Today it was an elderly Pākehā woman in a helmet and all the gear

Okay so i wouldn't have gone to the whitehouse press dinner in the first place but maybe that's just me

There are only two days left to sign the petition by Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa to remove the archaic and eugenicist rules that have seen so many disabled and chronically ill migrants deported form the country, including children. Please, please, PLEASE sign this.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. (Except there aren't gifs for *every film*...)

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

THE ELECTRICITY IN THE WALLS IS BEING LOUD AGAIN

*sigh* The whole wanting to repost a nice painting, but quickly having to research that it’s real and not slop first... i grow weary of it

Diogenes https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-william-waterhouse/diogenes-1882

Fun visit today

Petition for media to start noting stories like this one regularly happen in the context of a culture that demonstrably, actively hates women, a “justice” system that backs that up, and as Dr. Mudgway notes below, a distinct lack of appetite to clearly, unequivocally name what is actually happening.

I am delighted to announce that the greatest website I have ever experienced still exists. My flatmate found it circa 2004. IT STILL LIVES. It's a fan fiction site and what is the fiction about? Only ROY ORBISON WRAPPED IN CLING-FILM. michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/karl.htm

They take up so much room! They make travel more dangerous and they're utterly unnecessary in urban spaces (and apparently aren't used that much in rural spaces)! Normal-sized utes — with more flat-bed space — are available!

This is such a sensitive issue but The spontaneous memorials that appear at the site of a young person's death are a natural and understandable response to grief And... I think where these are outside someone's home or shop, having a set duration for the memorial (say a year) is reasonable?

Hey remember when Barry Soper said that you'd have to be on the spectrum to vote for TPM?

Kinda over cancer btw. Less of that please.

Topping and bottoming discourse is still kind of weird to me. Can we not normalise sex where people are just being nice to each other

My kids have been imagining the adventures of Ben, Polly, and the Second Doctor, only Ben is Ben Grimm #DoctorWho

Oo, you don't want Seymour to find out that caucus is a 'safe space', Mark Mitchell...

NZ Govt has taken a huge bet on fossil fuels. NZ was already spending $8 billion a year importing fossil fuels, and now the global fuel crisis is going to make that worse. Betting on fossil fuels has turned out to be a losing bet for NZ. This is the 14 point policy record of 2 years of the NZ Govt:

We're all waiting for the end of the war so the price of petrol can go back down. You know, like how the price of everything went back down after covid.

The children at play, their charming voices rising. Ash. Whispered promises.

Today's guy-biking-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-road HAD HIS SMALL KID BIKING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD BEHIND HIM They were in helmets and high-vis and everything!

i'm all good with @greens.org.nz i visit IG to see what the party is doing. IT IS A GREAT DEAL. IT IS COORDINATED. co-leaders & MPs are weekly in MSM media & daily on their pages. policy roadshows up & down the motu. MPs are at campuses, community events, hui & protests. policy is on their website.

Teen: I'm glad you're not one of those real manly guys Me: Uh, thanks? Teen: I mean, because you don't expect us to be like that too Me: Oh right. Yeah!

Still thinking about this. 'Making his bed' is so emblematic of that mob's whole mindset. It's not doing something useful, like cleaning the kitchen or hanging out a load of laundry. No, a young man can't be expected to be responsible for communal jobs like those. But he should make his own bed.

Today I thought Well I agree with Jordan Petersen on one thing: it'd be nice if the boys made their beds when they got up. And then I thought Wait a mo. Beyond aesthetics, making your bed is the household job that's the least useful to everyone else you live with. Huh. Yeah, that tracks.

21 gun salute for bonnie, who is going to have sex tonight and doesn’t accept criticism or roasts from people who invest in cryptocurrency. may we all find the courage to follow the path she’s forged for us

Someone tell me to go and feed my children

Haha so now the evenings are darker it turns out that when people ride at you on the wrong side of the road like this their headlamps are REALLY REALLY BRIGHT AND YOU CAN'T SEE ANYTHING

Biking vent: Yesterday a van slowed to let a car in the opposite lane pass so it could turn right into a driveway. So the car behind it, rather than idk also slowing for 2 seconds, served left into the bike lane — WHERE I WAS — to get past the van without slowing down.

This is what happens when your culture treats motor vehicles as the centre of the world. People in charge of multi-tonne vehicles refuse to understand that *they need to look out for others* because *they are the ones who will kill someone if things go wrong* Not just refuse, they get UPSET

Yes, bringing progressive change to society *is* going to involve fistfighting a billionaire on the roof of a train in the Alps. But COMMUNALLY. We'll all fistfight him together

We had to break it to a student this week that the reason she wasn't able to find the reference info for a particular source was that it wasn't real. She was astounded, completely floored, that AI wasn't a search engine.

Wait, is there a place where 'chivalry' and 'rivalry' rhyme?

I just accidentally sent the Greens double the donation I meant to and I'm wondering how gauche it would be to ask for some of it back

What the fuck WE WERE TRAUMATISED BY THAT FUCKIN THING IN SIXTH FORM

All my instincts tell me that this is a bad scene

Years ago, a writer friend was passing through on tour. I didn't know him that well, but I liked what I knew of him - and when he suggested that I join him (and the other writer touring with them) to hang and sign stock, I said "Sure, let's do it." So the three of us spent a day doing that. (1)

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

I take zero satisfaction in consistently being proven right about everything like how bad and short-sighted it is not investing in renewable power generation or not maintaining local and national public transport systems, it actually sucks

Finally understand. "Woke" is when you value human life more than rich people's profits. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/592...

His whole response is very weird but I'm fascinated by his use of 'woke' — is preparing for an emergency emasculating or something? www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/592...

Like sorry but it’s not some cops-and-robbers, Man Alone adventure yarn about the bush. It’s about our systemic failure to appropriately respond to family violence and the risk to children thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...

RNZ, I really don't need bombastic branding ads first thing in the morning Is branding supposed to annoy the product users?

Luxon reused his new school joke on John Campbell, like we don't remember him saying it to Tova O'Brien last week I get wanting to repeat a good joke (although this wasn't a good joke), but most people instinctively know not to repeat it to the same audience *since they'd seem like a fool*

I should make t-shirts that say 'HEY MY HEALTH SERVICE PAID FOR THIS ROAD'

We need to start re/building a national infrastructure that's not dependent on petrol. Even if we have to borrow money to do it, might as well while our credit is still good.

Wait does brunette mean 'little bear'?

If someone has a problematic dog it's all handled by the council, with the complainants anonymised and everything. Antisocial car parking (i.e. blocking the footpath) should be handled in the same way.