"The exact outcome that Winston ran rings around National to achieve has eventuated!1"

If you’re going to trying and scare the normies about the radical left agenda it helps if your examples are actually radical left. This is like trying to scare people about bears by reading them Winnie the Pooh.

Totally misread an ad about US tax as "ARE YOU TIRED OF THE HIGH COST OF US BEING TAX COMPLIANT?"

No, look, many's the time I've counted the legs of my decision octopus and cursed that I, a fool, couldn't get to eight. Woe! Woe for five, or three!

He doesn't worry about actually having the secret knowledge, he just moves on to the next audience and does another cold read.

Winston's main move when he's trying to woo folks is to say "you and I have secret knowledge" — which has really helped him win cookers. His main attack is to say he has secret knowledge & his target does not. Both require quickly and accurately identifying what's salient to his audience.

Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars.

NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.

I went to a few temples recently and a few parks and found myself in a race between wonder and fury — this lot openly advocate for stealing nice things from the future in their directives to councils.

Well, in addition to just plain stealing from the future. Li-vid. Also nice things are nice.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Casey Johnston's post: fuck you, beans— wait, wait, beans plus fat, aww yiss, forgive me beans, I was hangry.

Outstanding photo, I don't know how they did it but they added this effect if you happen to have a subscription

Looking for transcripts of Auckland Council, or trying to figure out how to create them with sorcerous intent. Uh. Someone did livetweets of meetings but I'm blanking on who.

Willis bought hers on etsy from an artist called "be cool but November ain't so long until Leader of the Opposition I said BE COOL"

Downfall meme with staff reassuring each other they'll have time to recharge a fitbit out of battery

"You'll have time Gerda, walk slowly and smile."

two men are sitting in a car talking to each other and the words `` it 's happening isn 't it ? '' Alt: two men are sitting in a car talking to each other and the words `` it 's happening isn 't it ? ''

(NZ edition)

If I were trying to reach Luxon, a letter seems a desperation move. He'd confuse it for a briefing paper, cast it to the ground, and crash through the bushes fleeing from the thoughts contained within.

"subscribe to my newsletter"
huh, let's look — nope, substack, sorry buddy

No queens - we may have won the yellow-legged hornet battle There's hope we may have won the war against the yellow-legged hornet, but what happens next is critical.

Good shit to all involved from those putting up traps, to those looking closely at every wasp and bee, to those pushing the government to do something, to the workers at MPI.

Keep going!

a group of men wearing hoods and masks are standing in the desert Alt: A fremen getting to their feet to get to work

Who indeed will rid him of this turbulent VP

I don't read polls. I rely on traditional ways to know if a prime minister is embattled.

Iran war: Greens call to ‘electrify everything’ and distance NZ from US The Green Party says a national electrification plan is needed to build NZ’s energy security as, unlike oil shipments, wind and solar can’t be held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Green Party says a national electrification plan is needed to build NZ’s energy security as, unlike oil shipments, wind and solar can’t be held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

Just going to assume, based on the last few times, that this is a turd of a policy that you need to read their statements directly to divine how as the reporting elides important turdological facets

I don't think capitalism is fit for
purpose for household electricity any more, and the sooner we win that fight the better.

a woman in a denim jacket is speaking into a microphone and saying there were some signs . Alt: a woman in a denim jacket is speaking into a microphone and saying there were some signs . There is a whole report full of them showing where $10b of dividends went. https://union.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Generating-Scarcity-2023-update.pdf

That second paragraph.

"For every dollar spent on plant, property, and equipment, $2.41 has been spent paying shareholder dividends."

Those dividends have not been used wisely and are JUST ANOTHER TAX ON THE PUBLIC.

union.org.nz/wp-content/u...

Sir Geoffrey has replied! He says:

What I said was "New Zealand is an irredeemably pluvial country." Of course because of climate change it is even more pluvial now than when I said it.
All the best,
Geoffrey

I have never wanted anything as much as I want one of these

one milkshake to bring them all and in the yardness bind them

me and my deck cast Hot Grapefruit, Phil. We cast Hot Grapefruit.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

godDAMN this stupid milkloving piece of shit dumbass mean spirited sale at briscoes racist sexist 40% off deck furniture piss country

From the Book of Hera Lindsay Bird