been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

This photo documents what should be multiple distinct administration-ending scandals, each of which should warrant the harshest criminal penalties our society allows

figured out how to make this website usable, finally

Petition: "That ownership of property, residential or commercial, or direct interest in same, or indirect interests through any arrangement of trusts, connected to a person, other than the primary family home, makes that person ineligible to be elected as an MP, or selected as a List MP in Aotearoa"

Describe your bluesky account in three words “ADHD dopamine scrolling”

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began. However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/

fuck this news story is exactly how I think news stories should be presented. Te Ao is the only outlet I have push alerts for cos it delivers content like this. What's unfolding is real shit. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/02/11/p...

This makes no sense. People need to stop assuming there’s a huge genius strategy behind this. It’s effectively obeying in advance, it empowers evil people with intelligence and guile they lack. They’re doing this because number went up. GPUs are not helpful in that way.

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

900,000 times I can forgive, but

The fact that her reaction is almost certainly opportunistic makes this more, not less, significant.

The 60-something retirees in Minneapolis patrolling the streets with whistles have more guts and more commitment to push back against government tyranny than he'll ever have.

And that goes for ALL those swaggering fucks who've spent the last 30 years rattling their sabers about FREEDUM and DONT TREAD ON ME, now busy examining their boots while the most inconceivably gross injustices of the century are visited on the innocent. They should never be allowed to forget this.

Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It’s very good of Prince William to distance himself from his horrific uncle Andrew, while on a visit to hang out with journalist-murdering bastard Mohammed bin Salman. I

The Govt claims to be pro-market yet: $200m subsidy for oil exploration; Uncapped subsidies to decommission old oil fields; $1billion subsidy for LNG imports; Fonterra faces zero price for emissions under ETS. There is a pattern here. They are using the state to support and subsidise pollution.

The takeaway here is the declaration that Goldsmith ran a shoddy process that was inconsistent with some mandatory statutory criteria in the appointment of two high ranking tribunal members stands. And we're entitled to take that into account when assessing how Goldsmith does his job.

oh so the jobs report is going to be BAD bad

Despite 85% of our power coming from cheap renewables the price you pay is set by the cost of gas By an industry making 93% margins Who are refusing to adequately invest in the cheap renwables because that would impact profits Our electricity is expensive because that suits the gentailers #nzpol

Some governments raise taxes to fund public health and education. Not Luxon. He is literally raising taxes to subsidise fossil fuels. He is putting a levy on our electricity bills to pay for his LNG import terminal.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

The turning point channel is just square dancing and Mike Pence singing “There’s a Hole in My Bucket, Dear Liza”

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

call me "woke" or whatever but I think the Superbowl should have less football and more dancing latinas

The right portrayed Hunter Biden as the ultimate in nepotism and corruption when in reality he was just doing coke, banging adult prostitutes, and driving his Porsche too fast, while they were all raping children, burying the bodies, stealing hundreds of billions, and covering it all up.

Hunter is what we naively believed a spoiled, entitled rich person got up to and got away with. Honestly, it's exactly the sort of shenanigans most of our younger selves might have gotten caught up in with enough cash. What actual ultra wealthy people do in the shadows is so, so much darker.

The IRS already knows what you need to pay in taxes – so why doesn’t it just tell you instead of putting you through a costly and tax-consuming reporting process? Answer: Because Congress is catering to tax prep companies. buff.ly/8koKPYG #taxes

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

The fact that a Republican senator from Alabama of all places is trying to seed stories about how she’s secretly actually very concerned with how things are going is an indicator of how freaked out the smart cynics in the GOP caucus are regarding the anti-MAGA backlash

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Worth a full read

I have no doubt they're going to try everything they can, but they literally don't have the guys to pull this off. And the more this starts to look like a blue wave, the harder it's going to get for them to engineer something different.

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

haha holy shit

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

there have been many, many more egregious and awful bans on this website but this is perhaps the stupidest just from like, a business perspective

A mystery for the ages