Put solar panels on state houses. You could probably do the lot for $1.5b, would reduce energy costs for those least able to afford it, increase our grid resilience and save about the same amount in energy costs overall. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The birds hang upside down off the sunflower head, pull out the seeds, and then use the back of the head as a table to crack open the seeds and leave the shells.

State of the ANZ health system at the moment: I just had two files in a row that made me yell, "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

Yes, fresh blueberries straight off the bush are delicious, but Emma, you have just brushed your teeth...

Truly just want MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates to start a new newspaper with all the journalists fired from WaPo, CBS, and every other leading media outlet pandering to Trump, and absolutely start a new media empire.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]

This patient specifically hallucinates kittens, and if I have to have dementia, put me down for that.

Oh no. Even now, I think I am listening to the dying screams of my wonderful 30-year-old washing machine.

"Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things." Pratchett knew what was talking about.

Suggestion: Ongoing "wanker" gestures at every appearance of Luxon's face until that firefighter is exonerated.

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

Refusing to turn the heater on because it’s February.

So guess who came in from the rain while I was making the bed…

On a less facetious note, when comparing Paediatric and Older Adult files, I do see Paediatric patients coming in supported by their dads. Not as much as mums, but it does happen. I can count the number of Older Adults patients supported by their sons on the fingers of no hands.

Hey, so, for babies, getting around the house by hanging on to furniture is called "furniture cruising", but for Older Adults, it's "furniture walking". Fuck that, I'm calling it "cruising" for old people, too.

It's been a rough couple of weeks and so I now have two Art Nouveau vases on my watchlist.

A leaflet for Round the Bays Christchurch just arrived in my letterbox. “We are pleased to contribute to the liveliness, diversity and identity of Wellington…”

We are having a bit of an origin story chat, fittingly for Kikorangi it is in an unrelated several years old thread.

“Oh, new Mock the Week is now on”, he casually drops. On TLC, which is channel 133 on Sky, and on other free-to-view platforms…

He’s the best sleuth there is, but thanks to the crippling emotional damage inflicted by the murder of his wife, he’s unable to leave his hot tub. Thanks to the help of his faithful assistant in both finding clues and inviting suspects, he catches killers. J’ACCUZZI, coming this fall to ABC

This is interesting, because while everything about it is absurdly disrespectful, it sets quite a high price on the training value of a novel (if you make a rough equivalence about work done) to use as a benchmark for (say) future litigation.

We are all agreed now that we click on any property link Madeline posts right? Literally never misses.

A medical centre website I just had to use for work has a page entitled "Our Compassionate Staff", which just makes me wonder if there's another one somewhere called "Our Staff who have Just Fucking Had Enough".

The first time today that I experienced boredom so profound I wasn't sure that I could power through it, I looked at the clock and I had been working for 46 minutes.

This morning, my manager put up a bunch of AI transcription mistakes and got us to play "guess what this should be". So I guess there is a use for AI in medicine, and it's as a team-bonding exercise?

I saw what's happening in Minnesota described as "leaderless" a couple of days ago, and I thought, "That means there's a bunch of women with whatever the modern equivalent of a phone tree is", and lo...

look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what

I will have a house guest this weekend! It is supposed to absolutely fucking piss down the whole time she is here!

I had some real-life discussion about this last weekend, and I can confirm that as of today, NZ clinicians are still referring to DHBs in official documentation.

No, but how, though, did they find a pub in Wigram where no one would punch that fucker in the face

First thought about the election date: November 7 is right when a lot of university students (mostly first time voters) will be finishing up and heading home for the summer. It’s really important to make sure your young people know what to do if they are out of their electorate on election day.

The best bluesky post is back everyone

Man, I am really out of practice at prolonged sitting at my desk.

Glanced at a newspaper headline, it said, "...dreams are made of", my brain automatically went "On. Made on." So you can imagine my suffering when media went with the "we have come to bury Caesar" headline for Shadbolt's funeral. I mean, fucks' sake, the NEXT LINE is "not to praise him."

I'm just a girl sitting in front of a keyboard trying to remember wtf her work passwords are.

I mean, my column was satire, but I wasn't wrong.

Want a cheer-up this morning? The Mood of the Workforce is out, and man is it funny: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... “Luxon is our weakest prime minister ever and I’m old enough to remember Bill Rowling!”

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

Two days ago, I got a message from my manager going, "I know you're on holiday, but..." and I'm all, No Buts, and also, I'm a contractor. I'm also not being paid.

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

I had to take a couple of weeks off from it when I was sick, but the Lego Enterprise is done.

We genuinely had a discussion about changing the logo to “Mock of the Week” to see if anyone would notice.

I FOUND THE MOUSE. It was in a place it could not possibly have been previously because 1/ I'd looked there at least twice, and 2/ I would have stepped on it.

Well I found the mouse. In the bottom of my washing machine. After doing a load.

I have lived on the Canterbury Plains most of my life, and one of the things I like about it is that the weather is pretty simple. Can someone explain to me how the fuck it is raining, hard, and still stinking hot, because NO

Min woke me up at 5am this morning with a horribly familiar noise pattern. Got up later to find this, which tells me the whole story. There is a mouse/rat, probably alive, somewhere in my lounge, absolutely nowhere near the game shelves.

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

It is 10:30am. I just burned my hand on the east-facing exterior metal doorknob.