@leaflemming.bsky.social
Recovered journalist, writer of too few good sentences. Constantly searching for better sentences. Give me all your sentences.
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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Inspired by @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social's 'Lonely Fun' zine - @taracomics.bsky.social has another RPG for you to enjoy taracomics.substack.com/p/the-myster...
The Mystery Note
A lyric game in comic form
taracomics.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Inspired by @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social's 'Lonely Fun' zine - @taracomics.bsky.social has another RPG for you to enjoy taracomics.substack.com/p/the-myster...
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Our most vulnerable young people are endangered by this Government's decision to restrict access to puberty blockers.
Wellington Pride Festival condemns this latest attack on the rainbow community by NZ First. We urge the Ministry of Health to listen to actual medical experts instead.
Wellington Pride Festival condemns this latest attack on the rainbow community by NZ First. We urge the Ministry of Health to listen to actual medical experts instead.
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Our most vulnerable young people are endangered by this Government's decision to restrict access to puberty blockers.
Wellington Pride Festival condemns this latest attack on the rainbow community by NZ First. We urge the Ministry of Health to listen to actual medical experts instead.
Wellington Pride Festival condemns this latest attack on the rainbow community by NZ First. We urge the Ministry of Health to listen to actual medical experts instead.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?
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He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.
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EEK!! A live hornet nest has just been found (and destroyed) in Auckland. This is a big species of stinging wasp. We really don't want these to establish.
Please keep an extra careful eye out for unusual wasps, especially if you're in the Auckland area.
You can post photos on iNaturalist NZ […]
Please keep an extra careful eye out for unusual wasps, especially if you're in the Auckland area.
You can post photos on iNaturalist NZ […]
Original post on mastodon.nz
mastodon.nz
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
EEK!! A live hornet nest has just been found (and destroyed) in Auckland. This is a big species of stinging wasp. We really don't want these to establish.
Please keep an extra careful eye out for unusual wasps, especially if you're in the Auckland area.
You can post photos on iNaturalist NZ […]
Please keep an extra careful eye out for unusual wasps, especially if you're in the Auckland area.
You can post photos on iNaturalist NZ […]
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Greed puts out the sun.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Greed puts out the sun.
There are other books on the shortlist I love, but Rakesfall is the Holy Shit book of 2025.
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There are other books on the shortlist I love, but Rakesfall is the Holy Shit book of 2025.
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A reprojected view of Jupiter centered near the border with the Northern Filamentary Region. This uses image data taken by NASA’s JunoCam during the Perijove 26 flyby in April 2020. I created a simulated terrain relief to provide a sense of vertical scale to the cloudtops.
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October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A reprojected view of Jupiter centered near the border with the Northern Filamentary Region. This uses image data taken by NASA’s JunoCam during the Perijove 26 flyby in April 2020. I created a simulated terrain relief to provide a sense of vertical scale to the cloudtops.
flic.kr/p/2jyhVD8
flic.kr/p/2jyhVD8
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we're about to enter a greater depression than the 1930s & it's all because the biggest, most successful western companies on the planet felt it necessary to make the line go up
their ad based revenue was already dwindling. their ludicrous gamble on LLMs is going to obliterate the global economy
their ad based revenue was already dwindling. their ludicrous gamble on LLMs is going to obliterate the global economy
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, leaders worried that meeting OpenAI’s rapidly escalating compute demands could lead to overbuilding servers that might not generate a financial return, per the Information
October 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
we're about to enter a greater depression than the 1930s & it's all because the biggest, most successful western companies on the planet felt it necessary to make the line go up
their ad based revenue was already dwindling. their ludicrous gamble on LLMs is going to obliterate the global economy
their ad based revenue was already dwindling. their ludicrous gamble on LLMs is going to obliterate the global economy
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Do I know any science teachers in Auckland who could help me film a video where I set methane bubbles on fire?
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Do I know any science teachers in Auckland who could help me film a video where I set methane bubbles on fire?
If your email begins "We're excited to announce..." and you're not inviting me to a wedding or the launch of a posthumous Ursula Le Guin novel, you have comms brain and I'm not reading further.
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
If your email begins "We're excited to announce..." and you're not inviting me to a wedding or the launch of a posthumous Ursula Le Guin novel, you have comms brain and I'm not reading further.
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An exchange which reminded me of this sad but true cartoon.
October 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
An exchange which reminded me of this sad but true cartoon.
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"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis." futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
futurism.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis." futurism.com/artificial-i...
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“I’m not on bluesky, but I now present an inaccurate rendition of a thing one person may have said there once and therefore the progressive left is the real problem” — self-described centrist who finds being annoyed with the left more comfortable than acknowledging the rise of fascism on the right.
October 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“I’m not on bluesky, but I now present an inaccurate rendition of a thing one person may have said there once and therefore the progressive left is the real problem” — self-described centrist who finds being annoyed with the left more comfortable than acknowledging the rise of fascism on the right.
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The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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October 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!
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Some quiet reading for Simeon Brown.
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
www.economist.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Some quiet reading for Simeon Brown.
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I will never understand people who claim to understand capitalism and profit, and also suggest that "the market" can deliver security or lower costs or whatever.
"The market" will extract as much profit as it can. That's the explicit goal. It's an obligation for management.
"The market" will extract as much profit as it can. That's the explicit goal. It's an obligation for management.
October 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I will never understand people who claim to understand capitalism and profit, and also suggest that "the market" can deliver security or lower costs or whatever.
"The market" will extract as much profit as it can. That's the explicit goal. It's an obligation for management.
"The market" will extract as much profit as it can. That's the explicit goal. It's an obligation for management.
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So. Many. Times.
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So. Many. Times.
“trove of secret documents from Five Eyes meetings on potential war with China accidentally donated to a Hutt Valley Salvation Army store”… by golly, we’re as good at secrets as our US allies.
Big scoop by Nicky Hager newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...
Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop
The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...
newsroom.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“trove of secret documents from Five Eyes meetings on potential war with China accidentally donated to a Hutt Valley Salvation Army store”… by golly, we’re as good at secrets as our US allies.
A beloved Wellington cafe is closing after Peter Jackson’s property company declined to renew its lease. The owners now apologise “of their own volition” for blaming Jackson. There is nothing to see here and we should all move along. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Chocolate Fish owners apologise for blaming café's closure on Sir Peter Jackson
They apologised for blaming the closure on filmmakers Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
A beloved Wellington cafe is closing after Peter Jackson’s property company declined to renew its lease. The owners now apologise “of their own volition” for blaming Jackson. There is nothing to see here and we should all move along. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...