Can moving mitochondria be harnessed to treat cancer? go.nature.com/4pev7qp

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Merry Christmas

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

did some modifications to my macro setup and man I can get a lot closer now. anyway lichen looks extremely alien when you get up in them guts.

M got me a guitar! ☺️🥳😭

Merry Christmas everyone!

Introduced our non Kiwi friends to Snoopy's Christmas and got tipsy off Christmas themed beer hope y'all had a good eve

大家圣诞快乐

In China though: just another day

It is very funny seeing my Chinese friends faces when I say we usually eat salad and go swimming at the beach for Christmas back home; it's like can't compute concept of a hot Christmas

Just wait til you hear what happened when they combined human DNA with lettuce DNA All they found was human romaines

another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)

Marvellous!

You're not meant to SAY the "we have to keep the lowest paid poor so everyone else knows they're better than them"

Seeing people's #SecretSantaAoNZ honestly making me so homesick

One of those things that I do think every New Zealander should listen to thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-...

Many countries will be examining their resilience and independence from grossly improper US influence. The fact that the EU doesn’t have resilience to protect its citizens banking abilities is a massive failure in this regard. Not the rule of law there, but the rule of US law and policy.

Sorry RNZ is this meant to inspire patriotism or what www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.

Last month was great but really tiring -- honestly looking forward to getting back into a routine!

November 2025 #1secondeveryday

Thank goodness this flight has wifi so can post about the two old Australian men the row in front arguing how to pronounce Guangzhou

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

You haven’t lived until you’ve been totally lost watching Malaysian standup

I don't think Gregory Peck is handsome he looks boring

If Letterboxd stays down I'm going to have to post my unfunny one liners on movies here and nobody wants that

Terrible day to be literate

Maybe, just maybe, don't treat women in your profession, especially women in a mentor/protege or supervisor/employee relationship, as part of your potential dating pool?

This trip I found out she thought cockroaches could live hundreds of years 🧐

Love to have some lil Chinese students assume I'm a professor haha

Another reminder of why, at this time, we cannot take medical or public health advice from USA public health institutions ⬇️ The article by the director of the National Institutes of Health and the principal deputy director is, literally, a string of errors or misrepresentations, one after another 😞

Is it good when a major international news organization is actively soliciting stories about people leaving your country because the government has fucked it so hard?

Is it weird I kinda miss earthquakes

Rather telling that NZ Luxon and Upston announce $6 Million towards possible Michelin stars for Kiwi restaurants while respected Lifeline cuts Mental Health services due to $2 Million funding shortfall. Priorities. #nzpol

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

I keep checking back on this and it fills me with joy to see how many people are getting behind Dr Wiles.

Taking every message to the voters of Georgia personally

He should have died in The Hague.

October 2025 #1secondeveryday

Feels a bit trashy to self promote but if you are looking at the govts announcements and are wanting to learn NZ history that isn’t beholden to the whims of whoever happens to be in the Beehive, I do a podcast that might help with that Find it wherever you get podcasts etc historyaotearoa.com

Syphillis used to be so common and so destructive it would just destroy soft tissue on the face (and hands/feet), so people could AND DID form No Nose clubs so that they had a group of friends they could hang out with and just exist before it sent them into dementia and a horrible death.

Honestly felt ill reading this e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

I take it there's some "important" ball thing in the US but I don't care enough to look

Oh am I supposed to read what Nicola Willis has to say about a Capital Gains Tax? Hmm how about I don't do that. How about I don't do that at all.

Chongqing got as low as 16oC and it was delicious