I’d just like to remind everyone that the first iRex ferry would have just entered service had the coalition not cancelled them purely out of spite for the opposition, Wellington and the South Island.
If you invert the lyrics to Rick Astley you get Nine Inch Nails: I will give you up I will let you down I will run around and hurt you etc.
Good morning
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
I’ve never said “fucking” or “cunts” in relation to anything as much as when referring to this govt of fucking cunts.
And I managed an adult store for a time.
#nzpol
Staffy cross dog in forest, smiling at the camera, standing in front of a faded framed print of a forest, which is propped up against a tree.
We found random forest art in the forest!
An aerial plan view of a ringfort at Rathangan, Kildare, Ireland. The fort is a circular earthen bank and ditch, with a number of mature trees growing around the circuit of the bank.
'The fort opposite the oakwood,
Once it was Bruidge’s, it was Cathal’s
It was Aed’s, it was Ailill’s,
It was Conaing’s, it was Cuiline’s
and it was Maeldúin’s
The fort remains after each in his turn
and the kings asleep in the ground'.
c.8th century Irish poem describing this ringfort at Rathangan
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
Have been enjoying Greg Daniel's "Upload" on Amazon for its light, dry hypercapitalist cynicism but they knocked it out the park with a cameo by cyberpunk prophet William Gibson in S3E5! Appropriate use of @greatdismal.bsky.social as a cautionary voice that's utterly ignored 😉
Nice! You might like The Beths, my fave NZ band at the moment.
I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests
In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated, "Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."
I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.
www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…
Two gummy bears melted together with the caption: The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter
A film classic
A parody of IKEA manuals: the logo says KEA and the instructions are for "CAR DISASSEMBLY. The first panel is a cartoon kea with a speech bubble and a screwdriver, hammer, and pliers all with an X under them, then a beak with a check mark. The subsequent panels are "1. Door Seals" with a kea pecking at the seal; "2. Wiper Blades" with a kea removing the blades; "3. Aerial" with a kea removing the antenna; "4. Wing Mirrors" with a kea removing the mirrors
A pika sits on a mossy rock.
Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.
An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.
An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Beware of any politician doing this. It’s a major red flag of the most cynical political opportunism, weaponization of lies & misinformation, and manipulation of some consultant’s idea of a “wedge issue.” It would waste public money, risk or even cost lives, weaken the city, make traffic worse, etc.
Yet again, this Michael Rosen poem hits the bullseye.
#nzpol
INTRODUCTORY BUSINESS STUDIES 101.
Final exam question:
You report to the Board of XYZ Inc. There are 2 choices.
A) XYZ Inc gives me $550m and I give XYZ Inc 2 new boats.
B) XYZ Inc gives me $671m and I give XYZ Inc nothing.
What is your recommendation to the Board of XYZ Inc? A or B?
The perfect Wellington, according to the target demo of the Post, is one where no one works in the public service BUT also we all buy fifteen coffees a day on AND party all night on Courtenay Place WHILE driving home to our rentals which we levitate into so as not to scuff the floors
Sorry if I'm not your cup of tea. I'm not even my own cup of tea. I'm barely a cup and I don't like tea. I'm more like a rusty bucket of haunted bog water. Sorry if I'm not your rusty bucket of haunted bog water.
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DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO SAYS RATES ARE STAYING FLAT!
There is no way with the levels of inflation and the frequency of climate emergencies/damage any reasonable person could think rates won't be going up.
We need the services those dollars provide.
#NZPol
a woman holding a sign that reads, "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people."
Good morning
the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
Biking is on the up in Wellington, thanks to the network effect, and thanks to WCC. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607... @cyclewgtn.bsky.social
Still this.
chaser.com.au/general-news...
Cycleway tacks cause havoc among Wellington bike riders www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Aww too cute.
