Watching Shang-Chi. There's something magical about showing a Chinese-American kid learning Mandarin a mainstream superhero movie with a Chinese-American superhero who speaks Mandarin and a majority Asian cast. Representation matters, y'all.

Shoutout to the time I was on a comic book Discord that banned all use of the word "suicide" even if it was in the context of talking about the DC comic "Suicide Squad." I think we were meant to say "the Squad" or "S Squad" or perhaps even "Unalive Squad"? Not shockingly, that was my last day.

I have found my personal peanut butter jesus. (it has coconut sugar added, so I cut it with some straight-up NZ peanut powder that tastes like crushed up aspirin so I don't peanut butter rapture myself)

Shaved another 50 seconds off my swim time. Had a deliriously fun client call. It's not even 9am. Let's keep this energy going for another two or three months.

Rode my first 10k through this roller coaster of a neighborhood (in the rain for extra fun). Only ~10 minutes slower than my 10k on a totally flat course in Hutt, which doesn't seem so bad for a first try. (Also swam a lovely 750m this morning, would've done my first full 1k but I was in a hurry!)

Congratulations on hitting 500 episodes to one of the coolest, smartest, and most inclusive podcasts about ANY comic book - Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men! (also, let's have show of hands if @xplainthexmen.bsky.social in some way queered or transed you 😂 👋)

Coming your way in 6 hours (assuming I get some sleep between now and then): The Top 100 Comic Runs & OGNs in my To-Be-Read Pile! No matter how well you think you know my taste in comics, I promise there will be some surprises in here for you. www.youtube.com/live/Azq1wvf...

Might be fucking around and making a 100-slide presentation for a solo stream tomorrow, as I tend to do at 11:55pm on Sunday nights when I've been up since 5am, did Triathlon training, and cooked for 3hrs.

So, uh, I guess Trump is just going to use Truth Social as interoffice mail now?

I see the US is having a normal weekend up there in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Gun Violence Archive, which tracks this, lists five mass shootings by transgender or nonbinary people since January 2013. That’s less than 0.1% of the mass shootings in that period.

Welp, in terms of "meals to lose power 90m into cooking" this wouldn't be my first choice, but I do already have some edible food prepared!

Sure, let's make five dishes for dinner, that can't possibly go wrong.

Always takes some mental adjustment when I have to buy XXL clothing in New Zealand when I'm a M in US sizes.

“… the incoherence is the point. Fascism is a temper-tantrum disguised as an ideology”

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

Heard from Philly friends that The Lumineers are playing the baseball stadium there, which is wild to me because I assumed they *maybe* had the fanbase to play a corner bar? 🤷‍♀️

Just finished my second attempt at a full Tri Sprint distance training day. Shaved off just shy of five minutes off of my overall time compared to last month. 72 days to go! 🏊‍♀️ 🚴 🏃‍♀️

Listening to a Review Show from a pair of my favorite drag queens, Trinity The Tuck & Shontelle Sparkles, and was ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED to hear Trinity say MY NAME. 🤯 They're reviewing a ball runway and grabbed the screenshots from my blog! Trinity even read me a little 😂 youtu.be/pW8_0pfDaOA?...

but teachers and nurses can't have a raise

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

If we have not already, we're very shortly going to arrive at the moment where US Republicans have done more in reaction to the shooting death of a single confirmed bigot than they have to the past 15 years of school shootings.

CHAPPELL ROAN IS COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/l...

Jesus Christ they took Jimmy Kimmel off air They are FUCKED fucked over there

Pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air for saying a number of objectively true statements. America, I am so sorry we have reached this point. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

The most radically progressive policies will win my vote next year, because we don’t have time to fuck around. Give the right an inch and they’ll take a mile, just look at the UK & US. It’s unbelievable how much worse off I already am because of this govt. #nzpol #Kikorangi

This man is addicted to making unforced errors to wrack up the Ls even when he's in the opposition.

I don't trust the word "colorway." I don't believe it's real. It's like a collective delusion, where people kept pretending it meant something and now it means something.

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

Based on how hard my entire house is shaking right now, I'm thinking it may be too windy for a bike ride.

saw this post on Insta from my friend Laramie, a queer horror writer (excerpt from SACRAMENT by Clive Barker), then opened bluesky to see Talia’s post, and I am feeling both things so deeply. you are fucking magic. we are magic. we are a hydra. chop off a head, ten grow back. I get queerer every day

I think I've been dealing with *gestures* everything pretty decently, but after reading about the vitriol being heaped on liberal candidates in Wellington's Mayoral & Council election at their public town halls I'm starting to go a bit "doomer."

It still shocks and appalls me when we see POTUS 45/47 do any singular thing that would be massively disqualifying if done by another president, yet it has been completely normalized by him. (Since mainstream American media has also normalized this behavior makes me wonder if there's any way back.)

"When you're playing D&D in the middle of the night, With your head in your hands, you're just a rogue with a knife." If I do the rest, I really will be dodging work.

Reading this made me think of a TTRPG themed rewrite of "Good Luck, Babe".

Hey, friends - do you have a superhero fan who is 16-21YO in your life? Ask them to take part in this quick, anonymous survey for a NZ Uni student! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

i agree, and also, we solved that paradox and people keep pretending we haven’t, likely as an excuse for inaction

I love this so much and they are close by, I should bring them some baking or something. (Unless they're fasting, too, then that would be cruel.)

Now that we're out of Emmy winner spoilers zone: I already like Hannah Einbinder and Hacks A LOT, but when she ended her brief acceptance speech with "Go Birds, Fuck Ice, and Free Palestine" her speech became one of my all-time favs. youtu.be/BX0hW91lAZs?...

Filed under things I will never understand: Awards shows make all sorts of rules about the length of acceptance speeches, the potentially ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE memorialized for all of us on live television. But, the presenters can go 2-4x as long with a bunch of vapid pre-written jokes?

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

These are the same people who dismissed countless public and private studies that showed conclusively that right-wing violence was, by far, the most pressing threat in America. Now they're going to concoct something that purports to blame the left. Once again, it's all projection and bad faith.

I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...

So let me get this straight: the purpose of legacy media now, is to venerate Trump, white supremacy and Christian nationalism (and also Israel…) and any journalist of color who doesn’t go along will be fired.

Woke up before dawn, saw kid out to school, put on makeup to live stream about recent hauls & defending against bigotry, triathlon trained for 3hrs (school pickup in the middle), learned kid aced Kiwi Comps, had delicious fam dinner, did SEO analysis, had a mtg, cried at Emmy speeches. a full day

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Tonight had this Crispy Szechuan Tofu for the second time and I am absolutely and totally obsessed with it. We like spice in this house but we find half the chili flakes is plenty for this dish to not overwhelm the other flavors. dailydish.co.uk/crispy-szech...

This enrages me. So many brilliant people in my life had Art History as a core subject in Uni and I think it's outstanding to offer it at a high school level. Art is a brilliant window for understanding the intersection of history and culture.