When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case' When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'

Our 'Special Collections' contain an array of of propaganda material, including antisemitic, anti-Nazi and anti-Communist items. This newspaper clipping from the collection includes a cartoon published on this day in 1938, in response to the policy of appeasement towards Hitler's expansionist aims.

“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

Technologically advance a band: Queens of the Bronze Age

Before the lightning struck, it was one grey chicken. [Alt text: A photo taken in front of a window showing two chickens: one with dark feathers, one with pale feathers. The countryside scene outdoors is split by a dramatic fork of lightning hitting the hills in the background at just that moment.]

Further pondering. We don't have an equivalent to this documentary, because the NZ Government acted swiftly and effectively, while the UK government was slow, corrupt and incompetent www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

LOL

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Some cranks say it will be the rapture tomorrow, but I am sure it will be a normal day with typical activity, and a perfectly normal posting response from New Zealand when it is the first country to see the new day. Chat to you all in the morning.

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

Fun to think we won't even commit to the backhanded appearance of doing the least possible thing

lol fuck if trump likes this he's going to start holding more big elaborate funerals where everybody cheers for him

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

I don't think it's wise of the Lib Dems to promote the idea that asylum constitutes a national emergency, justifying use of the Civil Contingencies Act. That Act bestows enormous powers on ministers, to be used only in "the most serious of emergencies". Would Davey want Farage having those powers?

Worth visiting if you have 247 hours to kill and have existential doubts about your own back story.

there's no grift easier than the conservative pundit, which is one of the big reasons they're all so absurdly thin-skinned.

Technologically advance a band: <Blink>182</Blink>

I was raised mostly catholic and always assumed that Milo tasted Like That as a form of penance for the sin of wanting to drink chocolate on a weeknight

interesting bit in a Lancet article re: Australia's teen social media ban: surprisingly the amount of socialising in person hasn't dropped significantly in the past 25 years, and certainly not by the average amount of social media use.

You could for real do the series with random monstrosities people have bought into

The image that may best represent this current era was created around 225 years ago. Francisco Goya, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters."

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

I see the US is fast forwarding through Niemoller's poem.

Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

The things I do for art. Despite being on my man-flu death bed I got up before dawn to get in position for the #SolarEclipse, the first bit was thwarted by cloud, but they made for a great sunrise pic. From up on Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, #Dunedin NZ. #Nikon #DunnerStunner #Eclipse

I know you know this, but. It's to mock us. It's a dominance play. It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth. They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

I have some plain language I could use about this

The guy pushing Leucovorin for autism (Frye) works closely and repeatedly with the guy who pushed heavy metal chelation for autism (Rossignol), a practice that has actually killed children.

You can zoom up REAL CLOSE to this image on Canterbury Stories... but don't. ^MT www.canterburystories.nz/collections/...

Brass neck

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

Palestine has been hit with more tons of bombs in 2 years than the total of London, Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima & Nagasaki in WW2. Now the UK, Australia & Canada decide that while they continue to arm Israel, they will make recognition of Palestine conditional on the victim unilaterally disarming.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

This is quite possibly the best #MapsWithoutNewZealand I’ve ever seen (via www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/...)

The sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed the whale

One commenter said of this “ I can now peacefully die, fully sated, knowing that I, with my own eyes, have witnessed the greatest human creation that has ever existed or will ever exist. ” So without further ado I present youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk

"🍊🧍‍♂️⬇️"

maybe bluesky should consider implementing twitch's "emoji only mode" for when a certain person dies. It's not exactly the best solution but it'd mostly solve your impossible moderation problem

I really think we underestimate how much of Trumpian bullshit isn't so much him thinking, "I'll tell a lie now" as it is him thinking, "I will manifest this into reality through the power of spoken positive thought"

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Ah yes the dragon, famous Christian symbol of the pure and good

Was trying to think of what all these photos on the skyline today were reminding me of and then I remembered

“An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train. The police told me to leave the train.”

Grok, highlight Armenia and Cambodia on a map for me...

actually that checks out

Anyway, if you are making a silent film, consider hiring a pastel artist because such art titles would really enhance the authenticity.