Well I guess at least they never get to say the response caused irreparable harm, right?

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At the Great Big Arts Debate in Christchurch, where they asked the party reps which historical figures they’d have dinner with, which is a stupid question to start with, but the NZF rep said Napoleon, Marcus Aurelius, and fucking MACHIAVELLI

Tonight's segment of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featuring Kiwibank's Buck the Sheep:

"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*

Well done, you have finally proved that public spending is not inherently magic. For example, it sucks when you do it

It is a bit funny that team 'cut poor quality spending' went wild and ended up spending more money to disastrous effect

In putinist Russia data centre make own cloud

If you get a buzz from putting things over the line, now's your chance, or click the top bar for more candidates

Going over my recent deposition in my lawsuit against the school district and I guess I’ll go die now

6 hours left, $300 to target!

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

I'd have said I soldered it, but it may just be heels by twisted wires and electrical tape

Fixed a charging cable, however tenuously

Thread worth reading if only b/c of how much of it, by volume, is people saying “the way GLP-1 meds are marketed/talked about is undoing decades of what was already achingly incremental progress on fighting cultural fatphobia and thin people are being more fucked up about fatness than ever”

Seen on instagram but its cooking with Bluesky energy

DOCTOR: have you been under any stress recently ME: come on

Weird tidbit: the woman who leads the transphobe party (Women's Rights) used to lead the socialists (Alliance) but more recently has spoken at events with the leaders of the Conservatives and the evangelical Christians (Vision)