Richard Easther

A petite black cat with a white tum yawning and showing off a predator's dentition.

Top carnivore.

Beats me.

A petite black cat with a white tum yawning and showing off a predator's dentition.

Top carnivore.

I forgot that one. Was struck by the guy who bragged about his UoA science degree and went full climate denier. Was thinking we might need to call him in for a tune-up.

(The climate guy was angry about not killing enough people on the roads, too)

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Some days being a theoretical physicist is like being a trapeze artist and then a guy emails you saying "Hey, I've watched videos about trapeze and I've asked Grok, can I join your circus, because I think I've figured out how to do a quintuple somersault, with a twist..."

Ad council?

From its Unix roots. And ctrl k cuts to the end of the line.

So does control-d.

It is "lifestyle", in fairness.

Assumed the OP (as a cat lover, given their bio and pic) was joking.

The irony is Wellington local politics have made national news - I couldn't tell you much about Christchurch (and lived there once, albeit long ago) but I can name three or four of Wellington's mayoral candidates.

Actually, now that I think about it, they could also have been "chuffed"...

It's a strange world where butt-chugging coffee is "natural".

Doing rails.

Beautiful

My dad used to pretend to take "date Russian women" spam seriously - we'd get emails saying things like "I hope you can learn a little Russian to greet you new mummy when she arrives" followed by another saying "just joking".

He stayed sharp to the end but even that was stressful.

‘We’re stoked’: 150-year-old lost train rediscovered in deep sand “Skunk” the locomotive was found by contractors who were doing excavation work near the Whanganui River mouth.

If you are a steam train enthusiast, "stoked" is presumably about as good as it gets...

Indeed.

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

“I really want people to know that no one is immune to this, anyone can get long Covid. I didn't think it would happen to me.” Read it and weep:
www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Bank's stark warning hints at global fallout Kristalina Georgieva warned inflated prices could mask deeper economic fragility.

Young Boomers and senior Gen-Xers, probably not a bad time to check the settings on your retirement accounts...

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ban...

Providence, Brown student radio. Did some nice calculations with this playing...

(Which is odd, I suppose, because the song itself would not be high on most people's list of inspo tracks)

We're new to Bluesky.

We are a New Zealand support group bringing forward the lived experience of our community with Long Covid and advocating for awareness, treatment, supports, and prevention.

Probably depends on your city. A lot of 45 minute car commutes here can balloon out to an hour+ in bad traffic in Auckland -- but less so in Chch I am guessing.

Bank's stark warning hints at global fallout Kristalina Georgieva warned inflated prices could mask deeper economic fragility.

Young Boomers and senior Gen-Xers, probably not a bad time to check the settings on your retirement accounts...

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ban...

Does have a bit of an "eat out to help out" vibe

These are cool :-)

Just saw someone tipping Pynchon for the literature prize. But if a biologist can go off-grid for hours and committee can't find him, just imagine how tough that phone call is going to be.

Never mind getting him to the ceremony.

What did you do in the Second Civil War Daddy?

Son, when you're older I'll tell you. It was ugly, though, I'll say that. Close quarters urban combat with a ruthless foe. Nothing quite prepares you for the reality of it.

Frogman, innit. Buy them used from the DGSE.

Citations.