When Your Daughter is Kidnapped by ICE David Farrier's Webworm talks to Betty Wihongi, whose Kiwi daughter Everlee got kidnapped by ICE at LAX after a trip to New Zealand.

i talk in-depth to betty wihongi, whose kiwi daughter everlee got kidnapped by ICE at lax. full audio, and article, here (no paywall, no ads - please RT): www.webworm.co/betty/

If I’m blocking people when my dog farts I’m gonna have a real quiet feed :/

Still relevant three years later.
newsroom.co.nz/2023/02/22/t...

Wow Newtown got seriously flooded last night!!

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

direct hit, battleship sunk etc etc :(

I believe you mean “so badly”

When you thought you were going for a drive but you end up singing sea shanties #weather

Now that they’re safe on the ground we.. ocean, I can make a joke

OMG ARTEMIS IS IN TROUBLE WE’RE GETTING REPORTS OF A GIANT CAT BATTING THEM OUT OF THE SKY OH THE HUMANITY

Auckland earlier tonight. (Pic by the Hauraki Gulf Weather account on Facebook, seeing as he's not on this platform)

I'm just glad the astronauts weren't around to see us this week, we were not at our best

Achievement: remembered how to play Pass the Pigs

Do I happen to know anyone in Wellington looking for part time tech industry comms work? LMK.

If you ever get to New Zealand during summer, definitely give the Lewis Farms strawberries a go, they’re consistently amazing

Oh no :( Hope they get better soon!!

hi, seeking an LA lawyer - so if you are a smart lawyer who wants to help my journalism work on webworm, please email me: davidfarrier@protonmail.com 🙏

Yep Kāpiti is stuffed for GP enrollments. Urgent care is 4+ hours wait too on a good day

I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents.

AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering.

The post-mortem:
lalitm.com/post/buildin...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

okay I started doing this this evening instead of scrolling in the interstitial moments and it is SO fun

The one where they’re talking on the videochat tablets and Muffin doesn’t wanna share and it all goes to hell in split screen and socks is just calmly drawing in the corner is amazing

Is it actually getting drier? 😬

Sand Under a Microscope - Magnified Sand Photos Under microscopic magnification, the unique beauty and individual character of sand grains reveal a diverse origin reflecting geological history and marine life biodiversity.

Someone loves sand a lot magnifiedsand.com and I love that they love sand a lot

A cat completely tangled up in tape from a cassette.

♫ psycho killer, cat cassette ♫

Dog: I have incredible hearing!
Also Dog: I admit I was laser focused on trying to eat scraps out of the rubbish bin, which I am not allowed to do, which meant I did not hear the boss walk up behind me

I reckon the constraints just weren't working for them, the risks are higher, no amount of censoring was going to make it work, and they had no real edge over the competitors who were more willing to accept those risks.

Proxy the cat, face resting on the floor staring at you as if he’s certain you don’t know what you’re doing

As far as I can tell, cats are very cynical about chores or any kind of self improvement

My straits?
dire

(Too current??)

Four cats paws in a cool diamond shape

Why would you write this