God I love Billy Joel.

Probably won't be exhilarating for too long. This is a dreadful hobby.

Started playing 1 minute bullet games of chess. Pretty exhilarating checkmating the opponent with only 2 seconds left on the clock.

J.D. Vance's "Ain't I A Woman?" is going to be a real coup de grace.

some bell hooks and some hell books

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

C'mon, this was funny. Where are my film people?

Jeanne Dielman sequel where we spend 90 minutes watching her caramelising onions

Hundreds of Resene workers protest for living wage A crowd has gathered outside Resene's head office in Lower Hutt.

Hundreds of Resene workers protest for living wage

What the fuck is this headline?

Check me out

Yeah it's easy to fall into convenience and stick to what you know when it comes to subscription services and membership

Kinda keen to get off Spotify onto an alternative streaming service. What are people using?

Good news! NZ union density has been steadily increasing among workers aged 15-44 for the last 9 years, and increased significantly in the year after the Coalition took power in 2023. [1/4]

We need a moratorium on sequels

It's depressing that New Zealand is about to become the latest success in Uber's regulatory arbitrage campaign.

This is one of hers I haven't seen but upon hearing about it it kinda just sounds like The Talented Mr Ripley but a bit worse

I want to thank my friend Ambrose who steers me away from giving films that don't deserve it the benefit of the doubt lol

Or she's known what she's doing all along, which is be edgy for the sake of edgy and let the audience try and make meaning out of it. Doesn't really work when you're doing an adaptation

I watched Promising Young Woman yesterday, accidentally in time for the panned reviews of Wuthering Heights to come out, and yeah all I'll say is I don't think Emerald Fennel has ever known what she's doing.

Yeah they are a bit like that. I feel like you get out what you put in and like with most things, it's how you approach it

A photo of Brooke Van Valden striding happily next to David Seymour who has an expression perhaps best likened to a very drunk man who is in the midst of shitting himself. In the bottom right corner is the act logo. Above them the text ‘Any limits on workers’ human rights are justified to reduce risks to employers’.

We've got to resist US hegemony, fight for a free Palestine and free Pacific and a world free of imperialism, and not stop or get complacent when or if Labour gets back in

This is the kind of thing that anticipation for had my stomach sinking with dread on election night

FBI to open standalone office in Wellington The US policing agency's boss, Trump appointee Kash Patel, has been seen in the capital in recent days.

Fuuuuuuuck oooooooff. Our government are determined to keep sucking up to the biggest bully on the playground. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Deactivated my X account just in time for the announcement that the FBI is setting up shop in Pōneke

I'm sure it will land better than my experience but yeah I'm still like 🤨

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

I think "let's open membership and bring everyone together to decide what the party is about", is, from experience, quite bad. You already know what you want the party to be about, and you just end up with a bunch of resentful people.

One day I will do Coalition MPs as Gilmore Girls characters — a thread.

But today isn't that day.