"Your own... Personal... Hater. Someone to give you fears Someone who sneers" (sung in either Depeche Mode or Johnny Cash depending on your preference)

wednesday mornings :(

And this is how I found out about Richard Chamberlain

Has this government said or done anything about the invasive hornets? All I see is community action.

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!

At an antiques shop in Ahuriri. Good luck convincing people that this lady is into "art deco"

Went to the launch of the "Diane Prince: Activist Artist" event at Hastings Art Gallery today, there's an Artist Kōrero tomorrow at 11am if you're in the area. You get to walk on the NZ Flag if that's your thing 😊

The last day of my week in Hawke's Bay 💚 The food, the wine, the people, the weather, the history, the aquarium: lovely. The drivers: Jesus fucking christ? What the fuck. The amount of people taking stupid bullshit risks because they want to shave exactly two seconds off their journey. Holy god.

My entire life I've been mishearing "there's gonna be a heartache tonight" as "there's gonna be a party tonight". I thought it was a party song. To be fair, the entire rest of the lyrics align perfectly with how I had misheard the title of the song.

I think I have grown tired of having long hair. I keep thinking I might do something interesting with it but interesting things always require effort and it turns out I don't have any of that. Does anyone in Pōneke have a recommendation for a good hairdresser who is safe for an agender person?

Oh am I supposed to read what Nicola Willis has to say about a Capital Gains Tax? Hmm how about I don't do that. How about I don't do that at all.

What's it like inside your head?

Share a picture of the next President of the United States of America.

I am weeping. I am supporting nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...

NZ Bluesky: I'm scared of going outside today because I might get blown away US Bluesky, not understanding: Oh wow gun violence must be really bad down there

Someone just said something to me as they ran past but all I heard was "(inaudible) (inaudible) windy (inaudible)"

This wind in Wellington has ridiculous stamina

Some days all posts have a Theme.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand and a former tobacco lobbyist gave a press conference today. The former tobacco lobbyist commented that the Mount Victoria Tunnel opened in 1931 and the Prime Minister laughed at this even though there was no obvious joke. He was sneering for the sake of sneering.

Random question but is there a way to physically disable PayWave on a card? I bought an expensive meal this evening and was trying to avoid the PayWave surcharge but the machine detected the chip on my card and charged me the surcharge anyway. I'm a bit pissed off about it.

These new US Govt accounts on Bluesky are so weird? They'll have names like "American Librarian Association" and you'll be thinking "at least librarians are normal?" but then the profile banner will be a librarian with an AK-47 and it'll drawn by AI in the style of a soviet propaganda poster.

Sadly the final results are in and WCC has to Ray Chung again for the next three years 😭

I'm same. We retained the Māori wards. My first two picks for Pukehīnau ward got in, outnumbering the third councillor for that ward. I'm still unimpressed by some of the remarks made by the new mayor but he was my second choice. And the GWRC candidates who got in were mostly most of my top pics.

I'm been working on this novel for a few years, I've set it in New Plymouth because it's a mid-sized, isolated, North Island town which suits the story. Also I like Pukekura Park. After the results of the Māori ward referendum I'm thinking of changing the location, perhaps to Gisborne? Because 💅

About to go into a film (One Battle After Another) and when I come out there will be some Local Body Election results (One Battle After Another)

I am sorry but the order of my gobe just should not concren these people

Yup. He's also truly responsible for the occupation at parliament, if we follow the same standards he applies to Chlöe. If he wants to play this game he is going to lose so badly.

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

I love when they wind up Gerry

I'm pretty sure the Bluesky community alone would be willing to crowdfund the value of this awesome painting.

ralph wiggam dot gif government

I am so done with this bullshit. NZ First mingled with a crowd who set fire to the grounds of parliament. The Greens marched with a hīkoi that did not leave a scrap of litter on those same grounds.

They're really trying to Charlie Kirk this brick through Winston Peters' window, eh? Diminish the actual weight of incident by making it into the fault of whoever they feel like discrediting at the time, while failing to reflect on how their own behaviour might have ever incited violence.

Fun fact: When I was 18-19 I had extremely little real world experience and would have been easily exploited by unscrupulous business owners. Luxon telling teenagers to leave their support networks and go be transient gig workers is extremely Luxon.

Path #1: "The economy isn't that bad" Path #2: "The economy is in a state, but it isn't Willis' fault" Is this some kind of pick-a-path adventure? Because if it is, like, you've actually got to pick a path.

I am at the "periodically checking my enrolment details" stage of distrust for this government. And yes it is the government rather than the electoral commission that I distrust. The commission had always been fine until this government came along and suddenly leftist voters started having issues.

What the shit! Preventing people from voting outside their electorate?!? The fact that they were even CONSIDERING this idea, even if they never pursued it, shows how little they care about democracy. They will fuck up any shit they can in order to stay in charge. Sorry about ranty but livid 😡

#BHN #BREAKING Special #LIVE episode at 3.30pm today with @maramadavidson.bsky.social on the decision not to recognise Palestine. Link to show shortly Livestreaming Twitter, YouTube and Facebook #share #nzpol #nzpolitics @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social

Pretty sure our elite finance team will make the correct decisions here.

Hot take maybe but the way we have historically done things in Aotearoa has been a bit shit so maybe we need someone to come in from outside and say "holy fuck why is there a power point in the bath tub?"

Mood of the boardroom #nzpol

When I am driving in a car and I encounter a speed bump I slow down and then I go over it and then I speed up again. I do not think about the speed bump at all. There could be three speed bumps in a row and I would give them literally no thought. Speed bumps just do not live rent free in my head.

Can't wait for the Rain App Wrapped notification at the end of the year. "This year you spent 47 hours listening to Rain Rain Original to block out office conversations so you could concentrate"

Slightly downgrade a band Alien Cutlery

Me after you all get raptured

What movie do you consider “perfect?”

Bingeing Disney+ content before my cancelled subscription expires. Just finished a rewatch of Rogue One after completing the Andor series. No on to Alien: Earth. I know I say this every time, but this is my last time subscribing to Disney+.

Someone did a factory reset on the Menswear Guy?

Awkward moment at the train station when I saw people handing out the flyer on the right and initially ignored them when they approached me because I saw the colours and assumed they were associated with the people who gave me the flyer on the left 😬 (they clarified that they are definitely not!)