If you're a complete history need like me, Three Now in AoNZ has THE SERPENT QUEEN available to stream and it's SO glorious. It's about the life of Catherine de Medici.

Best books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology. Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles. www.ft.com/content/af55...

A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the controversial herbicide Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher, raising new concerns about the chemical’s potential dangers. The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

#nzpol Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand because this awful Nat/NZFirst/ACT coalition government won't be. Cc: @russelnorman.bsky.social @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social @greenpeacenz.bsky.social usrtk.org/pesticides/l...

Important for those here who aren't on Twitter. Some very important, and interesting questions to consider. | The New Zealand MFAT’s seeking public views on next Strategic Foreign Policy Assessment. Complete the survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/J7J8P9V #nzpol

This does not sound good.

Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.

Flight tracker shows Venezuela airspace after Trump orders shutdown

This is handy. Google Ads Transparency Center: This is Google's official, free tool where you can search any advertiser's name or website URL to see all the ads they are currently running or have run in the last 30 days across all Google platforms. adstransparency.google.com?region=NZ

"So I decided to try a concrete experiment, with a decidedly non-trivial goal: designing a comic, from A to Z. A complex challenge that brings together storytelling, visual structure, stylistic consistency, and the ability to translate abstract concepts..." www.radicalcuriosity.xyz/p/how-to-cre...

Handy if you're keeping track of the shit thats going down, its not unplanned. Project 2025 Tracker. A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals... project2025.observer/en

2026 Calendar! The Whio, or blue duck, is nationally endangered. They are only found in New Zealand and it is estimated there are only around 3000 birds in existence making them rarer than kiwi. rwp.org.nz

Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.

Should have taken a before pic. I'd sat on the poor thing. Was very flat.

Great summary of all the bits and pieces making up Google’s AI ecosystem. www.geeky-gadgets.com/google-ai-ma...

Gawd. More of this shit.

I didn't win lotto, but if I did... The Stahl House is on the market for the first time ever. WOW www.archpaper.com/2025/11/stah... Koenig's Case Study House 22 is magnificent www.theagencyre.com/single-famil...

Happy 75th birthday to Tina Weymouth. Love this photo of her and Grandmaster Flash, taken by Laura Levine in 1981. Spotted at MAC's fab Golden Age of Hip Hop exhibition in Marseille several years ago

"You are logged in as Jeffrey Epstein, [email protected]. These are real emails released by Congress. Explore by name, contribute to the starred list, search..." jmail.world

Niche? I'll give you niche. www.mushroomcoloratlas.com

Weekend plans. www.bunnings.co.nz/ryobi-5-piec...

Heard of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) but not sure what it is — or why it matters for the NHS? 🤔 We’ve put together a set of FAQs to break it down: what it does, who’s involved, and why we’re worried. 👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

"What Does Glyphosate-Free Certification Actually Mean? There’s a lot of confusion out there about what “glyphosate-free” really means. Is it the same as organic? Is it just a marketing term? Can you trust it?" nomoreglyphosate.nz/glyphosate-f... detoxproject.org/certificatio...

Technics SL10 www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...

They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.

Operation Strapping Manservant

👉NEW -- How much damage did Palestine Action really do at Brize Norton? by John McEvoy Four months after pro-Palestine activists targeted the Royal Air Force base, the Ministry of Defence claims it still doesn’t know the cost of repairs. www.declassifieduk.org/how-much-dam...

Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.

Want to look through Jeffrey Epstein’s documents yourself? We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails. Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Tell you what Tell you what It's 1 trillion dollars now *let's all sing

Scorched.

Posing with my veggies like men pose with fish

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Defn. worth a read. "Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show." www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

"Some observers believe something similar is happening now. Since ChatGPT’s launch in 2022, American stocks have appreciated by 71% in value. By the end of the second quarter of 2025, the S&P 500 was worth more than 175% of GDP."

More Microsoft screw ups. Receive email decide to switch subscription to classic. Why do I have to go to an Australian site, requiring an Australian billing address? Also, the subscribe process shows the subscribe button greyed out with the word loading. Waited and waited, then this...

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

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The future of war. Fantastic. What Palantir Sees. The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

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It's actually worse than it sounds. Gloo is predator software, developed with Cambridge Analytica. It helps evangelical churches target vulnerable people for recruitment by harvesting private data. AI coming into the mix is alarming, if inevitable.

There’s a reason you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night.

They have invented a new kind of porn

Once Were Gardeners is a must-watch for anyone wanting to grow

We should be looking at Uruguay for more solutions - the frightening thing is the government here is taking us backwards in almost every environmental policy.

We’re generating too much content for Adam Curtis to sort through