Great art requires limitations

From ‘butter chicken’ comments to graffiti, anti-Indian sentiment is a warning signal How did this language become imaginable?

My friend Manisha Bhikha calling for us to get our shit together. When she says "This is the first time I can remember seeing anti-Indian hate expressed with this level of visibility and confidence" be aware that *she's been in govt counterterror & preventing violent extremism for decades*.

Too cute

*story

Today’s most upsetting sorry [trigger warning SX assault]

It goes like stink!

Number crunching: Iran war

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Clothed teens refuse to leave lazy river in 45 minute standoff with cops Dunedin police negotiated with two 13-year-old girls for 45 minutes after they leapt into Moana Pool’s lazy river fully clothed and refused to get...

Robbie Robertson voice “somewhere down the lazy river” www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Woah an actual Promite eater in the wild!

I missed that they arrested the clown that did the anti Indian hate speech, that’s good. It’s feeling like this increase in intolerance is systemic. It must be exhausting to be the focus of…

FFS

Mate

It all seems so simple, why has no one else thought of that

Racist message targeting Indians spray-painted outside Auckland school gates A threatening message telling people to "Kill All Indian" was spray-painted in red outside an Auckland primary school.

"KILL ALL INDIAN" | Racist message targeting Indians spray-painted outside Auckland school gates www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Those poor kids

I miss Mary Wilson on Checkpoint

It’s terrible. The last time they tried it was about twenty years ago (before S Plunket went cry cray), and they had sheep and bird sounds and “RNZ: sounds like us”

Past time to delete

If Orban is ousted, Hungary also becomes a test case for what policies work to undo authoritarian entrenchment in state institutions. Provides many lessons for us here if/when Trump's faction loses control.

Do Hungary have Fox News, compliant digital Brazilianaires and corrupt campaign funding rules?

Ermmmm

Hmmm. I’ll be lining up Little Simz as my #1 priority

You can rewind 12 hours: be kind, rewind

Not feeling the new RNZ idents

This this this

I know it’s crazy, but as an alternative, White House staffers could simply choose not to commit any crimes.

A graphic showing overshoot days for different countries

With less than a third into the year, it was overshoot day for Aotearoa yesterday - the day when Earth's resources and services would have been used up if the whole world consumed as much

You’ve earned it

Fancy a hand of Cnuno?