He's never been to a model railway convention? They're great!

"Actually, by weight, it's more vaccine than blood at 2 years of age"

Kevin Roose pretending that bsky's response to Kirk's death was exactly as crazy as that on xitter is the most ignorantly pathetic bothsidesing establishment feeding-the-trolls nonsense that even Casey Newton called it out. I can happily like Newton even when I disagree with him, but here is good.

Sue the living snot out of him. Again.

I'm not going to start watching Jimmy Kimmel because he was idiotically banned.

So judgey.

John Wick be like: glock is this true

Tucker Carlson is obviously vile, and peddling antisemitic tropes. It could reasonably be argued that Jesus was killed by a weak, populist, authoritarian figure, religious leaders, and a mob. Now who does that sound more like?

The first rule of Reticent Club is...

What we'll get instead is 50 grok AIs trained on Altman and Musk's favourite Supreme Court justices.

I just think we should be building vast subterranean libraries. and I don't think that's weird

EVs are still cars, but are a less-damaging presence because at least they don't stink and are quiet (which has pros and cons to a cyclist). They still take up far too much community space, of course, and car-centric planning determines how we can get anywhere in any mode.

We all love a player for our team who gets results and winds up the opposition. But normal people will lose that love if they start biting or attacking people. Air Bud: Feral.

If anyone is driving from Featherston to Palmy, I really want a pile of pastries from The Baker. We were late there on Saturday and there were only a few more savoury items, like the superb chilli bread and the delightful kransky croissant. But I wanted the hazelnut danish of legend.

It was the best of times. It was the whatever of times.

man he’s still got it

"Grieve with me if you want to live"

Just because he is stupid enough to have done it accidentally, just because he is incompetent enough, and just because he doesn't care enough, he's also malicious enough to have intended it.

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order Blackadder 2 Spaced Futurama HHGTTG The Office (US) The IT Crowd (yes I know) Garth Marenghi's Darkplace The Thick Of It Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Brass

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

It is beginning to feel like the only growth industry in AoNZ is for coalmine canaries because they keep dying.

Celebrities and venture capitalists throw millions at a company claiming it can breed fake dodos, which seems especially cruel given the dodo’s living relative., the Samoan tooth-billed pigeon or manumea, is on the brink of extinction for lack of money. news.mongabay.com/2025/09/fund...

Had an argument yesterday with someone saying that Ardern (term 2) was perceptually worse than Lux because we had expectations and hopes that things would be better, whereas Lux is obviously largely worse than we thought, but he was always going to be terrible.

Just to reiterate a point from last night, I noted that Zootopia is a film I consider perfect. And this is a great demonstration as to why I think so.

First they came for the peaches and I said nothing because I don't like peaches.

Since, evidently, Homan did nothing wrong here, surely the FBI agents should be prosecuted for bribery? /s

What movie do you consider perfect?

Red flags: how to avoid falling victim to a ‘money mule’ scam www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

A marvellous example of a post that could (and should) have been an email

£70M for one of the hottest English talents showing significant season on season improvement at 22? Get rekt.

Portishead reunited and did a pre-taped gig as part of Brian Eno's Together For Palestine benefit concert. 1. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 2. Hot damn they've still got it.

Evil Alan Dale

Maybe close all borders while Trump's visiting North Korea?

Every price is incalculable when you don't pay your bills.

You measure what you care about

IMDB has got a pretty deep understanding of what I like, what piques my interest, and even what I'm watching, but it still comes up with notifications in the vein of "oh, so you like movies? How about this movie?"

Again Bouie from the top rope

My low expectation of Lux-AoNZ means I half expect us to be increasing imports as an "opportunity".

A range of 1860s New York-themed health drinks called Kombil The Kombucha.

The Dems, imho, should clearly define relevant human rights and insist that every candidate run on those. If they can't, then they don't run. On other issues, the candidates can be more colourful, innovative, or conservative as they choose.

Gen X, but still: You could talk about a new TV advert and everyone would have seen it. Like the new Pizza Hut one is actually good and funny. It really is.

You never really forget how to misquote sayings. It’s like buying a bicycle

A Podcast about effective Turkish investment schemes is known as a waxing lira call

I suppose if you are lost, you can get some of these and they'll help you get your bearings. But seriously not great.

I get knocked down with a feather! But I get back up again with a feather. You're never gonna keep me down with a feather.

I'll still put Pod Save America on in the car once in a while. I don't understand how anyone can admit to Elon Musk's nefarious intent and yet still promote Twitter by constantly by treating it as the only political social media that matters while treating Bluesky as a smug running joke. It's weird.

In a sweet charity shop in Greytown and Frankie's Relax comes* on the radio in all its raucous glory. Thoroughly inappropriate. *So to speak

I would like to set up a boxer shorts factory so I can call myself a captain of undiestry. Which works even better with a Kiwi accent.

"Autism is totally out of control"