This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.

Tony didn't have to give it *all that* but he did. But he did.

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

What I'd just say to you Tama, I mean Tova, how many Maori National Party MPs do we have in the cabinet you ask. It's a number. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMever #NZpol

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

well this is an insane shot

That feeling when you’re so far out in space, the Moon (left) looks the same size as Earth (right). Whew. >deep knee bends<

We are so, so small. #Artemis

"I can generalize." My god. HE'S LITERALLY SAYING HE'S A RACIST. HE'S SAYING IT OUT LOUD.

“I can generalize” is Trump saying “I’m a fucken racist lalala” knowing that no national press outlet or pundit will say a goddamn thing about it.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Rational if you understand the billionaire class as maximising their** chance of survival, not ours… **why yes Tim Winton’s Juice left an impression, why do you ask?

Happy Easter kikorangi! It’s raupeka (Easter orchid) time!

All of the *men* writing in support of him are like "he was going through shit, relax" and like, I could accept that if he stole a couple hundred bucks while being desperate. It doesn't really work when the crime is PAYING A CHILD TO BE RAPED.

The Olympics Just Succumbed to a Ridiculous Gender Panic. Here’s Who It’s Really Going to Hurt. slate.com/life/2026/04...

Good morning—Trump is up and raging about Bruce Springsteen:

Patriarchy: makes "organize social events" a woman's job Women: organize social movements against the patriarchy and its minions Patriarchy: *pikachu face*

Not sure what this normies stuff is about but if you haven't noticed nice ladies do a lot of the activist work in this country and have since the abolitionist movement, you maybe should.

“Girls are not expendable Mr Trump Not in a school Not on a private island…”

Cries in New Zealander … www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Sometimes it seems like they are relying less on the invisible hand of the market, and more on it wielding a magic wand

good lord www.politico.com/newsletters/...

“The ministers treated this as a supply chain and logistics problem. It is not. It is a war that is escalating towards a ground phase, and the ministers didn’t mention it.”

“…dust where your future used to live”

“The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir.”

“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.” 💔💯

Shocking stuff... And I'm also reasonably sure it's AI generated. Like, they've asked ChatGPT to make a funny social media post and this is the one they've gone with.

Just a little casual misogyny with your fuel-saving tips from the local Kiwi supermarket 😡 Can someone tell them that women do most of the supermarket shopping, and the "my wife's such an annoying talkative cow" jokes went out of fashion in the 80s?

NZ First stopped diesel reserves for #NZ in 2024

They started down this path to advocate for their lost loved ones. Now they are advocating for all of us ✊❤️ #StandWithPike newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/26/p...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

There’s little weirder to me about this moment than seeing wired, the publication that for decades paved the road to US technofascism with their ridiculous propaganda of “tech optimism” & technolibertarianism, running articles like this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they are—it’s just ironic as hell

Nobody has dismantled the myth of the benevolent billionaire faster than US tech oligarchs. Watching them leverage massive wealth to break platforms and manipulate politics is a daily reminder that unchecked financial power is inherently destructive

*cries in Aotearoan*

Now award costs against him, so maybe the next asshole plutocrat will think twice about trying to use the legal system as a blunt instrument to victimise independent researchwers working in good faith to tell the truth about the vile shit they get up to www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Accidental?

Given Willis’s previous hyperbole and misinformation about how many families would benefit from a Govt assistance package, we’re looking at maybe 1500 families too here. #nzpol And I’d call this putting the lie in the headline with bells on. 1/n www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Almost as though entrenched intergenerational poverty were the point… 🤔

‘Fuel support package’ indeed 👀

Ah yes, a govt subsidy to keep cars on the road in a fuel crisis rather than a government subsidy to get cars off the road in a fuel crisis. Masterful. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Me, musing aloud about what we (the people) can do in a crisis, while we wait to hear what we (the government of Aotearoa) might do. Come for the practical examples; stay for the shameless e-bike boosterism/ classic Pulp earworm/ adorable art/ Long Covid solidarity/ Bill & Ted Easter egg, etc. 🤘⚡️🎸🪺

So the “main goal” of Trump’s illegal war on Iran is now to try to mitigate one piece of the completely predictable damage that starting the war caused? Sounds competent.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Like we were definitely always doing the war crimes so saying this is WORSE feels complicated. But I definitely feel like it's not great that they don't even feel the need to lie about it anymore.

This is the most straightforward example of environmental, economic, and cultural vandalism this govt has yet proposed, and there is no shortage of candidates And in addition, it will destroy the govt's moral authority to enforce any other fishing laws www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bill-woul...