saw this question posed, checked the map, immediately burst out laughing

horrified/proud to learn that instant coffee is a kiwi invention. i’ve been so snobby about non-espresso coffee this whole time, thinking the flat white was our contribution to coffee, and the call was coming from inside the house. shout out to 1890’s invercargill en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant...

ECHO AND CALLIOPE IN THE SAME WORDLE 😭 wish Pan was there too it could have been the perfect set

Once again, the easiest way to communicate this to people who don’t have time to stay up to date on everything: An LLM will give you the answer *it thinks you are most likely to accept.* This is very problematic when you consider LLMs are fundamentally sycophantic in their goal to please humans.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Cicero

they’ve been doing this for so long now, only difference is it’s being taped and posted by israel authorities themselves rather than activists. confused by the surprise tbh www.bbc.com/news/article...

***Call to action*** NZ First’s transphobic bill is lawfare against trans, non-binary, and intersex people. What can we do about it? Well, we can make sure the select committee receives as many submissions as possible against the bill. To that end I will offer my time to anyone who wants help 1/4

this is a masterpiece

steam's updating their tags (interesting) i especially love these additions: Wolves Capybaras

imagine if this said "immigrants" instead of "expat" lol

today has illustrated that i have no fucking idea how UK elections work i vaguely know parties and key players but i'm just looking at charts and numbers and even the maps aren't particularly helpful why is england council happening while welsh and scottish elections happen? also: mayors??

this was the only console my childhood had 😭 (bc my dad and his mates were in their late 20s and this had Car Racing Game)

Musk says an hour of his time is worth $100 million yet he spends six hours a day angrily posting online every time a big budget Hollywood movie casts a Black person in a starring role. Curious!

i introduced my dad to skyrim soundtrack or skyrim ambience videos as working background music and several days in a row now ive woken up to From Past to Present gently billowing around the home from dad’s outrageous surround sound system 😂 it’s nice when your parents get into your hobbies

harrison i’m so sorry for giving all the credit to mark hamil, i was not aware of your game incredible speech, exactly the hopeful but honest one young people need ♥️

really enjoying this thread of kiwis reacting with outrage to the slight from this hitler fellow they’ve never heard of who is slagging off our good name

Funny Games (2007)

unintended (but not unwelcome) consequence of looking up quotes from tv shows is that the AI overview i didn't ask for thinks I'm talking to it that'll learn it for interjecting itself where it's not wanted

not all boomers: Nana 1, on the weather events lately: “Pfft” *knowing laugh* “we had dreadful flooding in the 60s as well, it’s all normal, climate change isn’t real” Nana 2, same topic: “It’s getting so much worse and more unpredictable, it was never this hard. What are people meant to do??”

this effect is why i can't participate in a silent disco

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Fashion tip of the day: To deal with clothes moths, fill your wardrobe with thousands of tiny spiders, the moth's natural predator. To deal with the spiders, fill your wardrobe with scorpions. To deal with the scorpions, fill your closet with RFK Jr. This way, you avoid harmful chemicals.

just had the incredibly weird experience of walking past a podcast host of the podcast i’m actively listening to right now while going thru AKL airport double voice really tripped me up

Play by Play friends in town! - firstly, sorry about the weather, feel like i should just schedule a recurring post - secondly, i’ll be in town tomorrow + at awards, but skipping main conference. Send me a dm if you’d like to catch up xx

if this doesn’t ether disappear or turn into a cool villain scar i’m gonna be so pissed (courtesy of Pan stepping over my face at 3am and us both freaking out)

being a gamer is not about playing video games it's about watching endless dramaslop youtube videos on how women and minorities ruined gaming

i ain’t seent a single mermay yet. where are they

I think the real trick of production is almost any individual thing they do is actually in a different specialized bucket if the right person exists, making spreadsheets (product management), managing issues (QA), raising funding (business development) /

TERMINAL 2, OVER THE YEARS love that my phone has collected enough photos from SPECIFICALLY terminal 2 at tullamarine melbourne international airport to make me a highlight reel

sorry to be super explicit: this tech will be available for game engines or to build your own engine soon

i LOVE fashion and i ADORE art and i cannot find a shred within me to defend the met gala. though it is kinda entertaining watching bezos trying to buy their way into class and culture. baby nouveau riche shit

Well, it's only in browser now -- but y'all know what's coming. sigh developers.openai.com/codex/use-ca...

i feel like trends are so much more homogenised now. great if the flavour of the month works for you, but the lack of variety is frustrating. does EVERYTHING need to come in espresso brown or burgundy red??? i dont want to wait a whole season to get a coat in a colour i want

worked from the new library Te Matapihi today for a change of scene and !!!!!! 😭😭😭💖✨🎇💗☺️🥰 i freakin love libraries and i love this one more than i’ve ever loved a library it has record players and sewing machines and 3D printers — for free — BRO 😭

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011. #WomenInHistory 🗃️ #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 1/2

There is a Māori woman in the US that has been taken and detained by ICE despite having a valid Green card. Where is the NZ govt on this? Letter to Peters from David Farrier. What can be done? #nzpol

One last illustration for the Swords Without Masters, again @portablecity.bsky.social is such an incredible art director and assembled such a cool squad of artists for this project, it's been so fun to see everyone flesh out their ideas

"no one plays girly games" "have you looked at a single data point about this in your life"

friggin love it when cats tuck themselves into bed 😭

if i had the gift of foresight i would perhaps not watch The Pitt right before seeing my local hospital getting absolutely hammered by the extreme weather

stay safe, wellington — especially Brooklyn. Hate seeing my road and suburb on the news :(

I was once catching up with a few people whose careers I respect to get some thoughts about what to do next and one of them said "You know, your next thing doesn't have to be bigger than your last thing." And it remains one of the most creatively freeing things I've ever heard.

when the gaba hits

good things happen!!! art needs spaces where it doesn’t also have to be a product, now more than ever. DELIGHTED

i’m late to The Pitt so only just started season 2, but post-burn-out, dangerous-behaviour seeking dr robby is very uncomfortable to watch. So many echoes of myself right before the crash, but also so many friends whose personalities changed like that too. incredible work, i fuckin hate it

Dragon Snacks Games is ONE 🎉😭 In our first year, our team of 8 built a fully playable pre-alpha of a social rpg game where creativity is collaborative, progress is shared, and helping each other matters. 🥹 100+ playtesters and counting -- join Discord to help shape year 2! discord.gg/uwwhnfKWEG

@dragonsnacksgames.bsky.social CCO Michelle Menard gave a wildly fun presentation on what does it mean to be successful at game development. Well worth a watch whether you are new to #gamedev or a veteran #indiegame creator: youtu.be/7GY26DDbXKo?...

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

my point is, you learn to make good games from the pile of data on mistakes, but people only look at what worked really well for the breakout titles. So much to learn from near misses