Media reporting Thiel talk series on the antichrist and not using the words or phrases 'gibberish' 'laughable nonsense' "stupid fucker' 'sweet lord almighty what does he take us for' this guy fucking sucks lol', I see you
10.10.2025 23:50 β π 31 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1
I like to wait for most of the campaign to play out so I can see whether any of my βmaybesβ make an absolute dick of themselves.
11.10.2025 00:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Picture of a journal
At the big table up the front for todayβs journal and sketch club! On until 12pm at Southern Cross!
10.10.2025 20:58 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
βBringing facts to a vibes fightβ deserves an entry into 2025 phrase of the year
Absolute genius
10.10.2025 20:32 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
It shouldnβt be remarkable that most of the GWRC candidates are relatively normal people! But the main Council races have become utter cooker-magnets.
10.10.2025 20:36 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
They trained a specialized model on existing bacterial viruses and had it spit out genomes and some of them worked. And they probably could have done the same thing manually.
This was not "put in an English prompt to GPT and get a custom virus out with desired properties" and never will be.
10.10.2025 17:44 β π 28 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0
Bart Nouveau - as requested by Andrew Keys
10.10.2025 14:55 β π 91 π 22 π¬ 2 π 0
Headline in RNZ with a picture of two men shaking hands. Caption reads: "Singapore and NZ PMs concrened about new gobal order"
I am sorry but the order of my gobe just should not concren these people
10.10.2025 01:37 β π 42 π 5 π¬ 5 π 0
If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.
09.10.2025 22:38 β π 234 π 97 π¬ 3 π 1
10.10.2025 01:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A fake cardboard brick hanging in a window, with a yellow sticky note saying β40 years of windowsβ.
A wider view of the window display, showing the brick hanging in a window surrounded by a wall made of matching paper bricks. A ladder leads to the window.
Shh! No-one tell Winston about this window display in Cuba St right now!
10.10.2025 01:12 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Thereβs a whole video essay about this! youtu.be/0arvnAlV_C4?...
10.10.2025 01:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothΓ©e chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.
Higgledy piggledy
TimothΓ©e Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
09.10.2025 18:57 β π 1988 π 611 π¬ 51 π 47
The Spinoff: In other words, we did it, folks. Joblessness is up. Inflation is down. Mince is admittedly four trillion dollars. But overall, success! Surely our government should be pulling a George W Bush and unfurling a mission accomplished banner above the rusted deck of the HMNZS Canterbury.
Instead, it called a press conference to say, in essence, wtf. Luxon and social development minister Louise Upston gathered reporters on Sunday to announce too many 18- and 19-year-olds were claiming the benefit, and theyβll be cutting them off if their parents earn more than the princely sum of $65,529 combined. Asked where young people should get a job in a recession, which, again, we deliberately engineered, Luxon pointed to kΕ«mara harvesting in Dargaville or seasonal work in orchards. Orchardists promptly responded that they didnβt need more staff right now.
Step one: engineer a recession and cancel infrastructure projects. Step two: get mad at people for not having a job
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...
09.10.2025 21:54 β π 79 π 34 π¬ 3 π 4
Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.
09.10.2025 20:28 β π 702 π 179 π¬ 5 π 2
We're new to Bluesky.
We are a New Zealand support group bringing forward the lived experience of our community with Long Covid and advocating for awareness, treatment, supports, and prevention.
09.10.2025 20:16 β π 44 π 11 π¬ 4 π 0
Book launch invitation from Unity Books Willis St Wellington, for my book He PuΔwai a natural history of New Zealand flowers. It shows the cover on a purple background with some stylised flowers.
All welcome at my book's launch: Unity Books Wellington 6 pm this Friday 10 October. Come and say hello.
04.10.2025 01:10 β π 21 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0
Our last fundraising film for the year (probably?) is happening next Friday 10 October. We've got classic comedy with The Birdcage (1996). Hosted by drag legend Ellie Kat, old school gay camp needs a deserving location, so where better than Scotty & Mal's?
www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...
29.09.2025 04:24 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
The famous photo of three rifle-wielding women partisans walking down Via Brera, Milan, on 26 April 1945.
The girlfriends who founded Antifa.
09.10.2025 02:46 β π 377 π 76 π¬ 11 π 5
βHabeas corpusβ is what Sam Altman joyfully shouts when he thinks he has finally secured all the training-data legal rights to other peopleβs copyrighted work.
09.10.2025 01:19 β π 82 π 14 π¬ 3 π 0
This has to be a bit, right? Right?
09.10.2025 01:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Felt compelled
08.10.2025 23:54 β π 822 π 176 π¬ 5 π 8
to all the Labour mps on here can you tell your leader we need a commitment to reverse the Jobseekers policy that National has just introduced. Thats not giving your policy away that is exercising basic humanity and getting rid of very poorly formulated policy. Just say it. Come on.
08.10.2025 19:22 β π 59 π 23 π¬ 2 π 3
Last night I saw a FB post from Julie Anne Genter supporting Tory as she finishes up as mayor. The nasty & abusive comments from men towards both women were revolting. It's a mirror into what men really think of women as a whole. They're not afraid of consequences either bc there are largely none.
08.10.2025 23:10 β π 29 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1
A sign that says "Caution: Workers Above. Capital Height Services"
Workers Above Capital? That's right! Thank you Comrade Sign.
08.10.2025 21:26 β π 36 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
βWere you directly involved in these secret meetings?β
βNo, I just learned about themβ¦second hand.β
08.10.2025 20:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Youβve returned to your home planet!
08.10.2025 02:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The graphic has a violet background and white text. The text reads: Wellingtonians are you interested? Pinball wizards aren't required, but a mask is. Dividing the text is a photograph of the interior of an empty pinball arcade. There are also small graphic images of an N95 mask, and Aotearoa Covid Action's logo.
Wellingtonians - Are you interested?
An hour of unlimited play on the machines at Ye Olde Pinball Shoppe before regular opening hours on a Sunday from 10-11 am. N95 or better masks to be worn at all times and there is an air purifier. $20/person and we need 25 people to make the event happen.
07.10.2025 23:31 β π 32 π 26 π¬ 1 π 2
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/
07.10.2025 20:15 β π 11071 π 2869 π¬ 87 π 127
NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Εtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views.
Illustrator/Author/Cartoonist in Aotearoa NZ
Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
I am a mayoral candidate for Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington. I want Wellington to become a great, sustainable city that people move to not from.
Check out my website if you want to learn more https://alexbakerwellington.nz
Kiwi guy living in paradise. Climate scientist, cyclist, woodworker, whisky drinker.
Born at 315ppm carbon dioxide.
Meeting on the first Saturday of the month to sketch and journal! All journaling and sketching styles and mediums welcome! Wellington, New Zealand. Run by @squibbledesign!
More info: https://squibbledesign.com/wellington-journal-and-sketch-club/
People ask me to draw pictures on Microsoft Paint and sometimes I do
π Green Party list MP in Aotearoa NZ Parliament.
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Non-binary, takatΔpui.
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Spokesperson for MΔori & Early Childhood Education, TakatΔpui & Rainbow Communities, Sexual & Reproductive Health, ACC, Internal Affairs.
The association for creators, writers and editors of fantasy, science fiction and horror in or from New Zealand. Learn more at www.specfic.nz
Admined by @nikkythewriter.com and @izzyallaire.bsky.social
righto then let's see how this goes eh.
giving a lot of shits about: plain language, the web, stationery, the pub, photos, stuff, things
Aotearoa's official weather forecasts & warnings, helping you make the most of your day whatever the weather! Get your local forecast at www.metservice.com
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Aotearoa based Restoration/Applied Ecologist.
Skateboarding, punk rock and plants.
iNaturalist enthusiast https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=any&user_id=andymckay&verifiable=any
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa
https://ebb.gath.nz/
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