What the chemist is saying is if we hadn’t closed marsden point we could have just tipped surplus feijoas into the hydrocracker to make diesel

A Two Bedroom House The next new rule was: You first. Guy wants to start a war? Go for it buddy. Go duel the other guy who wants to start a war. You get a knife, each.

We could just... fix everything, starting right now.
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I hate this phrase. What do you think will come after it? How do you think it will end?

People seem to like this lil massive guy www.tworuru.com/blog/moby-du...

update: they weren't mad, they just hadn't seen the email

I would get a lobotomy if it'd rid me of this turbulent ADHD and the associated life-ruining rejection sensitivity, I really really would

the absolute worst thing about ADHD rejection sensitivity or whatever, is that telling yourself that people aren't mad at you and they haven't replied because they're just busy isn't always true. sometimes they *are* mad at you, you never get to find out why, and it eats you forever #adhd

Hip hip hooray, the world didn’t end today But it could still end tomorrow, depending on what whispers the Mad King hears (real or imagined) that cause him to thumb a button in a fit of demented pique. I'm a bit over it, honestly! I suspect we all are! Some of us would like to get on with our drinking water problems and go for walks with the kids without the threat of global thermonuclear war or even just the wanton unprompted murder that we're all somehow used to now.

I'm a bit over it, honestly! I suspect we all are! Some of us would like to get on with our drinking water problems and go for walks with the kids without the threat of global thermonuclear war.

“Then we said to the economists, hey, you know how you keep recommending that we make about 5% of people poor & miserable so rich people can keep being rich? That seems a bit suss!

You first, buckos…You're the noble sacrifice, buddy! Be proud!

And just like that we'd fixed economics. How good!”🙌

A Two Bedroom House The next new rule was: You first. Guy wants to start a war? Go for it buddy. Go duel the other guy who wants to start a war. You get a knife, each.

This made me cry in a good way - I think we are all yearning for this. Thanks Emily and Josh

A Two Bedroom House The next new rule was: You first. Guy wants to start a war? Go for it buddy. Go duel the other guy who wants to start a war. You get a knife, each.

We don't actually have to put up with this! It's time we grabbed these lunatics by the armpits and frog-marched them off to their overdue punishment, detailed here:
www.emilywrites.co.nz/a-two-bedroo...

fuck off Casey, these things aren't intelligent! stop carrying water for the lunatics that think they are!

To me, it seems fake
the worst thing to be is a
word that means “awake”

Weird about water I don't like drinking water and I don't know why.

I don't like drinking water. Also the world might be ending tomorrow. I don't know what to do about either of these problems.

a poster for the tv series "LA Law"

the best time to get off substack was years ago. the second best time is now.

But… how will we pay for it? (🧵 with words).

This phrase is used to obfuscate, deflect and generally suppress progressive policy.
Why don’t dentists help the thousands of people suffering with tooth ache? Why is shit pouring into the harbour when it rains? Why are people sleeping in tents... [1/n]

two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton Alt: two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that’s a bold strategy cotton

Ardern Labour: handed an unprecedented global emergency. Rediscovers that government can Do Things. Elected with overwhelming majority.
Luxon National: handed an unprecedented global emergency. Does less than nothing.

Of all the many things that have made me feel like I am going mad this year, this rambling purple pointless prose in what was apparently once an important newspaper has made me feel the maddest

It was probably started by John Keys and Mike Hoskings

Foreign Minister Winston Peters off to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Peters said the meetings would advance New Zealand's diplomatic, security and economic interests.

Trump bootlicker. #nzpol

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Sutskever would later sit down with New York Times reporter Cade Metz for his book Genius Makers, which recounts a narrative history of AI development, and say without a hint of satire, "I think that it's fairly likely that it will not take too long of a time for the entire surface of the Earth to become covered with data centers and power stations." There would be "a tsunami of computing. almost likea natural phenomenon." AGI-and thus the data centers needed to support them-would be "too useful not to exist”

I see a lot of techies perplexed about the venom the rest of society has about AI. here’s just one sample of why so many people reflexively loathe AI

Attn @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

One of the hardest things to get across to most software people with great intentions is *how strong defaults are* and how tired everyone else is of dorking around trying to get things to work, but this understanding is the thing that made Apple, for all its many flaws, such a giant.

There is no reason to read a Malpass column. His writing is bland, his political reporting is the usual optics-first trash, and his economics is bunk. He is nearly always wrong, and he simply shouldn’t have his job

Good thread but the tl;dr is that Luke Malpass never really stopped working for the neoliberal think tanks who previously employed him, he just got gifted a much bigger platform by Stuff despite the fact that his analysis is front to back nonsense

FNC: Easter long weekend recommendations + chats Eww what a bad week. But now it's the long weekend yay! And I am heading to Tāmaki Makaurau for the launch of Kiwi Health Heroes by Caitlin Timmer-Arends, So-Young Cho and Rebecca Waddel. It features ...

Friday Night Chats is out and this one is FREE! I love free speech! www.emilywrites.co.nz/easter-long-...

Good lord this looks amazing

I would drown a kitten to hear the conversations Nintendo's comms team is having about this.

To be fair I think that's covered in one of The Expanse novellas