I want you back mass market paperback A phone’s silhouette pitiful compared to your bulky bulge in my pocket

In a continuing but sporadic series of watching classic movies one or both of us had not yet seen, tonight @cosmicborborygmus.bsky.social and I watched 'Excalibur', from 1981. Nicol Williamson absolutely stole the show as Merlin, so far as I'm concerned! 🪄

"You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss." #ai #llm #dev #tech

"So far, the New Zealand government has taken zero interest in helping. And the US government – well, they're the ones who kidnapped her."

Xander the magnificent floof wishes you all a pleasant Sunday. #CatsOfBluesky

"Joy is resistance" is not just a platitude, it's actual fucking praxis

Just had a marvellous afternoon and evening catching up with @drjharrison.substack.com, who I've known for over 23 years, but not seen in person since 2011 or 12 (so it's been a long while indeed). So good to see them!

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 43, and post the second sentence: "Pray for her intercession!" (The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson)

This is so cool! See if you can guess what got my vote... 💜

I utterly adored Brosnan/Russo in the 90's version, but this has my (positive) attention!

I was telling some friends today that it's amazing we haven't all died from stress... and realized that's survivor bias talking. Plenty of people are definitely not surviving the stress. But we muddle through

Job-searching was making me depressed. Then I saw an ad for an "End of the World Library" curator. I'm applying.

Checking in! Am so pleased to be blocked ☺️

Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study January study of essential workers (with blood samples before & after COVID infection) found those with long-term neurological symptoms had higher phosphorylated tau—a protein linked to early brain degeneration

Once more this government has shown how incredibly determined they are to divide us further... I'm really upset! 😡

The entire pattern we see again and again from the local media landscape is "Looks like you're experiencing structural problems: have you tried individual solutions? If you did and they haven't worked, then you didn't do it right!" #nzpol

James S. A. Corey has a new installment of their Captives War series: The Faith of Beasts. I spoke with them about it, power imbalances, and more. You can read the interview here: www.andrewliptak.com/james-sa-cor...

I'm so Gen X that I'm all about puttin' on the ritz 🎶

Always blow on the pie.

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland: Free mask locations - Rānui Library and Avondale Library! Both libraries have a box with free 3M Auras and free KN95s.

Last 24 hours for the Pledge Me!

Give ngā pekapeka (the bats) some aroha (love)! 🦇 🦇 Great thread by @getcaughtliving.bsky.social 💖

This was so neat to learn about!

New advice column, by and for people with disabilities (of all types). Recommended if that's your jam 🙂

I love this question! Off the top of my head: Anne Bishop, Lois McMaster Bujold, Martha Wells, Becky Chambers, James S. A. Corey, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Nalini Singh, Tamsyn Muir, Rachel Smythe, Sascha Stronach, Ferret Steinmetz (and likely more I'll remember to add later).

This thread gave me the giggle I needed after a rollercoaster of a day 😂

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! This week, @sesmith.lolwrote about the trend of pulling Harry Potter fanfics to be published as books, and why that's harmful to trans people, emerging authors, and literature more broadly.  

Introducing... Aioli Question Mark! (No idea what would disappoint my parents, given they're long dead, so really can't give an answer to that. Makes for an interesting name though 🙃)

I wrote this week's free essay about Artemis II and why space friends matter. It's ... surprisingly hopeful? www.patreon.com/posts/space-...

Signed, and I encourage other kiwis to do so.

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh

This looks like a thoroughly awesome game!

On the blog this week I've dusted off an oldie-but-a-goodie and given it a re-vamp 🌱 Originally written during the 2020 lockdowns, but now perfect for any apocalypse this decade might throw at us. If you're looking to get some food growing with minimal investment, this one is for you.

The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start  The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!

you guys have a gander at these cool blue mushrooms i saw 😊 werewere-kōkako (entoloma hochstetteri)

Lego AND a reasonable, appealing political message that I want to share? Heck yes. ✅

Holy smokes

NZFirst is a party whose name sounds much less benign if you substitute any other country in. You see America First, Germany First, Britain First, it conjures a particular image. Maybe we shouldn't allow ourselves to become so desensitised to the nationalism in our own backyard. #nzpol

Updated warnings • Don’t miss the red warnings, they’re a bit hidden under the icons! • All of central and upper North Island now has orange warnings. • Marlborough/Blenheim areas now have a heavy rain watch. Full details in link in MetService’s post.

Most people are good sorts A lot of folks with ADHD have a thing they call "rejection-sensitive dysphoria." In the olden days we would have called this being a sensitive wee sausage. RSD is a bit of a meme in the extremely memetic world of ADHD-posting, and it tends to activate my annoyance with…

Now that's a story! @wiswell.bsky.social writes another brilliant (free to read) one that is well worth reading 🦸‍♀️

Just spent a very pleasant hour listening to this, while I did some colouring in - what a great way to spend an evening!

Heard a thunk on the door. Wee tauhou looking stunned outside. Took a few photos because I have a felting project I want to do with them, and the references are handy. Just flew back off again.

Tūī timeline cleanse. They are very happy the rain has stopped (for now)

Vile, spineless, complicit. Our whole government.

Take a break from your doomscrolling to be stared at by an Aotearoa New Zealand native wood pigeon, the Kererū (see alt text for more info) who hung in our garden 🌱 today - it likes the berries in the Puriri tree Kikorangi #NZ #nature

"Almost 200,000 New Zealanders are now living with long COVID" 🔹4 out 5 (77.7%) adults had COVID (~3.3 million people) 🔹1 out 11 (9.2%) adults report long COVID (~401,000) 🔹185,000 adults (4.3%) currently experiencing long COVID 🔹1 in 7 (14.9%) women vs 1 in 12 (8.5%) men having long COVID symptoms

*bangs a pot with a spoon* ESSAY! GETCHER ESSAY! Have you ever wondered how I came to (definitely not) command an army of ninja bears? Now you can find out! Contains many useful Bear Facts™️, birthday wolves, and why the bears eat fascists! And I drew you a bear! www.patreon.com/posts/and-no...

I'm rather late to the party, but have finally gotten an air fryer. If anyone has amazing vegetarian things they recommend doing with theirs, now's the time to share! (It's a 6.2L Ninja, one drawer.)

As a bit of a space nerd, it's fun to see Artemis getting people excited about spaceflight again. But what happens after you've launched a satellite, with no astronauts on board to drive it to its new home‽ I visited the European Space Agency to find out. youtu.be/0i1Xz-xiYSU