A badge for my American expat friends:

definitely a good evening to do something cosy before waking up to whatever insane fuckery tomorrow brings

Do yourself a favor and get familiar with the conceit of accelerationism.

the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

wow you can scroll back through Bluesky this afternoon and see where the tone changed like a tidemark

me listening to new music that uses mp3 compression as a nostalgic lo-fi filter: thanks I hate it

The world is being held hostage by vain old men who can’t see past the end of their own lifespans, of course the current discourse is infuriating

“Hurricane” is Cruz’s secretary, who looked at the schedule and said “Christopher who?”

Just discovered an unopened chilled energy drink by the side of the road near my house. This is obviously a test.

Astounding victory predicted for UK Labour, can’t wait to see what they’ll fail to do with it.

the FSU is really doing us a service by gathering together the absolutely worst people in the country and giving them a logo

over the next four months we’re going to see the US slide faster and faster down a smooth ceramic slope, scrabble briefly and desperately on the edge, then plunge into a dark, unknown future.

If you’re keeping track of the United States, today is the day the boat cracks in half and half of it points up towards the sky.

Somewhere, Nixon is growling “You jammy, jammy, bastard”

Nice try, Torvill and Dean.

Watching the brain-numbingly earnest coverage before the US presidential debate starts is convincing me that voting in the American election is way too important to be left to actual Americans.

gonna head down the road to this later #Matariki

Just a little repost for the fam 😎

I picked up JC’s ashes today and now I’m staring at the world’s saddest little box.

Did she shout “MOVE YER BLOOMIN’ ARSE” at Ascot?

To raise money for my Pasifika Group at school (for costumes), we are running a raffle. Each raffle is limited to 100 tickets and there are 2. The winner receives a piece of my art (pieces below) of their choice, normally $295 each for the small size. Tickets are $5. If you are interested DM me.

Ōtaki’s weekly “appear in the news headlines for a non-stupid reason” challenge failure.

It’s cold today, so he’s going to do his damnedest to sit on me for the next 11 hours.

🚨AoNZ relevancy klaxon 🚨

Went for a walk along Tasman Rd, a 2km straight line through Ōtaki’s dairy fields, and there was a guy behind me walking his ex-racing greyhound, so every couple of minutes 30kg of pure joy would blat past me in the dark at 60km/h 🐕💨

Maipi-Clarke is very much a voice of the future, stranded in a continuously-disappointing present. She makes everyone else sound antiquated whenever she opens her mouth. #NZpol

What I'm wearing for the revolution

Peters criticising Hipkins for being low-energy is a bit much, dude sounds like he's in an iron lung.

Budget Day is a celebration of the aspects of the NZ character I like the least; smug, anti-intellectual, self-righteous, gleeful punching down. A git bacchanalia.

I now have a Pavlovian reaction to Seymour, he opens his mouth and I think "you smuuuuuuug cuuuuunt"

Admittedly, this is a fantastic budget if you're a multimillionaire landlord who doesn't expect to be alive in 20 years. #NZpol

Keep up, everyone! #NZPol

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Thursday mood:

I was a top English student in NZ, but then spent 2 years in a US curriculum where the grammar kicked my arse. It’s actually surprisingly useful to know.

The 3 budget questions today: “What large amount of money am I getting that I don’t really need?” “What small amount of money am I getting that I desperately need?” “What large amount of my small amount of money is being taken away from me to pay for that first one?”

The worst thing about making records is having to shamelessly promote them so it seems worthwhile. Anyway, here's all the streaming/download links for my new Anecdata album 'Obsolete' in one place. hyperfollow.com/anecdata

Me reading any news whatsoever in 2024:

When I had a national platform for my half-baked reckons, my chief considerations were “Is this spelt correctly, and does it make me look cool?” Now they would be “Does this make me a useful idiot, and can it be weaponised to hurt people?”

Two days and no DMs? Where’s my horny Bluesky at?

A spittingly fizzy and furious album about here and now:

googling “when you turn the lights on suddenly do cats know it’s you and do they hold grudges”

scrolling the Guardian and briefly thinking that the world had become a safer place:

If I'd gone through what the UK has gone through in the past decade, I'd probably put musical numbers in Doctor Who, too.

I’m not saying 2024 is cursed or anything, but it looks like now is a good time to stockpile chocolate. 🍫

ME: well I missed the aurora but at least it wasn’t visible in Ōtaki - I haven’t seen any photos. (is immediately sent Ōtaki photos)

I WAS UNDER A CAT 😾

I would’ve gone outside to look at the aurora, but I’m currently under a cat.

I have a joke about Sisyphus, but it’s a bit repetitive

Obviously this isn't where AoNZ is at (it would take a Brexit-sized self-inflicted catastrophe and decades of consistent institutional rot), but it's where the people with their hands currently on the wheel are steering us.