This is full of wonderful Traitors detail--and it explains why the US show pretends the contestants sleep in the castle and the UK version doesn't. It's because the BBC has some weird, dangerous belief that you shouldn't lie to your viewers. Imagine! www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...

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all the doubters who thought substack couldn’t find a business model must be feeling PRETTY SILLY now that they’ve partnered with THE upscale predatory gambling application 😏

this is an absolutely infuriating angle to take in this situation. why is it on the union to find creative solutions to ownership problems, exactly? why is it on the union to save owners from themselves when it comes to sacrificing games?

Why should "keep baseball on the field" be on the players if there's a lockout enforced by the owners? As a reminder, even if the bargaining agreement expires, baseball can still continue without a contract, as it did in 1994 before the strike. Canceling games is the owners' choice.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

A night of enigmatic, previously unseen low budget gems from the archives of Nga Taonga curated by Una Cruikshank (author of the Ockham Nonfiction Award winner The Cthonic Cycle) will be screening at the Cambridge Hotel in Wellington tomorrow, 7-9 pm

This is how you live a life

In addition to be a true villain, Tyra Banks is WEIRD. When I interviewed her years ago, she stopped me in the middle of the convo for having “beautiful Native American features.” Like????? Girl, I know my ancestors through and through on both side and they were NIGGAS. Fuck outta here.

I am gutted to find out about this way too late, and thus making a trek up to Auckland unlikely. But for folks up there, you should go check Annahstasia out. Her album Tether is one of my favourites in recent years and she is an incredible talent. www.handsometours.com/tours/annahs...

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

New: The government has introduced legislation to abolish the Ministry for the Environment as part of its plans to build a new super-agency tasked with urban development, planning, infrastructure and transport. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/17/g...

Frederick Wiseman in 2015: www.avclub.com/frederick-wi...

RIP Frederick Wiseman (1930—2026)

Farewell to the legend Frederick Wiseman. Time to choose a new greatest living American filmmaker.

One of my favourite memories living in NYC was seeing Frederick Wiseman's "In Jackson Heights" at the Film Forum. It taught me so much about the city I was living in, and that little intermission! Might have to watch Ex Libris tonight in remembrance.

NOOOOOOO!!!

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

There’s a reason why there are rules about how you use single and double quotation marks. The original post has both curly and straight quotes for some reason, as well as an unpaired quotation mark flapping in the breeze. It’s pretty rich to chalk this up to other people’s reading comprehension.

After watching my current city flood yesterday now I'm seeing the previous city I lived in flood. I used to live about a mile from here. I lived in LA for 6 years and it rained probably a total of 5 times when I was there. This is absolutely insane.

This is objectively correct and also one of the best answers to “why aren’t there cheap EVs?” A low-mileage pre-owned EV is an exceptional bargain compared to a comparably priced new gas car, and most have an eight-year warranty on the battery and motors as well.

The fact that NZ is somehow giving more support to NZ First than ever and for Winnie to get 10% of support is legit going to become the main reason I move back to Australia

An extract from Niamh Vaughan’s 2025 Adam Foundation Prize winning folio The World Reversed.

Holding a flimsy umbrella against the weather to protect pork barrel funding for foreign sporting organizations while the country drowns and is flattened by wind and being sycophantically praised for it by your own team really should be a symbol of this govt's priorities but let's see how it's read.

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

Previous PMs understood that the fundamental duty of the job was to show up in times of national disaster and provide reassurance. ...and Luxon is doing PR for a foreign sports franchise. A chunk of the capital is without power, and he's just Not There. Heckuva job.

The headline with the breaking news banner is fitting

The three waters are floodwater, fecal contaminated water and nitrate contaminated water—

My neck reading light is truly the best thing to have around while the power is out

And power in jville is down again

just sitting here in Welly hearing planes overhead then going to flight trackers to see them fail to land at the airport soon after

🔴🔴RED HEAVY RAIN WARNING IN FORCE FOR MANAWATU, RANGITIKEI and RUAPEHU DISTRICTS north of FEIDING and east of STATE HIGHWAY 1 Valid from 6pm Sunday-2pm Monday ‼️Expect 140 to 180 mm of rain Check details here bit.ly/AllWarnings

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

Yeah, Three Waters was a pretty good plan.

A Chinese University of Hong Kong student who launched a now-removed petition calling for government accountability following November’s deadly Tai Po fire has said he has been expelled. hongkongfp.com/2026/02/13/s... @hongkongfp.com

I think more people should keep their insane thoughts to themselves.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

My friend told me yesterday she is 60 years old and I am still shook I'm not gonna lie

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

The Pitt just made me cry

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Probably Allegra Spender

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Trump's approval ratings are low so... they're going to stop reporting his approval rating. Can't make this complict shit up any more.

"When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, “this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.” " That's very not a "no"

Sigh

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

The airspace over El Paso airport, Texas, has been suddenly closed by the FAA for ten days, closing the airport too. The airspace has been defined as "National Defence Airspace". Nobody knows why. (Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X)

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years