Jonathan King

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

The woman who influenced the style of an entire generation of women my mother-in-law’s age.

Jared Leto may have a toxic reputation, he may have a wildly unappealing screen presence, but say what you will, he also can't open a movie either.

YouTube video by Peter McLennan Chris Knox: Songs Of You And Me - a documentary about Chris Knox (1995)

There's a biography of Chris Knox out this week - the author Craig Robertson contacted me a few years ago, as back in 1995 when I was at Ak Uni, I made a half hour documentary on Chris and he wanted to see it.
Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...

Small cute dog (Chihuahua probably) wearing a fetching green “frog” sweatshirt/costume.

SUITED UP AND REPORTING FOR DUTY 🐸

"If they can't afford plywood, some owners rebuild the store out of straw. That's when the big bad wolf comes in. Very bad guy. Radical leftist wolf. Vice-president of antifa. He comes over and he, he just blows the stores down. That's not normal. Maybe he got that way from being vaccinated."

Luxon: *receives new Powerpass in the post*
"I have secured a trade deal with Bunnings!"

I loved it when music releases came with advisory content warnings:

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

Ms. Rachel calls out Barack Obama's statement on Gaza, highlighting how referring to 'Israeli families' while calling Palestinians 'the people of Gaza' strips them of their humanity. 'Palestinians have families, too,' she wrote.

Goths and punks against climate change 🥵

can you imagine half-assing a last-minute ceasefire that won't last a week and still not getting the Nobel Peace Prize

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

CHOCOLATE RATION TO BE INCREASED TO 20 GRAMS

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

The coalition government in a nutshell.

‘They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they’re exclusionary, they’re humourless – they’re this coalition.‘
- Chris Finlayson #nzpol

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

When art is life: the exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) Chris Knox biography, reviewed A compelling portrait of personality and punk....

When art is life: the exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) Chris Knox biography, reviewed

I love when celebrities use their FU money like this. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it's messy (in a good way) and entertaining.

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

YouTube video by Auckland University Press 'Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly', a biography by Craig Robertson | Book Trailer

Craig Robertson’s biography of CHRIS KNOX, NOT GIVEN LIGHTLY, is out now and I had the honour of making a trailer for it (from Chris’s own music and films).

YouTube video by Auckland University Press 'Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly', a biography by Craig Robertson | Book Trailer

Craig Robertson’s biography of CHRIS KNOX, NOT GIVEN LIGHTLY, is out now and I had the honour of making a trailer for it (from Chris’s own music and films).

Watch: Haka breaks out after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech, Parliament suspended Speaker Gerry Brownlee intends to investigate whether anyone knew the haka would take place after Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech.

We live in a Māori nation. Our Parliament should reflect that more. The haka from the public gallery is an appropriate response to a maiden speech. Suspended Parliament only reminds Māori that they are not welcome to be authentically themselves there. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

So, even if your books were exploited by #Anthropic, you're only eligible for a payout if your work was registered in the US.
Typical. The rest of the world doesn't exist.
$1.5billion is going somewhere, but it ain't to millions of non-American authors.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Night shoots! #baah

Leviathan @l3vlat4an X.com Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an "AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla. What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt? AUTISM

That she's cool as fuck?

Wow!

You can sing it to the tune of ‘Volare’ by Dean Martin.