"Perhaps most egregiously" is a helluva opening for a footnote discussing the federal government's actions in litigation.

BREAKING: Judge Brasel converts her TRO to a preliminary injunction in the access-to-counsel case about Whipple in Minnesota. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a terrible and retrograde step for the recognition of trans people in India, which was already pretty damn bad. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/lok-sa...

This is interesting. I liked this bit in particular:

"fetid dream" God I love me an Aussie

But for whatever reason….

Check out this incredibly talented magpie. For about ten minutes, it channelled a seagull, a ruru🦉, a dog, an electronic car key, a car alarm, a human voice, the Android alert tone😂📱and more – most of which you can hear in this clip. Quardle, ardle, oodle, wardle and furthermore, doodle. Amazing!🤩

If anyone sees anything like this in Aotearoa/New Zealand please get in touch: I would be looking at taking steps to get the safety issue addressed.

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I would like the New Zealand government to spend my tax dollars on supporting this objective. Better still, also lock in some arms supply contracts with Ukrainian manufacturers for 2030+ deliveries to really align interests.

Please wear a mask on public transport if you can

This bit is amazing thank you

We greatly appreciate RNZ continuing to spotlight our Covid problem. Like your quoted experts, ACA supports vaccination. We advocate for extending eligibility for boosters for under 30s, as well as prompt and adequate self-isolation and convalescence. However... www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

Shingles vaccine drastically cuts risk of serious cardiac events bit.ly/47Prvoy

I really object to the American habit of characterising policy disagreements as evil. But every rule has an exception.

A strong counter-point:

Anyway, there are several morals of the story. At least one is "After you get advice you don't like from your in-house counsel, don't ask ChatGPT to create a lawless scheme to get around your valid contract."

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Sophie Ryder, English sculptor who developed her hybrid hare women sculptures as a counterpart to the Minotaur of Ancient Greek mythology #womensart #MadMarchHares

Dear NZ Bluesky, the law of defamation is a thing. It's real. It can reach you online. Can you bring legally admissible proof of the thing to Court if required, and have $300,000 nzd to defend a defamation case? Not both? Then maybe don't repeat the allegations?

I’m sorry, what?????

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay — I think the most important thing to understand is that it’s still happening: “I got COVID for a 3rd time in 2025 (I'm vaxed, boosted & took paxlovid)... Boom #LongCovid. Can't climb due to PEM. I haven't climbed in almost a year.” “COVID… is still causing disability.“

With Aotearoa in its ninth wave, it is vital to stop Covid spreading in schools.

This hits different where I'm from.

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

Unpopular opinion, but I love my F&P CPAP. It keeps me healthy and well rested and it’s been around the world with me. Plus it I put on a blackout mask as well I look like future cyborg.

Hi nerds. What's the best English translation of Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety?

@kentnewman.com You need this thread in your life.

The great forgetting that NZers enjoyed months of domestic travel, holidays, economic stability while large areas of the world were dealing with hospitals collapsing, deaths, lockdowns and restrictions.

The report’s rather simplistic suggestion that better information will somehow suffice (suggesting authors never spoke to or learnt from disinfo experts) doesn't counter what was then, & still is a strategic, sustained, sophisticated, industrial-scale, coordinated assault on the national psyche.

I really don't think this is what we want to be as a country.

Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This might be a good undertaking for a legal scholar in Aotearoa: would the UK's clinical practices be illegal in NZ under the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Act 2022? This would help put to rest suggestions we adopt the UK's frameworks here. Anyone up for the challenge? #nzlaw

"As well as topping up antibodies, Baker said getting regular boosters reduced the risk of Long Covid. The "disabling illness" was not being monitored at all in New Zealand which Baker said was a "gap" in tracking the virus." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nepalese Dumplings in Emmett Street, in Newtown School staff car park 😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰

Clever Hans, seeing Jesus in a cheeto, all sorts of audio and visual hallucination, and scads of other phenomena are all related to; - Hearing someone call your name when there is no one there has a very low cost - Not hearing someone call your name when there is a tiger behind you has a very high

i don't think they see any children as fully human they see their own as capable of qualifying at some future point once they've been sufficiently indoctrinated but they see Others as irredeemable children regardless of their age

okay the fact you can OIA a minister's chatGPT logs is pretty funny, sometimes the NZ administrative state is good actually

This statement is worth reading. Should be seen along with the congressional vote tally.

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Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Still absolutely adamant you do not want Covid. Long Covid is still a crisis and is the worst health impact I’ve ever personally experienced. Our health system is much worse than it was in 2020 - you do not want to navigate it with Covid impacts. Book a booster here: app.bookmyvaccine.health.nz 👇

This is very liberal.

They've responded to this comprehensive failure by... trying to appease the right. Which seems like just an instance of the strategy whose manifest failure is what lead to them scrambling in the first place. I genuinely don't get, even by their own logic, why Starmerist crowd are behaving this way.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

If you have not gotten your 2025-2026 COVID vaccine (and are able to) and you are arguing with ppl about how effective it is or isn’t at blocking breakthrough infections, please log off and go get vaccinated. 🙃

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.