Kina? Not elitest - Bluff oysters and his snout will be inside before you can say "Drill Baby, Drill"

Hair afflunter

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]

Green Fang #Photography

Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.

Make New Zealand put the tractor back on the five dollar note again! #NZPol

Don't think Trainspotting then...

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

I shouldn’t be surprised, but it is still eye opening just how innovative NZ was with problems of a certain scale. Easy to look at the moribund primary production economy, wool price crash and Muldoonism and think of it as all encompassing, but it wasn’t. theconversation.com/remembering-...

We'll probably be better off if they didn't run the, oh wait *looks at minority partners* We're fucked aren't we?

I turned on RNZ and they were playing Iggy Fuck, did 2026 kill him too? No fortunately instead I was blessed with much Pop music on the way home

Some music to lift things Austra - Fallen Cloud m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5fo...

Saw many emotive signs between Ōtautahi and Ōtepoti last week with the Paris Agreement is "destroying us" Guessing they're throbbing hardons from #NZPol Groundswell Fortunately a single homemade one by the youth pointed out reality, because until we begin sorting our shite, this week's a holiday

I'm sorry #AI but what the fuck, we're burning the planet for this shite? That said, perhaps this is what #NZPol Luxon meant by the rockstar economy?

Sorry, not sorry #NZPol

Great, now instead of some crappy reboot of Second Life they're pivoting to AI glasses for all the perverts out there

Asbestos group urges Government to remove legal accountability for mesothelioma #NZPol

Low grade top notch

Cool lighthouse stuff for @katydidnz.bsky.social Thinking about it, you probably posted it in the first place, but here goes glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacial-er...

Was watching a garden, blue flowered plant attracting all the big bumble bees But no, there's one small bumble, zipping around as if its been dunked in a strong coffee, chasing off all the others that are twice its size They duly oblige

Ruin a band by changing one letter. The Stragglers

Damn @paullecomtephoto.nz seems Ōtepoti has put the weather on for my arrival - this mistiness really adds a mood

Second best photo of the Bucket Fountain ever

Bad ICE Meet good ice This is my wheelhouse, don't fuck with me or my friends

I pick up my new car tomorrow - quite excited I've never had a blue car before

North Otago Billiar s & Snooker Assn. (inc)

All Lips, no Flaming

QOTD: What car do you want most, but know it would be an absolutely miserable experience to own?

Denny's Dining - Friend and I went there absolutely baked years ago Ordered a banana split They forgot the banana

This isn’t just happening today. For days now, the IRGC, Basij and even non‑Iranian mercenary groups have been shooting at protesters with live ammunition. Footage and eyewitness reports show bullet casings scattered everywhere, for example in Tehran. Thugs. No more, no less.

Taxes are part of a functioning society, so if you don't pay taxes, what does it say about you?

Danger Noodles!

Absolutely Ice, definitely not ICE

For some reason whenever John Campbell is mentioned, I also think of the brown suits and blue dome days of Augie Auer

New Year, New Colour Tool for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer obumbratta.com/colour

Who are your top 10 all-time favourite guitarists? Top of the head stuff. Joey Santiago Prince Grasshopper / Sean Mackowiak Andy Bell Kim Deal Emma Anderson Kevin Shields Billy Corgan Miki Berenyi J Mascis There's many moar too

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

This!

Timeline cleanse - Venus fly-trap working

Babe, wake up! New phobia just dropped!

Got it in one

Woke up this morning from a nightmare. I was making soup. How's your day going then?

This will really beef up those essays

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honour of that, what is your favourite music video? Serious answer this time: The cinematography in this was astounding at the time, the time was also serious fucked up around me m.youtube.com/watch?v=LCJb...

I got a new tee for Xmas from @pepperraccoon.com Only issue is the gifter cannot find where they put it - guess who's gonna get a cool tee in 2026

LeMonde said, not on our watch

Seems Ryman Healthcare is right getting into the spirit of Christmas...

*converts to grams* Yeah, that's a solid WHOLE BUNCH