This pic is very real. The person who took it is a family member of mine. (She and her whānau are ok, and assisting their neighbours as much as they can)

Home again after a holiday in Akaroa. Still one of my favourite places in the world.

I can't help but think that if, in 1945, you told people that the US and Israel would be the aggressors of WW3 you would have been laughed out of the room

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

You just want to smack his head with a giant teaspoon to see if his brain is the consistency of a dippy egg.

If you're not watching Kākāpō Cam, then you should be! Rakiura the kākāpō is nesting on the island of Whenua Hou and she might lay her 4th egg this afternoon! youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2...

Halfway through Shadowlands by Matthew Green They lived and they died They prayed to their gods But the stone gods did not make a sound And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left Were the stones the workmen found www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

Alright, New Zealand "summer". I'm lighting the fire. You win. Are you happy now?

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

Kakanui looking ethereal this evening

As a toddler parent, there are three kinds of sippy cups: -ones that don't leak all over the place -ones that your kid likes drinking out of -ones that are easy to clean You can only choose two

I feel as if we forgotten what life was like before the infinite scroll. It steals so much time away.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Does ANYBODY have an answer to this? Watch #NightThoughts on Hulu

Luxon has a plan. It looks like this. 6 plates for him, 1 plate between 5 at the other end of the divide he’s widened. I don’t misunderstand him. I see him. #nzpol #hoarder interactives.stuff.co.nz/the-side-eye...

I want just one interviewer to give these men the treatment they gave Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, or Amy Winehouse when they were clearly at rock bottom.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

What a great headline

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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

10/10 take. No notes.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Happy Horror Month to goth Daddy, bisexual icon Vincent Price.

The greatest bird in the universe has finally won Australia's bird of the year. ALL HAIL THE TAWNY FROGMOUTH! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Get in the sea, daylight savings

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

This is amazing.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Thankfully he’s probably not smart enough to know who John Oliver is

I recall a wise person saying that the reason the tech bros had so much confidence in AI wasn't that they understood tech so well, it was that they understood humans so little. I keep thinking about that.

White men especially. Women can get awfully shrill and hysterical, dontcha know

I often like to imagine a world where Elizabeth Warren became President of the US

"For too long, women have been told to endure what should be treatable, to accept conditions as ‘mysteries’ rather than problems worth solving."

Artist: Hage

In Australia it's "tell him he's dreaming"

Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future.

This is even better than the disappearance of Kate Middleton last year 🍿

🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

Woke up with a wry neck just from sleeping wrong, and now this. Fark I'm old.

I am genuinely terrified everyone will forget, or has already forgotten, how different people were 15-20 years ago. Since then, all technological innovation has worked toward the goal of sapping human attention as a commodity and society is far worse for it.

This is who runs this account

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

I miss his old show so much

Grok and ChatGPT are just Magic 8 Balls for a dumber, digital age and anyone who uses it should be shunned