Imagine becoming custodian of a century of accumulated cultural and political capital, possibly the worlds’ largest such hoard, and blowing it all on Greenland.

Absolutely stunning. What a one in a million band they were.

politics is being a guy with multiple houses and millions of dollars and saying ‘times are tough’ with a straight face

Hard agree.

#nzpol The Prime Minister spent longer managing his Spotify Playlists than writing that speech. Nothing new, nothing to help manage growing unemployment, more cuts signalled to government investment. That wasn't a State of the Nation - it was asking people to forget the past two years.

Great to see Luxon condemn Trump's stance on Greenland and call in the US ambassador. My mistake, he's still on holiday 15 days after he promised he would be back at work.

#BREAKING Lionel Richie has given me one of his Grammys. Mr. Richie told reporters he had made the presentation “as a recognition for Patrick’s unique commitment to dancing on the ceiling.” I in turn called it a “a wonderful gesture”

😅🤣😂

Laser’s broken bro

have a strong feeling that, almost immediately after trump is no longer alive (whenever that is) there’s gonna be a break in the dam & even his supporters will say how embarrassing he was (an analog here is how the right mostly gave up on lionizing kirk after a few days & he just became a meme)

Dunedin is Milan (more or less...). Well, we are quite stylish.

Hell of a burn in today's ODT. #AllBlacks #rugby

Good call.

Here you go, @jetwelder.bsky.social !

Couldn't agree more.

Fires in Victoria, endless war in Ukraine and the unfathomable machinations of the US. To make sense of it all, I went abstract on the Sydney skyline. That’s the Harbour Bridge on the right.

Excellent piece.

Sunset when the country next door is burning

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

Hard agree 😁

This is a brilliant story.

“If you’re outraged over Charlie Kirk’s shooting but can shrug off ICE shooting a woman in the face while she was trying to flee, you’re not principled, you’re in a cult. You’re a hypocrite.”

NICK CAVE WELLINGTON TICKET FOR SALE A friend has one (1) ticket for Thursday, February 5, for sale. It's a seated ticket for Block 7, Row E. Asking price is $170. Message me if interested, please.

Just listened to Nico's last two studio albums, Drama Of Exile and Camera Obscura, for the first time in years. DOE remains a lemon, imho. CO, on the other hand, was fascinating. It's certainly a very good, if peculiar album. Her vocals are notably gentler, less stentorian. #Nico #VU #Velvets

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵 If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

Written by @annienocenti.bsky.social in Daredevil 283, 1990, "The American Nightmare."

See a bridge, post a bridge

30 years' ago this evening I saw Sonic Youth live at the Wellington Town Hall - they were superb. They were supported by Foo Fighters - who were mediocre. #SonicYouth

Ron Cobb, 1975

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Well, that’s it, 2025 all wrapped up, with a bow on top. Happy New Year, everybody! My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #NewYear

This is fantastic stuff.

1980, Zigzag magazine ad

Card found in Daddy's 1962 diary.

When Americans get stopped by the New Zealand police 😃

Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'. Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!) We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Distortion. Newsday.com/matt

I was the engineer on a certain artist's solo album in the 90s. This arrogant helmet treated us and his own musicians abysmally. Several of us are on the opening track at a barely traceable level, whispering, "Cuuuuunt, [REDACTED] is a cuuuuuunt".

America is broken

This is wonderful. #NowPlaying #jazzsky #freejazz #PharoahSanders

Stolen from FB (just posted) St Kilda

Brilliant album !

deepest condolences to family, friends and bandmates of the stupendous Brent McLachlan (bailterspace, The Gordons) pic - 9/1/22, Mercury Lounge

Times New Roman is an imported font, developed for London newspaper The Times in 1931. You know what American-designed font cooked up in 1994 would be perfect for this regime? Comic Sans.

1977. AC/DC'S Bon Scott & Iggy Pop Backstage at Whiskey A Go Go in LA. Iggy has no memory of the encounter as he was "drunk and stoned"

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Precisely.

c/- Yeo in today's Otago Daily Times #NZPol

You used to have rogues, vagabonds, ne'er'-do-wells, knaves, scapegraces, jackanapes, brigands, bounders, blighters, excrescences, mountebanks and scofflaws. Now you just get cunts.

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"