Are we lucky that the suggestion wasn’t 6-7 back benchers?

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

A system that consistently protects perpetrators and undermines survivors is a biased, corrupt system.
How many headlines do we see where a judge is protecting a perpetrator’s good name, their career? How many actions are framed as a judgement error?
Help change an unacceptable status quo👇
#nzpol

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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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.

One of my crows. They leave me bones.

Shout out to me and only me for ending a meeting with “I must go, my crows are here”.

If this is the case, it’s a huge victory for the hard-working people at MPI

#nzpol

Screenshot of Ronan Farrow on screen with a text screen grab overlay. The text has a highlight section which reads: ‘we're building portals from which we're genuinely summoning aliens," a former OpenAl executive said "The portals currently exist in the United States and China, and Sam has added one in the Middle East."’

I’m sorry, @ronanfarrow.bsky.social, I know you’ve just emerged from your Sam Altman investigation but whatdoyoumeaaaaann Open AI is “…building portals from which we’re genuinely summoning aliens.” Could you maybe go down that rabbit hole next?

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#1 son is starting a new computer repair business. If you’re in Hamilton or know anybody who is, let them know! www.hameastcomputerrepairs.co.nz

view from dog

"In this week's episode titled L'enfer, c'est les autres, Jean-Paul has to solve a closed door murder mystery"

When Jean-Paul's oldest friend dies, he has to return to Paris - with dangerous consequences.

That's GET SARTRE, ITV 2 at 7.30pm.

Duck outside a door with a sign: "do not let the duck in"

I would definitely

Pōneke peeps, stay home stay safe.

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“No boom today. Boom tomorrow.”

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Just in case you're curious about why there are clogs hanging on my trees:

My Prodigal Brainchild Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse

*Neal Stephenson explaining in detail that he didn't personally spend 80 billion dollars on impracticable ideas from one of his novels #Metaverse #deadmedia

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OMG! How cute are these!! 😍😍

"Timaru's bus service is soon to be fully electric. Six of the new EVs, known as "very small buses" or VSBs, are the first of their kind in NZ and can seat up to 13 people, with another 13 standing." THEY ARE LITERALLY CALLED "VERY SMALL BUSES"💗Source: shorturl.at/yBQy1

NZ & AU Fuel Reserve Monitor Live countdown to NZ & AU fuel depletion — reserve gauges, vessel tracking, pump-price monitoring, and scenario analytics.

NZ Oil Watch pauses, citing data integrity issues. Last update showed <15 days diesel stocks.

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Are we sure they they're not Melbinoneans (not quite Melnibonean, but close enough) #elric

Does Anyone Want Any Toast? | Red Dwarf | BBC YouTube video by BBC Studios

on the bright side, we still don't have talkie toaster right? youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?...

Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary engaged in an anticompetitive monopoly.

BREAKING: A jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues.

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

Screenshot of Wiretext, a browser-based wireframe tool displaying a low-fidelity dashboard mockup with monospaced ASCII-style components including KPI cards, a line chart, a channel breakdown panel, and a data table. The left panel shows layers and the right panel shows an inspector.

I'm absolutely fascinated by this tool that lets you build wireframes using text elements, ASCII art style.
I've seen wireframes in excel, powerpoint, on paper, but this is a first. Still, it's actually quite efficient and exportable. Love it!
wiretext.app/

Our tea drinkers were recently perturbed to find the Earl Grey teabags mixed in with the Dilmah etc. Either someone had got mixed up or was deliberately making mischief.

Ludicrous that Australia doesn't have thousands of these. We are now years and years behind other countries who have the infrastructure to run everything on renewable energy, & we're still polluting & not taxing the billionaire fossil fuel companies. Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right.

Philosophy, astronomy, a shelf on ancient pottery, Manuals for medicine, foraging, and botany. He wants all the classics, all the modern lit, And three competing textbooks on how governments are knit. Cookbooks, law books, treatises on ethics, A guide to fermentation and a fieldbook on genetics. The brief includes the works on macro‑economics, Sir, I’m one librarian, not a fleet of supersonics. It's for the end of the world as we know it, It's for the end of the world as we know it, It's for the end of the world as we know it, And I read fine

My first thought, followed by some fiddling with word choices

BRB printing this image and hanging it within eyeline of my computer.