Lucy Lawless, and that's my final offer.

Melie Kerr pays tribute to Suzie Bates ahead of the final ODI of her brilliant career 🙌

Prop, hooker, lock, blindside flank, openside flank, number 8.

One of my favourite things about refereeing is when a team with a bad reputation shows real change, especially school teams. In the past, Bishop Viyard have had problems. Today though, I could not have asked for better. The boys should be proud of how they represented themselves and their school.

Can the entirety of #NewZealandValues not be summed up as “don’t be an egg”?

I like to include a corollary that paraphrases one of Clarke's three laws: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Yooo, Kiwi writer friends, has anyone else had an email from a guy in Tauranga running something called the Underground Knowledge Club? Offering a money for promotion type deal. #NZWriters

people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

in moana the lyric "don't mess with maūi when he's on a breakaway" implies ancient polynesians were hoopers

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

If there is anyone out there on Bluesky who wants all the Harry Potter books for their kid without giving money to Rowling I have a complete set, which I will send to you if the shipping is reasonable and you make a $50 donation to a trans charity or fundraiser.

Enough

the hardest part about separating the art from the artist is how i seem to have glued myself to this macaroni picture

jk rowling spends money she makes from harry potter on stripping rights away from me personally. this is not a hypothetical scenario. that's where it goes if you buy wizard crap.

We have only one chance to stop this...

Thrilled to be part of this Toi Art x Verb event on Saturday 28 March at Te Papa, sharing new fiction in response to photography by Leslie Adkin, with: @jordanhamel.bsky.social @jackremiel.bsky.social @clairemabey.bsky.social 📸✍️💚 tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events...

Now that we know this is their mantra it makes a lot more sense out of how they've been government #NZPol

I swore I'd never repost this fucker's content here, but this is too tasty

There are so many good artists on the internet. So inspiring. And you can just talk to them? Incredible

True. I’ve been to Luton.

Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

many are pointing out this would make remote work impossible, but I'm not even sure how you could usefully *define* a VPN in legalese that wouldn't also encompass lots of other important stuff: logging into your bank over HTTPS? Even your WiFi is kinda like a VPN. Anyone?

The unifying human spirit manifests in such beautiful ways. Like hearing a dance remix of a song in a language you don't speak and immediately picking up that it's a "your team sucks ass" footy chant by its aura alone

wow!

An MFA will never prepare you to become a writer. To become a writer you must first be raised on the Yorkshire moors with your equally creative siblings, with whom you write a series of interconnected fantasy narratives

Using this to both highlight the article and ask a question of @paullecomtephoto.nz am I off-base in thinking women's hockey showcases more technical skill than men's, just because they spend less time trying to smash each other? I found it better to watch as a non-hockey person.

I did not. But since I did, I'm inflicting this on all of you as well.

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

That is just a straight-up murder.

WTAF "The objective of this Bill is to disestablish the Ministry for the Environment so that the Government’s desired machinery of government change can be implemented" Penny Simmonds has got to go #Election26 #nzpol Submit now bills.parliament.nz/v/6/27caed65...

Parents just send me this link. Headline is something else lol 😂 “A fat parrot that can’t fly is laying an egg live on camera and is making New Zealanders super excited”

Every single person writing a book right now: This one, this is the one

Taylor Townsend appears to have a jigglypuff on her acrylic nails and I think I have a new favourite tennis player.

Clearing out shit is stressful, because a significant reason I kept the amount of junk I have is that it's all fucking plastic and I feel guilty

Repost for the weekday crowd.

What should I do with the Harry Potter books that, having been transported from my childhood bedroom, are taking up valuable shelf space and making the vibes just that bit worse?

reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti

There's a reason I don't talk to one of my brothers anymore.

OK, the Gay Hockey Show ruined me by having a first episode that allowed me to suspend disbelief and now every time they do something that does not happen in sports (or like, concussions) I am annoying my friend by saying "Yeah, that's not happening."

Watching the Gay Hockey Show and I just had to educate my Gen Z friend on why the two different cuts of that one T.A.T.U song is so fucking funny.

Really lovely review today from Angelique Kasmara who has accurately summed up my collection as 'humans failing badly at living with technology'. www.nzreviewofbooks.com/the-emotion-...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Artful moments of absurdity

Matt Pritchett 👇😂😂😂

Floating on my back in Lake Taupō, the water still and cool, the sunset overhead turning the sky all shades of dusky pink and orange. The only sound was the occasional magpie warbling. I had never been so perfectly alone as that evening.