Quentin McDonald

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Ōtautahi/Christchurch He/Him
2nd Law of Thermodynamics in the form of a middle-aged man
Let us fix our own stuff

"Don't serve rubber bullets in a bowl,
and call it Irish stew"

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Take your mind off the Internet outages and on to something real. My all-time favourite.

gm and welcome to sumo facts: TOP TRUMPS day 4! 📇: Takayasu 🌏: Japan/Philippines 🎂: 34 📏: 6ft 2 ⚖️: 399lb 🏆: 0 🤼: yori-kiri (force out) 🎲: former ozeki. beaten yokozuna 5 times; considered best rikishi without a 🏆. known as ‘PAPAYASU’ for belief he fights better when doing it for his kids 😎: 79%

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gotta love how contemporary publishing is 30000000 beautiful, deeply felt, finely crafted books with 7.5 readers each whose authors are just barely making a living, and like 4 books that financially support the whole apparatus, each of which has comprehensively and unforgivably destroyed society

One of the many things I find baffling about American politics right now is that the so-called "conservative Catholics" (Bannon, Vance, big part of SCOTUS) feel they'll still be on the right team once the Christian Nationalist State is fully established.

Took a photo of this today in case it becomes an artifact lost to the collective memory.

I feel sad, I'm not sure I even really know why www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Stuffwww.stuff.co.nz

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Do you ever read a story and it just feels good on your brain? This piece by @philplait.bsky.social (like so many pieces by @philplait.bsky.social) is a delight. Jupiter's red spot used to be even larger & Cassini the person might have seen an entirely different spot than Cassini the spacecraft 🧪🔭

How Did Jupiter Get Its Great Red Spot?www.scientificamerican.com New research suggests the Great Red Spot we see on Jupiter today is an entirely different giant storm from the one astronomers observed more than three centuries ago

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#KatsushikaHokusai (1760-1849) Ghost of murdered husband peeping over mosquito-net at his unfaithful and murderous wife

Hasn't Joe suffered enough?

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From fish to fungi, the world is filled with beautiful glowing creatures. 🍄🐟 Here are just a few of the many bioluminescent organisms present in various ecosystems around the planet. 🌏🧪 🖌️ Infographic by Eleanor Mohren.

Linked-in waiter hands me the menu "And sir would you like the filet mignon or a steaming pile of fresh NZ mini-Musk?"

Dear BlueSky people. I am no longer liking your posts. I am instead printing out those that take my fancy and pasting them into a scrapbook for future generations to be amazed and baffled by.

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Māori Medical Student and Physician Exposure to Racism, Discrimination, Harassment, and Bullying Donna Cormack, PhD; Claire Gooder, PhD; Rhiannon Jones, MDiet; et al JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(7):e2419373. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.19373

Māori Medical Student and Physician Exposure to Racial Discrimination and Mistreatmentjamanetwork.com This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence of experiencing and witnessing racism, discrimination, harassment, and bullying (RDHB) for Māori

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“An acoustic analysis revealed a high-pitch component in these solicitation purrs, resembling a cry. This hidden cry taps into our innate sensitivity to distress sounds, making it nearly impossible for us to ignore.” www.sciencealert.com/the-heartwar... 🧪

The Heartwarming Reason Why Your Cat Meows at You Like Thatwww.sciencealert.com A story that goes back thousands of years.

@steffenrusten.bsky.social Can you fact check this?

The entire hour I was doing the Garden Bird Survey my inner man child was giggling and thinking about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(b...

Jizz (birding) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

About every six months when I’m wearing this, some random American visitor or expat starts talking to me about how the Mets are doing. I can only smile stupidly. So cultural appropriation?

Since RW shit from Amerikka tends to drip down here eventually, this had me worried. I know we've got some kick-ass librarians to fight back but they will need our support. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

‎Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast: The End of Libraries as We Know Them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast, Ep The End of Libraries as We Know Them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney - Jul 2, 2024

Hey! Remember when everybody was talking about when that terrible President was given king-like immunity? Weird times. Say, what ever happened about that? Hasn't been in the news for a couple of days so I'm just gonna assume it worked out OK somehow.

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Is everybody angry? You bet your life we are! the-opinionist.ghost.io/despite-all-...

Despite all my ragethe-opinionist.ghost.io Female rage seems to be a topic of discussion recently and actually... yeah, I am extremely pissed off, now you mention it.

As far as I can tell while my father was out of the country (UK and crewing ships) for three years from the age of 19 in the 1950s he wrote six letters back to his parents in Naenae Now a bit freaked out if I don't get three texts a day from my 19-year-old on his first trip to Tokyo. Progress?

I've been thinking a lot about this old propaganda poster since I saw Forest and Bird describe the "War on Nature"

Given how things are going for Trump right now I expect July 11 will result in him being sentenced to two weeks in a golf resort with $50,000 spending money. At worst 30 hours community service at a Beauty Pagent.

After listening to this podcast series the question I find myself asking about imminent American fascism is not "why now?" but "why did it take so long?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcastwww.msnbc.com Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors...

I understand the appeal of the horserace election but why is this not on the front page everyday? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

"All media other than paper and stone will become extinct." I find I think of this brilliantly quixotic endeavour a lot these days: extinct-media-museum.blog.jp

Extinct Media Museum：絶滅メディア博物館extinct-media-museum.blog.jp The Extinct Media Museum is a private museum that collects and exhibits media devices that have died out or are dying out in the process of evolution based on the idea that "All media other than paper...

Coalition Government: "We refuse to bow to your walking and cycling ideology" (Extract from June 2024 Government Policy Statement on Transport)

Everybody should do this, not just because citizen science is cool, but because despite whatever crap is going on in your life there's a good chance that sitting in your garden for an hour will make you feel just a tiny bit better. gardenbirdsurvey.nz

Home | New Zealand Garden Bird Surveygardenbirdsurvey.nz Get out into your garden, count the birds, and build a build a picture of the state of our environment by taking part in the NZ Garden Bird Survey.

The Government's proposed speed limit rule changes are an affront to local democracy and to science-based policy. We should all tell them. consult.transport.govt.nz/policy/setti...

Setting of Speed Limits 2024 consultation - Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Transport - Citizen Space consult.transport.govt.nz Find and participate in activities run by Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Tra

Sign on door to South Library. May say as much about that building as it does our climate. But feels ominous for April in Ōtautahi somehow.

From Bernard Hickey: thekaka.substack.com/p/the-very-o... I wrote to my newly elected Nat MP about this, thinking that as a GP she might be concerned. Got a prompt response. She can do nothing since it was in the coalition agreement apparently.

The very opposite of social investmentthekaka.substack.com Reversal of smoke-free laws to pay for tax cuts estimated by Treasury to add $5.25b in health costs, cut productivity growth by $5.88b and destroy 588,000 Health Adjusted Life Years