Ruari (the sausage) roll? I don't think this works if you're not American.

looking forward to Chippie trying to explain to the core of old solidarity-singing party faithful they rely on to knock doors and drop leaflets why policies to encourage the mass union membership of their youth are now Dangerous and Radical.

Disney owns both the Aliens IP and the Muppets IP, so in a just world it's only a matter of time until we see a reboot with Miss Piggy cast as Ellen Ripley.

How much did the "unaffordable" public transport fare cap cost again?

This puts the histrionics National has been running about the $229M Labour and NZ First spent on ALR and the $180M WCC spent on LGWM into context. But we do need to get better at not politically committing to build specific stuff before realising its the most unaffordable, unbuildable version of it

Facts.

or, you know, just install a free emulator on your smartphone and don't give a company a bunch of money for cutesy 30-year-old tech.

save me from local politicians posting on reddit to wring their hands, type mealy mouthed pre-rehearsed party-line responses and whinge (kindly!) that actually the better things you want aren't possible and you're wrong and bad for wanting them.

Is this how America gets its first 100% transmasc platoon?

How's that sand everyone had their head buried in?

If y'all want the hard mode, here, have a brilliant discourse version:

just how bad is the pending oil crisis? commodities day traders on reddit have begun to develop class consciousness

New Zealand cultural victory.

we could also invest in alternatives to driving so people struggling don't have to be stuck for decades with an expensive stranded asset.

remember the last time we cut red tape in construction and outsourced building assurance to private certifiers, increased self-certification and accepted statements from builders that everything was compliant without checking? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_h...

Ok, so we've got a weird beef against mayors, a hardon for performative law and order, a specific beef against people stealing food to eat... Are the government secretly Javert?

He was all in on CGI in the 2000s too, despite the tactile puppet and prop feeling being what everyone remembers liking about Star Wars.

He would never miss out on one last chance to be publicly humiliated by Trump

The deafening dawn chorus Joseph Banks was woken on 17 January 1770 by birds singing ~half a kilometer away, before cats, dogs, rats, stoats, weasels, and brush tailed possums killed most of the birds

They are cringe and they will destroy you

It's going to try to come home but Trump is just gonna keep it on his desk like the club world cup trophy, and Andy Burnham is going to have to go to Washington on his knees to beg for it.

Renting a petrol car for a road trip I'm left with a few impressions: - I haven't missed the awkward kick down when changing gear - not a fan of the trend of tiny square steering wheels - how is my 10 year old leaf nicer to be in than brand new Stellantis slop? - buying petrol sucks now?

The one in Melbourne that's a life-size pencil rubbing of the actual plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Under LA's new "Objective Design Standards" for historic districts, the building on the left would be prohibited, and the building on the right would be encouraged

Listen to @boontavista.com

Ugh, found a new pretty watch to obsess over and not buy because my garmin is more functional in every way.

Since booking a hut yesterday, which they now make you do, DoC has sent me FOUR email confirmations, a survey about my booking experience, and now I'm probably going to have to cancel anyway because the forecast is pants.

What is it with this American administration and not understanding consent?

It never won't be dumb for Auckland's planners to fight to preserve "the natural character of the coastal environment" when the costal environment in question was completely man-made.

It's because our journos can't figure out how to write a punchy headline headline like "you've been understanding tax wrong, and politicians don't want you to know. The way progressive income tax operates will shock you"

Auckland is trying to stop tall buildings in the CBD again. This time because they might violate an imaginary line they drew and... Scare the sea? businessdesk.co.nz/article/infr...

Maybe if less of the "green space" on the isthmus was locked up as five golf courses and three horse race tracks more people could use them.

Sorry guys, I'm not going to take food recommendations from the company whose mascot eats glass and nails.

I think these two headlines demonstrate what people mean by a "K shaped economy", the policies behind it all, who benefits & who loses, it feels really messed up and gross. #nzpol

The bar I worked at hosted the "Aficionados Society", a club for men to smoke cigars and drink whisky. It wasn't about smoking cigars, it was about cosplaying wealth.

First frost this winter in Wellington, which of course came as a complete surprise to the train operator so the commuter train network is stuffed.

Management's obsession with AI makes sense when they already see their job in cybernetic terms as an anastomatic reticulum: they don't really know what they're doing, or why they're doing it, so to avoid being blamed for inevitable mistakes they outsource accountability to the AI.

The New Zealand centenary had a rollercoaster, a 150 ft tall tower and a 6-wheeled, 570km/h land-speed record car with two 37-litre Rolls Royce aero engines.

It's been an intra-linguistic battle with the Connections lately. First dealing with a dialect of English with the caught/cot merger (hawk doesn't sound like hockey) Today dealing with a dialect that thinks draft and draught are the same word.

Man, those Fukken Consultants

One calculation that blew my mind: When I push a pedestrian beg button to cross an arterial road w/ 40 mph spd limit. Wait of 90 sec means a car 1 mile away gets to priority to clear the intersection before I am allowed to cross the road. I am standing roadside breathing particulates

Genuinely not sure what problem the new Alliance party is trying to solve by demanding a small, inefficient, domestic sea freight industry.

Putting ordinary working class people in charge? Like some kind of dictatorship of the proletariat?

Saw this and kinda couldn't not... Chrysler went from "sending people to the stars" to "part of a creaking conglomerate called Starry". Listen to @trangirlismo.bsky.social

Underrated component of the "vibecession" is constantly feeling like Cassandra because you can see this sort of shit coming from a mile away, but the apparently smart people in charge of these companies, in the media, in politics can't. Stuff's not just bad, it's dumb and bad.

SpaceX: our rockets can get supplies to anywhere on the earth in 90 minutes, they'll replace aeroplanes. Rocket Lab: we just set a record by launching a rocket only 17 hours after getting the go ahead. Idiots: I see no contradictions here.

In our household Hundreds of Beavers gets the ringing endorsement of audiences from 7 to 70.

An eclectic mix of stuff from their specific 1980s: Runrig, Meatloaf, Dire Straights, Gaberlunzie, the Irish Rovers, Crowded House, Cat Stevens.

Broom the soup.