Scientists are asking if it might be unconscious

A billion dollar industry based on combining art, engineering, design and business expertise. How many more of these sectors could we have if we ran the science and innovation system based on nurturing talent and long term vision, rather than managerial alignment theatre and ticket clipping?

So cray

Shouldn't 2FA prevent this? I'm pretty dismayed an "AI" can change your account's email without any authorisation at all.

Meanwhile, the current government of Aotearoa, following Trump's lead, is busy setting up the Ministry for the Past. #nzpol

QUAKE: Mag 4.1, Tue, Jun 02 2026, 06:38:08 PM, 25 km west of Porirua. Depth: 67 km #eqnz https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2026p411558#eqnz

Imagine if someone gave him an actual IQ exam, he'd stroke out.

This is insane. The Heritage Foundation, architect of Project 2025, has been denying climate science for decades, and employing deniers to do so. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Started these chopping boards before Xmas because I had time, then mum got sick & passed away & it’s now June & they are getting their final sand & first coat of oil today. Can’t see myself making any more this year, a life to get on with. For sale on my site soon.

It strikes me, on the balance of probabilities, that 1. Fonterra and Z sent their lobbying to Matt Burgess’ personal email address in order to try to avoid public scrutiny; 2. They were given that address to facilitate avoiding public scrutiny;

I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them?

Sad day for all of the lawyers & accountants sitting on / chairing council Audit & Risk Committees.

Liam Hehir on the radio? I think not. 🔇 #nzpol

NYT bends itself into a pretzel to avoid saying "racist" and "misogynist."

We did it lads 🎉

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

So....lies www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “‘I don’t care about the midterms’ is what you say when you may have botched them and are trying to alchemize incompetence into valor,” Frank Bruni writes of President Trump’s recent show of indifference.

Tropical Storm Jangmi Tracker reut.rs/3RJnQUj

This. The purpose of a system is what it does. our system of “immigration” concentration camps is intended to mistreat, abuse, murder, & dehumanize people. This is a crime against humanity, as it is. It gets a LOT worse if we allow it to continue.

AI-generated imagery part of boom in online child exploitation

NZ First being open about being a cooker party full of weirdos www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.

you simply can't beat Japanese floral stink researchers for scientific illustration

do british ppl call it new zedland

Fossil fuel lobby sure is getting its money’s worth. Really is scandalous how much they are getting for their investments in the ruling parties.

Bibi, Trump and Putin get a thrill out of killing It’s a twisted, fascist thing

This right here.

England just had its warmest spring on record. The record was last set in spring 2025. Before that, spring 2024. 9 of the 10 warmest springs have occurred since 2007. It's almost like there's a long-term driver causing this... www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

the president is bored with his war

She, Tucker Carlson, Tim Poole, all these RW influencers... all quite happy to show how beholden to Russia they are.

Robust projections of risks to the Amazon rainforest Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest. 🌐🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01158-8 🌐🧪

After the hundreds of millions the public invested in eliminating mycoplasma bovis after NAIT gaming, farm industry scofflaws persist.

Breaking News: President Trump is backing off his $1.8 billion payout fund after a GOP backlash, people familiar with the matter said.

They'll make solar panels illegal next #nzpol

These guys would economise on planks of wood in a lifeboat in the name of cost effectiveness.

FUCKING VOTE.

Man bluesky was cool because it was one of the last social media sites where you could openly post NSFW things and not be punished by puritanical freaks trying to sell the site to conservative investors

I think this is a lie to get liberals to throw trans people under the bus. I’m pretty confident he got into politics so he could rob the American taxpayers blind and do massive fraud in order to become the world’s first trillionaire consequence free.

cool cool cool cool cool cool cool

Skilfully gathering low-hanging fruit. The guy is so good.

Um. Yes. I often call up the alt text on a screenshot of text for ease of reading and this situation now makes it impossible. Please fix @bsky.app @support.bsky.team @joshuajfriedman.com

i think even the average person who carries a marginalized identity can occasionally feel some distance from the parade of heritage but then here comes Mamdani like "OMG a chance to HONOR people! you know who i love? people! especially NEW YORKERS! we are so blessed" and you have to hand it to him

How batteries muscled out gas and pushed power prices down

You can't select and copy text from the alt text anymore?????? Arghhhh!!!!!! @bsky.app what the fuck!!!!!! That was literally one of the most useful features on the site, which made it really easy to c&p and re-use alt text, but what, now I have to write the alt text each time??? Fuck! You!!!!!

Here's New Zealand's Finance Minister on the gap to our 2021-30 Paris Agreement NDC target (from 27 minutes). TLDW is that the plan is not to reduce emissions more or to use offshore credits, it's to hope for magic beans.

Happy Pride Month. First up for me is this scene where the 1985 anime series DIRTY PAIR champions trans rights at a time when almost nobody did!