angrysunbird

Wreck US science? I can see why the Federalist Society would be down with that

UF researchers coauthor more papers with authors based in China than with those based in any other other country in the world. This policy would wreck US science.

Oh god I had one yesterday. Didn’t occur to me it was part of a campaign (I just responded before remembering where I was and blocking them)

Oh, it's gonna happen.

There are oceans of difference between 16 year olds getting it on with other teenagers and a nation of grown ups getting excited at pictures of a a 15 year old knowing you’ll see her tits in two days.

Where are they going to? 58% of migrant departures of New Zealand citizens went to Australia. Going to a country with Fair Pay Agreements, a growing economy, low energy prices, and a capital gains taxation system. For some reason that doesn’t seem to so be unpopular.

In the UK when I was a (male) teenager the Star, one of the newspapers that did Page Three Girls, did a week long countdown to a girl with prodigious “assets” turning 16 so she could appear in the day of her 16th birthday. At the time I guess it was legal? (16 was age of consent)

bunch of cabinet ministers on the deck of a ship with only one guy rowing and a quote "I don't understand, after so many budget cuts why dont we move faster?"

#nzpol
#BackOnTrack

Apropos of nothing in particular: SHOES

Per the FEMA training I took 30 years ago, the one thing that best ensures your survival in a disaster is whether you made it out of the building with shoes on.

Everything else can just be scrap-wraps, but shoes are high-tech. Put them on first, then run.

That are essential, even

It’s faster workshop and place everywhere that are not essential for f4se for me. I cannot live without them.

one of the funniest parts about Joyce Carol Oates going viral for nuking Elon Musk is that he absolutely needed someone tell him who Joyce Carol Oates is

Oh dear it hasn’t gone well now has it? @fallout.bethesdastudios.com

Thinking of this quote from Mamdani’s victory speech.

No wonder you hate Mamdani so much you must hate seeing someone actually effective at fighting fascism

You just surrendered. Resign and let someone willing to fight fight

You caved. I hope you get primaried

Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.

🧵

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

Wellington depression recovery centre to close after no funding reprieve Accidental meeting invite from Health NZ gave false hope but no reprieve for Wellington mental health service

then there's this if you want to punch something

Gov having to pay poor Michelin to come down under while cutting food banks is totally on message . #nzpol

5.1 and 15 k from Welly

Whoop whoop the dogs are barking #eqnz

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A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

The Luxon Government's surprise move to gut the Zero Carbon Act has upended six years of cross-partisan consensus on climate change.

They are unfit to govern in 2025.

#nzpol

Y’know how the vibes are immaculate right now, and so you’re constantly refreshing the timeline?

Bluesky didn’t cause that. It channeled it.

Good times make good platforms. Bluesky, as a platform, has been saddled with trying to scale amidst bad times.

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane