"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glided under electric eyes - excerpt from There Will Come Soft Rain by Ray Bradbury. Read the short story here […]

Really happy with my new Tangata Tiriti hoodie, merch from the candidate from Māngere, Michel Mulipola, the Bloody Samoan. 💚 Get your own at https://bloodysamoan.ezymerch.co.nz/ Proceeds go to the South Auckland Greens campaign. #NZPol #voteGreen

I think it's nice that they made English an official language. Now let's do Samoan. That's the next one.

energy policy comparison:

I don't know how to answer this question.

Looks like AI psychosis got Boy George. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/27/you-say-genocide-i-say-war-boy-george-releases-pro-israel-song-we-will-dance-again

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/116994186162546752 My grandfather, Graham Bell, always liked keyboards that had a special key for his name.

The Green Party of Aotearoa's manifesto is out in the world now, in case you are into that sort of thing. https://assets.nationbuilder.com/beachheroes/pages/78863/attachments/original/1785027604/Green_Party_Manifesto_2026.pdf?1785027604 #NZPol #voteGreen

House of Leaves is just the adult version of there’s a monster at the end of this book

One of my children’s primary school class is spending this term studying “Reality”. Are dreams real? Can our senses fool us? When you make a copy of a thing is it still the same thing? Culminating in an "in depth film study of The Truman Show”. I look forward to him getting more of my dad jokes.

My central computing conspiracy theory is that "general computing for normal people" was largely a solved problem by the 90s, through things like Excel, visual basic (and HyperCard before it), Flash, and comprehensible html (along with web design tools that were deeply flawed but extremely […]

Just imagine if we'd invested over a trillion dollars in green energy rather than AI.

This is the exact moment Andrew Tate's life fell apart.

Voting is open for #InternetNZ board members. If you're a member, and want this community-run organisation protected from being reduced to a private business, now's the time to vote.

Arguably the best song is _Sunspots_ by Julian Cope.

It was never not our turn.

[Has a swear in it.] I'm going to have to listen to bad Donald Trump impressions for the rest of my life, aren't I? Long after he's dead, thoughtless people who barely remember who he was, still ruining perfectly good conversations by doing the stupid joyless voice, heedless of the pain […]

should new employees automatically be enrolled in a union? please vote in the poll in this article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361006822/green-party-take-automatic-union-membership-bill-election

Green Party to take automatic union membership bill to the election

The Green Party wants union membership to become the default for new employees, arguing it would strengthen workers’ bargaining power while still allowing people to opt out.

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I see that a SaaS product I use regularly has started using genAI for global search. I can tell because when I type in the exact name of a document I know exists, it no longer shows that document anywhere on its list of responses. When I type “incident response manual”, I'm not looking for the […]

RIP Sam Neil.

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From a distance, it seems like a Clacton by-election is a huge opportunity for the UK Green Party. Yes, it's a stupid stunt by Farage to distract from his corruption, but it's happening. Labour and the Lib Dems have already bowed out, so the Greens will have the only viable anti-Farage candidate […]

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@isaacfreeman/116871017918293713 It's not the absolute funniest thing that could have happened, but it did just happen.

I reckon the best possible outcome for the football World Cup would be if the USA makes it to the semifinals and loses to Mexico. Then the final is Mexico versus Iran, and it's played in a stadium in the United States and Donald Trump has to watch. Then I reckon it's best if Mexico wins, because […]

I photographed this pair of pūtangitangi, NZ's paradise shelducks, in the centre of Ōtautahi-Christchurch city on Friday. Perhaps they were wondering why the architect couldn't spell "BIRD" correctly. 😀 https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/378306810 #birds #nz #Ōtautahi #Christchurch

I feel that journalists should have a deeply-engrained understanding that right-wing politicians will always lie about marginal tax rates. This happens consistently. Every time someone proposes to raise the tax rate over a certain threshold a right-wing politician will pretend that this means […]

Fun fact: fossil fuel companies are bad even when they're not "foreign owned" or "overseas"

Has anyone I know used Zitadel for single-sign-on to web applications? I'm especially interested in: 1. how it compares with Authentik, and 2. how well documented it is for specific web applications (as opposed to general principles).

Presumably all unions in the world are preparing goose-themed merch for their members, right?

If you ever want to trigger a pseudo-libertarian climate denier, just tell them that if the crony capitalist government weren't subsidizing their buddies' fossil fuel companies the free market would already have mostly decarbonized by now