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

I like to wait for most of the campaign to play out so I can see whether any of my “maybes” make an absolute dick of themselves.

Picture of a journal

At the big table up the front for today’s journal and sketch club! On until 12pm at Southern Cross!

“Bringing facts to a vibes fight” deserves an entry into 2025 phrase of the year

Absolute genius

It shouldn’t be remarkable that most of the GWRC candidates are relatively normal people! But the main Council races have become utter cooker-magnets.

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.

Bart Nouveau - as requested by Andrew Keys

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

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.

A fake cardboard brick hanging in a window, with a yellow sticky note saying “40 years of windows”.

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!

There’s a whole video essay about this! youtu.be/0arvnAlV_C4?...

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée 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
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

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 they’ll 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 kūmara harvesting in Dargaville or seasonal work in orchards. Orchardists promptly responded that they didn’t 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-...

Census in crisis—further erasure of Indigenous Peoples? In 2013, demographer David Coleman wrote that the population census in its traditional form was heading toward its twilight. Its impending demise was being driven by digitization, rapid data transfer,...

Census in crisis—further erasure of Indigenous Peoples? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.

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.

Book launch invitation from Unity Books Willis St Wellington, for my book He Puāwai 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.

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...

The famous photo of three rifle-wielding women partisans walking down Via Brera, Milan, on 26 April 1945.

The girlfriends who founded Antifa.

“Habeas corpus” is what Sam Altman joyfully shouts when he thinks he has finally secured all the training-data legal rights to other people’s copyrighted work.

This has to be a bit, right? Right?

Felt compelled

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.

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.

A sign that says "Caution: Workers Above. Capital Height Services"

Workers Above Capital? That's right! Thank you Comrade Sign.

“Were you directly involved in these secret meetings?”
“No, I just learned about them…second hand.”

You’ve returned to your home planet!

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.

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/