Same lineup as the Beat Club Session ie with Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother who both went on to form Neu.

I've been to the Cumberland Pencil Museum, alone.

Numbers are fun. 427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school. $10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school. Or about $25.5k per student. State schools are 9k per student. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Asa West spent years trying to find a strange fantasy film she'd glimpsed as a child–finally tracking it down was a revelation, not just about the film itself, but about how weird, ambitious art falls in and out of fashion

BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.

We are terribly sad to hear that Ant Nevison has passed away. He played guitar in Headless Chickens, co-founded Incubator studio, was a highly respected film soundie – and an excellent human being... 1/2 audioculture.co.nz/profile/head...

This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).

Upper Hutt Posse - E Tū [NZ, Hip-Hop] (1988) https://redd.it/6kmtj1 https://youtu.be/V2u7yHD_d-o

Former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland discussed sovereignty, water rights and other crises faced by tribal communities in a lecture promoting more Indigenous representation in the legal and political spheres. www.courthousenews.com/first-indige...

A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"

This is superb..

White Saucer are playing with our friends Monsterwitch this Saturday at the OFA. Get ready for The Other's Way by preloading on some profligate psychedelic hoopla and reverberations. #freenoise #experimental #noise www.bandsintown.com/e/107620259?...

Now, wealth tax. Sure, tax away. But, it's after the fact - pissing in the wind. The rules needs to change - bring assets into public ownership, seize rentals that are unfit for humans (3 strikes and you're out for rentiers), provide fixed-rate state mortgages so banks can't suck us dry etc. [Ends]

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

Agreed. This is a great record.

This is upsetting on so many levels. Banning new prescriptions is extremely harmful and doing this during trans awareness week, a few days before the transgender day of remembrance just makes it so much worse. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Cover font origins from the 1st 4 Black Sabbath albums.. fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/t...

There are bad cover versions and….There are covers that sound wrong on paper, until you hear them. If you haven't heard the 25 records here, there's a good chance you'd scoff at them. But sometimes it takes disreputable artists to bring classics back down off Mount Olympus and into the real world.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

There were 159,000 written submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill (on top of over 23,000 submissions last year) - numbers that are second only to the Treaty Principles Bill in NZ’s history. More than 98% of public submissions were opposed. There’s a word for this, but it’s not democracy.

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest

Not mentioned: the law creates a framework for surveillance of people's vehicle movements and allows the data captured to be shared with the Police and intelligence agencies. (see section 65ZF(3)). No explicit protection against capturing faces and sharing those. legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

Welp www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/11/08/a...

Marie & the Atom Pt 2 of my blog on Flying Nun multitrack tapes, analyzing two songs by the amazing MATA, recorded by Terry Moore for their second EP "Spit it out" in 1985. What does the tape tell us? Have a read & listen to samples of the original multitrack audio. natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/f...

Holy heck

Not always a fan of the whittakers novelty flavours but this is genuinely great. The brandy snap bits are like half way between toffee and cookie pieces and do indeed taste just like brandy snaps.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

PRESS RELEASE The Fast-Track Amendment Bill which passed its first reading in parliament today is a savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nature. #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

we don’t even have to tolerate him right this second

Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill Film by Steve Gebhardt (1970) Bits of this have been on YT before, but I've never seen the entire film. youtu.be/w-aSKKWz_QM?...

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Some youthful NZers… from the age of the dudes and the cut of their tees I would say this is taken in the late 80s.

Gosh, thanks, Google (whose algorithms have long pushed users toward extremist content, because profit is everything and humanity is nothing, to Google).

Only two weeks left to submit your song! If selected your song will play during the Weather segment on Welcome to Night Vale. Find out more and submit your song by 11/15/25 here: buff.ly/ci0js6G

America maintained hold of the World Series Championship because we attracted the skilled and willing from abroad. Dodgers players this year were born in Japan, the Dominican Republic, Venezuala, Cuba, and South Korea, as well as in the US (including Puerto Rico). Let's keep America attractive.

And yes, Mark Zuckerberg was in the room.

Had an enjoyable afternoon listening to the first Suicide album (one of the greatest albums in the history of music) and I was reminded of a late night DJ on 95BFM that played Frankie Teardrop every Monday night for a year.

Watch @thebeths.bsky.social make their US late night TV debut on @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

Inflatable frog costumes are selling out following “No Kings” protests and to counter US president Donald Trump’s demonization of US cities more broadly.

#nzpol For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter

bonnie dobson, author of "morning dew," put out a new album this summer, backed by the british psych band the hanging stars, & a lot of it's super cool! (she's 84.) thehangingstars.bandcamp.com/album/dreams

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Join in team, all signatures welcome here! #nzpol #NoRSB #NZpolitics #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Jane Schoenbrun will bring Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole to TV: reactormag.com/jane-schoenb...

You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...