What a difference a week makes. Not far off the same place.

great news

The King could greatly improve his popularity by finding a use for the Tower of London that wasn't just housing the Crown jewels. 👀

My dog and I will notch up equivalent distance of Palmerston North to Auckland on our evening walk today, since the beginning of the year.

Arresting Andrew on suspicion of misconduct in public office is the modern day equivalent of getting Al Capone on tax charges.

If it wasn't for the other ACT MPs, Seymour would be the absolute biggest dick in New Zealand parliament. It's only the other ACT MP's that give him competition (oh and Shane Jones).

Dog Must Make Split-Second Decision Whether To Kill Or Show Tummy To Visitor https://theonion.com/dog-must-make-split-second-decision-whether-to-kill-or-show-tummy-to-visitor/

Chloe's "Roads of National Party Significance" was quite clever.

My watch congratulated me for hitting today's goals, which is pretty strange as I really had none.

Sounds like a job for.... MINISTRY OF GODDAMN WORKS. and unadulterated orgy of building we havent seen for over half a century. Hospitals, wind and solar generation, rail and housing

A billionaire retiring does not equal facing consequences. Investigate them all, prosecute them all.

Despite all the shade thrown at Palmy, it's not a bad place for an evening stroll.

I'm at the top of the stop bank near Ruamahanga Crescent. River is well under that level (Palmy has excellent flood protection), but river is pretty high. Not the rain expected upriver, fortunately - what some areas got was bad enough though.

Wind means lots of exciting scents in the air and Mya has her ears painted on.

Anyone talking about making people work longer for retirement & not mentioning taxing billionaires isn't worth listening to, indeed is worthy of ridicule. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Bondi's testimony is amazing. Not in a good way.

Beautiful start to the day.

My strategy for survival at the moment is taking the dog for a walk at the times I normally watch the news...

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

When Seymour said there are always a small group of people that turn up and ruin it for everyone, for a brief moment I thought he'd developed self-awareness.

I had my hearing tested. I knew I probably needed hearing aids for the last 5-10 years but was putting off getting them because $. I have about 25% hearing loss. I Prioritised them this year and they make a huge difference to me.

These are my workout walks for January with Mya, my personal trainer. Tonight's walk will break 300km.

Watching A Star is Born again. Remarked to my wife the difference between a “show” and what I call “honest music”. I like a show occasionally but generally prefer honest music I guess.

There are so many amazingly bad Judith Collins stories but my absolute favourite is when she failed the Voight-Kampff test.

The fact that this person has been the Minister for the Public Service, including approval of its 'Action Plan to Strengthen Integrity' and our 5th National Open Government Action Plan drips with irony, given Oravida and OIA shenanigans with WhaleOil. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

Judith Collins has resigned? Oh no! Can I get to the supermarket before all the Champagne runs out!

Petition to take Aotearoa/New Zealand off even more (all) maps.

If I was NZ Labour, I'd be looking at the UK and thinking "Aiming to replace an unpopular Right Wing government by running with a suite of watered down milquetoast policies may not work out all that well."

This Auckland run chase is doomed lol

Is the National Party retreat followed by a National Party surrender?

At Ed Sheeran but not 27.

Really the door on the right should be twice the size as the one on the left.

So because Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace prize, he is threatening to go full Ghengis Khan.

Mya had a minor operation to remove a growth on her eyelid today. Cones of shame are not Border Collie proof: 2 paws up, push forward, job done.

Because we want the Country Tux which are a bit richer, my wife went to Farmlands and bought a bag. A 25kg bag. Mya eats 2 a day (She has Pedigree at night). That's about a year's supply.

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Mya's superpower is to look at a wide open space like this and think "if there is anything stinky out there, I can find it. And roll in it."

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Woke up to 2026 what the fuckness. Venezuela?

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.