OK, you’ve had over 10 days - where are all the Aotearoa artists? Why aren’t you on this growing list?

Here you go you maniacs

This is it.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

Sad to report that this film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel has a bit of an anti-establishment bias

An iconic moment in Trump 2.0….

Well, at least Luxon can be happy he will actually be remembered for something now.

"You'll laugh your heads off!" Look at these fucking assholes.

Reminder: National has always taken the side of Apartheid regimes.

The rescheduled date for the Harbour Bridge march against the genocide in Palestine and our spineless govt has been agreed and will be announced this week

New Zealand will not recognise Palestine, putting us in a shrinking minority of countries, and demonstrating that the government is out of step with the voting population, and allowing foreign policy to be dictated by it's minor coalition partners www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Aotearoa dancing on the head of a genocidal pin. I’m deeply ashamed of my country. Fuck you Winston, fuck you Luxon, fuck you Seymour - and all the others around the Cabinet table who have made this cowardly decision.

We aren't going to recognise Palestine because Israel has invaded it and so Palestine doesn't control its own territory ...

Standing by

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I bloody love it. Amamelia rulz

As @liammaguren.bsky.social knows, "many will disagree with the choices below. Some may even write to my editor. I will then channel the spirit of Aotearoa’s #Taskmaster Jeremy Wells and his assistant Paul Williams and meet all criticisms with palpable indifference"

Every person making a “House of Jealous Lovers” joke right now has owned American Apparel items.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

This marketing strategy is even more mindboggling after seeing the (amazing) ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Gotta get that $165M back somehow..?

I’ve always suspected Luxon just made up the supposed Kelce response, like a total loser

Finally, a crowdfunder more to my interests

This Disney+ ad being served to me on Facebook is going well

another great file on wikimedia commons

This hasn’t aged well in the last 13 months.

In conclusion

Paging all other Stevens of Karangahape Rd.

Jacinda Ardern’s time as PM coincided with some of the most tragic, turbulent events in modern Aotearoa history. @stevenewall.bsky.social speaks with PRIME MINISTER co-director Michelle Walshe about a new doco that captures the early optimism, pandemic challenges, and recent reflections

This is a partial list of the 400+ initial artists & labels that have geo-blocked & removed their music from that territory!! 🇵🇸🫶🇵🇸

Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024

Kinda contradicted by (1) reality and (2) this story in The Post about the right-wing campaign to destabilise Willis - "an effort to shore up Luxon’s troubled leadership by weakening what the group regards as the Government’s softest link: Willis and her grip on the economy"

What Trump said is a fucking outrage. It’s against democracy. If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.

#NoMusicForGenocide is a cultural boycott of Israel. Over 400 initial artists and labels have geo-blocked and removed their music from that territory - Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Amyl and The Sniffers etc etc Expect to see some Aotearoa artists on the list today nomusicforgenocide.net

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

Too real, @theonion.com

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

ABC doesn't want to be in the linear television business anymore because linear television is on its way out. Any pretext to dump salaries and wind down programming, they will take. I've been saying this for years. Nobody is prepared.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

Work to do, my fellow dudes.

Live now

You know the brand is strong when even the gotdamn SpaceX coke bricks managed to blow up and crash

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Einbinder on saying 'free Palestine' during her Emmys speech: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

Canceled Sky Sport Now so my subscription ends right after the NRL Grand Final has been played. Guess that's what sporting triumph feels like.