bring back webrings

Hope isn't optimism. Optimism says it will probably be fine. Hope says the outcome isn't decided yet, and what we do matters.

Wow porn AND anti-AI?? Playboy came to Bluesky and read the fucking room.

one of my Miis in Tomodachi just said "Are you also nervous about what the future will bring? A game of Coin Spin will fix that." Oh, Miles, if only it were that easy.

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

In ancient China, rain is *very* romantic. Almost as romantic as snow.

ehehehe. the translators for these subtitles are clearly second language English speakers from the grammar. definitely fluent, just slightly "off" sounding the way you get from non-native speakers. anyway they translated this line as "We can't guarantee everything is just ducky." :3 :3 :3

goddamnit, I'm sure one of the maids in this show is an actress I've seen before so I went to look it up and imdb doesn't list the character names for all bar one of the cast lol.

A character stepped on the tiniest of stones, like if the pea under the seven mattresses was a stone that would be the stone, and she sprained her ankle and now she can't walk. I'm assuming she's the Chinese version of the princess.

This nest wasn't usual: the first ever in which we couldn't access the chick. But Whetu-A3 has recently fledged from the nest in good health. As we transition to less intensive management for #kakapo, more nests will be treated like this (without ramps!). 📸: Petrus Hedman. #conservation

The #kakapo chick Whetu-A3 hatched successfully, but we couldn't weigh it or check its health, and could only look in occasionally to see it was still alive. Worried it might injure itself when it came to fledge, our team built a ramp for it. #kakapo2026 #conservation 📸: Petrus Hedman

Two months ago, I returned a fertile #kakapo egg (Whetu-A3) to the nest and tried to remove another infertile egg from beneath her. She wouldn't let me take the egg, so I offered her the new one. Tricky to do that with one hand while using my phone to see what I was doing! Luckily she took the egg!

My favourite #kakapo nest from this year was Whetu's on Anchor: she was 2m off the ground, 2m down a hollow rata trunk, with an entrance so small we had to use a phone camera to see inside. It was the only nest we didn't get into. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

#OtD 15 May 1833 a London jury found the killing of an officer in the newly-established police force "justifiable homicide", despite the coroner locking them in to change their mind. The officer had been stabbed after attacking a workers' march stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8709...

Okay I'm a big critic of how fucking little Labour is telling us but reading this article I'm actually on their side. Their policy is that they will put some SOEs into a fund along with some seed money and use the dividends to invest in NZ businesses. They don't know exactly which SOEs until after

I want to see a headline that says "Govt to remove $300 million from Wellington economy"

the family in this c-drama named their sons xuanyuan, shenyuan, and shanyuan.

(If you listened to today's new Kākāpō Files episode, Rata-A2 is the same loss that was mentioned in that, not a new one.)

We've lost another #kakapo chick. Rata-A2, from Rata's nest on Te Kākahu/Chalky Island, has been euthanised with severe internal diseases. Huge thanks to Dunedin Wildlife Hospital for their care. There are now 92 chicks alive. 📸 Daryl Eason #kakapo2026 #conservation

I need for one of the major news services to do a series about how money improves the economy and also doesn't just disappear when the government spends it

As much as I love the Disney interpretation of Pooh, being the one I grew up with, Vinni-Pukh is in a class of it's own. It's so endearingly charming in almost every way. Would've loved to have seen them do more, and how they would've interpreted the other characters n stories.

With the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, we are going to see a big uptick in adoptions. As someone who works in Grogu rescue, I will remind you: when you adopt a Baby Yoda, you are committing to its 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯. Grogus can live up to 900 years. They can also move shit around your apartment.

National improving the relative living conditions of disabled people by dragging everyone else down to join them.

When I've been saying Hipkins is 2015 Miliband, I mean he's equally ill placed to halt austerity because he doesn't actually recognise the danger and believes it's Sensible Policy To Continue With rather than actively presenting an alternative or fighting the "Labour overspent narrative" at all.

New Kākāpō Files episode talks about all the birds available for adoption

I like how sometimes he takes a break from the political folk music to just be like "isn't this animal cool?"

I'm so used to seeing people mispelling rogue that this subtitle just mentioned rouge and I thought it was a typo for a moment.

the person has Been Through It and I love that they’re weaponizing their trauma for good

I’m a 1/2-white Black man; spent my life studying race—so, studying white ppl. White ppl think everyone not-white is a race and whites are the neutral non-race. They call us ppl “of color” b/c they view white as literally colorless, neutral race setting. It’s white supremacy culture. Period.

apparently the family in this c-drama has *36* generations. I intellectually know how old China is but sometimes there's a random reference like that and it's like.... the modern nation of New Zealand has only existed for about five or six. Māori have been here longer, but still new in comparison.

I completely forgot that Johnny Depp starred in Finding Neverland, maybe because he wasn't as insufferable as usual.

In the original version of the play that later became the book Peter Pan, there's no Captain Hook. He was invented later. A lot of us who watched the Disney movie or saw a theatre production forget how the book ends. Most adaptations hide its grim conclusion: Hook isn't the villain. Peter is.

This is my Bill the Tank Engine Mii. I made a second island that's not Avengers Academy Game for other characters and cursed concepts like this.

the father in this c-drama is the absolute worst.

after reading the emily writes bit about rnz journalists knowingly publishing misinfo that amplified a harassment campaign against tory whanau, youve got to wonder where else, and what else, thats happening for… and why have they NEVER spoken out at the time?? just how knowingly awful is msm atm??

it's funny when youtube says the end of the opening credits is "the most replayed" when really they mean the minute and a half before that is "the most skipped"

In case anyone needed to remember that “He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings (persons) with inherent rights. “Grounded in Te Ao Māori teachings and Polynesian values, the Declaration recognizes whales as both ancestors and sentient beings.”

fucking finally he is starting to actually tell us stuff

twice in the last couple of episodes characters have mentioned a legitimate son who died at some point during childhood who never came up at any point before that so I'm going to guess I should try to remember his name

If our dominant social values centered around hobbies, self-enrichment, intellectual curiosity and general wellbeing rather than money money money, I wonder how many people would decide on their own that they'd rather be financially rich instead.

There's a very useful phrase from the 90s TV show due South: "for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture..."

I could play more PZ or I could watch more c-drama or I could match my energy levels and go back to bed again.

I'm dead

I like how the pulses of people in ancient China were magical and could tell physicians literally anything about their health and physiology.

it's really ominous and weird how photobucket's latest round of stalker emails have the subject line "We found you." (I know I probably could have unsubscribed literally years ago but at some point it became morbidly fascinating how desperate they are.)

lmao there is not a single chance that I will have made $4.5m from all sources by the time I'm 60 (including interest) even if I never had to spend a single cent

omg one of the secret private army guys in this fight scene got disarmed and the next thing you know he has gloves with wolverine claws!

incredible news

NZQA not liking the scores going up reminds me of how the levers that control the economy start being frantically pulled whenever unemployment gets too low. Our systems are designed to require a certain number of people to fail. Politicians etc pay lip service to wanting to improve measures but lie.