If time travel isn’t a thing how come George Michael managed to appear in this photograph captured in Robert Frank’s book The Americans 1958, Fishkill NY (Newburgh) 1955.

Of all the weird shit served up by the algorithms on FB today, the grossest was an ad for a few free chapters of a book by former corporate raider and now convicted pedophile Ron Brierley. HARD NOPE.

Why is every motherfucker in my immediate neighbourhood using a weedeater or a leaf blower or a petrol mower AT THE SAME TIME right now?

My very brief Laneway review: * Wisp - really great 90s-throwback shoegaze, worth getting there early for * Alex G - I really like his music but didn’t feel like a “festival band” and was a bit underwhelmed * Lucy Dacus - absolute class act, would see her again in a second

The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.

I don't know about all of you, but I am finding it difficult to process Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis, and the Fed all at once.

The new Trump line is that if you "disrespect" a law enforcement officer, he is entitled to murder you... unless it's Jan 6, of course, in which case the protester is entitled to murder the law enforcement officer.

Returning to an old favourite. The pink line is the official GDP data (% change for year vs previous year). The wild swings are due to Govt *subsidies* (e.g. wage subsidies) being deducted from the official GDP stats. The blue line shows the unadjusted data; far better reflects reality.

Yeah it’s day-fucking-seven. I want a follow up to this article in October.

Supermarkets: “It’s January 8th, TIME TO START SELLING HOT CROSS BUNS”

It’s January 8th. Is Luxon back at work?

Just a few weeks ago our “hard working” PM was bemoaning NZ’s long summer shutdown. Yet he’s been completely absent from fronting on either Venezuela or the Manage My Health data breach. Is he still uncontactable / on holiday?

I know everyone is on holiday, but I’m surprised no NZ journo has done a story on Amanda Palmer’s attempt at playing a show in Auckland this week. Both Waiheke venues “mysteriously” canceled and now it’s a “secret” show somewhere in the CBD tomorrow.

The first 90 minutes of taking down the Christmas decorations - taking down ALL the decorations. The second 90 minutes of taking down the Christmas decorations. Untangling this one set of lights.

Well this aged like milk ...

Gosh I’m glad I found out that the portal that holds my health data may have been breached via the news rather than direct communication from them ManageMyHealth investigating possible cyber breach www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I chose not to go camping this summer because the weather looked awful. I have chosen to not go camping every other summer of my life because camping sucks.

The entire Disney universe is just a gaslighting of Goofy. Your best friend buys someone who looks just like you and has them run around naked in the backyard? And you just continue on at the function like everything is okay?

Celebrities posting and then deleting tributes to Brigitte Bardot is my favourite late-2025 thing.

Witnessed my first “person standing in a carpark to hold it for a person driving around” and let’s not normalise this huh

Other than “stand around awkwardly” what exactly are you supposed to do when there are tradespeople in the house?

Apparently this is not a new thing, but some edgelord flag is flying a confederate flag in *St Helliers*. I mean, FFS …

[Guy whose dick fell off because there's a girl in star wars] I would probably do well in a civil war

chloe swarbrick and craig renney should do a debate and show everyone how much of a farce the tpu one is

This whole Ruth Richardson versus Nicola Willis thing is just an attempt by the right to somehow make the (clearly incompetent) Willis look “reasonable” by comparison, right?

A third of all men in Auckland appear to be wearing a Metallica tee shirt today

this is hardly the most salient point in the article but they only withdrew the charges against Ms Z *this week*? fucking hell

You know what would be a really popular law? A total ban on Christmas decorations in shops before December 1st. This is my pitch for being Prime Minister of New Zealand.

There sure are a lot of people who have been bullied by their unions into striking today

So much of this govt's strike messaging is 'these selfish ingrates are paid well & don't have the moral right to strike' which is so far beyond believable reality that it's just a weird choice. If they just said 'no money left soz', they'd get more public sympathy than for this Evil Mr Burns stuff.

“Politically motivated strikes” gotta be the funniest phrase I’ve ever read. WHAT LED TO PEOPLE NOT GETTING PAID ENOUGH AND WORKING CONDITIONS BEING SHIT EH? Was it fairies? Gnomes perhaps. Everything is fucking politics. They think we are stupid.

I went to the cinema last night. They played the trailer for the Springsteen biopic. The annoyingly chatty woman behind me exclaimed loudly “OH IT’S THE BOB DYLAN MOVIE” and I am not proud to say I grunted back “no it’s the SPRINGSTEEN movie”. This is why people hate me.

I declare the “humid, windy and overcast spring day” the worst weather type of all time.

Luxon is the kind of man who claims every entitlement he qualifies for whether he needs it or not. Luxon is the kind of man that takes benefit entitlements away from 18 and 19 year olds, saying that "the world doesn't owe them a living." Luxon has created an economy where they can't find jobs.

Well that episode of Peacemaker felt … very pertinent

The pre-election CTU ads were spot on & were true. “Out of touch. Too much risk” was the primary message, and inside the paper, the ad elaborated, saying he was focused on the wealthiest, called people “bottom feeders”, would scrap Fair Pay Agreements, and would give landlords tax breaks."

Small consolation given how bad everything is, but it gives me some solace to know that not only will Luxon be remembered as the worst PM in living memory, but Willis will also be remembered as the worst finance minister.

God David Seymour is an asshole God Simeon Brown is an asshole

Homeowners on real estate shows are always searching for a "chef's kitchen" but never a "shitter's bathroom" or a "wanker's office"

Petty things that annoy me - Louise Upston putting the emphasis the “Jam” in Pearl Jam. She’s Gen X, surely she’s heard someone say the band’s name at some point in the last 30 years.

Good to see Prime and Xu-Nan going hard at Stanford in the House yesterday.

The Platform continues to ruin careers besides Plunket's own and I low-key love it for it. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

I went to a funeral at an evangelical church today and I’d forgotten how much evangelical ministers say “just” when they’re speaking IYKYK

God, those Phillips kids are going to need years and years of deprogramming and therapy aren’t they?

Parenting has made me way less of a film festival regular than in my pre-parent days. However, I managed to catch three great NZIFF music documentaries recently * Anchor Me - The Don McGlashan Story * Life in One Chord (about Shayne Carter) * It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley All highly recommended

Rewatching Twin Peaks for the first time in quite a while. Forgotten what a slog the second half of season 2 is. But excited to The Return.

"Reckon we need any security measures for this espionage court martial?" "I can probably do something in Word."

I am not sure what kind of mainstream release the Don McGlashan film will get, but if you didn’t see it at the film festival last night, try to find an opportunity to see it elsewhere. It’s marvellous.

Genuinely interested in how Erica Stanford / NZQA thinks AI will be able to mark *all* internals. How does that for a Media Studies film, or an art board, or a drama production, or a hospitality assessment, or a kapa haka performance, or …

Crimson is nothing more than an outfit set up to fleece unsuspecting students. I talked one kid out of spending $30K with them for no guarantees & they went on to receiving a $20K scholarship to a local university instead