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When the little library on your dog walk has some interesting looking books for you for once

It gets worse. While (a few) households save up the megabucks, Government does the same! The NZ Govt is not in debt according to any sensible measure. So, Govt and wealthy households stack up savings while our infra falls apart, kids go hungry, teeth go rotten, etc. Make it make sense. [2/n]

I like to think of this as the dog version of slots

Why did it take so long before someone told me how good these were tho

ahh.... womens ski jump. so pure, untainted by textile chicanery or penis enlargement tactics

JuCo really has some great besties doesn’t she

I’m sure this will be fine and have no negative impacts whatsoever. In all seriousness though, this is where ideology in policy (ie cutting in the public service as a matter of position rather than evidence) can be taken too far. www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/bio...

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026. THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW. Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

Me, listening to The Great Divide on repeat today cause I wanted to prioritise the Laneway playlist before Laneway

I still think this is such absolute bullshit It means renters with pets have to have up to two months rent available prior to moving (4 weeks bond, 2 weeks pet bond, 2 weeks rent in advance) and Lls should have insurance www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Or in visual form - crimes against humans up

”those are a lot of boos for him”

This is gonna be me back at work on Monday after 9 days off, a trip to Hanmer Springs and a trip to Auckland for Laneway and IKEA and Costco and H&M

Times article has an incredible illustration

Turns out IKEA and costco in the same day is like …a lot… 😴

Found Sally Ride’s tampons

I was well behaved and I did not buy the v cute chair for my phone even though it was cheap But my phone does not need a chair

The extent that big businesses will go to to avoid doing the right thing, even if it won’t cost them very much, will never cease to amaze me

Just to come full circle- today I am on a bus that wants to be a train

i know several of you here also had "fun" encounters with dicky dawks on science twitter. this is getting hilarious how pathetic he is.

Here is a 400BCE plate from souther Italy for serving fish. Three species of sparids (sea bream) are shown. Sea bream were among the first farmed fish this plate represents a common group of species from that area. 🧪🐡

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

I may not have a voice tomorrow But I don’t think I’m sunburnt and I definitely won’t be hungover And it was worth it

Why is the train on the road

Honestly if a man can’t handle a bit of political dildo throwing, he’s not for me

Josie really is a national treasure. Also one of the loveliest people I know. National milestone: It’s been 10 years since the Waitangi dildo strike thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

You might remember late last year I wanted to do an Intro to Public Policy paper at Vic, to gain a good understanding of the public policy process with a view to writing good PP. My enrolment agreement is here with fees of $1496.40 I hope to crowdfund. If you’d like to help, bank details are here 🙏

Auckland is certainly home to some deliciousness

Just saw the headline “cannibal jellyfish with a disappearing anus are terrorizing Venice” with a picture of a comb jelly and 1) LOL 2) terrorizing who?! The other comb jellies?? Comb jellies don’t sting 3) who told the shock jockey writing the headline about the disappearing anus thing?!

1. Buy cows 2. ??? 3. Profit!

Hey so why is it raining and humid at the same time Auckland

There has been a fall in filled jobs in 11 of 16 sectors over the past two years. This includes manufacturing, construction, IT & telecoms, professional, scientific, technical & admin. Forestry & mining. Wholesale Trade. The fall in employment has been broad-based.

I love how fiscally responsible National is

#nzpol New unemployment data from Stats NZ today, showing the impact of an economy that isn't working. An additional 5,000 people became unemployed during the quarter, rising to levels last seen in 2015. 164,000 people are now unemployed, up 39,000 in just 2 years. A🧵

There is a woman at the airport wearing a caterpillar dress and I don’t wanna take creepy photos but I wanted to tell you all how cool she is

Look at all these chickens

I mean we could get all EvoPsychBro about and just say the lack of social skills are just being selected out, evolution in action!

“A huge amount of women have the means to be self sufficient in a way prior generations were not, so they don’t have to endure relationships that are deeply inequitable in order to survive… should men take a good, hard look at the culture they are inculcated to that makes them think women owe them?”

So so dangerous.... #nzpol

Left for mugs, right for glasses obviously

Not entirely unexpected in this timeline though

TFW you have a prime minister with excellent negotiating skills

Earplugs at concerts are great tho, especially ones designed for that purpose

At the same time the Epstein Files are reinforcing how protected sexual abusers really are, Neil Gaiman is using the nightmarish sexual violence allegations against him to market his next book. His DARVO defense is the first selling point. Rape culture is everywhere and unavoidable.

NZ is also fairly unique in its peer group in not having an official driver training requirements I’m not sure that’s a good thing

A woman gave a cop a thumbs down (wow, so rude 🙄) so he followed her home, assaulted her, tore her clothing, and tried to force his way into her home. It seems he used his authority as a cop as a bad faith pretence for why he was retaliating to her gesture But NZ Police says they think it was okay

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

While trying to find novel ways to eradicate the most trap-shy pests, our wildlife researchers have discovered that possums really like special edition Selena Gomez cinnamon-flavoured Oreos. Possums are known to be fans of cinnamon, although their feelings about Selena Gomez are less clear.