Liam Boardman

Good news: It’s kākāpō fuck season The world is going to hell in a handbasket but at least the kākāpō are going hog wild.

Some good news for anyone depressed about the world right now: the kakapo are getting it onnnnn thespinoff.co.nz/science/13-0...

"I fired all the workers at the cat cafe because they wanted to unionize" bro you are the villain.

learning that seattle has enough gay furries that there are intracommunity conflicts amongst them played out via stickering campaigns in public places has filled me with a sense of profound admiration for the city

There are Bolsonaros everywhere for those with eyes to see them.

it’s so funny how one massive order can screw up a tiny country’s trade balance. The “mattresses” line item didn’t exist the year before but i guess the Macedonian army needed to replace their barracks or something

Knowledge isn't power. Power is power.

That GoT bit is hack, but it's relevant. It's the thing people who "trust the science" miss.

The science only tangentially matters.

The truth or falsity of a proposition (carbon emissions cause climate change, climate change is harmful to public health) is secondary to the ability to use state power in pursuit of it.

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS

1/x 🧵

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Anyway: in actual news, the select committee has removed the clause allowing NZDF and SIS to just not keep records when they're collaborating in US torture and war crimes overseas. But will the Minister simply put it back in? www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

this week, roughly 1,200 ubisoft workers took to picket lines in opposition to a restructuring that will result in mass layoffs, as well as a policy that largely eliminates remote work. so far, ubisoft hasn't budged, but workers say this is just the beginning

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The Internet didn't miss though. I absolutely love it when everyone understands the assignment

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

Opposition finds change to school lunch scheme's name hard to swallow A free school lunches programme rebrand has dropped the reo Māori name Ka Ora Ka Ako, a move David Seymour says is "delivering real value".

Green MP Teanau Tuiono said it was "the opposite of virtue signalling".

"I'm going to call it toxic signalling to their base... that's going to bring out a particular contingent of people that think that way… It's anti-Māori, it's racist and in many ways pathetic."

first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

People have talked about solar + batteries letting NZ keep water in the lakes - our big batteries. But by smoothing evening peaks they reduce gas use - saving that for later too.

But National would rather import LNG.

The only reason there's an 'affordability' issue as the population ages is because the government refuses to tax rich people. The richest 350 families only pay 8% tax, and if Nicola Willis changed that, then the affordability problem goes away

#nzpol

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame

Liberal Party of Australia can't quite make it a year with a woman in charge before they revert to type.

Hard right and anti-women has worked SO well for them the last two elections, I'm sure it'll succeed this time round.

'Nakedly political': No rivals considered for Judith Collins' new job The outgoing minister was the only person considered for Law Commission president - with no recruitment process and no others candidates.

"How on earth can we possibly say that somebody was appointed because they were the best person for the job, when there was a decision to not even consider anybody else for that job?" - Chloe Swarbrick. #NzPol

the hunt

Een dikke papegaai die niet kan vliegen legt live een ei en maakt Nieuw-Zeeland ‘dolenthousiast’ Biologie: Na vier jaar is de kakapo, een iconische Nieuw-Zeelandse loopvogel, eindelijk weer aan het broeden. Natuurbeschermers zijn uitgelaten, want de zwaarste papegaai ter wereld wordt ernstig bedr...

Parents just send me this link. Headline is something else lol 😂

“A fat parrot that can’t fly is laying an egg live on camera and is making New Zealanders super excited”

This is true

And if the govt were serious about it they could have shown good faith by constructively working on the previous govt's WIPs

But instead they repealed record amounts of policy without scrutiny, even where things were ready

When anyone suggests this in bad faith, we say "you first"

I knew all the men in trump’s orbit were pedos but I admit I’m shocked that all of the women are turning out to be dog killers

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

Every single thing he says here is absolutely spot on, though.

I make a ginger spiced sticky toffee myself, and it's just a mildly spiced sponge *steamed* not baked so you can't burn it and it stays soft, with a 50-50 ratio of sponge to sauce, and I serve it very simply, hot in a bowl with cream.

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.

Sounds like Hegseth!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

Maybe next they could do a video analysis of Gaza footage to see whether its population has been impacted by the genocide.