Man, Beavis got old, didn’t he? And joined the army?

Oh gods. We are so fucked, what with all the evident planning for future outcomes we are all so good at

John Campbell taking books for that apocalypse library on RNZ is a little bit of joy

I am the retiring type. Happily so. But this line hits: is it just fear? “Getting older has a way of making retreat feel like principle, instead of what it often is: habit or fear.”

Super super cool

This is so well put, well said

A phone lock screen sh owing the clock and a battery indicator on charge at 1%

“I see, Mr. Bond, that you like to live… dangerously “

screenshot from Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex of five little blue quadropedal tanks whizzing along a road and leaning hard to their right for a turn at high-speed

this is what i feel like when i'm riding my scooter and i go around a corner *just* fast enough that it makes me tilt just the tiniest little bit to the side

I encourage you to reach late middle age by any means necessary if for no other reason than to find out just how primo the naps are. No matter how much you like naps now you will not believe it

Now that you’ve said it out loud it can’t happen, right? Right?!!!???

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

This is special.
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The guy has got great form, eh! 😆

Same-same here for our two adoptees. We get asked a LOT over the last few years what they are. A cheaper dna test might be worth it…

Nice!

Do you have the Electrical Fucking Around certificate-of-compliance, as indicated by the post-wiring wondering, “well, nothing else in the house has blown”

..and yet, the pack of cunts running AoNZ are kissing that fat fuck's ring and throwing the people that live here under every passing bus.

We're mad. Yes, at you. Choices were made that affected every single organism on earth and you'll get zero sympathy internationally until he is removed.

This rules 🤣

Jaysus h. Christopher but feicin hate leaf blowers. A solution looking for a problem, giving middle aged pakeha neighbours a thrilling experience at moving crap from one place to another since ages ago. Clean out your gutters! Move those leaves! Send shit everywhere!

If you want to support this guy and his incredible effort, read here, and you can consider signing a petition calling for the ban of bottom trawling in the only country that allows it: NZ, and you’ll be joining 65K (!!) others

I hope somewhere out there is a chemist working in a lab and her name is Polly Fennell. We need this win both for chemistry and for nominative determinism.

A screenshot with a block of text: Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965. Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

😂 this right has been earned!

Always

Go to internetnz.nz/membership/ to sign up before March 31 2026.

Then make sure you vote for the board elections, and turn up to the online AGM and ensure the right wing don't capture INZ and implement their anti diversity agenda.

Thank you for promoting/reminding/sharing this; joined.

A colorful space nebula in all the colors of the rain bow, sort of circular, with complex structures and some dark foreground nebulas

Timeline cleanser, some photons I caught on my driveway.

This is Cederblad 214, part of the "Question Mark" nebula in Cepheus (I can't fit the whole question mark on my field of view with my telescope!).

#astrophotography

Who’s, I say, WHO’S ASS IS WINSTON KISSING?

Doing a gods work there, surely…

One New Zealand finishes shutting down 2G and 3G networks. That just leaves the Spark team which has a shutdown date of end of March.

if you haven't checked your phone yet, text 3G to 550 and you'll get a report back about your phone's capability.

Holeeee sheeit!!! Think I love you AND Henderson 😂