Exploding sheep

None of those things.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

In her book Perfumes, written in co-authorship with her partner Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez lays out the roadmap for how many people develop personal taste in fragrances. I find it roughly maps onto other things in one's wardrobe.

[Just Rock Content @JustRockContent]

“Black Magic Woman” – Santana

Carlos Santana heard Fleetwood Mac’s original on a jukebox in San Francisco, loved the riff, and said, “We can make this a cha-cha!”

Ranked #258 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs
https://t.co/YyLpt9dXkp

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

William Friedkin’s Sorcerer (1977) was buried by Star Wars on release but it has aged into a masterpiece. The bridge scene where the trucks crawl across a collapsing bridge in the rain is one of the most nerve shredding sequences ever filmed.

[matthew ellis @matthiasellis]

Incredibly insightful piece

[Eugenia Kuyda @ekuyda]

I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently

“The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die."

[tonsured pussy @sweetseaslug]

Not to be hyperbolic but there’s a touch of the fash in the impulse to create a fantasy world absolutely devoid of any hard edge’s that the reader’s minds could snag on. There’s a great review of legends and lattes that talks about this.

[lusso @luusssso]

After a devastating earthquake in 1931, the town of Napier, New Zealand rebuilt using primarily Art Deco architecture

Absolutely amazing

[Jeremy Kaplowitz @jeremysmiles]

RFK Jr's "personal life" section of Wikipedia is the craziest evil shit i've ever read holy shit lol

[Tiare @Tiare_MP]

They were cooking in NZ as well

[orange? @generic_orange1]

Cycle lanes were not a factor in this decision. Ray Chung is lying again.

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

I happened to be in a 400-level journalism class called Mass Communication Law in 2010 when the Citizens United ruling came down, and my professor went on a surprise tirade about it for a half hour. He said it was the beginning of the end of our political system-

[james hennessy @jrhennessy]

school across the road is having an absolutely rowdy Book Week event and the teacher on the megaphone just said "...and from the Metamorphosis we have... GREGOR!!!" followed by boos from the kids and a Come On Eileen needle drop. this is transcendent stuff

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Vampire folklore of Europe

[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

roger was spittin!

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

Flock of reckonomists having cookie-cutter, misguided, sponsored by capital reckons here. Few facts to remember:
1. NZ Govt deficit spending was middle of the pack internationally through 2020 to 2023 - even relative to pre-covid. Aus, UK, US, etc all much higher (1/n)

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

Hey old chum, do you wanna go on a Crown board and go to war on wokery and all that Māori stuff? It will be funny as.
Sure. What's it worth to you? I'll go hard.
Ah, we're working on that. Give me a couple of months.

[Welly Wahine 🍉 @salty_kiwi]

Where the hell is our media on the new Pae Ora Amendment Bill? Among the many other reasons this is a shitty Bill, it literally legislates privatisation of our health system.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

This is one of the most spellbinding anecdotes I've ever read, and it’s just Ray Bradbury rambling about a carnival worker he met when he was twelve.

“He said, ‘You were my best friend outside of Paris in 1918. You were wounded in the Ardennes and you died in my arms there.’”