Really getting the feeling National are going to campaign on the line “What you didn’t like about the last term is all ACT’s fault!”

Whatever happened to those rumours that missing #DoctorWho episodes were going to be announced as found by “Film is Fabulous?” a week or so ago? I was assured by some people on this site that this time the rumours had substance…

I’ve been rewatching the Diana Rigg seasons of #TheAvengers, albeit in order for the first time, and the black-and-white season is just fantastic. But the show seems to lose steam as the colour series goes on

Has anyone seen Labour make an official party statement about this horrific human rights issue yet?

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't

#SleepawayCamp2 is a campy (no pun intended) delight, bookended by a first film with a “shock” ending that is pretty distasteful today, and a third film which is just dull

any filmmakers on here interested in remaking Falling Down (1993) but instead of a traffic jam on a hot day the catalyst is trying to log in to editorial manager on literally any sort of day whatsoever?

Can I just point out that these warnings are far, far from empty alarmism. Look at the states. Repro rights orgs started warning people years ago as the antis chipped away at our rights until finally Roe v Wade fell. We can’t let it happen here. We need a new govt. #nzpol

Will you all please calm your collective fucking farms. I can't WAIT until you all find out who some of our candidates are, but I have to. The hottest tip I've got for you fam, is if you want more Greens in your government PARTY VOTE FOR THE GREEN PARTY. 🤷 Revolutionary. (Literally).

Somehow I thought Craig Renney was much older

I spent most of last night writing up the rules for the card game I am designing, mostly so I can give it to a friend to play test. No idea whether the game itself will be fun, but the mental exercise of designing a game is fun

New salutation just dropped

The Andrew Little situation strongly implies he just confidently assumed he could manage Chung fine, and put zero thought into it beyond that. Which means he also just assumed Tory Whanau was doing a bad job when he could cruise through. And that's disrespectful/racist/sexist as shit. #nzpol

Some opposition MP should put a "Regulatory Standards Act Repeal Bill" into the biscuit tin, approach the NZ First backbench MPs to sign on in support of it, and then see what happens if it gets pulled from the lottery ... NZ First didn't promise not to vote to repeal it once enacted!

If we are stopping puberty blockers due to a lack of evidence, then by that metric all SSRIs should also be stopped.

Who is prototyping a board game? Me!

Alan Tarica seems to have disappeared from BlueSky. How sad!

People keep sending me SubStack links and I keep telling them I’m not going to visit their Nazi bar

It’s kind of astounding how many people read this article and went “Shame on the publisher for being so cheap to use AI covers!” when the issue is that the publisher paid for designed covers, only to find out that the designer cheated them

I live in a time when "a cabal of pedophiles runs the country" and "the national media have been engaging in a multi a year long conspiracy to end democracy" are factual statements and I want a refund

Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya. I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.

I'm doing an interview for a Turkish sociology journal by email, and its fascinating because the questions are good but my answers will be translated into Turkish. So I have to be careful in how I phrase things in order to forestall potential ambiguities that the translators would need to deal with.

There is a place in Guangzhou that does a vegan pork belly dish that is basically a fairly common fake pork product that has been deep fried to perfection. I'm going to try and replicate it in an airfryer...

a concept i talk about a lot with the guy i'm seeing is "fast thinking", which is like low-grade, shallow, and easily disposable pop intellectualism. key hallmarks include focusing on discourse over substance, not being able to separate similar form from different content, and "annoying = evil"

Hey, who's up for reaffirming some particularism? You know @mrxdentith.com and I are - all day, every day. Listen to us now as we reaffirm the shit out of it like you wouldn't believe.

This is correct. Anyone who has ever worked in an institution with a very steep power hierarchy has seen this kind of email and knows exactly what it means.

Editorial note for anyone writing about Epstein, there is no such thing as an "underage woman."

Aside from the cheeky look the bull is giving, popping out from behind two milk bottles, one has to wonder if the bull is small or the bottles really really big!

Not one, but two prince andrews!

The problem with the fourth #ParamormalActivity film is that it’s just a sequence of footage. Ostensibly it’s found footage, but there’s no hook this time, no contrivance to explain how it comes from a single source. It’s just events that have been filmed

I always need a day to relax after a conference or workshop, and most unfortunately that couldn’t be yesterday as I had to teach. And it can’t really be today as I have a reading group to run (and maybe another to attend). Maybe tomorrow?

Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Block and move on. The Rude label is a nanny.

After eight hours stuck at Baiyun International Airport and a three plus hour flight, I’m finally in Beijing. Can’t tell if I’m tired or wired after that ordeal

It turns out that even the most prestigious university in China (not mine; mine is in the top three or four) has an administration prone to making epic mistakes. Namely, the flight to Beijing they arranged was never actually booked or paid for…

Old Trump banging on about nuking the filibuster about a year before the mid terms is something GOP congressional strategy types are probly freaking about

i'm still appalled people were making fun of her for this instead of being thoroughly charmed by what it says about the insanely cool and lengthy career wallace shawn has had

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Well, now, look what arrived in the post... Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published. Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Every few years I go "What happened to one album wonder #DoMeBadThings?" and it seems between then and now, someone decided to update the Wikipedia page...

It might interest @hewligan.bsky.social, who first introduced me to "Do Me Bad Things" that they released new songs back in 2015! domebadthings.bandcamp.com/album/jailbr...

Dick Cheney hasn’t died. He’s descended to hell to be Satan’s VP

The capitalists who think the market is more important than the environment will be surprised when the collapse of environment renders the existence of the market null and void

This is appalling and unfortunately, unsurprising. They're willing to burn it all down if it puts a few extra dollars in the pockets of their cronies. Capitalism is all about the shortest of short term gains with no thought for the future. #nzpol

someone on reddit found the facebook group richard bunce is a part of and they're just nazis. and the reporter who did this story failed to mention that because i guess research is hard.