streamer is playing the Bluey video game with his six year old daughter it's amazing

re: ManageMyHealth breach This is important. A lot of people are going to be saying "meh, it's only my vaccination records, what are they going to do with those?", and the answer is: use it trick you into thinking they're someone you trust.

I helped a 15 year old get a late term abortion for a hidden pregnancy not that long ago. One of the hardest parts was dealing with her GPs practice and their online system, which her parents had access to. The GP had to sit down with me and the office manager to figure it out. It was a mess.

Welcome to 2026. Guess what, it's raining!

oh, my computer just switched back to the daylight colours

“You, sir, are a disgrace. A guttersnipe. The lowest of the low. Oh, you’re getting up, are you? I shall accompany you to the kitchen”

the australians are outraged that the stream timer says the next timezone to hit new years is china and not perth, which I find very funny because china very famously does not celebrate new years tonight.

I can tell which side I more normally end up on when I sleep because my right forearm has a bunch of insect bites from lying on top of the covers. possibly I really should get a mosquito net if I'm gonna have the window always open but I think cats would get tangled in it lol.

Freak bit of daylight on the southern horizon, due to reflection and refraction and stuff. Always a nice lunchtime surprise in the polar night

Happy to report I started 'In The Air Tonight' at the right time to get the drum solo hitting right as the fireworks started! (23:56:20 is the time)

Happy New Year, ngā mihi o te tau hou!   2026 will be a big year. We’re excited to use every opportunity we can to amplify nature’s voice. Aroha nui to you and your loved ones as we welcome in a new year 🥳  📸: Original photo, William Harland

happy new year! this year the PlayStation 3 will be 20 years old The movies 'Matilda' and 'Space Jam' will be 30 years old. Labyrinth will be 40 we're closer to 2050 than to 2000, and closer to 2100 than we are to 1975

Happy new year

Really happy to end the year yelling THE PARROTS ARE FUCKING because if you know the deal with Kakapo, then this is the best news for their species.

The main character's husband has apparently died by *drumroll* falling off a cliff. As we all know, however, no one ever dies in ancient China from falling off cliffs, so the suspense is kind of lost.

First mating of the 2026 #kakapo breeding season! True to form, it was Pearl and Boss on Whenua Hou, who mated on the night of 28th Dec. They were also the first two to mate in the last two breeding seasons. We're expecting a bumper year, so follow for updates! #conservation #parrots

Fireworks have started in Phillipstown.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

This is multispecies respect

While walking down the street with my wife, a random old guy on a bench yelled out "YOU GALS TOOK YOUR PRETTY PILLS TODAY, DIDN'T YA? YEEAH YOU TOOK ALL OF 'EM!" And that's why we call my HRT "pretty pills" to this day.

guy kisses his wife on the forehead and she's like "people might see us!" girl this show has had more smooching and women in their underwear and people making out while soaking wet than almost any other c-drama I've seen, calm down

*blink* I'm playing Civ 5, on account of it was going to be the fastest of 5-7 to reinstall on my computer, and I just ended a war with Pocotello last turn and now he's asking me for a declaration of friendship. Homie....

Great news! Because I stayed at a Marriott Hotel or partner hotel in the last year, they're providing me a free two pillow luxury cooling set and after a brief questionnaire I can access a two night stay at select locations without billing.

Literally looks like Evil Luigi Mangione

ooh, I think the magical ancient Chinese mask that makes you perfectly resemble another person has made a new appearance. My favourite c-drama trope!

🎥 Israel says it will ban 37 humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza starting Jan. 1. “Is someone seriously claiming a Quaker organization is an Islamic militant front?” California-based American surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who has volunteered multiple times in Gaza, said to Drop Site News...

A more egalitarian, fairer, better everything Aotearoa is possible . Politicians who refuse to commit to that are not only benefitting from the status quo they’re going into parliament to preserve it. #nzpol

I think time for first nap today. Traditional NYE 24 hour stream starts just before midnight right when I normally go to bed so I gotta make sure I can stay awake through it.

Time to disappoint the cat

Literally no one in a c-drama has ever died from falling off a cliff but jumping off a first floor balcony? that's a WHOLE different thing apparently.

good time for everyone else to think about getting an emergency water stash in case of earthquake or, increasingly, storms cutting off supply. I have 22L in the cupboard over my fridge.

just thinking about how the Greek dog shelter guy had to ask his followers what this tiny dog with a weirdly round head was because he'd never seen a chihuahua before

it's a soup kinda evening. even though I used all my milk on it and don't have bread to put in it and *do* have cheese but right now it's still sealed and if I don't have milk I can't make mac n cheese so I don't want to open it yet. but, soup!

Always love how Netflix has entire recommendation categories that are just "X Genre, aka, a list made up entirely of things you've already watched"

famously new zealand swaps sides of the australasian continent every few years, this is partly why it costs so much to fly there

"Your ears." "What?" "Blushed by me?" BLUSHED BY ME. I love wonky translations.

I was thinking about how I haven't made fudge in ages and then I was like "oh yeah, coz it has approximately $100 worth of butter in it"

The little cat plays with a leaf. The wizard carefully checks that it's not a dangerous reagent, then returns it to the little cat.

I'm a bit late in finally writing about this but I cannot overstate how fucking cool my community is, because they organized another "Tiny Horse Game Jam" where TWENTY-ONE really neat and interesting little horse games were created!!! This is so fucking dope, I am so incredibly proud of everyone 😭❤️

I love that they're just called "bird thing". "Hey, did you see that? What was it?" "Some kind of bird thing."

Chicken. Salt. (for the non-kiwis, this is a single phrase. chicken salt. it is manna from the heavens, and no it doesn't taste like chicken.)

You know, if you think it's so dangerous for the king to have brothers and brothers-in-law and they have to be banned from having political opinions and everything... why not have it so the king does NOT get concubines, so he's slightly more limited in how many kids he can have?

the king's brother has agreed to an insurrection but he's just pulled out a blank book and asked everyone to sign it if they will trust and follow him and my brain's singing "if he says you don't need opsec he's a fed"

As it is Mari Lwyd season, I will share some of my favourite undead welsh horses I have met!

My god, icon of icons www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

lol they're playing a form of cricket where the bat is a stick and the ball is a smaller stick

Protip: if you live in a society where so much as *touching the king* is literally a crime, you might want to be really sure the guy you want to put on the throne is onboard before you approach him with your treason plans lmao.

I know this show is supposed to be about the tragic love story of these separated soulmates but the real tragedy is Princess Minhwa's story and how her family manipulated her and how no one has any concept that 13 year olds are babies who cannot make fully informed mature adult decisions.

I just wanna know why it is that whenever there's a love triangle in an East Asian drama, the guy who isn't intended to be the true love treats the women better than her alleged soulmate.