Some of my Star Trek based art. Enjoy. #scifiart #scifi #fanart #startrek

Piercy Haynes was a boxing champion, Second World War veteran, and a celebrated pianist. But he is best remembered for his Haynes Chicken Shack, which he operated with his wife. That tiny venue saw many legendary Black musicians perform. This is his story. 🧵 1/8

Enjoying @hankgreen.bsky.social video on Mola mola, hear him announce he's wearing a t-shirt designed by @pepperraccoon.com and I'm instantly pointing at the TV, a squealing representation of parasocial relationship.

Running the government is a lot like playing recorder – it doesn’t work if you suck. #makeitstop by letting those in power know just how many people care about primary education in NZ. Share this film, sign our petition, or just make some noise for teachers & educators at makeitstop.co.nz

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products: For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I did not come here to be fucking called out like this

9 years ago tonight I drunkenly mixed these two up and I still haven't healed emotionally

As the date for Election 2026 has been announced (November 7), now is a good time to check if you are enrolled to vote, and to update your details if needed. vote.nz/enrolling/en... #election #decision2026 #nzPol

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

Think it's about time we replace the words 'Breaking News' with 'You're going to want to have a little sit down for this one'

Funniest outcome here would be Maduro being acquitted by a US court because the Trump administration didn't think through the case and puts one of their idiot TV pundit prosecutors on it... and then countersuing.

RIP Dick Cheney, you would have finally found something to like about the Trump presidency (illegally overthrowing a government for oil)

Here’s hoping the new year brings us an iconic young lead singer named Polly Crisis.

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

Native bird numbers double in Miramar Peninsula www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In the song “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails, further popularized by Johnny Cash, do they sing: “What have I become, my Swedish friend?” Like you’re existentially asking your pal Bjorn. or is it more like “What? Have I become my Swedish friend?” Like you may have become Bjorn.

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

At this point in my life no less than 50% of my communication in noisy spaces consists of asking others to repeat what they said and nodding in agreement. Agreement to what? I'll never know, but turns out I also prefer to live in fear of being asked about it eventually, rather than asking again.

i’m so happy for him

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

The dude is so young he won our Jr category as well as over all winner of the @winterstellar.bsky.social photography comp 2 years ago. Also one helluva nice guy, congratulations Tom

postmodern finance theory

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

May I offer you a borb in these trying times? 🪶

Low ballot returns in the local government elections so far? That's worrying - but highlighting 'low turnout' can turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Better: show that many are voting, share local examples, and remind people their vote counts. A 🧵 #nzpol

We'd love to have a huge turn out for Nic's talk. Please help spread the word. There are downloadable pdf adverts in the link below. They can be emailed or printed. If you work in a public space (e.g. Library) you could help by printing and posting one of the flyers. Ngā mihi nui!

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

To state the obvious: if acceptance and even celebration of war crimes was the secret sauce for military success, the Russian army would be in Paris by now.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

sometimes i listen to this to hype myself up even though im not welsh, dont play football, and wales lost very badly. it was just a very good speech youtu.be/1fpV0OFC0vc?...

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

WHO WASHES THE WASHMEN!?

Post a perfect album from the 1990s that isn't grunge... CDs were expensive, so I had these on tapes recorded by my cousin, who always made sure I had a copy of any CDs he got his hands on. I listened to these almost daily on a beaten Walkman held together by tape.

incredible work. become uncarryable.

Srsly can we all just calm down about open plan learning environments before following Minister Stanford into a pearl-clutching frenzy that cleverly distracts from the really big problems facing education, like ya know... child poverty Here's a more balanced POV aecnz.substack.com/p/what-paddy...

me after crossing one (1) item off my to-do list and calling it a day

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Today is publication day for this beautiful thing. I hope that it will tell a broad audience what historians of science have now long recognized: that alchemy was not a superstitious aberration but rather, an important phase in the history of ideas and of manufacturing.

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Let me tell you how happy I was when I discovered that the Auckland Zoo sold manure under the name Endangered Feces.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read