Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
Post a banger that isn't in English
ARTIST: μ΄λ μΉ (LEENALCHI)
TITLE: λ² λ΄λ €μ¨λ€ ("Tiger is Coming")
Groove-funk take on South Korean pansori (traditional musical storytelling)
youtu.be/SmTRaSg2fTQ?...
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Incredible stuff happening at Spencerβs Gifts
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I've seen many tone-deaf corporate fauxpologies in my time, and this is shaping up as one of the all-timers.
Featuring classic hits like:
- WE'RE the real victims here
- Just trust me bro
- I'm totally prepared to step down except no I'm not
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
In my sleep sometimes - not regularly or often, but a few times a year - my dreaming brain will identify songs that technically work as a mash up. Today I awoke with BjΓΆrk's Bachelorette x Sisqo's Thong Song ringing in my ears.
You know how back in the '60's, Russ Meyer would make movies called things like "Journey to The Planet of 1,000 Babes" and "Revenge of the Toxic Buxotic Karate Babes?"
Well, one of those babes lives upstairs from me. And now she's in trouble and needs our help!
youtu.be/rsk6V4mXIBM
This is a genuinely lovely thing to do, so do share this.
I will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burn-
ing flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
The words FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE laid overtop David Lynch's face, an older white man with white hair and a serious look.
The inter-tidal zone between the two being a truly awful John Waters moustache I grew during lockdown to freak colleagues out on Zoom
Struck by the sudden highly millennial-coded realisation that almost everything I did in the '10s was painfully ironic, and almost everything I have done in the '20s is painfully sincere
An illustration of Taranaki maunga with the words 'Remember Parihaka Fifth of November'.
Remember, remember.
And the knock-on effects from *that* include things like making it harder/slower to access healthcare - which is one way climate change disproportionately affects disabled people, and relates to OP's question!
And landslides too, in steeper suburbs. A veritable buffet of options! Not sure how your neighbourhood will fare, but the central suburbs are very exposed to sea level rise, so when the arterial transport routes that pass through them are affected, there are knock-on effects for the whole city.
I have some not-great news about how impacted by climate change we're likely to be, though...
Welp, time to reset the giant novelty counter again environment.govt.nz/news/governm...
*being dunked into a flushing toilet* this is classic ad homineglbbbbglbglbglbb
'my job is Email' 'my job is Spreadsheet' This is comms erasure. My job is Canva, PowerPoint and seven thousand Chrome tabs.
My phone keeps autocorrecting LinkedIn to KinkedIn, and honestly I think FetLife is missing a branding opportunity
NZ climate journalism summed up in 2 articles:
RNZ:
govt guts climate disclosures regime, a key tool for delivering Paris Agreement commitments www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Also RNZ:
govt lifts burden on finance industry (actual climate change impacts not mentioned) www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
(this is genuinely cool citizen democracy stuff, my brain is just cooked from spending too much time at the intersection of personal and professional social media)
Ping @leolastname.bsky.social
Screenshit of LinkedIn post by Nicole Curato, Professor of Democratic Governance: Can global citizens' assemblies give voice to the stateless, the displaced and the unrecognised?
When I was
A young boy
My father
Took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said β
Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of RΔkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.
As was something of a habit bsky.app/profile/clev...
Headline: David Seymour hoists himself with his own petard, providing small moment of levity. Apr 2, 2019.
The Government MPs maintained big smiles throughout Question Time, handing a bucket of lollies passed down the front bench, National MPs - including the man obliged to lose to Seymour every election, Paul Goldsmith - could be seen openly laughing, with Maggie Barry wiping what looked to be tears from her eyes.
And if you're thinking, huh?, wait, I thought he missed the vote on that firearms bill β
β you're correct.
Seymour also missed that vote, in that same year, because he was late, because he spent too long bragging to reporters on the tiles about how hard he was going to vote against it.
screenshot: ACT misses climate vote, allowing bill through unanimously
Look, it's the least of our worries given the NZ govt's decision to weaken climate change targets
BUT
as a committed pedant i cannot let David Seymour claim unchallenged that he was the only MP to vote against the current target.
Because he didn't - he missed the vote, lol. The bill passed 119-0.
Climate change isn't happening, except it is and it's natural, except it's not and it's a scam by UN/WEF (((globalists))), except it is and it's HAARP geoengineering, except it's a good thing actually because CO2 is plant food and truth is unknowable and science is just a matter of opinion!