The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

We could end male loneliness if we just had more third places in our cities for activities.

Genuine question, I’ve seen her do a couple of these on Stuff now. Do they offer this opportunity to labour or the greens when they announce major policy?

Just ate a $100 steak (I didn’t pay)

listening to horse lords for the first time and doing the sickos ha ha yes face

Yaphet Kotto - Have You Ever Seen The Blues [US, Soul Jazz] (1967) https://redd.it/1b0khrz https://youtu.be/eRiYHWjzagI

Flying Out record store & Neck of the Woods announced they’re closing today. More proof austerity isn’t the right govt approach when economic conditions are bad AND that the major events fund was a flop, given it did nothing for the grassroots of the NZ music scene which is withering before our eyes

Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.

Genuinely bummed Flying Out Records are calling it a day - the destination store in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland + hosts of so many fantastic live shows / fests. Respect to the team for their crucial mahi 🙏

The view from RNZ Ak’s new boardroom

I would simply not take over a (relatively) progressive political party that was polling well and promptly reverse all the (relatively) progressive policies. The stuff people voted for. That was popular.

I take Jared's point but it's pretty easy to make effective reactionary genre movies. There were dozens released every year in the '80s and '90s, and some of them were decently good and/or widely seen. Craig Zahler makes them today. These guys are just unpleasant nerds who are bad at everything.

Found in a sidewalk giveaway pile, an incredible case of staple multi-generational Dudes Rock cassettes; a musical taste profile of a certain type of 1990s white guy frozen in time

Same tbh

National, laser focussed on the cost of living, have decided, in what will be a surprise to no one, that a major problem with tbe economy is that the poorest people have too much of the money.

one of the major clues that social housing tenants haven't in fact won the lotto is that they need social housing

After hearing a rave review of local film Mārama on an American podcast I was bummed to find it unavailable to watch in NZ.. kudos to @letterboxd.social for remedying that via their online video store

TY for the spin Chris!

The NZ Greens @nzgreens.nzcow.com can point at examples like this & say "See! These aren't pipe dreams! Better things are possible!" & they can point at our economy & say "See! They are terrible economic managers! You are worse off today than when they took power!" Better things are possible. #nzpol

Alastair Galbraith - John Of The Palsied Eye [New Zealand, Lo-Fi] (1991) https://redd.it/109blp1 https://youtu.be/fRRway0xIQQ

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

Today I got dapped up by Che Fu, another normal moment in my life

Incredible! youtube.com/watch?v=9BdV...

“Harding remains a fascinating songwriting provocateur, able to trip emotional wires you might not even know you had – ⭐⭐⭐⭐” New Zealand enigma Aldous Harding’s transporting fifth album Train On The Island baffles and dazzles in equal part. Read MOJO’s review in full...

BREAKING: Epstein Suicide Note Unsealed

Listening to Psychedelic Rock from Iran (1972). from the album "Iran's Psychedelic Treasure" (2011). Thanks @tonylstamp.bsky.social @davidfarrier.com @webworm.webworm.co.ap.brid.gy Jokers - All Wrong youtu.be/NDy1POltYIM

really glad to send out @tonylstamp.bsky.social's piece today: www.webworm.co/totallynorma... (no paywall):

"What is easily forgotten here is that Reznor was really pushing the boundaries, he was creating new sounds that would not fit into recognized emotional associations and he was doing this before the days when any floppy-haired goth could punch it out on their iPad."

Bandcamp Friday (observed)

It’s cool how the seats on a bus are slightly too small for a human being

@objectivereality.bsky.social has featured tracks this week from Fables, Chris Dann Trio, Wet Denim, Sanguine, and Beverley Martyn (RIP). Listen here: bit.ly/featured_tra... and find older episodes at mpr.nz/show/feature...! #accessmedianz

This didn’t happen

Paywall now lifted on Hanna McCallum's scoop with the full list of the Government's planned Treaty clause cuts and changes: newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/29/f...

At tonight’s taite prize when @ssarahthomsonn.bsky.social started talking about how much $ Nz music puts into the local economy Paul goldsmith pulled out his phone and started scrolling

Bob Dylan looking like he’s at a DIY basement show, about to deliver the sickest noise set you’ve ever heard.

still whips youtu.be/jbrNt-dMDsY?...

nodding obsequiously as the president says to my face "you're disgusting"

10 years of immediately and respectfully falling silent every time this jackass says "scuse me" lol

One of the best New Zealand things my gf has introduced me to is the Mutton Birds….what a band

lmfao

I'm so glad someone died 10 feet from me a minute ago. Now I can calmly finish my dinner being screamed at by the demented pedophile king.

i love all the very solemn tones about violence at the president's little nazi cotillion. some real you can't fight in here this is the war room hours. if you're going to go fellate a psycho dictator you're probably going to be near some violence i don't know what to tell ya. seems like your fault

Auckland mayor refers to RNZ staffer as 'a Muslim terrorist'

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

It’s none of your beeswax who is or isn’t the prime minister

'What an outstanding piece of cinema Akira is, its sources stretching from body horror to Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange leave stylistic and thematic fingerprints upon it.' #Akira Revisited - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/9OeBQHu

there is only one hope for humanity- the synthesizer