Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

Look at my rata!!

I physically flinch whenever I hear this word because my brain still thinks I'm about to get spat on by boys with frosted tips, lol

This is what we call a mixed bag

Ya I think this is basically correct but the thing that's missing that makes democracy "work" in practice is people's incorrect belief that their own views and preferences are more popular than they actually are, which always makes winning the next election seem more achievable than it actually is

The USA has officially banned ALL new device models of "UAS and UAS critical component parts that are produced in foreign countries" as of today. Which means this ban extends beyond just DJI. This will devastate the currently-thriving drone data services market. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

I am guessing that a small bunch of underfunded nerds heroically and depressingly trying to track hate speech and lies on the internet are the 'Global Censorship-Industrial Complex'

I'd been wondering what the actual thing was: "The 30,000 breath tests related to an algorithm that determined if a second test took place within 90 seconds of the first, whilst the distance between the two indicated a speed of more than 20 km/h."

BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago

Whew THIS. I cannot understand why there are so SO many books & movies about people realizing that small towns are superior and filled with more authentic people and so so few about people ecstatically moving to cities & fucking loving all the diversity & resources they now have access to.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Honestly I chose the wrong pull quote for the post. The right one is: “by making bigotry explicit, Trump and his closest imitators create a permission structure for people to be their worst selves.”

So • I feel like you can't save harbor your way out of text you created • I saw this dude play at the Tasmanian arts festival and he was amazing

Your regular reminder that NZ's immigration system is cruel and irrational and as bad as anything you might have read about regarding less "enlightened" countries; the only difference being it is enacted through bureaucratic means rather than physical ones.

On Yousuf Karsh's birthday, my top 10 portraits: Angela Lansbury, 1946

On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID. As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem. The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

Best Christmas tree, self-decorates.

Hope all you who are having a holiday have a wonderful time, and all you who are on duty, find some joy amidst the chores. To get you in the mood, here’s the sound of summer. My #cartoon today #holidays #Cicadas

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

showed the clip of skeletor not wanting to be nice and my partner rolled his eyes about he-man learning the True Meaning of Christmas and i had to explain that actually he-man was raised celebrating christmas bc his mom was an earth astronaut from the sixties space race

Stag Rhyton would be a good name for a boy

Need inspiration for your Saturnalia parties? 🥂 Villa curator Judith is here to help! 🏺 Thirsty for more information on these drinking vessels? Dive into this thread to learn more. ⬇️ #museumfinds #homegoodsfinds

For the holidays, Truthdig asked me to talk about the weird sensation of watching Hallmark gradually go woke(r) over the last five years just as one party is trying to turn the real world into it at gunpoint.

Consumer PSA: A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree, but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree. DON'T BE FOOLED.

I suppose I should also explain Goblin Hockey. in Goblin Hockey, there is one player, unaffiliated with either team. this is The Goblin. The Goblin gets their own smaller goal which they set up in any of the corners, allowed to change each period. if they get the puck into their own goal, they win

please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE

Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites that are spread by fecal contamination

For those in New Zealand, TVNZ has the Rocky Horror documentary ("Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror") free to stream. www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/strang... #RockyHorror #documentary

This is postmarked 2019

"While this latest round of Epstein files aren’t yet on the DOJ’s website, they had apparently guessed the link by following the URL formatting of previous releases. WIRED identified the email associated with the video by following that same formatting to view the preceding file." 👀

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

Happy 20th anniversary of eftpos going down across the country on the Dec 23 2005. It's also the 20th anniversary of that happening WHILE the record store I managed, flooded. HELP!! My James Blunt is soggy! HELP!! My Bublé is bubbly! HELP!! MY BOATS have sunk!

this made me so happy

OH MY GOD THEY DID

I always try to uphold the annual New Zealand tradition of the Nativicado.

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

i get why “jumping the shark” has come to have its present meaning but it doesn’t make historical sense to me. if i were a Happy Days fan and saw the Fonz waterski over a shark at that time i would have felt we’d just won the Cold War

Hornets don’t holiday, so please continue to keep an eye out for this unwelcome visitor to our area. I was happy to contribute to another article, to help promote the fight against the yellow-legged hornet. www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/23/m...

if I had started pocketing a nickel every time we as journalists conceded a bad faith argument in good faith in order to appear objective but ended up actually deferential… actually yeah I’d be rich

prolonged and exhausting

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Christmas just arrived a few days early!🍿🤓 Look at this cunning plan to avoid surface light rail “disruption” by <checks notes> digging four stories underground, right across Auckland’s volcanic isthmus. (Instead of just, y’know, running surface light rail along all the old tram-route boulevards🤷)

I was missing doing the christmas morning show on b so I made a two hour mix of weird/good christmas music 🎅 🎄 its got disco! its got country! its got r2d2! Check it out 😘 www.mixcloud.com/AmeliasSecre...

Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.