Juha Saarinen

Astonishingly, this is not a joke. The organisers of the league called in police to enforce a trespass order after complaints from other parents that the wee lad was dominating the play by being too good. It's hard to express the inadequacy of adults who would do this.

Sir. We’ve lost the guy who thinks Hitler was ‘fucking cool’

It's funny buggers. Luxon likes to go on about Singapore, yet skips over the part about Singapore's huge public housing model, not to mention the vast sovereign wealth fund that NZ would have had, if the OG hadn't voted for Muldoon's rebate.

Can't beat Wellington on a day.

Did Ron Mark ever define what he meant by "man buns"?

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.

Maybe prediction markets are bullshit?

stories.theconversation.com/supermarket-... This is nicely done by the Conversation about how supermarkets lure you to buy more than you need.

Could be a metaphor for the New Zealand economy

Brazil’s three leading newspapers report that Lula has been re-elected.

Too late now, but could the opposition parties have mounted a legal challenge against the electoral law changes? www.beehive.govt.nz/release/over... @graemeedgeler.bsky.social ?

look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

Should've decided the result first, then he wouldn't have to lose.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/2... "The IOC Executive Board, when it lifted the suspension, said athletes should not be held responsible for the actions of their governments." Is that the new "we were only following orders" excuse?

Tūranga is open today (Labour Day - Monday 26 October) 10am to 5pm, plus you can vote there from 10am to 4pm! my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-zealand-... ^DR

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQKu... Feels like Dr Andrew Bagshaw should be mentioned in the dispatches, if he hasn't been already.

Node2Shell flaw embedded in apps and dev tools far beyond Node.js www.itnews.com.au/news/node2sh...

Tomorrow's the annual seize the means of production day then. Arise, ye workers from your slumber, Arise, ye prisoners of want. For reason in revolt now thunders, And at last ends the age of cant!

A teenage Diego Maradona listening to Pelé play the guitar during their first ever meeting, Rio de Janeiro, 1979

There's no going wrong with olive oil, quality anchovies, smashed garlic, toasted pine nuts, black pepper/chilli, doppio tomato puree and some of the pasta water for the roughly extruded linguine. With fresh basil leaves on top. NZ has to work that into emergency rations; it's a must.

"Should governments shift taxation entirely away from human labour and onto automated capital, compute, and energy consumption to keep consumer markets alive, or bring in life-support such as UBI, rations and housing for people?" Could an NZ party propose the former option?

thepoint.com.au/new/261022-n... "Prominent economist Dr Richard Denniss has warned a parliamentary inquiry that Australia is unprepared for the mass unemployment that AI companies are banking on to drive their profits."

UN Says Breaching 1.5C Warming Limit Is 'Imminent and Unavoidable' https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/10/23/0031209/un-says-breaching-15c-warming-limit-is-imminent-and-unavoidable?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

From elite spies to ‘gig-economy’ operatives: the changing face of Russian sabotage theconversation.com/from-elite-s...

⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

India's eMudhra exits website security business www.itnews.com.au/news/indias-...

Yes I know we call them subeditors in NZ. The real editors who don't "make it better", like yours truly, are domeditors. /me ducks and hides

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... This is very good about being 18, *cough*, not that many years ago. An entirely different world it seems.

This tool hinders fascists. Kuus tarraa tänään vähennetty.

Wednesday

And some detail on what the two critical unauthenticated RCE bugs in PHP were about www.itnews.com.au/news/critica...

Critical flaws strike PHP as disclosure embargo is broken www.itnews.com.au/news/critica...

Our discussion forum is the only software we have using PHP. We've taken it down temporarily while waiting for the patches for www.php.net/archive/2026... due to vulnerability details already being available and proof of concept exploits being developed. Don't want to take the risk.

Cloudflare warns fixing botched eMudhra certs goes beyond browsers www.itnews.com.au/news/cloudfl...

www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... Stalk-eyed signal fly.

But yeah, what would/will you stock up on? Tinned toms, beans/legumes (dried or tinned), flour (?), fish? The French have much better conserves but I'm not sure how long they last.

Alberta rejects plan for referendum on leaving Canada, media projects

"The healthiest foods to stockpile for an apocalypse " www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/th... It has come to this.

www.wired.com/story/how-el... "How Elizabeth Holmes Tricked WIRED—and Everyone Else".

NZ Blood is still short of plasma, please donate.

The AI generated images of the Pink Panther running around in what is not the Paris riots is quite an expression of Anglo cultural imperialism.