I mean I know I’m biased as a weird little nerd with her own weird little niche interests but this is factually correct There’s literally other weird little nerds who studied this stuff

Let me present to you, the scientist creator of insulin, who did a "piece of science" and gave it away, for free, to save lives:

Lilja is so asleep she won’t get up to get ready for bed

On the destruction of New Zealand science peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-the-des...

Don’t fucking call me sunshine indeed (Maybe we need tshirts for the next protest)

Not mad about that

Me @ my first ever attempt at sourdough brioche dough

New Zealand Science: Step 1: cut science funding. Step 2: be baffled there's nothing to commercialise. Step 3: blame the professors. #nzpol

I think one of my greatest strengths actually is being a pain in the ass

Tama lies. Shane fumes, and lies. A journo mentions the objections of Chris Finlayson & Shame Jones pulls this face. these men are so dangerous. 🚨 Then JONES THREATENS THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL 🚨 "Like a farmer's collie; lame, chasing every passing car. And we'll deal with that after the next election"

Y’all I know a lot of things are real bad right now, but here’s one of them

Fuck that for a fucking joke

More than 180 years after the original Nelson Tenths promises were made, Parliament has passed the first reading of legislation returning 3,000 hectares and $420 millio

Not to be a princess but I love: •heated seats •heated steering wheels •wifi operated heat pumps

I absolutely LOVE making a new account on a journal’s website and clicking the “register with ORCiD” button only for me to still need to create an account entirely from scratch with its own password and fill in all my details despite ORCiD having all of those things

Technically, they’re Remains now.

That’s the brutal part though right?

Our public conservation land is not the Government's to sell. It belongs to all of us, and to the generations who come after us. The laws meant to protect our wildlife & our wild places are failing. Nature loss is accelerating & the conservation system is not up to today’s challenges.

Supermarket loyalty programmes not all they're cracked up to be, Value warns

This is a man who fundamentally sees not a single solitary valuable thing about research except any monetary return it can provide, and what his government is doing to our research system illustrates this perfectly

this right here is why New Zealand is going to lose a generation, or more, of scientific talent — and will probably also contribute to Luxon losing his job #nzpol

None of what the CEO of underwhelm wants requires AI to work. Mostly he just wants centralised and connected systems

What a depressing read Luxon 'constantly underwhelmed' by slow AI uptake in NZ businesses www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Bottoming from the TOP! TOP is just another vote for continued neo-liberal fuckery!!! #nzpol

Victoire pour la diversite! Francaise est un lesbienne

Winston Peters says the new health and safety law will "create accidents and deaths” - but it isn't worth bringing the Government down over, which is what will happen if votes against it. www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...

Road Snowfall Warning issued for Arthur's Pass (SH73). Road Snowfall Warning issued for Crown Range Road. Road Snowfall Warning issued for Lewis Pass (SH7). Road Snowfall Warning issued for Lindis Pass (SH8). Road Snowfall Warning issued for Milford Road (SH94).

When you hit play on sad movie and then it turns out it has the song Marjorie in it

I haven’t been on dating apps for A While now because ugh but I also just saw someone complaining about how many men use AI images based on themselves on their profiles and that’s more than enough to keep me off the apps now

Dinner when it’s raining and mum doesn’t feel like going outside

France recorded a high of 44.6°C today. That’s so far beyond anything seen in the historical record, a 4.2 sigma deviation from the norm that it gives a return period of 87 thousand years. It’s really difficult to convey just how utterly extreme this is.

NERD FIGHT

Every worker right was fought for. Every safety regulation was written in blood

just out of curiosity, I tried to line them up

And I have a sleepy little croissant

I just learned there’s a baby Pygmy hippo at Berlin Zoo named Brötchen

The police explained that the family violence abuser was "calm" while the family violence victim-survivor was "hysterical" which was why they helped the abuser and forced the victim-survivor and her children out of their home for 24 hours.

And less than two weeks ago there was another RNZ story about police “accidentally” sharing a woman’s address with a man she had a protection order against

I despair of the media framing on this. Surely the question is this: Two parties you may need to govern have proposed tax resets that leave most kiwis paying less tax provided the wealthiest pay their fair share. Why would you oppose that if yout goal is to help hard working kiwi families? #nzpol

A different question for Labour: in post-election negotiations what will you agree to in exchange for ruling out all Green tax policies? #NzPol

Hipkins seems to be forgetting how democracy in the context of MMP works And in the process implying that he’d rather let the outsized influence of the far right continue than listen to what the people want

Imagine being the absolute perfect target demographic for planned one bedroom apartments (ie single FHB who has over 10% deposit and can service that mortgage by yourself) but you’re locked out cause banks don’t like apartments and the friendliest one requires at least 20%

Truly bizarre. Like he is not even bothering the read the room, just listening to donors probably. So over politics only working for the ultra rich. Vote Green.

Pair this with van Veldens attack on workplace health and safety laws (that came about because of Pike River) and I don’t think you need a particularly active imagination to consider the outcomes

Viewer email into Breakfast this morning described the Greens' tax plan as "like Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor", and my dude, that was not the dunk you thought it was. Like fucking duh.

RocketLab is headquartered in California. They’ve already left. Years ago.

hate to hand it to the guardian too much but this is very funny

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

All this talk about Labour ruling in/out Greens tax policy seems to misunderstand what elections are for. It’s like this All Whites team agreeing to draw with Egypt as long as Egypt draws with Iran later on. Everyone should just go hard out with your policies and then see how the chips fall.