Lew
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Lew
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Chopper of water, carrier of wood, reader of the fucking article
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Some opposition MP should put a "Regulatory Standards Act Repeal Bill" into the biscuit tin, approach the NZ First backbench MPs to sign on in support of it, and then see what happens if it gets pulled from the lottery ... NZ First didn't promise not to vote to repeal it once enacted!
Winston Peters vows to repeal Regulatory Standards Bill; David Seymour hits back
"We did our best to neutralise its adverse effects and we will campaign at the next election to repeal it," Peters told Radio Waatea.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Sit with this: As a culture, we decided to allow this specific, single human to redefine the meaning of "intelligence".

( screencap context: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam... )
These are not serious people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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desperately wish i had come up with it
calling TCW "wa-luigi coates" is... god.
Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Average Linux controversy: We switched the default GUI package repository, but you can switch it back if you want.

Average Windows controversy: We let the robots write code and now they're installing viruses. Also the robots are racist now.
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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You probably know, @metallica.com are on at Eden Park tonight! You may not yet know (but must!) that Metallica are also serious feminists and allies of Auckland Women’s Centre! We are so excited @allwithinmyhandsfoundation has chosen to support us with a generous koha 🔥 >>
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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It’s been a long time since I watched it but I recall the point of the movie being that Kevin Spacey’s character should not have been doing all that
MAN WHAT?

using kevin spacey for a comparison or example here is definitely… a choice
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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So it's food tinder?
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My idea for the website that I’ve never built called Willing Trader is that you could post something, people would offer what they were willing to barter for it and you made a trade
How many potatoes and bottles of limoncello or tomato sauce and fresh strawberries do I need to swap with a cray fisher for a couple crays?
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Man, CBS must feel really stupid right now!

Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.
Eleventh Circuit throws out Trump's suit against CNN in a per curiam unpublished ruling. Meaning Trump's arguments were totally meritless, not even worthy of a published opinion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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“Not an 'accident' but rather a 'stupid'.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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i have been feasting on the gossip here but the dark underbelly is women like nuzzi make journalism very, very unsafe for other women. i dealt with a LOT of men who assumed that i would fuck them because that's what lady reporters do for information
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Can we have more pink grasshoppers and fewer yellow hornets please.
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Rashomon but it's the worst journalists you've ever read in your life discussing how their engagement fell apart
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I’m playing a real-life version of “Is it Cake?” with the new released food compliance exemption for all types of cake in Aotearoa NZ - the only class of food exempt!

How soft does a biscuit need to before it’s a cake?

When does banana bread become banana cake?

www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/...
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.
NEW: Chris Bishop used housing money to fund a bridge in his electorate his own Govt had killed off.

Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop diverts Kāinga Ora money to fund a bridge in his electorate
Officials warned against the use of housing funds for bridge building but Bishop says it was a “pragmatic choice”.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Nothingburger. But it highlights how silly the ongoing advisory was www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-co...
Police Commissioner accidentally took FBI director for 'brief dip' during active tsunami advisory
Richard Chambers later apologised after learning the advisory was still in place.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM