We have had over 300 sites submitted to this year's Tiny Awards, so IN YOUR FACE people who say there's nothing good on the web anymore. Nominations are open for ~24h hours, so here's your FINAL CHANCE to nominate your favourite website from the past 12 months to win!: tinyawards.net

This Friday! Wake up real early and pull on your longjohns and gummies. The Matariki Hautapu at Takaparawhau (Bastion Point) is really special, you don't want to miss it. www.instagram.com/p/DZqykzamJF5/

This week, stage door, @kattenbarge.bsky.social's great take on the Club Chalamet mess, what we can expect of stars and why I think it's unstructured proximity that's the problem. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/up-c...

Billionaires need to be made illegal because acquiring billions of dollars makes your brain degrade into mush like nothing else

I think these two headlines demonstrate what people mean by a "K shaped economy", the policies behind it all, who benefits & who loses, it feels really messed up and gross. #nzpol

wild that we're at this point, but Ageless Linux -- an operating system that does not require you to verify your age to use a computer agelesslinux.org/index.html

We gave the world pavlova and pineapple lumps and Crowded House and Sam Neil and "chur". Greedy much?

Absolutely delighted to have had the inimitable @sachajudd.com write for us about 'What makes a conference great?' Essential reading for all conference organisers, and anyone associated with making an event great. lilregie.com/blog/what-ma...

Venus is looking particularly great tonight. get out and check it out.

found a genuine commodore joystick on trademe sold with no idea if it worked or not. it didn’t. but we took it apart and desoldered and resoldered it and now we’re flying planes! @avon.selfhosted.social

important update

Is there anyone left in New Zealand still working at iwantmyname? I didn’t realise they’d been sold and cannot get anyone to reply to an email.

This week i'm chewing on AI generated fiction and "infinite story demanders", off the back of @mellymeldubs.bsky.social fascinating paper, and a "death" in the Heated Rivalry fandom. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/to-t...

based on Emmet's enjoyable tirade here I don't think my feelings about James Gunn will be changing anytime soon

You may have wondered about exactly who was behind this week's spectacular GiveALittle appeal to save Neck of the Woods. This excellent Rolling Stone NZ story has all you need to know. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Australia are doubling down on their social media ban, while a new study just dropped about its effectiveness - it's worse than the last one #nzpol (Cross post from instagram)

This week i'm chewing on AI generated fiction and "infinite story demanders", off the back of @mellymeldubs.bsky.social fascinating paper, and a "death" in the Heated Rivalry fandom. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/to-t...

In honor of reaching 45 million accounts on Bluesky, we will now shout out every Bluesky user individually 🧵 (1/45,000,000)

The wait is over... Anisota virginiensis is here! A big evolution in our experiment of what social media can be. • Spells • Post Poetry • Blended Feeds • Alt Text Generator • Post Adviser • Support for @standard.site, @grain.social, @teal.fm, @leaflet.pub • More... Enter the forest: anisota.net

Such a good read from @kattenbarge.bsky.social on the club chalamet mess. I also think there's an embarrassment factor -- fans want to distinguish themselves from extreme behaviour "I'm not crazy like her" - while eating up the photos/videos taken by those crowds. spitfirenews.com/p/club-chala...

The Neck of the Woods fundraiser is SO close: givealittle.co.nz/cause/savenotw

i feel like between Starmer, and this, our own Labour party should be hearing a message loud and clear #nzpol

took adam to visit his own head

Hey it’s me!! Check out Generation Reo’s awesome Matariki series over on insta. They’re talking to people all over the motu. www.instagram.com/generationre...

Chatted to Guyon Espiner today about our launch! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

In the "what could go wrong" scenario list, this one has to be the worst possible case

I am SO EXCITED to be able to share this news today omg. Keeping quiet about our artists has NOT been my forte. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

this quote you're about to see everywhere, I don't think it's real. here's the video it's supposed to be from www.youtube.com/live/ho_Zmwg... and here is a transcript gist.github.com/david-crespo... nothing like this is in it. which makes sense because it doesn't sound like him at all

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

this week - is a real-name internet safer or healthier (spoiler alert: no). as we hear more and more about "protecting the kids" we need to pay attention to what it means for everyone. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/that...

A what point does a bookmark become a full blown blog post? Or does this still count as a blog post 🤷 Anyway, excellent post by @sachajudd.com (which I'm adding my own thoughts to): remysharp.com/links/2026-0...

We made a pretty cool thing at graze over the past few weeks With the news about fable the ability to run these models ourselves increased If co/core we can own it all as a community! Tell us what you think!

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Good morning early risers (yes, this is "early" to me - I know, I know you've been awake for hours…). Do me a favour please. Encourage that colleague or friend to apply to our CFP, and pop 25-July in your diary for @ffconf.org tickets release. Also, please share 🙏❣️ ffconf.org/cfp

very good piece

This is a really well-written explainer on the UK social media ban, written by @sachajudd.com, who’s been studying this topic for a long time. Take a few minutes and read it, because this goes beyond the UK, and beyond “protecting the kids.”

is anyone at tvnz working on fixing this garbarrrrrge app?

Once again seeing ppl say the UK social media ban is fine because it only applies to some platforms/doesn’t affect them as an adult. Please send them this explainer I wrote earlier. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/id-p...

suck it VGK #stanleycup

Tumblrinas rise up

let's also point out the beauty of a city where someone can literally run from a stage play to a professional sporting event

the Bluesky design research team wants to talk with people who are interested in building communities. if that's you, submit this form! your voice will help shape what we build. docs.google.com/forms/d/1ej6...

We truly live in the shittiest cyberpunk dystopia imaginable

Hey this weekend make some submissions on some stink bills yeahnahbills.org - helps you make personalised submissions super quick. #nzpol

People who sneer at Taylor Swift for wearing fun fan T-shirts with her friends at a basketball game make me want to do the girliest, most enthusiastic shit possible in public

Genuinely excited that Kiri and Lou are coming to the big screen AND that we'll get to see them go raaa! at the NZIFF www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-Q...

Let's talk about the new UK child safety stuff, why black and white privacy/surveillance arguments aren't that helpful, and what it means for the rest of us: newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/a-bo...

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This is it. This is the thing that’s so sorely needed. If they can do this right, and many have failed attempting it, it could be era-defining.

Sick of AI, social media and horrible tech? Celebrate the good bits of the internet with THE TINY AWARDS 2026! The Tiny Awards celebrate the small, non-commercial, fun, silly, poetic, frivolous web - nominate your favourite site from the past year here, and please tell the world: tinyawards.net