T.J. Mitchell

Ka pai!

Head of Petroleum Analysis at Gas Buddy

@health.govt.nz @healthnz.govt.nz why is there no offical comms telling people to get boosters?!?! Of course only over-30s can regularly get them. 😡
Why is Prof Baker the only person talking about this??
The current and previous Ministers for Health do not want to talk about it, that’s why. #nzpol

BLOOOOG!

“Bloop pressure” is my new favorite typo to slip past spellcheck

Maine's catch of lobster declines again as high costs and climate change impact industry Maine’s catch of lobsters has declined for the fourth straight year as the industry continued to grapple with soaring business costs, inflation and a changing ocean.

Maine's catch of lobsters declined for the fourth straight year, state fishing regulators said Friday, as the industry continued to grapple with soaring business costs, inflation and a changing ocean.
www.news4jax.com/business/202...

Just listened to a lecture at a medical conference in Sydney where the presenter suggested a meeting in the U.S., “if you want to risk going to America” and the whole audience laughed. This is what we are now.

This is fascinating, & I wanna know more—resonates with my Boston Irish self

EIGHTEEN SIXTY FOUR, FER CHRISSAKE!

Please don’t spread misinformation. Tomahawks fly at low altitude. It’s climbing like a THAAD interceptor (we are out of interceptors).

@drjudymelinek.bsky.social

Welcome to Bluesky at last, Cory Doctorow! @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Lard-pale & lardy of taste. You will be appalled. Buy it on a dare, but never by choice.

When I'm in the US, I dream fondly of the butters of New Zealand. When I'm in New Zealand, I dream fondly of the burritos of San Francisco. Some delicacies are best left upon their native shore.

Tonight in London!

Don’t even. Will be ghostly yellow, ghastly goo. Compared to any garden-variety supermarket butter produced by the contented cows on the happy isles of Aotearoa, the *best* USA butter is like wax. I speak from experience.

1: Immigrant & did everything, till he got a union job driving a gas truck. 2: Son of an immigrant, worked in a shoe factory as a child after his dad got injured & couldn't work; then amateur boxer (Golden Gloves X3!), pawning prizes for $; then in a lumber yard. I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Texas Latinos turned out in massive numbers for Democrats In multiple Latino-majority counties, more people cast Democratic votes on Tuesday than voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.

¡Dios Mio!

In five different rural majority-Latino counties, more votes were cast in Tuesday’s Democratic primary than for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

A bunch of intricate tiny chairs and a beer can

The winning chair and the can type it was crafted from

My favourite tiney chair with tiny woven metal straps

As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens

The people in charge of the US govt believe this is not just a righteous war but the war of the Righteous, & that's why there's no plan other than blowing things up until the world catches fire & the great final battle begins. This is a choice they're making of sound mind.

MRFF Inundated with Complaints of Gleeful Commanders Telling Troops Iran War is “Part of God’s Divine Plan” to Usher in Return of Jesus Email from Military Religious Freedom Foundation Tuesday Morning, March 3, 2026     MRFF INUNDATED WITH COMPLAINTS OF GLEEFUL COMMANDERS TELLING TROOPS IRAN WAR IS “PART OF GOD’S DIVINE PLAN” TO USHER

The Republican Party has started a #war in the Middle East with the goal not of regime change or of seizing oil, but of triggering Armageddon to usher in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. That's our Christian-Nationalist government's casus belli this time
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Rose crowned fruit dove in Toranga Zoo, #Sydney.

@drjudymelinek.bsky.social: “Looks like a sorbet.”

She’s not wrong.

BREAKING
It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports:
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...

Favourite sushi in #Sydney, please, pockets frens?

Screenshot of headlines: The Secret to Keeping My Toilet Stain-Free Is in the Kitchen 11 Surprising Things You Can Put in Your Dishwasher

Nicely done

I ever tell you the story about @drjudymelinek.bsky.social taking me along to a #forensics conference in Minneapolis, & our hotel was also hosting a furry convention? Drunken medical examiners & kitted-out fantasy-critter sex enthusiasts getting drunk & swapping yarns in the bar? It's a good story

Republican and Florida Man and Member of the House of Representatives John H. Rutherford has issued a statement as only a Republican Florida Man Member of the House of Representatives can.

Read Cory Doctorow's book ENSHITTIFICATION. Also watch this video. It will make your currently enshittificated day a little bit better.

@drjudymelinek.bsky.social

it took a month to paint these and we are so lucky she did

Does your company refuse to provide software for extermination drones shooting neurotoxin flechettes without human supervision? Very interesting. Since you are an enemy of the state, Amazon can no longer use you for optimizing ad targeting of Katseye branded lipstick.