mob, you can have “Look How They Manicured My Boy”

Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)

It's not my fault your nana's bad at karate

rfk jr? oh you mean olivia nuzzi john

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

There already is a second Mt Mic tunnel. Use it.

Wikipedia's "List of stories set in a future now in the past" is quite possibly my favourite Wikipedia list. It's a list of science fiction where the setting was futuristic when they were created but now is not, and gives their predictions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

"up to 10 minutes" That's the maximum amount of time saved. Ten minutes. How fucking WEAK are we that we cannot abide ten whole fucking minutes for the sake of the environment, road safety, etc etc? Christ, this is a country of whiney piss babies

sure wish bsky wouldn’t freeze every time I try to watch a video but I guess I’m some kind of weird freak power user

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

“Your stillsuit is fitted desert fashion. Who told you how to do that?”