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Gonna just say it, this book is iconic and you should buy it. So proud to have been a part of this.

Babylon 5 folks, very much worth it In These Times.

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.

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

Diaspora yearning for coriander Doritos and shaomai Lays

After Hungary and Poland, Serbia becomes the third Central/Eastern European country in few years where massive youth mobilization has contributed to the electoral defeat of the ruling autocratic party.

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’…

Absolute fire from Aaron Smale here. #nzpol

I urge overseas voters to vote in the early part of the voting period, to allow for complications delaying things

“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-...

“Think about what never happens. A candidate photographed at a Federated Farmers breakfast isn’t asked to account for the nitrate in the Manawatū. A candidate at a corporate box isn’t asked if he endorses the firm's tax structure“ @mohanjdutt.bsky.social culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

💯 but also - take a look at the Tāmaki Makaurau results for a snapshot of the likely bias in these numbers - 17.5% of Māori (per Te Whata, 2023 census) own their home in Auckland, one of the polling items - but 43% in the poll said they did. This is where the bias is in the poll

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.

LOLOLOL Roskill is like yeah nah Carlos

Just keep stabbing the nation in the brain

One (1) day after Luxon declared his support for the ban during the Stuff debate, stay losing, loser.

Best way to mitigate overhang? Increase the size of parliament. Politically the hardest change to make to an electoral system? Increasing the size of parliament.

Malpass winning the prize for most bullshit in 20 seconds. Luxon lying about Labour overshooting their budget each year. Just awful. Zero clues round the table on fiscal.

“The bird was docile in my arms. Its feathers were airy despite the thick mist. Long eyelashlike whiskers surrounded dark and inscrutable eyes... it smelled of barnyard dust in the sun.” In which @carlbergstrom.com carefully cuddles a kiwi. A lovely, thoughtful read about our national treasures. 💚