Kara B

those who stare too long into the abyss are like "maybe the abyss has some good points. Maybe we need to meet the abyss in the middle. Maybe those who criticise the abyss are smug elitists"

Bang on there, @slanecartoon.bsky.social

Hongry

RE: games layoffs youtube.com/shorts/a5dkD...

Canterbury: nitrate rising in 62% of the regional council's 300 test wells. Tens of thousands more dairy cows consented this year. The council has voted to end its nitrate "state of emergency". NZ's drinking water limit is 11.3 mg/L. Danish research links bowel cancer risk to levels under 1. #nzpol

Low-dose naltrexone (4mg) shows promise for Long COVID. A Stanford study of 230 patients found fewer symptoms and improvements in fatigue, brain fog, sleep and post-exertional crashes after 3+ months. Promising results, but without a comparison group, benefits remain unproven.

Ah, LNG; National's fuel of choice for tackling the cost of living crisis, lowering costs for industry and getting on top of runaway power prices. #nzpol oilprice.com/Energy/Natur...

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

JPEG XL is newly available in all major engines, but how does it stack up against other formats?

Overseas Kiwis couldn't choose particular parties on the Adobe form, now they can't submit their forms. What a shit show #NZ

👩‍💻Ending your work-day closing down Microsoft & Google apps wishing you could find alternatives that support your workflow? There are many artists, activists, technologists & other workers who resonate with the urge to get off Big Tech for a myriad of reasons. We can help! fftf.link/degoogling-w...

Prompt 25: Fracture "wuh.. what am I even looking at??"

Advert: What's stopping YOU getting the shingles vaccine? Me: $750, mate! #PublicHealthServiceMyArse

when my psychologist says thats a common thing to feel

Something I wish more people would realize.

The one accessible place we can vote early in invers that is close to us is the warehouse. The friggin warehouse. Not what I would have expected ever.

Neal Lawson: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

oh, so we're sovereign, but the United States gets to decide what we can know about what's happening in our country

We all said it, then they printed it! Thank you newsroom & Aaron Smale in particular. 👏🕊️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #Aotearoa #ForAllOfUs

Here is the data on everything that was done in the pax demo by all players on all 3 stations. 1307 monsters were loved, 312 hearts were broken, 50 runs were won, and 103 of the 108 available monsters were discovered! There are tabs for every type of monster too. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

you guys i’m starting to think that gang and crime discourse is just a way for the right wing to launder fear and racism through the dominant centre-right media whilst maintaining a facade of respectability.

letting myself succumb to the deadly temptation to post music WIPs cuz i haven't touched this one in 2-3 years so any damage this could do to my motivation to finish it is probably already done. extremely low-res buny edit be upon ye (to accompany extremely unfinished music)

The right's line this election is "why should you get to vote if you aren't organised enough to enrol". Next term, if Paul Goldsmith has any say, it'll be, why should you get to vote if you have a conviction. Or aren't a citizen. Or receive a benefit. Or don't own property. Or don't have a job.

Daily driver mini PC decided to have a fan error on post and then pretended to be a jet engine this morning. Opened up, reseated fan cable, issue not appearing again. Hopefully this doesn't become a regular thing, as amusing as it is to run into every once in a while.

A gangly looking pūkeko chick out for a stroll at Western Springs this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

This is maybe my first #NewZealand post with zero gas. 5% #solarenergy and still not at the solstice!

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Do adhd'ers ever dream of waking up the next morning, taking their meds, living a whole day, go back to bed, wake up and it never happened, and they get really confused on how much stimulant they took? Just had this with progesterone. such a funny hormone sometimes.

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

I don't understand why this isn't a bigger scandal. The govt has lied to us and covered up that they're gonna... What? Fuck up some Marlborough Sounds beaches for their dumb fuck lng project? Thank fuck for Māni and the Post. This is outrageous. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3611...