Aw damn, there's Patrick Stewart gone. Thanks for everything, captain. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86

He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”

hollywoodreporter.com

These little stock cubes? To open them easily, flatten them first: they turn into a packet that you can just tear the top off of.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d ago

does anybody have any tips

Aaaaaaand done. (There were about seven people ahead of me in the queue and more were coming in as I left, so a pretty steady stream.)

gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis@gregfallis.com · 5d ago

"So, you voted early then?" "I did, yes." "How'd you vote?" "Like this."

Rename a book or movie for this economy. "Jaded Expectations"

Tom Isaacson@parsley72.bsky.social · 4d ago

Rename a book or movie for this economy. “Salem’s little”

Overrated: Bladerunner 2049. Underrated: Unbreakable.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name 2 Films: one overrated, one underrated.

If you're one of these people ask yourself why they don't want you to vote, then enrol right away so you can cast the vote they're so afraid of.

Jolisa Gracewood@nzdodo.bsky.social · 2w ago

The scale of it. Astounding: "At the last election, more than 450,000 people enrolled or updated their details after voting began, including 110,000 on election day itself. This time, anyone who misses the 25 October deadline will have their vote excluded." #nzpol rnz.liveblog.pro/lb-rnz/blogs...

I moved cities and walked into my new job and realised within a couple of hours that it wasn't for me. I handed in my resignation on day three only because the woman who'd hired me wasn't available the day before, but I stuck around for a month to not leave them high and dry.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2w ago

In honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16

#nzpol Waiting in the car at Hauraki Corner on my way to work and a small group of Nat supporters are waving placards. At the same time a homeless man is wandering through the waiting cars with a cardboard sign asking for any help. Absolutely brutal metaphor for where we are now.

Can I get some #photography advice on Samsung phones? A heavy mist descended last night - very 1950s movie-noir - and I took pics on the Nighttime, Portrait and standard Photos settings. But they all turned out light-saturated with streetlights as orbs. How can I make my phone retain the darkness?

I've been contacted by Curia again and their questions were interesting. "Do you have a license to pilot the space shuttle?" Me: "Why is that a question?" Her: "I don't know, it's just on the list." (Does anyone have a theory as to why?) #nzpol

Absolute perfection. ❤️😄

Duncan Jones@manmademoon.bsky.social · 3w ago

😂😂😂 youtube.com/shorts/1Qyk6...

BALE SNAILS

Lisounours@lise-l.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Seven years on, it's finally public knowledge that Neo-Nazi Wargus Christi, Dominion Movement and Action Zealandia co-founder Jack Captein/Johann Wolfe is the New Zealand Army soldier that is currently imprisoned for attempting espionage. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/jac...

Paparoa@paparoa.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday, New Zealand Police revealed they didn't start investigating the espionage soldier until after March 15. Several anti-fascist researchers reported his online activity to the New Zealand Defence Force prior to the Christchurch massacre. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/marc...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (I think it was the 1950s black and white version.)

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 4w ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

www.instagram.com/reel/Dd23gOr... #nzpol

From Earth Sciences New Zealand on Facebook (they don't appear to be on bsky). The images certainly tell a story. 🧪

They may think they’re winning. But they can’t stop us baby.

Jolisa Gracewood@nzdodo.bsky.social · last mo.

“Ruby Tui belted out Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi at Eden Park, and 40,000 fans sang with her. Four months later, Harry Styles sang the first line of the song at his concert in Auckland and the crowd sang the rest back to him. This was who we were. And this is what Jordan Williams set out to destroy.” #nzpol

an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/

This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

webworm.co

We live in an information-fractured society. We no longer have the 6pm news and morning paper as our only mass-media; instead, we consume news on many and varied platforms. The book's strength isn't whether it has devastating revelations: it's that it gathers various info about TPU in one place.

Kyle Matthews@kylermatthews.bsky.social · last mo.

So I don't think this is the election-upturning publication that about 400 people were looking for at Unity Books tonight. It brings together much of what we know about the NZTU and adds some details, but it doesn't shoot down the organisation or its founders in significant ways.

Jordan Williams setting in motion the takedown of Jordan Williams is the funniest shit ever theres no other way to look at this 😂

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Raquel 🌈✨@aistear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

The sequel we never expected!!

Jonathan King@jonathanking.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re so excited to share the trailer for BLACK SHEEPS with the world! This film was handmade with love and care (and many litres of fake blood) and I can’t wait for people to see it.

Have some adorable fluff for your Friday. :)

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A family of wild Pallas’s cats filmed in the grasslands of Qinghai Province, China, shows they look grumpier as they get older Original post

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Supporting the rights of trans folks is the right position to take in & of itself. But it’s also about protecting the civil and equal rights of all people. Because you think they’ll won’t come for you too?

Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖

I wished that this site existed, so I spent the last week building it. Track which way an MP votes on various issues across their whole time in Parliament: hotair.nz

Hot Air

Hot Air links every New Zealand MP to what they've actually said and how they've actually voted in Parliament — built from the official Hansard record, so you can look past the press release and see the voting history for yourself.

hotair.nz

'This year has been a total shitter on the non-parrot front. Here was a small fleeting chance at some hope.'

David Mohring@nzheretic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"An earlier version of this story featured a picture of a kea wearing love heart sunglasses. There is no suggestion that kea were involved in kākāpo fuck season. The Spinoff apologises to any kea who were offended by our error. A full investigation of our bird identification processes is underway."🦜

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.