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pornography bans and censorships make no sense to me bc sexuality is quite literally part of being human.. suppressing that part or acting like it's gross is never going to be good, we've already been there, not even for teens who go through a lot of hormonal changes and should safely learn about it
This video from @caelan.bsky.social made me viscerally disgusted and upset. I also think everyone should watch it. We've all seen the headlines about ChatGPT goading a teen to suicide but the details are so much worse than I could have imagined
This is amazing.
Once again, Jesus Christ, if your own policy would ban, like, The Handmaid's Tale, The Colour Purple, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Clockwork Orange, Blood Meridian, Measure For Measure, like.... what are we doing here. What is this for
I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
When women's rights are under attack, Stand Up Fight Back #womensdayofaction
I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.
Don’t forget they gutted pay equity, want to abolish the Ministry for Women, thought it was a “good day” when Roe v. Wade fell, want family (women) to do unpaid labour in hospitals, removed Relationship & Sexuality education guidelines… and want you to believe everything they’re doing is normal.
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
Because you showed up outside Tesla dealerships Musk was forced out of Washington. Since then he’s been busy shitposting & trying to resurrect his flailing empire via xAI grifting. This deep dive is a great look inside just how badly that is going. Spread the word: xAI is falling apart, as is Musk.
boy oh boy i hate how relevant this one is becoming
This Week's Onion Magazine:
I don't care if it's placebo if this keeps working I'm never stopping taking it
I haven't felt this level of almost instant euphoria since I took the first antidepressant that worked for me
Ok so I have seen a lot if people talking about creatine and how amazing it is recently so I figured what the hell. I'll give it a try. And this could be placebo affect but I've had a sore back for months and it has just. Stopped Hurting? Like an hour or two after taking creatine??
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fh6... #nzpol
At the time I actually found Ardern era 'politics of kindness' a bit cringe (it's giving 'hugs not drugs') but I'd choose that over what we have now, which could perhaps best be described as the 'politics of performative cruelty'
The only good thing about AI is all the screenshots of Grok saying stuff elon musk hates. Even his artificial computer-child hates him
Nuclear winter levels of cold take: it is not possible to be "civil" if you are advocating for the superiority of one race/group etc over another. That is uncivil no matter what language you use or what tone you say it in
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know
I could be wrong. But if I'm right, there would be a high chance that no matter what, the business would be seriously damaged. The relatives would be fine, they're very, very rich. But the business would be badly damaged
I'm pretty sure I know who it is. If I'm right, I figure the argument was probably that it would destroy his relatives' busines, and they didn't commit the crime. I don't think that's good enough, but I think that is likely the consideration
Thank you NZ Customs, we're all rooting for you #nzpol
You know. It's not going to immediately get better when it happens, obviously. But the truth of the matter is that Trump is an old, sick man. And he will die. Sooner rather than later. What a day that will be.
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
Dear friends from other countries: please join the Brazilians as we celebrate this groundbreaking decision.
We are MXTX's least favoured children 😔😔 but I am excited for a new extra!!! We have waited so patiently for so long!! 😭🙏🙏😭🙏😭
NO WAIT I WENT ALL THE WAY BACK AND FOUND MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ONE
not sure if this is our favourite but it's pretty high
i don't know about favourite but nothing makes me laugh as consistently as "hee hoo peenut"
don't forget that David Seymour is the only MP in the last decade who has openly implied he wanted a Ministry bombed
Unless it's literally your job, you never need to watch videos of people being killed. It harms you and doesn't help them.
What an expertly called shot
Just pre-ordered tickets for @themountaingoats.bsky.social Wellington show next year. I've seen them in the UK and I've seen them in Australia and I truly never thought I'd get the chance to see them in Aoteraroa NZ. What a treat
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
Nominating "There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born." for perfect sentences, @lifewinning.com
Well it’s a good thing they got rid of it before it got any attention. Phew.
This is the one and only time I'm regretting nuking my Twitter account because I definitely posted about this and now the screenshots are lost... Like tears in the rain...
I'm getting flashbacks to the time I was trying to read an article about Fabio killing a goose with his face but the website only had mobile version so on the desktop website it had a picture of a phone that you could read the article on
I thought the supposed changes were just in the Chinese language version of the books, to comply with censorship laws. Is there more to the rewrite than that? I wouldn't consider anything written to abide by censorship to be "canon" personally but I admit I'm not fully caught up on everything
I don't want to download the bsky app but sometimes the web version makes me question my choices
Thank you for coming to NZ! Never thought I'd have the opportunity to see you all the way down here
if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
Aaaaaaaaaaa
The Platform continues to ruin careers besides Plunket's own and I low-key love it for it. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually
1920s 🤝 2020s - Poland about to enter war between Ukraine and Russia - Fascism on the rise around the world - Weirdos are trying to electrify food again
The image that inspired my most popular comic.
Again, the exhausting thing for me in the current era is not only being treated like fucking idiots by actual idiots, but the mainstream press position that treating me like a fucking idiot is in fact the reasonable position.
The last couple of days have not been great if you’re a woman in New Zealand. There’s the outpouring of defence for a violent vengeful deluded man. There’s Stuart Nash. And now there’s this.
So, this is a woman?
media have played a significant role in the degradation of our political environment & democracy ask yourself this - why was it Ben Doyle having to resign last week & not Winston Peters. Because I can tell you for a fact, that Peters could *absolutely* be hounded out of a job if media wanted to
The absolute state of these men. They have no respect for anyone. They should not be serving the public.
People on the left when someone mentions pronouns etc: OK cool nbd People on the right when something Smacks Of Gender: Up With This Depravity I Will Not Put. Let me talk about genitalia at you for the next half hour at LEAST. Why are the left so perverse
every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"
hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together
what i dont get about guys like linehan is like, didn't they win? didn't the UK just basically make a lot of the shit they wanted into law? but i guess when your politics are fueled by single-minded resentment and cruelty then there is no measure of suffering you can inflict to fully satisfy you
There's real darkness at the heart of that man alone mythology. It's about violent resistance to a society very explicitly coded as feminine and constraining.
It's ridiculous that what should be a normal travel option between Hokitika and Christchurch has become an overpriced tourist-only experience. Also Grey District Council knows if passengers could go as far as Hokitika nobody would get off in Greymouth.
Sagging with relief at the news the kids have been found safe and unharmed.
Agreed. The whole situation is a complete nightmare
But the quote that they must be strongly bonded to the father isn't a value judgement. That's just a natural consequence of the highly abusive situation they've been in for the past several years and it's natural to express sympathy for their distress imho
@me.vivianchandra.com sorry for circuitous reply, can't reply to the OG thread anymore. Overall agree with you it's problematic, but was responding more to quote post saying "if you think this is a good bonding experience etc" which I don't think was implied. Foundational family in community, yes, >
Having the kind of day where I need to take my brain and shake it like a snow globe
I just did a random search for a flight next Monday from Wellington to Christchurch and one of the flights was $395 (granted it was the most expensive option. But still)
At $499 they basically are cheaper than domestic flights
Where did he say it was good? I feel like it's pretty much a given that their bond with their dad will be pretty high considering the circumstances. It's a living situation pretty likely to lead to codependency or trauma bonding
I am sort of working on a grand unified theory of my own enjoyment of music which comes down to Kiki = Bad, Bouba = Good
Coz no one in the world does it better
Last week's #bandcampfriday find: Ninajirachi's I Love My Computer
So far all criticism of the new Frankenstein film reads to me like "del Toro didn't make Frankenstein green which ruined the movie :( Also he completely ignored iconic and fan favourite character Bride Of Frankenstein"
Has ANYONE read the fucking book?
Wait I just remembered the rap sheet with "20 years for man's laughter. Must have been quite the joke"
I think that the phrase "you don't buy a TV to eat" sums it up well, we're in a vicious cycle of wages being too low for people to buy non-essentials, and businesses struggling/failing because people can't buy what they're selling www.stuff.co.nz/business/360...
thinking about how humanity is spending billions building the Demon Cat from Adventure Time
"hide post for me" is so good. I see a post that sucks, it's gone for me. i'll never see it again. Incredible. there should be a way to do this with people. I mean aside from the main one
Where are you getting that from? I've been looking at the major outlets but all I'm seeing is suspect killed, officer shot/injured
I reckon Claudette Hauiti is one of our best journalists. Yet again offering much needed nuanced commentary on the state of our democracy. waateanews.com/2025/09/06/b...
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
I think my favourite line is when he describes Pamela Anderson's characrer, in Noir Detective Style, as having "a body that carries her head around"
The Naked Gun film is very funny
ai prompt uncanny valley new zealand politician racist aunt nephew born by v-section (got vomited out by drowning pig)
I suffer from "Airport Madness", a disease where everything that can go wrong in an airport will go wrong and also I will be having a panic attack the whole time
We've now had multiple MPs (notably, people from marganlised groups) resign after campaigns of hate and harassment coordinated by known far-right influencers. This can't be good for our democracy
Benjamin Doyle has faced some of the most concentrated hate condensed into a short period of time, egged on by pseudonymous hate groups and encouraged further by the deputy PM. It’s a damn shame that our political environment has got so toxic that an MP needs to resign for the safety of their whānau
I get that Willis is the Finance minister, but the entire government has been crashing the economy into the sea. The unrelenting focus on laying it all on Willis does not sit well with me.
I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.
I feel like you can already see this happening in accelerated time with the Y2K bug—it’s become a punchline, like it was never a problem. It *was* a problem, and people worked very hard to solve it, and succeeded.
Like, ok, you're explaining it in terms that make sense to your field. But people who knit/invented knitting aren't naive idiots. We know how it works in terms that are relevant to the textile field
Which plays into classic stereotypes of women's vs men's work. Imagine someone explaining computer code (now male coded) and then acting as if all the men doing code had no idea how it worked, until Some Smart People from a completely different field came in to study it