Facebook Bullshit
A very cursory glance at Facebook, Palantir Technologies, Cambridge Analytica, AggregateIQ, click bait, targeted ads…and what the hell is the FBI playing at?
Bill
Bio-fuels.
Biofuels and fossil. The difference?
Buttered Bread
What side’s yours buttered on?
Rimutaka Prison.
Who are the bigger criminals?
Updated.
Plastic Fantastic
Billions of disease laden pieces of plastic killing reefs. No effective solution offered.
The Humanity.
Thoughtless thugs. Killers.
Solidarity
History not forgotten.
Women’s March Speech.
Sometimes, someone just knocks it out the park. Viola Davis just knocked it out the park. (h/t Carolyn_nth)
Cape Town
A 100 day count down.
States United.
On how states in conflict, have seemingly and nevertheless, managed to share in the likely or possible creation of one common goal.
Nuclear Options.
What could possibly be wrong in opting for a nuclear option?!
Two Faced Liberalism.
Caring and heartless.
You Cowed?
To bleat and wring hands, or to act? Jeez. It’s a difficult one.
Theatre and Oprah
Maybe ‘circus’ would be more apt that ‘theatre’ with regards the Oprah spectacle.
Hatchets and Knives.
A little on the (predictable) fallout from Emily Thornberry’s BBC Radio 4 interview.
The Saviour Machine
Our ingenuity.
UK Intelligence
From the Opposition Labour Party, a rare instance of common sense and intelligence on display with regards foreign relations.
Up in Smoke.
US reverses Federal marijuana stance.
When the jet stream slows…
…let’s ridicule Donald Trump.
This. Almost.
It’s not perfect. Maybe it’s a start.
A Christmas Rabbit-hole.
Just some light-hearted musings.
Another middle finger?
With just over half the votes counted, it looks like Catalonia has opted to ditch Spanish central rule.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves.
The “Adapting to Climate Change in NZ” report.
Shaking the Tree
When an apple tree is shaken, pips can fall to the ground and germinate. And then things grow back more or less as before.
Brain Curdle.
If ever anyone needed a reason to insist on secularism…
4 just became the new 2.
Someone just did something sensible, and it’s frightening.
Tenancy Stuff.
How’s about private tenants in New Zealand were warm, dry and secure? Too big an ask?
Up the spout, round the bend and down the tubes.
It’s no longer really working out (kicking the AGW can down the road), but we seem to be hooked into a peculiar form of madness even as everything appears to be coming apart at the seams. It’s beyond me…
Friggit!
Frigate. Send one. Now.
Zimbabwe
I suspect I’m in the same boat as most when I say my knowledge of Zimbabwe is neither broad nor particularly deep. But anyway. Here’s some initial thoughts on current developments.
Labour’s home.
Scottish Labour leadership election concludes. And kangaroos.
Thank You Canada!
Is this the sound a trade deal makes when someone pulls the flush?
This TPP…
Some aspects of the TPP no-one’s mentioning.
The Missing Noun.
When they said they wanted to eradicate poverty, I didn’t suspect they simply meant to expunge the word.
Remember, remember!
Sunday the 5th of November from 12 O’Clock onwards, by the bandstand in Dunedin’s Botanic Gardens.
Deary me.
It would seem Labour’s got nuffin when it comes to the TPP.