Work trips to see Sydney colleagues are such a conundrum. 6:55pm (NZ time) - time for an Emerson’s Pilsner in the airport lounge = 4:55pm (NSW) - drinking on the job. On the other hand, 8:00am (NSW) Breakfast briefing = 10.00am (NZ) Brunch meeting. 👍

I know we all mocked Hesgeth’s “Fat generals” meeting, but what is this? The 2nd Breakfast Division?

@dreadships.bsky.social just thought you’d like to know that here in the home of the Semple Tank, we are now up to putting Dreadnoughts on the covers of our heavy metal records. beastwars.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...

AI is gonna take your job. If your job is being 100% wrong about basic shit that anyone can look up. (And guess who is going to see King Missile tonight?)

@squidgerugby.bsky.social Scribe half-time show alert. No sign of P-Money or All Black Everything yet. #Bledisloe #NZLvAUS

What I’d say to you is that you are a very good person and I am very happy to be your friend

So sick of Some Guy's Reckons >> Actual Science bullshit. Who put The Dumbest Generation in charge? It's embarrassing. Our grandkids will read about this.😳 I want to say "This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard" but then remember that the *same people* said injecting bleach might cure covid.

The best bit of local govt democracy is the blurbs of candidates who have no idea of the powers of the roles they seek. 2025’s winners: - The mayoral platform that includes getting the US to recognise Palestine as a state. - The one who thinks running for council is standing for “parliament”.

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

So does that mean Donald Trump Jr. is president now?

I thought USians had the right to bear arms precisely to prevent this sort of thing?

As a middle-aged person, may I say “Hah! Suck on that, Youth. With your smooth skin and muscle tone and joints that don’t hurt all the time and all that hair on your head….”

He said: ""I don't often stay asleep for long. I can get two hours, then I might get up and do some reading for an hour, and then I might go back to sleep for another hour or so." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Imagine being a bowler in a test match, with 9 wickets so far, and your captain brings himself on and takes the last 3! #ZIMvNZL

All of this. 👇

How long before someone “Both Sides” this one?

What athlete's expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?

So my brain picked up that this was a US news story before I had absorbed the full headline, and automatically inserted the words “a gunman opened” before the word “fire”.

Urgh. Hate the long weekend crowds clogging up my beach.

Wow. DOC really throwing one down in the Great Walks satisfaction survey

If someone can’t either: 1) figure out how to print work emails from their phone; or 2) be brave enough to call IT and ask them how to do (1); then I’m sorry but they are not competent enough to be a Minister of the Crown.

I see it’s time for me to schedule this season’s Dad Seminar Series “It’s Cold at Night Now So Please Shut the Windows and Curtains When it Gets Dark.” I think I’ll run it after each nightly episode of the perennial favourite “Turn Off Your Bedroom Lights When You Leave For School”.

Fuck me. Wordle 1,384 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Can’t believe they’re closing this down. #WesternSpringsSpeedway #LastLap

I’ve been thinking about my BMI a bit. What does it physically represent? Weight divided by height squared - so units are kg/m^2. So if you got squished out in an even layer until you were as wide as you are tall, and sliced into 100cm x 100cm pieces. Your BMI is what each piece would weigh.

@dugmcf.bsky.social do you know if there’s any video of a LIIT gig anywhere on the interwebs? Trying to explain them and words aren’t up to it.

What’s going on here then? Unopened can.

Tomorrow it will be 21 months since Aotearoa New Zealand introduced Sex Self ID for birth certificates. Not a single bad thing has happened because of it. The anti-trans extremists were wrong in every single way. Nobody should listen to their bullshit ever again.

Wordle 1,353 2/6* 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 So close!

#Flagle #1103 (28.02.2025) 2/6 🟩🟩🟥 🟩🟩🟩 🗺️🛡️🧭 www.flagle.io

Dan here quotes some wise people.

If the Family Court had said I’d abused my wife, & the Law Society said I wasn’t fit to be a lawyer due to “disproportionate and misguided aggression”, I probably wouldn’t give a High Court judge the chance to publicly rule that I had a “defect in character” nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZH...

the request for anybody who wants to follow along at home.

Isn’t life funny sometimes? In the late ‘90s, while at Otago Uni, I met a fellow law student from Canterbury. In 2009, on the border of Egypt and Sudan, I met an American motorcyclist living in Ethiopia. Tomorrow, I’m going to push them both down a hill riding a massive sausage. tinyurl.com/kw5w6rue

Does this mean the return of a proper plain black jersey wiht no sponsor logo? www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360577...

Dear iPhone people Why does my email interface now look like it was designed by FisherPrice? Yours P.

A couple of weeks ago I thought I’d try cutting out alcohol to try to lose a bit of weight. I’m quite disappointed to find out that it’s working…

The point of democracy is not that it will provide us with the best possible leaders and governments (it visibly doesn’t and statistically cannot). Its point is to secure general consent to be governed by people not necessarily of your choosing.

I presume that in the US the evangelicals are framing this as divine judgement of the new President.

Young people no longer study ancient history so if you say Hannibal to them they assume you mean the fictional serial killer and not the guy from the A Team.

Completed the annual “Back-to-School” ritual of getting on to the kids’ new class parents WhatsApp groups. Please congratulate me on refraining from asking any of them how they could possibly give their child that ridiculous name 🤐

Hell of a commute this morning.

I’ve just seen a great new Alpha move: a corporate email sign-off that instead of using “P:” or “Ph:” to indicate the phone number, uses “VM:” Nice. I think I’ll do this.

Whoah Black Betty!!

Wordle 1,267 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

FB algorithm throwing me some serious shade today 🤣

Literally every song by Tony Molina