Wrote this with the idea of communities doing what we expect the state to do, particularly small economic things. Today the state revealed it made a repugnant moral choice on my behalf. That state is only my state by quirk of geography of birth. The state is not for us. We must not wait for it.

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state. For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

I thought when I returned from overseas, that enough time had passed for this country to have evolved in all sorts of positive directions. It turns out…not so much.😖

The mythologising of new zealand as this utopic progressive nation is largely predicated on "being the first to give women the vote", but then just conservatism after. But then rewriting that history to confirm how cool we are.

fun reminder friends that it is actually illegal to do a general strike here. national gave us the employment relations act in 1991 which made legality of strikes very very strict. labour in 2000 changed it mildly (classic). of course the legality of a general strike may not be a concern

Coming to a letterbox near me

When the smoking law changed here, immediately everyone noticed the farts and BO the smoke had been masking. But where has the fart and BO smell gone? Where is it?

Oh it's bad bad. He is embattled in all but name.

Who could this fuckery be targeted at? Oh.

I'm not opposed to deficits at all, but it feels like if the deficit is getting 39% worse we should have something to show for it that isn't misery and a pm in high viz?

I see the US is fast forwarding through Niemoller's poem.

why is luxon wearing a high vis vest for this announcement? him wearing that is hilarious to me. especially standing next to stanford looking all professional and like an actual politician. not a weenis in a suit and high vis.

A sort of addendum to last week, but more in a way of "how to talk about this shit". www.patreon.com/posts/everyt...

Tom Lehrer (rip). God I love Tom Lehrer

Folks, this has lit a fire underneath me. Where words lead, actions will follow.

Mr Cormack's on fire. "For years our economic model has been built on duct tape and vibes," and the piece only gets better from there.

It's good to get writing again. And to start making my colours truer. This one is free for everyone. www.patreon.com/posts/139177...

It's good to get writing again. And to start making my colours truer. This one is free for everyone. www.patreon.com/posts/139177...

maybe the first step is devolution. and then some. not really feeling like govts have got our back. maybe it's just communities helping communities and doing it ourselves. maybe im wrong. i may just be panicking about the tariffs you see.

Forest and Bird hate me because I keep nominating my wife for bird of the year. Also my wife hates me.

As an old man, I find it hard to learn contemporary music. Which is sad. As we all know how awesome my music takes are. This is my main use of tiktok. I find music i would never have otherwise found. Gonna share some of the smaller ones in a thread (Chappell Roan probs doesn't need the boost)

There's a lot of pressure to not be the last message-author during a burst of activity in a group chat eh

Fucking amazing what not catching any high balls at all can do to a team huh. Boks have also been amazing, but jesus.

Rugby is so much more beautiful when it's not just box kicks

Those of us old to remember now have something better than Gregan on Wilson. Different game sitch mind.

Is this the face of a podcaster with no law enforcement experience, made head of the fbi for being a kiss ass called in on a massive crisis realising he's out of his depth

This is what I've been trying to write down for ages. The marketplace of ideas can fuck its own face if one of its wares is "debating" whether a group of people get rights, or are allowed to exist for being simply who they are. Fuck you, that's not a debate your seeking. That's a form genocide.

Nailed it

Circumcise your way to a thriving economy

Three rats in five nights caught under the dish drawer. 5-10 is the norm, the Internet tells me. Disgusting.

THIS is blueskyjism

Box kicks are worse than rolling mauls

Surely Wayne Smith can't make this much of a difference in one week

you know what? whoever invented those animated dots to tell me someone is replying to my message can fuck right off

are we back on track now? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Pro tip for young folk just getting into politics: all governments suck, and your team will likely suck for the same or different reasons as the other team. Government by existence sucks. Get into some mutual aid instead.

JD Vance learning how to spell Kruschev for when he says Trump is in the Epstein files and it's time to move on

lost my wedding ring the other day. devastated. was confident it was somewhere in the house. turned the place upside down. could not find it. doing laundry yesterday, heard a "kachink" as I pulled out a top from the washer. NICE CLEAN WEDDING BAND. nothing story. just wanted to share in my relief.

Me on SSRIs making promises I can't keep

I've found most of Gavin Newsom's trolling tweets sorta meh but this is goddamn hilarious

if I book an uber and it's sending me a 2 door car, I should be forewarned. I don't like it.

is it weird that the lion king just straight up had goose stepping hyena in it? like, be prepared was the best song, and the clip is also rad, but the goose stepping? seems....wow youtu.be/5WsZdDDQ8b0?...

My t-shirt saying I rexed a ferry deal and all I lost was $670m is generating a lot of questions answered by my t-shirt.

Sometimes I think about the edgelords who'd ask me some dumb fuck question in response to something I said, then end by saying "I'll wait". Are you all still waiting, losers?

Challenging wank

This reminds me of a certain conservative natstan making up guys to get angry at on twitter. How utterly absurd.

Nice of Auckland to greet me with Hurricanes colours