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solar = good solar not owned by you but on your property under a 20 year heads-I-win-tails-you-lose contract with Break Your Fucking Femur Finance Inc. = bad, mmmkay?
But it is gratifying to see that not even the govt's remaining voters are on board with the cynical "six long years" strategy of blaming everything on opposition It's an excuse. Excuses are for losers. Voters can't stand a loser www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
She has some pretty O_o views about who's at home during the day. Also, since it's mostly online, how can they tell?! The only way would be a landline...
Pffaf*cough*oh :P
YUS!
OMG ABSOLUTE UNIT! :D I do love the round bois this long skinny set of islands produces :P
We should remember this is the company that puts serious baddies into their deodorants too. ("Anti-sweat" isn't a doable thing without unpleasant and severe surgery or the above genetics. Wrecking your biology and our land and waterways is.)
On the nose? Ooh! Another place you can spray a deodorant!
Ok, prolly not hypocrisy. That would be a little honest.
It's never not funny (in the best way!) :D
The Rexona ads currently EVERYWHERR about full-body stink protection are O_o. (Maybe it's just me.) Bum? Spray it. Boobs? Ditto (that one used only one gender type, ugh). Feet? BACK? Etc. (Actual words used in billboards.) Um. Next thing: mouth! Your shrivelled heart! Soul! Hypocrisy! Etc.
Arg, 19/20 too!
/involuntarily snorts a giggle :P
Your friend into media literacy and getting it right (me) is yet again tapping the sign
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Shot in the dark here but any Canadians/people from Montreal have any recommendations for nightlife for bachelor party?
Wreck it, sell it cheap so your mates can buy it cheap. Neoliberal extractivism.
I think it's all performative rather than real :(
*Seen
He'll be quietly hired back by them or their ilk, and then be lauded when he has his "I've CHANGED and Sen The LIGHT!" moment. It's a rulebook well established by Silicon Valley techbros.
We couldn't anyway. They're stuck together, like the pages of Those Magazines back in the day after, um, loving perusal.
Trouble and Mayhem :)
Ahem. http
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Please read and share far and wide. The Coalition are the pits at economic management. They really are 🤡🤡🤡. #nzpol
What-aboutism bingo card!
Ollo :)
Wonderful :D
It's stunning. The daffodils are out and already leaving, the blossoms are out too (it's a timeline but yep). Spring had SPRUNG. Grass is very ris. And thus, into goshdarn Shitsville 1. (Er, the season. Assuming you know that calendar :P)
I am.
Whenever I think "maybe I should move back to Wellington", weather like this reminds me nah...
Ouch! Steady on, mate. There are kids here :P
Spring just blew into Shitsville 1 :P (Hoping people tied down their trampolines in time, lol!)
"May your massages never be quite as firm as you'd like." Hehehe.
Ooh, ooh! "May dogs always give you side-eye."
"Set 2degC too low" :P
Also dangnabbit.
Aww. Now I want pasta. Darnit.
MAY YOUR PASTA BE OVERCOOKED (ie not al dente). Hehehe.
I tuned out at "in Parnell". :P
(The Onion's parody of the genre ages ago was hilarious :P)
It's snuff. Pure and simple. YUCK.
It's his words with which I have an issue, not his looks or putative sex life :)
Gosh. HELLO wind. /battens down hatches /doggo battens down her human
I'm hoping the other men in their lives will swiftly disabuse them of that notion.
Damned with faint praise. Also 15 yr olds are generally better than that :)
Waste of carbon :P
"May you never quite get the joke." Etc. Ad literally effing nauseum. :P
The Gashleycrumb (Very) Tinies :P "May you stub your toe [ed: or bash your knee] regularly." "May your office temp always be set 2degC too low." "May the weather always be slightly suboptimal for your weekend plans." "May you get stuck behind THAT bloody driver every time."
Oh gods. We're punching above our weight again. THE MIRROR has picked it up and said it's offensive. THE MIRROR.
Update: I went and searched. Stuff. Same diff. Zero on RNZ. (They're hardly golden but yep.)
Guessing...Herald? I don't read that particular rag.
And of course it's not just hobbies, walk the floor of any science fiction or wander around any ren faire and see how many small businesses are getting absolutely fucked by this nonsense
I miss JOMO. Then again, I've been boycotting Amazon anything for a decade.
Might we also ram some GenAI down your throats sans consent? Pity about that water and planet. Ewps. FOMO dal.
Would you also like 5 cardboard boxes with that? No? More fool you. WE ARE CUSTOMER SERVING. Please also have some (metric/ imperial fucktonnes of) plastic and styrofoam (gratis, becauze we luff you).
We're in the vast majority. See why they're so scared? Yep. Because they know if we actually organised entirely: they're over. So they'll do ANYTHING to prevent it. And yet... They don't have to win. It's not inevitable. The fatalism is a grift and protection racket.
I mean, "ordinary" is a dog whistle but yep. But then "the lucky country" wouldn't be so lucky eh? Neoliberal capitalism is an extractive death cult made of negative externalities. We KNOW this, and allow it for cheap toys (and get shitty when anyone says so).
We keep warning...
Noted.
Oh gods. What fresh hell has happened?
/facepalm /double facepalm (Runs out of palms and faces.)
Has anyone defined what "a modern economy" is?
Reminds me of a moment hears ago when a friend and I were coming up with curses. The ones that, like the MI5 (Good Omens, THE BOOK, ref) will just cause seething disappointment. "May your avocados always be slightly under ripe", for example. Not a biggie but just always gonna niggle. For EVER.
Also women people. And children people. And people who aren't humans. They hate life. And yep. The rest are NOT fans.
He knows exactly. What's obscene is how many humans like the messaging. Which is why he's saying it.
They never speak about the other half of the second amendment. The entire context and reason.
RNZ platforming Susan again. /headdesk
Please note: in no way do I condone nor endorse Substack nor its shitty behaviour.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Ahahahaha! Reading a really fun article by Ted Goia (2 / 3 in a series) re Hunter S. Thompson - the above being one of his quips. Would share the link, but he writes on Substack and so those as wants can look it up.
Edmunds. EVERY time. Ugh.
/falls off chair guffawing Gosh. Did they get an LLM to write it (review as well as book)?
Fair enough :) Thought I saw a lot of level ground on the left. I know streams don't love being driven along either :) AllG :)
Ahem. To the left :P
Totally get it. Looked like there was a road to the right?
Peyers does not get to shout about them fornors disrespecting women while he, um, yeah.
A perfect moment :D
Ahem. The value is: fuck everything I'mma get mine.
Casual racism and sexism. (Not casual.) 87% indigenous birds nearing extinct. Water so polluted one can't touch it. Land wrecked. Rivers and seas wrecked. People wrecked. Health system? AHAHA.
Through an awa? Why?
The comments they choose to read out are wild. Um, RNZ: people don't get the sarcasm. And now they have neoliberal-splainer Susan Edmonds here to explain why it's all ok economically. /facepalm
Oh dear LORDS. Now they're giving Winnie a xenophobic voice too. Wtf?!
OK the jokes are always fun, but people who don't understand that British Asian cuisine is a whole separate thing that occupies its own place in the curry pantheon need to eat more and talk less
Wow. Straight up xenophobia and climate denialism live this am. RNZ needs to do MUCH better. (They're trying but still letting it happen.)
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/cries and hugs And we have to wake up and do it all over again. There is no rest for the good.
AN ELEFANT! (Elephant.)
I'm hurt, betrayed and angry tonight. So I'm taking this voice out for a run (I'm singing).
We also bonded a bit about about not looking fabulous and wealthy.
Apparently that wee thing caused much thought.
Cantabrians can be open, it turns out! They say I should write more. And want to read it. Gosh.
Met up with someone today after we met each other at a WORD event. They were fascinated by one of the things I wrote (it was a workshop), and saw me at another and ran over to give me their number. Asked if I'd be up to meet up. Obvs I said yes; always am. (I didn't know then that was why.)
Ditto why the info envt has been so intentionally polluted.
Went to one many years ago, in Pōneke. The photo of the two people in the rubble of Bangladeshi Fire Collapse made me look into some stuff and changed my clothing buying habits forever. I still see that image behind my eyelids. It's always worth a visit.
Those hiking boots will _ruin_ the line of his pants when he stands. Like, helloooo bunched. Hang on. Was he carried in on a chair? (I am studiously avoiding talking about hiking boot-type looks with suits.)
WHICH VALUES, WINSTON.
She was also forced out by people (sadly, if not surprisingly, a lot of them) who couldn't stand a kind, compassionate, competent woman running things and showing what is possible. Perfect? No. But heaps better than many "leaders" we've had.
I know it's not Southland but Wake still sits with me. Ooft. So glad to see the list in the replies :D
Thys meetinge koude have been a poignant and thought-provokinge expressionist filme