Paul Brislen

hehehe, kid just put me as her Emergency Contact on an employment form because "mum doesn't pick up her phone". I WIN.

#NZpol ⬇️ (e.g. because they didn’t know they had to register early.)

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

We must expect that Meta's interference is happening in other elections around the world *right now*. This isn't just a one-off. Meta has proved repeatedly they are committed to advancing far-right agendas worldwide, are serial liars, and are flagrantly indifferent to the dismantling of democracies.

watching those numbers pop out is quite cool.

RNZ asking the Sensible Sentencing Trust and TPU for comment on the new attack billboards is yet more evidence they learned nothing from Dirty Work. These are bad-faith PR orgs and RNZ is willfully running cover for them.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

It need not cost those hundreds of millions of dollars if you bring in an overseas partner who knows rail and knows stations, and knows human experience on a 35 year concession That partner is called Japan (and they are waiting)

OK Auckland, I know it’s been a while but you’ve driven in the rain before and you will have to do it again so don’t freak out, it’ll be ok. And if you don’t like driving in the rain we have a few alternatives these days so you don’t have to! 🚌⛴️🚂

Walter Koenig as the terrifying psychic KGB I mean Psi-Corps spymaster Bester on Babylon 5, as a role, really did shit all over comedy 'nuclear wessels' Chekov sorry not sorry

With the dog. Excellent.

“AirBNB was meant to be a free money printer, I shouldn't have to provide a service for the money," he said through the tears chaser.com.au/general-news...

Well he’s correct. That’s exactly what this is. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

The 1950s were such a fabulous time for healthy living in Great Britain. Especially for young folk.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

RIP Walter Koenig. Of all his moments on Star Trek, one of his finest was accurately portraying an officer stuck doing bridge duty while massively hungover (Star Trek VI)

#NZpol I guess I’m not alone – Trevor Mallard did the same as me ⬇️

watching these election results like

TPU ads running in front of autoplay videos on NZME website - which are again AI generated Hipkins - REALLY feels like it shouldn't be allowed. Media can't keep getting away with claiming "objectivity" for verbatim reporting PR lines, or refusing to attack the rightwing, while this incentive exists

Wait, hidden for intolerance? Rully BS?

How brave of the NZ Herald to publish this editorial the day after voter enrolment closed, when it can have literally zero impact. (And it's *still* not criticising the government for changing the law to make it harder to vote, it's just the usual "better civic education" pleasantries.)

I've taken the paywall off this in case anybody fancies a read. I promise it's worth it. I mean, I would say that, wouldn't I, but I do promise it is. tomcox.substack.com/p/31-notes-i...

Butch and Sundance Magnificent Seven Blazing Sadles 3:10 to Yuma Tombstone TGTBATU The Quick and the Dead True Grit (Coens) The Cowboys Dead Man The Assassination of… Blackthorn The Wild Bunch

US has for years asked Musk to turn Starlink on or off in various countries www.itnews.com.au/news/us-has-...

So the F1 strategy for winning the championship: have Bono as your engineer.

That swooping drone shot under the wee bridge…

Achilles Wheel! 😜😜😜

Watching F1 live is quite cool.

Kerrin Leoni says she will sit as an independent MP if she wins Tāmaki Makaurau. This comes three days after she resigned as Labour’s candidate.

Thank you. Here's an example of one of the correct versions: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

I don't think enough of you have seen this shirt of a dragon riding a skateboard

Are these the same people who told us with gravity that the EU targets would have to be weakened because there was not enough demand for EVs?

If they were genuinely concerned with the number of special votes from late enrolment, the govt could have mandated auto enrolment. If administrative data is so good it can replace the census* then we can auto enrol. #nzpol *a govt claim, not mine

I swear to god if I hear another person talk about “the mainstream media” while mainlining disinfo slop online all day, I’m going to lose my mind

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The only thing I know about the Cheesecake Factory came from a guy in Honolulu who told me how to avoid the huge queue. Ask if you can sit at a table in the bar area while you wait and then once you’re in ask for the menu. They will feed you in the bar and you won’t wait 45 minutes for a table.

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Chris Claremont had me reaching for the dictionary three or four times per issue as a kid. Frictionless prose dies on the eye.