Big news drop about KiwiRPG Week from the always-fantastic @geeknative.bsky.social ! #KiwiRPG www.geeknative.com/238521/new-z...

Chilli Peppers wrote a whole song about how much they like it

The podcast platform we use recently updated to allow per-episode images to be attached. I just set one up (I attached the promo image to my most recent episode with @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social) but am now struggling to find a platform that actually displays them. Anyone know which platforms do?

This morning, @objectivereality.bsky.social caught up with with Anna Rzhevitskaya about the show "Comedians getting tattooed and doing stand-up while sitting down in a sterile environment with you watching" at the Globe on the 3rd of July. Listen here: tinyurl.com/morning-show...

You're gonna need two hands grandma

This is the same argument (to me at least) as "we need to pay top dollar to get the very best executives". Surely the logic of capitalism is that if you don't like the pay and conditions of your job, someone hungrier than you will do it cheaper?

Here's the thing though - assuming millionaires and millionaires really do flee wealth taxes should we care? The reason we're trying to tax the wealth is cos they're hoarding it so it's not moving around in the economy - so if they do that somewhere else so what? Am I missing something?1

Let's get this out to people Like, share and watch this on YouTube to get the algorithm as excited as we are💚 The more people this reaches, the better (especially outside the Bluesky ecosystem where we're not as in need of convincing😉) Let's fucking go💚 #nzpol

new episode of ill conceived, we dig into the world leader often credited for kicking off the far right natalist movement in governments and modern anti-woke agenda, viktor orban

Well I celebrate it *now*

New podcast tonight! I talk to the wonderful @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social about Saul Bass's directorial debut, and only solo directorial outing, the slow, cerebral, and very odd "Phase IV" (1974). 100% YELLOW. Listen here: tinyurl.com/res-rec-91-p...

It's coming! #KiwiRPG Week is back for 2026! Discover the best in roleplaying from Aotearoa! We have everything you love: * Actual Play! * Panel Discussions! * Bundles of great games! * Self-deprecating deadpan humour delivered with flat affect! www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week... #TTRPG

Heroes. Season 1, glorious (if a little dated now.) Season 2, wobbly. Everything after that point - just a steady drift further and further from any of the things that were initially good about it.

New podcast tonight! I talk to the wonderful @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social about Saul Bass's directorial debut, and only solo directorial outing, the slow, cerebral, and very odd "Phase IV" (1974). 100% YELLOW. Listen here: tinyurl.com/res-rec-91-p...

Explain your @ I am objectively real

New musics on @mpr.nz !

OK aside from the obvious hilarity of this newest "sign every single band from San Francisco/Seattle" goldrush in and of itself I have two thoughts.

My radio show is on this afternoon! I'll be on Manawatu People's Radio @mpr.nz from 12 to 2pm (NZST). You can listen to my show live at www.mpr.nz (or on 999AM on your radio in the Manawatu).

I just watched the Michael (2026) sequel where they skip the troubles and instead cover an imagined 2009 to present day where he still lived. There's an entire act about him getting into Homestuck, secretly doing music for Homestuck, way more Homestuck than I expected from the King of Pop.

This is the consequence of a "whack-a-mole" approach to drug legislation, a thing that New Zealand *very nearly* found our way out of before the government choked at the last minute.

Once again trying to walk the line of hating the grotesque state of NZ journalism exemplified by the new editor of The Post today, While also celebrating the incredible and vital NZ journalism that we must protect at all costs, exemplified by this piece in The Post today

Pi

GLOW, and also Constantine

1 0 0 % Y e l l o w

Cf: I demand the council do nothing but fix pot holes and also if I am inconvenienced by road works I will not be accountable for my actions

Cosmic horror is great because it just kinda invents itself. Spend a bit too long thinking about the sun and you realize it’s a radioactive death ball larger than your mind has capacity to comprehend, so inherently dangerous that looking directly at it will harm you, and it’s just sitting there.

Cheating because it's not a movie but "villain is a good boss" is the entire conceit of the novel "Hench".

I'd say Bushido Blade but Hellish Quart kinda seems like it's doing that thing. Therefore, once again, Sword of the Samurai (1989). It has politics, melee combat, dueling, dynastic game progression, a battle system by an obscure guy called Sid Meier!

Some people tell me that I need help Some people can fuck off and go to hell God damn why they criticise me now my shit is on the rise And my family despise me Fuck 'em! And feed 'em, cause I don't need 'em I won't join 'em if I can beat 'em

I used to do things, and I'd say things, and Jesus I was evil Fake things and break things and Jesus I was evil I never shook babies I never beat no laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadies

New tunes! Of particular note, Kokoa Nashi! These guys just keep getting better and better...

Butt Ahab says what?

Very minor news in the grand scheme of things but at work we've discovered that the podcast "archive" process we thought was saving server space was actually just hiding files that were still accessible. Accordingly, all historical episodes of Reserved Recommendations are now available in audio!

Chris Luxon thinking about a poor person enjoying themselves

This is appalling. I'm grateful this bullshit wasn't going on when we had to pull our ASD kid out of the intermediate school that didn't know what to do with him.

Oh go on.

We need to accept that in order to generate Topp Twins, Finn families, Lords (insert your fave here) we need to make life easier for the people playing to an audience of 3 in someone's living room because all the original music venues are gone.

"I'm entitled to it" oh god shut up man you sound like other chris

Went to see Backrooms with the kids and Obsession by ourselves - impressed with both. The youtube babies are doing good work at the moment.

Due to cleverness, free birthday tix from the loyalty club, and the council's Companion Card, the missus and I have managed to go to the movies once by ourselves and once with the kids and pay for precisely one ticket.

My work is hiring! If you are in Palmerston North, check it out (or pass it on to someone who you reckon ought to check it out)

In terms of "redeeming the source material" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE9E...

Getcher tunes

This was a lot of fun to do!

Let the dogs out before going on missions and this guy decided sunbeam > peeing