"Do you remember what you were like when you were younger?" asks one crow to another as they are landing on wet snow. "Bitey" replies the second crow. "Right... but do you remember what it was like to BE you?" "What did you think about? Have you changed fundamentally? How can you really know?" The first crow is pondering. The background is a pattern of blue circles. "I guess I don't bite as much as I used to" answers the second crow. "You bite enough" says the first.

Bitey

NZ used to have this policy, but it was repealed by a right-wing government with ex-tobacco lobbyists as ministers.

It's completely insane that people on the left want to condemn future generations to lung cancer and vascular disease because it's "unfair" that kids can't smoke.

I was so tired when I got home I had an impromptu couch nap and now I’m wide awake 🙃

A blue car balanced precariously on a fence. The car has the National Party logo on the side, the name Luxon is on the bonnet, with the words “back on track” along the bottom

Like this?

If anyone lets them get away with ‘on the water’ as part of fuel stocks now …

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.

Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)

Distributed physical copies matter.

Looking forward to not having a PM called Chris. #nzpol

The new bossy ED doc on Shorty is hot.

This is the way.

I love this for his blood pressure 👀

💯 lux is a shouty red mess behind closed doors.

winnie laying in to clusterflux is 🍿

I need no context for this, I am immediately in total understanding and agreement.

Yep.
You are not a good person if you do something like this.
You do not get to have a little sexual assault as a treat if you are wealthy.

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

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

God forbid the world should be made comfortable to be in. Everything has to become an app, or service or bullshit, all served with ads that are explicitly designed to confuse people into making mistakes so they can steal their money for no reason.

LOL.

Buy a jar of pickled onions. Eat them. Peel your little onions and pop them in the pickling liquid left in the jar.

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

Screenshot of Microsoft flex routing during peak load period setting that shows what you need to select to not allow flex routing.

🚨⏳ Act now! Microsoft just enabled flex routing for Copilot users in the EU - & you're opted in automatically!

This means your data can be processed outside of the EU.

Turn if off: Copilot → Settings → Flex routing → Do not allow flex routing

Even better, cancel Copilot: tuta.com/blog/microso...

#NZPol
- Campaigned on dogwhisles
- 1st action as govt: Demote Māori names
- Killed Māori heathcare
- Signed up to TPB
- Cut funding to Māori programmes
- Removing commitments to Tī Tīriti from legislation
- Won't say 'butter chicken avalanche' is racist

The purpose of a system is what it does.

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

If you advocate for and actively promote the use of LLMs, you should live near a data centre, have one family member working as a data worker and another, a teenager, using the LLM as a psychologist.

The global line goes up, as does the local within it.

#30DayChartChallenge Day 20 Global change

The Earth's Energy imbalance (added trapped energy due to more CO2) since 2000 in watts per metre squared (blue line), and the days climate emergency of NZ regions as percentage of total days available for those regions

They were brown girls Rob, lesser children, you have to give them time to decide!

The same ai with built-in racism?
The same ai that has guided people to suicide?
That ai?

Do the Nats still support the us govt actions in Iran? #nzpol

Trolley problem: There is no problem. You are travelling safely to your destination. It just keeps getting hotter this time every year though, doesn't it?