shambolika
@shambolika.bsky.social
Bookish. Tuneful. Humourous. Poetic. Erratic. Pākehā, Rangitāne, Ngati Kahungunu: Euronesian. Aroreretini (it's not a deficit, but a partitioning, of attention)
Who, then, who fucking rejected tradition in fucking art, and fucking society, after the horrors of fucking war bought about by the fucking corporate greed of various fucking empires?
Fucking Every Word@everyword.bsky.social · 13h agofucking dadaists
I have to go to a parent/teacher interview with the arts teacher, on this warmth-foresaken day, when I know the teacher is only going to say "your kid is awesome," which we already know, but ok I'm putting my boots on. Someday this harrowing experience will be great art, he tells himself.
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
What happens if we get one of these and chuck on Alien Weaponry tape? Let it loose in Wellington? "Oi, Bishop, I got your fast track right here cunt." "Oi Seymour. Re: te Tiriti..." youtu.be/2S7Mo8cJlGc?...
ALIEN WEAPONRY - Taniwha feat. Randy Blythe (Official Video)
YouTube video by Alien Weaponry
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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚@dnschmidt.com · 24h ago“The earliest terminators were easy to spot,” Kyle said. “They didn’t have voice chips. They had to load cassettes in their chests like homicidal Teddy Ruxpins.” “How did you stop them?” Sara asked “If you got close enough, you could swap in an Enya tape. Took the fight right out of them.”
“The earliest terminators were easy to spot,” Kyle said. “They didn’t have voice chips. They had to load cassettes in their chests like homicidal Teddy Ruxpins.” “How did you stop them?” Sara asked “If you got close enough, you could swap in an Enya tape. Took the fight right out of them.”
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
"Luxon isnt a buisness person, he's a corporate person. There's a big difference"
Um. There is no stable government. This coalition is over in everything but name. If someone is only keeping their job so you hold onto power that's not stable government. Snap election now.
That human faced glans we call Prime Minister isn't up to much
Fucking cats. Cancel me of you must but every fucking cat within a k of my house can fuck off and die. Cunts
"There's barely any holocaust revisionism on the Bluesky platform right now, and that needs to change." -New Bluesky CEO, probably
“The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren’t on the printed roll and who say they’re unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected.” So nice to see democracy in action, nothing to worry about here, love NZ’s accessible and clear election process.
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2d agoThe Opposition says people who think they're not enrolled should lodge special votes rather than being turned away from voting entirely.
"drawing comparisons to David Brent"!!!1!!eleven!!!
The Spinoff@thespinoff.bsky.social · 2d agoYou should all be using Claude, Luxon told Rotorua businesspeople. So we did
Oh it's turned pissy. "It's p-p-p-persisting down," my dear ol silver haired mother would say.
Absolutely brutal takedown of Luxon that consists of….fact checking his statements and pointing out the gap between his self-aggrandisement and reality. #nzpol
Frank@fmacskasy.bsky.social · 3d agoScreenshot of the editorial...
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
NZ First youth leader linked to neo-Nazi network
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
dlvr.it
You have to vote with your wallet, people. The same goes for books — if you are mostly buying books that are already mega bestsellers or by mega-bestselling authors, then you're sending a message. Seek out the weird indie shit so we get more of it.
The sad thing is every time Luxon talks his gobbledegook the NZ dollar goes down.
New process turns plastic waste into hydrogen fuel while trapping the carbon | ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051521.htm A new chemical process can transform three of the most common plastics into high-purity hydrogen without sorting them first. The technique […]
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Imagine if all Australians & NZers in movie roles leaned heavily into their own accents. Thor. Galadriel. Hela. Alan Grant. Wolverine. Elrond. Megatron. The Joker & Harley Quinn. Eowyn. The Mouth of Sauron. Agent Smith. Hulk. Nurse Chapel. George Kirk. Nero. Dr Doom. Red Skull. Peter Weyland…
can confirm with everything I'm seeing. the quality of science started tanking with the rise of for-profit journals, and now it's hitting gutter-level numbers in the most depressing way.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 5d agoNature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.
Generative AI has been a politically divisive topic. Many on the left reject it outright because it regurgitates information it acquired illegally, hurts artists, and damages the environment. Many on the right don’t seem to care.
Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the finalist for Best Poem "The Mourning Robot" by Angela Liu. It is also on the Rhysling longlist and was a Nebula finalist! You can read it here or in the Hugo packet! buff.ly/2SDpM66
Well there’s this one, but I don’t really think it’s the best of anything
The only documentary I want to see about Tom Phillips abducting his children is one that indisputably spells out how easily and how often a man's obvious abuse and red flags are made invisible by the phrase "I heard his ex is a crazy b****"
What conspiracy theorists with Jacinda syndrome sound like
Mrs Krabapple Principal Skinner
ALT: Mrs Krabapple Principal Skinner
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shambolika@shambolika.bsky.social · 6d agoI heard the nanny had Clarke 's baby and when it was born the baby was a reptilian and I saw the baby and the baby smiled at me