Ella Baron @EBaronCartoons on the EHRC’s transgender code of practice @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Starbucks is abruptly scrapping its AI inventory tool for repeatedly miscounting and mislabeling items, just months after rolling it out at stores nationwide. It's the latest warning that the widely-hyped "AI revolution" could be a bubble that's going to burst.

And I may range into the North Carolina Bathroom ban had an economic cost of estimated $3.76 Billion over 12 years. apnews.com/article/e6c7...

"So you know Murphy's Law? That anything that can go wrong will?" 'Yeah' "Well, do you know Cole's Law?" 'No, what's that' "It's cabbage chopped up with vinegar and mayo"

Exploring new depths to the word Misnomer, the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued a loathsome set of rules targeting trans people. In response, a reminder that in doing so the U.K. breaches EU data protection law & its own adequacy decision. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

shout out to the dad for going "What if we catfish this piece of shit" and he's fucking dumb enough to fall for it. Which is weird, because I'm pretty sure it's the cops job to catch criminals, not that guy.

Ahh this one is so good. I swear @silkehartung.bsky.social pins are always so 🔥 pocomoto.co.nz/product/frag...

once again: I love it when a bot tells a joke

Today, I managed to cycle all the way to Lower Hutt from my apartment in Newtown, Wellington. It's about 20km and I was able to use cycle lanes and/or shared paths for pretty much the whole way there! I didn't think I'd be able to do this in my lifetime, and I'm absolutely stoked.

Slapped a $500 donation over to Remutaka Conservation Trust from the proceeds of the hoodie sales, because who better than a small charity that does massive work in Wellington's backyard?

I know it's boring but: She said she'd resign if they failed to happen, it's right there in the subhead.

Man, I don't even know how they could use textbook economics to justify their cuts. Obviously the first order impact (unemployment) is bad, and the second order impacts (reduced consumer confidence and spending) is also bad...

The other day there was a great thread about what the Tholians on Star Trek really looked like (one is partially seen on a viewscreen on one episode), what kind of lifeform they may have been. All of this is more-or-less contradicted by later, aired Star Trek shows, but the speculation is more fun.

The Tariff (Least Developed Countries Duty Removal) Amendment Order 2001. We know the tarriff on cotton shirts and shirts of other textiles, but what about shirts that use adult human biological male-made fibres? Do we levy tarriffs on nylon clothes developed by women or trans folks?

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THERE'S VIDEO OF THESE TWO!!!! 🐣 🪶

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

At this point I'll just Friends, do not become addicted to <every human right from the UN declaration>

Long term state housing provides people with stability, you absolute ghoul. It means people can become part of a community, children don't have to keep changing schools, they have enough left over from rent to afford food ... to frame this as "dependency" is as bad as Willis's lotto reference #nzpol

its funny both left wing reporters like chad loder and far right terrorists like tarrio agree that the slush fund is designed to buy arms for right wing terror orgs. the media is still framing the objections as "rewarding people who assaulted our beloved cops." like its actually much worse!

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Jesus christ! OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin for Q1 2026 and growth in ChatGPT has stalled. Very nice Mr. Altman! Well done sir! www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

Submissions are open for the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill and I strongly suggest you send in a submission against it. My thoughts are below. Here is the submission link: www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak... Here is some excellent reading: qtopia.org.nz/news/qtopia-...

"Well, they're calling it the *fart noise that is somehow clearly a deflating balloon* budget"

alright guys can we hold for room tone please. stop posting. stop. guys hold for room tone. stop posting. hold for room tone.

This is what I mean about it being unworkable, btw - there's literally no provision in any law for removing someone from a given toilet. Toilets aren't legally protected spaces. What this does is simply create a disincentive for a trans person to risk being trans in public.

as we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps

HYPERBOLE AND A HALF someone else mentioned Dinosaur Comics and that reminded me I shamefully neglected to mention Hark! A Vagrant my holy trinity of web comics

new zealander everlee wihongi - kidnapped by ICE 41 days ago - was meant to take the stand today in front of a wisconsin judge. but ICE had other plans. webworm has the latest on this story - please RT, and share: www.webworm.co/everleemay21/

Wow so the Democrats report highlighted that they lost because they didn't attack Trump enough for being a weird loser and that being silent on trans issues when they were attacked in it also didn't work. Hope NZ Labour are listening.

Why does it feel like Labour genuinely doesn’t know how defend their Covid era decisions and they are almost embarrassed and regret it? They literally got a majority off the back of those decisions under MMP own it man.

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

The fact that Seymour is announcing the decision is chilling because a basic foundation of Pharmac’s integrity and success is its independence and commitment to evidence-based decisions. Politicians should not be deciding which medicines get funded, or who should get access to them.

I find it both chilling and obscene that David Seymour is the person fronting media to explain Pharmac’s decision to stop priority access to Type 2 diabetes treatment for Māori.

Relieved to see a decent response from the NZ Human Rights Commission to the NZF terf bill, with comments from the Commissioners who *aren't* terfs themselves. Doubly relieved since the UK's EHRC has been a travesty for so long, & now only exists to campaign against trans people having a wee.

As it is, Lab offering only a small target makes NZF and ACT the main threats to the Nat vote and they politic accordingly, hence, all of this shit. And committing to a small target during, all of this shit, well. Look where it gets you.

This is very cool!! 😎 🎶 🙌

Oh they [UK] said it out loud

Just remembering the time and MP sent a recipe in for a cookbook and someone drew this conclusion from how the measurements were more precise than a domestic scale could handle

Bunch of Cnuts finally turned back the tide

The Department of Homeland Security has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral, @aurabogado.bsky.social of @injusticewatch.org reports.

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

On the tube

182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

Apologies to the older folks we used to judge for eating dinner at 5 and being in bed by 9. You guys were really on to something.

a suspiciously sudden lowering tide beaches all the boats