This is the way.

If NZ politicians were so concerned about "saving" kids from "unnecessary" medical interventions, then why the fuck did they reverse so many lowered speed limits #NZPol

If AI was so great they wouldn't have to force it on everyone. #FuckYouGoogle

Pet cats show dominance by licking and grooming. Pet rabbits show submissiveness by licking and grooming. So if you have both, the cat will lick the rabbit and both will think it means they’re the boss.

"Wretched Escapees From Gisang's Forsaken Comedies" This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.

The cost blowout is caused by endlessly litigating and reviewing the bloody work. Get it done. Ffs

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Guardian has a game designed to show you how hard Rachel Reeves’ job is and within 30 seconds I made everyone happy by raising taxes somewhat on very wealthy people and corporations and slightly cutting them for everyone else, undid welfare cuts, got the budget into surplus. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is just fucking embarrassing. In just 2 years they have destroyed our once impeccable reputation & made us the official dickhead nation of the world. 🌍🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Luxon "comfortable with the progress we're making" on emissions reduction. In other words, he's comfortable with burning the world. He's an ecocidaire #nzqt

"It was ironic to see Chris Bishop and the Prime Minister complaining that there aren't enough electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles on the used car market. "That's because they collapsed the importation of electric vehicles when they canceled the Clean Car Discount.” #nzpol

I cannot believe National have around 50/50 chance of leading the next govt. I feel NZ can shake off many of the collation’s bad decisions, but if they get a second term I fear many of them will bed in. How can they be so high in the polls?

I’m chasing my own tail

Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

We still have to fight like hell for every fraction of a degree. Meanwhile, the NZ government is hellbent on doing as much as it can to INCREASE global temperatures. Beyond 1.5: Why the global climate target still matters www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #climatechange #nzpol

This is so gross Luxon wont even show his face 98.7% of submissions were against it Where is our mature adult convo on this now Luxon? #nzpol

Comics in the Mail! A Star Called the Sun by @simonroy.bsky.social with @thenazavr.bsky.social and @gnarlyghost.bsky.social : If you missed the Kickstarter, you can get from Image comics in February, apparently. imagecomics.com/press-releas...

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives. Hmmmmm

When are we gonna get “Teen Rogue”?

February 1937 Tory campaign against BBC "bias". To be fair, if Captain Maule Ramsay was leading the charge, "left-wing" probably covered everything up to and including Mussolini...

Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines. "Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue." The movie takes place in 2027.

There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate

To disarm any bully, hit them where it will do the most damage: their social standing (or rather their perception of it) The way they see themselves is always fragile, people who like themselves don't tend to go looking for fights Find that spot and hit it with anything and they'll crumble instly

You gotta hit em in the egos kids, they don’t have much of anything else going on in there

In the post today Finally got hold of ‘Habitat’, so many years after seeing a page of it (out of context) on Pinterest! It’s amazing. Thank you very much @simonroy.bsky.social & man, did I misunderstand the page when it was out of context!

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

People seem very squeamish about taxing billionaires, and now we're seeing suggestions of a trillionaire When you look at it as a number, you won't feel as squeamish A billion $1,000,000,000 A trillion $1,000,000,000,000 #taxtherich

For the supporters of Farage & Co.

Was mentioning this in the pod @drspacejunk.bsky.social and I recorded with @stilgherrian.com a few days ago as this news was breaking — we were thinking this is the first incident of a crewed mission making alternate return plans due to debris in LEO. Looks like it was ….

Devoid of any human presence, the structures have been overtaken by nature. Rhizomatic Compound is a narrative driven experience. (wishlist now!)

Bit of watercolour added to this Corto Maltese ‘homage’.

My goodness!

kind of wild just how much of modern day living is millions of people saying “we don’t want this, it’s dumb, bad, and evil” and then like 10 dudes going “lol too bad” and then they get their way

Unassailable logic:

#nzpol On Morning Report today Ingrid said "Should we say green shoots?" in response to a tiny lift in MBIE job ads. Anything that shows a better labour market should be welcomed - but is that really what's going on? The honest answer is not really - job ads are down 30% in 2 years. A🧵

Spoke to Watts on his way into the House. - He refused to estimate what it would cost the Govt to meet its Paris goal offshore (Tsy estimated $3-$24b) - said tech was moving fast. - Refused to comment on the fact the price of carbon dropped immediately.

We need to do much, much more to reduce emissions. Instead we're doing much less. Please can we take this seriously at the ballot box next year? World on track to dangerous warming as emissions hit record high - UN www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

The capitalists who think the market is more important than the environment will be surprised when the collapse of environment renders the existence of the market null and void

Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour. Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori. Without consultation too like yesterday. Depressing.

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

So if the state has a duty, but it repeals every law requiring its components to give effect to that duty, that kindof suggests it doesn't think it has a duty at all, right? It's treating te Tiriti like it treated climate change targets pre-Zero Carbon Act.

Aside from the provisions of the Vienna Convention, there is a general understanding among diplomats and governments that diplomats take and defend positions and make statements under instruction from their capital. Their formally expressed views are not theirs, but their government’s.

And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok. And leave X.