Tomorrow's front page 📰 The long wait is finally over! Scotland qualify for World Cup

#SCODEN Air McTominay

Oh flower of Scotland.

⚽️ NZ v Ecuador, coverage on TVNZ starting a 2:20pm. You’ll need to take the menu to the Sport > Football page. It’s not on the main channels. RNZ story: All Whites v Ecuador: What you need to know www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...

I've made some playlists to go with my book, Songs From The Shaky Isles. One covers 1900-1960; the next covers the 1960s. All songs written by NZers, organised chronologically by order of composition, with versions picked for listenability. Available on Spotify & Apple Music: linktr.ee/garethshute

Former GB News Dan Wootton has denied that he posed as a woman in order to trick a male colleague into sharing sexual images and a video with him. BBC report on civil proceedings at the High Court in London: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you use Gboard, there's been an update at some point and now you can combine emojis. I'm not a big emoji user but this is quite fun. They work fine in messages but appear here as massive icons, which sends a bit much tbh.

Charlie must be a busy boy keeping up with all his other dead relatives!

🎶✨ Proud Mum Alert ✨🎶 Bella's winning song from the 2025 Play It Strange Junior Songwriting Competition has been officially released today 🎊🥳 👉🏼 Infected Brain by Beaonthedl You can listen on all streaming platforms, or find it here: music.drm.co.nz/2025-jr-song... 🎵✨

Re: Epstein’s emails

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

Warehouse has my book for cheap! Only $32! (Though obviously independent bookstores are much better if you can afford the RRP)

When I was a kid, I was quite certain that a lot more things happen in Alberquerque than actually happen in Alberquerque.

This is incredible

So quick and easy! Well done to all the elves.

"...gusts were still reaching more than 275km/h..." Our house would be totalled!

There's so many people against this service (was in a meeting the other night where it was mocked) so please fill this out if it's relevant to you. It's not perfect but it sure beats the alternative which is nothing. #nzpol yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...

Fear not, the government has a cunning plan — you see, things only burn once...

Big fun

This thunderstorm bearing down on Auckland is slow as. Reckon we've an hour?!

A summery Saturday morning...

Just look at the words in this perfect picture! Hard to believe it's not been photoshopped. The bus pleading to be saved, the disapproving shop, the police tape claiming Not Cross — and the dude does look pretty chill. A scene that demands you gawp.

This person took this when they called the race

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

Hey anyone at #mpi or #biosecuritynz. We do wasp genomics. I reckon I could tell you in about 24 hours if these invasive yellow legged #hornets you have found in Auckland are sisters, or a larger invasion. For free. Hit me up now!

Waiting in a carpark to do an off-the-back-of-a-truck illicit produce swap for a ticket to #Kawaiicon Gotta do what ya gotta do when gardening is illegal in New Zealand 😂 @kawaiicon.bsky.social

Looks like a big meteorite hit in Australia, enough to shake houses and register on seismographs! I hope no one was hurt, and I hope they recover a cool space rock so we can all look at it!! 🕵️

Is this real? Am I supposed to Google everything now to check that it isn't AI shite. There are wires on the witches but... Internet's fucked, huh?!

Just thought of a great case use for AI - verifying if whatever I'm looking at is actually real.

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music. If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

Been almost an hour now. No updates on why a good chunk of an entire region has no power on a lovely day?

OMG. It's @thebeths.bsky.social live on @jimmykimmel.com !!!

"Who's in charge of Britain at the moment? Is it the sausage man?" #TwelveYearOldQuestions

Overnight thunderstorm coming for Tāmaki Makaurau.

I've just had my first ever Johnnie Walker Black. I quite liked it and now I'm confused.

The Bats > The Lemonheads #NewMusic

Seems bad that an anonymous private citizen is paying the army www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Un be-fucking-lievable . I'm truly gob-smacked, $8500, you complete and utter bastard.

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Well worth a read

Wellington weather update: our weather station blew away overnight

Date: 2025-10-19 Days elapsed: 292 of 365 Year Progress: 80.00% [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░]

I just drove this electric Polestar 3 from Auckland to Wellington on one charge! I've wanted to do this for a decade and now I finally can because the technology exists. Combustion is dead!

When you're in public standing in line and you gotta be still but you got headphones in and the music is banging and your soul be dancing

Let them eat cack. #NZpol

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.