It’s a shame Maureen Pugh is retiring, she’d be a flash of inspiration, and lighten the nation’s thunderous mood
06.03.2026 01:50
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It’s a shame Maureen Pugh is retiring, she’d be a flash of inspiration, and lighten the nation’s thunderous mood
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
Incidentally, there will be a screening of GUT INSTINCT in Auckland later in March, and it's available for worldwide rental on AroVision.
Maybe I'll do a small run of Blurays in cool packages one day if there's demand or it seems like fun.
ondemand.arovideo.co.nz/film/gut-ins...
Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."
*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents
White House tweets out Rubio’s statement seeming to say that basically Bibi maneuvered Trump into attacking Iran.
Don’t worry, the world’s stupidest people have got this
Today, US & Israeli forces bombed the Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Iran’s capital of Tehran.
Nurses supposedly risked their lives carrying newborns to safety from the rubble.
I’m having trouble finding more reporting about this, but here is at least a blurb from Reuters:
washington post push alert saying "Trump's attack on Iran risks alienating war-weary supporters", I crossed out alienating war weary supporters and wrote "killing people"
not everything needs to be viewed as a meta political story on polling. humans are dying.
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
This is not liberation. This is brutality, brought to you by those responsible for the genocide on Gaza.
These guys have been in power in every government since Jim Bolger btw (except for John Key’s / Bill English’s, and they negotiated with them, too, in 2017) - they’re not outsiders
It isn’t fun, it isn’t, ‘haha, aren’t Winston and Jonesy characters’, the poisoning of discourse’ll be felt by its targets even if NZ First does its usual approach of doing fuck all when in power. We fight irrationality by community, hearing other voices, and yeah, solidarity
If NZ First can learn from Northern Hemisphere counterparts to carry on their decades-long grift for electoral success, the least our media could do is learn how not play into the grifters’ hands like their Northern Hemisphere counterparts
We gotta study the Disgrasian trajectory, like, someone needs to do a full longitudinal cohort study in the context of the global far-right shift, whose PhD is this
Sri Lankan “rice and curry” being a classic multi-ethnic understatement
My contribution to the discourse: rice cookers are inferior, but we’re too busy making too many curries on our stovetops that we have to resort to rice cookers so we can save face timing-wise
This is a stupid and cruel change, not to mention that telling police, "You can tell people they have to leave an area with minimal justification and get to decide for yourself how large that area is" is not the sort of thing most democracies allow.
PULP! YES!!
RIP Frederick Wiseman (1930—2026)
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
Will NZ stand up against the illegal annexation of the West Bank?
Post a banger that isn’t in English
youtu.be/yxcqbpZe5p8?...
No skin off my nose being remaindered! I’m happy readers can find my books, no matter how long it takes. Hope you enjoy!!
Rights groups have raised concerns over conditions at the mine, which supplies about 15 percent of the world's coltan.
Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Disgrasian alert
Whiti holds a handwritten sign that says: r/bookclub Kurangaituku ANA Whiti Hereaka u/tauken1 Monday 26 Jan 9pm GMT 4pm EST
I’m doing an AMA on Reddit (r/bookclub Kurangaituku) on Tuesday 27 Jan 10am NZ time (26 Jan 9pm GMT, 4pm EST) So if you have some questions about Kurangaituku, or what my current favourite cheese is head on over there.
Here’s me mugshot with the info.
