I have absolutely no particular reason I should want this but I want this. (The pdf only version is £15 but that's still NZ$35. I guess I'll stick it in my bookmarks and be reminded of it every so often. Maybe a birthday present to myself next year if there's nothing I want more.)

This is why I rarely leave my house and mask when I do.

Reminder for anyone who needs it about Assoc Prof Siouxsie Wiles’ fundraiser - she was there for us through the worst of Covid, let’s return the favour

Connections archive here, and you can even play the old ones you missed!

semi-related, fun new visual distortion today (bright orange scribbling all over my hallway walls)

after ten minute conversation yesterday newest doctor wants to refer me to Here Toitū which is a new 12 month service to get disabled people back into work, which may or may not be plausible, but maybe useful otherwise. he also wants to take away my quetiapine which is the one that lets me sleep.

Have started the week with an absolutely vile headache, starting to clear up now.

If we need to have any mature conversation in this country, how about a mature conversation about how police need to be held to a far higher standard than other people which includes any allegations being taken extremely seriously?

Here's another video of them all hopping out of the pond. At one point the parents had herded them all over to safety on the lawn and one ran away and jumped back in the pond 😂🪶🇳🇿 mum went zipping back over going *kazoo noise* *kazoo noise* which I assumed meant GET YOUR ARSE BACK HERE DAVID

Here's a cute video of the pūtangitangi babies swimming around and trying so hard to perfect their diving. There are still 6! Mum and Dad continue to be gold standard parents. They're absolutely massive now and I thought today they look almost like their adult feathers might be coming in. 🪶🇳🇿

lol the maid goes racing up to the main character's MIL going "she's given birth! I heard there's two boys and two girls!" and somehow the MIL did not clue in that she was talking about the dog. (though I don't know why the maid was so excited, those puppies were clearly about six weeks old.)

Anyway one of those very few human-translated subtitles where the meaning escapes me - girl standing in kitchen with her back to the door when she hears someone enter, assumes it's her husband, "I'm telling you, don't scare me. If you scare me now, it's probably the two of us." ???

Paradox released an updated version of their game Surviving Mars (from 2018 or 19 or so) on a new engine. I was in a stream watching it this morning and people were asking whether it was worth buying. Apparently one of the changes they made - removing a quote from Elon Musk.

Heh, they're bringing a scent hound into the mansion to search for the missing lady, who they know never left the property. They just showed the handler giving the dog something to get her scent off. The dog is a greyhound.

I let the dogs out and as I whistled them back in, I saw the deer that none of us had noticed, because it had frozen, suddenly walk briskly away with the exact body language of a human extracting themself from an awkward conversation.

Live your life in such a way that people don't get suspicious when you ask for updates on the wellbeing of a family member who's gone missing.

I can only imagine my c-dramas would be nigh unwatchable if translated by AI. I've shared maybe half a dozen slightly odd sounding lines, maybe one or two of those it wasn't immediately obvious what they actually meant, out of *hundreds of hours* of tv.

"I curse you to always have to pee!"

the guy's mother in this show is now having both him and the main character call her "mother" as she plies them with aphrodisiac fertility soup and exhorts them to bang multiple times a day. apparently she doesn't JUST want grandbabies though - she confided in her maid afterwards that she wants

the antagonist couple in this c-drama were cast, I assume, primarily for his ability to constantly look literally insane and her ability to look 100% contempuous 100% of the time and roll her eyes every second sentence.

Two thousand whistles packed up and heading out the door tomorrow. Thank you @moryan.bsky.social for hooking me up with the person who can use these in Chicago! 💕 (and thank you to discord for buying me enough filament to keep making them!)

Metric Tip xkcd.com/3164/

cat came in my window at 7am on the dot and we had a big long morning cuddle in the sunshine

There was a concerted effort to ensure no one was held accountable in any way for the Iraq War and torture. That’s the reason most young people don’t know who Cheney is.

u got any games on yr phone

Dick Cheney is still dead and I just think that’s neat 🥰

!!!!!!

Civ 7 dropped a new update as well as new civs and leaders including Tonga and Blackbeard which I'm watching someone play and the combination already looks truly bonkers.

Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

An article that I can only assume had some AI influences has just informed me that Chinese architecture has developed over the last one million years. I guess technically it may have, but not a lot was happening for most of that time!

lol dick cheney

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

"And what do you do?" "I tame wild animals." "Wow, for real? What kind?" "Dairy cows."

Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty. 🧵 #kikorangi

Hey anyone at #mpi or #biosecuritynz. We do wasp genomics. I reckon I could tell you in about 24 hours if these invasive yellow legged #hornets you have found in Auckland are sisters, or a larger invasion. For free. Hit me up now!

this dog is doing binkies

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

this is why capitalism doesn't work. it's the same thing I saw someone say about America once - they'd privatise air if you told them Black people were breathing it.

Feels like this is the only good-ish news on the feed today.

From the union statement in the story below:

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

for some reason today my youtube home page is FILLED with MCU analysis videos

"Am I saying that right, dehydrate to death? I feel like there's a better way to say that. Drown to death?" that's the opposite lol

YouTube showed me a new video from a Kiwi Project Zomboid creator who I haven't seen a video from in ages and turns out bro's been busy moving to Australia. He didn't say why but like..........

cc @verbscape.bsky.social the baaaaaby cheeeeeesus

it's so funny being in circles full of people who live in Wellington in large part because you don't need to own a car here, yet there are people who live walking distance from the CBD constantly giving themselves aneurisms about anything that doesn't support them driving their SUV to the dairy

House insurance and rates are expensive.