NZ birds are the best. Great thread.

In today's piece, @applecider.bsky.social gets personal about mental health, ADHD, and achievement-seeking coping mechanisms. www.mothership.blog/after-my-adh...

Empires do fall, but don't forget that Caligula was hundreds of years before Rome fell

This is true of my experience with music, but also of learning foreign languages, where you get to B1 and the nuances really catch up with you. Unfortunately I have ADHD which affects my memory, and it means I drop things HARD when I get frustrated and I never get as good as I want to

My last holiday I literally circumnavigated the globe and used three passports

"Do not forget it, i can remove you from this transaction" goes so hard

I've been playing Resident Evils Requiem and I think some of the game is amazing, some of the game is unbalanced and tedious, and some is just a bit boring. The greater critical question is the portrayal of a clearly autistic protagonist in concert with what is revealed about her later

Since NY Mag breached containment, thrusting fujoshi into the mainstream in the wake of Heated Rivalry, I might as well reveal its inverse: the himedanshi.

I put off switching to Linux for years but 2026 might be the time

It's sad to become culturally irrelevant in your lifetime but also Billy doesn't seem to understand the basic fact that teens tend to gravitate towards counterculture and by the late 90s his music was dad rock

Comics Thread. Wonderful read

Colourists like Tatjana should get way more credit than they do

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

What else is there to say but: these people were warned and warned and warned again about this, going back well over ten years and further, and their constant response was: absolutely fuck you, you are all idiots and we are the smart, Sensible people whom understand what the public like and want.

As someone who thought Labour and the Tories were both shitty options that had the UK political establishment in a stranglehold since the age of about 16 it is quite satisfying to see them both finally run themselves into the ground with their own hubris

2016: "learn to code lol" 2026: "we regret to inform you" (Dorsey looks like the cult leader in an American prison drama.)

Every vote from Brexit on has been 'the last vote to save Britain' the fact that these twonks can't even be bothered to include Northern Ireland shows how much respect they have for the union

A blonde white lady being labelled an extremist is a bit of a swerve for the Telegraph

This guy learned to smile from characters in DreamWorks movies

Literally every problem these guys blame on immigration was something that already existed in European society, but is often normalised or unreported in that form. Remember that the singer of one of Wales' biggest bands was part of a pedophile network.

I don't like modern Star Trek either, but my secret is that I just watch old episodes and I never have to think about whatever the hell is going on over at Paramount

Boring answer but kind of a perfect spot for an amp stack and pedalboard

It makes no sense to rush into a giant centralised government department that merges environment into housing/transport etc. it creates huge transaction costs, taking NZ back years in effective climate and environment action, losing focus, accountability & skills www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I have to remind ppl that part of the joke here is that Anno & Miyazaki’s longtime mentorship + friendship begun with Anno working directly under a 43-year-old Miyazaki during Nausicäa. He is taking the piss, lol Also, Tomino made Gundam at 38, Matsumoto directed Yamato in his late 30s, etc

An absolute must read if superhero fan service costumes have ever bothered you. And doubly so if they somehow haven't.

My board has started to develop a real animal theme of late. Thanks GUPTech for today's addition, the A(((ole)))

Love having had a fairly busy day, looking forward to a fairly busy week, and then my brain just going 'you don't really need sleep tonight, right?'

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Tiri is such a great place. Wish I could visit more often.

My surname is Gillespie and the amount of people that say gill-ep-sie suggests that about 75% of the global population is dyslexic

Reminder that in the UK I was on a waiting list for 18 months, was 'assessed' for 45 minutes and sent on my way. In Luxembourg I was also on a long wait list, but when seen I got three 2 hour sessions and an immediate diagnosis.

It's easy to say this but the average person doesn't know what the fuck Linux is

Your ancestors died so that this dipshit could forget that New York was called New Amsterdam first

As an autistic person who constantly worries about being too cringe I'm always impressed that there are people willing to outdo me by a country mile

Some of these fuckers really need to go back to the Berlin Topography of Terror museum because guys you already did that and it worked out badly for everyone

'If one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently' is doing so much heavy lifting here because the answer is no! You can't!

My partner continues to be flabbergasted when I come out with inconceivable notions like 'I have never heard a single Bad Bunny song'

so anyway this is what i've spent the past four years being pissed off about www.mothership.blog/rest-in-peac...

@peow.bsky.social Hey there I was just wondering if the dust cover issue you were having with the Kickstarter copies of Ex Mag 6 has been sorted yet? I'm itching to get my hands on it.

Ni howdy absolutely sent me screaming

this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes

One of the biggest fallacies of 'art' is that you have to be a Mozart or a Taylor Swift for it to be considered 'worthwhile' when some of the most meaningful musical experiences you can have are some dude with 15 Spotify streams in the back room of a pub screaming into a mic about pain

the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers

These announcements are always so weird because if I know what he's going to say why would I listen? Also he sucks and this is meaningless rhetoric

Hey you know what you do if a journalist lies about you? You bring a defamation suit against them. You know what you don't do? Disappear for 18 months and then tell all your followers to read a weird niche blog which 'exonerates' you.

The thing is, no matter what you feel about Tortoise (and I heard the name Rachael Johnson and my eyebrow raised so hard) but Vulture did an incredibly detailed article based on both Tortoise's evidence and their own follow-up and that is what I would call 'peer review'

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Guys this is too much 😭

Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from his film Perfect Blue (1997)