Yassssss!!! - they have epic anchovies in our local supermarket and on ube bread they are 👌 Also I took the kids out porcini hunting and whilst we only found three little ones, two were enough for a fantastic pecorino and porcini omelette - a rival to a whitebait pattie scale of nom

In Silicon valley over break and have to say this place makes no sense. Its like one big suburb with blah strip miles and low slung commercial "historic" "downtowns." The great irony of tech companies complaining about Europe is they live in a place where you literally can't build anything.

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (South African, 1886-1957). Bosveld (oil on composition board).

79c each at the local Asian Grocery today ! - “now that’s not ‘New World Value’”

Just got some legit Kiwi made gorgeous art goodies from @birdandbeach.bsky.social 🇳🇿💯🔥Stoked!

spotify wrapoed can f*ck off Of you like music use a different platform

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

As a huge fan of Defender as a kid, surprised to have only just discovered Blaster. Quite trippy looking game but it looks a wee bit repetitive and doesn't appear to have the variety within a level, opting instead to have multiple level types. The 'game map' screen is pretty wild though.

Once more, for old times’ sake

Captain Torture

Head of UK government’s anti-Islamophobia partner ‘refused service in shop for being Muslim’

Spring in New Zealand’s lower South Island brings the worst weather of the year but it often looks pretty.

American exported festivals be like…

Don't forget to wear your MAGAt swag to the food bank!

Dale Bissland, Queensferry Sublime (oil on panel)

datagoblin.itch.io/bone-scrambler Gambling

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024) By @lisalsong.bsky.social

film flubs: in the movie spartacus (1960), several different characters identify themselves as spartacus. this scene was mistakenly left in the final cut of the film

Pancake with orange, tahini and cinnamon is pretty good

Have successfully landed in Wellington with fourteen small paintings in the overhead locker. Show opens on Tuesday. X

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

Lotta people be sleeping on Greek lentil soup served with olive oil and red wine vinegar

Now that the next chapter could be that a ground force is sent to Iran to run around deserts, caves (and now additional new environments such as coastal deserts, mangroves and forests) to find the 'weapons' - perhaps the 'brave warriors of ICE' could be sent along to do it?

History repeating like junk food burps

“CPI would upgrade the country's ability to understand and react to inflation.” - I think the supermarkets are reacting already

Always good to start the week discovering a new compilation series tidal.com/browse/album...

"Rainy Day on Princes St from Wolf at the Door" Procreate on iPad whilst sitting at the window bench on a rainy day. #iPadart #art #pleinair #drawing #landscape #digitalart #procreate

Printmakers interviewed for 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt

Took the long way home #otepoti

New project: I recreated Moses Harris’ prismatic and compound color wheels from The Natural System of Colours published in the eighteenth century and expanded them to dark versions. Explore: www.c82.net/natural-colors How they were made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=97

"That's except for viewers in Scotland, who have their own saviours."

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

This would be better news if Starmer wasn’t actively strangling the Labour Party

Thinking about making a poll about Donald Trump that winds up showing that whilst their economy was helped by govt spending and massively doing well, that this was a bad thing.

This year, I founded an indie news blog doing long-form Op-eds. It's 100% free and 100% reader funded. No venture capital, no ads, no bullshit. And it is unapologetically opposed to Nazi fuckery. Read/subscribe and support:

Channel 7 News in Australia posted this clip as if it was perfectly normal

That was chocolatey - I went for the 100% unsweetened with almond milk as the milk option. A kind of rich, thick, bitter sludge doesn’t make it sound appetising but it was an experience I will repeat if I get another visit on this trip

In 1978 Ian Drury wrote a song called "There ain't half been some clever bastards". I feel it's time someone wrote the other half of the story.

Just once, it would be nice if a footballer pointed down after scoring a goal, to dedicate it to a departed loved one they know is in hell.

Enjoyed (mostly) a very scenic run this weekend

I published my Unknown Letters tool to create line typography for plotters. Here it is: unknownletters.m05.de #svg #p5js #joydivision #plotter #plotterart @processing.org

Didn't have to look too hard to find these on the way home. #porcini #mushrooms

Moleskin sketch of Shirt Tail Rock, Kingston Wakatipu.

Italian Landscape,1921 by British painter Winifred Knights #womensart

So weird that Musk, a serial petty, performative revengist would not understand this. But then I remember he’s also a hypocrite operationally - it’s central to him being a symbol of cruelty-capitalism. More mechanism than human.

ACT: “we need a referendum on tpb so people can express their views” Also ACT: “we don’t need to process all of the public submissions it’s a waste of time” Again showing their disdain for democracy despite claiming to be protectors of it. #nzpol