Peter Kelly (@PeterKelly@mastodon.nz)

That's your gut macrobiome. xkcd.com/1471/

Hard agree with Paul on this; BUT great to hear Little calling for masking on buses given the current public health situation.

Empire as naturally occurring geographic phenomenon, like a rock formation but for mammals.

NEVER FORGET

I'm not very good with history... wasn't her reign the period where they had cocaine in various consumer products?

At Wellington Hospital with a suspected measles case and the ED department is absolutely packed.

Patients in beds all along the corridors in every possible space. Last time I came a few years ago there was no one at all outside rooms?!

in like ten thousand years some future archaeologist is going to find this deep underground in the Vatican archives next to the Holy Grail and the shin bone of Saint Paul

"Takes politics out of history" because no politics ever happened in history, can they even hear themselves

To bastardise Sir Geoffrey who wasn't that different from Chippie except in IQ, Labour is an irreducibly moderate party.

2/2 You are pretty sure that Luxon is doing badly enough to alienate swing voters. You are excessively focused on the UK and doing anything *at all* scares you, based on there. You like Hipkins personally, he's affable and non-threatening. You are utterly incurious about Act/NZF voters. Stasis ftw.

1/2 You are a well-off Chardonnay liberal. You you believe that everyone to the left of you will either vote for Labour, or a sufficiently tame lefter party that won't insist on things you particularly object to. What you really care about is voters who sometimes vote National, and sometimes Labour.

I can do Chris Hipkins if you like.

The 2025 rule of law index reflects the ongoing destruction of legal systems

Listen to the grumpy old man.

I think there's a 90s Simpsons episode waiting for you.

Topic: Robodebt Case Legal Fees Question reference number: IQ25-000016 Asked By: Senator Jacqui Lambie Type of question: Spoken. Hansard Page/s: 9 Date set by the committee for the return of answer: 24 October 2025 Question: Senator Lambie: Services Australia, you lost a Robodebt case against Mr Warren before the full court. I'm just wondering what your legal costs for both Administrative Review Tribunal and the Federal Court were? I’m gathering it's about half a million and I’m being conservative. Do you know what the costs were? Mr Higgins: I'd have to take that on notice, Senator. I don’t have that detail with me. Answer: $776,739.02 including GST (where applicable) in relation to AAT, Federal Court and ART.

Wow, Services Australia spent three quarters of a million in legal fees fighting a losing FOI fight against @daedalus.eigenmagic.com

Um, this thread started with wood-burning stoves, which don't burn fossil fuels? It's pretty hard to permanently sequester all the carbon in the pinus radiata springing up all around me...

Isn't it great how indoor pets don't smell bad on the socials

why does that dog have suspenders

Apologies. There was also a human behind the cute poultry, who hadn't consented to being on the socials.

I hope so! There's a pan-Polynesian one called Pollex which is fab!

Why engrave one's fleeting thoughts on the historical record to a greater extent than is mandatory? Poor opsec. Obviously makes no difference against a sufficiently resourced adversary.

Chicks smelly. Ethanol carcinogenic.

Maybe an araucana chick, maybe a boy?

They are still under six weeks old, so mostly they live indoors with a heat source. There are littler ones too.

Impressive Halloween rice bubble work.

Spoiler: they did not act.

There's a beauty in "done and submitted" that is greater than returns from tinkering

Is it forbidden simply to increase the playback speed by a small percentage?

headline: "WHO warned New Zealand of measles immunisation gap"

I DON'T KNOW

The disconnect is absolute. Dissociation, dislocation of logic. Obtuseness and obfuscation are rampant.
If you want to avoid getting covid, do wear a respirator. More so if you are a HCW, as you should know about airborne transmission.