I'm half right then - I pronounce it 'mee-lay'. Occasionally game VAs get something comically wrong, like one pronouncing 'brazier' as 'brassiere' in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. 😁
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I'm half right then - I pronounce it 'mee-lay'. Occasionally game VAs get something comically wrong, like one pronouncing 'brazier' as 'brassiere' in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. 😁
#nzpol 🎯💯 This CoC-up government has to go for good.
Their intelligence is absent.
Aw, poor pup! Often the first I'm aware of an earthquake of any size is Peggy jumping up from her bed under my desk. That usually startles me, so I get a head start on the adrenaline!
*cries in introvert*
Add that to the Thai PM being booted for ethics violations... I wish our lot were self-aware enough to see the symbolism.
I see a discussion re: whether science fiction as a lit genre is dying. My thought about that is no BUT there are two important factors to consider: One, it was/is heavily cis-white-dude coded and that group buys fewer books now; Two, SF thrives with optimism about the future, and, well.
Someone should have thwacked him with a tennis raquet. What a piece of shit.
Translation: Polish multimillonaire Piotr Szczerek stealing the hat a tennis player gifted a child durin the US Open as another reason to make Eat The Rich a reality once and for all:
Has anyone else noticed? Over the last 40+ years, every solution to the UK's 'problems' has involved less rights/money/property/democracy for everyone bar the rich? But still things get worse, except for the filthy rich.
If we freeze it now, we abandon future breakthroughs: cancer vaccines, universal flu shots, mRNA science able to combat the next pandemic in weeks versus years. RFK Jr & those that enable him are a threat to global health. Read more: news.immunologic.org/p/old-vaccin... 🧵
RFK Jr cut half a billion dollars in research funding for mRNA vaccines. He & Marty Makary claim mRNA vaccines are “risky” so they’ll shift to “traditional, older” vaccine tech that’s “safer.” Guess what? We used to immunize people by blowing powdered smallpox scabs up their noses. 1/
He's certainly a masterdebater...
Only by virtue of being the ones currently in power, surely!
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Here’s why #AtlasNetwork aka #Project2025 is attacking public education & sacking expert educators: "Every forest saved, every poem written, every peaceful election held-teachers are behind it all." news.un.org/en/story/202...
#NZGovt has one core objective & it continues to execute its plan to single-mindedly reach it: to demonise, denigrate, discredit, damage, downsize, dismantle, & destroy the public sector, & the role & function of Govt in economic activity #nzpol #AtlasNetwork agenda open.substack.com/pub/ganeshna...
Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies
Boy do we have some exciting news… to everyone who’s been asking if we’re taking on new writers, the answer is finally yes! We’re hiring! Sharpen your pencils, comedy writers - you have two weeks to perfect your applications to be our next freelancers!
LMFAO this government can't procure a fucking ferry that was already paid for what does he think building a reactor entails exactly.
Heh the kids at my former primary school had a protest over the shiny brown loo paper they had. I remember one sign was 'Wipe, not scrape.' That stuff just wasn't absorbent at all.
You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
There's one at Gracefield in Lower Hutt, I believe.
omg why are they so stupid? AoNZ does not have the scale to build nuclear anything. Nuclear power would take years and we don't have the population to support the cost. We've known this for years. Stop lying you wannabe populist. #nzpol
It's true, we are sharing the same challenges, problem is that Nicola and her ilk are making things much, much, worse in NZ than they need be. As for AI? Fuck off with that nonsense
Petition: Repeal and replace the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 Request: That the House of Representatives repeal and replace the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 with health-focused harm minimisation legislation as recommended by the 2011 Law Commission review report. Please sign & share #EndProhibtion #nzpol
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
tax policy written by farmers? oh well, goes with the gun policy written by gun lobbyists, the environment policy written by mining companies, the employment policy written by uber...you get the drift. #nzpol
New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol Say no to seabed mining. Say no to bottom trawling. Say no to further destruction of our environment.
He spends other people's money like a drunken sailor. Never his own.
Cool, after you uninstall you get the option to tell them why you did so. You bet your arse I told them!
Ffs mozilla, fuck this shit.
Workers at Tik Tok’s London Farringdon offices and their union, the Communication Workers Union … said that TikTok’s recently announced redundancies are an act of “union-busting” that will put “millions of British users at risk” as moderation teams savaged.
Live your life in a way so that social media doesn't throw a preemptive party at the mere suspicion of your demise.
Wowser, those are some heavy rain showers!
Like @thechiller.bsky.social said the other day: the first thing they hang from lamp posts is flags, but it's never the last.
If fascists tell you to throw marginalized people under the bus and you do, you are just collaborating with fascists. At no point in history has appeasing Nazis stopped Nazis from committing more crimes, it is literally enabling them. There is no justification for being a craven coward.
#nzpol The Greens have the right idea here. It's time for the government to cap dividends to shareholders until power companies deliver capital programmes to adapt and expand to meet our collective needs for the climate crisis. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
If you live in one of these districts, PLEASE go vote in the special election ~ Virginia's 11th ~ September 9, 2025 Arizona's 7th ~ September 23, 2025 Texas' 18th ~ November 4, 2025 Tennessee's 7th ~ December 2, 2025
They could actually do something useful, and have those soldiers guarding schools against potential mass shooters.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Oh no! 😱
LOL I've been on the loo for a couple of thankfully small-ish shakes. Always that horrible moment where you wonder if you're gonna have to bolt for cover! Our bathroom sliding door vibrates during a quake, so it's quite disconcerting.
I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Or flick it into a container, and throw it out at the farthest end of the yard, if you don't want to kill them. I have a similar reaction to wētā, and have had since a child. The only time I've ever called for help with an insect is when I was about to step into the shower, and there was a wētā.
True, you have to be completely callous and irresponsible to dump a pet of any type.
And/or that they'll just be able to hire someone for the day on Anzac Day. Which would either be the guy they just sacked, or maybe someone from outside AoNZ, which would probably cost a lot more to bring here for however long they need to familiarise themselves with the setup + play.
I agree that it's never okay to ditch a pet, perhaps people think because cats are usually more independent and can hunt their own food, they'll have a better chance? Then you end up with stray and feral cats decimating the native wildlife. 😕
Great idea! Translating some well-known quotes from The Princess Bride into te reo Māori. #Aotearoa #Kikorangi #AoNZ www.facebook.com/tewikiotereo...
CW: contains distressing news about NZ education and a picture of Michael Gove. You have been warned (but it's still worth reading).
A kilo of cheese and 500g of butter.
Because he IS shit.
Riiight. Costco is backing his policy just like Travis Kelce replied to his embarrassing little TikTok. I guess when Luxflakes does it it's a DikTok?
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
Can we give Thiel's passport/citizenship to Kelce instead?
It can’t be coincidence. The asylum seekers in hotels being targeted in Australia at the same time as migrants in hotels in the UK. I smell a coordinated campaign. Now who would be interested in distracting people from protesting against genocide? (Sorry but I’m not doing subtle anymore).
So that’s Australia (www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... ), England, Scotland and Canada (www.bbc.com/news/article...). See what I mean about a coordinated effort, a campaign?
My brother had that record. I used to absolutely thrash it (being an annoying little sister always in his room messing with his stuff).
"You're asking him to...put it all back together - the only person who could do that in New Zealand. "And then ... disestablish his position. I mean, what sort of employer is the Ministry of Culture and Heritage?" #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
I do not begrudge these law firms one PENNY of this huge amount. The #tobacco companies strung out the case for decades, thinking they would give up. They took on personal debt to keep going. They finally won. Eventually we will win everywhere & put these bastards out of business #PublicHealthSky
Really important piece by @mykolabielieskov.bsky.social about how Putin is trying to gain control of a vital part of Ukraine’s defenses through working with Trump. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
As I've been saying
It's 'funny' that each time National are in power they're having to repair the PPP Transmission Gully - with of course the 'PRIVATE' side of it getting off Scott free. Unbelievable My Drunk Uncle in the Oxford Pub North Canterbury will still be lauding them as 'the money men' for fucks sake
I think that's why the Nats like them so much - shovelling money to their wealthiest donors is pretty much their reason for existing, as far as I can see.
Oh! Now I finally understand a joke that used to be told when I was too young to know anything about Russia or its leaders!
It’s not ok to point your fingers at someone speaking at a public meeting and pretend to shoot them, and I don’t understand why media aren’t talking about this when they literally have photos.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
I don’t want to believe that this is inevitable. But it is clear that we need to make significant change to be sure to avoid it… 🫣
Most transparently criminal, racist and cruel administration in history.
“There's a blanket of pollution around the Earth. The summers feel hot, everything is hot, weather patterns are shifting. Nobody wants that. And we know what the solution is. There's an overwhelming majority of people that believe in clean energy and switching to these new technologies.” Jon Batiste
Whoa, this is a big deal. So then, digital campaigning laws are machines for laundering money, doesn't matter where the money came from, just that it can be used to rapidly get material out to voters using exploit, giving them an advantage over other parties. Very dodgy...
Need a moment of joy today? I recently gave a talk about what Indigenous inclusion in science looks like. Grab some tissues and get ready to ugly cry… 🐻🪶🐍🐸🐟🧪
A few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza
If anyone needs both groceries and fuel this weekend, New World supermarkets (not all, but presumably all those with on-site fuel) have 30-40c per litre off fuel when you spend $150-200 on groceries. #AoNZ #Kikorangi
Waimakariri is kind of unique in terms of hard right candidates - because they teamed up. It includes one of the most recognisable racists from the general election, and well, when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Paul's Hard Right Red Flags - Waimakariri District Council youtu.be/YkNERi8VmTo
Isn't it remarkable just how much more of a clear-eyed perspective a little distance, in this case from the Wall Street Journal in the US, can provide?
Aah, there was a German restaurant in Upper Hutt, it was brilliant but sadly short-lived.
NEW - Labour must not award Elbit a £2 billion military deal By @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social, Paul Holden and Jack Cinamon Why are Israel’s largest arms firm and a company mired in a corruption scandal even being considered for training British troops? www.declassifieduk.org/labour-must-...
JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.
The presidential law of the land is "it's illegal to dislike me and my friends" and I'm tired of pretending any of these grown up children are fit to lead. Ivy League schools are adult daycares for the rich and powerful. They don't create leaders. They spit out permanent babies.
Today at a tech meetup in Melbourne, Australia: talk of how bad the New Zealand economy is and how all their tech workers are moving to Australia… Grim for nz. Can’t say I’m surprised but it sure sucks for nz #nzpol
I had two housemates who collected guns. I think it was a bit of a friendly competition. They had over 50 between them, and had spent a LOT of money on their collections. But here in Aotearoa NZ there are strict rules for firearms, so I didn't feel any more or less safe with them in the house.
I can imagine how tough it might have been, being a trans child in a catholic school. Nothing can ever justify what she did though.
I wonder how many in DIA know Paul James earned over $500,000last year (oh and btw he got a raise too--see the comment below). Someone should ask him if he'll drop 126,000 from his salary and ask each his seven Deputy CEs to each take $63,000 so a few more can stay?
More fantastic news from Australia! Kirralie Smith found guilty of two charges of unlawful vilification against two trans women. This after Smith’s other recent defeat in court. Fingers crossed for Sal Grover to be next in the Aus L Squad 💅
No wonder our coalition of corruption wants to make it easier to sell booze, always dancing to their lobbyists' tune.
There's a disconcerting pattern to this week's political news. Govt ministers going against official advice to make law changes that will benefit industries/lobbyists and endanger people. #nzpol 1) it will be easier to open and operate bars/bottle stores after McKee shifted the focus of reforms
Even more obviously, if you use ChatGPT or other LLM/GAI systems, please stop. They are bad for our society. Bad for our environment. And bad for you, with studies already showing they amplify mental illness and diminish cognitive abilities. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Most of those 83 measles deaths in Samoa were children under 5 years old, too. He's a fucking monster.
Israeli war criminals are set to attend the UK's largest arms fair in London Campaigners are calling out Israeli war criminals coming to hobnob at DSEI arms fair in London this September www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Let me get this straight, they weren’t allowed to show the Stuff Protests on Three news as they are produced by stuff. Isn’t that against the whole idea of News? Didn’t take me long to find a photo online 😜 #nzpol
Auckland is on fire sale, I don't know how we can survive another year of this no boat, no butter, no ideas government #NZPol
Shit, my SIL works there, I hope she's okay.
AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial - MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions. - “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit” By @joeygrostern.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
No one is acting as if this in an emergency, except those of us who work in these fields. But we see the tsunami approaching--a wave of sickness and death that will wash over us all in growing numbers down the months, down the years. 15/