Unsure who spilt paint on the deck. Any ideas!?

Why use an LLM when you can use the Dytech Model 8000 Word Generator (via mastodon.social/@tubetime/11...)

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

Lmao 😅

They're just getting everything set up for the show

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

tired: watching a bunch of guys put up scaffolding and taking some dumbass letters down, which admittedly is a well-deserved fuck-you to a very bad person wired: watching a bunch of guys just straight-up milking overtime

Amazing own-goal by Grok and OpenAI. “Our models are so shit they aren’t banned”

Signs of life. 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over

Corrected headline: 4% of SpaceX ownership was floated and traded at a price that would theoretically value the entire company at $1.8Tn but there is no objective reality in which that value could be realised nor is Musk a trillionaire.

This is a highly quantifiable if non-intuitive fact; how do you pay for walking and cycling infrastructure? With the savings in health care.

Chris Bishop says only subsidys to tobacco companies, and millions for michelin stars and billions for landlords are worthy of government money. Assisting people/families in a cost of living and fuel crisis is not on the agenda. #nzpol

Ridiculously optimistic budget forecasts: reasonable. Reasonable LNG forecasts: too “optimistic”. I’m sensing a pattern here. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

At last! A coherent plan for dealing with the perversity of fossil gas largely setting electricity prices, even though it supplies only 1/4 of our power. Stepping into the market like this offends the government's deepest instincts. But it needs to happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

brb booking Thibaut Pinot's AirBnB www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/im-pr...

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

It’s hard to beat Sydney on a good day.

C'mon, where's the "it comes as"?? Normally the press gallery only need two instances to say there's a pattern and you have at least four. I want a "it comes as National MPs have been caught out using personal email repeatedly this term" before the week is out!

Welcome to the Slumberdome

When one of the most destructive governments of my lifetime is out here doing structural damage to our society and democracy you don't get to preen yourself for offering ~continuity~, Chris Seriously just retire and take everyone with you who thinks what Aotearoa needs is quiet time in the ruins

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Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

Look, I'm not a scientist or gay, but I think that is not, in fact, science and is actually being at least a little bit gay.

Sam Cambpell AND Aaron Chen in one show? Absolute mayhem. Did they stop to think if the should? www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

Magical thinking. "ANZ's chief economist says it's not at all clear that the government will reach its forecast surplus." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Looking like a hectic situation at Roland Garros this year. Sinner out in the third round, and 17yo French kid Koume is the youngest to make 3rd round since Nadal years ago.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

so it turns out the new papal encyclical has a pretty good diagnosis of why the fediverse and the atmosphere keep struggling to govern themselves. guess were doing catholic theology in a protocol blog now connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

This budget feels really magical. Like as in magical thinking. Magical surplus forecasts.

I don't get it, I thought Labour & the left were 'TAX & SPEND' party, & National the 'money men'? Turns out National are just the '& SPEND' party. x.com/MHReddell/st...

well that's all i need to know.

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

Look what I would say to you is that I’ve been abundantly clear: either I have no idea what the fuck my senior policy advisor is doing on any given day, or I’m lying.

I’ve worn smart watches of some version (Apple or Garmin) for years and realised a few months ago they do not bring me joy. This JDM Casio on the other hand. It’s so beautiful! I love it so much.

Once again, the govt blunders off in a donor friendly direction and doesn’t consider the consequences

Well, I’d be careful saying that, John,” Luxon replied. “I reject that characterisation completely.” Campbell continued to probe. “How do you know if you’ve never seen this document? How can you reject something that you had no idea of prior to last night?” www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Finally got around to filing my OIA request about consents granted in Te Atatu's "restricted capacity" Watercare area. And now we wait. fyi.org.nz/request/3477...

Why is this not front page on RNZ or NZH this morning? Slipped out late on Sunday and now it's nowhere?

From the “well, duh” but also “holy shit what a scoop” files: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The current NZ govt is wrong, and the people know it:

Submitted.

Politicians should deliver their policies in person for week. Goldsmith on the streets moving on 14 year old homeless kids, Lousie Upston door to door cutting peoples accommodation supplements, and Nicola Willis walking Lambton Quay sacking public servants. Face to face with those affected. #nzpol

There is a $1b + pipeline currently under construction for those very areas. Not Te Atatu though.

In the past two weeks in Te Atatu Peninsula: - literal shit flowing into the street because of sewerage constraint - all-day power outage today for network upgrade/repairs - and now this just arrived:

I've seen the media repeat Nicola Willis' comparison of the number of ministries & public service here vs other countries and not one of them has pushed back on that narrative more than... two random people in the letters of the Herald. Why are the paid journalists doing less work than the public?

Definition of a Woman, NZ First - Someone who Shane Jones can enjoy watching on a hotel TV screen at taxpayer expense. ACT - Someone who is probably safe from Tim Jago. National - Someone who does not deserve pay equity.