#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1749 Wordle 1,749 3/6* 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Better than yesterday.

Okonomiyaki to use up cabbage & leftover roast pork: okonomiyaki pancake with cabbage, egg, flour, roast pork, Okonomiyaki sauce, Japanese mayonnaise, katsuobushi bonito flakes. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️

May I recommend - Connections by James Burke archive.org/details/Conn... What happens when you cut loose a curious person to explore the rabbit warrens of technology. You get a show with an episode that illuminates how the little ice age led to jet engines. Plus, the greatest take in TV History

Helen Petousis-Harris with a fabulous update on the latest evidence on Covid 19 booster vaccination. I've been persuaded to get the latest. diplomaticimmunity.blog/covid-booste...

There is no -FUEL CRISIS- in New Zealand There are no sheep on our farms But everybody's talking about WW3 'cos everybody's talking about WW3 But we're as safe as safe can be There's no unrest in this country We sleep in a well made bed in a well made bed #nzpol #OneTerm old songs the best

Canal construction, soy-bean harvesting, the history of the dustbowl, mummification, ancient rites and the gods appeased by them, cats, gunfighters of the old west and the history of the space race. If you can't make a story out of those research elements, why bother having an imagination.

If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

I want to highlight this: the PMSITAC report uses AoNZ's relatively high funding of ag/environmental research vs other economies as a reason to recommend very significantly cutting them, and our relative extreme underfunding of social research as...a reason to even MORE significantly cut it. 🧪

Went for a meal with a couple I know and they started arguing.. Normally, I'm not one to take sides, but they were so distracted by yelling at each other that I stole her fries and his cole slaw...

The statistical probability regurgitron is not a tool that will help you learn to think, write, come up with ideas, or clearly identify what YOU find interesting, useful, or worth researching more deeply. It is a ball and chain preventing you from learning how to do any of these things. Sorry!

“statistical probability regurgitron” ❤️

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1748 Wordle 1,748 5/6* 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Getting worried

The sheer NZness of this: Bingo the helper dog, Molly’s human swearing & crying, the kid biking around. Molly. 100/10 no notes.

Spaghetti, cabbage, rocket, prawn meat, lemon, garlic, chilli, grated cheese. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

I’m also well aware that all the short fiction & non-fiction I’ve published online since I started writing long-form pieces in 1998, were definitely scraped too, yet don’t count. Yours, too. Everyone’s. These companies should all be shuttered. Which is a nice way of saying launched into the sun.

I just finished filing my claim with the #Anthropic settlement, which used FIFTEEN of my books to train the goddamned Temu Terminator, and I am fucking furious and heartbroken about it: catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10

After confusing wording led to some people being turned away from pharmacists last week, Health NZ says Covid boosters are still available twice a year to anyone 30 or over. newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/01/c...

AI-slop peer-reviewed article, but even more offensive. "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was..." should have been "1mL of the final solution was..." #AISlop

Direct from Te Whatu Ora now. Finally!

Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

It's #transdayofvisibility and I would not presume that my opinion *matters* -- but it appears we're in a time where everybody should make this clear: trans rights are human rights, I support my trans friends and fellow creators. Everyone deserves the right to flourish as human beings.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1747 Wordle 1,747 X/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩Too many options.

Later dinner because I wanted roast pork. With roasted carrot & potato. Sauteed cabbage. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️

Hey Stuff.co.nz maybe you should consider what the fuck you're publishing as opinion and then reporting on.

There is one scene in the movie where a molecular biologist had TWO 1.5mL microcentrifuge tubes. And proceeded to centrifuge them without balancing the rotor. That was the most scientifically implausible thing in that movie, so lab people, consider yourselves warned! #triggerWarning

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1746 Wordle 1,746 4/6* ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Elimination game

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

Everthing one wants from a decisive leader ...

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1745 Wordle 1,745 3/6* 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Fell out quickly for me.

The heavy morning fog cleared to a lovely sunny Autumn day. Whau River mouth is much nicer when you can see it. #publicTransport #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #bus #somethingBeautiful #aucklandscenes

Steamed mussels with butter, garlic, white wine sauce, parsley garnish. Spaghetti with garlic butter, whole prawns, wilted rocket, chilli. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️

Dynasty BBQ Noodle House (New Lynn). Signature Hainanese Chicken on Rice ($16). Curry Chicken Noodla Laksa ($17) They have a Malaysian chef & these are superb. Be warned though the laksa chicken is poached then added on top, not cooked in the laksa, but it's done well. #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️

Little Yum Dumpling (Albany) lives up to its name. Cucumber salad with crunchy peanut. Scallion oil noodles. Prawn & pork wonton soup. Panfried soup bun with pork filling (2 portions). #AucklandEats #kai #food 🍜🍽️

Second day of weekend with heavy fog this morning. Water droplets (morning dew) on spider web on deck. #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #somethingBeautiful #aucklandscenes

Look I’m an old leftist punk that brawled with nazi skins and I have literally nothing in common with these people but when I see a soccer mom with a Trans Kids Belong sign screaming FUCK ICE at the top of her lungs I whole heartedly welcome my unlikely new comrade

Hey look, a government actually taking proactive steps to reduce fuel demand. Meanwhile, over in NZ, we get "just keep on driving"...

How good is Te Whau Pathway? SO GOOD!😍 The newly opened boardwalk is gorgeous…and it’ll be even better when it goes all the way from the Waitematā to the Manukau: tewhaupathway.org.nz Such a lovely way to introduce people to the awa, the bike network—and all the different ways you can get around.💚

To me, it's always one of NZ's greatest ironies that having avoided the very worst, so many became bitter & angry for avoiding the fate of other countries Leaders responsible for saving so many lives & leading world's best pandemic response, driven out by misinformation & trolls

Ever since Covid, I operate a deep pantry, buy a few extras with every shop, and stock up when my staples are on special. If you are able, I recommend you do the same.

I hate that politicians are allowed to lie. I hate that political candidates are allowed to lie. I hate that, after they've lied, there are no consequences for them or their career.

If you are still in doubt as to what we avoided in NZ re COVID (b/c the Labour Government cared about your life, listened to experts & did the politically difficult things required in the face of open undermining from NACT for POLITICAL GAIN) then listen to this UK account of their 2nd wave… #nzpol

Three stage plan: Short term: Reduce our reliance on oil-based products. Medium term: Secure enough supply to transition. Long term: migrate to other products where possible. That means more solar/wind/thermal/whatever and less oil/LNG/nitrogen/helium/whatever where we can.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

#Wordle #dailyWordleClub #Wordle1744 Wordle 1,744 3/6* 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Easy three.

*cough* Three Waters *cough*