I should likely resist the urge to Do An Insight, but the 20-something dude next to me on the crowded bus who was having the Snapchat "I know how to do my taxes. You have to low key lie to them, otherwise they try and get money out of you. That's what my cousin said" seemed a depressing NZ microcosm

The Godfather (Otago/Southland version)

Breaking: number of neutral US supporters worldwide reduced from four to zero

Paging Dr Breen

15yo and I were howling at this earlier. It’s just perfectly done!

Shout out to burritos for essentially being a delicious food wad (especially when you make them at home). Who knows what other culinary delights we may be missing out on by so infrequently using the wad format?

Neal is a big lad

If I'm understanding this correctly the Pope has excommunicated about 600,000 people, which is certainly going to keep all those John Wick assassins busy.

A hearty congratulations to all of New Zealand's officially designated Michelin star restaurants on their newfound mandate to increase their prices yet further beyond my affordability range

I feel strongly that this needs to catch on, especially in workplaces. Sure thing boss, I finished that report with WordGuesser 3000, just like you asked.

The amount of "surely he'll be back for The Ashes!" copium from the English press on Ben Stokes is a thing to behold.

Countries that do not embrace the great taste of the Big Mac may regret life choices, be shunned at parties, says Ronald McDonald

This was also once a temporary structure put up for a fair. Just saying.

Making my first trip on the Dunedin bus service that takes you 54km for $2.50 and yeah, good times, but hooning along through the dark at 100 without a seatbelt on certainly feels like a bit of a "well, hope this driver knows his stuff!" sort of a situation.

The way that society has changed (in ways generally for the better!) makes it hard to imagine producing a story like this ever again. So it and Blair will stand forever. www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/cricke...

My partner has nothing to go on in regards to House of the Dragon but the title, but she actually pretty much nailed it?

God this is just going to be 45 minutes of increasingly perilous Egyptian attacks, isn't it

Feel great kinship with goalkeepers, the subeditors of football.

TFW when you govern for the people

...last post about Bezos saying humans are drinking too much water for AI deleted, sounds like probably fake. But all too plausible.

Are we allowed to call Israel a rogue state yet?

This story is definitely entering the HOW CAN THIS KEEP GIVING?! category.

If you are looking for a succinct microcosm of how capitalism is going, let me direct you to Bungie/Destiny 2, where the huge success of a game is ending with a few individuals that damaged it as millionaires and all those that made it cool about to lose their jobs. gamerant.com/destiny-2-bu...

This is on me, everyone. I have only watched and enjoyed three episodes so far amid every other TV show currently on, and didn't sit down and watch it straight through in a single 8-hour session on the day it came out like Netflix wanted. Sorry, Alfred Molina. Sorry Geena Davis.

No Kane so *weird* 🏏🇳🇿

Does your heart good to see international footballers recover so fast from what look like they may be potentially career-ending injuries. A triumph of the human spirit.

Thinking about the Post news yesterday and wondering how it would have gone down with an equivalent figure from the left. Would say Martyn Bradbury have been a "bold appointment"?

Wow, if I had known Hooten was eligible I would have applied to be Post editor as a sitting MP.

Hey Nz BlueSky, thought I better rush over here to join you all in having a normal one about this www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

At one point in this game Batman takes out the Bat Shark Repellent, and my kids wondered why I was laughing. www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

The utter determination of the mega-wealthy to avoid even a hint of any kind of negative consequence for the way they live their lives is actually detaching them (further) from reality. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

This may be very me-specific, but the universe whisking away Destiny and Kane Williamson *in the same week* seems a bit needlessly cruel.

WHY KANE WHY

I am a nostalgic guy at times, and X stayed on my phone unused through a couple of times I started the delayed process to download your history, then forgot (surely a tactic), but Elon doing "let's go UK race war" *even more* nakedly has I guess finally broken the spell. Bye, 15+ years of posts.

The difficulty level of game archiving / preservation starting to feel only more relevant as we seemingly ratchet up into the Triple-A End Times. On the plus side I look forward to blowing a future grandchild's mind by dragging a console out ("what's that, poppa?") and firing up say Uncharted 3.

Maybe it's not bias though guys www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa... www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/david-sey...

Trying to get through a bit of HBO stuff before it disappears from Neon; Weapons definitely has one of those endings that makes you think gosh, someone's got a bit of paperwork to do here now.

Your annual reminder that the Tonys are spelled just like that: the Tonys. No apostrophe. Just the Tonys. (The Tonys won by Tony Kushner are Tony's Tonys. The Tonys won by Tony Kushner and Tony Shalhoub are Tonys' Tonys.)

What is wrong with Rachin's catching?! Sigh.

the thing about data centers is that you know Ewoks would hate them, and Ewoks have never been wrong, so

Goddamn, Stokes looks like he's been through the wringer. I am sure he is looking forward to nice low-pressure New Zealand. 🇳🇿🏏

Terrahawks (1983)

1) Not you too, Australia 2) Appreciating the definite Palpatine vibes of this photo choice

Man Widow's Bay just gets better and better.

Huh. www.avclub.com/ninja-warrio...

Live your life with the optimism of a PR rep inviting someone that works for a newspaper in Otago to an event in Auckland without offering a plane ticket

Anyone who claims to like Diet Coke is gaslighting you.

Sugar-free L&P is the best sugar-free version of its soft drink. I will not be taking questions at this time

There is no other explanation.

By refusing to die off screen, my internal television spider of the past week has not only proved itself extremely annoying, but also foolishly ruled out any chance of its character making a surprise return in a later episode.