Off to pick # 2 daughter up at the airport. We have a plan for her to get back to Spain. I think for my sanity and my shoulders, I need to now log utterly of until I get back from vacation. Do I really need a blow by blow death watch on all this? My neck says no. No I don't.

But our govt said it would be safe and reliable? #nzpol

Really good explainer IMHO of the situation here www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3nP...

I'm ashamed of our government. Today supporting an illegal war is a nail in the coffin. This is not the NZ of nuclear free, of anti apartheid, of the Treaty of Waitangi Act. This is neo-liberals and populists run amok. Not the country I want nor that I'm willing to excuse #nzpol

mood

90K people 1800 flights cancelled. What a complete mess. Recommending to mera she come back to NZ and just stay a week fly to Madrid via LA next weekend.

Big congratulations to the “no new wars” crowd. There were many bad reasons to support (or anti-anti-) Donald Trump. But none with as much willful denial and reality inversion as yours.

So my daughter is trapped mid trip. Her flight was going to be through Doha and of course that's bolluxed. Among the many details that aren't mentioned due to sheer volume is how much things like this disrupt international commerce, travel, and so on. In other words, it's expensive you idiots.

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes. Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time. What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

If it comes to a showdown between the US military and silicon Valley my bet is on the later if only because they control all the PowerPoint slide decks.

This is the real crux of the problem. Leaders absolutely believe the hype. It's deeply unserious when you hear them accept 10% error rates after years of efforts to reduce contact centre errors to below 1% but they do it anyway. Because hashtag cheaper or something.

This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂 🦁

Mōrena Moana Festival starting today from Eastern viaduct to Manu comps at Karanga plaza pool. And then around North wharf #citycentre 🌆😎😍 #citycentreawes. www.aucklandnz.com/moana

Okay I know that I am very late to the dahlia party, but this is my year. Daughter wanted dahlias for the wedding and boy oh boy did they delivery the goods. Auckland based peeps, we have such good weather to grow these for MONTHS. Get into it! Easy peasy. 🌱

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Sorry RK, only friends apparently can reply, but my first thought is a ferry to Waiheke is always a good day this time of year

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

Listened to the first 3eps and 10|10 recommend this. As weird and impossible as this to say, the pedo stuff is perhaps not the worst shit that man was up to. I know. I KNOW. But seriously? There is So Much More to expose.

Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy. Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

'cause the government stole $10 billion dollars from them?

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

I really hate NACTfirst

If an AI agent deletes your inbox, your photo, your entire hard drive... well I want you to know that isn't an accident. It's karma.

Is it just me or is Google's 'clever' way of presenting folders and files on Drive just a complete dog's breakfast. I can't find a god damn thing.

🤣 This is so spot on.

"I don't take advice". Well, there's a great big surprise. Perhaps if luxon did take a little real advice, his tenure as PM wouldn't be the disastrous rock show it has been...? #nzpol #MostMockedPM #OneTermGovernment #Election26

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

I'm not sure I understand the point behind a ban on being homeless. It's not like we've got a lot of people running around going, "You know what I want to do? i want to sleep rough, not have a place to shit, and get all my few things stolen if I sleep too deeply on a cold night."

The daughter is married. All your laundry shifting worked and the weather was perfect. Thank you!

So are we at 10% now? This is... the same as before right?

America, you have a madman in charge. Trump: “I’m allowed to destroy the country. I’m even allowed to impose a devastating embargo on a foreign country. “I can embargo them. I can do anything I want — but I can’t charge one dollar.”

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

The phrase we're looking for here is: escaped containment. Heh. Good luck US Republicans. You gave it a good try. Did your best. You can even try something like the Chinese firewall to keep this info from the American public going forward. Won't work, but sure. Give it a go.

Do not under any circumstances accidentally drop your phone overboard, people. Getting a new one is going to get really hard for awhile.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

So. Got my nails done for the wedding. I now remember why I don't get my nails done. This is ridiculous. Typing with my nose.

If Democrats were half as concerned with winning Democratic votes as they are with winning Republican ones, they'd never lose an election.

Struggling to keep track, Aotearoa. Is this third or the fourth 100-year storm this year?

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

(Pausing here to note positioning of pay equity costs as “savings” is deeply reprehensible and that the consistent advice from advocates and experts is that the legislation change made achieving pay equity harder for New Zealand women.) newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/20/p...

Still keaposting

So, it's ok if we use these chatbots to run safety critical messaging systems and stuff in our internal systems, right?

Wow Auckland. Lightening or did the northern hemisphere reply guys finally find us with a bomb?

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I’m still thinking about this line “As the rest of us have been curling up into a cocoon of despair, male kākāpō have been standing in a forest yelling until someone comes along to have sex with them.”

A historian colleague of mine once blew someone’s mind after he asked “can’t you just look that up online?” and she replied “who do you think finds that stuff and puts it online?”