Ruling out Winston Peters.
Easy: "Labour won't consider Winston and his culture war crackpots. We make policies, they don't just magically appear on our desks."
More fun: "Fifty years of Winston Peters in Parliament. Fifty years of Winston never taking responsibility for the NZ he's made. Retire."
i've said it before - someone using substack for their content instantly drops in my estimation, with a good chance of unfollowing.
the platform is crap. do better, people.
Periodic reminder that our public health policy is being managed by the crunchy granola version of the Khmer Rouge.
those chucklefucks refuse to stand for anything.
no way am i gonna go looking for that article, but it's even nastier in the context of this -
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i wonder where peru falls on 45's list of latin american countries to invade after cuba...
and you have exactly what evidence to back that up?
"Whaaaaaa whaaaaaa whaaaaa! They did what *we* did. Only better. NOT FAIR!!!"
a map of the virginia redistricting outcome by county, using dot size & color to indicate number of ballots cast and political leaning. there are many smol red dots and a bunch of BIG BLUE dots.
hostile occupation by a majority of the people who voted! oh noes!
has anybody seen/a dog dyed dark green?
about two inches tall/with a strawberry blonde fall!
what have i become/my sweetest friend?
everyone i know/goes away in the end!
my brain immediately inserted the lyrics into quiche lorraine and i am HOWLING.
there are currently 3 pending lawsuits before the va supreme court, one on procedural grounds and two on misleading language grounds. wset.com/news/local/l...
a map of virginia showing the outcome of the redistricting referendum, where counties are outlined but the number of ballots cast in those counties are also represented as circles of varying sizes. most of virginia's counties are roughly the same size, but the number of ballots in each red county is small compared to the number of ballots in the majority blue counties. this visualization allows the viewer to understand that virginia's blue counties are much larger population centers than its red ones.
outcome (yay!) aside, this is the kind of data visualization i love. clearly shows the populations voting, not the land area.
bring on the virginia redistricting!
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he's already gotten people killed.
these were formed the night before and allowed to ferment overnight in the fridge, but you can also just use the ridiculous oven to proof->steam->bake as one program, if you want plain bagels. they don't get the nice blistering on the crust, though, because there's no fermentation.
our ridiculous miele steam combi oven. 😁 all bagels hit with 100C steam for 1 minute simultaneously (plus the time to get the oven up to temp, so about 3 minutes total).
military readiness, hunh? 🤦🏻
view from a bus in welly - water splatter on the windows, water shining on the pavement, sun streaming down at an angle.
10°c and raining is significantly colder than 10°c and bright sunshine.
10°c and raining while also bright sunshine is just confusing.
my last regular optometrist was the son of my previous regular optometrist. and then he, too, retired.
benefits: you have a doctor who is a woman who went through med school & residency at a time when taking women seriously is finally being incorporated into training!
Uh-oh. Do we need a new version of @magnets.eurosky.social’s brilliant observation about how climate change will manifest?
In a surreal twist, people are now doubting footage that is both very real and very close to home—a result of AI imagery poisoning the waters:
www.tickaroo.com/e/GCRysAwNeu...
i feel that way about blackberries. never understood the appeal.
5.30 will probably do you right.
i despise you for that pun at the end. 🤣😂🤣
eight golden bagels, cooling on racks. four are everything bagels. four are salt bagels.
a salt bagel, sliced in half. the top half rests at an angle on the bottom half, showing both the salty goodness of the top and the delicious interior of the bagel. the bagel sits on an end-cut wood butcher block cutting board, with the serrated blade of a bread knife visible on the upper right.
we are very lucky not to have been hugely affected by the wet weather that has descended on welly these past few days.
kids' school is closed, so we made bagels.
even an empty oil tanker might be an environmental disaster if sunk.
your argument is a song from 1968, and a video of that song filmed during obama's administration?
that would be JD in this version.