Absent-minded twit. NZ Listener book reviewer, book designs, former art director/columnist at Metro/N&S. She/her
Mark Bregman's comment on this should be its own article @newsroom.co.nz @tmurphynz.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/31/g...
Govt science reform uproots the tree it needs to bear fruitFrom Auckland University - Comment: Defunding basic research risks starving NZ's deep-tech startups before they begin, writes Dr Nicola Gaston.newsroom.co.nz
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat KerlinSome avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"
So we wrote up everything we learned, and it's an actual (small) book now. Tamsin is in Paris at Wikimania with a boxful, handing them out, but you can download the whole thing for free. This was all funded by a small grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Wi...
Certain people have tried very hard to find the hidden health risks of coffee, and in some ways it's a tribute to scientific method how comprehensively unsuccessful they've been
There are about 15,000 jobs advertised today and... - 174,000 people officially unemployed - Another 144,000 people who want more hours - A further 80,000 potential jobseekers (underestimate) This is a failure of laissez-faire economic management on an absolutely tragic scale.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
The NZ Government spent $8M to bring the Michelin Guide here. $8M is the entire yearly government funding to all food banks, who feed 500k people a month. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/s... #NZPol
Starry-eyed Tourism NZ buried the downside to fund its $8m Michelin gamblePreviously secret documents imply that the famous international restaurant guide essentially guaranteed the award of at least one star to a restaurant, if the NZ Government paid its $1,901,250 fee.newsroom.co.nz
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
Trump is precise here. Although Harold II sought to blame Trotskyite revisionists within the ranks for his defeat at Hastings, it was shrewd Norman capital investment and the resulting industrial innovations -- including overwhelming air superiority -- that proved decisive for William the Conqueror.
A good summary of the state of Wikipedia: under attack from the US right wing and Russia, its servers hammered by bot scrapers, losing pageviews to the resulting AI summaries, and trying to broaden and diversify its 250,000 volunteer editor base.
Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internetwww.nytimes.comYes, [citation needed]. Rat numbers are normally controlling cat numbers, not the other way round.
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.