It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

Ew, I just sat on a slightly meaty beef bone that Rita took to bed with her on my office armchair

Gore Aunt's dog has "a mass" near the liver She is 12 None of us are optimistic

Nothing new will get built this side of the 2026 election. No-one's coming back from Oz to build them. THREE WASTED YEARS & a lost generation of tradies, just to fund landlord tax cuts.

We knew this did not happen and now tis prov'd

The children are making "breakfast for dinner" right now and we may never eat app.appetise.io/recipe/cocon...

WHEW. Poor-rich problem solved as we have our new rental house in January confirmed AND they will let me bring canine companions for a mere $25 extra which is a HUGE saving on kennel prices

Today's email to Luxo in its entirety: "Recognise Palestine you lying, ethics-free, Christian nationalist weirdo." #nzpol

I absolutely fucking refuse to ever be okay about something like this and it would be nice if more people with a platform got a lot less okay with it too #nzpol

Trump today outside the White House on Charlie Kirk: "I want to look at is a time of healing, as a time of whatever" Deep. I can't wait for his actual Eulogy. I got 10 bucks that he mentions Charlie less than 3 times.

Why is this awful evil sack of shit so fucking funny

Uh I guess it doesn't anymore because you all bought it

Not the point but the "sitting with vagina hands" stance is clearly evil

Dog-owning NZ pals: Crackerjack has this posh dog food at a third of its original price www.crackerjack.co.nz/nzcelines-su... (I think they're going out of business nzcelines.co.nz/collections)

There’s no bigger beef than whatever is going on between prescription drugs and grapefruit.

Husband: "well, I'm gonna have a really stress-free football season because they SUUUUUUUUUUCK" (he says this to me every year around this time)

It was the Monday media round. What did the dipshit say? #nzpol

I live for this shit

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

The really cool thing about privatising public services is they don't get any better AND you have no power to change that

Doctors, nurses, and teachers are all striking because they care about their patients and students, not just because their pay increases are less than inflation They’re striking because everything else is being eroded around them and they can no longer deliver the care and teaching we all deserve

Nice post you got there, it'd be a shame if I deliberately missed your point so I could be tedious about it

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

When will the media realise it's their job to take a press release from government and determine how much of it is true, how much is spin, and report accordingly. If I wasn't terminally online (as most voters aren't), I could almost be fooled into thinking they're doing a good job. #nzpol

Bleak House got whipped back to the library when I was 35% through it, and I have requested it again but I am second in line. So in the meantime I am listening to the audiobook of 1984 which I don't think I've read in in about 30 years. I forgot about some of the phrases we still use from it.

The Girlfriend is doing this whole Rashomon thing and it is ridiculous fluff and I am enjoying it immensely

the biggest lesson of the last seventy-five years of politics is that the democrats should have done a lot more ratfucking

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

OK look here is where I actually WANT advice! Walking shoes (with dogs, mostly on paths, sometimes on beaches and grass). Usually between 3-5kms. What would you buy? Keen or Morrell? www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac... keenfootwear.co.nz/products/you...

Looked at so many different sets of shoes that I crashed my computer 😶

Why do people give me advice on how to make my children do laundry when I complain about laundry I just want to complain I do not need advice on how much better you are at parenting than me

Trump: please, I want everyone to stop making jokes about the size of my hands Monkey's paw: you got it

Someone--it wasn't me, dammit--called it a circle Kirk.

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

I am here to whine about something while procrastinating on my Boring Things: I thought I would have less laundry as a result of the children growing up. But I do not. I have MORE laundry because their outfits are bigger, like, full man size, and I can't fit as many into the washing machine

*opens TikTok one week from now* “Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

TIL that Disney parks are more expensive after the pandemic restrictions dropped than they were before, and we went to Disneyland in October 2019 (I know right? Timing!) and I realise we were using NZ dollars but it was eyewateringly expensive even then! I had to get an extra job for 6 months prior

would it be appropriate to tell Sir Brian Roche to kiss my white flabby ass

He has a candidate Facebook page and he is obnoxious there too www.facebook.com/nigelelderact

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

I will never vote for a pro-life candidate and that is a promise. fuck you