Adele

This is bathrobe girl.
She is outside in the frigid AF midwestern winter sporting nothing but a comfy robe, fuzzy slippers and a thirst for justice.
Be like bathrobe girl.

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes ...

Even more reasons why LPG imports are strategically stupid:

"As South Australia gets close to its goal of running purely on solar and wind energy, its electricity prices have dropped by a third in a year and are now the lowest in Australia."

#nzpol

www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

There's a lot of useful numbers in this post.

Spinoff headline: Good news: It’s kākāpō fuck season

breaking new frontiers when it comes to headline writing at The Spinoff

WHO membership doesn’t threaten NZ’s sovereignty – walking away from it would The World Health Organization is a global body, but decisions affecting New Zealand are made in Wellington, not in Geneva.

Helen Petousis-Harris's piece on how the WHO is vital for New Zealand just nails it. While I am here, can I also just say that @helenp-h.bsky.social is a national treasure. theconversation.com/who-membersh...

Nothing winds me up more than Luxon and assorted other suits saying we need to be wealthier before we can afford doctors, nurses, water we can swim in etc. Meanwhile wealthier kiwi households have stacked up huge piles of savings (cash, shares, equity etc). The economy works for the few. [🧵 1/n]

The really important para in this article?

"best performer was Kernel's S&P Global Clean Energy Fund, up 59.9 percent"

Clean. Energy.

Every official tweet is a nod to child abuse OPINION: Why is a social network under criminal investigation for child sex abuse material treated as a legitimate podium for government messaging?

Excellent article from Andrea Vance today - few quotes

"There is a weak argument (usually put forward by white men, those least likely to suffer abuse online) that staying on X somehow moderates the awful. You can’t dilute a cesspool."
1/5

Heavyweight is always great, but this view into my hometown is especially well-done. This one captures it.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

not all heroes wear capes

It's important to note that most global unrest in the past 5 years has been caused by three 70-something white boomer losers desperate to stay out of prison.

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The perfect two sentence story.

Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes

This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

We learn from failure. We learn from the work of improvement. And no one is good at everything. Telling people they can pretend to be good at something they're not both stunts their personal growth & creates unrealistic expectations no one can live up to. This is the mission of current corporate AI.

‘Groundbreaking’ NZ research shows majority of drug users experience no negative effects Two Class A drugs sit at the bottom of the scale for causing individual acute harm.

🧵This preliminary research isn't quite as unprecedented as the story suggests – it clearly overlaps with Otago Uni's 2023 drug harms ranking study, which is more comprehensive – but the similarities and differences between the two are interesting and informative. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

We don’t talk enough about how the AI bubble is going to seamlessly transition to tech-based state surveillance and oppression of the working and dwindling middle classes as the wealth class steals more and more resources and power and as the climate worsens.

i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years

of course, it has to be Jack!

Happy New Year and hugs to you both 💛🎆

I really like this joke from @joshgondelman.bsky.social

Happy New Year 2026. Rain is considered to be a good omen across many cultures, and there is plenty of it in New Zealand today. May it portend better times - more peace ☮️, justice ⚖️, equity, and sustainability 🌳 for our challenged world.

The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high

This.

The main point of the essay isn’t about Heated Rivalry, but rather what it means when we as a community recognize each other, the windows and mirrors that such moments afford. Breathtaking.

Whomever decided schedule it so the finale airs at Christmas when I have a houseful and my visitors have taken over the living room needs to answer for that decision. I'm NOT going to the cottage on my phone screen.

My mother (76) is too scared to click anything and my daughter (16) just starts clicking everything at once when something isn't going her way. Both ask for help but then show no patience or aptitude for learning to help themselves. The worst kind of IT customers.

Who would have thought you can intellectually cripple an entire society just by writing a program that cheerfully agrees with their dumbest thoughts.

Before Sunset in particular, is basically an 80-minute-long real-time conversation and, imho, the best one for it. Though I love them all.

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City

What the fuck are we even doing?

Dark photo of a man on a couch with his hand to his forehead. Text reads: "Why didn't I go to the library and stock up on books for the holidays?" Followed by text in a different font that says " Every year some people experience a bookless holiday period. Don't let this happy to someone you love. Libraries. We have free books.

Don't become a bookless statistic this year 😥
#pukapuka