Max Johns (MxDEJ)

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

POV: 46 years after you overthrew your country's monarchy.

Screenshot of a Tweet. "Awesome bit of data that makes intuitive sense. Finland cut VAT on haircuts in 2007 to see if cheaper prices would boost demand and jobs. But when the tax fell by 4 euro, many salons lowered prices by only 2 euro and kept the rest as profit. When VAT rose again, prices jumped by the" [full amount]. There's a graph showing this.

Remember this when you hear "we shouldn't charge GST on food."

*House building occurs*

NIMBY: "You can't do that"
Council: "Yes they can"
NIMBY: "Can't"
Council: "Whatever, sue me. And the developer. Go on."

*Lightbulb appears above NIMBY's head*

Cut to...
JUDGE: "Yes they can, and you owe them tens of thousands of dollars."

www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...

Can't tell if bug or feature

You can search the world for "possum".

And you can search only New Zealand...

We are not the same. 😁

YAY

They make it hard to find the exit on purpose.

Reminder to all NZ musicians who released an album in 2025 that you have about 4.5 hour left to nominate yourself for the TAITE MUSIC PRIZE. You probably won't win, but you will get reviewed in The Spinoff when I do my annual thing of listening to the entire list. Do it. Do it now.

While we're all here, let me share with you this ingenious song title. Finely-tuned algorithm juice.

Indistinguishable from parody.

‘False flag’: Head of largest union calls campaign against Nicola Willis a conspiracy Lobby group the Taxpayers’ Union has launched a brand of fudge called 'Nicola’s Fudge'.

Only the left could convince itself that very public, internal shitfights are a good way to sharpen your policies without losing votes. Galaxy-brained, 5 dimensional chess shit. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

I have never seen a tie work this hard.

For too long, America's most powerful public figures were not Doing Shit Like This. Those days are over.

Incredibly thin skin, no idea when he's being treated like an absolute chump. Golden combo.

Susan Hall on twitter: look at this nonsense, NO, they are gingerbread men Picture, Packet of 16 Morrisons Gingerbread People

I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"

All the other people in this video look like they want to be literally anywhere else.

Small, achievable goals?

You know you're from Hamilton when your local MP got married in his formal Dirty Dogs.

Does The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time count?

My 'This coalition is absolutely not falling apart' t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are already answered by the shirt.

wow nvidia beat on earnings what a huge surprise. anyway did anybody work out how anybody makes a dollar of profit plugging gpus in or are we still in a holding pattern

It's ridiculously tiny either way.

* 0.07%

Home owner charged after fatal shooting of cleaner who went to wrong address Prosecutors say Curt Andersen, 62, is not shielded by 'stand your ground' laws.

Whitestown. Literally Whitestown. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/man-ch...

Happy New Dick Move Album Day to all those who celebrate.

(You should celebrate, btw)

dickmove2.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...

Andrew Coster could have avoided a lot of trouble if only McSkimming had consented to being policed.

Also from the Economist (December 2007): better-looking people earn more. I wonder if the pancy-pants AI is just confirming human biases by picking out good looks.

John Bryce YouTube video by Don McGlashan - Topic

At school we learned about old England
Not a word about this place
Religious strife in the 1600s
What's that got to do with us?
Let's put a new Guy on the bonfire
Let the bonfire blaze away
Light up John Bryce on the 5th of November
Make it Parihaka Day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OoD...