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The Church doesn't want you to know this but the Virgin Mary had J Cups
For those in the back: The total amount the New Zealand government has spent on all historical Waitangi Tribunal settlements over the last 30+ years is less than the cost of a single year of the 2024 tax cuts for Landlords.
I think if a person adopts a kitten and then returns them for being difficult I should get to beat that person stone dead with a brick in front of their family
I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now
There isn't a "masculinity crisis," there is a misogyny one.
i love gumby because sometimes there's just a guy from Hell
These were all in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. The "pro-trans bullet casings" thing was a lie, but they didn't seem to care. Anyway, I just want to once again say that it sucked.
My new DnD character is a 70 something year old Ex-Sorcerer Academy Professor who Did Something so bad he has to learn to be a wizard now to cast magic again while evading anyone that ever knew him back then
Mikhail Kostaltyn mood board
Quite literally the job of a representative.
One Candidate, One Pint: Paul Henry on never giving a shit what anyone thinks
have been saying this for the last 24 hours: this movie is going to create discourses that you have never even dreamed of
“she clearly created theranos as a trauma response” is gonna live in my head rent free now when i think about this movie
Weird how every time National (in NZ or AU) comes in to fix the economy, the economy ends up in shambles with countless unemployed and problems - but the wealthiest get to enhance their estimated net worth.
PM Christopher Luxon's targets: Jobseeker numbers climbing, almost 80,000 over target
Just a reminder your art is labor. The tropes about struggle are by design. And your worth is far more than you’ll ever know in part because we’ve given up that valuation to others who aren’t listening. Love to you all.
it's not exactly a mystery why everyone is turning to either gambling or running scams
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Interesting that Villa Education Trust is in this story, run by Alwyn Poole who had a series of pro charter school columns in the Herald and was on Dunc Garner's pod last week vaunting the model. Nice work if you can get paid for it I guess. www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...
Two former charter schools under microscope for growing debt, illegal board appointments
Growing debt, an illegal board of trustees, and curriculum and management fees totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars a year prompted Education Ministry intervention at two former charter schools.
rnz.co.nz
It feels like everything that's ever happened has just been one long preamble to Fielder vs Holmes
Again I'm reminded that fiction is bound by what's plausible but reality is not.
theaters screening this should consider removing the rearmost 30% of their seating to create a Pacing Section
there's a teaser trailer and everything youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI&feature=youtu.be
Can't wait for Hipkins to get in front of a microphone and promise "Labour will NEVER lower the cost of food."
the most sophisticated large language model is no closer to artificial general intelligence than an alarm clock, and it will never get any closer