The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Q: What if I need to escape from a murderer? A: if the murderer hacked their car to get rid of the limiter they should have to pay a hefty fine.

Calling this done because if I don't I'll keep fussing with the details forever and it's driving me crazy. 😅 Titling this one "Languish" 🦁

It's Mari Lwyd season

an experiment that an ink dropper

Sam Bates, known as SMUG, Australian-born, realistic street #artist. This one is in Glasgow. In the comments, I've included different views of this piece, as well as some other pieces of this hyper-realistic street artist. #StreetArt #WallMural #murals #UrbanArt #art

re: LLM answers at the top of search results — it's so funny that they put a little imp who lies to you at the gate to All Human Knowledge. Does Google think it's protecting the city of Thebes??

The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and life-saving treatment option”

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

Yes! It's vibes and headlines! By which metrics it's anyone's game because Luxon has rancid vibes (but Labour gets terrible headlines)

Grep/sed/awk might hose your entire code base with a bad command but at least it won’t fucking try to push to prod after it’s done it

Fun fact: For the movie Alien, they actually used a man in a practical suit because the studio was unable to afford a real Xenomorph.

(The immunity to local consumer pressure also means that the natural "market" solution - we reduce consumption - simply has no impact. Hence the need for regulatory solutions)

I say if being told the truth is going to make these people mad, let them be mad, but do your best to have them be mad about having been misled, rather than having them be mad at you for how they felt when you told them

timeline cleaning

This is possibly my favorite product answer yet: Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell? A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.

The OG Simon's Cat film!

NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989 As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane

Bullshit alert: some NZ politicians (dishonestly) claiming that the puberty blocker ban is about "saving" kids from "unnecessary" medical interventions and "letting them make up their own minds" No, that's *what puberty blockers* do. It gives those kids time to work out their own identity.

I think this painting might be finished, but I've been staring at it for too long! Oil on panel, 70 x 100cm. #oilpainting #landscape #hills #moonlight #irishart #maybefinished 🤔

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

The fae want you to *think* they're open source. But you never actually read the licence, did you?

TFW you want to sleep some more but Glamis hath murder'd sleep

The four humours: inflammation (fire, irritable), 5G (air, optimistic), vaccines (water, calm), and ultra-processed foods (earth, sad).

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air news.mit.edu/2025/ultraso... The system can be paired with any atmospheric water harvesting material to shake out drinking water in minutes instead of hours.

this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict

My last word on the matter

Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

So...is our Govt saying that the Cook Islands dishonored a Treaty? Well isn't that Ironic. #nzpol #cookislands #TeTiritiOWaitangi www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...

Being allergic to something doesn’t mean you can’t love it. It just means you can’t have a healthy relationship with it.

I am going to fight the new anti-cycling Dunedin City Council & their desire to send us back to the 1980s tooth & nail. This is yet another piece of evidence I need to add to the boxes of evidence.

MINERALS MINERALS MINERALS

#NZPol Part 1 Apologies for another lengthy post, but I am still reeling from yesterday's decision. The decision to remove the requirement for school boards to give voice to Te Tiriti is a LOT more than an attack on the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and our commitment to bilingualism.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

“Salome” by Mark Nelson.

RISING (2007) Acrylic on Watercolor board - 36” X 24” This image came to me while I was working on THE RIVER in 1996. 1/3

I'm working on the print format of this strip! I'm sorry it took so long, I'm a tired thing. Looks awesome tho✨️

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers? King: Vivian was telling a story about a goth town Shelley: hell yeah Valentine: there's a spider Shelley: hell yeah Valentine: the spider has a name Shelley: Samantha? Valentine: you've heard this story before? Shelley: no she just looks like a samantha

occupied cavities • 11” x 14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

So let’s get this straight. Lifeline is unfunded by govt & needs $2 million. But govt just hands $24 million to Gumboot Friday and is happy to give millions to the bloody Michelin Guide for tourism puffery of dubious value. Everything this govt does is run on vibes. www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/06/l...

marker tomatoes

Huge thanks to everyone who has donated wood to our woodchuck enclosure. We have reached an undetermined percentage of our goal.

Okay now nz labour stop looking at uk labour and look at Mamdani instead of

Tuesday mood:

Hey anyone at #mpi or #biosecuritynz. We do wasp genomics. I reckon I could tell you in about 24 hours if these invasive yellow legged #hornets you have found in Auckland are sisters, or a larger invasion. For free. Hit me up now!