Big storm outside, harbour waves are huge. Max and Sam are on their heated throw blanket watching Voyager

Venezuela earthquakes live: Tremors of 7.5 and 7.2 hit near Caracas https://aje.news/8gb1w6

re the capes, this relates to an issue I constantly see in depictions of Māori – Aotearoa is really far south, it gets cold and wet. A lot of Americans seem to consider us Spicy Hawaiians and put us shirtless in crowns of tropical flowers and like ... we have the same climate as New England.

Can I just say how fucking wild it is that a man travelled to Montreal, booked a hotel room across from the Pornhub offices, fired BULLETS INTO THE WINDOWS OF PORNHUB, killed two bystanders and the Guardian does not mention Pornhub or WHY HE WAS THERE. Even as they warn against "copycat attacks."

a continual problem we see in AI-generated images of Māori is that they just slam multiple indigenous traditions together because the internet thinks 'indigenous' is a monolith. That looks like some sort of Native American headdress, pukka shells are Hawaiian, and that's a man's moko.

A new COVID-19 antiviral called Xocova (ensitrelvir) will soon be available in the U.S., the first approved as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). But its impact will hinge on how easily people can access it. Read @mileswgriffis.bsky.social's reporting at The Sick Times: bit.ly/44udxGE

Everyone is looking at what's going on in New York and saying "I want that for us, too." There's no halfway.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Edit: *governments* should treat carefully. Any gov't firing people while saying they're "replacing" with AI should hire @k8em0.bsky.social as a consult (and listen to her, dammit).

in these two packs, you get hundreds of photos like these, that can be used in everything from art pieces to horror games to even album art. if you've been needing something unnerving and a little haunting from the state of maine, these'll do the trick! ko-fi.com/s/bc50ecb11f

Thanks for the shout-out, @violetblue.bsky.social! Threat Model, an invaluable resource for Covid-related news, free every Thursday. www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...

The doctor was "immediately admitted to a specialised facility" and is in a stable condition, the French health ministry said on Wednesday. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy 30th anniversary to Quake ᵕ̈

Being a veterinarian is a dangerous job! 🎥 x : dailycatsclips

I just sent in my submission on NZ First’s ridiculous bill. 💪🏼 There are 8 days left if you still need to send in your own, and Qtopia’s guide on writing a submission is clear and helpful: qtopia.org.nz/news/submiss... #nzpol

The tūī by my apartment 🥰 #blipvox

This is a great essay about privacy, but it's also about so much more. #Pride thebaffler.com/latest/priva...

I am extremely pleased to have this essay, on how American fiction has grappled with COVID, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. This is a subject I care deeply about and had been wanting to write about at length for a long time. Please give it a read.

New ALOCASIA means New writing by queers about plants! Go read it! Retweet it! Send it to your friends because there's an extremely horny carnivorous plant piece in this issue, and you know they're wild like that!

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This is straight up fascist judicial overreach. The American Dirty War.

Holy fuck. This is very bad

Everyone from SciAm should be hired again, but the # of jobs in journalism – especially sci/enviro journalism – has been plummeting, and freelance wages haven't risen (not even with inflation) since at least the 90s. Science media is getting quieter, even if you don't notice it all at once.

A travesty. Springer Nature offloads SciAm—the most storied science magazine in the US—onto a content mill consortium, LabX, during an almost certainly successful union vote. LabX now says it will lay off 15 people, over 1/3rd of the unit and 60% of the bargaining committee. Pure union busting.

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Here's a little glimpse into where Aotearoa's "definitions of a man and woman bill" is headed. Did they also force the men to take gender tests?

I've lost count with LastPass 😬

A sneak peek of our upcoming show -- this trial run video is rough around the edges but @queenoliviaiii.com and I think it's too fun not to share: www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...

The Justice Department quietly deleted thousands of press releases about the Jan. 6 insurrection So Lawfare restored them: more than 5,700 pages recovered and publicly archived. @tylermcbrien.com, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org explain how.

Oh. I feel sorry for whoever has had a bad day here.

Gotta admit, did not expect Australia to pass some sort of controversial and generally justifiably disliked internet law, and as the idea of these laws now spread globally everybody is discussing who did it first, which it turns out is bad for the SEO of my upcoming game "Australia Did It".

NOT IN MY NAME. Nearly 26,000 cis women have signed against the bill and in support of our sisters. “We’re making it clear: transgender women are women, and we stand alongside them. They don’t speak for us - this Bill is not in our name!” #kikorangi our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...

Last month an older male history scholar gave a talk on economics arguing things were better in the 70s (quality of life, etc) and in the debate afterward when I asked if women here back then were allowed to open bank accounts, buy cars and have credit cards without a husband the room got real quiet

Oh good. I’m sure the guy with absolutely zero national security experience carefully familiarized himself with what hundreds of people did before he engaged in mass firings. Should go great!

Our commentary piece on “Misuse of evidence in sex and gender policy” is out! We call for greater integrity and transparency in evidence use, and for meaningful inclusion of trans people’s experiences and expertise in policymaking utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Washington D.C. remembering Pride Month.....

I just don't understand why people keep insisting NYT is a leftist outlet

Went to the trans rights march in Wellington, it was peaceful, packed with families, and I unintentionally horrified friends by explaining I was used to prepping for US protests where you might get shot, need to be able to run and treat gas/spray, and always look out for cars driving into the crowd

Heads up Aotearoa New Zealand writers: applications for our 2027 Writer in Residence position are open until 30 September. Come and join us at the IIML!

Yeah but if you know anything about the way Badlands has historically treated trans people (especially trans women), and you remember the protests about it, then this makes perfect sense and you understand why its local nickname is "Sadlands"

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

Happy Winter Solstice Kiwis @ today (Sunday) at 8:24 pm! 📍 Scott Base 0.00.00 📍 Auckland Island 7:57:13 📍 Invercargill 8.35.00 📍 Dunedin 8.39.12 📍 Christchurch 8.56.22 📍 Wellington 9.11.23 📍 Nelson 9.11.30 📍 Hamilton 9.32.36 📍 Tauranga 9.33.12 📍 Auckland 9.37.54 📍 Kerikeri 9.46.43 c/- NIWA

iran has closed the reflecting pool.

Zomg I’m in the National Geographic Museum Of Exploration! Go behind the scenes of my PBS series LIFE UNEARTHED WITH ARIEL WALDMAN and see the equipment I used to film it entirely solo in Antarctica. I’m over the moon with how cool the museum is and how awesome it is to be part of it.

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