Thomas Arbor

That $6 billion climate resilience fund would be useful right now if NATIONAL HADN’T SCRAPPED IT!

At least the landlords got their handouts though.

#nzpol #ClimateEmergency

One of the things that really fucking annoys me about AI is that people *do not understand it* (on purpose, bc these companies want it that way) and they assume it’s as reliable as the computers they’ve been using their whole life when it’s actually about as reliable as your least capable intern

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows: Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles, each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines. Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet! Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines. Bottom right: all set against a black background. A central band delineated with white lines contains white ‘s’-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

Something lovely for the weekend!

Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Pete Hegseth to Rocket Lab:

“You are the engine of America’s new arsenal of freedom to project our will anytime, anywhere."

Fuck’s sake.

Motherf...

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.

The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

The final show of the year at Pyramid Club tonight!

Ft. mHz: The Brutalist Noise Ensemble (electro-mechanical club music) & Te Tumu (experimental, indigenous, slow dance) : tickets from @undertheradarnz.bsky.social / www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/99751/mH... 💗

Tonight at Pyramid Club! Taonga pūoro, electronics and percussion by these 3 lovely mega-talents. Tix here: www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/99615/Al...

Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat

Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again.

Some epic musicianship on display at Pyramid Club tonight with these jazz cats playing tunes from Dave Holland's 1988 album, Triplicate. Tix here: www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/99396/Li...

Another Shayne Carter appearance at Pyramid Club this Saturday - this time with two saxophonists and noisey electronics, with support from Fizzface. Tix here: www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/99318/Th...

Another Shayne Carter appearance at Pyramid Club this Saturday - this time with two saxophonists and noisey electronics, with support from Fizzface. Tix here: www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/99318/Th...

I just realized it’s been five years since
the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press
conference one of the most surreal moments
in modern politics. While in Philly, I had to
visit the site. Strange place for a press
conference. Fascinating place to stand.

Yeah rad to seeya! That was the launch event for an RNZ webseries out on Monday!

Pics from the Journey of Scent launch last night - these are some of the one-off perfumes made by the legend Nathan Taare / Of Body for the series (which is out on RNZ from this Monday!) 👃❤️

Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.

Does this sound familiar?

Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

Another masterful work by Katie Wolfe (The Haka Party Incident) - always finding artful ways to tell the stories of this place! Profound and often hilarious with brilliant performances and design. Go see it!

Wild it's actually proper hot up here when the sun's out!

Sup Tāmaki? Here til Monday, pls holla with your food & event tips! (Already booked Exploding Rainbow Orchestra, Tiri: Te Araroa & Kirikiriroa sidequest)

Husband came home from his after school meeting saying the new social studies curriculum isn't a curriculum, it's just a list of subjects to be covered with no broader themes, guaranteed to make kids find the humanities pointless. "I've never felt more like my job doesn't matter"

YouTube video by RNZ Journey of Scent | Trailer | RNZ

Excited for people to see, hear and smell this beautiful webseries I made music for recently! #journeyofscent youtu.be/qEqv8YozsSY?...

A big ol thread of some early colonial history of Te Whanganui a Tara. Love to see it 🤗

Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’ The violin-playing sonic experimentalist on gadgets, guilty pleasures, and her most controversial pop culture opinion

Sudan Archives: ‘My favourite fact? I’m 100% that bitch’

Tonight at Pyramid! Ft. screen composers Stephen Gallagher (LoTR) & David Long (The Luminaries) fresh from their recent nominations for World Soundtrack Awards and Silver Scrolls 🌟

ICYMI, this is a great book! With Xmas coming up, poss a good prez for the politically inclined folks in your life !

How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru

“A message built on fairness, community and national purpose resonated with voters, and a comfortable majority voted for it.

That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.” #nzpol

This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding

Some legendary musicians playing Pyramid Club tonight! Shayne Carter, Riki Pirihi and Jeff Henderson = Art Ensemble of Otago. Bar open, byo cheese rolls