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The Smith Street Band. Fantastic band.

The thing that first hit me right in the face with this was “OMFG IT’S THE SMITH STREET BAND!!!” and that’s how my brain works

The headline should read “Internet Porn King invests heavily in parties that will keep him rich”

You, in another decade

That’s me busting out some Careless Whisper on the sax (~4 years before it’s release). Don’t tell my brother that he’s in this photo tho…

Clean Air in Schools Covid can have substantial impacts on peoples’ health. Although Covid initially enters the body through the respiratory system, it can affect virtually every bodily system and organ. There are no adva...

New Zealand is in our ninth Covid wave, with 19 fatalities last week. More must be done to prevent Covid.

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Sometimes I wonder if people here in AoNZ (or anywhere really) who cry out that they need fossil fuels because of their use case actually stop to think about what happens to prices of those fossil fuels if majority of us switch to non-fossil fuels. Did they miss the supply and demand day in school?

My brother (musician) plays Terlingua fairly often. I’d be shocked if the two of you haven’t crossed paths.

Dear Women, Happy International Women's Day, I got you a paycut! love, Christopher x New Zealand Labour Party Facebook post

NZ has seen zero progress on pay equity, home ownership, sexual assault (and justice for it), medical misogyny, roles in leadership/politics.
Women earn $900K less than men over a lifetime. Women/girls are routinely sexualised and subjected to violence.
Stupid jokes are really, really not it, team.

A dark blue graphic for International Women’s Day featuring a purple and blue gradient hand icon with a heart in the palm at the top. The word "WOMENS" is written in large block letters, with each letter containing a black-and-white photo of women. Below it, the word "Day" is written in pink script. At the bottom, pink text reads: "Diseases that mostly affect women – like Long Covid and ME – are still trivialised, psychologised, and dangerously underfunded. Medical misogyny isn’t a relic. It’s alive and well."

👭 On #InternationalWomensDay we honour the women with Long Covid and ME and allies who keep pushing for truth, research, and care.

♀️Listen to women. Fund the science.

Currently terrified because the place we’re renting is gas hot water & stovetop. I have a dual burner hotplate solution for the stove, but the hot water is going to SUUUUCK. Lease renewal coming up soon. Hoping the market stays competitive enough to goad the landlord into a change. May have to move

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

#nzpol

I implore everyone to remember that Luxon is not the problem, he was literally boosted into that position as a useless figurehead by the entire commentariat, a fair amount of the parliamentary gallery and his party. His purpose has been to wave away concerns about the machine and then be discarded.

RNZ is at it again so here are some pertinent facts about pensions. #nzpol

To Helen Clark: Sorry, but international law won't stop an Iranian nuke OPINION: How hard is international law? I see that Helen Clark has joined a growing phalanx of freshly graduated experts in the field so I thought I’d give it a go.

Dear @stuff.co.nz can you please stop platforming this fucking bumblecunt?
#kikorangi

The only recovery they are talking about is their bank/stock accounts

TIL Colonel Sanders is a hipster bike rider.

That sounds a fuck lot like Frontline services

Saddest of all keys 🚰 🤘

Just sayin….

Duo biking around the world say NZ drivers are the most aggro During their 17 day stretch in New Zealand, the pair copped abuse daily, including getting the finger from drivers and an aggressive approach they'd seen no where else.

NO SHIT. Shocker!!
🫠

www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...

I had some chucklefuck drop a comment on my YouTube channel (Aotearoa Guitar Show) spouting this nonsense. Happily deleted it so others didn’t have to happen upon it.

Spanish Love Songs "Optimism (as a radical life choice)" YouTube video by Pure Noise Records

‘You said, "Anxiety is the theme of all our lives these days"
Can't even have my coffee without exploiting someone
Or making another millionaire a billionaire
What would it take to be happy?
I'll probably start with the money’

youtu.be/66Z1BogPIOA

Usual celebratory hurrahs about the latest monthly jobs data. See those lonely sticks left hanging in the air? That's the month-on-month increase in jobs at initial release. The yellow line is the revised data. Spot a pattern? How much faith do you have in today's release (dotted yellow line)? [1/3]

What’s the feeling called when you see an influencer spouting definitions of terms they obviously know nothing about and calling them huge red flags?
Also, side note, I wish I wasn’t cursed with the knowledge of what FedRAMP DSA/DoD IL5 means.

A country surrounded by the ocean, with active geothermal zones, buffeted by winds and basking in sunshine should not be relying on tanker loads of oil, gas and coal shipped half way across the world to run its energy network.

Seems like energy independence like solar and wind would be really useful. #nzpol

RNZ western propaganda team have logged on for their shift.

Circuit board from hell

So the big electronics project I’ve been working on for a couple of years is causing me massive grief with a short somewhere in one of the circuits as I try to work through the first power up. I love this stuff but sometimes I get to the point of “JUST F’ING WORK ALREADY” lol

see how easy this is AoNZ?

So is it simply racism and misogyny and money dumped into mis/disinformation campaigns that has them still polling so high? I truly don’t get how this can be.