What do you call one member of the royal family in handcuffs? A good start.

Sending your scheming younger brother to the oubliette... Camilla and his spymaster must have decent intrigue stats because I don't think Chuck could do that on his own.

22 year-old me is screaming, crying, throwing up.

Turns out the rest of the viral Tiktok song clip that has been rending my soul for the last month (Drag Path) is mid. Many such cases.

There's a nice "all men are brothers" vibe to Lent and Ramadan syncing up.

"Is Merzbow haram" could possibly be the most Birmingham question ever asked

Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown. businessdesk.co.nz/article/prim...

One of these days I'm going to crack and do a dunk thread on all the garbage electricity price take I see on here so sorry in advance if you're the one who sets me off.

The Reality Check Radio billboards that litter the entirety of SH1 didn't pay for themselves.

Bad weekend for the pohutukawa.

It's funny how obvious this is and depressing how well it always works.

Jamaican bobsled team!

Greens popped +4% in the latest poll. Did someone commit a crime? Fran call the speaker a slur or something?

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Something might happen.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Up th Landers

Beers

I think probably my most blackpilled belief is that not enough of the western middle class realise how disposal we are. Your continued flourishing or existence is no longer necessary to the functioning of global capital.

No we won't. They're leaving because there's no market for their skills here. These are functions we are just not going to perform.

Let me preface this by saying in general I think hydrogen is a bullshit technology: maybe we should chuck some electrolisers in.

Mountain Goats and the Blues/Hurricanes game the same night.

There are Bolsonaros everywhere for those with eyes to see them.

Knowledge isn't power. Power is power. That GoT bit is hack, but it's relevant. It's the thing people who "trust the science" miss. The science only tangentially matters.

The recession will be experienced primarily as a series of faux-optimistic, desperation-laden LinkedIn posts until you're the one hitting the post button.

Beers

Why do people on LinkedIn all talk like that? Do they have a class on it in MBA programmes or something?

I'm slightly more pursuaded than I was yesterday but still not much. I kind of forgot how big e3p (the Huntly gas-only unit, 400MW) is relative to the Rankines (750MW all up). So yeah the terminal would cap that (and the peakers, although I'd back batteries and demand response over them).

Domestic gas prices are going to trend towards intentional ones with or without LNG. All an import terminal can do is stop them there.

A second super over. Must be nice.

Oh no GeoWizard.

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I still can't really see what problem the LNG import terminal solves. The Rankines on coal already cap the firming price ($~$200) at less than LNG (~$400). Even diesel is cheaper than that and we already have the import facilities.

SMELLS!?

Finally, some good fucking content.

Dear Mr ICC president, there are too many world cups these days. Please eliminate two. I am not a crank.

"Oh a charming book about the history of Wellington's streets. I wonder what it has to say about our block..."

The 2026 reading list thread that yet again no one asked for.

DONT POINT THAT LATHE AT US YOU CANUCK BASTARD

Death Camp For Cutie over here

How do you do, fellow queers and mean straight women?

One German tradition we should adopt is the tradition of naming coalition arrangements: 🇧🇸🇺🇦🇧🇼🇦🇱🇰🇪🇧🇫

The overlap of the Starlink maxies and AI maxies I have to deal with is basically a circle. So on a long enough timeline this could be incredibly validating for me.

I'm sorry but I can't muster up a partisan angle to the drivers license changes. We don't need to bark at every car just because it's blue.

Bad thing about slick concrete is it's like riding on an ice rink. Good thing about slick concrete is it's also like crashing on an ice rink.

This popping up on my feed while I'm on a rant about borders is... something.

People are reacting to the Miller tweet but this phenomenon - a subaltern population inside the domestic labour market but outside the political community - exists across the developed world. He's just being more racist about it and letting the mask slip.

Canva have finally completely fucked Flourish. Godamnit.