Email 1 to Steve Abel. Green.

This gardener still generates their Lovecraftian AI horrors the old fashioned way.

It's not that Olsen is wrong, it's that this is a take so obvious that it's barely interesting.

"How many owls would you need to see before you get suspicious" but it's "how many comedians would you need to see before you remember the comedy festival is on?"

Silly side diversion from a project I'm working on. NZ "street" by name type (🔵Road, 🔴Street, 🟢Other).

CALLING INTO 0900 404040: hey beautiful what are you wearing? BABE: just a thong baby. ME: just a thong? BABE: yeah baby. ME: Where's your fucking Pink Shirt?

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

Wes Streeting is a slimy bigot and I can think of no better punishment for his treachery than being forced to be Prime Minister of the UK.

What if instead of local authority amalgamation we decided to split the country into an HRE-style chaotic mess of counties and metros?

Hot girls spend their Friday nights yelling at the council.

Rotating the idea of a Woodhouse/Mowbray/Horncastle podcast on my mind.

I also just want to note, as it seems to have gone unnoticed by many the FSU invited Peter Boghossian for an event & he's making videos here, including one in Wellington where he lined up white guys to ask what they think the cultural impact of 1 million 'islamists' moving to NZ would be on women

Everyone gets religious before they die.

I struggle to give a shit about the BSA sorry. Only argument I can see is sort of by analogy to consumer law. Defamation instead of the CGA for most things, and [insert entity here] for broader breaches in the public interest in the role of Comcom.

Citizenship test but people get to choose whether they do a woke version (Y10 social studies curriculum) or the unwoke version (name every All Blacks captain in order).

Malicious compliance with the OIA to embarrass your rivals without being accused of leaking is a dogcunt move but also genius. Regrettably have to hand it to him.

LLMs are likely going to be the mediating lens through which large swathes of the population make sense of the world around them on political issues, & it's very bad that a man who has a strong case for being one of the worst people alive is one of the few to be actively trying to exploit this

Feel compelled to give Maiki Sherman an f-slur pass purely out of negative solidarity against Ani.

The state of the office shared lunch in this economy:

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

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Aging millennial troll watching the kids do Church of Scientology speedruns, a single tear rolling down his V for Vendetta mask.

And the shooting is one component of these abnormal times. When concentration camps and extrajudicial murders and kidnapping heads of states and random wars are understood as "bad but legitimately political decisions", you can't expect assassination attempts to be treat as aberrant in the usual way.

The writers also missed this evening imo. Given his political run began at the correspondents dinner where Obama mocked him, ending the main arc of the story there makes sense too.

We still only have to be right once.

Trying to win back NZF voters by crowding in on Winston's "throwing a hissy at the media" territory.

How trade agreements (after the breakdown of the Doha Round) increasingly incorporated provisions regulating domestic conduct (rather than trade) that required domestic legislation that governments were largely unable to pass, undermining either the treaty-making process or democratic legitimacy.

Seeking a declaratory judgement from the FMA to get Robux classified as a security.

Do nothing. Win.

We probably need better public education about how disaster response works because everyone seems to think "declaring a state of emergency" is a communication to the public that a bad thing is going to happen.

Do nothing. Win.

Exactly one year ago today:

Two parties lead by Chrises, and whichever knifes theirs first wins the election.

Rocking up and setting up a farm on someone else's land then using legal trickery to stay there is definitional pākehā culture. Like it's our whole thing. www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...

Idk, I think a couple who have knowingly chosen "No Children" as 'our song' are dying in the same bed aged 85. That kind of shared perversity can endure anything.

Starting a Give-a-Little fundraiser to buy Meow Nui some ceiling fans.

"Hurricanes beat Auckland" headlining both the news and sports sections of the Sunday papers.

The Mountain Goats watching the New Years Day playcount spike for "This Year" get slightly smaller every year, year after year.

Do any of you nerds have experience with getting data out of Metro Canterbury's API? All I want is a simple static GTFS zip which the other providers all just have on their website.

No this is incorrect. Leo (like Mamdani) has the sauce. And on top of that, no one does gilded aurafarming like the Church. One audience from the Chair of St Peter and Trump is going to convert.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Good news: we generate 3x that much per capita across all our renewable sources.

Can someone explain me the argument for bringing back the Alliance as an independent left party? Is there more to it than "the Greens are annoying"?

They've placed a bet on the airgap closing before Singapore and Korea reneg on their delivery commitments. So far that bet seems to be paying off. So far.

San Francisco, by a significant margin. I would say Frankfurt but it was just dull. London probably third, kind of combined the worst of the other two (and worse still was filled with English people) but also had enough residual weirdness and faded imperial aura to at least entertain for a day.