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Buffalo in an aqualung. British American Australian Kiwi. Used to do science, now does policy.
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Sen. Peter Squelch (Black Faced Shealthbill party) addressing congress today. He is attempting to champion a resolution to sell penguin eggs in return for tariff renegotiation. So far, he’s received cold shoulders and some Senators who’ve even flipped the bird, in a typically polite Ice House.

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Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

submitted 14 days ago • 304 comments

It’s fuxking hilarious that Marvel Rivals have a Krakoa season just after Marvel dumped Krakoa in a ditch and set fire to the corpse so that the comics could align to other media. 🤷‍♀️

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CDC was gutted today, entire departments wiped out, including much of the global HIV program. Career scientists and doctors lost their jobs overnight. This isn't just bureaucracy; people will die from preventable diseases, and public health will suffer for years. A massive step back for science.

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

Oh little shake #eqnz

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I always feel so much better when I don’t drink too much tea and yet I always drink too much tea. Thank goodness I have more willpower when it comes to alcohol

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Shut the bullshit down loudly and often. Just like this

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

I was sitting there and it occurred to me that I went to a violently homophobic boarding school in the 90s and I have no idea who I knew was actually gay. Some of them must have been. I wonder how they’re doing. If they ever came out.

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Air New Zealand’s Charcot sending me a feedback link that doesn’t work is very on brand for the state of the company and the country right now

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

oooohhh improperly obtained data you say?

submitted 79 days ago • 87 comments

Guy next to me on flight from Singapore is watching Bollywood romance that just recycled the Abbot and Costello WHO joke but about the org and I am in awe

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Had the as Value joy to sit next to someone on the plane that kept the window open for the flight from Auckland to Singapore. Explanations in alt text

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

What the lemon scented fuck is going in with this supposed “summer” Nee Zealand?

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy. The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.

submitted 119 days ago • 73 comments

Why are they making a bigger deal out of this then when some loser shoots up an elementary school classroom? Why is some random CEOs life worth more? I never realized just how terrified the rich are of class warfare.

submitted 119 days ago • 21 comments

"If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic." Period.

submitted 123 days ago • 11 comments

A Facebook memory from 8 years ago

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Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

submitted 134 days ago • 180 comments

Nice

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theonion.com/america-defe...

submitted 162 days ago • 19 comments

Facebook’s algorithm spitting out an ad for a webinar on renouncing one’s American citizenship is a little on the nose.

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

You weren't stupid for believing people would make better choices

submitted 163 days ago • 21 comments

Rude of America to go to bed and leave us watching this shit.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

The NZ left (and Lab) needs to start hammering on the fiscal irresponsibility and stupidity of the right, with solid example of where the centre-left has been better for the economy. The lie must die. Too many vote based on it. #nzpol

submitted 163 days ago • 2 comments

Hey whatever happens, win or lose, millions and millions of people support you and want what’s best for you and won’t stop fighting for you

submitted 163 days ago • 35 comments

If it helps, here's the 2020 timeline of when stuff was called

submitted 163 days ago • 52 comments

One thing Democrats really don't have the power to fix: The end of the old MSM's power to shape opinion, and the power of the richest man in the world using new media to shift voters to the right. Not a coincidence that anti-trans ads had their breakthrough two years after Elon bought Twitter.

submitted 163 days ago • 47 comments

Finishing work. Gonna go home, take the dog for a walk and stop worrying.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Here is something to keep in mind tonight as the returns come in:

submitted 163 days ago • 27 comments

Election night coverage makes more sense when you realize it's the equivalent of watching a basketball game with all the made shots shown in random order

submitted 163 days ago • 9 comments