I can almost smell the alcohol through the years and the screen

Rod Drury faced misconduct complaint

A wealthy businessman getting a vaunted vanity award only for it to be revealed that they've engaged in grotty personal misconduct? This must be unprecedented in New Zealand history

I’ve Seen Enough: Donald Trump is the Antichrist Re-issue: It’s time to admit the Christians were right all along. The prophecies are coming to pass.

this webworm from @haydendonnell.bsky.social was originally published on february 17, 2025 – but with donald trump recently sharing an AI rendering of himself as *checks notes* jesus christ, it seems appropriate to re-publish it today: www.webworm.co/trumpistheantichrist/

You are not alone my friend

Is it how many legs he has because two

RNZ: One-legged Carlos Ulberg wins UFC title on one leg

The worst thing about this headline is I looked it up and he actually has two legs

this was yesterday but the great thing about being in New Zealand is that we also get American April Fools today

Brown is engaged in a long-running feud with Act, who he accuses of being “CAVEs” – constantly against virtually everything. He’s frustrated with the party’s opposition to a bed night levy, which would be used to fund concerts and sports events, and Seymour’s resistance to dense housing in Epsom. “They don’t want any concerts in Auckland. They don’t want any sports events because they’re opposing the bed night levy. They don’t want people living intensively. They want us all to live in tents in Maungaturoto.”

Brown says he was fine with the original plan to zone for a capacity of two million houses and may try to go back to it if the government exerts more pressure to downzone in what he considers to be key areas for intensification, including Parnell and Epsom. “Two million: I was happy enough with that. Just let the market sort itself out. Act is meant to be about the marketplace. They’re the most anti-marketplace outside of Russia,” he says.

story does contain some fun quotes from Wayne Brown

Exclusive: Government to slash Auckland housing numbers again Just weeks after cutting back Auckland's housing capacity plans, the government is set to water them down again.

happy to have established myself as a key source of depressing housing news thespinoff.co.nz/politics/31-...

shoot I gotta look out for you! I will be watching like a hawk for every 0.2 second increment of my journey in future

Yep! Most days

Comment giving coordinates of a cock and balls on the road

The cock and balls in place on the road in question

you can learn a lot in The Spinoff comment section

Breaking: New racecourse to look like penis The main track will act as the shaft, while the back track and harness track will be the testicles.

Thank goodness The Spinoff rescued @haydendonnell.bsky.social from his totally unhelpful role as a media commentator on RNZ and put his skills to use properly!!

Spinoff Headline: Breaking: New racecourse to look like penis

once again very proud of my contributions to The Spinoff

Petrol is so expensive. Hopefully we’ve been reducing our dependence on it? It would be a real shame if we’d done something like stop NZTA spending on walking and cycling. Ha ha ha.

This Iran situation isn't looking great. But surely our politicians have been taking steps to reduce our dependence on oil. Would be very concerned if not thespinoff.co.nz/politics/17-...

this is the Bam Adebayo 83 point game of terrible takes

This actually feels really reassuring I get the appeal

Any time you can crash the global economy to replace a bad guy with a worse guy you gotta do it

Labour had six long years to fix Christopher Luxon's polling

man this is so true

It's actually very cool to have so many sewage overflows you can get them confused, Wellington should keep up

shut it

The government has been dealing with complaints from homeowners in Parnell about its unreasonable plans to upzone their area just because it’s within walking distance of Auckland’s city centre and connected to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public infrastructure. At the urging of his boss, housing minister Chris Bishop has tied himself in knots trying to accommodate the whiners while still allowing houses near the train line we just spent $5.5bn on. A move-on order for the villa owners in Parnell, along with similarly well-appointed suburbs such as Ponsonby, would clear out some much-needed space and stem the tide of public meetings. Thankfully there’s a mid-sized city crying out for growth in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of the North Island.

feel I may have undermined today's column by putting in something I actually agree with thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-...

Govt gives police move on powers

Me the government
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Addressing issues by refusing to look at them

Speaking from experience, she has a far higher hill to climb

Yeah sorry that was also me

I think the point of the passage is you could become super saiyan by channeling his power, maybe learn some theology

Comment 1: Appalled at the title and won't be reading the article. Very disappointed in the Spinoff this morning. Comment 2: Happy at the title and will be re-reading the article. Very proud of the Spinoff this morning

my iconoclastic style is dividing The Spinoff's readership

Spinoff headline: Good news: It’s kākāpō fuck season

breaking new frontiers when it comes to headline writing at The Spinoff

didn't need so many words imo