The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Glowing ring of plankton surrounding New Zealand islands linked to deadly underwater plateau — Earth from space A recent satellite photo captured a gleaming halo of phytoplankton encircling the remote Chatham Islands. The stunning sight is the result of a hidden underwater structure, which has also helped kill ...

Absolutely fascinating.

on the one hand, we're apparently big enough to be a valid target now

on the other hand, we're apparently not big enough to actually spend any time on before targeting us because they clearly have not seen this site's takes on the war

EU court rules Hungary's LGBTQ law violates human rights European Court of Justice says measure by PM Viktor Orban's government breaches EU law 'on a number of separate levels'.

European Court of Justice says measure by PM Viktor Orban's government breaches EU law 'on a number of separate levels'.

“Funding for resilience needs to not be a 'marketing exercise': Luxon”

When our 6pm news (largely watched by older viewers) fails to point out what this govt has done to plunge us into a far worse situation re; climate resilience/adaptation, it is a total failure of the 4th estate. Imho. #nzpol

Prime minister Luxon is a dead man walking

His next cabinet meeting will require a medium, not a secretary #NZPol

Fascinatingly, the 16th arrondissement, Paris’ most wealthy - like Kensington & Chelsea - now feels poor and rubbish. They’ve not got on board as [they] want to protect their right to drive everywhere and as a consequence it’s noisy, dirty, and ugly public space

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We've heard of "consuming" literature, but this is a bit much.

Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars.

NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.

Black and white picture of two people dressed as storybook creatures.

Hare and hedgehog costumes worn by Hermann Oehlmann and an unknown person.
Photo by Joseph Albert, 1862.
Via Münchner Stadtmuseum

A cartoon-style drawing shows two cats sitting in front of a pet carrier. One cat says: “I go in, and when I come out I’m at the vet… then I go back in, and when I come out I’m home…” The other cat responds: “Could it be? A wormhole!”

😆

EU ‘right to repair’ laws may save millions of phones from landfill Smartphone manufacturers make their batteries hard to replace. Tough new EU rules will change that.

EU ‘right to repair’ law

The EU will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.

The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.

www.euronews.com/2023/06/22/n...

"Kuwait invokes ‘force majeure’ on its fuel, allowing it to forfeit delivery to NZ’s refined fuel suppliers"

Neat development #nzpol

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

The app is an epic failure. Everything that was previously easily visible looks now so pretty that it's useless. And every single piece of data shown must be a separate API call because it's so slow that it's just not worth waiting.
But their their rates are still are the lowest out there.

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

And you my find yourself in an office on the ninth floor And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a whole nation And you may find yourself behind a wooden podium, answering a 400th round of questions about your leadership And you may ask yourself, 'Well how did I get here?"

As seen on Twitter.
#nzpol

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Patchwork of silks and cottons of a variety of colours. Girl's frock of mulicoloured patchwork in silks (including patachute silk) and cottons, the dress has a squared neckline with an organdie frill, and padded puffed sleeves are lined, and the gathered skirt had a built-in organdie petticoat with a hem frill. The dress fastens at the back with five pearlised buttons and stitched buttonholes.

Child's party dress, 1944.
Due to wartime fabric rationing, the dress is made of scrap cotton and parachute silk.
Ref MISC.265-1983, V & A Museum.

Is that bad? Seems bad

Record 165 GW of wind power capacity added in 2025, led by China, report says The global wind industry installed a record 165 ‌gigawatts of new capacity last year, up 40% from 2024 and mostly driven by China, a report by the Global Wind Energy Council said, adding this still lagged the pace needed to hit ​a key climate goal.

Record 165 GW of wind power capacity added in 2025, led by China, report says reut.rs/4cBeSz4

Volvo’s Flagship EV Truck Now Has Over 400 Miles Of Range A compact rear electric axle makes room for more batteries, upping the range figure.

Volvo has new truck that can do 700km on a single charge, and takes 50mins for a full charge

Which given driver rest periods that could be done when the driver is resting at a Human Recharge Station
insideevs.com/news/793045/...

So, the only way for the government to run surplus without the private sector going into debt is to export more than we import?

Losing my mind reading Dann, Malpass, Tibshraeny, (etc) sweating about Govt 'returning to surplus'. Surely the reckonomics commentariat should understand balance sheets?
Let's see if I can make it simple. Here's how much we spend offshore and how much we earn. Take a minnit... [🧵 1/n]

Last week, its UK rival Shell said it anticipated “significantly higher” oil trading profits for the quarter. Analysts have been upgrading their profit forecasts, with the US bank Citi raising its estimate for BP by 20% to $2.6bn adjusted net income in the January to March quarter - despite flat oil and gas production.

We shovel $10bn per year into the pockets of offshore companies to buy fuel - and that was before prices went nuts. You could easily employ every unemployed young person in NZ for $10bn - and buy thousands of solar panels.

willis has a plan so cunning... www.topspeed.com/top-10-amphi...

From a friend’s Facebook page. Perfect. 👌

And, worse of all, almost all the extra money we are spending on fuel & oil-related price increases will flow offshore. That means demand being drained rapidly from our economy - like someone took the plug out. This will drive tens of thousands of job losses. That is *already baked in*. So... [4/n]