I fail to see how the US can now be viewed as anything other than a rogue state.

Cannot believe a recipient of the prestigious FIFA Peace Prize started a war.

Has spent 3 days not looking at news. Wtf.

Queer community in my rural area is huge.

Wait, this therapist is a psycho?

Finding out that a significant portion of the Epstein files can be unredacted due to them using a highlight function with black is hilarious.

I always try to uphold the annual New Zealand tradition of the Nativicado.

The social media experience of a horrific car crash, and then a few posts down a tribute to the driver, who was the founder of some well known games studios.

There are three main ways you can help my work with Rights Aotearoa: First, you can tip me coffee money directly at: Paul Thistoll 03-0547-0039160-001 (I can't tell you how important these little coffee tips are to my emotional morale - they really keep me going!)

Thank you @pault.bsky.social ! Glad to see this.

Triple government failures in the courts this week. Goldsmith appointing HRC people unlawfully. Change to oil and gas not taking climate change into consideration. Government rushing to block puberty blockers received an injunction. Love it when the law does it's job.

If you’re looking for a cookbook that meets autistic needs, check out autistic professional chef @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social's “Color, Taste, Texture!” Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

The purpose of blaming any and every tragedy on trans people is convincing each other "wouldn't life be so much better if we just got rid of all the trans people"

Man, so many people submit their photos to weird online dating AI tools. If you read the T&Cs, they own your likeness in perpetuity.

Love how little we seem to know about consciousness.

Rural DINK life:

Wonder if anyone at WINZ ever thinks about how wrong it is to make people constantly degrade themselves to get borderline poverty "support", especially when they are getting income support for mental health issues.

Ranks right up there next to other US recipients of the actual Nobel Peace Prize - Barack Obama (during many drone attacks in middle eastern countries), and Henry Kissinger...

Who the fuck narcs on road cones anyway? Labour is 100% correct here, it's a massive waste of money.

This is some largely good coverage of today's decision, but it's telling of where we're at in the media landscape when a pretty significant and strong court ruling doesn't outbalance some newsrooms' need for "balance" and seeking a quote from far-right homophobes: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Good to see our courts still work.

Just roasted by a gen z - "Theres this thing you may have heard of, TikTok" I'm 40, not dead.

The neurodivergent experience of having a system that works for you and having someone tell you not to use that system and instead follow a procedure that is impossible to do, as it doesn't cater to how your neurodivergent differences show up - meaning you get paralysed during initiation.

Jennifer English's acceptance speech at the game awards shouting out neurodivergent people doing life on hard mode. 🥲

Thinking again about Disney and who they allow their IP.

You mean the company that started making live action remakes to lowball animators might have a profit incentive to do unethical shit. Disney has been dying for a while. Might as well nail the coffin shut.

Been playing Guild Wars 2 after not playing it since launch, and I really feel that it finally is the sandbox game I wanted when it was launched. There is so much to do, and a lot of it isn't signposted. It requires you to explore the world, interact with others, the community is encouraged to help

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'What do you mean, its only nine billion more than we said!' #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Found some rather more professional words to express my sweary thoughts on millionaire men utterly ignoring all the unpaid work many women and carers do over the holiday period. open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Who the hell does Luxon think is cleaning public hospitals, public toilets, swimming pools over the holidays? Who is driving the buses, manning hospital wards, working in supermarkets. NZ is kept fed, clean, alive, safe and moving by essential workers many who aren’t paid a Living Wage. #nzpol

Hate hearing this world used by clients - Burden. Wrote about how you have we often have it backwards, we have been burdened.

Some of the greatest people I have had the pleasure of getting to know have just released their game. Show Aotearoa game devs love. "Fly as an albatross embarking on an epic journey back to land to reunite with their family in this relaxing, story-driven flight game grounded in the Māori world."

Tim Berners Lee was right about needing P2P internet, this one is fucked.

Don't be evil to become actively fascist is quite the company evolution for Google.

Might have to delete my social media so my brother can keep his job.

Ban on all things for under 18s, policed by AI. We must train an entire generation to be John Connors who understand how to fool and subvert The Machines.

The day I have to verify my age with official ID to use social media is the day I stop using social media.

Media working overtime to drag the overton window to the extreme right.

Okay but having Willis and Richardson debate "is the government not right-wing enough or just the right amount of right-wing?" is a trap, and it's a trap that's explicitly being run by the TPU. Y'all see that, right?

Women and men are a subset of the people superset. Hope this helps.

Today I learned, I am incapable of not thinking "eat a bag of [gingerbread] dicks" is the only appropriate rejoinder to this hysterical transphobic nonsense.

Love how every one of these laws is written by people with no understanding at all of tech or how it works. Looking forward to age verifying to have an online chat with my utilities providers.

Being a billionaire needs to be in the DSM 6

Someone else pointed this out, but hoarding disorder already exists in the DSM-5. Just add a new sub-type 'Societal Parasite'

Round two.

This should be the main advertising for attack ads for the opposition. This is also what they will move toward if they get voted back in.

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