If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

Are you worried about falling birthrates? Here's 5 simple tips! 1. Quick racism check, are you actually just worried about *white* birthrates? Maybe stop that 2. More parental leave 3. Make public spaces and services safer for parents 4. Rent: too damn high 5. No seriously do the racism check again

Successive govts of this country have been deferring to big banks, duopoly grocery stores, tech giants, and foreign billionaires. They fundamentally do not give a shit about the economy or the people.

The hottest DOS game sound card test 🥵 📺: System Shock, Looking Glass Studios, 1994

Thanks to Katie Carr on Threads, I just learned: in 1996, the cast of the newly-launched “Star Trek: Voyager” got together to do a feature for Parade magazine about the power of late-’90s technology. Behold its fabulously unhinged glory. 1/

“As Al Simon wrote in his famous song ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’—“ “You mean Paul Simon.” “He said I could call him Al.”

They sure do. I am not sure of the original source of this clip but what a champ!

You've got two weeks left to pre-order your hoodie................:D

Egg Roll has never seen person in bath before

Hay eveybodie, They Might Be Giants is giving away a free download of Flood in America, a collection of songs from Flood as performed on live tours, for today and tomorrow only! Here: tmbgshop.com/collections/...

It's incredible how willing people are to excuse the actions of the US government when it comes to Everlee's case in the US (and everyone else being held engagement by ICE)

Official statement from the KiwiRPG committee on the 4 Pillars Tabletop Icons site and the use of AI generated images of people, including our members www.kiwirpg.com/blog/2026/05...

😹 purrfect!

the pride and accomplishment I feel for my own success is somewhat undercut by the knowledge that I'd have been absolutely screwed entering the workforce as a baby writer today. Like outside of writing / journalism, I just have no idea in general how new adults are surviving on their own rn

Now that @bsky.app has changed it's gif host to Klipy, & wanting to fight cultural imperialism, I've begun the process of uploading my extensive #Kiwiana Gif collection we used on Twitter... Soon you can post John Campbell, NekMinute, A Dogs Life, Billy T James, Blow on the Pie etc Gifs here.

..... ........... Do you ever feel like you're being... watched...

swanboy will never make you wait until the end of the strip for a punchline. swanboy will put 3-5 strong jokes in the first panel because he cares about you and your time.

Error messages that you should not send to users,

This is sober reading. Also, I highly recommend reading it if you're a creative of any sort, and you want a glimpse into what's going on re: AI gigs. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s. Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

Dismissing people's concern as self-serving is completely tone deaf. People are understandably angry and concerned that grifters are behind putting inaccurate images and profiles out, and are possibly associated with a serial grifter. They are even adding people to their site spitefully.

I don't think this business model works if you piss off every creative in the industry.

Just monstrous stuff. Absolutely toxic.

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/

Tangata Tiriti: it costs $21 to join Internet NZ today (this is the last day) in time to stand together against a racist takeover. Act now, please. Like, now.

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

Stop calling posers “larpers”. Larping is a FUN activity you play with friends. Trying to use it as an insulting term makes you sound dumb. You literally have an actual word for a lame person pretending. POSER. Say it with me, class. PO•SER.

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My #cartoon today #NZpol #CostOfLiving #Fuel

I love normies who are chill with furries. You humans who understand that furries are a keystone species of online spaces and follow us even knowing you might catch a flashbang of some weird porn, I salute you.

You absolutely cannot earn a billion dollars. You extort, steal, exploit a billion dollars.

The media apparently deciding for the country that NZ First, ACT, Greens and TPM are not suitable to be in Government and wishcasting a Labour-National coalition of continued managed decline is a screaming klaxon and red flashing lights for democracy.

The laundry machines at the apartment complex I live at require an app to use, like they're just normal coin-op washers and dryers, but they've had that functionality removed so now you have to download an app, put money into an account, and scan a QR code to do a load of laundry

We are left to speculate as to why the person who had less institutional support and/or bad-actors were able to successfully get traction against wasn't white or male. There's a chance that they went after *lots of people involved* in any given mess, to see what worked.

As somebody who researches harassment campaigns, my guess is that we've only seen the visible/successful tip of the iceberg. It's likely that the shitbags responsible shopped around as much dirt as they could find to see what got traction. #nzpol When that was identified, they piled on to amplify.

female-presenting nacelles

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Luc Besson is a rapist fuckface, but THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) is a masterpiece because of everyone else who worked on it

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

hark! a vagrant is really one of the greatest comics ever created, my favorite is still an outraged sasaki kojiro holding up a list of necessary components for a duel that just says - dudes - swords

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

winston peters told reporters that new zealander everlee wihongi has been in ICE prison for nearly a month because she didn't declare something on a form. the thing is - there *is no form*. please RT: www.webworm.co/winstonpeters/

"He took the unique biometric facial features of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, ran them through an industrial production process and generated billions of dollars in profit without ever once asking her permission. That is not film-making. That is theft.”

just to emphasize again, closing Malacca means 'taking a couple of extra days on a trip.' the economist had a great recent graph on various straits and their relative levels of direness.

…….. he did W H A T

My son and I visited UoA's Bob Doran Museum of Computing for the first time since he was a kid yesterday. We had a great time looking at and discussing the various artefacts of computing's evolution. We also enjoyed some schoolboy humour about old keyboards.

This is the best possible illustration of the fact that the National Party just doesn’t understand the concept of investment. In their dumb-assed “household budget” view, all money out the door is just spending, and all spending is bad #nzpol