The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

In his first show after being reinstated following his suspension, Jimmy Kimmel greeted the audience with the same opener used by Jack Paar in 1960 when he returned to his show after being censored by his network.

I’m just going to leave this right here

Sorry it took me so long to reply to this, but I needed to get back to my 'big puter'. I find this image very helpful in explaining the very problem you are describing. I have no idea how to attribute this wonderful work though.

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

AI companionship From the new Private Eye, out now.

Live on RNZ Kieran McAnulty just challenged Chris Bishop to a trailer backing contest and Bishop ceded because he admits he can not This is how elections should be settled #NZPol

Tylenol

The history of the "white gloves" in cartoons. As usual the answer is racism.

Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen

Fred Brown recreated Banksy’s removed mural on Scarborough beach. Amazing.

Highest meth use in years, doubled in a year. Now the highest gun related homicide in 20 years and calls for strong gun laws Psst the Minister in charge of firearms is ACT Party gun lobbyist Nicole McKee #nzpol #kiwi

And a fascinating study from Denmark. Vertical solar would be better the further south you you. techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now. But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Found this in a 1916 newspaper duringmy perusings recently...oof.

i see elon took care of that nasty bot problem on the hellsite

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608... KARAWHIUA E TĀTOU E TE IWI!! GO FOR IT PEOPLE!!

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

I'd forgotten this piece by Fox Meyer. Shows the annual cost to the govt of treating acid mine leakage at a single coal mine is greater than the annual royalties paid by the entire coal industry. Coal is a climate disaster, it only survives on govt subsidy. newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/a...

Apparently on Christian tiktok they're predicting a rapture on Tuesday. So I'm going in to work early, laying out an outfit of clothing in my office and pretending it got me.

Dana Carvey parodied George HW Bush on SNL — “Nah, wouldn’t be prudent” — the President called him up and they became friends. . Daryl Hammond imitated Clinton through his Presidency, including savage stuff during his sex scandal. Clinton invited him to do a “dueling Presidents” gag.

The Coup d'etat Pack

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

A reminder for those calling for an OCR cut of 0.5%: The coalition removed the Reserve Banks’s dual mandate on 13 December 2023. The Reserve Bank must focus solely on maintaining inflation between 1-3% and food inflation is currently 5%! Oops! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpolitics

Dutch late night TV has its take

Jimmy Kimmel

Ooh, finally a good use of chatgpt. Both are excellent

Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024

A recent report revealed that AppCloud, an Israeli application developed by IronSource, comes pre-installed on certain Samsung devices, particularly Galaxy A and Galaxy M models, and cannot be fully removed. The app automatically collects user data, including location, device fingerprints, 🧵1/2

A nitrate emergency is called in Canterbury as protests about water pollution rise. My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #WaterPollution #Nitrates #Water #CleanWater

My entire operating theatre (surgeon, anaesthetist, nurses, techs, registrars) stayed late today so that a patient could get her procedure done instead of having to sit around waiting for a slot next week. And not that this sniveling weasel will care, but the SMOs involved did it for free.

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

National promised 1000 social homes would continue being built in Auckland each year. They've done 45. Labour oversaw 18,000 over its term. National is now at -577. Incredible #nzpol

This meme has reached its final form

Wholesome goodness to start the day

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

This awesome local election poster.. #nzpol

Yuck. One of the shoddy vaccine studies Bobby Jr. is touting comes from the Henry Ford Health system, which sounds like an oblique Philip Roth joke.