Manawatū people! Learn what your prospective Horizons councillors think about the environment!

This week @objectivereality.bsky.social features new Kiwi music from IVY, CAITLIN, and Welcomer, plays a new tune from Scottish duo The Cords, and marks the passing of the legendary Danny Thompson. Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra..., and find older episodes at mpr.nz/show/feature...

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1. The expanded musical universe surrounding the career of Joe Boyd 2. Syncretic and nonconformist sects of Christianity 3. The 80's/90's fad for shared universe fiction collectives in American urban/low fantasy

The first of our videos from @enviromanawatu.bsky.social's "Meet The Candidates" event for Horizons Regional Council is up now! This first video contains the candidates' introductory speeches. Click through to Youtube for timestamps: youtu.be/kDVRjE4lxtc

Tired: accusing your enemies of being hypocrites Wired: accusing them of being hippogriffs

There was no experience like staying up late to watch this on broadcast TV, knowing that all over the country people would be simultaneously saying "what the fuck just happened there, then?" at exactly the same time as you.

Saw the words "it's been" flash past on the TL and am compelled to remind my international pocket friends that New Zealand has an alternative earworm for that phrase to trigger in your brain. (Yes there is something I should be doing why do you ask?)

You can date yourself by whether this image instantly earworms you.

An easy way to think about what chatgpt does: Take your favorite book. Cut it up into pairs of words: every pair that starts with "I," every pair that starts with "the," etc. Sort each pair into a pile by first word. The "The" pile will be big, the "giraffe" pile likely tiny.

Know anyone looking for a 5 bedroom house (with pool!) in Palmy? Just want to look at photos of the place I've been living the last couple of years?

This guy, on the other hand

I need you to understand I have not designed a shitpost character this fast in my life

Couple of shed bug carapaces spotted on today's dog walk

Back to the command line. Letting *everyone* on the computer was a mistake.

As a result of no Featured Tracks last week, you get an extra long episode this week! @objectivereality.bsky.social has tunes from Bill Morris, Geneva AM, Crystal Chen, Babe Martin and My Cosmic Girl. Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra... and find older episodes at mpr.nz/show/feature...!

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me?

When I was born, I had no...... head, My eye was single, and my body was filled with..... light And the light that I was, was the light that I saw by And the light that I saw by, was the light that I was

At a conference, got welcomed in by the guy whose dad wrote "Tutira Mai"!

i wouldn't tell anyone if i inherited a billboard company but there would be signs

In a waiting room, just noticed that the coda to "Listen To Your Heart" by Roxette uses the same chords as "Dirt In The Ground" by Tom Waits. youtu.be/vLGh4PCa9GI?...

This morning on the Morning Show, Hugh caught up with Amy from Precycle to talk about Palmy Clean Up Week, which will be running 19-25 September in association with PalmyBID! Listen direct here: bit.ly/palmy_clean_... and find more from the Morning Show at mpr.nz/show/morning...

Very unnecessary hot take but it always winds me up just a tiny bit when someone says something like "hate speech isn't free speech" or recently "what Brian Tamaki is doing with Māori culture is cultural theft, not free speech".

A Magnetic Field

Sadly I think the people who want Ray Chung as mayor consider verbally attacking women politicians as a feature not a bug.

1) Get sent unsolicited music - yay! (If you want to do this, [email protected], doooo eeeeet). 2) Band name seems a bit "generic tough guy" and band self-describe as "rockers" - side eye 3) PR is kinda boomery and describes the track as being about the dangers of social media - side eye intesifies

"12:45 - restate my assumptions" youtu.be/k02KIOUU8Hw?...

We can regret a terrible person died without trying to re-frame them as a good person or claiming that there is the same violent rhetoric on "both sides." There is not a critical mass of mainstream left-ists regularly promoting the dehumanizing views held by the mainstream right. Don't normalize.

This is indeed some Horst-Wessel-assed shit

You can still see the moon, though it's the middle of the morning...

We have a sign for this

Katana, Jaguar gives the best combo potential but the Destruction move for Katana is the coolest. youtu.be/7h73FEjhrrM?...

Perfect 90s non-grunge albums? Undeniable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARGF...

A good reason to block someone the very first time they start hedging about the usefulness of generative AI is that this keeps you from seeing them 6 months later shrieking about why quantum theory demands they eat their family.

The exceptionally petty joy of someone whose music just felt naff to you being an anti-vax psycho and then submitting more music which is if anything more naff.

I'm a disabled trans author living with hunger. Please back my comic on Kickstarter. "Zero & One" is a comic about a Human youth and a feral robot. It promotes progressive politics around ability and culture. It also has ADVENTURE and ACTION! BACK TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

#7 You should not charge money for feijoas or lemons #NewZealandValues

2. You must declare "just this thanks" when bringing your purchase to the counter at a dairy. #NewZealandValues

On tonight's pod I talk Power Rangers with the amazing @bijhan.bsky.social! Listen here: bit.ly/re_rec-82-po... or get older eps via @mpr.nz at mpr.nz/show/reserved, or wherever fine pods are cast!

On tonight's pod I talk Power Rangers with the amazing @bijhan.bsky.social! Listen here: bit.ly/re_rec-82-po... or get older eps via @mpr.nz at mpr.nz/show/reserved, or wherever fine pods are cast!

Palmy people! See where your PNCC candidates stand (quite literally) on environmental matters!

This week on the Featured Tracks pod, @objectivereality.bsky.social plays new tunes from Big Thief, Incredible Yacht control. Michaela Tempers, and S.G. Goodman! Listen direct here: bit.ly/featured_tra... or find older eps at mpr.nz/show/feature...!

The first of our videos from the @enviromanawatu.bsky.social Meet The Candidates event for PNCC Candidates is now live on Youtube! This is the candidates' statements section, the rest of the event coming soon. Click through to Youtube for timecodes for individual candidates. youtu.be/hq6YgzpRv3M

The dog meme but it's "No history! Only flag-fucking!"

“Monique thinks you’re dumb”

during every local election I should just put this on some hoardings

of course. who in their right mind would want to look at cow tools *daily*

Obligatory repost

Oh hey! New Fathom Beatles cover, neat! (And it's not even Christmas!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4JC...

A shocking case of wrongful incarcination.