Jonathan King

Chlöe Swarbrick: The Real Leader of The Opposition.

Is 'hypocrite' one of those words you can't say in parliament?

Supplementary question: what's the cockney rhyming slang that allows you to say it anyway?

Slightly diminish a band:

Prefab Seed

Slightly diminish a band:

Hüsker Don’t

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

There was some hours of not speaking to me. In fact, just not speaking.

Holy shit. That’s incredible.

Went to this on a date. Oof.

So weird how it keeps being young women and Māori that Gerry Brownlee kicks out and docks pay of. What’s that all about?

Or ‘spine’, if you will.

“Once in office, National set about cancelling nearly every important infrastructure program in play.”

Extra wild: this is a massive political own-goal.

Killing a pipeline of tangible crowd-pleasing stuff for which YOU’D be the ones ribbon-cutting in an election year? Nose/ face/ spite scenario 🤦🏻‍♀️

If Gerry Brownlee, a Govt MP (who is also Speaker), finds it offensive to be accused of being spineless over his Govt’s weak response to Israeli’s genocide, he could prove himself otherwise by voting in favour of Chloe Swarbrick’s bill to sanction Israel.

And murder her if she doesn’t.

My phone’s Maps app speaks directions in French (long story) and its pronunciation of Māori place names is beautiful.

Excited to announce that The Second Grimoire, the short film I made with Massey film students late last year, has been invited to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence, RI in August and Portland, Or in September.

This is a sore point for the whole diaspora so pardon me for getting in a shit about it, not only Indigenous people but all immigrant communities in the West have been traumatised and robbed of our culture by this thinking.

In my experience, ESOL Asians often pronounce Māori better than old white people bc they - you know - read the words as written. Te Reo Māori could be really effectively deployed as a foundation of any phonics-based literacy system here, but that would involve not being fucking racist.

Threads post: Superman's dog being named "Krypto" is just bad writing. It's like naming your dog "Eartho". Comments: screen shot of etymology of “terrier”: LATIN terra earth MEDIEVAL LATIN terrarius OLD FRENCH chien terrier earth (dog) - terrier late Middle English: from Old French (chien) terrier 'earth (dog)', from medieval Latin terrarius, from Latin

Nicely done.

Can we not hold this woman up as the poster child for breaking free of the misogyny of the tradwife community when she's still a foaming-at-the-mouth racist? She hasn't learned anything. She's just a bigot who doesn't like when other bigots are mean to her.

Middle-aged white men talking boldly feels, to people like Gerry Brownlee, like leadership and assertiveness; when young women or people of colour do it, it feels to them like things are getting dangerously out of control…

Different rules as usual for women of the left.

But is that rule from before there were young – or young Māori – women MPs?

Brownlee, and politicians like him, are TERRIFIED of Chlöe and Hannah.

Seymour especially, because they're better at it than him and could wipe the floor with his stupid neoliberal arguments

Zoom in on the photo to see a cop with a gut taking a cell phone photo of something in a recycling bin next to what looks like a science tech in gloves with a flashlight pointing inside the recycling bin. They look very serious.

CSI: Sandwiches

Loophole: if you say ‘porky’ you haven’t called them a liar, you’ve said a whole other thing in a dazzlingly cheeky dance of wordcraft.

If I say anything too woke – or not woke enough – my son says, “OK, Mr BlueSky!”

> And now at streaming lengths, it's often distended to twenty minutes of a guy pouting when we know what he's eventually gonna do

Hahaha. Yes.

If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.

Controversial West Coast Te Kuha Mine project has fast-track application declined The Te Kuha project has raised environmental concerns and had already been rejected multiple times by the courts.

Some GOOD NEWS to start the day!

Controversial West Coast Te Kuha Mine coal mine has had its fast-track application DECLINED
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

ME (placing my arm around my best friend): hey buddy here's what I'm prepared to do together with you--purchase one-way tickets to The Netherlands where, together, we will turn you into the International Court of Justice for the genocide you're doing.