The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort
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Byron C Clark
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It was John Key speaking, he said this would replace experienced cabinet ministers with "people you've never heard of" from minor parties
Investigate journalism is vital for a functioning democracy. If you're financially able, support it by buying a copy of the book. If you're not financially able, put it on hold at your library, so they purchase more copies
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361036026/nz-election-2026-live-updates-politics-campaign-news
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Good to see these unions standing on the right side of history
https://trib.al/A72m2Ud
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Botswana has removed the colonial era law criminalising same sex relationships (it has already been ruled unconstitutional)
This is decolonisation
https://gayexpress.co.nz/2026/04/botswana-finally-removes-anti-gay-law-from-the-books/
This is tragic, Sam was not just a great actor, but a great human being
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/13/kiwi-screen-legend-sam-neill-dies-aged-78/
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Every now and then I remember a news segment about new youth slang I saw as a kid, and three decades later I think that Gen X teen was trolling us when she said they were calling the contents of a mans underpants a "lunchbox"
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If horse racing is unsustainable without tax breaks we should just let it die
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594120/big-nz-first-donors-argue-for-tax-breaks-to-save-unsustainable-racing-industry
Someone asked to do a TradeMe pick up in the CBD and since I was meeting people for a drink anyway I said sure
So that's why I'm standing outside a bar with a broken laptop like a non-playable character with an unusual side quest
Every Facebook post about about a Green Party policy announcement is like
[Policy throughly researched by a bunch of wonks, fully costed with economic impact forecasted]
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Barry: And I guess without cars we'll ride unicorns to work 🤣 🦄
Gary: Chole flys business class
I'm glad I don't subscribe to a political worldview that requires pretending the Canterbury Crusaders mythos is something sacrosanct and not just a gimmick that marketing professionals came up with in 1996
David Seymour on 1News claiming we're bringing in migrants to be fast food workers. The 'migrants' you see in fast food outlets are international students whos visas allow them to work up to 25 hours a week
International education is one of our biggest export services worth $4.52 billion a year
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@isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz was just having a read of the candidate profiles and she seems like a great choice
TV in this restaurant is playing some tenants-from-hell type reality show and the property manager has "as seen on TV!" on the car. I feel like for a renter "property manager has a reality TV show" would be something of a red flag
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I turn 40 today which means I only have to do the whole "I've just gotta make it through this month" thing 300 more times then I can superannuation
Whatever your opinion on the disestablishment of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, once it's formally gone TVNZ should make the begining of the new era by airing George Carlins "seven words you can't say on television" bit
Who is going to stop them?
"butter chicken tsunami"
Echos of "taco trucks on every corner" xenophobic, no doubt, but also sounds like a delicious outcome we should be bringing about, not avoiding
Organising a birthday party but all my friends are introverts so really I'm organing to spend a day responding to text messages from people apologising that they can't make it and offering to instead do a move low-key get together another day (which will also be cancelled)
Made some sauerkraut
POV: you got a good deal on some frozen pizzas
Jackpot
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It did fly out an open window eventually but not before pooping on the floor and generally making a bad omen of itself
So long to the politician I always thought of as "Chloe Swarbrick's Wario"
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The Marsden Point oil refinery was operated by a consortium of petrol companies who came to the conclusion it wasn't economical to refine oil here compared to importing refined oil from Asia. Not the fault of the previous government despite what a lot of people seem to think
Pleased to be able to share this new book that I have contributed two chapters too
You can pre-order now and there's a pay-it-forward option to help someone who can't meet the cost also get a copy
https://farrightplaybook.nz/shop/
With the list out today, for Aotearoa New Zealand to get get it's first Palestinian Member of Parliament the Green Party would need to get 14.4% of the vote
It's now thermal underwear season in Ōtautahi, at least for those of us who leave the house before dawn 🥶
I'm looking for the next Gaza based writer to commission an article from
My DMs are open. Pay is US$140, and I can pay via GoFundMe or Chuffed (can't send money to Palestine on PayPal from my country)
I can not write the article on your behalf
An important win for free speech, for journalism, and for research. Billionaires attempting to limit
the scope of public debate by funding frivolous defamation suits endangers our democracy
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/24/julian-batchelor-loses-defamation-case-against-tvnz-researcher/
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For real though, this is a positive development, and a step towards more regular commuter services
This puts the past year of British polls on context. This is the demographic that's made Reform the most popular party, radicalised by far-right content on Facebook
This is an inversion of the ANZAC story; the Ottoman empire wasn't planning to invade New Zealand, however I've been thinking about the rhetoric that uses ANZAC history to oppose immigration 🧵
"Following the move, the internet will be riddled with conspiracies and misinformation. In other words, not much will change."
Freeview launched in New Zealand 19 years ago today. I was working at a Dick Smith Electronics store at the time and remember selling a lot of set top boxes and efen the occasional dish 📡
For a brief time you could watch Australian television which was carried by the same satellite 🛰️
I wonder how much wealth a 50 something year old man needs before having 14 kids to four different mothers and posting about how white people are oppressed on Twitter almost daily starts to be seen as an aspirational figure and not a weird loser
*This describes Elon Musk
"Over 371,888 housing units have been destroyed or damaged, more than 50 per cent of hospitals are non-functional, and nearly all schools have been destroyed or damaged. The economy has contracted by 84 per cent."
Tonight's watch is 'The Gods Must be Crazy' (1980)
Just landed on Kanopy
My mind automatically adds the words 'England Prevails' to the end of every Reform UK tweet I see
Brian Tamaki's black shirted followers match though Auckland (a city where 1 in 3 people were born overseas) carrying a banner reading "stop mass immigration"
They yell "God! King! Country!"
I've also heard that Gen Z women are dating older men because those men haven't grown up with grifting masculinity influencers. There's likely some truth to both claims, but making broad generalisations about an entire generation seems iffy
Didn't watch much of it but Brian Tamaki's sermon today was on the Great Replacement
He spent a lot of time targeting Indian migrants in particular
3 million people are watching an AI generated show about anthropomorphic fruit based on the Love Island reality series
750 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the ceasefire
Ihab, one of the people in Gaza I've known the longest, needs someone to start a new GoFundMe campaign, if anyone in a country where this is possible (it's not in mine) would be available to help send me a message and I'll put you in touch with him
Tonight's watch is Hive (2026)
Has middling reviews but it's been getting some good buzz among horror fans so I'm checking it out
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