Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

Just in time for his hyperloop around every US city piloted by fully autonomous self driving cars. Or people can watch with their 3 Optimus robots inside his Mars colony. They were all due by now right?

Watcher Guru@watcher.guru · 2w ago

JUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.

Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International.

A reminder of The Paul Henry cycle for #nzpol: - Do something so stupid &/or offensive you get fired - Get rehired to a new role becuse you attract controversy - Do something so stupid &/or offensive you get fired - Get rehired to a new role becuse you attract controversy - Do something so ...

If you use "A.i." to summarize something, you will never know what kind of mistakes it's excreting until it's too late and you've deeply embarrassed yourself or destroyed your business/reputation.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

This is the cop who told me rape and death threats were "public criticism" that journalists should expect and weren't intended to harm me because they weren't directly sent to me.

Paula Penfold@paulapenfold.bsky.social · 4w ago

Police are re-investigating 54 sexual assault and child abuse cases after concerns about one case triggered a review of almost 1,000 files. The senior officer who managed those files told me the scale of it was “news to me”. He remains under an employment investigation.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know i live in a liberal bubble, but anyway, I've never know people in my life to be so on edge about an election. #nzpol

It's only Fiscal Cliffs if it comes from the Labour region, otherwise it's Sparkling Met From Future Budgets. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

First two news stories Labour: we want to subsidise public transport (Nats: classic labour, where’s the money coming from? They’re bribing voters etc etc) Nats: here’s $60 million for primary industries (🦗🦗 not one question about where that money is coming from) Utterly shameless. #nzpol

I wrote a very short story about a cat that doesn't like people: rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/blog/ophelia Please enjoy

Ophelia — Rupert Brackenbury

They had called her Ophelia because she was pale, delicate, and when she slept, she did so flat on her back, paws held out, like the famous painting by Millais. When Beatrice collected her, the shelte...

rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

The awesome @skepchick.org has made a video about our menstrual cups project and crowdfunding campaign! Check it out and give it a share please. Thanks!

Rebecca Watson@skepchick.org · 3mo ago

Happy Menstrual Health Awareness Month! Today I wanna talk about the various ways we stop our vaginas from ruining our favorite pants, and why we should support @siouxsiew.bsky.social's work investigating the safety of menstrual cups 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/05/what...

Shot, chaser, chaser

We all know Public Service cuts won't help, that things will get worse, that it will ultimately cost us more. We can prove it, but National & Act don't care. They believe the Earth is flat & will respond accordingly. #nzpol

i don't mean to be petty, but i get so bummed when links to mainstream outlets get shared, but webworm gets ignored - when we were first to report it and talk to those involved etc. a reminder all webworm stories exist on the webworm site, are sharable, and have zero ads running!

Does Richard Dawkins Dream of Fighting Electric Swans? (Has this been done already?)

If you believe Winston Peters "made a mistake" releasing emails that distance him from an unpopular PM, then I have a second harbour bridge to sell you. #nzpol

It’s election year - order The Far Right Playbook here: farrightplaybook.nz #nzpol

The Far-Right Playbook

A collection of essays describing tactics used by the far-right in Aotearoa, New Zealand

farrightplaybook.nz

Officer I have a different way of calculating blood alcohol percentage

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

Trumpianism isn't over there, it's over here

Wellington's hosting *both* an EDM festival AND the National Brass Band Championships this weekend so everytime you see people wearing, like, slutty cowgirl outfits, or matching blue tuxedos, it could go either way #nz

One of the fun things about writing, especially genreFiction, is your search history: "Common Welsh names... anatomically modern human first evolved? ... why is the moon moving away? ... who said 'we are the universe perceiving itself?' ... word meaning opposite of transparent..."

I just saw an ad on tv for a suite of AI apps promising “the future of creativity,” and one of them was Sora which announced last week that it was shutting down.

Thanks @maramadavidson.bsky.social and @greens.org.nz for pushing this.

I googled "how much money do I need to feed a child for a day" & the AI said "They prefer chicken nuggets"

The Government’s planned $1 billion gas import terminal could raise energy prices and carbon emissions, Parliament’s environment watchdog has warned in a letter to the energy minister. #nzpol #lng newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/l...

LNG plan 'worst of both worlds', environment watchdog warns

The environment commissioner says the Government's gas import plans could drive up energy prices. The energy minister says they won't.

newsroom.co.nz

BVV's legacy: -screwing over workers -cancelling Fair Pay Agreements -brought back 90-day trials -stopped Uber drivers from being decently paid -hurt working women by canning pay equity -rolled back worker protections -creating low-wage, low-protection labour market www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

ACT Party deputy and minister Brooke van Velden retires from politics

The party's deputy and government minister will not be seeking re-election in November.

rnz.co.nz