This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Welcome to more "vibes based analysis" on 90 day trials from the EMA. Zero hard data provided within this oped supports the use of 90 day trials, nor is their any mention of their potential misuse. What does the real evidence say? A 🧵 www.nzherald.co.nz/business/hav...

A look back at the European Spirit: forgotten--figures.blogspot.com/2004/01/spir... Great paint job, creepy eyebrows. Still the best Spirit. #GIJoe

@rodemmerson.bsky.social has absolutely nailed it #NZPol

Many people are sad that their Winston in cabinet will mitigate Nat/Act theory didn't pay off, but my I want Winston in cabinet because he will make Luxon's life shit theory is clearly paying off

So wait they're liberalising tobacco laws while increasing restrictions on vaping?

I think one of my cats tried to catch a bird but I didn't actually see that, I just saw him running from a hoard of angry, screeching sparrows

ACT and NZ First joining forces is definitely not on the list of things I expected

Yes of course I sang happy birthday to my cat

So good

Did AT just forget the cards have expiry dates? Did the person who set it all up just disappear one day without leaving a system manual behind?

For the last few days, we have forgotten to buy the whiskas temptations and now I fear for my life

If you took all the worst bits of Ruth Richardson and all the worst bits of Jenny Shipley and mashed them together and sprinkled the worst bits of Paula Bennett on top to create a new person, that person would be Nicola Willis.

“Dr Reti would not rule out narrowing access and said it would be up to the caucus. "That would always be a decision for caucus, and so I'm not going to offer a position here now, but we are mindful in watching what happens with Roe vs Wade." Values and behaviour lead to policy.

I have composed my hotly anticipated 'winners, losers, big losers and gigantic losers' column for the 2023 general election thespinoff.co.nz/politics/16-...

Lamia nailed this. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/14/new-zealand-didnt-want-to-lurch-to-the-right-it-just-wanted-change-it-doesnt-know-what-its-in-for

Realistically, the Guardian poll says the same thing as all the other recent ones, which is that Winston gets to pick his favourite Chris

- thinks abortion is murder -sent his kids to homophobe camp -parenting philosophy is fundy shit from homophobe camp - brought in legendary fundy homophobe as a National candidate - may not believe in evolution, dinosaurs, or both? Press gallery: "but that tax announcement was exciting!" #nzpol

Winston’s bottom line has to be that he gets to superglue an H to Seymour’s forehead for the next 3 years

I love this. The oldest active torrent on the web Is a $900 piece of Matrix fanfic from Tāmaki Makaurau 😀🕸️https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/07/so-grimy-so-cheap-new-zealand-matrix-fan-film-becomes-oldest-active-torrent-in-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

oh god. I mean, oh dog. how do you keep doing this.

THIS! You do NOT require an Ezy Vote card to vote - they're just a way to speed up elections staff finding your name in the roll and issuing your ballot. Anyone saying otherwise is, wittingly or not, spreading misinformation that will depress turnout. Cynical me wonders who benefits from that..

It takes a special kind of creature to believe both that ‘the economy demands a certain level of unemployment’ *and also* that ‘unemployed people are feckless layabouts who demand punishment’

Me : invents a device to talk to cats Cat : oh god finally you understand whenever I meow for hours it’s because i want wet food I know this was so opaque for you Me : no no I knew u want wet food the whole time but you can’t have it whenever u want Cat : Me : Cat : first of all fuck you

Meanwhile gleeful expressions of "WE TOLD YOU SO" have tripled in value.

I cannot stress this enough: The same people - THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE - who promised you that NFTs weren't just the future but they were *essential* to the future are currently promising you that "AI" isn't just the future but is *essential* to the future. This is the tech industry now.

Minimum wage workers in a full time role earn $556 more per fortnight under Labour than they did under Nats, about $458.70 Net & Nats opposed all of those minimum wage increases. Even if they somehow could give that $20 "boost" per fn each year in tax cuts it'd still only add up to $100 per fn total

The trick here is that this needs to become the right sort of hellsite like we used to have and not the wrong sort of hellsite like we've ended up with

Luxon found to be the main offender on making false claims in the first TVNZ debate with Hipkins. 🇳🇿

Given the depressing state of the polls and the even more depressing thought of the thumb in a suit becoming pm, the thoroughly uninspiring performance from Hipkins was not good

#nzpol so Luxon's "what if enshittification, but for a country?" pitch vs Hipkins' "open a pull request if you want a change because the maintainers are busy I guess" pitch ... oof

Personally, I think the best bit of this leaders debate was the bit where I went to feed my cats

"The economy is in a bad way...", says Luxon It's not though, and it would really improve if you taxed rich fuckers.