holy fucking shit I need a tattoo that says "I have manifested my darkness and become a god" fucking *yesterday*

this feels a little on the nose

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Yeah I’m sure you do wish you had been asked about dogs and not a war criminal but the reason we repost this guys interviews is because he asks about the war criminals

This is incredible

I am always saying this (complimentary). Our culture often holds longevity as the primary marker of success, and it isn't! A great relationship that ends on good terms after 5 years is better than it ending on miserable terms after 10 years.

Anyway, I'm working on a podcast about the politics, economics, libidinal drives and rising salience of violence to our current historical juncture. Follow @bloodwork.show to learn more in the coming weeks, and if you think you'd like to contribute, drop me an email: [email protected]

my whole tl becomes Darryl when there's a new Chotiner interview

CHOTINER: You enjoy a late night snack. ME: *chuckles* guilty as charged CHOTINER: You mentioned previously that plums are a favourite. ME: Oh. This. CHOTINER: Straight out of the icebox. ME: I can assure you that I was not aware that they were for breakfast. CHOTINER: okay, but this note...

Cloud Atlas except it's Sam Altman recurring throughout history and each instance ends with him getting halberd-chopped by a Swiss guy

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Everyone is, rightly, clowning on Cass Sunstein for the Star Wars stuff in his Chotiner interview, but for me, this part was WAY more revealing Folks simply have NO idea how lazy our elite "public intellectuals" can be archive.is/chvmm

Absolutely howling at this.

The Rapture actually happened, just not to humans. Ocean's empty of Evangelical squid now though.

Lads I cannot recommend having friends who share their successes and creative projects with you enough. Absolute top-tier stuff.

Maps without New Zealand (derogatory)

me when my 32mm scale model Meiji Restoration-era Japanese village is out for delivery

“21% of americans trans” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is not transgender. Genders Georg, who lives in new york & transitions over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

This morning's #SolarEclipse as seen from up on Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Dunedin NZ. The cloud prevented the full set of images & at regular intervals, but this is kinda fun. (click for full image) #Nikon #Dunedin #DunnerStunner

here's my organising 101 find a local thing that needs fixing plan how to fix it ask if anyone wants to help fix the thing repeat we need it to be this simple to start with because in NZ our civic frameworks continue to be hollowed out. Connect in your communities, bond over jobs done well

I have installed a curtain in my office and with the lamps on it feels like even more of a cosy nest than before. I've never liked a work environment more than my little space with penguin neighbours.

everyone i know has been assaulted, or supported a friend through an assault, or dealt with grooming culture, or objectification and harassment, or found out a friend was a predator. It goes on and on. In a society with so much sexual trauma everyone has a personal relationship to it.

I finished this last week and there's a passage in it that's stuck with me since. One of the people in it loses pretty much everything due to being sucked into QAnon. He has a crisis of faith, and suffers a pretty horrendous car accident. In recovery, he talks to the guy who saved his life...

Junior Cans and his grandma watching the partial eclipse

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn’t have to want to. But you had to do it.”

Yes, this is what I believe too www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When I was younger my mum had these beautiful reference books of Medieval Art, and I recently asked if she still had them. These turned up today.

I finished this last week and there's a passage in it that's stuck with me since. One of the people in it loses pretty much everything due to being sucked into QAnon. He has a crisis of faith, and suffers a pretty horrendous car accident. In recovery, he talks to the guy who saved his life...

Wild reading a book about the history of Byzantium, an empire that calcified and eventually fell in part because intercenine struggles and labyrinthine dogma meant a structural inability to respond effectively to a changing context. Probably nothing to be learned from this!

So, short term at least it really does look like Marvel fans/Disney Adults have higher moral standards than Harry Potter fans. Useful to know.

We're at the monster truck show and I'm sorry but the truckosaurus is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

hey, Wild Faith has sold 21,000 copies! that is pretty neat. 21,000 people more informed about what christofascism looks like and its impact on women and children join the knowledge elite here 🧿👁️: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

This is the best thing you'll see on Bluesky all day (sound not necessary, but it's nice to hear the laughter)

Buy art from @cathsheard.bsky.social , you won't regret it ♥️

Rouet pre-match "I'm not worried about New Zealand" to Pelletier post-match "It's just fun to play rugby". Canada don't give a shit about anything but balling and it's incredible.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

The world's most boring kompromat

Tboy swag, I believe

Government: austerity means line go up! IMF, economists, the public: which line? They're all going down! Government: 😡

If this isn't your response to doomerism I don't want to know you

FUCKIN' THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

My theory is that the beige brigade is afraid to decorate their space in any manner resembling personal taste because that’s exposing a piece of themselves for judgement on social media, whereas holiday decorations aren’t “serious“ so you can go ham. Plus, use their code to receive 10%…

This is a @killjamesbond.bsky.social bit that has escaped containment

"That's when we become unstoppable." 🤝 @zackpolanski.bsky.social meets co-leader of New Zealand Greens Chlöe Swarbrick 💚

National: I have got us back on track NZ: you fucked up a perfectly good economy is what you did. look at it, it's got recession

Daily life in 2025. #AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS