Fifteen of the 20 largest metro systems in the world are in China, including nine of the top 10 London? 15th New York? 16th Tokyo? 22nd

Turned out stupidly tender and flavoursome. Could've been a bit rarer - maybe mid 40s?

Meat post warming! À piece of venison blackstrap, weka-ed by the boy on a trip to ohakune last weekend. Barbecued to 49c. This could be epic.

Rating "Welcome Home" above "Be Mine Tonight" on the top 100 Waiata list? We'll just have to agree to disagree on that one

Soooo so many of us right now.

OMFG

MBAPPE!!!! #FRAvMAR

Big day in the Pyrenees tomorrow. Did someone say Tourmalet? #tourdefrance #bikesky

Found this live version from 2007, which is warts-and-all even better than the original recording. Remarkably good actually. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tMl...

Not a lot of visual action in this YT video, but what a goddamn musical masterpiece! Flooding our lounge rn www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBoh...

You really should watch this. And for "Britain", think "Aotearoa". www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPeP...

Art question 🎨 What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favorite. The one that lingered. [source: wikipedia/public domain]

Forget robo-mowers. Here's the Luxon wonder-tool!

The Tour de France is travelling through the parched countryside south of Toulouse today. Sustained periods of temperatures like these are the new normal in the South west in summer. #bikesky

Any New Zealand media covering this today? We are worst performing in the oecd and there’s no reporting on it?

Where's Davey? ACT is now polling in the doldrums and despite all those billionaire donors there seems no way out. Seymour has become pure poison for the party. What other possible explanation can there be for leaving him off this announcement? ACT is is BIG trouble, and we love to see it.

"(Football) feels like a shared first language." Mamdani nails it in a conversation about football with Gary LIneker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6G...

Unless you're a billionaire, or a mining company, or a tax-evading *landlord*, this Govt can't do anything for you. Unless you count punishing beneficiaries, poor brown people & immigrants as "doing something for you"

Whoah!!!!

Halp me I’ve fallen down the Robert Glasper worm hole again! youtu.be/Mi0oAKOKQUo?...

A whole lot of former Guardian subs turning in their graves over this mealy-mouthed headline...

Kirikiriroa meat post! TIL Greenlea sells direct to the public, and this is very good news for carnivores. They are an excellent butcher, based in Kahikatea Drive, OK with pickups, and very good value (eg skirt steak for 21 bucks!) greenleabutcher.co.nz

Just how fucked up are we to be ~14% *worse off* than post brexit austerity clusterfuck lettuce lead United Kingdom? #nzpol

Pretty sure the answer to this question is "yes, if they want to."

Ryan's spot-on. Labour's policies are beginning to stack up, and we're still more than 4 months out from the election.

Skirt steak and barbecue roast potatoes for dinner. The perfect diversion for a beautiful still clear Kirikiriroa evening like this.

The seriousness - and nature - of the serial revelations surrounding the ever-growing list of senior members of NZ Police are beginning to beg an obvious question: are they part of a wider conspiracy of sex-offenders within the force? A Royal Commission would remove doubt - or otherwise.

Third release of the top 100 waiata and honestly can't believe the quality of the songs that are ranked down the list. I mean, check these out!

"Hey Siri, what's the opposite of an inspiring speech?" www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Jeezus the tensions and emotions in this FIFA World Cup and we haven't even reached the quarter finals! #ARGvEGY

First-hand accounts of living with the rock band Dragon in 1970s Grey Lynn and the subsequent spiral into heroin addiction.

WTAF

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Shocking story. And one hell of a get from PP.

The coming plague of hydrocarbon-powered AI data centres is only going to turbocharge climate change. www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...

The number of headlines over the past 12 months about Police misconduct/corruption/criminality has been simply astonishing. This is more than a crisis. It's an epidemic.

Watching #BELvsUSA and being reminded how Americans are the absolute worst crowds.

Oops. Forgot to post the Senator's original comments.

The Paraguayans played dirty against France yesterday. Now one of its Senators shows her true - and repulsively racist - colours. Absolutely despicable.

Spain's ball retention & tackling skills seemed to have left the building... #ESPvsPOR

It's almost as if the Nats are floating this idea to get the Bill dumped. Also, there seems to be some confusion in the article. Not sure whether VPNs are officially *banned* in China, but everyone uses them nevertheless. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

TLDR Hamilton’s CBD is rooted. Meanwhile the usual pro-Govt cheerleaders are saying good times are just round the corner based on feels. www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Buried under the headline is a quite interesting think piece on how much the EU has been changed by Covid, Ukraine and trump. I don’t think it was the writer’s intention but it paints the UK as a lonely & vulnerable place right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Look I'm sure this isn't going to lead to even more planet warming & EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE JUST FIIIINE.

YOU LITERALLY VOTED TO CANCEL 33 PAY EQUITY CLAIMS. YOUR VOTE SCREWED OVER 150,000 - 180,000 WOMEN. GET ABSOLUTELY F*KED WITH YOUR "CONVERSATION" BIZZO

Getting quite excited at the prospect of cycling South Korea. There's a 600km cross-country route from Incheon (Seoul's airport) to Busan in the south & it's mostly rural & follows rivers and there are MILES of cherry blossom in Spring & the food looks AMAZE & there are 7Elevens &&&!!!

Doing a lot of SBS TV at the mo (free Tour de France/ FIFA World Cup coverage, plus free VPN with firefox) and Aotearoa, you don't know what you're missing not having a public broadcaster that's worth the name. sbs.com.au

One of the best RNZ POLS segments I've heard for a while.

Lorde! If England manage to hold on amidst this relentless Mexico onslaught thet'll deserve their win. #MEXvsENG