Sheldon

Pinning this to my profile in case: If you don’t see me... I don’t HAVE to post. Nobody has a responsibility to stay online against their own best interests just so people you really don’t know very well won’t worry about you. That’s a fucked up way to live.

More like Cheesy Barf Pasta Bake 🤮

COMIC: Pokémon for Dogs!

I’ve really got to an age where I hear an actor’s name everywhere - in this instance, Glen Powell - and even after looking him up, I have absolutely no idea who he is I loved Top Gun: Maverick. Do you think I can remember him in it? Nope. Not for the LIFE of me. I’ll immediately forget him, too.

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I watched The Graduate for the first time Like so many classics, especially those embedded in our culture, it’s not quite what I expected I mean, the plot basically is but it’s weirder than I thought and brilliantly directed I never liked Dustin Hoffman but I can’t imagine anyone else in the role

How it started. How it's going.

If you are in Wellington please go and see “Arohanui, Carmen xx” I’m just back and my heart is full. www.museumswellington.org.nz/arohanui-car...

Listening to Welly. Close enough… welcome back, Blur.

Reminds me of Brasseye's report on Bomb Dogs. Eugene Fraxby has the story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nvf...

Catherine Deneuve (born on this day in 1943) photographed by Dominique Issermann in 2012

What a difference a day makes! All I did was remove a thick layer of fat once it had chilled in the fridge overnight. Added more beans and the rest of the duck. Back into the oven with a layer of breadcrumbs… 🥲 It’s good. It’s really good.

I did it. Finished some hours ago. It’s a little too salty. I’m going to get more beans tomorrow and add them. I had meant to order more for it. Otherwise… really delicious.

Pay attention to the ableism being thrown around with respect to Christina Applegate finding out she doesn’t have MS. People acting like it’s a relief or a blessing. Like she’s “better off now”. She’s still sick. She’s just sick without answers. I guarantee it’s not a “relief” for her.

I’m going on strike this afternoon with my Tertiary Education Union comrades. Tertiary and vocational education is vital to this country. A well-funded sector is an investment in our future. And we need secure, decently-paid work.

For spooky month, there is no item that sparks the imagination like the Vampire Hunting Kit. You may have seen supposedly victorian kits like this one, bought by the Royal Armories in 2012. But all vampire hunting kits are a hoax, and not older than the 50s-70s monster movies than inspired them.

GIMME!!! 😻

Good. Still wish journalists would get a lot better at also pointing out that no matter how long government formation takes, we have robust and well-tested 'caretaker' provisions to ensure the essential work of government is done. #nzpol

The baby magpie has fledged! I photographed them right as they overbalanced, panicked, and fell off the branch. They flew a very wobbly circle with mama in hot pursuit, holding their tail feathers, until they were safely in another tree 😂😂😂😂

Labour are standing a 22 year old in my electorate. *sigh* That doesn’t speak highly of their confidence to take back the seat.

Just finished Fruit Fly by Josh Silver. THAT was exactly the book I didn’t know I needed. Really excellent. A magnificent satirical take on literary torture porn and exploitation, among other things.

So I’m only getting ACT party ads on my social media. What gives??

I would love to see someone command a flock of swifts to go after Osman for his error. Like a posh version of The Birds.

Masculinist politics & the promise of "remasculinization" have migrated from the political fringes toward the centre. The manosphere has shifted the framing of gender policy debates from the margins into both far-right & mainstream conservative politics...2/

Listening to the audiobook of Fruit Fly. So far it’s really good. I love the concept, I love the humour and digs at an industry (writing and publishing) that centres marginalised people, while it exploits them.

Trans rights and immigrant rights are intertwined.

Once again, I can see this punishing vulnerable people on the way to no better results.

My rent was, like, $100 and $80 and $120 (for a place in the city) in the early 2000s. There were places a lot cheaper if you were prepared to share a cold and damp villa. Money went a long way, too. Unbelievably, $5 could still get you a decent feed.

hahaha so true I'm all of a sudden reminded of this for some reason... It'd be exactly like this youtu.be/kMaXsOprl58

The only men who should be allowed to just chat on a podcast are the Three Bean Salad guys. Everyone else… you are allowed to talk to your friends and not have it be a podcast episode. My WORD there are some boring chats out there!!

In the Dutch tulip fields, Monet was astonished by the colors. “I could never have believed that such colours existed,” he said in admiration.

😞 My favourite children’s entertainer as a kid.