Lyndon Hood

The mystery of NZ's world-famous mince and cheese pie

Who created our quintessential cuisine? Credit for first putting cheese in a beef pie is hotly contested – but one thing seems certain, it was a Kiwi. Jonathan Milne investigates.

Is this New Zealand's highest marginal tax rate? New Jobseeker rules for teenagers mean households on certain incomes would be better off if the parents worked less, commentators say.

Is this New Zealand's highest marginal tax rate?

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Yellow orange light in Sagrada Famalia

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Similar overall here, apart from never really getting the garden going.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

A good news story! Have a great day.
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
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A sentence from an RNZ article in 2025, which reads: Asked if he supported the actions of Peters - who had acknowledged he already knew of death threats against Doyle before he posted about the matter on social media - Luxon said the "only people who should be accountable for death threats are those that make those death threats".

Meanwhile in Australia, the so-called National Press Club cancels decorated journalist, Chris Hedges, who was to speak on the "amplification of Israeli lies in the press, which most reporters know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel"

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy,

(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

“Businesses continue to bear the brunt…” um, people would like a word.

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Called by the Clerk’s office late morning today to see if I still wanted to speak to my written submission on the Local Govt Amendment Bill. Sure, I said. But the committee is only slated to be hearing oral evidence tomorrow between 9:50am and 1:40pm…

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I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face.

Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker.

I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday.

I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

How the national guard call-ups are screwing students who joined in hopes of.l being able to afford college.

Let the record show you were second in with that link

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

The hiccup cure - Out of Ambit A former nurse discusses the only hiccup cure she knows that works FAST and for almost everybody. Your mileage may vary, but give it a shot.

I would guess that it works for the same reason the lemon does in @diane.dianeduane.com's hiccup cure (tl;dr resetting blood acidosis/alkylosis), which would also explain why it only works some of the time www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2...

There was chocolate prior in this case but I'm taking a note anyway

- we don't have to be weird about protesters
- we don't have to become anti-vaxxers
- we don't have to threaten our politicians with violence
- we don't have to be extra racist, we have quite enough of that already
- we don't have to use terminology like "liberals", it doesn't make any sense here

Are we aware of drinking a shot of vinegar as a hiccup cure?

It didn't always work but thing is: it sometimes works

I have a modest proposal to address the Bluesky toxicity crisis.

First, we find a big boat.

Second? We get it stuck in a canal.

Obviously would prefer no equivalents of Charlie Kirk at all, including in any other senses

I suppose you could see it as a good thing that our equivalent of Charlie Kirk is apparently a window.

(The answer is no, and neither will it cover government Ministers inciting violence against opposition MPs, or against public servants, or against parliament itself, all of which this bunch have done but we are meant to ignore)

Cardinal Richelieu: Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him

Me, having just written six thousand lines of poasts and about to write another six thousand: careful what you wish for, my good bitch

"What are you up to these days?" Me: [image of a truck with the company name "meme logistics" and the slogan "intelligent delivery".]

I’ve said this before on here but there’s a really great Clive James zinger (I forget who it was about) that I think of every time I see Kash Patel: “he looks like he was simultaneously told to say ‘Cheese,’ and shot in the back with a poisoned arrow.”

I feel like every day for the past month I have said to a new person that I hate living in a world where this man is genuinely dangerous and has way too much power, because he’s the goofiest loser alive and we deserve to be able to sincerely enjoy the comedy he’s providing