New from me: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground. The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...

Shout out to Marc who from memory was about the only reporter I saw hammering this point back in 2023

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

So I guess Rimmer is dictating our foreign policy as well as our domestic policy. If we want to change this, we need to change the regime.

Siri, how much do politicians get paid to be pro-Israel

charlie kirk is MLK. camera is hamas. chair is astronaut. baby is stove. yawn is owl.

on the one hand, this sounds like it won't raise enough money for them to fund meaningful tax relief for the people struggling the most with the cost of living, but on the other it will be ruthlessly attacked and exploited by their political opponents

Don’t watch the Charlie Kirk video. That’s my advice.

Nailed it

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

spull hum spull hum spull hum! spull hum! spull hum!! spull hum!! SPULL HUM!! SPULL HUM!!

kind of nostalgic for the days when garner or gower would be leading on 3 news talking about how this poll is a bazooka hitting the national party and then chasing some poor innocent backbencher down a stairwell

Labour-Greens very close to having the numbers If TPM aren’t needed, the normies will turn

fewer bus depots more bus despots the age of Ratepayer is over now is the time of Transport Tsars

evergreen post:

I love the bridge but it's a great representation of Wellington's malaise: faded glory that once expressed something vital about the city's identity, but now just costs a fortune to do a bad job when the money could be better spent on 100 other things www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/city-to-s...

So, ah, quick request

Not a void at all~ I love this! Thanks

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?

Last night I made a Turkish spiral pie / borek in 12 easy steps Today I learnt that all 12 steps are actually Hamas Thanks for the heads-up, Bibi

Massive argument on my train in Melbourne. White Nationalists shit-talking, blaming migrants for every problem. Muslim girl asked “So are immigrants the reason you’re fat?” Hilarity ensued.

Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation

instead of making up a guy to get mad at I have chosen to make up an ideological purity test no one can pass

My favourite meme on this one (stolen from someone here):

Absolute scorcher of an op-ed

hello and welcome to your first day of standing normal lessons

Lol at a Nat MP thanking his colleague for a patsy question hahaha Literally "Thank you for that Patsy"

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Always a RT for "Huckery Moll"

Hell yeah Chippy, defend that shit. NZ handled COVID better than most of the world, and we should be proud of it

It's like having a PHD professor in your pocket

Vote yes to keep Māori Wards

Hooton has typically been solid on this stuff, which is why he is persona non grata within the current populist-right movement in ascendance And in this case he's just adhering to the orthodox ACT party line from 2004

In Bali, at a cooking class, talking about food. White South African says "We have a great chocolate in South Africa. It's called Top Deck. It's got the white on top and the brown on the bottom." 7 kiwis make a very subtle wince and look away in 7 different directions

If you ever wanted proof we don't know who submits stuff and have no way of finding out, it's this, because if we knew we would block you.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

that soup will be delish, I want some

At some level it’s hilarious that David Seymour is essentially the thing he hates the most - the bureaucrat stereotype of his imagination. He obsesses over petty things, setting up an entire wasteful ministry in pursuit of imagined waste, creates busy work, pushes his ideology into law …

me, crawling into the ER, bleeding profusely and gasping for air: help ER nurse, not looking up, tapping the QR code on the side of a gurney: have you downloaded the app

My standing views on RUC replacing fuel excise: basically good and sane but with much potential for shitfuckery

I was affected by the Qantas data breach last month. 2 bank cards lost, 2 different results. 1. Wise: lost $0 cos they use 2FA - I hit "Deny". 2. Kiwibank: lost over $200 cos they don't use 2FA. Kiwibank say "sorry we don't offer that service" Laaaaaaaaaaaame

The country has been "turning the corner" (according to C Luxon) for so long because it's circling the drain #nzpol

Mad Men, Fleabag, Please Like Me, and then probably Euphoria?

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

This is one where I wonder if his Aussie background contributes; when you grow up with compulsory voting and an always extended process for a final preference count (especially in the Senate), the alleged concerns about speed & cavalierness about letting people vote must seem absurd (& they are).

Luke Malpass (?!) gets it (?!!). www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...