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PM Christopher Luxon, and his self-inflicted affliction, the architect of the Treaty Principles Bill, David Seymour.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #Waitangi #ToitūTeTiriti
February 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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I do not want to see those faces of those perps, I do not want to read any more about them and their depravity, I don’t want jokes about it all. Like every woman everywhere, I’m looking at the shadow world we knew about exposed: that girls & women are collateral, objects, things. Be kind to us.
February 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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we need to start ostracizing doomscrolling / ipad baby behaviour like we do cigarette smoking. no scrolling indoors you gotta do it outside in a sad little circle around a power outlet, the same 30s snippet of doechii’s “anxiety” looping over the sound of traffic
February 7, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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There was this guy, let’s call him Pancho, who was the regional manager of a place I used to work. Pancho was obsessed with efficiency.
January 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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I've never read a better metaphor for Chris Hipkins than this from the RNZ live blog today www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
February 5, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Some personal news. For real. After 12 years at @wsj.com I’m leaving.

I’m starting my own consumer tech media company, building a new home with the same mission I've always had: help real people navigate the tech changing their lives + have fun while doing it.

Sign up! www.thisismynexthing.com
Home | This Is My Next Thing
Joanna Stern
www.thisismynexthing.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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whoever heckled christopher luxon with "did you bring any KFC?" deserves a god damn medal
February 5, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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hold up YO HOLD UP
February 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Son One has alerted me to the existence of this football player in Arkansas
Dude Person - Central Arkansas Bears Defensive Back - ESPN
View the profile of Central Arkansas Bears Defensive Back Dude Person on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Incredible correction by The Guardian:
February 3, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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the 5 boilerplate wikipedia sections are now birth, early life and education, career, involvement with jeffrey epstein, and death
February 3, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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Insurers will not wait for governments to act, whether it's accurate or not. Welcome to unregulated climate risk.
Second town red-listed by AA Insurance for new home insurance policies
Locals say it's "baffling" AA will no longer issue new policies in Woodend - but for different reasons to its decision in Westport.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 2, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Road trips can be fun. Road trips with friends: great. Road trips with family: dicy. Road trips with the random crust punk dude from your office who you’ve literally never met IRL before and need to spend 3.5 hours locked in a speeding metal tube with: horrendous. Zero stars. Do not recommend.
January 26, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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He was bound to drop that scarf in some time zone or other.
Can I just say something...? 🧣
January 26, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood.

12K people
6K homes
1.8K social rental homes
1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes
21.5K bike parking spaces
250 shared cars
2 parcel hubs
Parking structures on the edge.
Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week
Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...
nltimes.nl
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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nothing that i have seen or heard convinces me that new zealand is real
January 26, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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I think the All Blacks should cancel their planned game in the US.
January 26, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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A very happy 20th birthday to Upper Riccarton Library which opened its doors on this day in 2006!
(An official opening ceremony and festivities took place
on 25 February of that year).
See more pics of the library over the year in our Flickr album www.flickr.com/photos/chris... ^MT
January 22, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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The tragic loss of lives in NZ flooding events this week are climate change deaths. Media and govt are avoiding the topic.

Leaders and commentators must acknowledge the emerging reality of ordinary summer rainstorms carrying volumes of water akin to tropical cyclones of previous decades.
January 21, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
January 22, 2026 at 8:26 AM