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Very pleased to inform you all that Cowboy Dan's new album is out this morning. cowboydanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

TFW when you see the parenthisised clarification before you see the take, and it's impossible to tell what sort of horrifying thing people are posting about today.

Hey, I reviewed the new @pickledarling.bsky.social album for you. www.hamiltonundergroundpress.com/features/alb...

I been nerding.

Let's hear from all the freaks of nurture out there.

I get that reporters who lost access to 1st XV matches are pissed off at being excluded, but this entire sobfest is predicated on the idea that schools' social feeds are "media" not "advertising", and surely they're not dumb enough to actually think that. www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/...

Headline writer really clears things up in the case of Murdoch vs Murdoch.

Tubby Hansen candidate statement just dropped

Grok being Elon's biggest hater

Wrote about the new @pickledarling.bsky.social album for HUP, and now the week-long wait for the pre-release listening party is going to kill me. www.hamiltonundergroundpress.com/features/pic...

Opp Education Spokesperson won't meet with Minister as govt forms new policy, seeks "expert" views from people who either don't know what's happening or can't tell her. Complains that the government - whose meetings she declined - are "secretive". Just give up now. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

My biggest hope for the new high school qualification system is that we all pronounce NZACE with a lil' Italian-style flourish. N-Zah-Chay.

Daughter #2 has been requesting an extra pigtail each day. Her school friends are taking bets on how long it will last. This dad ain't quitting for at least another fortnight.

I am beseeching every single person involved in New Zealand politics, no matter what side of the aisle you're on or what role you play in public life, to please for the love God stop saying "goneburger".

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Bluesky is a grievance machine that feeds on your joy.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Now do political polls.

Three paragraphs explaining what makes a well-selected All Blacks squad, and not a single word about winning rugby matches. "The skill is to leave the public feeling like they are looking at a squad that makes sense to them." Mate, how about a squad that scores more points than the other team?

happy 2 years to this album

Not just Amanda, but The Manda.

Elon: "Yay for MAGA!" Tesla: *Loses half its value* Elon: "Oops, I mean, boo MAGA!" SpaceX: *Loses its biggest customer*

Legends in AI

Today's new @pickledarling.bsky.social song is absolutely wonderful and you should get some headphones and listen to it all day. pickledarling.bandcamp.com/album/massiv...

Hey NZers! Help our Ministry of Health get away from the bad place by adding yourself to the follower count here: @health.govt.nz

It's "special" as in "unique", as in "no-one in their right mind would ever replicate this weird-ass architectural nonsense".

Just learned that Spotify hates me, and Spotify hates rock.

How it's starting | How it will go

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

The coolest thing about my job is having competitors who straight up lie about how cheap they are. Never ever ever trust Freeparking, kids.

Me when the sign-up form asks me to choose from Mr / Mrs / Miss / Dr.

If I had to guess, I reckon they'll say it's bad.

Gregor Paul's written about on-field TV interviews of rugby captains in the Herald today. Makes some good points, but when an article is mostly about "F-bombs", the term "C-suite" suddenly looks quite rude.

Waiting for an absolute beast of a Finance Minister who smashes rhetorical tradition and busts out a "screw it, lolly scramble" budget.

Interviewing local musos is always fun, especially when they have set themselves on fire, been sliced open by a flying cymbal, and accidently let their mum confront a national icon about his drinking problem on live radio. www.hamiltonundergroundpress.com/features/its...

sign up for the thing

I have driven this road a lot. It's in my top 3 least favourite to be in control of a vehicle. People are going to die. www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...

Oh no its leopard time #nzpol

Observation from New Zealand: The Blue place is getting closer and closer to bringing back the best days of the other place.

The Herald home page right now

Firstly, it will distract me from the divorce proceedings that hang so heavily over my every waking moment.

Predictions: 1. Media ask Razor if he chose the right captain. He pauses a second too long. 2. "Embattled Scott Barrett". 3. NZR pretends that everything's fine. 4. Barrett reportedly "injured" in training before 1st test team is led by Ardie Savea. www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/...

Before reacting to this news, guess how long a human marker, who is doing that job on top of their teaching work, spends reading each of the 100s of papers thay have have to get through as fast as possible. And whether every marker would give every paper the same grade www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

Can confirm that this conversational tip works for my actual job.

Great comic timing from the Danes here.

Brutal use of quote marks from the Herald. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...