this is an incredibly, incredibly beautiful pen
12.03.2026 11:02
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this is an incredibly, incredibly beautiful pen
Some of you need to see an aquamarine fountain pen held aloft by a silver crab.
Perhaps even many of you.
Certainly, I do.
And so. [gestures with a flourish]
i finished vladimir on netflix and while it wasn't a bad show, it's been a while since i've watched something where i wanted everyone to die by the end.
these are all horrible people
Intellectual property theft is a crime, regardless of the medium used to steal
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Saw that RF Kuang was coming to Naarm for the Writers Fest. Clicked on buy so fast...
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Hahaha I’m glad there’s not an indelible record of every stupid poorly thought out thing I’ve ever blurted out online
Sucker!!!
Journalism died a long time ago and we’re now seeing its ghost
Looking at the homepage of all of our news organisations, you'd be excused to think that war is happening on a different planet, and its effects are limited to costly/inconvenient supply chain disruptions. It's like we're not living through history. (See also: muted, cowardly coverage of Gaza.)
As someone who was in OSD during the Iraq War planning, all I can say is 'no fucking shit' www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
BREAKING: Major escalation in Iran conflict.
Iranian military command says it will target US banks and financial institutions in the Middle East.
🚨It tells civilians to keep a distance of 1km from all US banks in the region.
[SOURCE: REUTERS]
that's a fair comment - wasn't intended as financial advice and you're right that it depends on personal circumstances
if you're 10 years away from retirement or less, then it's time to move to a conservative fund
DID YOU HEAR THIS - IT WAS AMONG ONE OF THE BEST IN THE WORLD
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
hey let's look at how many cultures we can steal from without actually giving them any credit!
we're all either going to go out in a (great many) blazes of glory and be incinerated, or it's going to be a piece-by-piece, year-by-year grinding away of your will to live and your soul.
pick your poison
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
The idea that New Zealand should be drilling for oil for "energy security" seems to forget we live in a globalised world and any oil drilled in the EEZ will be shipped to somewhere it can get the global market price, just like we pay approximately the same for NZ produced meat and milk as the UK
i'm so fucking tired of having shitty men in power. i'm also tired of living in capitalism but here i hope that ursula leguin was correct
you know what the world wants? leaders who are not morally weak, corrupt and jaded.
and that's precisely why people who are only in anything - be it politics, religion or a damn sawmill - to climb to the top, should never be allowed to get there.
every day I wake up hoping to see orange juice
"The lessons of history have not been learnt; in fact, they have been discarded in spectacular fashion." ~ Michael West, Michael West Media
Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Administration about the war in Iran.
I was worried before, but I’m more worried now.
Disestablishment of the Ministry for the Environment is another terrible bill emblematic of this government’s continual attack on our environment - it is now open for submissions - until 4.30 on 11th March.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
As more people stay active as they age, overuse injuries are increasing. A non-invasive treatment known as shockwave therapy can help ease heel and elbow pain. Here's how. n.pr/4aIw8D0
if the western countries collectively banded together, they could fight trump. that's a fact.
they don't even have to agree on that many things.
united against a common enemy...wasn't that literally ww2?
