Just moiturised and hydrated, staying in my lane, translating passages from Lucan's Pharsalia as you do.

Fire-damaged Christmas tree replaced by Timaru businesses

Rip Buck

The denial of a loose cultural and historical continuum that might be fairly called "Western Civilisation" is just as boring and wrongheaded as boosting it as superior or pretending it has precisely defined edges, qualities or ethnic identity.

I would never choose a hill to die on. The last thing I'd want to do is force Kate Bush to discover my body

Billionaire NZME director Jim Grenon funding defamation lawsuit against TVNZ, court told

Bondi is horrific, but the New Zealanders suddenly acting like this is the first time they're ever seen ethno-religiously targeted mass murder, despite Christchurch, is a little... odd?

The average person who isn't on social media all the time, isn't plugged into academic arguments and watches mainstream media, really doesn't have a fucking clue about Chomsky or shock-and-soften rhetoric, what the far-right agenda is or that Marxism is just a critique of capital... (1)

The enemy is hatred and violence, not people.

Check out the December issue! Featuring guests Tony Guo, Helen Rickerby, Ruby Porter and John Fenton, along with the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize winner, Jilly O'Brien. There's also an art essay by Samuel Te Kani, and so much more! We hope you love it 🩵 www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-115/

I'm not excited by your Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio. Give me a Chablis.

It must have made it extremely difficult to play "Toccata and Fugue" and "The Lost Chord".

Timaru's Christmas tree set on fire, won't be replaced

The problem with Elon Musk being an ignorant racist and not understanding New Zealand demographic complexities is that everyone trying to dunk on him are also proving themselves just as ignorant and that they also don't understand New Zealand demographic complexities, but for different reasons.

My main "learning" from Bluesky is that whenever someone not from Aotearoa New Zealand mentions New Zealand, irrespective of their motives, it's usually profoundly ignorant, just pian dumb, and/or cringe.

Councillor Nureddin Abdurahman secured a clear majority for the revocation notice, with only four Greens and two Pouiwi declining to sign.

What I would really love is for Microsoft to come up with a way that doesn't involve their forced updates for crap no one wants interrupting history backing up your tab bundle.

Fibers found on an ancient ocean voyaging canoe in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands roughly align with the first archaeological traces of human settlement on Rēkohu. https://scim.ag/3MvPKAp

Of course, then you'd have to deal with ponderously complicated and rigid civil codes while you wait years for Parliament to catch up in a crisis, and costs still spiral out of control with procedure and documentation for results that are formally correct but substantively unjust. So, non.

I just pre-emptively blocked someone because they said Star Trek: Generations was one of the best movies of all time. Nothing of value was lost.

Wow! www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

New Zealand indies are flourishing, with successes like DREDGE, Path of Exile, and Biotic Factor played by millions. So earlier this year at PAX, I made it my mission to play and speak with every Aotearoan dev on the showfloor. See what's being made by Kiwi devs: www.qualbert.com/new-zealand-...

In other words, a big F U to the humanities.

I don't give you terribly good odds of it working.

Maybe people will take poetry more seriously now

It hasn't been called the Food Safety Authority since 2012, when it was merged with the Ministry of Primary Industries and became New Zealand Food Safety (Haumaru Kai Aotearoa). Calling it the old name implies an independence it doesn't really have any more. Just saying.

Lizzie Marvelly does seem to have a habit of being elevated to positions of cultural authority beyond her competency.

Watching old episodes of Hart to Hart on YouTube is weirdly therapeutic.

Not actually what they said. They offered it as a possible explanation. There is, as yet, no evidence that the school was at fault.

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Given Venezuela is a Putin satellite, Trump ordering an invasion would be... interesting...

Erin Patterson ain't got nothing on David Seymour. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Frankly the way Pryor made this all about his personal god and saviour Lord PJ of Miramar, made me want to vomit. Also it reads like AI scraped a whole bunch of online material, which is almost certainly what it is.

Well thanks dude, you've paved the way for overworked mayors making decisions for communities they don't understand, the sidelining of Maori and rural voices, and Ministers and Commissioners riding roughshod over everyone.

Between JJ and Eddy Frankel, the art reviews in the Graun are unfathomably shite.

US President Donald Trump wants to control Australia's immigration policy through the acquisition of immigration data and no outrage from anyone in Australia (theconversation.com/trump-wants-...). Imagine the outrage if Xi Jinping want immigration data from Australia and not Trump? Cue the outrage.

When your demon needs milking.

DROP IT!

Re: The movye of *Wutheringe Heightes* by Emerald Fennell, have journalistes alreadye made some manner of pact to calle it *Wutherburn*?

I disagree with Australian Tipping Point and the World Population Review that Türkiye is in the Middle East. It's the Near East, or Asia Minor, and yes I am old, but I'm pretty sure the Turks would agree with me.

I was completely unaware of the whole Bradly Walsh Egypt thing, but now that it has finally made its way to NZ broadcast television I don't think I've ever been this disappointed in someone before.

Just to amplify this, the NYT reports that Marco Rubio via US embassies is attempting to telling other countries, including NZ, how to run their immigration policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...