🎶 Hit the moon in the eye, with rocket that can't fly. That's a moron 🎶
The Independent@the-independent.com · 10h agoBREAKING | An out-of-control SpaceX rocket has collided with the Moon READ MORE: trib.al/mGkWuJh
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Haven't seen it mentioned anywhere yet, but I notice that the supermarket duopoly has quietly dropped its experiment in trying to sell American produced butter in NZ.
Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a Changin' opening for Watchmen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3E-...
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Watchmen - Intro)
YouTube video by TheTonhoMendes
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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 17h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
Hickey makes a good point in this Spinoff vid. Key was a Keynesian. As the GFC washed around the world, he agreed not only invest in RoNS and Joyce's fibre network. He backed Len Brown's CRL, which provided private investment multiplier effects. Luxon is no Key. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bO1...
Unemployment hits 11-year high – with Bernard Hickey | At Large with Toby Manhire
YouTube video by The Spinoff
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Luxon will end up as the most widely despised PM in NZ since Muldoon. Like Muldoon, he'll be knighted while everyone else is benighted.
Just what NZ needs. Another Generation X.
Bernard Hickey@bernardchickey.bsky.social · 2d agoOpen and free for all. Enrolment of 18-24 year olds for Nov 7 election collapses to 53% from 70%; Over 200,000 young people not enrolled = more than voted NZ First in 2023; Auckland Council vote turnout under 20% for young. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
Muldoon was well before Luxon's knowledge of #nzpol, which dates back to maybe a decade. But this is Irony Gate level gatekeeping.
Katya@nzkatya.bsky.social · 2d agoSo Luxon claims he has official advice that Data Centres won't increase energy costs but, when the Greens requested a copy of the advice via an OIA, his office says there wasn't any advice and Luxon was just repeating their talking points, then Nicola says MBIE gave her advice ....🤡 #nzpol
A wig! A wig! My kingdom for a wig to defuse Bomber Bradbury!
CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 2d agoJust compare how this judge is having to speak to Bradbury like he's a four year old, explaining that he's probably already breached existing court orders, and advising him to seek legal counsel so he doesn't end up in more trouble with the nonsense Bradbury posted about this case.
In the late 1990s, my old man joined the Tauranga Branch of the National Party hoping to turn Winston off. In 2008, I tried my utmost to sink Werewolf Winston, but the fucker bounced back. Can anyone find Winston's Off Button? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
'Turn that thing off': Peters terminates interview after just 96 seconds
Winston Peters had told a Stuff journalist to “piss off” after they asked questions about other instances of violent rhetoric and behaviour toward MPs.
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My fundamental concern with AI is its ethnocentrism. Best example, watch this George Carlin skit on the Seven Deadly Swear Words. Press C for closed captions. YouTube won't swear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZh...
George Carlin - 7 dirty words (best part)
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I've never wrapped my head around white supremacy. If you're the master race, why are they such mullet-headed incels? The only thing Nazis have in common is that long ago, at least one of their ancestors fucked Neanderthals.
Kieran@nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 3d agounpaywalled article. fuck these nazi shits.
There's no way this could backfire on Nats when voters know that this govt has increased Non-Tradeable inflation with user pays, water charges after repealing Three Waters and frankly taking the piss out of motorcycle riders with ACC increase. Sure there's more.
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d agoNational says it’s “triple your taxes” ads refer to three parties wanting to raise taxes. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Willis should have succeeded Collins as National Party Leader. Two things prevented that; Key nominated Luxon. Secondly, National couldn't bring itself to replace a female leader with another female leader.
@aliukr.bsky.social · 2d agoAs my old dad would have said "Complete Bull shit artist" I listened to the post cabinet today and I really hate to say this, but Nicola actually sounded prime ministerial beside the jabbering idiot Oh Who heard the question about "were you a CEO in Illinois " no clear response ??
Fun fact. Population decline is global. No-one gives a fuck.
Sassy Little Hobbit@sassypolitico.bsky.social · 3d agoI would like to propose a members bill banning male politicians telling us to have babies.
No child left behind to man-childhood.
CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 4d agoPostScript: I suspect that when asked further, Paul Henry will say something like "Well I was hit as a kid and I turned out alright" and I'm begging any mainstream politician to clip it and follow it up with "No, you turned into Paul Henry. We can't do that to kids, it's inhuman"
It's a crime in NZ to grow plants. It's been enshrined for decades in the Crimes Act as Attempted Gardening.
PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 3d agoProhibition doesn't work
So oxymoronic. Light Entertainer Goes Dark. The Neo-Liberal Neo-Conservative Party. Childless Seymour dictating his parenting skills to schools while serving up dog food for lunch.
𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™@dallasbarnett.com · 4d agoHoly Fuck Paul. Jesus christ.
Thanks for that. What a blast from the past. I'm reminded of the late Labour MP Parekura Horomia, who most wrote off as a joke. But he knew the people he represented.
morgan godfery@morgangodfery.bsky.social · 4d agoThe first technocratic centrist party under MMP was the Māori Party 2008-2017, not Opportunity. It will eventually end the same way for Opportunity as it did the Māori Party. Some interesting historical context if you need: e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
Reading this, and enjoying the analysis of Labour as a repressed party which can't ever do what it wants (as opposed to TOP, which will do, while not admitting to wanting it) andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/opportunit...
Opportunity Cost
Labour’s repressed desire and the rise of the political decaf
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Luxon, agony aunt: My husband died of cancer. How do I go on? Stop being negative. Upstream to Claude, you child. My kids can't get any jobs. What advice can I give them? They must retool and smack life. The blame is theirs. My SME went under due to inflation. Ideas? Don't pack a sook, cunt.
The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Sometimes it’s worse when our prime minister does actually make himself clear
Sometimes it’s worse when our prime minister does actually make himself clear
Christopher Luxon scolding a business audience for being like children is unlikely to land well, especially given his previous employer....
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Luxon won't fire Winston as FM coz then Winston would throw his toys and break the coalition. Wha-hey, snap election.
Yeah Agapanthus juice is not good on bare skin. I found out the hard way too.
Who asked for this? Just coz it's possible doesn't mean you should do it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
New EFTPOS terminals remove the need for cards or phones
Kiwis could soon be able to make purchases using their face or hand, without the need for a card.
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Fuck agapanthus in particular. Once helped a mate rip them out of his property only to come out in a rash that made me think I had meningitis.
Andy McKay@korimakoecology.bsky.social · 6d agoIncredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.
Is it foreign state interference in a domestic election if the Foreign Minister courts them?
Fuel crisis? What fuel crisis? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
An Air Force chopper had to be flown up from Ohakea to take PM from Auckland to Hamilton
The Defence Force is flying more than five hours to chopper Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to Hamilton, so he doesn’t have to make a 3-hour return drive. It’s happened twice so far.
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