No one really wants a better smartphone. They just want their dog to live 50 years. Fucking get with it science

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Written and illus. by GV Hudson, an polymath/autodidact who did this in his spare time from his role as #wellington postman. I believe the publishing was also crowdfunded #kikorangi #biology #entomolgy #nzhistory

Carter's 2019 memoir Dead People I Have Known was so good it gave our editor a complex. "The thing is, Shayne Carter writes like a bitch... he lays his world out lucidly, and with as much innate groove and dynamic and honesty and attitude as his music." #BookReview #pukapuka tinyurl.com/85j9wsah

NZ govt (and voters) are still hiding their collective heads in the sand when it comes to the costs of caring for an aging population. It's not only hospitals and health centers, its also GPs, housing, nursing care, hospice staff, paid and unpaid care work, assistive devices, mobility etc

Perhaps we should just admit that the country only works at all because of the network of Aunties, and start electing governments that are basically made up of Aunties #nzpol

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

Me ranty in article form is so much more versed than live action.... Read the eloquent me here on @witchdoctornz.bsky.social before you get an earfull elsewhere tinyurl.com/yxrdjf2c

Motherf...

#nzpol Reminder: John Key said he'd vote for Trump. Judith Collins thinks Trump is fab. Chris Luxon will fawn over him. David Seymour views Trump as his supreme leader. Winston is mercurial. This is not the coalition govt we need to weather America's fickle fascist leadership interventions.

Take note NZ media! ►Let no lie reach the audience unchallenged ►Factcheck as close to the lie as possible ►Interrupt aggressively ►Kick repeat liars off the air ►Name those with a history of lying ►Dont normalise corruption & insanity ►Don’t give liars the headlines they want tinyurl.com/2jj9n7ue

Trying to write a call to action article about not being despondent about 2026 and I'm really having to dig deep. I thought it was a good idea when I started this. Now Im thinking the only way forward is a Bloody Mary

It's under the jurisdiction of the country who just let Grok loose in it's military infrastructure....

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

This is a very well written and worthy of your attention

I have spent the weekend devouring the new Homegrown Fruit Trees book by Kath Irvine & Jason Ross and it is unbelievably good solid, non-consumerist advice #nzbooks #nzgarden #gardening 100% recommend

Today is not todaying in the way today was meant to go

Guy in the vid i was watching said "I don't know what this is" Instantly got a Copilot pop-up saying "if you're stuck on something, copilot can help you figure it out!" and that's how i learned copilot is an always-on background process on my Win 11 laptop and that it is always listening

Peter Jackson's Moa people - Colossal group ..... these are their cultural advisory board members.... This must be a pisstake Chris Hemsworth, Joe Manganiello, Tom Brady, Steve Aoki, George RR Martin, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner AND Graham Hancock

Hey NZ, you have to watch this.. How the public is being manipulated in the run up to 11 Oct Local Body Elections #nzpol #kikorangi #nzmedia #mustwatch

Quick survey: Do any of you Kiwis use body-doubling services from overseas? like Focusmate, deepwrk etc I mean the cameras-on, not the cloning ones.... but do tell me about those in the comments please

Massive Attack does an excellent job of putting the Vylan controversy in perspective (from their Insta).

Matua Kahurangi is a fake account posted by Brynn Neilson who is running for the InternetNZ board. If you're voting there are much better candidates. Thanks @mountaintui.bsky.social @tinangata.bsky.social

Look how frickin cool this thing looks!

And you've got to trust that all of these systems will work everytime as expected and who will be libel or able to fix it when things go wrong.

Gloriously golden for a brief moment before the rain set in this morning

Ministry for Culture and Heritage cuts will deeply affect Te Ara Encyclopaedia of NZ, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, NZHistory, Te Akomanga digital history curriculum support. Jock Phillips is right, "they are absolutely central to the education of NZers." #kikorangi #nzpol

Funny, also every time you look up at the night sky (if you can see it) you are looking at a museum right before your eyes, it goes everywhere around the globe with you, offering different perspectives. The light from V762 Cassiopeiae (farthest star we can wee with our eyes) 16,308 light-years old!

I'm starting to think almost all of NZ's problems could be resolved by a wealth tax and government investment in public services

So.much.this.

Useful thread from Craig

Hey if cancelling pay equity settlements is about saving money, why don’t we just pay men and white people less and equalise that way

New classes from Dark Times Academy are here and we are so excited about this next group! From understanding Silicon Valley oligarchs to resisting Christian nationalism to 'decomputing' these are about action, community and learning together. darktimesacademy.co....

Really thrilled to have found @darktimesacademy.bsky.social and @parismarx.com this week. The talk put a lot of things into place and got a lot of webs weaving. Thanks to all

Look what my wonderful husband made for me......Radio with pictures and knobs

I have been saying this for years! But esp here in NZ where it's autumn and we get to eat all the treats

This is heartbreaking and beautiful and totally worth a look anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

I've said something like this before, but it bears repeating: In NZ, powerful people are looking at what's happening in the United States, and they are *salivating.* They want exactly what's playing out over there to happen here. #nzpol

Just another way the arts help people to thrive during hard times. Art, sculpture, painting, artists themselves all feed and serve society in ways that we don't often give them credit for.

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

Dear Gen Xers, I know you're raising kids and taking care of your parents and trying to make a living and everything else. But we've also got to get out and there in the community and join the Boards, and involve yourself in local body politics... Time to fight the fascists! #kikorangi #nzpol

After every disaster, Marae around the country come to the fore and offer shelter, food and care if they can. Why not acknowledge that, and help fund the maintenance and running costs as part of New Zealand's disaster preparedness?

Defeatism is exactly what Trump, Vance, and Musk want us to feel.  They’d like nothing better than for us to give up, so they can have it all. Cynicism and hopelessness play into their fetid hands. Keep up the fight.

I wish journalists would ask for, and print, a reaction to this quote whenever the term “anti-woke” is trotted out.

Quick question: While Trump and Musk put on this spectacle.... Where's Thiel? Where's Bannon? Where's Mike Flynn?

I appreciate the high profile school lunch stories, but it is a bit odd to me that David Seymour and the ACT Party are often let off the ticket This should be routinely referred to as "David Seymour's Failed School Lunch Programme" It really is getting beyond just failure

Ozempic and Gila monsters - WTAF!!!! 😮☣️🤐😵

Pastel Fortress from southern Alaska… Mt Devil Thumb photographed from a bush plane at sunset. #photography #bluesky #landscape #art #nature #sunset #mountain