Cozying up to fascists must mean Judith Collins has gotten over her shock at the relocation of parliament's Winston Churchill painting in August 2021. At the time she said, "he was one of the very few political leaders who was prepared to stand up to the Nazis and fascists..." #NZPol

Happy 5th birthday to Sadie who has been an abiding joy in these benighted years that we are all suffering through #Bichon

Got lucky with a docile target - 483m headshot snipe! #Battlefield6 #Recon

Remembered this oldie after Simeon Brown suggested an antiquated occupation for the teens of NZ. It's from the same era his religious beliefs come from after all #NZPol

The YouTube algorithm has given up on me and just autoplays #TimeTeam so perhaps I’m finally winning at life

Prediction: residential waterfront property owners will be bailed out for their bad choices while the rest of us are always punished for ours. We’ve all known rising sea levels were coming for 20+ years #NZPol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I hope NZ media made a big fuss about this story and I just missed their coverage www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Tilly Norwood was created so that we hate Hollywood nepo babies less

NZ cafés: We invented the Flat White! Australia steals all our stuff! Also NZ cafés: Ekshully a Kiwi Breakfast is completely different to an English Breakfast

The only thing I'd insist upon in a new Bond movie, other than it not being an origin story, is that they should have Timothy Dalton back to play M.

Started listening to this and wondered why, after 20 years of living in New Zealand and knowing how nuts they are about their heroes, I'd never heard of Harold Gillies, the father of plastic surgery, due to his pioneering facial reconstruction work in the World Wars. open.spotify.com/episode/6Ci6...

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The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls? nomouse.org

Agentic is the new wankword

TIL Wizard of OZ came out in 1939 Blade Runner came out in 1982 That's a difference of 43 years. Know what came out 43 years ago? Blade Runner.

Struggling to get over the phrase “spishull missudge” uttered by a Kiwi reporter last night

The boy wonder in Alien Earth is such a great character. Reminds of a dickhead startup founder I did a trial with (and couldn’t get out of fast enough) down in Christchurch.

i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny

Remembering a group of us including my first girlfriend going on a fab day trip to London in '90, getting back and watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for the first time #RIPRobertRedford

This hard-working little animal sanctuary needs our help! They say hay prices have rocketed too!

I love how Windows 11 offers you the choice to Update and Shutdown or Update and Restart and always does the latter anyway and it’s done this for years

TVNZ One News desperately trying to manifest developments in the Tom Phillips story for three days now

For Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron and Paul Rudd to finally age we have to make them watch The Cider House Rules (1999)

Sent my daughter’s screw-together lunchbox that I can’t open due to food festering inside to a friend whose husband has a vice collection. Dude’s moment has arrived

Does “Show less like this” actually work? Trying to eradicate sport and thirst traps from my feed

Regardless of country because I suspect this will catch on elsewhere, opposition parties need to declare that this land will be seized without compensation and the purchasers forced to pay to rewild them. Poor people are held to account for the choices. Anyone who buys public land should be too.

Prediction: Luxon does a Key and retires from politics before Xmas so his successor can guarantee him a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list

I had a girlfriend that led the horserides around Hyde Park (London one) in the early 00’s as the rollerbladers got increasingly territorial. One day they linked arms across the bridle path and got the full horseback charge, scattering like cockroaches. Reader, I married her

Every Figma update is a reminder that it’s not much more effort to just learn front-end development

Private healthcare already benefits from an overburdened public system covertly shifting follow up ACC surgeries to them. When my legs got mangled by another driver in 2017 Middlemore deliberately ignored my broken toes and discharged me in a wheelchair for me to find out only when I could stand

Living beyond their means is an offensive phrase and should only be applied to people who should have been guillotined years ago

Younger National / Act party voters need to understand that jobs for life are not the norm and many of them will get tossed on the heap as soon as they have kids or hit 40. They’ll suffer under these laws too.

My personal exhibit A of the Mandela effect was that muntjac deer did not exist up until a few years ago. I grew up semi rurally in the UK and there was no such thing

Morning sun through the mist and pōhutukawa tree

Brooke Van Vader-Helmet-Hair

Spotify’s UI problem is that the team thinks it is a foreground app on a large display when it isn’t either of those things for any length of time.

Love of god if you’re going to cast Christopher Walken, make him change his hair even Connery wore different wigs

Squarespace has a width AND height grid. Everything has to snap to it so I have one auto height button in the nav and another stupidly chunky one in the body. It’s pure luck if two adjacent textboxes of different sizes align. If you’re considering a web builder that habitually requires CSS, don’t.

It’s wild that the US has no opposition leader for years until just before an election and until then you all count on Mark Hamill and Stephen King calling out Trump’s bullshit. Actually that’s probably the best way to go, good job, as you were, carry on etc

Luxon about to do his Pimpernel Prime Minister trick again. See you next week Chrissybabes

You literally can’t get high profile right wingers off the island in NZ #ChaseNZ

They’ve just announced on breakfast that Paul Henry has come back from Oz to be the host of the Chase NZ

#DeptQ very Goode 👍👍 watchlist it

That Ukrainian drone attack surpasses the Dambusters for ingenuity and effectiveness without the awful death toll

Adorable when millennials take credit for discovering digital just like some boomers do for winning WWII

I got waylaid for 10 minutes and she was still sitting there with her ears back waiting for the leftover treats she saw me put aside 😍😍😍

If elected, I pledge to make Photoshop Web-safe Color Palette Free by 2040

The Collector’s Edition Indiana Jones and the Great Circle came with this hefty globe that has a secret compartment and magnetic POIs. I have been savouring this game since Christmas but it seems like this might be the final level.

I won’t be playing the new Battlefield because Oceania servers will be in the single digits within 6 months.

The world's longest viking warship was discovered in Denmark by builders who were working on extending the Viking Ship Museum.