If you ever wonder "Should I rewatch The Lair of the White Worm right now?" the answer is yes. And if you're ever unsure what to do, the answer is to ask yourself the question above.

Legit thought this fish was smoking

The Natural with Big Naturals

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

There's hated, then there's "people preparing a parade for when it happens" hated.

Love being held to ransom because my email provider wants to use AI will ruin my account settings if I don’t use it. Anyone got any client suggestions?

The first time I saw REM was on this tour. At Western Springs in Auckland. Crowded House was the opener after Grant Lee Buffalo and a bunch of people left after they played. It was fucking cool

It’s gonna cost $1B USD so he’ll say no, right? RIGHT?

"All Is Full of Love" (dir. Chris Cunningham, 1997)

When I worked at the NZ Drug Foundation, I got it into my head those regular raids the cops do where they fly in and rappel down into cannabis grow ops from helicopters and then pose in front of a pile of pulled up marijuana plants* would be more expensive to run than buying it off the streets.

Day one of sommelier school

the daily beast has some kind of persistent glitch with showing the wrong headline/image combo on google news and the unintended comedy is adamantium-tier

One of the leaders Luxon has been researching: #LuxonsLeaders #nzpol

We saw this in Kansas City’s fantastic Nelson-Atkins Museum (whose description of the artwork I have put in the alt text)

holy fuck it’s real

Absolutely crazy. What a win for the Bears.

Kids these days won’t believe it, but this guy was the only person selling computers - or even *allowed* to sell computers - from 1983 to 1991 in Australia and New Zealand. He was a tyrant

@cates13.bsky.social spotted in a rural NZ thrift shop (I think it’s a nacho bowl)

I want to see more of this. I have so much dead “smart” tech after years of tech writing

I wrote a thing for Herald! The main point is that, between the injunction and statements by the company itself, we have a pretty good idea what happened now - and it's a pretty basic failure of access control. It's low hanging fruit for hackers. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/why-manag...

BRB, gotta go to Slovakia to buy a car.

As I replied to Kevin, cybersecurity comms are a liiittle different than other crises in that there’s an adversary looking to use any info to do more bad things. So you need to balance giving out a lot of info but not too much.

Bonus thread! 🧵 I just saw the FAQs on the MMH site and I have Thoughts on them (capital T)

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵 If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

What nice normal chewing gum from Brazil… SURPRISE, IDIOT! ITS ACTUALLY COOL NU-METAL GUM THATS TELLING YOU TO “CHEW AND UNLOCK!”

Anyone else have an issue where (on iPhone with everything updated) playing a video here sometimes locks the screen and you have to force close the app to exit? @support.bsky.team

She knows nothing about international politics 🥰🥰🥰

My girlfriend (a Millennial) is trying to get me (a Gen X) to wear socks that come over my ankles when paired with shorts. This a gross violation of Gen X lore and I apologise

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

Who knew bumblebees had stings?

Tank Girl 4K release. The original ending. New color-correction. Fantastic set of new behind the scenes interviews! Peter Ramsey, Pam Dixon, Catherine Hardwicke, Arianne Phillips, Stan Winston's lead team! New interview with Lori Petty. and more. preorder now! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Follow someone cool and then immediately post something weird. That’s my comms strategy

Using my laptop in front of my internet-disconnected Smart TV being like “yeah how you like that, cuck?”

It's a new year. Love weirder, Fuck adventurously, Beautify something, feather your nest, cook for someone, give and take comfort, surprise yourself, surprise us, let go of that thing you were never going to do anyway, bring it all forward. I know you can.

Batman. Let’s get nuts.

2025 / 2026

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1749

Wow – there are AA Milne descendants sitting quietly on some ker-Azy money!

The Man with the Golden Dragon Fried Rice Special With Extra Cashew Nuts.

Biblically accurate pudding “Be not afraid”

Got a nice haul of Christmas singles

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

Merry Christmas from our family and also our Chinese zodiac calendar with a special message from Google Translate

Nice things that happened today. A guy rushed the counter tapped his card on the paywave to pay for his neighbours Christmas shopping. ‘He’s a good guy he deserves it.’

We saw a car decorated like this in Newtown the other day and I am 100% here for it