*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST* The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...

OPSEC is important folks

Gentailers have spent over a decade stripping profits form the country And not investing And making 93% margins on an essential utility Whilst acting like a cartel Whilst exploiting the pricing structures of the wholesale market It costs you, it costs #NewZealand #nzpol

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

Nothing in the parenting books prepared me for having my Sims' intricate little worlds devastated by the lawless vampire families my 14-year-old moved into MULTIPLE neighborhoods.

DRAGON TOWER #dragon #reddragon #dragonart #digitalart #art #procreate #tower #castle #red #whitebackground

“Disney failed to opt out of my blu-ray distribution so I’m free and clear to sell these $8 Lion King discs now.”

Thinking about Sri Chinmoy and how I have a simple rule: if the spiritual teacher cannot keep his dick in his pants when it's not appropriate, what use are his teachings?

Concerns are being raised about privatisation after Health Minister Simeon Brown met representatives of a controversial multinational company that runs prisons and hospitals. “The Minister must immediately & fully disclose the nature, purpose, & content of his discussions with Serco.” #nzpol

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

📢 The Department of Corrections is seeking to almost double the number of prisoners it can hold.

Tim Jago appeal denied, stuff called them 'former political figure' in a headline. Huh.

Holy shit the Auckland mayoral election candidates are a shit show.

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This is worse than not being on the map at all

Went by a gym tonight and played with a cable machine. They can do quite a lot once you have the right attachments, eh? I even managed to do some cleans and snatches with a spinning bar.

Bit bummed that our showing of One Battle After Another was cut short at about 40m because the projector failed. If all you see is the first 40m.. it's just fine? Feel like I missed out.

Very pleased to announce that the narrator for the audiobook version of THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION will be... Rebecca Calder!

The difference between horror and comedy film is in the timing of cuts and the soundtrack.

What is the nutritional value of limescale? Am I getting more bang for my buck, or is it time to descale my kettle?

There is a quiet crisis in our hospitals. I can't imagine the toll it is taking on our generational capacity.

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

I wonder how they found the billboards in Auckland given they no longer maintain a central register of billboards for... some reason.

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The underside of a chiton shell is really quite something.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Morning walk

Maha can’t make an account but her family is displaced and she needs help

Map of typhoid cases in Wellington Pōneke. 1890s. The illness was carried by the waterways. Infrastructure dumped and leaked sewage of human waste into the same streams we drew drinking water from. Wellington still leaks shit into our streams. But we get our drinking water from up Akatarawa now.

Wait, Amelia Earhart causes autism?

Video from one of the young New Zealanders on the Global Sumud Flotilla. They are under threat from Israel, but are acting legally & complying with International Law. The Government should officially protect them & fight for their legal rights. #FreePalestine vt.tiktok.com/ZSDpueAwY/

This Boeing has been doing loops accompanied by what looks to me like a bomber for the last hour. Must be a show at Whenuapai I guess #aviation

I'm attempting to raise money to make a limited series podcast looking at how the campaign to get New Zealand to pull out of the Paris climate accords, we've a little over a third of the way toward the goal, can you help make this happen? www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Reminder When emailing MPs - be polite. NEVER make threats, of any sort. A template email is easy to be automatically sorted into a folder which will be ignored. Probably. Same goes for cc emails. Email your MP and say ‘I am a constituent’. Postcards (& letters) can be sent free to Parly.

Well don't I feel stupid

Video game: Bunker You play as an engineer whose job is to crack a techbro's apocalyptic bunker and steal all the shit inside. Like War Thunder, most of the bunker details and specs are real, leaked directly from the people who made the actual bunkers

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

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You gotta love the consistency: another economy destroyed by libertarians who slashed govt spending and taxes

Who would have thought the simple expedient of actually checking the things they say against things already in the public record would be so effective. Great vid from @shaunvids.bsky.social youtu.be/tyU5Xkk6TuE?...

Hear me out - Give Ngutu pare/wrybill your vote for #BOTY. The ONLY birds worldwide with a laterally curved bill! That's a serious kink. Also when they murmurate the whole flock flashes from silver to white, it's spectacular. They are also Bi-landers dividing their time between North and South.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

It is Wednesday morning and I need $15,000 to fall from the sky so that a group of extremely high-risk activists can continue to get anti-doxxing protection and data-deletion services. I am not enjoying this week. Zero stars on WeekAdvisor.

Feels like a lot of the calls to action these days are to tell rich assholes that we disapprove of their behaviour and whilst I appreciate where that comes from I feel like we might need a better strategy. The Kimmel stuff worked because it caused material losses for Disney.

everything else aside for a moment, it is deeply concerning that ruby central has painted itself into a corner where it's entirely dependent on one company that has dhh on its board

Absolute crab-in-bucket bullshit from Ruby Central: joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...

Yo this Rubgems takeover by Ruby Central was NEFARIOUS joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...

welp. apparently laurelai's newest cult has schismed and the other folks formerly involved are accusing her of yet more abuse & manipulation. color me surprised! (not)

This is the statement from the high priestess of the splinter temple (taken from clearsky, since she is blocked by one of the block-lists I use). The two pictures are the same, duplicated because the room ran out for alt-text.

The Silksong/4h Shaun video combo will be unbeatable in the meta for the next couple weeks