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You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

Ever since they started doing the woke football stickers in the UK this has been stuck in my head so hopefully posting gets it out.

An important thing to remember is that in the 2000s IB and Cambridge weren't just sold to parents as luxury consumption markers, they were also sold to the kids as a status symbols. Suggesting that NCEA is mostly fine is an identity threat.

Overarching NZ pol history theory I want to test: Tomorrow's Schools, DHBs, and local governments are all hangovers of an aborted neoliberal revolution.

I've gone through the 1335 candidate nominations that electionz have on their website for NZ local government. Some interesting stuff 🧵 #nzpol

He'd be so good at just being a ceremonial President. Hell it's a shame Malania can't be President so he can be First Gentleman.

Things in NZ are so dire you can't even get a train run on you, gotta get a rail-replacement bus run on you instead.

I could also add "BBC News" to this I guess.

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Fwiw, I do not think this is what Tim Berners Lee had in mind

Heather I'm not going to hold your hand while I say this (because I know where it's been) but: we're not getting the pension. There's not going to be anything left.

Whichever Blues forward was holding on at the bottom of that final ruck:

Vance did National a favour with that column. Only interesting question is whether it was intentional.

Fuckin around with the forsaken sigils again.

PACK WATCH

The median Canadian voter:

Helen Clark and Don Brash teaming up to remind us of the importance of the China trade relationship like your divorced parents setting aside their differences to stage an intervention for you.

Okay but could hench Olly Murs beat a silverback gorilla in a fight?

Catholic highschool doing "model conclave" as an alternative to model UN to channel nerds into the priesthood.

Idk what (if anything, at this point) is in his heart. But he's always been a bigot. Best guess is he's being piloted "Weekend at Bernie's" style by a TERF embedded in his office, but idgas. Fuck him.

alright, we're at the biscuit tin stage rather than a full reading, but I think it's entirely fair to say: start mobilising people and resources now, because if this thing actually goes to Parl we're going to need to make the same noise we did for Treaty Principles, nē?

RNZ and the Herald emanating a lot of TERF particles is a problem, but I still think "KEEP WINSTON OUT OF OUR UNDERWEAR" is a compelling counter argument even for normies.

Good of Francis to wait until Easter. Wouldn't want to die on Good Friday and upstage the boss.

Every time this auto-captioned video pops up in my feed it cracks me up.

>38 followers Lmao.

Fuck the UK Supreme Court. All my homies hate the UK Supreme Court.

Pub is playing Neutral Milk Hotel and what if I quit my job and went to get shot in a ditch with the International Brigades in the US?

He'll just promise more-or-less Whanau's platform while being a white dude that The Post is on speaking terms with.

Generous social spending is a reward for being a developed country. Sprinkles are for winners.

We need to invest in a machine that can divert this to the catchments of the hydro lakes.

That interview might have convinced me to uncancel my Herald subscription.

Andrew Little announces two core policies: eating cake, having it too.

1News having the leader of the Women's Rights Party on to talk about the "pregnant people" issue is an example of false balance The WRP got 2,500 votes in the 2003 election (00.8%), the census that same year showed there are 26,000 transgender people in Aotearoa

If you want some good political news, my center-left boomer aunt-in-law from Karori reckons she'll vote for Tory largely out of spite, so I'm calling that a win.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

All the Robert Irwin discourse has just given me the realisation that a non-zero percentage of our mums must've wanted to bang Steve Irwin.

Shihad retiring is a sign that we should abolish daylight saving and stay on summer time permanently.

But at least they're *American made* stoves right? Right??

Okay but Niue isn't on the tariff list someone get McClay and Peters on the line I've got an idea.

Just remember when you're doing a trade war this is who you're imposing tariffs on uwu

This seems like the most on-brand thing for the Economist to do??

Petition to the Telecommunications Commissioner to make all our phones play the "Goodnight Kiwi" video at 11pm then switch social media off for the night.

EECA should use this in their promotional materials.

I assume those count as votes for Dutton if they're cast in Dickson.

Remember when NZ First was about getting a fair deal for the common bloke? Winston Peters must be rolling in his grave seeing the party he built get captured by foreign culture wars, big business, and conspiracy theorists.

White people do know what it feels like to be uncomfortable around police. Just ask them how they feel when a cop car is behind them on the open road when they'd rather be doing 130km/h.

Hayao Miyazaki coming out of retirement again to beat Sam Altman to death with his bare hands.