Damn. The standard checked luggage allowance is 23kg, I salute the packing skills of this woman.

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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I'm pre-emptively cringing about the cowardly statement Luxon and Peters are going to release today.

Went to book tickets for the Duomo. I'm very excited about seeing these mice.

I'm going to Italy with the family next week, my first time in nearly a decade and much longer for most of the rest. For the day of our arrival, knowing our strong support for industrial action, the public transport union of my hometown has organised a celebratory 24-hour strike. Tears.

What the fuck.

I own an iron factory. That's going to take some adjusting.

She was almost as beautiful and elegant as she was racist.

I hate the internet

Did you hear the one about the King, the Pope and Jimmy Kimmel?

With Walliams it's important to separate the art from the artist and remember that whatever he's done in his private life, his books are still absolute dogshit either way.

Piss off Checkpoint. God knows this is not a cause close to my heart, but complaining about the cost of consultation with stakeholders is the lowest form of journalism.

“I kept telling myself, “There’s no such thing as Climate Police”. They simply do not exist.” Our final online magazine post for the year is a new cli-fi story by Madison Hovey — generously supported by @copower.bsky.social

Unbelievably, the Ministry have now silently unpublished these documents. They were attached to a briefing that has been updated to remove them, with no reason given: www.health.govt.nz/system/files...

“If we’re to emerge from this awful spiral,” writes @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social, “we’ll only do so on the basis of a very different politics: one that takes for granted the ability of ordinary people — of any race, gender or creed — to unite against racism and violence.”

“The Free Palestine protests have been a vital site amidst a deteriorating political climate where solidarity and compassion are forged.” Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak on the role of the solidarity movement in the fight against antisemitism.

We won! I won my judicial review!

Note the dates.

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime

I found the first Avatar unwatchable and never bothered with the sequels, but Dan Slevin makes many good points here about a franchise enjoyed by millions, beloved by (seemingly) none. www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

dude

Absolutely heartbreaking. Hannukah is a festival celebrating a miracle, where all hope seemed lost and yet our culture, our way of life survived. Hope seems hard to find in moments like this, but we need to find it wherever we can.

The starmerisation of New Zealand Labour continues apace. Meanwhile, the number of people who asked for this remains steady at zero. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

My flight back from Christchurch was late last night so I took a cab. The driver proceeded to lecture me about taking an Uber next time instead, which was a new one for me.

“Perhaps it is unsurprising, then, that anti-Arab sentiment and xenophobia are not confined to the past, or to Cronulla.” Megan McElhone addresses revisionist histories of the Cronulla Riots, twenty years on.

Making text more accessible to disabled people is woke, therefore bad. www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

This is how I learn that the UK — which is matching the US stride for stride in the race for stupidest country on Earth — has an "Obesity tsar".

“If Australian policy-makers genuinely want to safeguard young people, the evidence points elsewhere: comprehensive, non-stigmatising sexuality education that acknowledges pleasure, consent and diversity.” The Scarlet Alliance’s Mish Pony on Phase 2 of Australia’s online safety codes.

Anyway Foucault's Pendulum is a pretty good book.

Too easy.

So... what happens to schoolkids in this scenario? Do we need to give them bank cards or upgrade their phones? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

We shall start with the spelling.

Tāmaki whānau, please go to this protest by Block the Ban against the Government's transphobic ban on puberty blockers for trans youth on Sunday 7th December from 10AM at Myers Park. Everyone, including trans youth, deserves access to healthcare. www.facebook.com/events/11854...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

It's the First Annual Gianni Infantino Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Peace.

An incredible piece.

Speaking of music, my son asked for a portable CD player for his birthday and since then—our family subscription to Tidal be damned—he's been going to the library and borrowing CDs. So he gets to listen to them as discrete albums instead of drowning in the ocean of endless playlists. SMOOTH move.

Russians by Sting. Hands down.

[Seinfeld jazz riff]

“Planning is political, especially in a country where it has been used to facilitate settler frames of land commodification and exclusion.” An in-depth history by Rachel Gallagher of urban planning as a colonial tool.

Pege Hegseth, Ssecretary of War

Not so much prescience as science (but pronounced so it rhymes with prescience).

Actually a terrible outcome as Peter Griffin explains in the article. It says AI companies can still train their LLMs on works of literature without permission so long as they don't acquire the content using dodgy websites. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

The common experience of accumulating followers on platforms one is not on.

A clickbait headline about rage-baiting.