…can we just confirm this isn’t a Luxon metaphor.

Takahē About a work in progress

I'm a takahē fan.

My god it must suck having to say “we” in the context of owning decisions made by the orange ogre and his crew. Not that having our energy security knocked out from under us by people we don’t get to vote against feels great for the rest of us.

People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.

…this is surely just pre-new wave SF?

Any chance this might turn up in podcast form subsequently, asked the person in a different hemisphere

Going to stick with my head cannon on this one (but appreciate the reply)

…is the out of focus screengrab a quiet nod to how distorted Jackson’s give-me-more-of-an-arc version of the character is?

🧵People often ask me if where I live in New Zealand is as great as my posts suggest and I always say that we've got all the usual problems (a few more lately with global shenanigans). BUT last night, I saw some things that perfectly sum up how awesome this place is. They're as follows: (1)

This is the most delightful thing I’ve ever read

Are you actually doing a “centrist wisdom, extremes on both sides wrong” defence of the NYT? Is this a bit?

Reading Night Watch to my partner atm and one of the many delightful things I’d forgotten is meeting Young Vetinari. If we’d got my preferred timeline for this century, after we solved climate change and poverty we’d have got to read Terry’s late career Young Vetinari chronicles.

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Hate to miss MP but the last one legitimately darkened my day

Question from someone who found pt1 the most distressing listen you’ve yet served up: are we through the sexual assault and animal cruelty bits, or does he stay, um, on brand?

How does that play in high summer?

Who knew Wayne Brown's "whatever you got, that's what I'm against" streak would come in so handy.

Fuel crisis: 'Business as usual', Luxon says - but some industries are struggling It comes as supply chain data shows the last shipments of fuel from Gulf Oil for New Zealand are likely to arrive on 20 April.

Much as I love watching this government self-destruct, I wish they wouldn't take our ability to get food to supermarkets with them. "Business as usual!" Luxon says, as the Middle East war expands and the diesel supply chain dangles slackly in the breeze. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Consider this your father’s gift to you: you get to be the useful competent son.

This is the way.

Fair

At the risk of missing the point my dude you don’t need a reason

Not just Asia. Australia and NZ too. Friends of mine who were leaving for New Zealand are canceling since there are no guarantees of enough jet fuel to get back.

Overtaking Wellington when a government has spent its term firing as much of the high income population as it can isn’t so difficult. Overtaking AUCKLAND? WTF, Southland? You couldn’t have done this while Tim Shadbolt was alive to enjoy it?

I'm always struck by the refusal of otherwise literate adults to distinguish between annoying and dangerous when it comes to bikes. Water is wet and cyclists are less dangerous than cars for pedestrians! Not debatable!

Ha. You're right, but also, read @adapalmer.bsky.social's INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE for more on the politics around that term "golden age".

ffs guys this is embarrassing. When nominated novels have two authors do you nominate only one of them?

Biggest screen you can find and be as unspoiled as possible at this late date.

They nest round my house and that is definitely a morepork.

It is somewhere between deeply amusing and blackly terrifying that Iran's shocking hardline ceasefire conditions which have everyone spinning into a "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE" frenzy are just like, "fuck off and obey the law."