Holy hell, what an obituary

"Anger is an energy." - Public Image Limited

What's like Muldoon's Think Big, but is long and narrow and will definitely bankrupt the country?

Attention Kapitians. There's about 20 cubic metres of firewood still to sell. A hundy a cube plus koha for delivery.

The Life of Bryan, a much more controversial movie, was co-produced by George Harrison; the quiet Beatle.

As above, so below.

The market uber alles ad absurdum.

My memory might be faulty, but I seem to remember Peter Beck promising that Rocket Lab was never going to this exact thing.

Software is like beer. You're only renting it. Learned that when Kindle burned Orwell books ages ago.

I've updated the calendar based on observations due to climate change. Apologies to the guy who made the original. Apparently he lives up the road a bit.

Nats once again have no original ideas. They're clearly copying Hipkins here, with his policy bonfire around this time of year before the last election in 2023.

I met Tim Shadbolt once. He was taking part in a debate in 1985 alongside Kayrn Hay, Tom Scott, Gary McCormick and my old man. The topic was Life Is a Sexually Transmitted Disease. I wrangled a back-stage interview with Shadbolt for a mate for a school project.

Worst. Joy Division. Cover. Ever.

I'm pretty sure (euphemism) that Parliamentary Service funding doesn't include electioneering.

Coming to cinemas in 2026. Bay of Pigs 2; We Have Learned Nothing.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

This begs the question, now he's got them, what is he going to do to them? On what grounds? I pine for Reagan's Alzheimer's. This is mad shit.

At least Colin Powell performed like he meant it at the UN before the oil exploration of Iraq went ahead. Took a sickie at Sky City to march down Queen St for that.

That's just great. We now have two permanent members of the United Nations Security Council in unprovoked wars against neighbouring nation states, and a third, China, rattling its sabre at Taiwan in a speech New Year's Eve. Happy Fucking New Year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Osy...

Highly recommended read. This is China's century. How they play it will be fascinating.

OK, you win. You're Deathproof. Loose gravel. Loose gravel is my nemesis.

Happy 2026 everybody! You are here.

Without a doubt, this is the one for me.

I've never understood white supremacy. Putting aside this fat fuck incel in the photo below, white supremacy is based on ignoring the mitochondrial DNA that shows all European descendents have at least one ancestor who got a Neanderthal pregnant.

This confirms a theory I've been working on a while. We are more like our grandparents than our parents; each generation oscillating in rebellion.

Two of my good mates Dennis and Dave are fundraising to take part in the Shitbox Rally in Oz next year. If anyone in the Wellington region wants some firewood and support a good cause, let me know. Images taken from Neighbourly.

Oh, what a luvverly summer we're having. I blame the government.

Balls to 2026. A king will lose his kingdom. Probably in the mid-terms. A coalition will have a Mexican stand-off. A coup? Gesundheit. I'm hoping to catch at least one more aurora before the solar maximum ends. We're hoping for illumination, not darkness.

Quote post with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers No-ones's done Kryten yet. Also, Roombas have been bought out, so added vacuum cleaner attachment.

Bastard. I was just about to post that very image from a site featuring the most annoying characters in sci-fi. Farewell, Gil Gerard.

Congratulations for all of your sacrifices, NZers. Our GDP per capita is now back to *squints at graph* 2021 levels.

I have no skin in this game but the process is fascinating. Judicial reviews aren't cheap so there's some very serious people involved against the govt, raging against RFK Jnr Jnr; Simeon Brown. You don't have to an entitled cunt to be the Health Minister, but it helps. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

History will regard this govt as comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Sacrificing the common good for the personal gains.

Imagine finishing your benefit forecasts for HYEFU, closing your laptop, and heading to floor 8 for a few miserable xmas treats... then the actual data comes out and blows your calculations out of the water! [NB: Actual data varies slightly from forecast data, but not by much)

This entire weekend

Interesting schematic showing various discourses of delay, from a new paper "Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays" by Samuel Lloyd and Ekaterina Rhodes (link in next bleet).

On the subject of drug driver testing, here's something I prepared earlier. 2012, to be precise. gonzofreakpower.blogspot.com/2012/08/drug...

The first IREX ferry would have been online THIS WEEKEND if Nicola did not cancel them Now we have 4 more years of dodgy shit while we wait for the TEMU option....

I was NORML NZ's political nerd in the 2000s when I researched and submitted to the Health select committee when they were looking at roadside drug testing. I recommended a 9 nanogramme threshold for cannabis impairment. Around three times what is proposed. This is drug snobbery.

Thoughts for over the summer barbecue; y'know what I really miss? Becoming a republic. Getting away the the Royals. Supreme Court seems to work. No Privy Council shitting on us remotely. MMP is still a work in progress but still less worse than UK's FPP fappery and the US gerrymander. 1/2

I'd bike that for a dollar.

When us process-heads warn about the importance of following systems and giving due weight to the how alongside the what, we have things like this in mind …

Oh far cough.

Fark. It really is turtles all the way down.

#HighFlyingFlicksReviews 28 Years Later. A tour de force from Danny Boyle. Addressing the UK's experience post-Brexit, post-Covid via Zombies. I'm pretty sure the slow-lows reference Boris Johnson. Can't wait for the next chapter.

This is what National means by asset sales after the next election. There's sweet FA left to sell off, except Landcorp and DOC land. All hail the landlords and billionaire bunker builders.

The thing about the Punch and Judy Show was that they were both puppets.

I used to have a photo of Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson attending an Act conference in Otautahi in the 1990s, but I can't prove it. It was a cursed image so I burned it.