Alex | THRILLHO

Listen I love democracy as much as the next person but I’m so tired of submitting to bills, signing petitions, and sending emails to MPs. Why can’t these people do their jobs competently by default. They get paid really well like I don’t want to do all this I want to call HR and fire David Seymour.

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

The campaign to 'poison' AI chatbots for Australians with pro-Russian propaganda A pro-Russian influence operation has been targeting Australia in the lead-up to this weekend's federal election, the ABC can reveal, attempting to "poison" AI chatbots with propaganda.

A pro-Russian influence operation has been targeting Australia in the lead-up to this weekend's federal election, the ABC can reveal, attempting to "poison" AI chatbots with propaganda.

TWENTY FIVE YEARS

YouTube video by The Project Employees Launch Class Action Against Lovisa Jewellery Brand

I posted this on Reddit but r/NZ mods removed it because it’s “not directly related to NZ.”

How is it NOT related to NZ when a company who employees thousands of young women here is being taken to court by its own employees in Australia for breaking the law?

youtu.be/xQC9WPaprvs?...

Fuck yeah ❤️

pepper holding up her back off! tee, featuring a snarling cartoon raccoon

a stonewashed grey tee hanging on a clothesline, with an illustration of a one eyed cat under a crescent moon. it says never lost.

three babes in a graveyard wearing pepper raccoon's no gods just trash tee, featuring a snarling raccoon illustration

two babes at zealandia wearing pepper's aotearoa wild tee featuring a bunch of new zealand native birds.

Do you need a cool tee? I'm an artist, I design cool tees and also I sell cool tees. They're screenprinted and very good quality and snuggly soft AS Colour Staple premium cotton <3 pepperraccoon.com

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article) Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

Tooting my horn here: this planet (K2-18b) was discovered by Dan Foreman-Mackey and me and others at NYU. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

A black t-shirt with a hot pink angry raccoon on the back, it says Back Off!

A person holding up a black bandana with lime green spooky illustrations of bones, bats, and spiderwebs

a closeup of a green bandana with eels and aquatic plants printed on it

a flatlay of four native bird stickers, featuring the kokako, kakapo, kea, and tieke in rubberhose cartoon style

Hey fam, just a wee reminder that I'm an artist and I draw lots of nature-inspired cool stuff including apparel, bandanas, and stickers (and enamel pins!) over at pepperraccoon.com <3 would appreciate some folks checking out the store, it's been real sleepy!

"when I said fuck your feelings I didn't mean fuck MY feelings", AI bro edition

A two part coming. On the top panel, a gray caricature of a person is labelled "Open AI" and is smiling while reaching for a yellow balloon labelled "Intellectual property theft". In the bottom panel, the same scene is presented but zoomed out slightly; this time, the person is looking backwards nervously at a pink monster also labelled "intellectual property theft"

Into the sea

JFC

A landlord has been ordered to pay $5500 to a solo mother with a brain tumour after using renovations as an excuse to evict her before relisting the property days after the family moved out.

Landlords can now evict tenants without cause. Here’s what you need to know

we've changed the law so this kind of thing can never happen again! Next time the landlord won't have to make up an excuse

I don’t even have the words

Your one claim to fame, says the city councillor who knit an entire hat in ONE DAY

Today I learned the Alexander Turnbull library has cataloged some incredibly low quality memes for posterity

Illustration for my dogs birthday party poster/invitation. He’s turning 3 so he’s a big boy now 🖤✨

This is so sick Anna omg

I’m finally going to buy a bike! I’m in my mid 30s and it finally feels like Wellington is safe enough to ride a bike around 😭 thank you ❤️

David Lynch on set speaking into a megaphone, captioned “Okay, let’s try that again, but this time good.”

me narrowing my eyes at 2025 like

What the fuuuuck tho

Are we being our angry writer selves here yet?

A windy path through tall grass with a cloudy blue sky above.

Bird’s eye view of a coffee table with a PlayStation controller, TV remote, flowers and a drink visible. Also some feet.

Highlights of my week: getting outside, staying inside.

Dappled sunlight on a jetty looking towards the water

Homemade chicken fried rice

Highlights of my week - going for long, sunny, lunchtime walks, and turning leftover rice into the best chicken fried rice ever 🥹🌸

Thanks love - same to you xxx

Watching my mum living in similar circumstances and really wishing I could afford a mortgage and a granny flat to help 😩

It’s like if newspapers in public places had a notes page at the back and we all went through and read them after reading the news 🙃

I hope this email finds you evanescent, diaphanous, a creature of pure light