Orbital Leisure Lounge

This week on Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and fabulous guest co-host Constance Craving meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and recap some of the week's headlines from Earth. Topics include astronauts getting constipated in microgravity, a Samsung AI fridge update that spoiled the holidays, yet another OpenAI warning for 100 organisations about "misaligned agent activity", a Wellington seal pup rescue a from a busy city road, a Meta assistant allegedly giving a FB Marketplace buyer its seller's home address and arranging a pickup without permission, butterflies using optical illusions to make predators miss, and much more.

Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

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Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

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More Constance Craving: constancecraving.co.nz

Music attribution:

"Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

This week on Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and recap some of the week's headlines from Earth. Topics include Australia launching an investigation after OpenAI agent hacked the country's healthcare databases, London's new facial recognition store checkout system, social media platforms rejecting ads for the new Elon Musk documentary, the UK's new space force, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, mathematical proof of Gillian Anderson's hotness coefficient over time, Widow's Bay, sex books in the Anthropic settlement, and much more.

Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

This is a labor of love! Help with our production budget: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Welcome to Orbital Leisure Lounge! Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and catch up with news from Earth. There's no holding back as we discuss Ed Sheeran and Macklemore, RFK Jr's chemtrail freakshow and US public health, talks to exit the UK (N. Ireland, Wales, Scotland) and the banned Star Trek episode about Ireland's unification, countries outside the EU joining the EU, a new tigercat, Netflix's awful new idea for a Stanford Prison Experiment reality show, and much more.

Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

This is a labor of love! Help with our production budget: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

"River Valley Breakdown" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Welcome to episode TEN of Orbital Leisure Lounge! Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and catch up with news from Earth. Queen Olivia tastes Girl Scout Cookies for the first time!

We also discuss the psychology behind re-binging TV shows as self-care, as described in this article:

Psychology says people who rewatch the same movies for comfort have essentially built a small, reliable room inside their week — one where nothing will surprise them, upset them, or ask anything new of them, on a day when everything else already has - Silicon Canals

Link: https://siliconcanals.com/d-psychology-says-people-who-rewatch-the-same-movies-for-comfort-have-essentially-built-a-small-reliable-room-inside-their-week-one-where-nothing-will-surprise-them-upset-them-or-ask-anythi/

Other topics include Alberta First Nation invoking a treaty clause to set up a gender-affirming care safe haven for youth, Wellington's entry in the global Living Building Challenge, The Penguin and Catwoman's whip skills, Department Q's upcoming second season, California's social media lawmaking, the BBC removing Drag Race and LGBTQ content, and much more.

Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

This is a labor of love! Help with our production budget: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

In this episode of Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and catch up with news from Earth. We chat about how billionaires should build more submarines, Space 1999's 51st year (and Star Trek's 60th), 1Password's poor investment choices, Tesla robotaxis in Austin, Gloria Steinem, lg Nobel moving its award ceremony outside the US, Nepal's glacier rescue, Sir Peter Jackson's political moves, Generation Kill, Wellington's poonami, and much more.

Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

This is a labor of love! Help with our production budget: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

"Overcast" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

In this week's Orbital Leisure Lounge, Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand to chat about Saint Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Meta's settlement that was actually a victory, why data should be considered land, New Zealand's proposed bill to ban youth from social media and why it's harmful for minors (and adults), Russia's new LGBTQIA designation, we need help naming the station computer, and much more.

Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

This is a labor of love! Help with our production budget: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Welcome to Orbital Leisure Lounge! This week Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and discuss Count Binface and Farage's exciting corruption investigation, Violet's privacy and cybersecurity keynote for Black Hat Asia 2026, the failed New Zealand coup that should've been an email, solar system developments, AMC's The Terror and Sky's great new series Possession, self-care when the world's on fire, and much more.

Where to find us: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

This is a labor of love! Help with our production budget: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

"Neon Laser Horizon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

In this week's Orbital Leisure Lounge Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue meet up on orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and consult Console Computer for news of the week's chaos down on Earth.

Come watch us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@OrbitalLeisureLounge

Topics include the history of sex work in Aotearoa, the upcoming film Wicker and the practicalities of woven lovers, OpenAI's attacks on HuggingFace and others, new drag and gender laws in Florida, fetish on Farscape, cyberattacks on water systems in 12 US states, the SpaceX crash on the moon, Google's fake satellite image generator, pervert glasses and glassholes, and much more.

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More info: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

Support: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII

More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

New transmission from Space Station 1! Join Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue for this week's Orbital Leisure Lounge sent live from orbit above Wellington, New Zealand -- with the assistance of our new console computer randomly guiding our tour of this week's headlines from Earth. Tune in and join us exploring a wide variety of booty mishaps, what we might expect from RFK Jr's upcoming cooking show, how NZ's foreign minister represents his country, Europe's climate emergency, a call to action for trans allies, the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the problem of Voyager's Chakotay, we get a special guest appearance by space cat CuddleUnit6, and much, much more.

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

Main page: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

Support this show: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com - http://cuddleunit5.com - https://patreon.com/QueenOliviaIII

More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue - https://patreon.com/violetblue - https://linktr.ee/viblue

Music attribution:

"Mining By Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week's episode of Orbital Leisure Lounge reviews Suzy Eddie Izzard's solo performance of Hamlet in Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand), explores the politics and policies of Count Binface, and discusses the Paramount merger, the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (so far), Gorbachev's Pizza Hut commercial, that one hot priest, we share extremely personal ointment accident stories, and more. Join Queen Olivia III, Violet Blue, and space cat Cuddle Unit 6 as they meet up for weekly tea and creepy crafting on Space Station 1 in orbit above Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Link to the Jesse Gender video we discuss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EroImhdiND4 Link to the "Definitions Bill" submissions we discuss: https://www.queerspace.nz/bill

Orbital Leisure Lounge is created by Queen Olivia III and Violet Blue®

More info: https://linktr.ee/orbitleisure

Support: https://ko-fi.com/orbitalleisurelounge

More Queen Olivia III: http://thequeenolivia.com + http://cuddleunit5.com + https://www.patreon.com/cw/QueenOliviaIII

More Violet Blue: http://about.me/violetblue + https://linktr.ee/viblue + https://www.patreon.com/cw/violetblue

Music attribution: "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en