Nobody ray chung tonight

Specialist intravenous team axed despite positive results, financial savings

Tōtara bonsai forest
Yep beautiful. Landscape and moss work is top notch too.
Display stand & pot 👍

Tōtara is already my fav plus forests are my thing so this is my spirit display.

#Bonsai
🌱🇳🇿

FFS

Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo was born #OnThisDay in 1942. She designed this black silk taffeta evening dress, hand-painted with a flying-cranes motif on the crinoline-like skirt, for Comme des Garçons' A/W 1991 collection. Kyoto Costume Institute. #fashionhistory

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

Westland could get New Zealand’s oldest and second transgender mayor if businesswoman Jacquie Grant can hold on to her slim majority.

Well ACT didn't get their candidate in in the Kaiapoi ward. And standing together for Waimak didn't do very well.

Am very pleased to hear it as am in the wrong ward so couldn’t vote for you directly.
Keep up the exemplary work 🥰

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Māori ward retained. Rebecca Matthews elected. Paula Muollo not elected. This is pretty much all I was asking for, thank you Wellington.

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) is strutting along next to Dad, gripping a cheese scone that's almost as big as his face, munching on it like an apple.
Bare feet.
The sun's shining.
Crumbs flying everywhere and no one cares.
He's having a GOOD day. (1)

I mean I'm glad Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize but I am not super excited that the person who did win it has been going "Mr Trump please murder more Venezuelan fishermen with American missiles" since it was announced

Luxon: *receives new Powerpass in the post*
"I have secured a trade deal with Bunnings!"

On this day, 25 years ago, I quit my job. I'd saved enough money for rent & food and my plan was to go and record an EP. Which I did.

The output was this EP, 5 tracks, recorded and produced on a Tascam Porta-07 4-Track, and I'm still pretty proud of it.

thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/ep

With 98.7% of submissions OPPOSING this bill, it is beyond belief that this wanker heavy coalition are forcing it through anyway. 🤨 Yes Labour absolutely needs to commit to repealing it on day one! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Bluesky was all “Everything being public is great, blocklists and labelers are fine, you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs!” until their CEO got called out using that public information. User who called her out? Permabanned. Labeler lists? The maker ”voluntarily“ dismantled it. Mm-hmm

You could be forgiven for thinking we're all about those miniature backdrop books. But RPGs remain very much something we're *heavily* engaged in. We have two titles in pre-order right now. FiveEvil is printed and starts heading out next week. Cold City is newly out in PDF. WHAT A PAIR. Links in 🧵

With alt-text:

Get him, Ms Rachel. School his butt.

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

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This made me so happy