Where is my thunderstorm?
Where is my thunderstorm?
Then they extended it until 3pm. I’m totally confused now.
The thunderstorms alert, which apparently ends 10 minutes after the warning arrived, seems a bit… making up for last night?
Laneway is on right now! If you're feeling FOMO and/or reminiscent, our friend Jackson Perry shared with us his photos from the first 6 years of Laneway in Aotearoa New Zealand, from 2020 to 2015. "The most memorable moment for many at Laneway 2010 was...
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Doesn’t this relate to the fact that the ‘East Coast’ is the eastern most point of the country, and similarly the West Coast the western most point? Of the extremities, so to speak.
The post of God.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Nietzsche, God, and Journalism are dead.
SOCRATES: I am wiser than this man; he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing—
DARRYL, SOCRATES' FRIEND (Editor's note: There is no historical evidence that Socrates actually had a friend named Darryl. This is likely a character invented to facilitate the joke.): fuck him up socrates
We need an antidote to all this ‘waves arms’. Remember this song by @billybragg.bsky.social and Wilco? Where did all the ideology go?
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I mean, at least Reti is a doctor. Collins, Goldsmith or Simeon Road-cone Brown? The driving instructor, the car crusher and some kid without a licence? Drive the ambulance off the cliff!
Reposting myself to tag in @madpropsnz.bsky.social Hello!
Wait, @madpropsnz.bsky.social lives? Should have tagged my post yesterday day.
Definitely a high point.
Don Wilson house Whanganui.
This house needs a #madpropsnz category all of its own. Is it enough to draw me to Whanganui? Maybe.
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If you're thinking of getting an ambulance painted, you should really talk to Nigel Brown.
One of the greatest soundtracks ever, in a show that somehow changed everything. At least in TV land. #RIP David Lynch.
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Someone should sit Seymour down and make him watch this on repeat. It’s not about the patches. With hat tip to my BIL who worked on it.
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We got a room at Metropolis with several friends. We gate crashed a Shorthand Street party. Well, they invited us in cause we had Pink Schnapps.
Boats at Russell.
Tall ship and taki at Kororāreka.
Boxing Day in Kororāreka.
Ludwig is awesome. That is all. TVNZ+.
Merry Christmas, y’all. 🎄🎄🎄
This government is making a habit of lavish announcements that they will be doing less. ‘Reducing the burden on the tax payer’ is legislating inequality.
MetService temp.
Yeah, nah. Feels like 30°. ‘Hotter than a snakes ass in a wagon rut!’ #GMV #RIPRobinWillams
Christmas tree
Damn, Farmers got me. Made it until the 12th. #lastchristmas
I’m trying to write something positive about the cricket. I just haven’t got it in me. It’s just… deflating.
Something I think isn’t really obvious to non-researchers is that the vast, vast majority of NZ government science spending already goes to funds which are targeted at direct economic outcomes. The Marsden Fund was the last, inadequate bastion of fundamental research funding. 🧪
Everyone’s like ‘come back Jacinda, we were wrong!’ Too late mate.
Ruin a book by changing one letter.
Less of the d'Urbervilles.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
That series is intensely good.