As a classicist and humanist, I don't really understand it. It seems loosely inspired by triumphal arches in Moscow and St Petersberg. None of the furniture is particularly correct. I don't know what's going on with the roundels and statuary has these oriental nimbae going on.

The struggle of code-switching between Humanist and Romanist studies is real.

Screaming, vomiting and shitting myself?

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that most people in New Zealand don't know what a "psychodrama" is, when what they really mean is "melodrama" or just "drama".

If Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon have taught us nothing else, it's that performative male feminists have more red flags than the Third International.

Wait, I was a little bit sick in my mouth. Did Neil Gaiman crawl out from under his rock again or something?

Does Farrar ever know what he's talking about? Or is he just fapping over the Risk board?

The NZ government should have been more outspoken, and I can absolutely make an educated guess as to why they weren't (that requires some specialist knowledge), though curiously that didn't make it into the report.

Ducks euthanised after found hunting and killing freshly hatched native chicks

Grown men & Greek ethnonationalists being whiny pissbabies regarding the casting of Nolan's Odyssey movie is hilarious. It's fantasy fiction, losers. Bet you never read it in Homeric Greek. Bet you never read it at all. Did you know Helen of Troy personally? Her dad was a f*cking swan.

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Sometimes, when I'm very bored, I start writing essays that I will likely never finish...

Non-indigenous people debating who is and isn't an immigrant or colonizer is the stupidest discourse.

I can categorically state that the HP Spectre is the most overpriced, crappiest piece of shit laptop I have ever owned. It overheats, crashes at the drop of a hat, and half the keyboard stops working after a couple of years.

RIP Catherine O'Hara. A star has fallen from the sky.

Deep drag on cigarette "Just when I think I'm out... they pull me back in."

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

Someone once asked me how no-one at Otago noticed he was a malignant narcissist psychopath and all I could think was clearly you've never spent much time in the average university department.

Thank heavens!

Mithraism was basically Roman Freemasonry

So Labour and National had to team up to have the modern slavery bill heard because the ACT party objected... Let that sink in... #NZPol

That's nice dear, but Australian metropolitan rents are going to knock your weave back.

I cannot believe I have been hitherto ignorant of the pioneering early Victorian woman architect Sara Losh, and only one monograph on her that I can find.

The MAGA-ReformUK crowd have their hooks deeply imbedded now, and the only way to wrongfoot him is to bring up Trump's comments about non-US forces in Afghanistan or something like that.

Honestly I can't process the collapsing shitcake of the US right now. It's far too depressing and angering.

Manifesting a production of Lucia di Lammermoor with the costumes based on Vivienne Westwood's 1993 Anglomania collection.

Catch Samuel Te Kani’s art essay 'Tony Guo: The Sweet Unbearable' in the latest issue of takahē 🖤 www.takahe.org.nz/tony-guo-the...

Imagine being pissy at James Cameron for essentially agreeing with you.

The need to lash out at James Cameron is probably symptomatic of why y'all can't get your collective shit together.

I'm assuming the only reason our so-called Prime Minister only put in an appearance at the landslip because of all the international coverage.

Ok Grandad, but let's take your meds and get you to bed now.

Bluesky. The dialogue is just as stupid and irritating as X but for different reasons.

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

JD Vance's mother in law. I csn only imagine family gatherings are frosty.

If you ever find yourself in the unenviable position of having to explain what trochaic tetrameter catalectic is, it's basically: "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard"

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

Stephen Miller wants Greenland because he won't have to go back into his coffin for a whole six months of the year.

With everything else going on in the world, why am I supposed to care about who coaches the All Blacks?

99.99% of the population less enthused

Here's the thing though... I think we all know what the reaction would have been if Alan Bollard had pulled a stunt like this.

Repatriation works both ways