Morgan Jones

I love that I live in a city where literally thousands of people will queue up for the reopening of a library.

The Iranian Regime is shit. The Israeli regime is shit. The American regime is shit. Hamas is shit. War is shit. Stop fucking killing people you pathetic pack of fascist cunts.

Cheers,

Morgan Jones,
Noted Expert on International Politics

My longheld suspicion about a UBI is that if we manage to restructure the economy well enough to make a UBI possible, we probably won't need a UBI anymore.

That’s awesome! And gruesome!

NZ Falcon (Karearea) perched on a netball hoop at a Wellington primary school.

Had a very special visitor at my school today!

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future YouTube video by Adam Neely

I made a long video about technocapitalism and AI music

youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk?...

A photo of the Mount Maunganui Holiday Park slip, taken from the oceanside of the camp, near where my family and I were staying.

My family and I were at Mt Maunganui Holiday Park when the slip happened, staying in cabins not terribly far from where it came down. Been home a couple days now but hard to stop thinking about all the what-ifs and might-have-beens. Feeling awful for the families who’ve lost their loved ones.

Such an awful choice of EQ bands. 80Hz just adds mud and 500Hz is all midrange. No way to adjust any of the bass frequencies that are desperately lacking (in our Atto 3 at least). It’s frustrating because the sound is otherwise great.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Two cartoon face images next to one another, one appears to have white skin (like literal white, it's a cartoon) the other appears to have black skin (literal again). Otherwise they seem to be basically the same — similar hair, same eyes etc. But honestly it's an optical illusion so if you're relying on alt text it's probably not a great experience. But they are the same literal color, but based on other indicators (background colour, line work, other image details) they appear drastically different from one another.

This is an amazing image.

These two faces are the same colour.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Decent wobble #eqnz

I don’t give a damn what any politician says. Te Tiriti o Waitangi is foundational to my country, therefore it is foundational to my teaching. Q.E.D. #nzpol

How every history and science textbook should start

Mash up bands:

Fleetwood Mac Daddy Kool and the Gang of Four Non Blondies.

Not nearly strong enough. Labour needs to unequivoically commit to putting agricultural emissions in the ETS once elected. Which Labour should have done years ago instead of letting the industry string you along with He Waka Eke Noa. Today’s outcome was painfully predictable. Labour got played.

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand! YouTube video by thejuicemedia

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

I’m not in Lambton but if I was I’d probably vote for Geordie Rogers, Tim Ward, and Afnan Al-Rubayee.

And I’d definitely avoid Nicola Young, Zan Rai Gyaw, Dan Milward, and Stuart Wong.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Tahoe is by far the buggiest and most frustrating #macOS update I’ve ever had the misfortune to install. Especially for Music. Avoid.

Kārearea has won before but miromiro hasn’t.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

I teach L3 Art History. It is the ultimate blend of Art, politics , history and Philosophy. This subject brings me so much joy. I am devastated for it have disappeared from the subject list with zero consultation. I encourage everyone to email their views to nceaconsultation@education.govt.nz

There are few beliefs more destructive, more monstrous, than that children are their parents' property, rather than people in their own right.

Was there someone especially awful on on the list?

NZ is seen as an attractive place to live because of the perception of environmental protection and lack of corruption. The Govt’s Fast Track Approvals Act is a direct attack on both.

You don't have to love children, and you don't have to have children, but you do need to recognise that children are people. It's really weird how some of you online are very comfortable saying heinous things about a group of people because you feel they don't count.

Front of Te Matapihi

Corner of Te Matapihi

Front of Te Matapihi

GREAT NEWS! Our wonderful library, Te Matapihi, has reached a huge milestone with construction work now finally finished. On time and on budget. It'll re-open in March 2026. For me, this marks an exciting future for Wellington where we'll start to see parts of our city open back up again. #nzpol