Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Post a banger that isn't in English ARTIST: 이날치 (LEENALCHI) TITLE: 범 내려온다 ("Tiger is Coming") Groove-funk take on South Korean pansori (traditional musical storytelling) youtu.be/SmTRaSg2fTQ?...

Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts

I've seen many tone-deaf corporate fauxpologies in my time, and this is shaping up as one of the all-timers. Featuring classic hits like: - WE'RE the real victims here - Just trust me bro - I'm totally prepared to step down except no I'm not www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In my sleep sometimes - not regularly or often, but a few times a year - my dreaming brain will identify songs that technically work as a mash up. Today I awoke with Björk's Bachelorette x Sisqo's Thong Song ringing in my ears.

You know how back in the '60's, Russ Meyer would make movies called things like "Journey to The Planet of 1,000 Babes" and "Revenge of the Toxic Buxotic Karate Babes?" Well, one of those babes lives upstairs from me. And now she's in trouble and needs our help! youtu.be/rsk6V4mXIBM

This is a genuinely lovely thing to do, so do share this.

I will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burn- ing flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air

The inter-tidal zone between the two being a truly awful John Waters moustache I grew during lockdown to freak colleagues out on Zoom

Struck by the sudden highly millennial-coded realisation that almost everything I did in the '10s was painfully ironic, and almost everything I have done in the '20s is painfully sincere

Remember, remember.

Welp, time to reset the giant novelty counter again environment.govt.nz/news/governm...

*being dunked into a flushing toilet* this is classic ad homineglbbbbglbglbglbb

'my job is Email' 'my job is Spreadsheet' This is comms erasure. My job is Canva, PowerPoint and seven thousand Chrome tabs.

My phone keeps autocorrecting LinkedIn to KinkedIn, and honestly I think FetLife is missing a branding opportunity

NZ climate journalism summed up in 2 articles: RNZ: govt guts climate disclosures regime, a key tool for delivering Paris Agreement commitments www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... Also RNZ: govt lifts burden on finance industry (actual climate change impacts not mentioned) www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

When I was A young boy My father Took me into the city To see a marching band He said –

Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.

Look, it's the least of our worries given the NZ govt's decision to weaken climate change targets BUT as a committed pedant i cannot let David Seymour claim unchallenged that he was the only MP to vote against the current target. Because he didn't - he missed the vote, lol. The bill passed 119-0.

I feel like screaming. Mis/disinfo is hobbling every part of the climate change response - the premise (CC is a hoax), the cause (govt weather control), the means (the UN wants to ban meat), adaptation (managed retreat is a govt land grab), to emergency response (scammers targeting ppl in disasters)

[wearily resetting my giant novelty Days Since Last Hera Lindsay Bird Tweet Moment counter from 05 to 00] #nzpol

I'm spicing up my work day by dropping mispronunciations into meetings and seeing who pulls me up on them. So far no one has reacted to me pronouncing awry to rhyme with jewelry. Time to escalate: pronouncing whack-a-mole to rhyme with guacamole.

the exposed moral wound of fossil extraction is real and is worth knowing the torn bloody edges of, but you can't get people to participate in other modes of living by just showing them the wound and asking them to feel how much it really hurts.

Good to see mainstream media also highlight the threat VFF poses to New Zealand's liberal-democratic firmament, though it's much, much greater than presented in this article. | Behind the boring promises: the protesters trying to reshape local democracy www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

🚨 Voices for Freedom and Local Elections 🚨 Last local elections VFF encouraged people to run for local council. Their plan was semi-successful, electing dozens of councillors and board members. This time around, they're far more organised. Read: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... /1

He may be a perfectly nice fellow, and I know nothing about his policies, but this council candidate's hoardings make him look like an amateur stage magician

One of my favourite things about flying is all the no smoking signs, alongside all the built-in ash trays. A+ environmental storytelling.

I'm in Bangkok for 48 hours for work, here's my guide as a pedestrian - Traffic lights on green: cross here if you're brave Pedestrian crossing: cross here if you're suicidal Anywhere else: hopital

I know I harp on this all the time, but the authoritarian personality is the skeleton key here. The authoritarian believes, at a brainstem level, that all of society is a hierarchy and that one of the benefits of being high on the hierarchy is that you get to abuse others below you.

I took stats as a senior year elective, and on the first day the teacher said 'Stats isn't math' and proceeded to teach the course essentially as social science / how to spot bad reporting. To this day it's probably the most impactful class I've ever taken, including everything I did at uni.

Look, I'm not saying I would rather be burnt alive than endure another fire drill walking downstairs from my 21st floor office - I'm just saying that it would be nice to be offered a choice

PETITION: Ask the Govt to back our future: - Fund a teacher aide in every class in Budget 2026 - Deliver fair pay & secure work to all educators — & restore pay equity - Protect te reo Māori as a taonga - Make ECE accessible, affordable, culturally appropriate & high quality for all tamariki

I don't know what it is about retired engineers, man, but they seem to make up a disproportionate number of scoffing online climate change sceptics. This is particularly noticeable on LinkedIn, where brainwormed Facebook escapees air their wildest opinions with their whole CV flapping in the breeze.

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

As an adult learner I used to be very nervous and embarrassed about my driving until I realised that, living in Lower Hutt, no one else here knows how to drive either, and they don't let that stop them

The headline really sells the content of this piece short. Jfc, what a mess.

Another cool fun time for NZ media I see

Join me in performative anger over people completely misunderstanding the concept of performativity

Actual footage of what it's like to work in brand social.

On reflection, this explains most of my childhood and personality

Hot tip for other Snapper users who have the memory of a concussed goldfish: you can use the app to check whether or not you remembered to tag on. Tapping a terminal again by mistake cancels your fare; tapping a third time just gets you a 'fare already paid' and won't actually let you tag back on.

Anti windfarm conspiracies are so funny-not-funny. Well-funded sinister lobbying campaign, constantly emits noise at 50-75db, causes lung cancer and other ailments, kills a steady stream of people and animals in violent accidents...sure you're not just thinking of cars, bro? lol

I'm gonna be sick www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/i... (Unpaywalled version: archive.ph/jurAF)

There are many good & necessary criticisms of the transition to renewable energy & electrification. There are also many bad types of criticism, one of which – I'm sorry to say – is the focus here for @newsroom.co.nz Come for energy politics, stay for Hannah Arendt! newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/22/n...

feeling bored and cruel, I spend the afternoon tormenting my gen Z colleague by translating Romeo and Juliet into brainrot. she hates this exactly as much as you'd expect.

Do you remember "Resistance Kiwi"? In mid-2024, Resistance Kiwi's website (pictured) disappeared. Inflection Point (the anti-trans conference), Better Wellington, and Ray Chung's website appeared in its place. In April 2025, they were moved to a new server and Independent Together was added.

We are in a social media recession! Engagement is down across the board! There are industry think-pieces about it! I don't know if you've noticed, but being online now is like receiving a thousand papercuts and then misted with lemon juice!! Turns out people Don't Like That!!!

I'm really concerned about the local govt elections this year & a coordinated push to infiltrate councils around NZ. ACT publicly intends to field more candidates, but there are also undisclosed close ties between various low-rates 'independents,' climate sceptics, anti vaxxers, anti 3 Waters, etc.

If you can stomach it, scratching the surface on the Better Wellington FB account immediately lands you in a network of aligned astroturf 'Concerned Ratepayers' orgs from around NZ all sharing suspiciously consistent content (including a climate change disinfo documentary from Reality Check Radio)