Another example from, err, right now. Chris you did do that, and it won you the election.

This seems rather typical of the current move' approach to things. Comforting to know that they're "sorted" though, isn't it... Isn't it? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Talking about himself when accusing others, as usual.

MFers: "Govt plans to pass a law making it harder for state abuse survivors with a history of violent or serious offending to access redress [this is] unjust, discriminatory, and contrary to the principles of trauma-informed, survivor-focused redress”. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/g...

So uhh...I just impulsively decided to fact-check the official origin story for the pumpkin spice latte and it is A LIE or at least incorrect. Starbucks claims to have invented it in 2003 But a coffee shop in Portland was selling them in 2001 (the earliest mention I can find)

For its centenary year's final issue, NZ's oldest student magazine profiles its oldest living editor, the inspirational Paul Oestreicher. Originally meant for the centenary issue, the story was held over because it 'deserved the time to write it properly'. They did. www.critic.co.nz/features/art...

the Prussian police reports on Karl Marx from 1853 prove that leftists have always had immense Disco Elysium dirtbag energy.

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

This is bloody outrageous.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Spain's wholesale electricity prices were 32% lower than the European average in the first half of 2025 -- thanks to wind and solar reducing the influence of costly fossil fuels on prices. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Officials drafting Government policy say more than half of the time they are being "constrained" from following a normal policy process. New story from me in The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

This is excellent work from Owen Jones here. Surely if Israel's position can be defended then you would expect an actual Israel lobbyist to be able to defend it when called upon to do so. But of course, lobbyism is mostly about money, so there is no basis to any of the attempts at justification.

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

Key questions to ask: 1) Who will the data will be shared with? 2) Under what circumstances will data be shared? 3) What democratic controls will be in place to limit function and/or sharing creep?

For @sarahlibrarina.bsky.social - goals!

I know this drug. I didn't know this story. I'm so upset. A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied theconversation.com/a-billion-do...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

The Welsh Rugby Union Consultation and Survey 2025: Gwlad Rugby publishes its own independent survey relating to the WRU's proposals for the future of our game. Please take the time to read and share. It's important that the WRU is held to account on this. gwladrugby.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/t...

Some #RSThomas while I remember it's been Monday.

A pleasant reminder that NZ is considered the 2nd riskiest country by the global insurance industry. "Annual expected loss of 0.66 per cent of GDP". Bangladesh, we're coming for your crown www.nzherald.co.nz/business/per...

ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?

"You leave the carnival with your arm around your girl and climb behind the wheel of your car. It feels like nothing could go wrong."

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

. Gaza The dead boy tries to open his eyes. He wants to see the world he is leaving. But there is nothing to see here, nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone. His parents held him while he died but they are both dead, too. Or he held them, no one remembers. .

This only happens to you once

Contractor: so how'd you want the tits? Perky? Big ole cans? Iowa state legislature: the what Contractor: me and the boys was thinking perky Iowa state legislature: this is for the war dead? Contractor: okay writin' that down as perky

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Some hopeful weekend reading. “This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”

Really interesting thread! A "serious disease that you are increasingly less likely to get regularly" is a lot better than "a serious disease that you get once a year"

A Strawpoll to swing on a boring Saturday afternoon if you celebrate www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #NZPol

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Ardern resigned when her preferred PM poll numbers dropped to 30%, saying she clearly wasn't what NZ wanted anymore. Luxon is on 20% and still adamant he's doing a fucking brilliant job. Never send a white dude CEO to do a competent woman's job.

#OtD 19 Sep 1952 musician, producer and former Black Panther, Nile Rodgers, was born in NYC. He said: "being a Panther was making breakfast, fixing people’s houses, washing the streets. That's what we really did" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1249...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Petition to rename the Republican Congress Thysanozoon nigropapillosum, after a flatworm that has numerous assholes.

I can't find the Casey Costello corruption news on front page of any media but RNZ. That's been the case from the start. Also, this isn't the first time she's been found acting contrary to the law. The Chief Ombudsman found the same last year & not one journo is chasing this ex TPU Chair anywhere

Emblematic of New Zealand's inability to basic shit right... ANY other place in the world that relies so heavily on tourism, that has a Chateau Tongariro like place/location, & this would be a 5 (possibly 6) Star resort driving the local economy & business, a destination of it's own making. Not NZ

Fired for literally just quoting Kirk’s public words, with no additional commentary. “To quote Kirk is to dishonor him” is such a wild claim. (See also its corollary: all the pundits praising him never quote him.) The political press corps has been making its brokenness so absolutely clear.

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

An image that demonstrates NZ is a housing market with a democracy and economy tacked on. cc @bernardchickey.bsky.social

It's really hard to explain to normies who wish things were more authoritarian coz they want more efficiency and competence, that authoritarian regimes are actually in practice extremely incompetent at almost everything and extremely inefficient. Democracies actually being order. The Empire doesn't

This is how you go about reaching people. It's not a difficult argument to make - we just need politicians to make it.

A poem in memory of Brian Turner (1944-2025)

TIL the father of Joseph Lister (famous pioneer of antiseptic surgical techniques), J. J. Lister, developed far superior microscope lenses than were available at the time in his spare time while he was a wine merchant, and essentially kickstarted modern histology, along with Thomas Hodgkin.

Art history in 7th form was the best thing I ever studied. Vandals.

Working class communities have a long history of anti racist solidarity. Billionaires poison everything. Sucking up wealth, hollowing out communities, spreading poverty, division and hatred. It’s time to tax the rich and repair our society. inews.co.uk/news/racism-...