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If I wasn't having fun, this would be intolerable.

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GASP!!

09.02.2026 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah. Photos or not, this is a big boundary crossing moment. Don't rearrange my books, don't touch my computer, these are baseline things.

09.02.2026 01:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image 09.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He gets the photos back. The screenshot cuts off midway through the sentence that explains how and then warns people away from using AI for this sort of thing.

09.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wellington Water is fully council owned. It's not corporate greed, just more of WCC's pathological refusal to maintain infrastructure.

09.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right, but there was huge moral panic around comic books. So, swings and roundabouts i guess.

08.02.2026 22:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Romance readers are voracious. But also, pretty specific. Especially about quality. If you've ever had the mood ruined by a dog jumping on the bed, then you have a fair idea of what it's like to encounter a jarring metaphor or weird anatomical mistake in a good spicy read.

08.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right? I read huge amount of book reviews. I get the LRB and the NYRB and the Paris Review. Im listening to Reading Glasses right now. And never in my life has anyone recommended a book on the basis of how fast it was written.

08.02.2026 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On point two, that might not be true for audiences. The site gives money to people who are specific targeting people i love. That's a cost to me.

08.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One time when I was very sick an emergency rooom nurse told me that in her whole long career I had the most blood she'd ever seen in a urine sample. This is, I think, the writing equivalent of my 'win'. There are no prizes. Readers don't want 365 shitty books per year. There's already so many books.

08.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'd believe it. But the old tools have 'find and redact'. So this might just be regular sloppy.

03.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think there's also a quieter piece to it. When people dont trust the police to resolve a problem, rather then make things worse, they don't call until things are very bad. So the chance act early or do prevention is gone.

03.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There shouldn't. But this article is just speculation from an addiction soecialist who has issues with ADHD being diagnosed at all (McBride). The patients quoted don't support the story that's being set out at all.

01.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Its not a process change. FYI publishes responses to requests for information under the OIA. Someone has asked about this topic and WorkSafe is required by law to respond. It's not a press release, or a media story.

29.01.2026 05:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
HSI officer with his back turned next to a detainee with a speech bubble saying  'he asking for no pickles'

HSI officer with his back turned next to a detainee with a speech bubble saying 'he asking for no pickles'

29.01.2026 04:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
HSI agent facing the wall as the woman he detained says "he asked for no pickles".

HSI agent facing the wall as the woman he detained says "he asked for no pickles".

29.01.2026 02:10 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

? They were asked a question and the Act allows them to extend the deadline. Bit unclear whether its actually an extension or a decision letter, but basically okay.

29.01.2026 01:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He has penguin feet!

25.01.2026 20:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's three sentences.

25.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Its old school. As a woman youre supposed to considered being perceived by any random man as a lesbian or 'mannish' as so bad that it sends you immediately conforming to 'standards' to prove you are not.

25.01.2026 19:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sooner. I was reading about Germany in the late 1960s when young adults were reckoning with what their parents had done and tried to forget. Very very messy.

24.01.2026 19:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He has 7 social media workers, and they all hate him obviously

22.01.2026 00:55 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Although if you scroll to the bottom they do at least note that the polling company did resign from the industry standards body.

22.01.2026 00:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Its the TPU poll. The only story here is that somehow the TPU is still considered a reliable source.

22.01.2026 00:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Terrible. When she recommended protein I looked at reviews for 'best tasting' and the first one started with 'the main thing to remember is this is what you need to reach your goals' which was pretty dire. So I looked elsewhere.

21.01.2026 23:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Its good. 150(ish) grams silken tofu (half a pack) with a banana and then frozen berries and oat milk.

21.01.2026 23:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My bestie had been planning her trip to the Grand Canyon for years. Its her big 50th trip and her heart was set on it, but she's having a great time in Sri Lanka instead.

21.01.2026 23:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mine is the same. Suggested protein bars but they mostly taste like play doh with grit in it. I'm making berry smoothies with silken tofu and that seems to be working. It taste like a treat and not like something a toddler found in the kindy sand pit.

21.01.2026 23:08 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

They have literal departments full of people whose job it is to come up with the words.

20.01.2026 01:36 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I dont know if it ever went to the Ombudsman when I was there. I do like to use a 9 when I can because it does have that public interest test in it.

12.01.2026 23:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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