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Pledge here, from anywhere in the world. www.pledgeme.co.nz/proje cts/8521-support-dr-siouxsie-after-she-supported-us #nzpol

YouTube video by Siouxsie Wiles Support Dr Siouxsie's crowdfunding campaign!

Can think of few others as deserving as Siouxsie - who helped protect so many lives, & was NZ'er of the Year in 2021 - of our support now. She won legal case on truly awful online harassment/hate but remains 400k+ out of pocket. Absurd. Time to help her move forward www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7PB...

DEPRESSION STUDY ADVERTISEMENT ON THE BUS FEATURING SHINJI IN A CHAIR FEELING GUILTY ABOUT JERKIN IT TO A GIRL IN A COMA I THINK

BRO WHAT

Fun fact: the Italian word for eggplant melanzana, is derived from mela, apple

Italians saw eggplants and were like "that's a weird apple"

Similar to how Italians saw the pomegranate and went "that's a seedy apple"

And saw oranges and went "that's an apple of the orange tree"

And saw peaches and

Alan Moore knows the score

Actually this tweet is perfect because the torment nexus tweet is about completely missing the point of literature, and in this case the literature is the torment nexus tweet

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

a close up of a man wearing a pair of glasses with a computer screen reflected in them . Alt: Whistler from the movie Sneakers, with blue text from a computer screen reflected in his black glasses lenses.

Finally returning to Watching Movies I've Been Meaning to Get Around To™, tonight's showing was 'Sneakers' from 1992.

(I watched many great films the year I was 14, but this is one I missed out on until now.)

It was so good! And damn, but I forgot how pretty River Phoenix was...

@gailsimone.bsky.social Bears

A wheelie bin disappearing over the horizon in a jaunty manner. The title above reads 'bin voyage'

Part of bin voyage. The text reads: You are a wheelie bin. Your journey starts on the curb of ____________ road/place/way/crescent/lane/etc. on bin collection day. To play this game you’ll need: • Comfortable shoes • Sun/weather protection appropriate to the conditions • A way to record a list (pen & paper, voice memos) • A safe neighbourhood to walk in • Optional: gloves and a trash bag As a wheelie bin, you have two stats: Bin and Wheels. Each start at 1+1d6. You have a bin type; rubbish, compost, or recycling. You are full of Trash. Think of a list of the last 5 things you threw into a bin that match your bin type.

A silly one-page solo rpg about being a wheelie bin blown away on adventures that spawned out of a #kiwirpg discord thread. Free/PWYW so why not check it out.

kellymakesgames.itch.io/bin-voyage

#ttrpg #solorpg

A Ruru Owl is thoroughly bedraggled, wrapped in a blue towel after a bath. His cat-like eyes are fixed on the camera, wide and yellow. Feathers around the chest are matted and parted to expose skin that looks like, well... uncooked chicken breast. Green plastic boxes appear on a concrete slab behind.

A full body shot of the wet owl, sans towel. His Sid Vicious plumage is blackened by the wetness, and some barbs are stuck to the the feather shafts, creating gaps in the wings that look like see-through ribs. The photo really is something: imagine a yellow-eyed Koosh ball on a swivel, sticking out from a tarred turkey carcass. A truly bizarre and sorry-looking creature, but if it's any assurance the owl is fine. His legs are bowed with tan-feathered toes splayed out below. He stands upon a white net inside a green plastic box, with wooden perches around the edge.

Another angle of this Cronenbergian horror with Disney eyes. This one's taken a little closer, and the owl's leg stance is sturdier. If you ignore the whole looking-like-a-drowned-abomination aspect, he's far more photogenic and you know what? Kinda badass. Like a character-select screen in an RPG. What's interesting is we don't often see the definition of an owl's neck (the head feathers typically merge into the shoulder like a lumpy snowman), but here with everything matted and shaped to the owl's bone structure he appears almost humanoid.

How can this possibly be the same owl? Feathers now dry, our Ruru friend has resumed his original puffy shape, like an inflatable butternut squash. His eyes are still wide, but rather than taking up 90% of his face, they're now (in terms of size) like finger holes in a bowling ball. His legs are held by a bare-handed rehabilitator. His chest feathers are an impressive medley of brushstrokes (the owl not the person) in white, tan and dark brown. The background is a garage interior, with ladder, workbench, and sheets of soft plastic strewn about before a wall of cardboard boxes and metal rolling door.

Happy #Owloween! It's the 31st of #Owltober and we've saved one of the best for last: A wet Ruru Owl at Wildbase Recovery after a bath for flaky skin. Pics pre- and post- blowdry are night and day. Want to donate? wildbaserecovery.co.nz/help-us/dona... Source: fb.com/389992264669... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Hey google, define: pork barrel politics

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

That’s a fantastic comparison, because the reason they added lead to gasoline was just to increase convenience a tiny bit, and they’ve poisoned the world in the process.

The good news is: Impossible as it may seem, we banned it worldwide and its bad effects are now mostly gone.

Makes you think.

*clears throat* hentAI

Text: HOW ANIMALS WORK IN SWAN BOY EVERYBODY'S AN ANIMAL PERSON. THERE ARE ALSO ANIMALS. THIS IS NOT CONSIDERED STRANGE. Beneath is an image of a hardcore guy who's a rhino next to an actual rhino. A redhead turtle with sort of an early 60s haircut next to an actual box turtle. And Rona next to an actual sphynx cat. That's right she's a cat. Get over it.

Text: ANIMAL PEOPLE ARE AWARE THAT THERE ARE ANIMALS THAT LOOK LIKE THEM BUT THERE'S NO MORE SOLIDARITY THAN YOU HAVE WITH, LIKE, A CHIMP. AN EAGLE GUY WOULDN'T BE LIKE "MY CULTURE IS NOT A COSTUME" ABOUT AMERICAN ICON-OGRAPHY. I MEAN MAYBE ONE GUY WOULD TRY IT BUT IT WOULD BE A WEIRD MOVE. Image: a middle aged bald eagle man who looks like he works in Dilbert's office next to an actual bald eagle

Text: "BUT BRAAANSON! YOU HAD A STRIP EARLY ON WHERE YOU IMPLIED DOGS -AND THEREFORE ALL ANIMALS-ARE CANONICALLY LITTLE MEN!" SO I DID. I CHANGED MY MIND. Image: a dog woman walking a tiny nude man on a leash. He's running away from a poop.

I will be taking no further questions

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

draconym on tumblr: Me: "Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf." The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: "Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging. but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voila--" (paper towel roll falls on my face) Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: "Success."

This is literally the best endorsement a tax plan could possibly have 😂😂

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

This is what happens when you get AI to write your ad for a humour specialist

(Also probably worth noting that $200k an hour is only $416 million a year, i.e. quite a lot less than the billionaires earn.)

as usual they leave it to the tenth paragraph to say she's been living rent free with her parents and borrowed $400k interest free off them

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

EEK!! A live hornet nest has just been found (and destroyed) in Auckland. This is a big species of stinging wasp. We really don't want these to establish.

Please keep an extra careful eye out for unusual wasps, especially if you're in the Auckland area.

You can post photos on iNaturalist NZ […]

That's the way to be "carefully, correctly wrong"! 👍