Johnny Cans

Broke: social media ban

Woke: everyone media ban

Bespoke: butlerian jihad

Smh trans women in sports overachieving, I just want to be able to walk up hills and not get puffed 😁

Yeah, the routine and the nice clarity of it - run, keep running until it says stop, then run some more. No socials, no drama, just getting after it.

Yeah, I realised I'd gotten into it when I had some dental surgery and was mad I couldn't go for my run. Wait, mad about it? Fuck.

This is truly positive male representation in media.

I'm onto week 5 of this couch to 5k programme and getting out after it three times a week early. It's so annoying that actually doing regular exercise does help your physical and mental well-being, improve your performance instead of just thinking about it while eating a bag of chips on the couch.

Playing Mas Que Nada in an airport for a guaranteed Proustian kill shot on millennials and older generations.

ITS PLANNING CHRISTMAS BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE KING HEROD

‘In defence of Mark Mitchell’: Hipkins says ‘absolutely feasible’ minister didn’t see McSkimming emails The Labour leader explained the process around how emails are handled.

Oh huh, I guess you're all in this together right now eh bud

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I've seen an even worse assessment which is that this story is actually just some weird viral marketing for pluribus or the damn fridge.

A handgun is too technical, I've got a sledgehammer with SKYNET DEFENCE DEVICE written in sharpie on it

Oh there's cheap heat in a ADHD activist chant bit, like the cheapest dirtiest heat

Ok, so what I want from my house is no adverts. I want a fridge that makes stuff cold, an oven that makes stuff hot, a washing machine that makes stuff wet and a dryer that makes stuff dry. I don't want it to be smart, or wifi connected, I want it to be mechanically sound with a 20+ year life span.

Preview of news program with title "who should be fed chair?"

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

There's also a big old misconception up there, that I want Labour to be more left or whatever. Nah, I'd appreciate it if they were more communicatively and strategically competent on issues. That includes maybe shutting the fuck up about your coalition partners rather than punching left!

The last time the left were in love with the clearly better communicator and leader than the middle ground and uninspiring one they had, it was 2017. Labour are campaigning how they are because of the leader they have, you can't make a loser a winner if you don't think he can be one.

Walking your dog at 6 in the morning and getting a good feel for how the days going to go by either having a faint bead of sweat or fingers with that chill tang at the end when you're done, absolute top 10 being alive experience.

I mean tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, but NZ Labour love collapsing to their worst instincts and adopting a "better not have anyone yell at us" position which makes them extremely easy to manipulate by the right wing who simply don't care - and Labour get yelled at anyway.

This time next year we'll know for certain, I'd happy to be wrong. But I've been here before, and the vibes are pretty similar. Hipkins wants to be Starmer, God knows why he's unpopular and terrible at politics. He's Ed Miliband though. Who wasn't as unpopular or bad at politics. But still lost.

As much as folks can throw around one term government, it's got to be replaced by something. Labours team seem to be thinking 2026 NZ will be like 2024 UK. They're wrong. This is the 2015 election where their leader was flawed, campaign was weak, and they lost to a chaotic austerity coalition.

As I said before it's a strategic error to go to the electorate with the guy they said no to last time up top, it offers continuity with Luxon or the thing you turned down before. If you're not offering something new, you're starting a race by giving yourself a dead leg and smiling about it.

2026 is going to be Winston screaming about trans people and immigrants, Seymour advocating we sell off everything and National going "let us finish all of these reforms" and tbh if you think Labour have the leader or the ideological mettle for this, nah sorry it's going to be 2023 again.

In a situation where everyone can see shit isn't working, somehow it's the right wing govt which has taken the position of radical change and policies to materially change how things work - even if these won't be in place until after the election. Labour appear primed to do 2023 again, great. Lose.

Hipkins job is to get Labour elected. Reminding everyone that he's indecisive, or always falls on the "we should do less" while bagging his most likely coalition partners and making soothing NZF noises is going to guarantee that does not happen.

I've been on the "don't run the guy the electorate said no to already" sauce since Hipkins didn't decide to leave. If Labour wants to win, it needs to ditch the guy who lost as leader. Otherwise the electorate won't have a choice between Luxon and something new and different.

Good job to the Labour strategists who have decided Hipkins agreeing with the government is how to make him the government

Who among us hasn't been having a great time in a field with your mates before suddenly realizing you're incredibly stoned.

Yeah, Vimes' journey from alcoholic night watch captain through to where he ends up, and how everyone else changes is really, really satisfying as a series by itself.

I wonder if Night Watch is different if you haven't read all the Vimes ones up until then? Like if you started with it, would you get all the emotional beats having really spent a lot of time with the characters.

I only learned a few years ago that the term Xmas is actually very old, and before that people used to call it Twittermas apparently