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This was a VERY fun one so you should listen to it

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Have you or someone you know been turned away from voting? Newsroom wants to hear from you! newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/27/e...

RIP Walter Koenig, one of the best villains on Babylon 5, a show that was not short of fantastic villains.

Every time I read one of these articles, I can't get over how repellent the ChatGPT "tone" is. And how we now live in an age where someone in the tech sector probably thinks it's good that journalists' time is getting wasted fielding support tickets

Today's successful decoding of the Enigma machine that is our kid's gestalt language development: "Christmas lights" plus "black straw" relates to the one or two times we've gone to a specific pub in Tawa and she drank apple juice, and she wishes to recreate that scene. Mostly the apple juice part.

You know you are going to like it.

When political scientists first raised concerns about this new restriction last year we were told we were being ‘alarmist’ to suggest tilting the playing field unfairly like this by one party can undermine the legitimacy of the election out come for all Kiwis in a tight race I’m still ‘alarmed’…

This election in a nutshell: a comment on FB saying "people should just be organised to enrol, it's not like this information is difficult to find" followed eight minutes later by a different person saying "why are you blaming the government, this was the electoral commission's decision"

Investigative journalist Aaron Smale says the political posturing over photos with gangs is ignorant, hypocritical, and amounts to gangster chic for Instagram

Voting is a massive pain in my ample arse. I hate peopleing, and I hate the silent Presbyterian eyeball-judgement in the queue. Whatever, I’ll do my civic duty. But Luxon’s coalition of calamity just made doing yours that little bit harder, and why you have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to enrol. #nzpol 🧵👇

Something I wish more people would realize.

Lots of "politicians and gangs" in the election news. For completeness, I'd like to see "politicians and people who believe great replacement theory", "politicians and extremely conservative religions", "politicians and pedophiles who were the head of the party and had that fact suppressed" too.

“Every Māori politician in this country gets asked, sooner or later, to account for a relationship no Pākehā politician is ever asked about”—a question framed by those who “have never had to explain their own cousins to a camera.” @mohanjdutt.bsky.social culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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Native bird spotted in Wellington for first time in about 70 years www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

I know this is obvious and doesn't need to be spelled out to most people reading this, but being opposed to something ideologically is not newsworthy. Bob McCoskrie has no relevant experience, expertise, understanding or standpoint to comment on trans healthcare on ANY level ever.

BREAKING: Embattled news editors facing additional claims of cowardice, key jangling

To stay in power you actually need to do something. You need to show voters that you aren't just more of the same. You need to improve lives. No centrist western parties are interested in learning this lesson. Which is why we have the political landscape shift further and further right.