lmao anyone else remember GWAR in Empire Records?
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lmao anyone else remember GWAR in Empire Records?
big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters
Yo is the Rapture happening or nah I'm sleepy
oh that's right shit i forgot to check what time it was going down
am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP
Now thatās what I call a pivot
This absolutely correct. I would add that no sentient being should take Fang seriously about ANYTHING but particularly about organizing. He doesn't know anything.
Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.
Maybe Dave is playing some 8th dimensional chess to get him on the IL and off the roster for the playoffs
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
this exists it is called thinking
When Tanner Scott got the final out I literally screamed out hell yeah Etsy witch in my car totally normal behaviour
I'm going to complain once again that while I have MLB tv, I am blacked out of apple tv games on there in NZ, and yet Apple tv here does not actually carry these games, so I can't watch them even though I have a subscription to both.
Hi hello. The Dodgers can clinch a playoff berth today! with: a win OR an AZ loss
Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people
If Ben Rortvedt keeps doing what he's doing I might have to buy a tee
Seriously??
Can't help but to wonder what David Carr would have said to this
The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness
oh this is very bad
this is far from the point, but has anyone considered that Brendan Carr is mad because he looks like this at 46
My god all these magazines just out here begging me to cancel my subscriptions... rolling stone, vanity fair...
ezra klein is such a joke
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
I love the way National, in opposition, refused to acknowledge that global markets were the main driver of inflation, but in government, after a massive campaign of cuts, they're all like "waaaah, global pressure!"
The reason why corporations and billionaires love the idea of AI replacing the workforce is because it knows labour is the only force that can topple them. Maybe folks should take a stand now before even that is taken away.
Damn wonder if a ruling class of aristocratic elites is once again acting in a unified class interest. Wonder if thereās a class that can unify its interest in return. Wonāt be looking into it
From before the announcement (earlier this morning), the Reserve Bank expectation was -0.3%, and of the major banks 3/5 expected it to be worse with a -0.4% or -0.5% (The NZIER was also quoted, as an outlier, as forecasting around 0% for the quarter). The announced plummet was -0.9%.
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
Also me every time people think it's acceptable to show up at your door or call you at 8am in NZ
we are in really unsettling place that we're facing a deeply unpopular regime that is making everything appreciably worse but the people with the power to stand up to them and takes steps to maintain basic political stability are capitulating without a fight
I mean it wasn't like plenty of experts and people who have fled authoritarian countries / dozens of documentaries have warned exactly how this was gonna go down for the pundit class to insist those people were hysterical and overreacting š¤·š½āāļø
ah, well
This isn't capitulation to right-wing pressure. This is Disney rebranding itself as a corporation in the service of Trump.
Jesus Christ.
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Don't scare the animals!! (I overall thinks the film is good and a lot of fun)
But try and watch it with people in the room it'll be more fun
Yes
You know the brand is strong when even the gotdamn SpaceX coke bricks managed to blow up and crash
One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
Klein earnestly believes we all have to learn to live together even if we "believe different things." For him, it's ONLY about belief and opinion. He is not in a category in which his reproductive rights would be abridged, his marriage would be nullified, his accomplishments dismissed as "DEI." >
Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence ācontinues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremismā in the U.S.
Oh no
in MLB dot com write ups of Roberto Clemente Award nominees, Liam Hendriks' work with LGBTQ+ organizations was referenced in 2022, 2023, and 2024. there is no mention of it in this year's write up. www.mlb.com/news/roberto... (previous years can be found changing "2025" in the url slug)
In all seriousness, Vanceās unhinged diatribe really reminds me that this country is in dire straits. I canāt even wrap my mind around how bad things are and how impossible everything feels. How are we supposed to stay here and write and stay likeā¦ alive?
I forgot who said it on here, but when there was footage of AOC being, you know, an actually impressive leader, someone said "she unfortunately has all the charisma inherent in an exiled opposition leader"
I wish I could remember where -- a Tiktok perhaps? an X post? -- where someone made a prediction that the Savanah Bananas would be canceled soon, and I wish I could remember and link them to give them credit defector.com/the-official...
Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
lmao my best friend was just telling me about her daughter's bday party being KPop Demon Hunters and Labubu themed so...i get adjacent knowledge! (KPop Demon Hunters is pretty good tbh!) also please show me a pic of your daughter when I see you next š
wait you have a child?
I would have like to see Andor win just because it was ending, but I think the fact that it was part of the Star Wars universe meant a lot of people were just never going to take it seriously, even though the show is well acted, complex and tackles really challenging political issues.
same tbh
Saw them earlier today, good for them priests! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
THE PITT HIVE REJOICE!!!!!!!!!!
i'm fine wth Andor or the Pitt
So happy for Noah Wyle!!!!
Holy shit Cristin Milioti!
āThank you Bridget Everett. You changed my life.ā Jeff Hiller wins for the #Emmy Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in āSomebody Somewhere.ā Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.
Holy shit our world has become so stupid that Tucker Carlsonās bumbling idiocy leads him to accidentally detective Columbo the tech oligarch head of OpenAI into totally giving vibes he had someone allegedly murdered
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
Jeff Hiller!
YES!!!!!! This makes me so happy!!!!!!! So so fucking glad LaNasa won
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
If youāre not from NZ, saw viral videos of that haka at Londonās Nazi rally yesterday, and were very confused by what you saw, check this out so I donāt have to explain a million times over the next few days how Brian Tamaki and his cult arenāt representative of all MÄori. Kei te tino ngenge ahau.
me: magic isnāt real also me, after the Mariners win eight in a row: the Etsy witch is real, and she is my president
Let's go Ben Rortvedt?????
The mask has slipped from Better Wellington www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/better-we...
Thank you for your service š«” #dodgers
yea kinda feels like once we got to extras, it was kinda over. I was mad Tanner lost the game, but the game was lost many innings before
To add, I think the clearest sign that this person is not from the Left is how quickly Trump and the media have moved on bsky.app/profile/jame...
no, someone has found Bella Ciao song in the Groyper War playlist bsky.app/profile/thes...
i think his grandma just came out and said everyone in the family is MAGA, so no, just the same groyper memes
good lord, they did the photo thing for white murderers. again.
The delicious end to the affair. 48 hours of the most august and respectable institutions prostrating themselves over a low rent gutter bigot with a middling podcast and as soon as his death didnt fit the narrative Trump says "RIP to that man, check out my new drapes" humiliation after humiliation
Would love to see some NZ journalists to follow up with our acting Prime Minister and FSU on the Kirk murder now that we know who the shooter is
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do itā¦ you have to subscribe and pay for the work
Amazing how they never get bored with the same template. This white shooter was (bored, misunderstood, a good student, said hi to his neighbors) and so we donāt understand (if you ignore all the evidence) why he would (weāre blocking out his internet history!) possibly kill
I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.
pivoting so hard they reverse the fucking earth like in superman
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
is there any kind of logical reason as to why stuff keeps publishing fluff nonsense on these far right personalities
āawful people donāt deserve to be killed, but they donāt deserve to be praised, eitherā is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
From what I understand, landlords get a vote in local elections for the properties they own. So say if I own an apartment in Auckland while living in Wellington, I will also get a vote in the Auckland election?
I always wonder what people in other nations think democracy and elections in New Zealand are like when I explain I go to the local supermarket to cast my vote in the local election. (I'm not even gonna get into the whole landlords get multiple votes quirk.)
What?!!!! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...
The hypocrisy as an expression of power is a thing, so the contradictions don't actually matter, but if David Seymour really wants to commemorate people killed for free speech in parliament, there have been over 270 journalists killed in Gaza. But I understand David Seymour might object to that.
Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning
Everyday is a good day to say fuck the Yankees