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it's the big day
January 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM
it's the big day
Swear I just saw Stephen King walking down Webb St
January 14, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Swear I just saw Stephen King walking down Webb St
Damn I missed the party m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Sy...
Royal Albatrosses Have A New Years Bash At The Royal Cam Nest | DOC | Cornell Lab | Jan. 2, 2026
YouTube video by Cornell Lab Bird Cams
m.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Damn I missed the party m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Sy...
Rocco's favourite toy right now is a rolled up scrap of carpet
January 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Rocco's favourite toy right now is a rolled up scrap of carpet
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For the rest of you.
if you do not want to watch the video, go to settings > content and media and uncheck the "autoplay videos and gifs" box right now
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
For the rest of you.
What if I became a metalhead?
January 7, 2026 at 6:36 AM
What if I became a metalhead?
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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TIP: if you go to the Dowse art museum in Te Awa Kairangi Ki Tai / Lower Hutt at the mo you can see my partner Chloe's jewellery in "Whakahokihoki" and my music in Bronwyn Holloway-Smith's incredible "Wheel of Avalon"
December 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
TIP: if you go to the Dowse art museum in Te Awa Kairangi Ki Tai / Lower Hutt at the mo you can see my partner Chloe's jewellery in "Whakahokihoki" and my music in Bronwyn Holloway-Smith's incredible "Wheel of Avalon"
Xmas with lotr fans
December 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Xmas with lotr fans
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December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
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Especially relevant in NZ, where funding for the Archives NZ digitisation programme of official records was axed in 2024.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Especially relevant in NZ, where funding for the Archives NZ digitisation programme of official records was axed in 2024.
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Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
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Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'.
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'.
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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PATHA judicial review against the govt's ban on puberty blockers for trans kids granted, partly on the basis that the decision was taken on political and not medical grounds
Which, if it stands, seems like it could sink the whole scam www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
Which, if it stands, seems like it could sink the whole scam www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
![[176] The second cause of action is also clearly arguable and perhaps more than
arguable given the material that has become available since the proceedings were filed.
The Minister did not take a preferred position to Cabinet. Rather, he chaired a meeting
at which strong views were expressed and appears to have accepted the views of
Cabinet. The views of Cabinet do not reflect the medical advice set out in the RIS.
Whether that suffices as an exercise of the Minister’s statutory power will need to be
decided, but the factual picture is now quite clear, and it supports PATHA’s position
that this was a political decision and contrary to advice from the Ministry which also
feeds into the third cause of action.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y5ef7ykskrf34je7djcylqwm/bafkreie4tcjzi3btkd73fxa3xnvrlduxcqo2ozteeu7utgy5knfsmefi5i@jpeg)
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
PATHA judicial review against the govt's ban on puberty blockers for trans kids granted, partly on the basis that the decision was taken on political and not medical grounds
Which, if it stands, seems like it could sink the whole scam www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
Which, if it stands, seems like it could sink the whole scam www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...
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Changing technologies (browsers, streaming service, operating systems) is good! Quite aside from active reasons to boycott/exit particular places, it's good for you (and for them) to know that you *can* move. And once you've moved once, every subsequent move is easier.
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Changing technologies (browsers, streaming service, operating systems) is good! Quite aside from active reasons to boycott/exit particular places, it's good for you (and for them) to know that you *can* move. And once you've moved once, every subsequent move is easier.
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PATHA's statement follows: “This is a win for trans young people, their whānau, and the health professionals who care for them. The High Court has recognised the harm this ban will cause, and the significant issues in the decision Cabinet made to restrict access to this life-saving care.”
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
PATHA's statement follows: “This is a win for trans young people, their whānau, and the health professionals who care for them. The High Court has recognised the harm this ban will cause, and the significant issues in the decision Cabinet made to restrict access to this life-saving care.”
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BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
www.courtsofnz.govt.nz
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
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It's easy to conjure the following path:
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
December 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's easy to conjure the following path:
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
Real person submits real question to LLM
➙ LLM hallucinates a reference
➙ Real person searches for the reference
➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³
➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹
➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²
Prawncat
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Prawncat
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Gender Minorities Aotearoa has started keeping a list of rallies and actions:
genderminorities.com/2025/12/10/r...
genderminorities.com/2025/12/10/r...
December 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Gender Minorities Aotearoa has started keeping a list of rallies and actions:
genderminorities.com/2025/12/10/r...
genderminorities.com/2025/12/10/r...
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JESUS CHRIST BUT I'VE BEEN IN THIS MEETING
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
JESUS CHRIST BUT I'VE BEEN IN THIS MEETING