Bruce Buckman

"But the preferred option comes with a price tag of more than half a billion." Oh no! We couldn't possibly run hourly trains between two of the North Island's three biggest cities for a price tag as steep as *checks notes* 1/7th the cost of a motorway to save a few minutes on the drive to Northland

I have long suspected black backed gulls nested on the roof of the disused Warehouse down the road and the fact that a pair of them were just loudly shagging on the edge of the roof seems to confirm this.

NZ, which has roads of national significance but clearly not a healthcare system of national significance. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

Ferphuxache… Debt has a reason. I could be debt-free tomorrow if I sold my house. But then I’d be homeless. Debt houses me. Debt keeps the nation running. Austerity only “works” if you’re wealthy enough not to need debt. #nzpol #votenz #DontVoteForThisWeasel www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

How do you feel about someone setting up an automated process that hammers restaurant-reservation websites to gain an advantage in booking a table? The NY Times thinks this is not only acceptable; it's a "killer task" for AI, worth paying $100/month. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/t...

Looks like my friends on Waiheke Rescue got a bit of entertainment from a Brydes Whale today.

Rename a book or movie for this economy. The Dirty Half Dozen

Took half an hour to get on the motorway from home, seemingly because the lights at Greenlane were set to ‘work day’ mode thus throttling traffic to prioritise the non-existent rush hour traffic on Greenlane Rd.

Fuck you Apple and your update with an ‘improved’ liquid glass. The ability to actually turn it off would be an improvement. But now that you’ve fucked over all my minimalising tweaks I have to start again.

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’…

With the warmer weather meaning open doors it is now increasingly impossible to prevent this rug inspector from coming in to inspect the rug.

Last day! NZ National restricted general roll voting regulations for the first time in 40 yrs To reporters please don’t repeat spin- the change won’t speed up counting - And let’s not shrug & say just 2% fewer voters enrolled It’s 300,000 NZers prevented from voting That’s an entire NZ town

307,991 eligible voters not enrolled as of Friday. Almost half (43%) are 18-24. The least enrolled age group; now even more so than 2023. This govt KNEW this would happen—and did it anyway, with no mitigation plan. Such disdain for democracy, and for young people. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-...

This whole gang thing has turned into the dumbest game of gotcha. Sometimes politics is just too cringe.

All Hipkins should have said You’re distracting from the big issues all people in New Zealand have a story to tell and we are here to listen to all people If pushed- he replies Key & Muldoon did it That’s why he’s not a leader leaders can explain a complex issue simply and he couldn’t 

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Now that's what I call a lede. ftav.substack.com/p/of-spacex-...

There’s probably a spec script floating around Hollywood already about a global apocalypse brought about by a rogue AI agent crashing all tech everywhere because someone it them to find the best price on DRAM.

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

There are two kinds of movie you can make from our current reality - bleak dystopian sci-fi or biting farcical satire and yes they can be the same movie.

Chris Hipkins is probably the only living person who could manage to make an entire election news cycle focus on how shit he is as a leader when the other major story is the kids hospital doing hunger games to see which kids get to survive. FHMR

Tesla Cybertruck officially axed for Australia: Deposits refunded seven years after orders opened

Hipkins’ election campaign is basically Frogger if the frog was also driving the cars.

Man you wouldn’t want to be the guy that loses an election, twice, to Christopher Luxon. I mean you’d think you’d try really hard not to be that guy. Like really hard.

Live footage of Hipkins strategising.

Hmm there’s definitely a shining cuckoo calling out there, probably in the park next door. I wonder if we will have a repeat of last summer’s epic tiny riroriro attempted to feed their massive cuckoo foster child drama? flic.kr/p/2rRoz3T

Seymour is a guy who has adopted the mantle of Libertarian thought leader as a necessary disguise to cover his basic shallowness and every time he tries to do public philosophy it ends up showing his arse cause he’s fundamentally just a stupid right wing prick.

Just keep stabbing the nation in the brain

What's the name for this campaign? "Triumph of the Wool"?

The next billboard is just Simeon straight up fucking the sheep to prove they are in touch with Kiwis #NZPol

‘Stick to the plan’ is was the heist leader in any movie says when the heist starts to go disastrously wrong and they have no idea how to fix it.