Went for a brisk walk, knocking 10 min off my usual ambling route. My watch: you lardarse, you sloth, an asthmatic ant has a better vo2 than you, you utter rube

Huh, if you get the vowel length wrong when saying you’re vegetarian in te reo you’ll in fact declare you’re an invalid.

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"Children of those on care worker visas, who came legally before rule change, told to leave even if parents can stay" abolish the home office

Nah it’s absolutely fine imo.

You should never vote for the guy with a fucking Nazi tattoo.

Pigotry

Sick of the relentless adult content I see on Bluesky: back pain, interest rates, tax brackets, that noise you make when you stand-up sometimes.

Trying to get my lazy eye to work and so far I’ve managed a return to severe double vision and nausea.

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Finally a petard to call my own. Somebody is about to get hoisted. Not me, obviously

POPE LEO NO!!! MARK ZUCKERBERG IS SPYING ON YOUR WHATSAPP MESSAGES!!! POPE LEO NO!!! USE SIGNAL!!!

Embarrassing for NZ media that it took the @nytimes.com to visit rural Māori communities to show the hardship they are experiencing.

Breaking: The Ministry of Social Development will receive broad powers to let computers make decisions as part of a bill being rushed through Parliament. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/29/5...

That’s the accent of my great aunts and uncles! Suddenly it’s the early 90s and I’m in a fenland bungalow again.

Gone through every single NHS ICB paper i could find to map every single decision, who made it, etc. I think my eyes are going to fall out.

I finally did it. I finally collated the pictures of @danwaterfield.bsky.social walking slightly ahead of me in lovely places. We really are incredibly lucky to have found each other.

His eighty-seven years of life spanned the whole period of our constitutional government, and his connection with the administration of justice went back to his friendly intimacy in boyhood with our first Chief Justice, Sir William Martin. There's got to be a better way to phrase this

Chasing down a citation for the claim that ngāti whakaue sent young men to the gum fields in the 1850s only for them to eat and drink the capital rather than bring it back aaaaaand it's a letter between two pakeha, one of whom was a colonial secretary, who'd spoken to Wm Hoeta

Victoria University of Wellington has a new greeter cat, this is Matilda and she hangs out around the Hunter side of campus 😊

Astrid caught a mouse! Outside! …which she’s brought in, where it promptly escaped.

Oh this place; a relative from nr kings Lynn died here while working as a servant. Had been dismissed from her previous position because of a ‘relationship’ with the son of her employer, then accused of theft.

Made a referral graph that shows how collapse in friends and family test scores cascade through the care network in NHS provision.

turns out planetary thinking is hegelianism

I realise there are better hills to die on, but no they didn't steal the internet's knowledge.

Reading a UCL geography thesis on spatial provision of healthcare which begins with a richard brautigan poem.

I’m not sure the class system in a Marxist sense is a useful way to think about the climate crisis.

Auckland Uni - some years ago - apparently set their Hebrew exam on a saturday. Nobody turned up, for obvious reasons.

Not to say the BBC heatwave live page is running low on content, but there's an update on a reporters sleep score last night dropping to 73.

Reading slides presented to the british society for population studies, one of which includes this no-context slide that somehow speaks for itself

Maybe go for a less sinister headline next time

Most liberal Bucharest taxi driver.

I adore RNZ sometimes. Piece about a guy who was cutting pickleball nets because he was injured playing pickleball. Presenter: “well, what a weirdo”

I hope I start seeing those "I did that!" stickers on gas pumps with Donald Trump's face on them. not because I think it will solve anything but because it would piss off a lot of people I hate and that idea is very funny to me

Now we’re cooking with gas, haha! - me, making a coffee with a camping stove because the electricity is off for the day.

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A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Walked past a Korean buffet called Gangnam style and around the corner passed a car with a Flying Spaghetti Monster badge. West Auckland: where the 2010s never ended.