Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

blocked + reported + familiarizing my beast with your scent

Well, Fallout Season 2 doesn’t seem to be pulling any punches or letting the quality drop. I’m down.

PATHA judicial review against the govt's ban on puberty blockers for trans kids granted, partly on the basis that the decision was taken on political and not medical grounds Which, if it stands, seems like it could sink the whole scam www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...

More stupid theatre being quietly closed down amid the Christmas rush. The road cone hotline is to end, having achieved basically nothing. What was the cost per cone removed? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

I see Bishop's justification for merging all them ministries is that they often give politicians different advice over different issues. Firstly, yeah, no shit. Secondly, what do you think the minister's job is?

Never accept a lecture on decency, civility, or respect from a Trump supporter. Never tolerate it.

Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?

And losing.

I knew Trump's post about Rob Reiner would make at least one of the late-night guys snap. I hope all of them do, but since his got out there first, I can now confirm that at least Seth did, and he did so perfectly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUW2...

"What a good time it would be to have a leader with a moral compass."

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

President currently feuding with a beloved American comedy icon who was murdered 24 hours ago.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.

I'm reminded of an old Russian joke. On average things are going pretty well. Worse than last year, yes, but better than next year.

IMHO, this whole Ruth Richardson vs Willis debate is a beat-up designed to make Willis look more moderate and to give her an excuse to make even bigger cuts to public servants and social services. They are not to be trusted, and this is manufactured meddling.

"...and 3 mcdoubles" 💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀 "...with no pickles please" 💀"GRINCH SALT"💀 "yes of course your holiness"

One day, when people are living once again in leaky homes, or dying of botulism, someone might just link “red tape” to keeping people alive & not broke #nzpol

love taking Microsoft surveys about AI, just sweatily begging me to confirm that maybe it’s useful

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode, no Stars (Wars and Trek), LOTR, Marvel or Disney.

2-3 weeks break for plebs over Xmas and New Year is not what’s fucking over our economy Christopher.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Instead of sharing Spotify unwrapped, here’s my song of the year. Florence + Machine had a belter of an album this year. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xXQm...

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While I don’t disagree with the sentiment broadly, stuff like this is where my taxonomist brain wants to go “we can’t go extinct! We aren’t a species! We aren’t a subspecies! We aren’t a population! We’re one culturally defined average phenotype for one region of the world!

(Luxon, trying to take credit but unable to exit CEO mode) "LinkedIn Park"

New species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)

This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology. Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).

Early Bird Charles V 🤝 Diet of Worms

Determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You've got a conference this weekend, @nzlabour peeps. Someone better have a talk to this guy. #nzpol

There’s a film called “A Little Poland in India”, and a summary here to supplement the thread below: www.sbs.com.au/language/guj...

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

I'm gonna need him to pick a new name for the party

Sad thing is the National govt comes into power, fucks everything up, and I mean everything, gets booted out, the other parties have to fix up the fuck ups and then we have the "rinse and repeat of the NZ political system" But at the very end of this, is the tax payer, who they forget #nzpol

I stick to tradition and still refer to them (and us) as Gulf of Mexicans.

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Christ on a bike, these fucking idiots are ruining the country for no other reason than coalition agreements. VOTE THEM OUT #nzpol

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless

It's funny that DOFP was such a massively influential story that the mutant titles keep trying to recreate it and revisit it and do riffs on it 40+ years later and the original DOFP isn't even long enough to fill a trade paperback, or even count as the opening arc of a new title these days.

Me: happy, content, thriving, enjoying where I’m at in life My phone and the three songs I’ve listened to today: 🧐 you sure about that bro

Zoom noodle has important facts you need to hear!

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.

this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time

Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since

For my money, no image captures the moral upsidedown of the Trump era quite like this one: