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The Maintenance of Silence | Short Film | NZ On Screen The Maintenance of Silence - Just after midnight on November 18, 1982, Neil Roberts, a 22-year old anarchist, exploded a bag of gelignite outside the Whanganui police computer centre, killing himself ...

18 November 1982. www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-ma...

Empirical records show no influence on governance, with Paddles absent from official policy documents

I don't know why Grokipedia exists, but it does have something Wikipedia doesn't - a 2500-word essay about Jacinda Ardern's dead cat, which clarifies it did not have any influence on government policy grokipedia.com/page/Paddles...

This is from Grokipedia's woeful AI-generated article on New Zealand. Yes, it really is citing Hobson's Pledge as a factual source.

Because a bunch of paranoid Facebook-addicted parents are worried about their teens seeing anorexia/sui bait and have no mental model of platform regulation, we're gonna end up with a worse form of internet censorship and digital ID than the cookers were claiming about contact tracing apps.

LIVE: Trump speaks at APEC CEO summit in South Korea YouTube video by Associated Press

Of course they chose a Sousa march for Trump's exit (very Gilded Age). The name of the march is The Washington Post. www.youtube.com/live/a-akQl0...

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

Thumbnail of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's monologue on Wednesday 2 Oct 2025 (US time) as uploaded to YouTube. Caption on thumbnail: A TOTAL SHUTSHOW Video title: ICE Deportations Continue Amid Gov't Shutdown | Bernie: We Won't Back Down

Stephen Colbert, the Newest Zealander

We aren't going to recognise Palestine because Israel has invaded it and so Palestine doesn't control its own territory ...

Shelf label that says erotica slash dirigibles

Shelf label that says can't Stoppard won't Stoppard

Shelf label that says white ladies at the beach

Shelf label that says transportation infrastructure (above) versus dolls and doll making (below) the classic spinozan conundrum

In an excellent secondhand bookshop

Hunter S. Thompson called it in 2003. Only the name of the ruling dynasty has changed.

me on the North&South homepage

Journalists stop rooting through Tom Phillips's literal midden heap challenge. It's prurient now.

The secret diary of .. Luxon's last days

The Prime Minister shows a foreign buyer a house for sale

New Zealand’s Epstein Files New Zealand’s Regulatory Standards Bill looks like tidy lawmaking. But OIA documents reveal decades of foreign influence — embedding Richard Epstein’s radical “regulatory takings” theory into our laws...

A horrifying but extremely important read: melanienelson.substack.com/p/new-zealan...

It is not just the USA- stop censorship and the global spread of idiocy and fascism!

JD will announce his ascension to the throne.

Abercrombie and Fitch bag with ripped male torso and bottom half of face. A cat in the bag gives top half of face.

I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.

New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate

Omg hobsons pledge are so embarrassing

The Sovereign Files — Unmasking Extremism

New: The Sovereign Files 📂

I recently started posting some case profiles as an online archive: It’s a living project, documenting how sovereignist ideas have played out in NZ since the 90's. 👨‍⚖️⚖️

www.unmaskingextremism.com/media-hub/th...

The thing that fucks me off the most is that National, Fonterra, AND ECONOMISTS all talk about wealthy farmers being good for the economy because they can spend (though the smart ones will just be paying debt down if they have any) and yet PAY EQUITY WAS SOMETHING THE ECONOMY COULDN'T AFFORD.

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen All Drizzle, no sizzle

This is a piece to file alongside @andrewmale.bsky.social’s timeless “Eric Clapton’s bookshelves” essay.

Please enjoy: Sam Altman’s kitchen of shit.

Character revealed through detail. Pure environmental storytelling.

www.ft.com/content/b180...

Appetite for Creation.

I really miss the wholesome eccentricity of the earnest website period.

Public submissions on the 2026 review of Standing Orders close on 25 September. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

In 1942, National MP F. W. Doidge in a parliamentary debate accused Peter Fraser's government, and in particular Minister of Labour Paddy Webb, of being "spineless" for not cracking down on striking workers during WWII. He was not reprimanded. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

The Big Book of Unfortunate Author Deaths A zine-like collection of terrible deaths suffered by authors. Deaths by seaplane, dune buggy, medicine bottle lid, frozen chicken, mosquito, booze and more.

Should you desire a physical copy of THE BIG BOOK OF UNFORTUNATE AUTHOR DEATHS, you can fulfil that mad impulse here:
www.lulu.com/shop/james-m...

When I say “digital humanities,” I mean that I use my fingers to turn the pages of the book I’m reading.