Sign outside our house says: "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"
Just heard kids on the way home from school, in the rain, yell this out at the top of their voices as they pass the sign
Whānau, remember how the far-right tried to take over Internet NZ last year and we kicked their butts? They haven't learned, and they're trying to do it again this year. Register by March 31st ($21 for a year) so you can vote in the AGM and send them packing again. members.internetnz.nz
Yael Shochat (of Ima's Kitchen in Auckland's CBD) is crowdfunding a documentary that she made with Naram Sleiman. Yael has emerged as one of the more visible pro-Palestinian voices in Auckland in the last couple of years, and this is about how she got there. I'm super excited about this.
The Civil War
It was written by Motown's writers, I don't think JB was part of Motown, but it's all funk so I'm sure people were borrowing from each other
I thought it was Edwin Starr
I remember a RNZ reporter recalling the 60s when there was an anti-Vietnam war demonstration literally passing by outside the studio but the then (National) government of the day wouldn't let them report it
IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.
Sign says: "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! (say it again)"
Temporarily replaced the sign outside our house:
Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
Peanutweeter modified Peanut comic strip. Charlie Brown and Lucy standing at the wall and Lucy speaks - If computers use all of the information on the internet to reach sentience, skynet is going to be a fucking moron. tweet credited to - @mikedrucker
Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.
I don't even know how he makes it in parliament. Dude famously votes, often singularly, against bills that would objectively make NZ better.
Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.
She had some things she needed to get off her chest
This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.
As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.
Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister
Fucking bougie of him to get someone in rather than putting it up himself
My thoughts on the government's "move on" policy.
We don’t like your kind ‘round here
move on, move on
you’re stinkin’ up this town so bad
worst kind o’ smell we’ve ever had
when you’re gone we’ll all be glad
move on, move on...
#nzpol
Cartoon. Title: Homeless Help. Image shows PM Christopher Luxon and helper Chris Bishop wearing maid’s aprons and sweeping the homeless from Auckland’s CBD under a rug with “SUBURBS” written on it. Chris Bishop is saying “Move on”, which is the name of the “tool” they will give police to “deal” with rough sleepers.
The govt is considering banning homeless people and rough sleepers in city centres.
My Stuff #cartoon today #homelessness #poverty #homeless
On Move On orders - I've been in some of the meetings with Ministers about city centre safety issues in AK; it has repeatedly been discussed that the people doing the anti-social behaviour and the people who are visibly homeless on our streets are usually NOT the same people.
Very happy to announce the winners of our demoscene competition! 🏆
We had some amazing entries - check out what can be done in just a few square microns of silicon!
tinytapeout.com/competitions...
Thanks again to our judges and participants!
#silicon #demoscene #ASIC
Americans are hung up with this weird "tiki" thing something that probably fell out of Hollywood. Moving back home from the US, we sold our house, one potential buyer knowing I was from AoNZ told us about his plans for a tiki bar in the backyard thinking I might choose him rather than cringe
Just coughing isn't enough, you have to cough at someone and they have to get sick
201Infecting with disease
(1)
Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years who, wilfully and without lawful justification or excuse, causes or produces in any other person any disease or sickness.
Yup you can now arrest pirates during the day time (also lobbyists if section 105F is to believed)
You can also arrest anyone with covid who coughs near you (provided you get sick)
There are not enough dildos in the world to chuck at this level of punchable fucking incompetence. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
The Trump years were dark. But in little NZ they never lost hope. For NZ had a leader of rare and inspiring character.
In the face of endless climate disaster and economic implosion, he always had just the right uplifting words:
"Welcome to IKEA"
"Welcome to State of Origin"
"Check out my Spotify"
HEY FRIENDS
Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾
Read:
1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
Watch ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...
Right Labour - NOW is the moment you put all possible contractors on notice that the project will be cancelled & contracts ripped up.
Not tomorrow, not next week
NOW.
Join us tomorrow at 19:00 CET for the announcement of the TT08 demoscene competition winners!
www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...
