Screenshot of the stuff quiz What term is given to an artwork, usually watercolour, applied directly to a wall or ceiling. The choices are fresco, frottage (the eyebrowc raising one), mosaic and sgafritto
In today's edition of Tell Me What Kind of Books You Read, I didn't know this was also an art technique.
You learn something new every day.
I just saw the 2026 National Fuel Plan described as 1 do nothing 2 do nothing 3 do nothing 4 oh fuck. And I'm feeling a horrifying parallel to how my life runs some days and really AoNZ, we do not need a government with only the challenging bits of adhd and none of the creative fun bits.
Again and again, every weather event, marae are there showing the rest of us how it should be done.
Yes, good call and thanks for the context, which matters. I didn't check the context from the original post and I should have. Fed into my existing narrative etc etc. (Must do better).
I think that's what they did here already (poor cropping on my part, or we are talking at cross purposes, either way algd!).
Don't know. But I'm going to be keen to see whether other leaders and reps also get the high chair treatment.
I know it's the look and the power dynamics and the interview technique, and visual look on screen etc etc that means his chair has to put him in the higher position, it's still just funny.
Two screenshots from Tova interviewing Luxon. The first is above the table and Luxon is taller. The second is full length and you can see his chair is so high his feet don't touch the ground.
Also...a tall CEO.
As a short person I get the temptation, and understand the optics, but it's still funny as hell.
Tedium or rage?
(Cake please, where's the cake option?)
That's a lot. Hang in there.
Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.
Look I know this isn't helpful for you, but our community Facebook page isn't terrible. It's all 'this courier package isn't mine' 'free balloon garland' and 'is this your kids left shoe '. Not everyone sucks. Not all the time anyway.
Absolutely nothing on helping people to reduce the need to use imported liquid fossil fuels. Reduce, avoid, substitute. Start there surely. Non-inflationary, not even expensive.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Thank you for giving blood!!
I had a blood transfusion after childbirth. Very grateful to everyone who literally gives their life blood for free to help others.
Also organ donors, you are the goat.
I do not (#blessed). But I can see what's available and help compile if it looks like it might work? Fun! Crowdsource?
Holy shit. It's a st Patrick's Day message with no leprechauns, green, shamrocks, or jokes with Irish people as the butt.
Ooh @nickbaker.digital I would absolutely be here for a pre-campaign period poll on the best (worst?) election campaign slogans of the last decades!
#nzpols
Election year has only just begun, and already I'm tired of "what I'm sharing today" and "and what I am saying to you is" and also "let me be clear?" Let you? I'm begging for it. At least no one is trying to say are are "back on track" this week.
#nzpols
For all new buildings, absolutely. For existing buildings, especially in earthquake prone areas, it's less straightforward - they are not always designed to take the extra weight on the roof.
If I said my kid got to school to school by treadly-peddly...?
I googled it to prove I'm not a weirdo. It didn't help.
Anyone?
Do people realise the fuel refined at Marsden mostly came from the Middle East. Crude oil extracted in NZ has long been for the export market & still is, we still produce oil, just never been able to use or refine it here.
Marsden owners closed the refinery side of the business.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to reach out and pose this most pertinent and entirely reasonable question regarding the parameters, boundaries, constraints, limitations, and/or restrictions — whether measured in words, pages, characters, sentences, paragraphs, or any other conceivable unit of textual quantification — that may or may not govern, apply to, or otherwise circumscribe the length, extent, breadth, depth, or overall volume of written content that you are expected, required, encouraged, or permitted to produce in fulfilment of the aforementioned assignment task, namely Part One, which concerns itself with the defining of a research problem. In response to your query, and after careful, thorough, and considered reflection on the matter at hand, I am pleased to be in a position to confirm, communicate, convey, and make abundantly clear to you that there is, in fact, no word limit, no page limit, no character limit, no paragraph limit, no sentence limit, and no other form of quantitative restriction of any kind whatsoever currently in place, operative, or applicable to the said task. I trust this comprehensively, exhaustively, and unambiguously addresses your question
Q: is there a word count for this assignment?
Me: no, write as much as you need to answer the question, as concisely as possible.
AI:
Something on toast. Solution for all situations.
Unless it's bad obvious stand-out POV and then you definitely notice. And that's just bad writing.
I read the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo last week (don't judge). So much head jumping, a thing everyone accepts as Very Bad. And actually it was completely fine.
If I didn't find this so funny (because it's true, damnit) my life would probably run smoother. #acadamicLife
Claude error page. Claude will return again soon and they are trying to fix it. it must be truly broken as the copy does not use any em dashes or the words honestly or genuinely
I'm trying to write a lecture for tomorrow on background research, writing a literature view, and why no, students, you can't rely on AI. With illustrative examples.
This is not the illustrative example I was looking for.
In the Drs waiting room, an elderly lady using a walker just came in and said she's here for her beep test! Ambitious? Elder abuse?
Ooh wait, bp test.
Four beehive hexagons, in a pattern, in silver, on a chain, on on the hexagons has gold bee wings attached. That was a piss poor job of explaining sorry
This is her work too, perfect.
A silver charm in a beehive shape with a honey coloured stone in the bottom
I commissioned a jeweller friend to make my daughter a beehive charm for her birthday, as a nod to moving to Wellington to study politics (well, international relations). I didn't know how it would go, but I'm so happy! She's so clever.
I loved this book. I keep trying to recommend it to people, but they can't get it. Re-release? Love the cyberpunk vibe in the cover art too. Covers don't always feel like the artist read the book, but this is 100% perfect.
Mine was 50c in a public library annual sale in 1990-something.