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So I was quoted in a story about Ray Chung yesterday. But the journalist didn't include my entire quote. So I'm going to include it in full below and YOU let me know why you think it wasn't included in full 🧵 #nzpol

we have officially entered the Repeatedly Reassure Animal Companions About Loud Explosions Outside part of the holiday weekend 🙃

ITS GONNA BE SO EXCITING TO HAVE A NEW PARTY yeah that’s really great for you I don’t get excited about people wanting to work with the National party.

We need this everywhere #nzpol!!

Artist: @chronicallymeh on Insta

Midtown Manhattan today is a chaotic collision of people wearing football jerseys, sailors, and celebs in limos, thanks to a combo of World Cup + USA’s 250th celebration + Taylor Swift’s wedding.

"Before I started working at The Sick Times as your friendly neighborhood engagement editor, I let every medical professional I met bulldoze me." Read more from our engagement editor @heatherhogan.bsky.social about fighting Long COVID denial at work and in her personal life. shorturl.at/ZCoBe

Hey if you make a playlist of all the Velvet Goldmine songs (especially the original ones) and all the Vampire Lestat songs, it’s pretty seamless as a genre experience and I can’t believe the children are mad about the vampire tunes because they don’t know from glam rock

Our Patreon backers are getting constant snippets of all things It’s a Superpower?? way before general release. Today we’ve dropped the theme song - and it’s a total banger. Sign up at any paid level to enjoy it, the trailer & all the other bonus content!

I know it's an ass pain and a slog but Ghost and buttondown exist and are right there and even have tools to help you transfer your old posts and subscribers. Please leave substack.

I'm all for structural analysis of problems and I acknowledge the role that changes in educational structures have on my students' capacity to engage in the educational project, and I am among the first to condemn it. Not this time.

Screens are infrastructure. For neurodivergent and disabled people, they're assistive devices, regulation tools, community spaces, lifelines. The "screen time" panic gets it backwards. stimpunks.org/gaming/

mmmmboy that’s good schadenfreude

Like I said earlier re: Kipling, I think being exposed to an advanced vocabulary very early as a kid in a way that imbued words with wonder and magical power rather than intimidation and fear did me endless favors in adulthood

Since Dwayne Johnson is known for being The Rock and for playing Maui, the namesake of a prominent Pacific island, the fact that he hasn't released a cover of I Am A Rock (I Am An Island) seems like a missed opportunity.

I'm still dealing with the fiscal fallout of paying for surgery for my service dog's knee surgery. I'm behind on buying things I need because I've had to put them off for a quarter of the year and I need help catching up. Anything helps, thank you! paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels #mutualaid #transcrowdfund

I realize i haven’t talked about why I know this stuff in a long time … obsessed with Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint, I took up historical fencing at a given point. This is distinct from Olympic fencing and SCA style fencing. I was part of a lineage and trained as if preparing for an actual engagement.

Had a great time talking with Arden Leigh for the Re-Patterning Podcast; we covered a LOT in this space, touching on values & biases in "AI" & what it looks like when systems you don't control or fully understand start to influence how you interpret the world. I hope you dig it. youtu.be/QrDIamGCSAA

my 30th birthday is this month. help me get what i really want? 🥺 ko-fi.com/riversurgery...

Ah, “renewables have some issues so clearly the solution is nz dropping its nuclear ban”, my favourite kind of guy on the internet who is definitely a real human guy and not personified state interests

This is an amazing win for restoration; it's also going to have weird impacts on some specialty cheese production and distribution throughout the country.

Been trying for years now to highlight that part of data centers' water footprint comes from producing the electricity they use, so it's good to see more mainstream coverage of it. (Again, yes we should reform agriculture, golf corses Should also be destroyed, & more than one thing can be bad)

Ahh yes, what's the phrase I'm reaching for... Fuck off. Followed by, how do you like the country so far?

The constant punching down & belittling by men in powerful positions is exhausting. These roles are a privilege, and they should be held with integrity, respect and a sense of responsibility. We deserve better than politics that normalises this garbage behaviour, and we can definitely choose better.

California returns stretch of coast to Indigenous tribes. 'This is beyond huge'

Happy don't forget to take the kids' lunch boxes out of their school bags day for all those who celebrate.

I bet these are gonna become a genuine collector's market in a few years. They're - ephemera - hold a deep sense of nostalgia - evoke a sense of wonder and imagination in the user - there's limited numbers of them - most of them cannot (and will not) be reproduced or reprinted Perfect recipe.

Today's news that Jim Grenon has been ordered to pay costs to TVNZ and my friend and colleague @sanjanah.bsky.social is a genuine win for free speech in Aotearoa. If you don’t remember the (frankly, insane) details of this case, strap in and I’ll do my best 🧵 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Ugh i need a new show with a deep bench of episodes & progressive vibes. Can't just keep rewatching DS9 & the best seasons of TNG; i need at least a couple months break between rewatches or eventually the novelty wears off & i get annoyed. (if you're AuDHD think "same food but different same food.")

"It might be a humble comfort dish for millions today, but macaroni cheese has a storied history. In fact, it’s first recorded as a dish in ancient Rome, said Karima Moyer-Nocchi."

Very useful video to settle debates (in New Zealand, and elsewhere) on whether increasing speed limits on highways from 100kmph to 120kmph make any sense. You only ever save, at best, around one minute. Taken from Instagram, www.instagram.com/reel/DaP4kyF... #nzpol

this is such a fucking weird decade chat

This makes it even more delicious

Coming into your twenties and hearing other marginalized folks from multiple populations say to your face that they'd rather be dead than be like you does a number on your brain. Seeing it happen on a larger scale in my 40s was wild.

Where's my Michelin star then?

Ok so this little trans pride bird I made out of the dregs of 3 cups is so cute but I'm fully distracted by how the back of the octopus head looks like balls

Not with the current cuts to education and research, but, go off Billionaires. Just go, get t’ Mars, it can’t happen sooner.

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If you're Ōtautahi-based and interested in waste reduction/recycling then you might be interested in some proposed changes that are currently out for consultation. Includes separate glass processing and a pipeline for unwanted household goods. letstalk.ccc.govt.nz/wasteplan2026

ive seen some folks lately talkin on NEGATIVE REVIEWS and how to deal with them as authors or artists. personally i have not cared about reviews for several decades. negative reviews do not bother me in the slightest and buds often ask me HOW. ill explain a bit here and why this applies to everyone

Streaming in about 3 hours! My migraine has mostly subsided. I figured out what caused it -- IPL hair removal* on my face this morning. In my headachey stupor I totally forgot I'd done that. *incredibly effective for dark hair/light skin on legs, but face hairs persist. From now on, pluck it.

drag queens make great detectives because they can always tell when things are fishy

The great thing about public service is getting to serve the public. The shit thing about public service is the government desperately trying to stop you from serving the public.

Feel like crying... so going to watch everything everywhere all at once. Just such a deeply personal film for me. A love letter to ADHD.

4 more days of metal heron tshirt preorders, which come with a free sticker: topatoco.com/collections/... My favorite part of this shirt is that I figured out how to make cattails look metal.