Is this satire?

Wow read this and start running

Me: I’m off to see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and C-beams glittering near the Tannhauser gate. Him: so you don’t want me to get you a pie then?

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Go placidly……

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

Stegosaurus all day long. I’m very sad about these stats. Also this is the proper public use of statistics and also the internet

Absolutely! Bad ass vego Stegosaurus! I’m appalled by this and also very sad

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

This is great writing and I learned a lot

"The official Kentucky Fried Chicken India restaurant’s Instagram page posted an Agartha meme which amassed over 94,000 likes in just 2 days."
The rise of vile neo-Nazi sentiment/antisemitism (my bonkers Hindutva uncles raving about Soros) in India should be taken much more seriously than it is.

Also there was a dear little short-legged dog

There were lots of old people

Waiting for the No More Wars rally to start. Otautahi Aotearoa

During the pandemic Iceland’s tourism industry built speakers in beautiful isolated places. You could record your scream and it would come out of the speaker on a windswept beach or high cliff

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

I just ordered the eel t shirt because it expresses the mystery of eels. Aristotle studied eels. No one understands eels!

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.
www.emilywrites.co.nz/a-two-bedroo...

The government has boxed itself in over fuel saving strategies – but there is a way out Promoting fuel saving measures as vital to energy security would help frame the oil shock as a technical problem to be solved, not a political issue to be fought.

Every effective tool for reducing fuel demand right now (free PT, cycling, EVs, lower speed limits) is a policy the NZ coalition government has spent two years dismantling.

My new piece in The Conversation on why they've gone quiet and how they get out of it.
theconversation.com/the-governme...

I don’t want to be controversial but I do think it’s turned out that the possibility of nuclear war is a bigger threat to the future of humanity than the woke mind virus

I love him! And he’s clearly correct. I had a similar dog so I get it

Trump Immigration Policy Not Aggressive Enough for Heritage Foundation and ‘Mass Deportation Coalition’

The folks behind Project 2025 have a new coalition and playbook demanding that the Trump administration adopt a far more aggressive deportation plan www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Opportunities wasted. It will be harder to pull it all together at the very time it’s most necessary

How a Photographer Captured the Artemis II Launch With 14 Cameras How photographer Steven Madow used 14 different remote cameras to capture the historic Artemis II rocket launch.

Absolutely gorgeous images...

The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

Great essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "the very resistance by the political right to marriage equality as an equal right is because it demonstrates that marriage can be a freely negotiated relationship between equals, which threatens the patriarchial order."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

How the radicalised Right uses the idea of “civilisation” is code. One of my favourite amateur writers messaged me to say this about my latest: “That piece was so well written I had to read it twice in case I'd missed something.”
I hope you’ll read it too.
#Auspol
open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Demand the Government support people experiencing homelessness! Everyone should have access to decent, secure and permanently affordable housing. But right now, many people in our communities are experiencing homelessness – living on couches, in cars, in overcrowd...

I volunteer with unhoused people and I oppose Move On orders: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/de...

Any metalheads want to look over my sprawling “History of Metal” list for Penn’s morning albums rotation and tell me if I’ve missed anything crucial?

Black swans with cygnets, Heathcote River. Completely the wrong time of year as it’s Autumn here

Yeah Nah Pasaran! Andy and Cam have been broadcasting on 3CR about the comings and goings of the far-right since 2009. Until 2019 they did so via The SUWA Show, but at the start of 2020 launched YNP!.YNP! is an award-w...

www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran my favourite show about “fascism and its gravediggers”. Often relevant for #nzpol