this is the most millennial dad joke ever conceived

Americans learn other countries exist challenge level: impossible. Again.

Last night my wife said she grew up thinking the song "Mellow Yellow" was about the soft drink. I told her I'd always heard that it was about getting high by smoking banana peels. We checked Wikipedia, and...

Make this an election promise. Rebuild NZ Public Media in the shape of Aotearoa. 👇

All the political news this week has been absolute garbage. It feels overwhelming and that’s on purpose. So it’s more important to seek out the people and causes that give you hope. And give them your time, money and attention. It can be better. We just have to work together.

consistently floored by how smart, thoughtful, and genuinely insightful dale jr is

Still he knew what he had to do. As the Vogon craft screamed through the air high above him he opened his satchel. He threw away a copy of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, he threw away a copy of Godspell: he wouldn't need them where he was going.

I went to see some planes today! First up, these crazy Fokkers:

Awwwww Poop

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

This grift has been going on forever: Nat MP owns BUT DOES NOT LIVE IN Wellington apartment. Nat MP RENTS their apartment to ACT MP (who ALSO owns but does not live in a Wellington apartment) Nat MP rents NZF MP's Wellington apartment. All claim $1000/wk allowance while bashing beneficiaries.

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

Bong Joon Ho on AI 👀 deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

No!!!!

omg it’s the first car ever made!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Drop someone with LONG HAIR 💇‍♀️🖤💇‍♂️

Hey Fender

social housing tenants would probably feel more like they had won the Lotto if they could claim a $36,400 accommodation supplement to live in their own property

Finance minister willis today defended changes to pharmac saying that people who have their drugs provided by state have basically won lotto

REDUCING SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL HOUSING TENANTS AND INCREASING THE SUBSIDY FOR PRIVATE TENANTS IS GIVING MORE MONEY TO PRIVATE LANDLORDS www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

i just think that everyone who votes to torment trans people should drown in rancid piss and i don't think that's too much to ask

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

National thinks the definition of "woman" is someone you pay less because otherwise the economy falls down

pg. 11 "once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" what the.

thinking about My Father's Camry Filled With Leaves again

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

I knew this was restored but I did not know this was coming back up for sale the last time this car sold was *the first time* I ever posted a listing this is - for me - one of the Top 5 All-Time coolest cars to exist, and the story behind it holds that true www.mechatronik.de/en/sales/cur...

"I need AI art, otherwise I can't make my project." Randy Savage cut a promo with nothing but a coffee creamer he swiped from craft services. Stop making excuses and do better.

Ever fucking green

Touch-a-Truck is one of the biggest days of the year for many a transportation- construction- and infrastructure-loving set of kids. Not that I’m speaking from experience ;-) (1/2)

Bad money crowds out good And bad tech deployments crowd out good There is no good reason to think faster tech deployment will be better Especially when the imperative from leaders and ministers is just "use this tech I don't understand to gain efficiencies I can't articulate"

oh my god there’s video and it’s beautiful

People talked with the computer on Star Trek because it was a tv show, not because it was a good idea

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent “Paleontology and archaeology and other skulduggery were not subjects that interested wizards. Things are buried for a reason, they considered. There’s no point in wondering what it was. Don’t go digging things up in case they won’t let you bury them again.”

possibly better than the original

Drop an alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek.

Cleaning out the fridge for groceries this morning, accidentally dropped a slice of pizza on the floor. Both Dan and I look directly down to see this happen

sleep

My favourite part of austerity not working is when there is more austerity because the austerity didn’t work

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

Maaaan… we kinda got a lot of other stuff going on right now. Can this wait a minute?

Funny how this keeps fading to the back of my memory and then he just keeps Streissanding it.

Articles like this make me so angry. As someone who understands electricity, it's market, and late stage capitalism, everything about this project is grubby and corrupt. This will be a thread on this mess. #nzpoll thespinoff.co.nz/business/15-...