Russell Brown

In case anyone is wondering: this is not true. There are dozens of reasons to criticise Opportunity without making up nonsense about their policies

Bolsonaro just learned the hard way that Trump's loyalty has the shelf life of warm shrimp.

Damn, who could have seen this one coming?

“Witnesses speak of modeling pageants & parties where young women & girls were forced into predatory situations & routinely taken advantage of & raped. They give accounts of the competitive & sinister relationship between Epstein & Trump and how it was channeled into their shared pursuit of women.”

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

From Matthew Hooton's editorial in The Post today.

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.

Well, that's a wrap.

With almost 76% of votes counted, Lula's lead over Bolsonaro is only growing. Polymarket now lists Lula's chances of victory at 98%. It's over. Lula defeats Bolsonaro.

Hello darkness my old friend

New Zealand mentioned

It's increasingly clear that the major threat of AI is not super intelligence but the poisoning of every community built around collaboration, communal labor or democratically negotiated standards. www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/u...

When there’s finally an effort to hold these criminals accountable for the crimes they committed, we‘re going to see a lot of pundits wring their hands and say it’s politically motivated and insist we need to turn the page and look forward and a lot of other cliches that dumb assholes like to use.

Presumably this will last until someone notices that pardons remove 5th Amendment protections, but I suppose with this gang of clowns you never know.

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-...

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

Worth noting with this, it's not a vaccine in the sense of "take this x times and never get melanoma", it's a therapy used after surgical excision of your existing melanoma has occured. Then, using the removed tissue target mutations specific to your cancer are encoded into synthetic mrna

Tama Potaka (National). Not sure of the context of the photo but here he is, in a photo, meeting gang members. #nzpol

Wish to report that the launch of the barbecue season this evening has been a great success.

The quoted post image, but with alt text. "Frank Furtschool @kulturalmarx wrote: "you ever think about the fact that wikipedia built the modern library of alexandria using nothing but nerds' need to correct each other"

First you have to get over the embarrassment of a NZer being denied entry to Australia for being too racist. But then you can enjoy the fact that the guy who loves to go on about kicking out foreign criminals got kicked out as a foreign criminal.