Just picked up on this story. Last week Poland closed its Belarusian border crossings in retaliation for aggressive and illegal Russian tactics in Polish airspace. In doing so, it's having a huge impact on China-EU trade, via China's Belt & Road railway. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Goddamned Govt couldn't deliver a pizza.

People will tell you Myanmar and New Zealand have little in common but in fact they're two of just a few world nations that don't recognise the State of Palestine

Nothing new will get built this side of the 2026 election. No-one's coming back from Oz to build them. THREE WASTED YEARS & a lost generation of tradies, just to fund landlord tax cuts.

What a frickin' shitshow. If these idiots had even a milligram of self respect* they'd resign en masse. *they don't

Oooh, I like this. open.spotify.com/track/0bmDpM...

Aura vanished?? Can’t remember headlines like this when the mighty ABs lost many and varied world cups.

Think I may have posted this earlier...but...it's a wonderful insight into playing on stage. Also Mohini's improvisation & virtuosity obv. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ2P...

Love the song, but this clip really needs to be seen to be believed! youtu.be/CH3rx8LhrQo?...

This seems...fair.

Twenty two years ago... OMG youtu.be/1XGrEWNcbso?...

In the footsteps of the absolute peerless Jan Morris. Coz fuck transphobes. www.theguardian.com/books/booksb...

Pure silk. youtu.be/WNnb1NfLrK4?...

The Herald may have cut its science reporter, but thank god the speed bump beat is still fully staffed

"The mainstream media... is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." - ‪George Monbiot‬ Amen, brother. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 Strong Wind Warning - Red Canterbury NZ 10pm Sat, 20 Sep - 3pm Sun, 21 Sep 🚨Threat to life. Stay indoors. Avoid travel. Be ready for power and communication outages. 🔋Charge your devices 🪢Tie down anything you don’t want airborne! 📝 Details here for this and other affected areas

Never occured to me Marvin was playing those piano notes on the album. Also the congas on this rendition...sublime. youtu.be/Y9KC7uhMY9s?...

OMG a Hynde/Lang duet? Simply beautiful. youtu.be/u57Lwt162Io?...

Love this! (Watch the clip for a couple of secs, obv)

At WINTEC from the 60s to the 90s, Māori trade trainee students (MTT) built dozens of transportable homes from scratch as part of their course, until the then govt decided it was a better idea for the market to do it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Outraged at paying seven bucks for a bloody croissant? Volare does a small version for $3.50 (which is actually just on the small side of a standard French croissant)!

Crazy how often we run out of beans on a Saturday morning. Morena Aotearoa! iykyk

Kirikiriroa post: Ex-food reviewer here and I can tell you Crust in Collingwood St has this city’s best pizza hands-down.

AliExpress has started using a Uber-like courier service for deliveries in Kirikiriroa. Called iMile. Looks as if the days of the NZPost vans are numbered?

KIRIRKIRIROA POST Bex’ super helpful candidate analysis FYI.

John Key says economy is on RBNZ (not Lab for once) - ignoring the ~30K jobs that this govt removed. Does Key and media who talk to him not understand fiscal policy? Or realise that the RBNZ's mandate is inflation? Nats picked up positive growth projection & no recession. They ruined it #nzpol

Outstanding.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Why aren't media interviewing Bernard Hickey? Why isn't he on TVNZ Q&A? Today John Key was saying it is the RBNZ's fault that the economy is where it is. Once again we have "journalists" and "financial commentators" ignoring fiscal policy & RBNZ mandate - and sidestepping these key questions. #nzpol

We were sold the notion economic growth was good coz it would give us all a better standard of living (& we could afford things like expensive health treatments etc), when in reality what we got was incredible wealth for a tiny group of people and increasing misery & precarity for the rest of us.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 170: Words matter. Words are the conduit for ideas. Words can affect the way your readers see the world; how they behave; how they relate to others. Every political movement, every religion, philosophy, war, began with ideas, translated into words. Use them wisely.

"75% of voters support poison drinking water and bursting sewage pipes."

I’m not sure how I feel about Kimmel’s replacement, tbh.

Another great news day for the Government.

Apropos of nothing, when is the Govt's next credit rating review due?

Oooh. That's a couple of UGLY graphs there.

Sidebar to this story: Using (& doctoring) an image of Dua Lipa without her consent is...pretty legal?

Congrats to Steven Joyce, that Canadian billionaire & the rest of the editorial team for keeping Roger Douglas' call for Nicola Willis to resign off the Herald home page. Not-good political news will simply not be tolerated at that paper until a centre-left Govt is back on the Treasury benches.

RESIGN??? Things are hotting up. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The way this Govt's heading, there's a fair chance in six months we'll look back on today's announcement of a 0-9% drop in GDP as 'the good times'. Gulp.

Amidst all the dire news of the day, let me warm things up a little by announcing I just heard a Pīpīwharauroa singing in the gully, back from its winter holiday in the Solomons or thereabouts. www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/shin...

#nzpol Must say the sub-heading about a "stumble" is wickedly misleading. Remember the warning from economists' open letter last November? As sure as night follows day, contractions follow austerity🤦‍♂️ 😥😠😡. Economy contracts sharply as GDP falls 0.9% in June quarter www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

On the other hand, Nicole Willis seems to have moved on from blaming the last Government for her run of recessionary quarters.

An absolute classic from last decade. #tewikiotereomāori youtu.be/j2LpG3Fkmwo?...

Absolutely dire economic mismanagement. This government has spent 2yrs faffing around with speed bumps & removing Māori words from government dept names while the economy crashes & we all get poorer. SNAP ELECTION NOW! www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Let's stop beating around the bush. A vote for National is a vote to destroy public housing.

Had lawns to do round at someone's house on the other side of Kirikiriroa this morning, and the sky out there was looking pretty damn' dark. Chucked everything in the ute regardless, drove round & knocked the bugger off in the space of 1/2 hr. Now an hour later the heavens are opening. RESULT.

7 minutes of fabulous, cheesy 1960s Rome from the British Pathé vaults. A gorgeous watch. youtu.be/ZonEH9afP3A?...

Pressure is building to exclude the Israel Premier Tech team from world tour cycling in 2026, after mass protests disrupted many stages of this year's la Vuelta a Espanā. At the very least, it looks as though the fate of next year's Vuelta could hinge on it.

Cheap(er) butter alert! The Warehouse has 500g blocks at $7.99 each, meaning the Duopoly *should* drop theirs soon. But it's 2 for $15 til the end of the month!