My kid’s school has a dress up day on Thursday. The theme is famous painters or paintings and I’m seriously considering just lining her up outside and throwing random paints at her, then hanging a sign around her neck with ‘Jackson Pollock’ written on it.

Govt full of clowns who’ve spent the last decades kicking the climate change can down the road give it another big boot. On behalf of all the generations who will have to foot the bill for this bin fire - thanks, fuckwits. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In yet more, entirely predicable, fascist news…

In that case, fuck “the way it is” all the way to Mars, Marie.

Designating difficult to define groups as terrorist organisations seems a slippery slope to me. How easy is it going to be to silence and lock away your opponents by simply labelling them Antifa? Also, feel for those few remaining WW2 vets waking up to suddenly find out they’re terrorists.

Wait, you’re telling me the President used his spot at a memorial service to walk out to fireworks, and then pre-announced and announcement for a cure for autism? It’s going to be drinking bleach and finding a way to shine bright light inside the body again, isn’t it…

At what point should I be concerned if our voting packs haven’t arrived yet?

Potentially odd request - I need a particular power adapter for an old guitar effects unit, and am having one hell of a time trying to find one. If anyone know where I can find a 9vAC 1.3A one, with an NZ/AU plug, I would be very grateful. DC ones are everywhere. AC not so much.

Powered my way through The Narrow Road to the Deep North over the last two nights. Not sure I’ve watched something that harrowing in a long time. Finished the last ep at about 12:30 last night, but couldn’t bring myself to just go to bed straight after.

Losing Ozzy and Shunsuku Tamiya on the same day is pretty rough😢

Do I want to watch that Ray Chung statement? Couldn’t bring myself to do it last night.

How long before we hear phone-boning causes autism?

Spent a couple days back in Auckland for work this week. The highlight definitely being the couple behind me at some lights getting on the horn and gesticulating wildly because I stopped to let a fire engine with full lights and sirens through ahead of me. Some things never change 😂

Three years ago today we packed up a moving truck and car with everything we owned and moved to Wellington. As a city I love it to bits. Lifestyle wise, specially with a 5 year old, it’s amazing having everything so close. Job and mental health wise it has been the toughest years I’ve had though.

It’s just taken me 10 minutes to realise Joao Pedro is not Joao Felix and we haven’t actually somehow signed the same bloke for the thousandth time.

Media outlets posting something positive about female musicians, or the Irish language, on Glasto weekend really does get the gammon boiling up 😂😂

Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding of first vs second degree murder is that first involves premeditation. Pretty sure having an actual fucking hit list involves some kind of premeditation, yeah?

Absolutely zero percent chance Musk is able to resist rising to this bait 😂

Do not for a minute think that the same end of the political spectrum who kept using “false flags” to fuel their conspiracy theories won’t suddenly start using them for their own needs. You can put the house on something apparently kicking off at random here to justify all this force.

People can slag off Cobb & Co all they like, but name me another place that takes a roast dinner seriously enough to serve it covered in gravy with another side ramekin of gravy as standard? You can’t.

Such a tease. Just when I was going to pack it all in for the day the internet comes back.

Some kind of massive Chorus outage going on in Wellington. Apparently all the Hutt Valley has no internet, so I’m sat at my desk trying to remember how to work without it 🤷‍♂️

You have to be fucking joking.

"Wanker, me"

Pretty sure Don McGlashan’s first name is actually The from now on. Sir The Don McGlashan has a solid ring to it🙌

Pretty sure at this point UEFA are just creating new trophies because Chelsea keep completing the previous set 😎

Interested to hear the thoughts of Police on store owners and staff taking justice into their own hands, knowing Police can’t be fucked dealing with theft and shoplifting now.

One hundred and how many of my hard earned New Zealand dollars to advertise my car on Trade Me???

Genuinely great to see Palace win the Cup. If you’re mad at that you are probably a City fan, or a knob. Or both 🤷‍♂️

Did we actually just beat a shit United? Feel like that never happens. Every single time that club are stinking the league out and giving away points like a charity, we somehow find a way to shit the bed when it’s our turn. Oh, new kit launch looks #cfc

For the first time in a year my Skoda has no check engine light on. It’s had a fault with a manifold sensor all that time, which was quoted as having to replace the entire manifold assembly ($2500😲). So I’d been holding off for a bit, but finally booked it in for yesterday. Turns out waiting was…

These ghouls should never be allowed to forget the levels of pure vandalism they’re levelling at the country. These decisions should, by rights, haunt them for the rest of their greasy little lives.

Rancid school lunches $150 million Pay equity $0 Landlords $2.6 billion No ferries $500 million Racist shit from ACT $6 million Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my country is dying

I might have asked this before, but does anyone have any experience with importing a car privately out of Japan? Can you do it as an individual without going through brokers? Are the cost savings vs buying from here worth the effort and potential risk? Are there risks I’ve not considered yet? 🤷‍♂️

Built a thing this weekend. First prototype of a 6 Band EQ - 100Hz to 3.2KHz. Artwork TBC… in that I did have some printed on water slide decals, but the print quality was dog pops. Anyway, super happy outside of a few little tweaks.

I see we’re at the ‘you have to heat your wine to make it palatable’ time of year in Wellington already.

Anyone have any experience with Powershop?

An inexplicably free desk which perfectly fits the space in our shed/garage for me to set up for pedal and guitar building? Yes please!

This is giving strong vibes of having just shanked it into the water hazard to the left of the fairway on the 4th at Takapuna.

The trailers for Small Things Like These kinda makes me feel the way I did about those for Manchester By The Sea, in that it’s likely going to take me a very long time to sit down and watch it because of the quite specific frame of mind I’m going to need to be in.

Wait, am I woman??

There isn’t a NACT MP around that this guy wouldn’t utterly wipe the floor with if he were Labour leader.

Societal vandalism.

I’m 44 years old and still haven’t properly learnt you get what you pay for. Pro tip - don’t buy the cheap soldering iron without temp control that cooks itself with only a few hours use. Now shopping for a new one and completely redoing about 4 hours work.

Get absolutely fucked.

Today, my 5 year old daughter described GZA’s Liquid Swords record as “relaxing” and “can you put it on again please, Dad” 😂

I really want to get a little side hustle building guitar effects pedals going this year, but finding reliable parts suppliers who are close enough to NZ that shipping doesn’t immediately fuck me is quite difficult. It’d be fine if I was immediately building on scale, but that ain’t the case 😬

My power co, the same one who just hit us with a 20+% increase in the cost of bottled gas, is sending me emails on how to save $10 a year with lightbulbs. Meanwhile they’re posting financials like this. I can think of other ways we could spend less on power, and it’s not through OUR behaviour…