Good morning and happy New Year's Eve to everyone. Time zones are so weird. Australia is already in 2026. Europe is still in 2025. And the United States is in 1933.

Instead of incremental yearly promises of improvement, I'm on a continuous journey of not really giving a fuck.

Under a very specific set of circumstances I would like this played at my funeral. youtu.be/RCtTDJgxPDA?...

Even IF the Democrats win back power, which I have some doubts over due to whether elections will be free and fair, I worry they lack the will to undo the damage wrought by Trump or go after Trump’s regime with full force.

I'm the target audience for Rings of Power - love fantasy, Tolkien Fan - but it absolutely lost me. Too slow. Too convoluted.

I told Mya she couldn't bring home a stick from this morning's walk. Well...not THAT stick

Sounds about right. The GOP will never find their way out of the wilderness that is Trump’s brain. They are lost forever.

After Dune, the second on was misnamed (should have been Djuly) so surely the third one is August.

Chippy could benefit from understanding this. #nzpol

The problem with the super rich is they conflate having lots of money with having valid opinions.

New Year's resolution: Gonna mix it up, try something new, stunt on the skyline a little less dipshit, more cumclown

Saw Avatar 3. IMO, suffered from not really having a new story to tell.

It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live

My personal trainer and I walked 78km last week...we'll...I walked 78, she probably did 100.

I don’t really do New Year Resolutions but I have decided that my New Year’s Resolution is that I would like 2026 to be less shit.

The Princess Bride on TV. One of my all time favourite movies. RIP Rob.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

A very Mya Christmas

Good to see TV3 getting into the seasonal spirit with that most festive of programs, Bering Sea Gold.

Christmas Eve.

Wife and I don't really do Christmas for each other all that much. If we need something we buy it throughout the year. Son, family and a few friends, plus always an extra donation to charity. But this year I DID do a few stocking stuffers and a book.

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

The number of British programs where they mention they lost someone due to Covid. I think New Zealanders totally underestimate how lucky (and well managed) we were. The still loud antivax voice/Covid deniers doesn't help. Much harder to deny Covid exists when everyone knows someone who lost someone.

What is the best frypan for an induction cooktop? Sick of non-stick frypans that aren't. Would prefer not to go cast iron because of the weight.

What the fuck happened to Summer? (Rhetorical: I know it's postponed until February when I'm back in school.).

Big Pig's "Bonk" is definitely an album I have listened to multiple times start to finish.

I don't think corruption gets enough follow up in New Zealand. The links (should I say "concidences") between donations to politicians/parties and laws passed. The NZF/Costello tobacco link. NZF and fishing industry. Property and virtually every RW party.

Wondering how well me taking this coffee cup to work would go down. Probably not well. I should buy it anyway.

On the plus side this year, my son has found a thing he lives doing. He's an apprentice electrician (industrial). He's also worked out he'd rather be doing the kind of work he's doing than "housebashing" as he and his fellow sparkies call it.

The verdict is in for kitchen appliances we don't have for potential purchase on Boxing Day ✅️ Toastie Maker ❌️ Rice Cooker Would live a Rice cooker but we probably don't eat enough to justify the storage. Toasties are a great meal from leftovers or a nearly zero effort comfort food maker.

Oh my God I have just looked up just how far a working Border Collie can cover in a day, my personal trainer is a walking/running beast!

"It’s crazy how the Bondi shooters got radicalized by the anti-genocide protests from 2023 to 2025 and then invented a time machine and went back to 2019 to join ISIS." Caitlin J.

The acceleration of Democracy's collapse in the US makes me think Pence and others acted as real handbrakes.

Trump would simply ignore the law, like he does all the others.

A remarkable collapse by the Windies. Looks worse than it was because they had zero chance of winning and had no interest in scoring runs.

Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.

Hope: 3 runs off 66 balls so far.

From 87 without loss to 99/5. Extraordinary stuff.

Has anyone told Trump he would be the best at boxing, everyone is saying so, he could knock Anthony Joshua out, he should step into the ring tomorrow.

Over the last 4 weeks I've gone from nearly zero walking to 50+km a week average.

The problem with media treating politics like a game or a horse race is that it removes journalistic focus on the very real consequences of policy decisions.

It's hard to keep up with all that's bad in the world. But I still have faith that the majority of people are basically good.

How tf does Trump think Venezuelan Oil belongs to the USA? Was it nationalised?

That works out to $750 a road cone. I would have removed them for $500 a road cone. University students would have removed them for free!

This should be a much, much bigger story. Commitments of tens of billions of dollars are being made to dubious projects without us being allowed to know anything about how decisions are being made. It's literally the future of the nation.

Trump celebrated the double-homicide of two well known seniors that he didn't like while delaying a report showing he raped children while bombing innocent fishermen, while kidnapping people of color off the streets and sending them to God knows where. What's not to love about America, right now🙄

The Killers. Oops I'm sorry wrong answers only.

"It’s the lack of character inside Māori that I believe is the issue,” he said. (meaning Batchelor) Surely that's enough to throw this case out.