The lack of systems thinking and understanding of epistemology in NZ leadership really biting in at the moment.

in the grand narrative of 'stupid ass things elon has pretended he'll do', this might be the most That yet

Shout out to our cat who almost sent "6 7" into a very important work chat today

This is fantastic! Time to raise a celebratory howl. Rem's story "Hound of Annwn" can be found in buying Issue 2 or here: plotthoundmag.com/hound-of-ann...

if you're not in a discord where you and your friends post pictures of your pets, you need to reexamine your life

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

applying Death of the Author to Death of the Author: actually the essay is about how every fictional character is trans if you believe. suck it barthes.

Heads up Aotearoa New Zealand writers: applications for our 2027 Writer in Residence position are open until 30 September. Come and join us at the IIML!

This entire fucking thread. Geez. Yeah.

A24 Presents: I Also Choose This Guy's Dead Wife

Today is a landmark day in the history of spaceflight. On 16 June, 1963, the USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM 🔭

the only kind of hypercompetent character I really vibe with is a complete mess outside of their one thing. the Jack Aubreys of the world, forged by god with a singular purpose but forced to attend dinner parties.

also, the current fad for digitisation for digitisation's sake is creating a world where it's considered more desirable for a medievalist to know python than latin, and this is just turning the field into an extension of tech where actual use of sources is sidelined in favour of glorifed powerpoints

There are many, many funny things in every issue of @theonion.com, but man do I love the hit song titles

Mike Worrall (British, 1942) - Incident on Platform 6 (2003)

One day soon I hope to be well enough to once more check the letterbox unaided, but alas I fear the influenza shall not release me so easily

a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had

Dragonsbane - Barbara Hambly, 1985. Hambly's strength is always in her characters, and those of Dragonsbane are no exceptions. Even 4 decades after first publications, they feel refreshingly real amongst most fantasy epics. The story itself isn't so snappy, but it trucks along well enough to work.

Do you think the Kings of Arnor and Gondor ever used the palantiri to sext?

Great article. Interesting too that archaeology and heritage are too the fore in matters of conservation. Despite the need to see cultural & natural heritage together, it's archaeology that makes the argument for space heritage

Library expert here: Librarians only behave this way when they are in extreme distress.

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata, 2016, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, 2018. An asexual, autistic woman working at a Japanese dairy attempts to break out of her stasis, and achieve some of the assumed goals of the 30+ woman. Equal parts funny and heartbreaking.

My own experience with sorting through HK pro-democracy materials is that the act of collection itself and analysing them is a form of advocacy. If we’re told to forget, gathering evidence of what was real is resistance.

I think nothing sums up New Zealand more than the fact we had an official wizard, who walked around in a pointy hat, and the internet went "ah how whimsical, how wholesome" and it turns out he was a massive misogynist

Saw someone on Instagram making "New Zealand Ambrosia" and I'm just. Its just Ambrosia Salad. Its from the Midwest, USA, we didn't make it! its not ours to claim!

trying to select the right V-Branded Novelty Socks to match with "Going to MSD to ask them to send me a form" that won't get me robo-deleted from the system

A lot of news might be *worse* but I don't know if there's anything quite as *emblematic* for our current moment as the fuckin Candy Crush guy saying "science is for losers ya gotta listen to chatgpt"

What This Cruel War Was Over - Chandra Manning, 2007. Manning wades through a truly astounding number of letters and newspapers from ACW soldiers to deliver a convincing account of how they viewed slavery, and how those views shifted across the course of the war.

My car and I are both very unstable at high speeds, please help her so she does not accidentally kill me. I can’t work without a car that’s safe to drive ko-fi.com/d7th/goal?g=14

Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice - Cara Krmpotich & Alice Stevenson, 2024. A hefty and timely volume, exploring the ways in which collection management collides with museum practice. Colonial legacies, indigenous practices, climate change, natural disasters.

she fucked that gator, huh

For the non NZ followers no this guy is a rich white right wing guy called David Richwhite.

also, and I cannot overstate this: fire every single consultant who worked with UK Labour. I know a bunch are on payroll and I need youse to look at how they're doing in the polls right now (and how they only won '24 due to historically-low turnout) and reconsider everything about their approach

NZ Budget day tomorrow. I'm frustrated with Labour's failure to articulate any real policy this close to the election, but I've given them grace up to this point. It's now or never though, once the budget drops youse have got to *haul ass*. Be one of the last non-terrible Labour parties.

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Oh, I can explain this. This is what happens when you ignore your infrastructure for half a century and apply a “she’ll be right” attitude to critical maintenance of public property. www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...

. @beefaerie.bsky.social pointing out how suspicious it is for a document to be handed over only in hardcopy, especially in light of its later convenient "loss". There is a natural conclusion here, and it is not good for the PM (or his office).

Oh, it's impractical! That just makes it okay to have potentially committed systemic fraud and violated professional standards because investigating it is too hard! Good to know!!!

Hell Yeah hell yeah

this includes writers obviously but it needs to be stated again: make sure to have multiple backups of your stories. there's nothing quite like the horror of losing thousands upon thousands of words or countless months of editing.

I actually do think that “moron”, “idiot” & “imbecile” should be seen as exactly the same as the R-Slur. There’s absolutely no difference between them. Same history. In fact, people who were labelled “morons” were the most likely to be forcibly sterilised by the US state.

they ARE good books, i can confirm

...so I finished the ICP Theory of Everything essay. I appreciated the connections it makes between far-right/MAGA politics & the pornography genres they certainly seem influenced by. but I don't 100% buy the cause & effect, as both the porn & politics are shaped by reactions to societal stigma...