I don’t think I realized I had any latent Challenger trauma until right about now My kid’s like “neat!” and I’m like 🫣

Today, my children learned that nominal is a beautiful word.

Fonterra has just had to admit it broke the law around deceptive and misleading advertising with its claim that its butter is "100% NZ Grass Fed". They feed their cows millions of tonnes of palm kernel in fact. Here is the backstory to the case: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Why? It’s on the internet like my writing and art, so isn’t it free for everyone to take and use?

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10

If some foreign government came in for no reason but to disguise their own corruption and bombed my daughter to death in her school I would be radicalized forever and I would never give up trying to destroy them. I don’t think this will ever end.

*Me, after eating 17 cookies and half a cake* "I need something salty."

Every woman I know will zoom in to inspect a man’s tattoos when we browse a dating profile and I just think it’s funny that that means we’re more rigorous in our vetting process than the Dems are

Happy polio vaccine announcement anniversary. "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" remains one of the hardest remarks of all time. Kind of quote every child should be taught

❌ The whole world is doing it tough ❌ No, we are pretty much going it alone with our crush the economy and set ourselves back a decade or two strategy. Orr started it, Robertson helped it along, and then Willis doubled-down on stupid - letting let the TPU, Act and NZI loons call the shots. [Ends]

Current mood

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

Emphasis on the last point. I have spoken to numerous comrades crossing the border who hadn't scrubbed their devices or used a burner, and border authorities ended up accessing lots of information about others and mapping organizing networks off their phones. Don't do this to your comrades pls!

A fowl ball.

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

Nah if it's over like $200 it's a multiple tab, laptop purchase. For a flight I've got every airline up in a tab, Google flights, the Google doc where I'm keeping my itinerary, hotel info, Google maps, car rental sites. You ain't doing that all with apps and a tiny screen.

Again my election year promise to NZ media: you will get so much snacky viral brand-enhancing footage *your advertisers will vomit money at you* simply by asking our politicians, "is that true? What do you mean by that?" when they spoonfeed you their key messages You'll also be doing democracy good

Superman, of course, is tormented by the fact that he can only save a fraction of the people who need him despite his incredible powers. We can't save any of them, which I guess at least spares us the agony of having to choose.

That's the great thing about this whole era of human existence. We wished we could all be superheroes, so we got given one of Superman's iconic powers: the means to hear every plaintive cry for help anywhere on Earth.

I have a joke about [you do not have access to this joke through your institution] Buy this joke Purchase on SpringerLink Instant access to the full joke PDF. USD 39.95

I remember the joy of being part of the Team of Five Million and thinking that other people finally cared about protecting my health. With my chronic illness and weak immune system I’d been trying to avoid sick ppl for decades. 1/n

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

We structured a lot of the global economy on Iran permitting a narrow stretch of water to be used for transit and the US decided to fuck with them in a way which has revoked that permission. Incredible work.

I'm glad we went through all that pain from austerity and cost-cutting for fucking nothing. Just like every other time it's been tried by every other government. At some point we're going to need a government that is going to invest in the people that live here.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

"Daddy, can you show me photos of your dog on the day he died?" - Sure, thats totally a treasured memory I like to relive.

Gratifyingly, Unichem Willis St are slammed with booster vaccinations at present, need to book ahead. People are taking it seriously, even if the government isn't.

May I present the 2026 Champion California State Formation Napping team.

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

We stood together against anti-Palestinian racism and they cancelled our festival. So we organised our own. Very tired now, but very proud of Constellations! Great in depth coverage from Hannah Story here www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Meridian, Contact, Mercury and Genesis Energy are reporting record profits. Meanwhile, are your power bills any lower?

LG shitting the bed on their advertised 10 year warranty on this vacuum cleaner, trying to claim it is for parts only.

"Luxon hit back at Clark saying: 'What is disgraceful is a regime that kills its own people they way it has'." wow, can't believe Luxo has come out this hard against the US...

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan this bread is beautiful

Oh, fuck off, the USA. Everybody is so fucking sick of your shit. Just... fuck off.

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

"NZ condemns Tehran's retaliatory strikes..." I'm sorry, you fucking what? So glad we have a fundamentalist piece of shit who thinks he's gonna get "saved" along with the 12 tribes of Israel, in charge of our country. #nzpol

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer. Nope.

Evil is getting free reign to make the war they lust over right now. There's no such thing as a preemptive strike on a school full of children. Nobody believes this do they? Their bullshit is horrific.

I just got to the part where he says that Iran has resisted every attempt to get them to give up their nuclear program, and I have to say: HELL NO. They signed a deal. Trump tore it up. Never forget this.

Fuck Israel and fuck the United States of America

Not military action, illegal act of war.

Nothing makes you wish you had just stuck to making square stuff like a compound cut:

This is Beau. He is a textbook example of a golden retriever. They really will try to be friends with anyone. 13/10 for both (IG: beaugoesoutside)

Oh my god what did he do

Govt: we're giving every town cop the ability to issue a "move on order" to the homeless Me: MOVE THEM ON TO WHERE, NATIONAL, FUCKING SPACE?