Danaerys & Drogo

My TV backlight keeps defaulting back to 100 🤦🏾 #iykyl #notproblems

Doing a memorial rewatch of SCHITT'S CREEK S06E05 'The Premiere' with dinner. RIP Catherine O'Hara 😢

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🎥 #nowseated @ The Hollywood Cinema and eagerly awaiting the start of Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE 🤓🤙🏾

I've found this resource helpful. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

🎥 Great little @letterboxd.social interview with Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden on making HALF NELSON 20yrs ago #indiefilm #ryangosling #nyc

Slightly amended wording, more topical. 🤣 #nzpol

Turns out the real threat isn’t immigrants - it’s blue zip codes.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

1am, 20°C, 97% RH, pissing down with rain on a mid-summer night. Welcome to AKL! 🥵

Neighbourhood sax is now going. Perhaps in celebration of the quickly restored power? Whatever the case, the player is quite decent, so it's quite pleasant.

First power cut since we moved. Luckily it only lasted about 30mins here as I could only find one small head lamp and I haven't properly cleaned the BBQ yet as we haven't used it yet this summer (partially due to relatively close-quarteredness of our currently housing situation) 😅

The 2019 Pask 'Trilliant' (merlot, cab sav, malbec) develops some surprisingly tasty savoury complexity the next day for a mid-tier drop #happynewyear2026 🍷😋

Am I seeing in the new year on my couch with a glass of bubbly, a bowl of lime jelly, and the sounds of Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band? Why, yes, I am! 🎉🥂😁 Ngā mihi o te tau hou! (Happy new year!)

Just found these 'Malaco DJUNGELVRAL Original' mystery sweets in my bag, left over from our work Christmas raffle, the last prize no one was have to take. I had a quick squiz and thought it might be Dutch salted licorice. Turns out it is Swedish double-salted licorice - win! 😋🙌🏾

🎥 Afternoon collection acquisitions 🤓 Rewatched AFTERSUN (first viewing since seeing @ NZIFF 2022) with my lady and eldest daughter. All loved, and quietly devastated. Best deal on Bujalski's SUPPORT THE GIRLS. Thought it was a mistake but apparently not! 😃 #physicalmedia #dvd #indiefilm

Stoked I remembered to prep some jelly on Christmas Eve 😋🙌🏾 #adultdesserts

Don’t forget this lovely centrefold of Uranus!

Meri Kirihīmete e hoa mā! 🎄🤗

This year's Christmas tree decoration (family tradition) was a winner 😁🙌🏾

“As tangata whenua there is a sacred responsibility to uphold the tikanga of manaaki manuhiri. That is our law before law. Haka is not a political tool for harassment." - Oriini Kaipara, MP for Tāmaki Makaurau.

Consumer PSA: A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree, but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree. DON'T BE FOOLED.

Oh damn, sad to hear this news 😰 I'll always recall him first as Mikey in Sean Baker's STARLET but loved him in a range of films as well as being f**k up Ziggy in THE WIRE

Next week on CHATFISH...

THE WORST POISSON IN THE WORLD 🎥

At this point I'm almost entirely composed of slightly stinging grazes.

I've noticed that people who use the inevitability argument always make comparisons to email and social media, never to NFTs or DDT. I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

Thankful for a bus with decently functioning aircon this afternoon 🙏🏾

You know who doesn't rush to buy wi-fi-enabled "smart" appliances? IT security people. I had one regale me with a story about a "smart" heater that could be remotely made to bypass its own thermostat and keep heating. Ideal for burning your enemy's house down.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

🍺 Artist: monkeon https://b3ta.com/board/11423387 From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling

iKea is the Forest & Bird website chat agent, right?

Insert a movie into another movie: MY NAME IS JOE DIRT

I really give not the slightest shit about the appearance of Ikea in NZ. It seems strange to me that such things hold so much interest for enough people that the 'event' necessitates traffic disturbance warnings and 'news' commentary. Capitalism, I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I wonder what portion of NZ's population feels represented by this same old bullshit? I mean, a bunch of people voted for these backward fuckwads, so... 🤦🏾

I don't think it was 👏🏾🤩

When you're watching something, and it has a slightly unsettling but not obvious vibe, and then the director's name shows just after the fade to black, and you're surprised to see 'Antonio Campos'. But actually, you're not surprised at all 🤔 #beenawhile #disturbia

‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’

NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE. That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Finally got around to starting THE WITCHER S4 only to find Liam Hemsworth cosplaying as Geralt of Rivia😬

Micro-break to help guide a lost bumble bee out of my office space 🐝

🎥 Is it just me, or did someone re-tool Lanthimos's lesser known, Greek language oddity ALPS as a feel-good dramedy starring Brendan Fraser? www.imdb.com/title/tt1414...

Continuing to school the girls in modern classics / filmmakers I love early works @rianjohnson.bsky.social

Who needs secrecy when you can have helpful signage instead? #nzintelligence

“Te Kōrero Tūmatanui: The Neoliberal Hijacking of Our Children’s Education” - 29 October 2025 The Curriculum Con Unveiled themaorigreenlantern.substack.com/p/te-korero-...

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs