Apparently Peter Thiel has a stake in Xero. Good grief. I was already planning my exit as a user.

If vampires are eternally undead why do they only ever brag about being like 7 or 8 hundred years old?

I'm kinda surprised and yeah maybe a lil disappointed it hasn't become an annual tradition

Looking forward to the release of The People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity thespinoff.co.nz/society/04-0...

I have one friend who's cancer is rapidly advancing, and another who – 6 months ago – was planning their own funeral, and whose marrow test came back showing no evidence of any cancer at all. Some days are good days.

Gramma nerds: when would you use the word "persons" instead of "people"?

Gramma nerds: when would you use the word "persons" instead of "people"?

Gah. I googled an author and uncharacteristically hit the "find out more in AI" button, and then asked it to show me an image of the author, which it did by linking to National Library NZ, which – quite reasonably – suspected my IP address to be that of a bot, and kicked me out.

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

Forraged boysenberry ripple ice cream in 1 scratchy and 3 easy steps

'For Tuiono, the common thread across these issues is an emphasis on justice, equity, and principled leadership – whether confronting global power plays, defending human rights, or protecting workers at home'

Another shitty male judge screws over NZ women. Precedent now set that tricking women into sex isn’t rape. Disgusting.

A list of 44 good books Strong recommendation from me for Standing On My Shadow, poetry collection by Serie Barford. This Pasifika view of our health system has changed my life.

On one hand, fucking western line still out. On the other, testing the new sched shows a thrilling high frequency with equally excitingly large number of destinations. Variously E-W W-E O-W (which I think means link-west) Onehunga Manukau Might chuck work and just reverse engineer the AT sched

I keep picking shit up and a fucking big black moth flutters up in my biz

Fuck it the trains are still off the western line till tomoz but the replacement bus is free so yeah that’s something I guess

Just gonna big this one up

Terrible news: the poet Sia Figiel was found dead in her cell where she was in prison for the murder of Caroline Gabbard. Figiel and Gabbard were both celebrated Pasifika writers. www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...

Ok who did it

Remember when there was that nazi who kept on doing nazi shit and the world was like ok fuck you this means war?

I talked to @nikdirga.bsky.social for his story about what to about X. Musk has wrecked its public utility and now he's put an abuse tool front and centre. Public agencies and NGOs need to ask whether they should be there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

They could remove that service today, but they won't. So let's hear the FSU being honest for once. Let them say right out loud that X should not be expected to have any responsibility for its own tool that strips women and children on demand. Fucking say it.

This is in fact completely insane. Like the bit in the Hells Angels, where he describes all this super bad shit they did, and then "but we also did some bad stuff" which he then goes on to describe. And at the same time, he chaired Save the Children fund.

Bought this for old time’s sake

people send me clips on Instagram and I'm just like wow, fuck me, I thought *bluesky* was full of inane drivel 🤷🏻‍♂️

10 minute stroll in the cemetery

The government deregulated the energy market, privatised it, saw prices sky-rocket, and now reckon they can bring down prices by encouraging people to make their consumption data publicly available to gentailers and their AIs 🤷🏻‍♂️ Is it our fault the prices jacked?

I'm thinking it might be useful if someone uninvented the internet

Auckland Libraries public internet is up the spout

Awwww Tim Shadbolt's gone. I interviewed some folks from Manapouri hydro scheme once and they all enthused over Tim's boxing prowess. They reckoned he learned concreting on the scheme and became the Southland Lightweight champion. My dad's mentioned in his book. I'll ask him about Tim tonight.

Last call for 2026 tutoring applications! Please apply by Sunday 11 January if you want to be considered www.wgtn.ac.nz/sam/about/tu...

It's a great cause. Bruce was charged $50 fine for wearing Climate Emergency T shirt. All proceed go to that, to environmental causes and to the victims of violent crime. Bruce is a great artist who's been doing this stuff bloody brilliantly for bloody years.

If he bothered showing up for work, I wonder if Luxon would be more or less popular? Maybe staying out of sight is his best angle 🤷‍♂️ From @thespinoff.bsky.social Curiously, it doesn't show Hipkins

Joining in with this: reskeet with your most recent pet pic

This time with alt text Labour spokes @philtwyford.bsky.social statement against US inversion of Venezuela

I heartily commend this grim metaphor for post communist Hungary’s struggle to reconcile an agrarian heritage with the shallow promise of neo-liberal debt-leveraged economics, imbued with the nihilism of Becket, the surrealism of Joyce and the visceral cartoonery of Dickens.

We went for a stroll in the cemetery and found wild boysenberries growing out of the graves and at em with ice cream and honey schnapps

Omg one of the SouthPark writers registered the URL - perfect parody www.trumpkennedycenter.org

Whereas it’s NYE therefore I shall empty my dishwasher

New year’s eve plan is a low key experiment: watch Bond movies and have whatever he’s having

I want to do something positive to end what’s been a shit year. Change up the vibe etc. *lucky dip artwork* For $25 incl p&p I’ll send you a piece of art, many matted, no bigger than A4. Mixed media, mainly semi abstract landscape, signed. NZ only. DM me to order. Reposts appreciated.

How I’m walking out of 2025

When am I supposed to get out of bed

Goddam where TF is the remote?

I wrote and recorded a track called small x mass about xmas mono-watt.bandcamp.com/track/small-...

Oh I missed this, but I see the book awards allowed those books with the Ai covers into the competition, and changed their rules to allow AI generated artwork on the covers, but not content. I think that's unfortunate for well traversed reasons. small 🧵 www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3609...

I mean it’s not wrong

At last some good news

Crayfish catch ban floated to protect kelp forests – Expert Reaction

Fuck me I'm sick of this year and it's not even clear if I'll have the opportunity or the budget for time off I'm glad I'm not spending xmas with my family Just wanna float on my back in the ocean for a couple days